It’s that time a year where parents must feign disappointment in their kids going back to school. Wait, no, we’re not supposed to admit that. We’re super disappointed! Don’t go!
In all seriousness (but not too much seriousness (a medium amount of seriousness)), your kids are throwing on their backpacks – or whatever those trendy one-sling ones are that can fit half like as much stuff – and heading back to class. Naturally, you may want to send them off with a parting gift. And even more naturally, you may want that parting gift to induce some laughs.
Let’s take a look, nay, GANDER at 5 back-to-school gifts under $30 to pair with our prank gift boxes.
What is a Prank Gift Box?
This again? Seriously? We explained it here and here and here and- sorry, it’s not your job to read every blog post. A prank gift box is essentially an empty cardboard box we at Prank-O sell for you to put your gift inside before forking it over to a friend or relative. The catch? There’s always a catch, isn’t there? Ours is that the empty boxes have absurd, fake products printed on them, making your recipient think you got them a Bicycle Seat Belt or a Plant Urinal or any number of bizarre gags we’ve got in stock.
Nap Sack’ Prank Gift Box 🤝 Minnesota Golden Gophers Tee - $24.99
You know we gotta kick things off with a local shoutout. Here in Minnesota, the Golden Golphers are the Division 1 team for the, you guessed it, University of Minnesota. Fake out your collegiate kid by stuffing this shirt from the team’s fan shop into a prank gift box depicting a ‘Nap Sack,’ a cozy hood you can carry with you for on-the-go napping. We doubt their professor would have any problem with that!
‘Pasta Recycler’ Prank Gift Box 🤝 Maruchan Chicken Ramen Noodle Soup - $0.49
There’s under $30, and then there’s WAY under $30. Your kid hasn’t experienced college until they’ve popped one of these noodle bricks (is there any other way to describe it?) into the microwave for a dorm-cooked meal. Buy a bushel of them from Target and hide them in our ‘Pasta Recycler’ prank gift box, which will surely get your kid excited at the possibility of getting their 49 cents worth with a leftover noodle preservation rack. At the very least, the ramen will make them appreciate your cooking more when they come home!
‘Bathe & Brew’ Prank Gift Box 🤝 YETI 12oz Travel Mug - $28.00
Ensure your kid’s not wasting your tuition money by falling asleep in class with a travel mug from YETI that lets them caffeinate all lecture long. Of course, you’re first gonna wanna trick them into thinking you got them a ‘Bathe & Brew,’ which is essentially a coffee maker you hook up to your shower head for simultaneous hot water washing and hot beverage drinking. It’ll certainly conjure a fun image of them trying to hook one up to a shower shared with 20 other students.
‘12,000-Piece Puzzle’ Prank Gift Box 🤝 1,000-Piece TCF Bank Stadium Puzzle - $19.99
What’s better than a 12,000-piece puzzle? Literally any puzzle with less than 12,000 pieces. And while our prank gift box for a mostly-the-same-color 12K-piece jigsaw is just a joke, it’s the perfect vessel for a much-more-manageable 1,000-piece puzzle of the Minnesota Golden Golphers' home turf, TCF stadium. Got a kid at different school than the one right here in Minneapolis? We figured that was a possibility, so we encourage you to browse around Scheels website for the puzzle that does correspond with your kid’s pick of the litter - they’ve got a lot of them!
🎵 It’s his party he can make a scene if he wants to! 🎵
‘Sizzl Bacon Dryer Sheets’ Medium Prank Gift Box 🤝 The Bare Necessities Dorm Room Laundry Kit - $24.97
Hope you’re ready for a lot of FaceTimes asking which laundry machine buttons to press. Get ahead of the “what’s detergent?” questions with this laundry kit from The Bare Necessities on Amazon. Even better, stuff the Tide pods, dryer sheets, and collapsible hamper it comes with into our 'Sizzl Bacon Dryer Sheets’ medium prank gift box, which promises a fresh breakfast scent on all their clothes. It may actually get them excited to do their own laundry!
So now you have five hilarious pairings to help your kid kick off the semester with confusion and eye rolls. If you want even more prank opportunities, look around the rest of our website, where we’ve got prank boxes, cards, puzzles, mugs, and more. Enjoy the house to yourself! Oh, shoot, forgot again that we’re supposed to pretend not to enjoy it