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Old 12-10-2003, 04:46 PM   #1 (permalink)
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How to foil the X-mas gift-shaker

My brother is hell on Christmas gifts. Every year he prods, shakes, and investigates his gifts, and is rather good at deducing the contents. The gift I got him this year is a little fragile, plus it makes a distinct sound when shook and smells strongly (some mugs and tins of caffeinated mints), so I've decided to go about creating a decoy gift. What should I build/wrap/put in a box that'll throw him off?
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Old 12-10-2003, 05:02 PM   #2 (permalink)
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film cannisters, dry peas.
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Old 12-10-2003, 05:09 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 12-10-2003, 05:14 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I have a cousin that always had to know what was in his packages before Christmas - he finally got so bad that he would poke a hole in the package with a pencil and use a flashlight to look into the box - a gift wrapped bax with a water ballon inside. This broke him from the habit!
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Old 12-10-2003, 05:32 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Haha, impact grenade.

That'll stop em from shaking. And living too.

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Old 12-10-2003, 05:56 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Give him the tins, you keep the mints.
That'll be a nice surprise.
Or, just dont bother wrapping it. Saves you time, saves him the effort of trying to guess.
Or, open the tin infront of him, and eat a mint. When he asks if he can have one, say: "Sure. Have the whole tin. They're yours anyway. Merry Xmas Bro."
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Old 12-10-2003, 06:02 PM   #7 (permalink)
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film cannisters, dry peas.
Good call. Itll be even better when he opens it
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Old 12-10-2003, 06:12 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Fill a large box with popped popcorn, place the items in the middle, then liberally shake on lots of cayenne pepper. Wrap up and then see what he guesses. Even the dog won't go near this one.
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Old 12-10-2003, 07:12 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Fill it with dog shit. It'll stop him from smelling your present for the rest of his life...
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Old 12-10-2003, 07:28 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Place it in a box securely protected and wrapped as a gift then place that in a larger box gift wrapped, then in a larger box gift wrapped, and so on until you have a large box (size of 32 inch tv is good) line the bottom of the box with about 3 layers of bricks place the previous box inside then stack bricks around it inside the box. It makes it to heavy to pick up and shake and he will have to open 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 14 presents to get to the inner box. after all of the frustration etc. and he gets to the gift. tell him you did it so he couldn't shake it or figure out what it was.

The only downside is the final box has to be done at the location were it will be opened because it will be to heavy to move around.
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Old 12-10-2003, 08:14 PM   #11 (permalink)
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once i bought my friend a giant rubber pencil (yes it wrote even!) for a gag gift, cause im cheap like that. Well. I took a big box, put fireplace bricksin the bottom (thin, but heavey) and lots ofballed up newspaper then put the pencil in there hidden. Next i duct/k taped the whole box shut. Then i wrapped it normally. good times, her family was like "what did you get her!" i told them a puppy, and kept telling them that up till the end when they saw the tape. they were crazy like me... so it worked.

Another time i got my friend a video tape (yes they still make those) and taped it to the bottom of the box so that it would not be able to be shaken to find the contents of the box out... about 5 layers on the inside worked. and about another 15 layers on the out side made for a good half hour long laugh fest for me and the other goers...

so, all in all, duct tape the gift to the bottome of the box. make sure theres some wrapping as to not ruin the gift. then fill with bricks (if its not too fragile) or somthing else heavy.
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Old 12-10-2003, 09:10 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Then there is my family's old standard, hide the real gift inside of tons of new tidy whity's. THe clothes feel throws you and you get a bit of a surprise if you open your gifts in front of non-family
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Old 12-10-2003, 09:36 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Heavy presents are always intriquing...put some books or even a brick in one. Hehehe
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