Now as tradition, I normally wait until I visit my folks before wrapping my beautiful, wonderful, exquisite Reddit Secret Santa gift... not this time...

So, like my title says... my gift started to smell...

Well it turns out that HOT SAUCE from a glass bottle makes an EXCELLENT gift decoration! It was everywhere! How do you make Berkeley start like a great school? By adding a bit of ZING to it of course! That's what kcen thought (add don't tell him/her/it but I'd agree [oooohhh, sick burn!])

But it was not all for naught, the delicately dressed Texas Instrument Microcontroller Board had its parts doubly wrapped in static free baggies, so they lived through the ordeal.

The toolkit... not so much, a lot of the nuts and tools are a bit corroded (I mean, I guess that's what hot sauce'll do to it).

The shirts in the washer and the toolkit case is in the dishwasher so hopefully we can save Kwanza!

Thanks again kcen for an awesome gift and a hilarious experience! May your holidays be as spicy as mine!