Welcome to Reddit Village.

It all started at my family’s annual Tacky Gift Exchange.

Every year we compete to find the tackiest gift imaginable. The last consensus winner was about two years ago, when we brought some “art” we had located at a local Korean grocery store. The art consisted of mounted seashells and dried seahorses in a large, matted, gold flecked frame. (apologies if you are Korean and I’ve just insulted some important part of your culture)… this is my cousin weeping at the art hanging on her wall:

This year. her father decided to get revenge on all of us.

Apparently, one of the big collectibles stores in town was going out of business and he found that their section of Americana snow village porcelains was marked off to the tune of ~95%. So he bought them out and lavished all of us with the spoils at this year’s Tacky Gift Exchange. This stuff was utter crap. Half of it was broken in the box. All made in China. People were horrified. I ended up taking almost all of it home. Why? Because my cubicle at work needed to be the home for this little American town. A town I would name after my favorite website, Reddit.

Behold! The birth of Reddit Village.

Here’s all of it piled up waiting to be unboxed:

Hmmm… so what do we have here?

Some fat leprechauns (or maybe just little Irish people). Note that the princess is riding a big wheel.

No idea what’s going on here. I think this was two different porcelains that were glued together.

Here we have the confluence of a guy playing his fiddle for a dog, a guy grilling dogs, and a lady dragging a kitten through the streets of Reddit Village.

“Buy a car wash or we’ll jack up your car, Mister!”

“We offer this three fingered trophy to you, Flying Spaghetti Monster!”

One of the families in Reddit Village didn’t get the memo.

“Lassie! Lassie! Pull me up, damn you!”

And then there’s the 9/11 Memorial.

Here’s all of Reddit Village!