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12-19-2011, 07:20 PM | #1 | |||
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I always go a gag gift to my brother. It has been anything like emptying my shredder into a box to some pieces a styrofoam cut in the shape of cars. I want to give him an 'I pad" this year. I am going to take a pad of paper and put the letter I on the front of it. What I need is the approximate size of the I pad box to put it in. I have another brother who I haven't always given him a gag gift just because he doesn't have the same sense of humor that the other one has. I have thought of making a U pad for him. If you put them together it makes an IU pad. I'm from Indiana and of course IU is big here.
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"Thanks for this!" says: | Blessings2You (12-19-2011) |
12-19-2011, 09:50 PM | #2 | |||
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A package of typing paper is close to the size of an iPad box. (just wrapped my sister's iPad up, and I checked the box mine came in just now. iPad box might be a teeny bit bigger. I dont have a full pack of typing paper with me to make totally sure but it's close.
I was half tempted to take my iPad box and put my dad's giant calculator inside it (it'll fit, I checked) and give that to my sister and see what happens before we give her the actual iPad, but she's got no sense of humor, and I have no energy with this stupid flare to actually go thru with it. So I changed my mind on that.
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"Thanks for this!" says: | doydie (12-20-2011) |
12-19-2011, 11:29 PM | #3 | ||
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A "regular" size cereal box may be close to what you need. At least judging from the boxes I saw at Target when I was looking at them.
That's a clever idea for a gag gift!
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"Thanks for this!" says: | doydie (12-20-2011) |
12-20-2011, 01:45 AM | #4 | |||
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yeah, but a ream of paper might give it the necessary weight to make a person think it's an actual ipad. Cereal might crinkle...
I just looked, a piece of printer paper runs over the sides of an iPad box a little bit. If you put a piece of printer paper even with the corners on one side of the box, it'll run over the end and the other side by...half an inch, maybe an inch (I'm horrible at figuring out how much an inch is without a ruler)
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12-20-2011, 05:48 AM | #5 | |||
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What a fun idea Doydie.
When my daughter was small, I used to wrap small gifts like her watch in about 20 or 30 layers of wrapping paper, so that the package started extra large ... decreasing in size with every layer unwrapped. Either that or I put the gift in different sized, individually wrapped boxes, each one inside another using as many different sizes as I could find. She got wise after the first couple times, but knew she still had to unwrap every box or layer before she would get to see what her gift was. Instead of the letter "I", what about drawing, or pasting a cut-out of a large eye on the front of your pad. You'd have an "Eye Pad" that way.
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12-20-2011, 11:14 AM | #6 | |||
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How about putting a fake eyeball in the box with a sanitary napkin? (because of all the jokes people made about the 'iPad' name when they were first announced)
Or a sanitary napkin with an eyeball (or the letter "I") drawn on it? ok, I havent gotten enough sleep this past week. My brain is coming up with silly ideas.
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