This Guy Wanted To Take Revenge For His Sister’s Obnoxious Gift Last Year, And The Result Is Pure, Packaged Evil
There is always one in the family that loves a bit of mischief, who will go out of their way to make a ‘joke gift’ to prank someone at Christmas time and score a few laughs around the dinner table.
Last year is was Imgur user gileriodekel on the receiving end, getting a crappy candy bar wrapped in impossibly awkward wrapping from his sister. So this year he and his wife teamed up to take revenge and while it was an extraordinary amount of effort to go to, boy was it glorious.
“I’ll likely have my sister to tell me the 2 words on the paper and she’ll get another present,” he explained. “She is also required to not just cut through the boxes, tape, or saran wrap. If she does, she forfeits her part 2. Opening this present will be quite the accomplishment.”
This takes obnoxious gift giving to a whole new level of evil genius. Scroll down below to check it out and please, don’t get any ideas.
“In 2015, my sister gave my a candy bar wrapped in a whole roll of packing tape. It was a pain in the ass to open and took forever. This year my wife and I teamed up to pay my sister back”
“My wife found a bowling ball at a thrift store for super cheap. Its heavy and awkward, which makes it great for being the central part of the gift. My wife stuffed a full 8.5×11 piece of paper with $40 into the thumb hole”
“I decided to make 2 decoy notes. These were a little smaller so they’re half pages, which made them fit about as well as the real note in their holes”
“These were the decoy notes”
“We then wrapped the bowling ball in saran wrap, but this is just a protective layer”
“We decided to make the heavy bowling ball slippery by smearing shortening all over it”
“The first coat – a very light one”
“I lost track of how many layers of shortening we did. We used almost a full roll of saran wrap and half a container of shortening when all was said and done”
“There was so much shortening with all the layers that you could poke it and it would leave an impression basically forever”
“Then came the duct tape!”
“We did 2 rolls of duct tape, and changed the pattern of how we were wrapping it every once in a while to throw her off. The end of the tape was almost impossible to find”
“It was at about this point that we started to realise how much time this was ACTUALLY going to take to unwrap this”
“We started wondering if we were bad people, especially since its only half wrapped at this point”
“Another layer of saran wrap, but this time no shortening. We wanted saran wrap: round 2 to be more difficult for her”
“Another full roll of duct tape!”
“4th and last roll of duct tape, but this time the sticky side is out”
“We considered doing another layer of saran wrap, but decided to put it in a flimsy plastic bag instead. It’ll be harder to find the end of the duct tape this way”
“Definitely realised I’m a terrible person by this point”
“Decided to give her a shirt so she doesn’t screw any of her own clothes up. I’ll also tell her to do the shortening part in a tub or outside”
“Got a box to put the ball in, but I couldn’t make it that easy”
“I drilled 83 holes along the lip and lid of the box”
“I put the ball inside with tissue paper so she can’t see whats inside…
…and then zip tied it 83 times. The way I zip tied it it’ll be almost impossible to cut with scissors”
“Then I put that box inside another box…
…and put 4 combination locks on it. Each lock is numbered 1-4”
“I decided to make it to where she had to solve coded riddles to get the combinations”
“My whole family is Mormon and I thought it would be cool to code the riddles in the Deseret Alphabet, which the Mormons developed in the 1850’s”
“Here’s the key that’s on top”
“These are the hints”
“I’ll save you the trouble of translation, this is what they are:
1. Go tickle the ivories (hidden in the piano)
2. A dime a dozen… more like a dozen dimes! (hidden in a coin of jars my parents have)
3. Count your chickens before they hatch (hidden in the carton of eggs)
4. Stick a fork in it (hidden in the silverware drawer)”
“What the hidden notes that have the combinations on them look like”
“Let’s hope she takes it well! I’m planning on filming the whole thing or until she gives up. I’ll post it if I’m able to!”
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I found this to be quite entertaining and would like to see the sister's reaction. Why all of the comments saying he overeacted and he needs to calm down? This was done all in fun. He and his sister probably do this to each other all the time. It sounds like there are too many negative-minded people out there who need to loosen up and learn to enjoy life and perhaps a joke or two. Sheesh!
To folks who claim he overreacted or overdid it... do you not have siblings? Cause this is exactly how nerdy siblings do stuff. Bravo, OP!
If sister is smart, she'll just take a sharp double edged blade and cut the c**p out of the plastic boxes to start. Heck, I'd pull out either my jigsaw or tree saw. Cut that bad boy to ribbons.
And then use a sharp knife to cut all the tape and saran wrap off the ball. Since there's nothing actually sticking to the ball itself, a quick incision all the way around should let all the wrapping and shortening (weird) fall away in 2 hemisphere shells. I don't think these people are as clever as they seem to think they are.
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All those supplies cost about $40, so money, time and energy well spent lol.
Am I the only one that tried (and failed) to translate the Deseret alphabet? And yes I know he provided a translation but that's not the point.
Meh... the best come back would be the sister not even bother to open it and see the faces of disappointment of your brother and his wife for taking so much trouble for nothing.
That's my response, too. Just leave it under the tree. Maybe I've just read too many "elaborate prank" articles to appreciate this one.
Load More Replies... I love this kind of sibling fun. It's the sort of stuff that others might not understand, but the kids do. Well played.
FROM THE DAD: I'm the dad of these two innovators. Everybody had a total blast on Christmas Day as we saw my son's gift to my daughter, and my daughter's gift to my son. Although it's not noted in the article, her gift to him wasn't a piece of cake to open, either. He had to struggle to get to his present, too. Objectively I think she got the upper hand last year, and he did this this year. But his birthday is in late spring, and I don't know if she's going to wait a whole year for the next round or not. She's pretty smart, so I suspect her next "gift" to him may require a knowledge of several branches of physics, chemistry, tonality-based foreign language dialects and tools. IOW, "you ain't seen nothing yet."
PLEASE keep me posted on their "gifts"!! You can find me on face book or email is Owllady61@yahoo Thanks!! You raised em good!!!
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You 2 are the most horrible, terrible, adorable, charming and sweet couple. XD LOL!!!! Thanks for the good laugh.
As long as nobody was hurt and fun was had (sibling rivalry is different for everybody), it's not really anybody else's business. Peace.
I'd love to see her reaction. And to see how she gets back at him next year.
Hey I'm the sister and if you want the video of me opening it go to https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v3EWcUe7qtQ 👈😂 Also, I just want to let y'all know that I wasn't allowed to use scissors and this is all out of fun between me and my brother. Just know, that I will be getting him back even better next year😉😎
Thank You so much for letting us know how to watch you opening this!!! I know that both of you and your family enjoyed it!! Happy New Year to you and your fun loving brother from me and my family in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
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My Dad and Aunt would do stuff like this every year, eventually my cousins would come to Christmas with a hunting knife and a razor knife.
This reminds me of the gift my brother and my sister in law gave me on my 18th birthday. I was given a block of concrete that they had made themselves. Inside the block of concrete was a plastic container with 100 individually wrapped coins. Every. Single. Coin. Wrapped. It took ages to sit and open up. Coolest way to be given a bit of money ever :D When my younger brother turned 18, my older brother didn't disappoint this time either. This time around it was different small bottles of booze, money and what not frozen in a massive block of ice.
Wow. I might be glad we are not related. What is the actual gift? -a note in a bowling ball?
These two deviants have plotted and planned and came up with a nice little evil surprise for another deviant in the family. Good job. Tempted to surprise my sister on her birthday with such a gift.....
The effort alone signifies loving respect. Yours is good humored and contains real value. The initial gesture, just mean.
Yikes... I would probably give up at the zip ties. Such a fun idea! :)
Man, I'm glad my brother and I only do "gross-out" Christmas cards to each other as our prank every year. I love a good joke, but this is a bit too much.
At some point this ceased to be funny. First of all, someone needs to remind this family WHY it is we have Christmas and WHY we celebrate it. A family of Mormons SHOULD know this. That surprised me but they must be Mormons in name only, they talk the talk but they don't walk the walk. But at some point this crossed the line between funny little joke into something downright mean. Something like this will take days and for what? $40 lousy dollars? I don't know if this is worth doing for $400? And then, he doesn't even tell us what happened. This was just stupid. This guy and his wife NEED to grow up and soon. I hope they don't have any kids, they haven't become adults yet in their own lives let alone be responsible for any other ones.
that is so coooool! i wanna see your sister's reaction. HAHAHAHAHA! I have a friend who is a Mormon too, i suddenly remembered him. hmm
This is how a brother tells his sister he loves her. (and she'll complain and whine and know that he loves her)
SOUNDS PERFECTLY DASTARDLY SIBLING FUN! LOL! Hope they do a followup...but it might have to be in July....lolol
I love IT!!. I gave my sister $50.00 in change for her 50th bday. In A large bowl of jello, it was messy and lots of fun at A wine tasting event.
When and where can we see the "reveal"? I would hope it is placed next to this....
For a lousy 40 bucks I would give up. This mess would take 10 years off your life in stress trying to open it.
do not mess with these people--they are very smart, creative, and they have a lot of time on their hands!
This guy looks like James Brolin from Marcus Welby MD. If he lost that bowling ball stomach, that is!
If I knew in advance there was only $40 inside, I'd throw it at him.
That’s too much work just to get forty dollars. If I go through all that there better be AT LEAST 200 dollars. At least! Forty dollars ain’t worth all that work. That’s a full time job just to reach it.
Oooh, I feel stressed after reading this. Sounds funny though, too!
Sounds like fun relax people. They are creating funny memories that they will laugh at for years to come.
I think it's funny but if I received this I'd get out the utility knife and be at the ball in less than 10 minutes. No zip-tie cutting for me. Just cut a square out of the lid. Then the next lid. Then cut through the layers of tape and food wrap so I could peel away big chunks. That's what I'd do if I were annoyed and wanted to get it over with. But what I'd probably do is go along with the intent for fun. I'm sure this entertained everyone present for quite some time.
I would have loved to have seen her reaction in a video on YouTube! I bet it would have been priceless!
Honestly, I’d get my electric microsaw and just cut through the boxes and all. A simple, sharp hobbyknife/boxcutter for the bowling ball.
Read it again, She would forfeit if she did that.
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What if they don't try to open the present but just throw it in the trash? What word could describe that?
Really yawn. I'm also not sure what he went through to make it is any less bad than what she'll have to go through to undo it. At least she gets forty dollars - all he gets is the glee of watching her suffer through it. Which I find kinda awkward.
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A sharp knife would make quick work of that. Good try though. LOL
I don't have a hell of a lot of money but I don't think I want forty bucks that bad. I'd just say thanks and not open it.
You guys just created a whole lot of unnecessary waste... what a smart bunch.
If I was her, I'd say "No, you're all right. I'll leave it." Then I'd not even touch it for a few days to really wind them up before using a Stanley knife to cut through everything.
What a waste of plastic....all to be thrown in the garbage. What a shame. You'd think religious people would do better at taking care of the environment.
Why on earth would you think god-botherers are any more caring about the environment than other people? They hardly care for other people let alone the environment.
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I found this to be quite entertaining and would like to see the sister's reaction. Why all of the comments saying he overeacted and he needs to calm down? This was done all in fun. He and his sister probably do this to each other all the time. It sounds like there are too many negative-minded people out there who need to loosen up and learn to enjoy life and perhaps a joke or two. Sheesh!
To folks who claim he overreacted or overdid it... do you not have siblings? Cause this is exactly how nerdy siblings do stuff. Bravo, OP!
If sister is smart, she'll just take a sharp double edged blade and cut the c**p out of the plastic boxes to start. Heck, I'd pull out either my jigsaw or tree saw. Cut that bad boy to ribbons.
And then use a sharp knife to cut all the tape and saran wrap off the ball. Since there's nothing actually sticking to the ball itself, a quick incision all the way around should let all the wrapping and shortening (weird) fall away in 2 hemisphere shells. I don't think these people are as clever as they seem to think they are.
Load More Replies... All those supplies cost about $40, so money, time and energy well spent lol.
Am I the only one that tried (and failed) to translate the Deseret alphabet? And yes I know he provided a translation but that's not the point.
Meh... the best come back would be the sister not even bother to open it and see the faces of disappointment of your brother and his wife for taking so much trouble for nothing.
That's my response, too. Just leave it under the tree. Maybe I've just read too many "elaborate prank" articles to appreciate this one.
Load More Replies... I love this kind of sibling fun. It's the sort of stuff that others might not understand, but the kids do. Well played.
FROM THE DAD: I'm the dad of these two innovators. Everybody had a total blast on Christmas Day as we saw my son's gift to my daughter, and my daughter's gift to my son. Although it's not noted in the article, her gift to him wasn't a piece of cake to open, either. He had to struggle to get to his present, too. Objectively I think she got the upper hand last year, and he did this this year. But his birthday is in late spring, and I don't know if she's going to wait a whole year for the next round or not. She's pretty smart, so I suspect her next "gift" to him may require a knowledge of several branches of physics, chemistry, tonality-based foreign language dialects and tools. IOW, "you ain't seen nothing yet."
PLEASE keep me posted on their "gifts"!! You can find me on face book or email is Owllady61@yahoo Thanks!! You raised em good!!!
Load More Replies... You 2 are the most horrible, terrible, adorable, charming and sweet couple. XD LOL!!!! Thanks for the good laugh.
As long as nobody was hurt and fun was had (sibling rivalry is different for everybody), it's not really anybody else's business. Peace.
I'd love to see her reaction. And to see how she gets back at him next year.
Hey I'm the sister and if you want the video of me opening it go to https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v3EWcUe7qtQ 👈😂 Also, I just want to let y'all know that I wasn't allowed to use scissors and this is all out of fun between me and my brother. Just know, that I will be getting him back even better next year😉😎
Thank You so much for letting us know how to watch you opening this!!! I know that both of you and your family enjoyed it!! Happy New Year to you and your fun loving brother from me and my family in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
Load More Replies... My Dad and Aunt would do stuff like this every year, eventually my cousins would come to Christmas with a hunting knife and a razor knife.
This reminds me of the gift my brother and my sister in law gave me on my 18th birthday. I was given a block of concrete that they had made themselves. Inside the block of concrete was a plastic container with 100 individually wrapped coins. Every. Single. Coin. Wrapped. It took ages to sit and open up. Coolest way to be given a bit of money ever :D When my younger brother turned 18, my older brother didn't disappoint this time either. This time around it was different small bottles of booze, money and what not frozen in a massive block of ice.
Wow. I might be glad we are not related. What is the actual gift? -a note in a bowling ball?
These two deviants have plotted and planned and came up with a nice little evil surprise for another deviant in the family. Good job. Tempted to surprise my sister on her birthday with such a gift.....
The effort alone signifies loving respect. Yours is good humored and contains real value. The initial gesture, just mean.
Yikes... I would probably give up at the zip ties. Such a fun idea! :)
Man, I'm glad my brother and I only do "gross-out" Christmas cards to each other as our prank every year. I love a good joke, but this is a bit too much.
At some point this ceased to be funny. First of all, someone needs to remind this family WHY it is we have Christmas and WHY we celebrate it. A family of Mormons SHOULD know this. That surprised me but they must be Mormons in name only, they talk the talk but they don't walk the walk. But at some point this crossed the line between funny little joke into something downright mean. Something like this will take days and for what? $40 lousy dollars? I don't know if this is worth doing for $400? And then, he doesn't even tell us what happened. This was just stupid. This guy and his wife NEED to grow up and soon. I hope they don't have any kids, they haven't become adults yet in their own lives let alone be responsible for any other ones.
that is so coooool! i wanna see your sister's reaction. HAHAHAHAHA! I have a friend who is a Mormon too, i suddenly remembered him. hmm
This is how a brother tells his sister he loves her. (and she'll complain and whine and know that he loves her)
SOUNDS PERFECTLY DASTARDLY SIBLING FUN! LOL! Hope they do a followup...but it might have to be in July....lolol
I love IT!!. I gave my sister $50.00 in change for her 50th bday. In A large bowl of jello, it was messy and lots of fun at A wine tasting event.
When and where can we see the "reveal"? I would hope it is placed next to this....
For a lousy 40 bucks I would give up. This mess would take 10 years off your life in stress trying to open it.
do not mess with these people--they are very smart, creative, and they have a lot of time on their hands!
This guy looks like James Brolin from Marcus Welby MD. If he lost that bowling ball stomach, that is!
If I knew in advance there was only $40 inside, I'd throw it at him.
That’s too much work just to get forty dollars. If I go through all that there better be AT LEAST 200 dollars. At least! Forty dollars ain’t worth all that work. That’s a full time job just to reach it.
Oooh, I feel stressed after reading this. Sounds funny though, too!
Sounds like fun relax people. They are creating funny memories that they will laugh at for years to come.
I think it's funny but if I received this I'd get out the utility knife and be at the ball in less than 10 minutes. No zip-tie cutting for me. Just cut a square out of the lid. Then the next lid. Then cut through the layers of tape and food wrap so I could peel away big chunks. That's what I'd do if I were annoyed and wanted to get it over with. But what I'd probably do is go along with the intent for fun. I'm sure this entertained everyone present for quite some time.
I would have loved to have seen her reaction in a video on YouTube! I bet it would have been priceless!
Honestly, I’d get my electric microsaw and just cut through the boxes and all. A simple, sharp hobbyknife/boxcutter for the bowling ball.
Read it again, She would forfeit if she did that.
Load More Replies... What if they don't try to open the present but just throw it in the trash? What word could describe that?
Really yawn. I'm also not sure what he went through to make it is any less bad than what she'll have to go through to undo it. At least she gets forty dollars - all he gets is the glee of watching her suffer through it. Which I find kinda awkward.
Load More Replies... A sharp knife would make quick work of that. Good try though. LOL
I don't have a hell of a lot of money but I don't think I want forty bucks that bad. I'd just say thanks and not open it.
You guys just created a whole lot of unnecessary waste... what a smart bunch.
If I was her, I'd say "No, you're all right. I'll leave it." Then I'd not even touch it for a few days to really wind them up before using a Stanley knife to cut through everything.
What a waste of plastic....all to be thrown in the garbage. What a shame. You'd think religious people would do better at taking care of the environment.
Why on earth would you think god-botherers are any more caring about the environment than other people? They hardly care for other people let alone the environment.
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