Family 'Coordinates' Christmas Gifts — Then Their Grandma Slowly Realizes All the Items Are 'Borrowed' from Her (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Family pranks grandma Cloye McGinley on Christmas.Photo:Kaylee Hulse

Kaylee Hulse

One family decided to have a little extra fun with gifting this holiday season.

“I love to do little pranks on my grandma because she is very trusting and always has the best reactions to things,” Hulse, who’s extremely close with her grandmother, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “I had seen a TikTok last Christmas with people taking things from their grandparents’ houses and using them as gifts. I knew that would be the perfect, harmless prank to play on her, so I told my mother about the idea.”

“We got my grandfather, Jackson McGinley, involved so we could take things from her house when she wasn’t home,” she adds. “I stole a white and red coffee cup, a stone that said ‘forgive,’ a wall sign from the bathroom that said ‘blessed,’ twoChicken Soup for the Soulbooks, a Bath & Body Works hand soap and body spray set, her Clinique lotion, a blue butterfly fridge magnet, a leopard-print cardigan, a small decorative sign that said ‘You’re the friend everyone wishes they had’ and a hand-painted frog.”

Kaylee Hulse with her grandma Cloye McGinley.Kaylee Hulse

When Christmas Day rolled around, Hulse, who lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, just five minutes from her grandma, was worried McGinley wouldn’t recognize the items. However, when McGinley saw the red and white coffee cup, the first item picked, she recognized it right away.

“Everyone was struggling to keep a straight face as she reacted to each item,” Hulse says, recalling the moment. “She told us afterward that she kept feeling bad because she knew the items were cheap and not the best gifts for the exchange.”

She says in the moment her uncle, Trey Gann, couldn’t stop laughing and had to cover his laughs with coughs, which led her grandma to rub his back and offer him water because she thought he was having a coughing fit.

“My favorite moment was definitely her reaction to the frog,” she adds. “She loves frogs and has a million frog-related things in her home. She always told me growing up that ‘frog’ stood for ‘Forever Rely On God.’ When I chose the frog, I had no idea it was one she had hand-painted herself, but I’m so glad it was because it made her reaction so much better.”

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“she was flabbergasted when she saw that frog 🤣🤣🤣,” one person wrote.

“Lol grandma has great memory!! 😂 she recognized all her items,” another user commented.

Someone else said, “She knows everything in her house don’t play with her.”

Close up photo of the red and white mug.Kaylee Hulse

After the exchange, Hulse and her family gathered all the items and returned them to their grandma to take home.

source: people.com