SILLYcrap Gift Giving

SILLYcrap is the generic name for a variety of manifestations of a key SILLYweek initiative for 2011. What's intended? It's simple really in that is seen a yet another gift giving time where 'the gift' that might be given for all kinds of reasons might:

• Firstly, contain – REALLY useless crap – crap found lying around the house, bits of junk mail, pointless newspaper cuttings, stuff picked up in the street, wherever, and that ultimately takes on a new value as a gift during SILLYweek ;
• Secondly, have the potential to be both COLLECTORSitem and CULTURALstatements ;
• Thirdly, make that simultaneously carry all kinds of meaning – innuendoes even – that might well fit the SILLYweek circumstance.

Background
During worldSILLYweek communities all over the world are being encouraged to temporarily leave their COMFORTzone and exchange unwanted goods as gifts in various contexts – much as people do during other festive seasons, Christmas for example.

In order to make the gift giving affordable, people are being encouraged to gift wrap anything that's absolutely useless, and that's thought to be totally valueless, and found at the back of cupboards, under a bed or in a myriad of out-of-sight places in every household. Once catagorised as SILLYcrap it may then be offered as a gift during SILLYweek . As is often said "it's the thought that counts!"

The wonderful thing about a SILLYcrap gift is that there is little need, indeed little incentive, to open it to discover it's contents. Such gifts can safely be stored for some future occasion without too much curiosity being roused. Alternatively, if they are opened, and the crap has been carefully selected, there is every possibility that it will deliver a message to the recipient. Even when it's left unopened it may well do the same!

Working Definition:
crap: (krp) Vulgar Slang n. 1. Excrement – actual & euphemistic ... 2. An act of defecating – actual & euphemistic 3. Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language. 4. Cheap or shoddy material 5. Miscellaneous or disorganized items; clutter 6. Insolent talk or behaviour.
Middle English crappe, chaff, from Old French crappe, from Medieval Latin crappa, perhaps of Germanic origin.] Source: The American Heritage¨ Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

NOTICE: Please use the Comments Section below to make suggestions for suitable CRAPgifts befiting the spirit of the SILLYweek season