Oh man, this year I definitely got better than I gave. I will for sure be stepping up my game next year! (Whlie I've been a GRM reader for many years and a forum lurker for a few years, it's only this past year I've begun participating in the forum regularly once I quit Reddit.)
Also, box art. Man, I have some inspiration for next year! I had a very good, hearty laugh at what I received. Y'all are pretty cool.
There were two boxes o' crap because "shipping to AZ is cheapish." Woo, more crap!
I like the idea of the UPS carrier reading the boxes and thinking, "What the fork?"
Glad I read the instructions before I did my usual:
Okay, now to the goodies!
These will absolutely get used. I still have wall space available at my warehouse and have a ton of tools that hang on the walls.
Oh shoot, this is FULL of crap!
A 3D-printed GRM cup (I'd like the STL!). I assumed at first that it was for, say, twist drill bits. Then I found an open screw-on top. Maybe a fleshlight?
Inside the cup were a few coins (2 Chuck-E-Cheese tokens and a Bahamian dime) and a lanyard from the USS Virginia. The slogan seems ominous next to the coins, somehow.
A couple shirts, some sockets, a couple jelly octopodes (?), an inflatable Boston Terrier, some hand sanitizer, what appears to be three short ignition wires for a 1998 Mopar, a couple bearings, a Santa, a baggie of springs...
I totally dig the Aerojet Rocketdyne shirt. I'm rather a few sizes larger, but I'm hoping I can at least get the wife to wear it as a nightshirt!
Some Red Kap jeans in 38 x 30, some stickers that will absolutely make it onto a toolbox or maybe a track car, some Japanese beef curry mix that brings back memories, a pair of gardening gloves, and a 2009 "BEST MAZDA" trophy. I know it's silly but that's definitely going to go in the garage somehow. Also a roll of Life Savers.
Okay, there's actually some stuff of value here as well: A roll of stamps, for instance! There's also some door locks for a Toyota, syringes, obligatory Rock Auto magnets, party poppers, and a squishy booby. Wait, what?
Did it have to be vanilla milk scented?
Overview of the box that didn't have the pegboard in it:
For real, I'm super impressed. And grateful: This is a neat community. Some of this is actually going to make it into use, and some of it is going to be used to irritate the wife (at some point I'm going to have to sneak the squishy booby into her purse or something). And definitely for next year I'm going to purge even more crap from my own shops and send it to my victim! I'll have to figure out a cost-efficient shipping solution. Hey Bill, can you pair me up with someone who can accept palletized LTL shipments at their door?