Inappropriate Mother's Day Gifts: Bikini Perfect Deluxe
No matter how close you are to your mother, a Mother's Day gift that says, "Mom, I think your bikini line needs some help" will probably not be well received.
Anthony received a newsletter from Philips with Mother's Day gift ideas. Most of the gifts were nice, but he found one a bit...inappropriate.
I got an email from Philips this morning entitled " Make your mom feel special on Mother's Day". The second item on the list is something that I don't really think makes a good Mother's Day gift, especially since it references "bonzai Bikini lines". But maybe I'm just a prude like that.
No. It's not just you.
(Photo: doortoriver)
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I would be distrubed if I saw this in my mom's house, now way would I buy it for her
Best mother's day gift ever!
If you have an Oedipus complex...
Love the picture.
You stay classy Consumerist!
Great picture...
The vibrating version is worse. gets rid of stubble my ass!
If only I could intercept my brother's mother's day gift and replace it with this one then, once again, *I* will be the favorite.
Ugh - another made up "holiday" that keeps me from being out on the lake fishing.
Since my oldest kid is only 8 and I do the purchasing of mothers Day gifts I think is a great idea. Better yet, I will go with a gift certificate for a Brazilian wax instead.
All you need for this is Sarah Haskins recent Target:Women on "Your Garden". [current.com]
But this could be handy if you're in NJ where we banned the "Brazilian Wax".
Honestly failing to see all the hubbub is about. Don't people also buy razors for their father for Father's Day?
Best image ever!
Inappropriate or no, I consider that right up there with bath sets for gifts, especially to your mother. "TAKE A BATH" is almost as nice a thought as "Here are some flowers, watch them die slowly, like your ever-dwindling life."
@PersonalBest: Aaaand now I have a picture of my father shaving his bikini line. Thanks so much for that.
@Borax-Johnson: ...She'll open your gift, realize it's a bikini perfect, and attempt to slice your jugular with it?
At Wal-Mart they were selling movies with cardboard sleeves over them that said "Happy Mother's Day, Enjoy this Film" or something similar to that. One of the movies was "There's Something About Mary." Got a laugh out of my mum from that.
@Canino: And wait in insane lines if you actually try and brave the herds err crowds of folks who are "takin' Mamma out to ett".
The only worse eat out holiday is the perfect-storm Valentine's Day that falls on a Saturday- just try getting a two-up table to eat out that night...
Now there are the privledged few who get to take their mother fishing on the lake for Mother's Day...
@WolfBaconFlavorMANGURT_GitEmSteveDave:
NJ needs to start small - say with the upper facial lip and work their way down from there...
{I am an ex-Shore NJ guy with Sicilian heritage so I get to joke about this... especially with my hair ball female cousins.}
TRUE STORY:
I received a bikini/stray hair/ladystache trimmer (it had several interchangeable heads, and helpful photos on the packaging showing its myriad uses) from my Mom, for Christmas. It was not mixed in with other gifts, it was the only gift I got, so I couldn't sort of hide it under lots if torn up wrapping paper. Bonus: it was the 1st Christmas that my now-husband spent with me & my family.
Meeeeeeeery Christmas!
Reminds me of radio ads way back in 1991 telling kids to buy their mom the video of "Pretty Woman".
Just what all moms want, a video about a whore!
"Banish bikini line bonsai" is brilliant. Alliteration and the use of the word bonsai to describe the problem? Somebody in the advertising department deserves a raise.
The word in the ad is "bonsai" as in those miniature trees although I'll have to admit I'm going to think a bit differently about them from now on.
"bonzai" is more of a rallying cry before charging into battle.
For those wikipedians reading this, my reference is "The Karate Kid" when Mr. Miyagi gets stinking drunk.
@ColoradoShark:
..and to think I always heard Banzai! when they came at me with those big steak knives from Ginsu...
I got a ped-egg for Mother's Day last year. I would prefer a gift that does not say "AS SEEN ON TV!"
Just last week I was giving myself a pedicure and my husband asked "Why aren't you using your ped-egg?" I said it was because I did not want my heels to look like shredded carrots. I prefer a pumice stone.
Finally. The perfect gift-pair to go with the pasties I bought for Ma!
Hmm, reminds me of an ad ran this last Christmas, "Get the one you love the perfect gift, a prostate exam." Love you too honey!
Mother would be irritated that I paid fifty bucks for a twenty dollar mustache trimmer.
its a perfect gift for your mom, only if she is a Couger
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This sounds like something Norman Bates might buy for his mom.
I received that e-mail newsletter also. Don't know what Phillips was thinking.
Ugh, I got an email just like that, shortly after a "rate your shaver", and a "rate your body groomer" email send out. Possibly the oddest surveys I've ever taken. I think Phillips has an inappropriate obsession with "down there"... just saying.. anyone here who took those surveys might agree....
Gifts that make my mother feel pretty, using the definition of "pretty" used by a five-year-old, are okay. Buying a gift meant to increase the "sexy" factor is best left to the people who are most appropriatly suited to determining sexiness: spouses.
I do remember my dad got the "EpiLady" once for my mom. That didn't go over well at all.
But... If your wife also happens to be a mother...
Just sayin.