Wife chastises husband for purchasing ugly Christmas cards, husband pulls prank with the help of his friends: 'Their mantelpiece was covered in identical cards'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Dec 17, 2024 8:00 AM EST

People can be very particular about how they like things to look around the holidays. From Christmas trees to stockings to decorations, many suburban families enjoy going overboard because, well, who is going to stop them from being festive? If Halloween is the one time of year people can dress however they want without receiving any judgment, then Christmas is the one time of year that the elders of the family can be as demanding and over-the-top as they want and no one can say anything about it.

Here, we have a very particular lady who rejected her husband's choice of Christmas cards. He ended up saving them and immediately hatched a plan for the following year. Now, he enlisted his friends to play a prank on his wife, in which they all sent the couple Christmas cards using that specific, so-called "ugly" style. The best part was that the wife didn't even recognize the style at first and even commented how she liked the look of it. Eventually, however, when she had tons of identical Christmas cards on their mantelpiece, she figured out that something was up.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more stories like this, take a look at this post about an employee's clever malicious compliance at work.

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    Wishing you a BRIGHT & BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR that SHINES with HAPPINESS
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    It's time for my annual telling of the Christmas Card Revenge story
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    I posted this last year (or maybe the year before) and decided it should be told again because there aren't a lot of Christmas revenge stories.
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    Several years ago a friend of mine was sent by his wife to go and buy some Christmas cards that they would send to all their
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    friends. He had never bought Christmas cards before so he just bought a couple of packs of identical cards that he thought were nice.
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    He returned home and his wife hated them, she told him they were hideous and sent him back to the store to buy different ones. and return the ones he had bought.
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    He bought new cards, but kept the old ones and hid them until the following year. The following October he sent one of each of those cards to everyone he received a Christmas card from
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    the past year explaining he was pulling a prank on his wife and that to please use the enclosed card as their Christmas card to him and his wife.
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    Mid December the cards started rolling in, all with cryptic messages about the card, hoping they liked the design etc. Their mantelpiece was covered in identical cards from friends and family around the world.
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    He didn't say anything, she thought it was a little odd, but commented how much she liked the design. Finally at Christmas
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    dinner it got brought up in conversation by someone in on it (which included everyone in their circle.) At that point she knew something was up and wondered why everyone was laughing. My buddy told her about the prank.
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    She claimed to have no recollection of sending him back to buy different cards and denied the whole thing. But later that night she shot him a nasty look, they never spoke of it again.
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    25 Humble-Answ... . 21h ago Hahaha the commitment to that revenge, classic.
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    AQUEON 21h ago This is so great! It reminds me of mine and my husband's anniversary card.
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    I went and bought one and gave it to him in the morning. That evening, I got the same card from him with my signature scratched out and his in its place.
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    Oh man, we all cracked up, even the kids. Married 20 years now, that was at about the 5 year mark.
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    DoctorZee55 • 21h ago . That is pure genius.
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    Character_Be... . 20h ago. I am a lawyer. One year, our entire firm saved every Christmas card we received. The next year we sent them back to the sender. We crossed out the prior firm's name and put ours in handwriting. I got a lot of interesting phone calls that year.
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