Some of these decorations are fine for one-time use, or make good inexpensive substitutes for those of us trying to save a little money on our holiday celebrations. But others can make you question not only the sanity, but the sheer humanity of the manufacturers responsible for them.
Take, for example, this nutcracker figurine:
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| This nutcracker has been cracking too many coffee beans. |
My eyes jump around all over the place when looking at this, almost like it's vibrating. I can't tell if he's trembling in homicidal rage or just overcaffeinated, but either way, I can tell you that I wouldn't want him in my house, grimacing at me in ochre-faced fury all day long.
UPDATE: I thought at first that this might have been an unfortunate case of hand-painting, like those kids' craft projects that people buy to keep the little ones occupied while they wrap Christmas gifts in the other room. But in the past few weeks, I've seen *three* of these at various different thrift stores, all with equally bad paint jobs. So apparently they're not only mass-produced, but universally donated.
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