Cool Gag Gifts for Christmas

Stocking Stuffers

Stocking stuffers are typically small, often inexpensive items that are given by Santa Claus and his helpers. The classic gag gift for stocking stuffer is a lump of coal, the traditional gift given by Santa to naughty boys and girls. Other small gag gifts can make suitable stocking stuffers, such as fake lottery tickets or novelty vomit. Foreign candies that look normal but taste odd can also be great gag items to include in a stocking. Good choices are typical salted licorice from the Netherlands or Scandinavia and Thrills chewing gum, a Canadian brand of gum that tastes like soap.

What do you get for the family member who has everything? Why not a gag gift? One of the best ways to give a gag gift to family members is to give them something apparently out of character or inappropriate. For example, consider giving your great aunt a sexy firefighter calendar or a fake marijuana plant. If your family members have a sense of humor -- and hopefully they do -- these types of gifts can provide many good laughs as they are opened on Christmas morning.

If you've known your friends for ages and have a lot of shared experiences, you can draw upon your history together to find a great Christmas gag gift. Dig out your old junior high school yearbook, scan your friend's yearbook photo and have it printed and framed. In keeping with the season you may want to choose a funny Christmas photo of you together instead. If you can't uncover any suitably embarrassing photos, remember that you can always digitally edit a photo to appear humorous.

Gag gifts can help coworkers to let loose and socialize. Often offices organize a secret Santa system in which coworkers exchange gifts anonymously. This can allow people the opportunity to be more daring with their gifts. Websites like stupid.com offer several gag gifts specifically designed for an office environment, such as "paper emails" (a memo pad in the style of an email), a pencil sharpener that looks like a nose and various desktop decorations ranging from a Sigmund Freud bobble head to monkey figurines dressed in office attire.