DOLLARS & SENSE; Merry Kitschmas; When a practical gift won't do, there are limitless ways to exorcise your bad taste.(VARIETY)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: December 11, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: John Ewoldt; Staff Writer

Sometimes the best gifts are the worst - causing the recipient to gasp at its inappropriateness, ugliness or uselessness. Nonetheless, such gifts can turn a frown upside-down and a belly into jelly. And that's what kitschy gifts are all about. In these time-starved days, they're for when you wanted to send the very best but this was all that was left.

Are you the lucky recipient of a gift so ugly that it's kitschy-kitschy cool? Maybe it's one of those special gifts that keeps being given and re-given. If your family or friends pass along ...

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