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With Christmas just around the corner, everyone is excitedly getting ready for the celebration and doing their best to make it unforgettable. For Alex Bermingham's family, this year's holiday will surely be remembered for years due to her 74-year-old granny's brilliant mishap.
The elderly woman bought several Christmas baubles and put them on her tree; however, on closer inspection it turned out that the decoration was not what it seemed - there were sparkly g-strings inside those balls.
The extraordinary occurrence, shared by Alex to Twitter, went viral, receiving countless likes, shares and comments. While some amused netizens were touched by the grandmother's naivety, others jokingly assumed she might have known about the "secret content" of the baubles.
Several Twitterians admitted the "decoration" looked very festive indeed - no wonder the sparkly lurex thongs deceived the granny's eyes.
In a follow-up tweet, Alex also shared her grandmother's priceless reaction when she found out the shocking truth.
I shared an apartment with another guy, and one day, two boxes of "Rely" tampons appeared in our mailbox. Our first reaction was that a household of two men was sent tampons was more than slightly ludicrous.
I asked my room mate if he ha ever seen a tampon? He hadn't, and neither had I, so I opened one of the boxes and took one out. I removed it from its paper wrapper, I noticed the string and I pulled on it. A shimmering ball popped out.
We'd put up a Christmas tree and strung it with all blue lights. It occurred to me that the tampons would work as tree ornaments, and we hung them on the tree.
The reaction of visitors was priceless. Entranced by the reflection of blue lights against the iridescent balls, they would approach the tree to examine them. "These are the most unique orna...ARE THESE TAMPONS?!?
Creative poverty -- what a hoot!