What should I do about an unwanted Christmas present?

[CTyankee]

A former coworker gave it to me last Christmas and it has been in the trunk of my car ever since. It is so, excuse me, awful, I could never display it in my house (I also have given up decorating at Xmas as we go to my dtr's house). But this very nice coworker hand made it. It is a cover to a Kleenex box, made to look like a sofa with tiny cushions in a very loud red and white Xmas patterned material. I am thinking of giving it to Goodwill so someone else can use it but I am afraid she'll go in there and see it. It would hurt her feelings to know it was unwanted by me.

What do you think I should do? I hate to just throw it away...

[MrCoffee]

1. give it to someone who'll really, REALLY appreciate it...someone like

flvegan

[LeftyMom]

2. Nah, you give him something nice and he'll just complain that it's not a monkey.

:cry:

[MrCoffee]

3. ingrate.

[DS1]

4. put straps on it and donate it to the zoo as a monkey diaper

[AllegroRondo]

5. Store it in your basement.

If she ever visits your home, put it on display.

[marzipanni]

6. Are you sure she made it?

There are 110 sofa kleenex box covers on one seller's pages on ebay-
http://stores.ebay.com/McEvers-Place

[CTyankee]

7. Well, she's a minister's wife so I do believe she did this.

I'm so sorry that her taste is not mine. I know she meant well. But I don't want to waste her talent....

[YellowRubberDuckie]

8. Sell it on Ebay.

Someone always wants the crap on there.
Duckie

[The Straight Story]

9. My suggestion:

Have a lounge contest and send it to the winner :)

[KG]

10. the winner?

[Generic Brad]

11. Or the loser

I like things too.

[hisownpetard]

12. Put it on your desk the day of the Christmas party. She'll notice it and be thrilled

that you haven't chucked the ugly thing all year, and will love you for it.
On your way home from the party, donate it to the nearest dumpster you pass.
You've done your job!!

[CTyankee]

14. Alas, neither she nor I work at that office any more.

But that is a great suggestion and I would do it if we both did work there now.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

15. what hisownpettard said

[Richard Steele]

13. I'm gonna HALF agree with hisownpetard's idea above...

Break it out at Christmas where she'll see it- definitely! :thumbsup:

But keep it, and just use it once a year for that reason.
You can say it's one of your "special Christmas decorations";
that should make her feel EXTRA special.

The material you describe helps make that story believable;
and no one can really consider it a reflection upon your taste
because it's a CHRISTMAS DECORATION! "Tacky Kitsch" is just
a traditional part of the Christmas fun, y'know?

Besides, would it KILL you to enjoy some tacky kitsch once a year?

[CTyankee]

16. Neither of us is at that office any more. I am retired, otherwise I would bring it to the office.

I might include it, along with a couple of extra kleenex boxes, with the food I collect for a local church's soup kitchen this year. It might be something that would cheer up a person in temporary shelter.

Actually, I have no place for this object, so it is a space issue as well as a taste issue. Believe me, it is no judgment on her that I don't like it. I wouldn't expect her to think my taste is so hot! As a minister's wife, she would probably think my giving it to a poor person is appropriate since I cannot use it myself. Better that than for it to sit in the trunk of my car for another year because my guilt seems to paralyze me...