Monday, December 12, 2016

Dr. Grumpy's gift guide

Did a loved one pass this year, leaving you with an urn above the fireplace? That seems so trite. There has to be something better to aspire to for all eternity.

How about reincarnating them as a coffee mug?


"Auntie Em? Is that you?"


For only a few hundred bucks this place will convert the dearly departed into a serving bowl, or candle holder, or jewelry, or dinnerware... The possibilities are endless!

Think of the looks you'll get when you reach into a cabinet and say "I'm taking grandma out for coffee" (and laugh maniacally) or ask a guest "can you pass Aunt Zelda's mashed potatoes?"

No word on the site if they make dental implants or toilets, but it never hurts to ask.
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20 comments:

  1. UnknownDecember 12, 2016 at 4:09 AM

    Mix them with concrete, or plaster, and the possibilities are endless.

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  2. Nurse LillyDecember 12, 2016 at 9:18 AM

    Do they make sex toys?

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  3. AnonymousDecember 12, 2016 at 9:50 AM

    How about a little idol that you can worship?

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  4. Steph BDecember 12, 2016 at 12:06 PM

    That's sick.

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  5. KaiDecember 12, 2016 at 2:50 PM

    Oh. Oh dear.

    Nurse Lilly - there is actually a sex toy you can put some of your deceased loved one's ashes in...

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  6. Yoko DrānoDecember 12, 2016 at 7:13 PM

    "And that, my child, is how they make Hummel figurines like the ones on your shelf. Nighty-night."

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  7. AnonymousDecember 12, 2016 at 7:17 PM

    Christmas tree ornaments?

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  8. AnonymousDecember 12, 2016 at 7:18 PM

    Dreidels?

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  9. Ivan IlyichDecember 12, 2016 at 9:07 PM

    I was thinking a coffee mug might be appropriate for my cremains, but it costs more than the cemetery plot I'm considering.

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  10. PackerDecember 13, 2016 at 8:26 AM

    Only to be sold at a garage sale for 50 cents some 20 years in the future.

    Whatever happened to spreading your ashes on Nantucket Sound or some other pretty spot.

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  11. bobbieDecember 13, 2016 at 10:46 AM

    Yoko D ~ I will never look at all my Hummel's the same way again!

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  12. MikeDecember 13, 2016 at 10:52 AM

    If you break the coffee mug (or whatever) do you have to give the pieces a dignified burial in the yard? I'd feel guilty about throwing shards of grandpa in the trash.

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  13. UnknownDecember 13, 2016 at 10:55 AM

    I friend posted a picture on Facebook of her baby chewing on an necklace with the caption "It's so cute how she loves to chew on the necklace full of grandma's ashes" I wanted to vomit.

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  14. AnonymousDecember 13, 2016 at 12:25 PM

    How about mixing the ashes with Play-Doh, for the kiddies?

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  15. AnonymousDecember 13, 2016 at 1:43 PM

    How about making leather pouches from their skin and then putting rocks inside them?

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  16. AnonymousDecember 13, 2016 at 10:46 PM

    It is disrespectful no matter the organic chemical equation explanation.

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  17. AnonymousDecember 14, 2016 at 1:11 AM

    I'm a mess without my little china girl...

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  18. tbunniDecember 16, 2016 at 10:47 AM

    As much coffee as my husband drinks, at least I'd know he was spending a quality time with me.

    But a broken mug or plate would give new meaning to "chip off the old block"...

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  19. CDecember 26, 2016 at 5:32 AM

    skeptic: how do you know it is really them and not just some $2 generic mug?

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  20. UnknownJanuary 25, 2017 at 3:46 PM

    Gives a whole new meaning to, "Let's eat, Grandma!"

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So wadda you think?