Purim…

Wow! Some people are just super organized!!! It’s still Chanukah!!

LOL,

in years past I tied my mishloach manos into a theme with my costume

one year my wife and I were mexicans (my kid was a chili pepper) so we gave hot peppers, salsa, guacamole spicy chips and water

one year we were Israelis so we gave out bamba and bissli, and magen david cookies

one year when I was a bachur I dressed in a Brady jersey with a red sox cap and gave out candied Boston baked beans, Sam Adams Boston Lager

one year

Maybe these will spark some creative ideas for you –

*I once did a bag of stuff that all had ‘light’ on the label or in the name.

*Stuff that had all become recently kosher (oreos, m&m, gatorade)

*Different things that were all corn in the name (popcorn, cornbread muffin, candy corn)

*My favorite was when I had a machine that you used to put gifts in balloons and I gave out a balloon with a plate of nosh in it.

*I think a friend once gave us a makeshift airplane meal.

Why don’t you do black and white things, like a keyboard?

somehow in my house i have to come up w. the theme and poem

last year we did a whole coffee break theme-coffee packets, coffee cake-cupcake, coffee candies and a small bag of coffee beans. smelled delish

one year we did “have a berry happy purim” with small berry crumbles and something else

one year we did around the year in mini’s-lady apples and a small jar of honey, choco coins and a dreidel, red jelly fish (mazal adar dagim), potato chips (pesach) and then something for shavuos.

The latest from Japan are cat ears that perk up when you are thinking and flop down when your mind is relaxed.

our neighbors dressed up like skunks with their theme “Mishenichnas ‘Oder’ marbim B’Simchah”

I have no idea what was in their Mishloach Monos. do I want to?? LOL

I’ve always wanted to(but never did it) Save a box from Shmura Matza and put a pizza in it for shaloch Monus. And of course a wine bottle with beer in it.

sem20 – i’m thinking…i’m thinking.. i just haven’t come up with an amazing idea yet. i know that’s hard to believe but it’s true!

hey! how about something to do with parking at fire hydrants with your blinkers on? LOL

you can dress up as a car with lights blinking and walk around carrying a fire hydrant. for the shalach manos, you can give out “tickets” to a “concert” – together with a beer and popcorn.

I’m already on IV (my home’s pesach’dig), and here you’re still thinking of themes? I don’t know if you’ll get to purim on time… you should’ve started preparing right after pesach.

Rainbow theme- 1) everything is rainbow, like rainbow cake and jelly beans, etc. or 2) each food item is a different color

Make one really cute food, like purim cookies, or a really fancy, nice thing, like baked goods or chocolates, and put a bottle of wine or something as your second food.

Buy glass/plastic vases, layer candy inside, and stick a few fake flowers in (of course, I don’t know your budget, but it sould probably work).

If you like Blue Man Group, wear a blue bathing cap, color your face, neck and hands in blue paint (maybe get blue rubber gloves like EMTs wear), dress up in all black, and pass out (kosher)marshmallows, red Leiber’s jello snack packs and and Cap’n Crunch in a white PVC pipe/cup with blue fingerprints on it. (According to the Star-K website, regular and Cap ‘N Crunch Crunch Berries are dairy, but Peanut Butter is pareve.) (Add drumsticks if your budget allows.)

Borrow/rent/make the PVC pipe instrument that shoots out streamers and walk around your neighborhood playing “Al Hanissim”. Leave streamers everywhere.

Leave blue fingerprints wherever you go. I wish we were organized enough to pull just some of this off, although I’m not sure how many people in our crowd would ‘get’ it. You did ask for weird, strange, or different!!