Gag And Kitsch Christmas Gifts For Him.

Whether it's a gag gift or a kitsch gift he may well love it.

A few years ago my family got what I considered to be a reasonably kitsch Christmas gift. It's a silver Christmas tree, about a foot high, which plays Jingle Bells Rock and rocks back and forth to the sound of your voice.

I hated it when we got it, however all these years later we still have it and I love it. Every Christmas the kids bring the rocking Christmas Tree out and off it goes with Jingle Bells Rock, rocking in time to the tune.

It's almost like Christmas really isn't Christmas without that kitsch rocking Christmas Tree. So I thought I'd see what other kitsch, or gag, Christmas gifts you could find for your man. After all, if you buy him a kitsch gift he, (and you), may well end up taking it to heart just as I have.

First of all let's define kitsch. Here's a definition that I got from Dictionary.com. Kitsch is "something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste".

That seems to sum it up pretty well, and that was exactly how I felt about that rocking Christmas tree. Funny how kitsch becomes loved.

I've had the same thing happen before. I'm not a big fan of garden gnomes. For my birthday one year, many years ago, my wife decided, because I hated them, to buy me a garden gnome for my birthday gift. To me the garden gnome is about as kitsch as it gets. Yet all these years later we still have it, and it sits proudly by our front door.

Of course there is often very little difference between a gag gift and a kitsch gift, it's all up to how you see it. A kitsch gift can be a great gag gift as well

Okay so let's have a look for some gag or kitsch Christmas gifts that may well appeal to him, and if he has kids will certainly appeal to them. I know my kids absolutely love the rocking Christmas tree.

The first thing I came up with was a similar sort of thing to our Christmas tree. It's a musical rocking Santa that sings "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" while rocking backwards and forwards in a rocking chair. However although, to me, it qualifies as kitsch it is in fact a limited edition gift.

Only just over 300 of these musical Santa's are being produced and each one is hand-painted including the wood grain on the rocking chair.

Mind you it's still a kitsch gift to me, limited edition or not, but of course all these things are in the eye of the beholder and it may be that your man will absolutely love it. Or maybe, like me, he'll hate it to begin with and after a little while he'll love it as I do.

Much cheaper is a farting Santa. You can find the farting Santa at Prank Place, one of my favorite shops for retro, gag and kitsch gifts.

And I was surprised to find that there were even entire stores totally devoted to kitsch gifts. 3 of them that I found were notoriouskitsch.co.uk, kitschshop.com and kitsch.co.uk.

So if you're a little stumped for a great Christmas idea for your man this year consider gag or kitsch. If I'm anything to go by he might find in a few years that it's one of his most treasured gifts that has to come out every Christmas or it's not really Christmas. Read more