This is a set of essential personality tests to determine your grinch-ism

1. You reuse last year's Christmas cards and send
them out under your own name.
(5 points)

2. You steal light bulbs from you neighbor's outdoor
display to replenish your own supply.
(5 points, 10 if neighbor's whole light sets or
lighted Santa goes out)

3. You have dressed a dog or cat as Santa Claus,
elf helper, or reindeer. (10 points for each; if you
dressed an endangered species, 5 extra points)

4. You put out last year's stale candy canes for
children. (1 point for each piece of sticky candy)
If you put out a chocolate or marzipan Santa
also, add 10 points

5. You enclose a shoddy and inferior gift from
Target, Walmart, or K-Mart in a Bloomingdale's or
other prestige box to impress your friends.
(5 points for each infraction)

6. You make collect long distance phone calls to
your family on Christmas day, claiming you are
stuck in a phone booth.
(5 points, 10 if from a cell phone)

7. At the office Christmas party, you horde huge
stockpiles of goodies for later consumption at
home.
(5 points; 15 points if you use this stuff for your
own party)

8. You steal the wreath from a parked car to
use on your own .
(Southern California only, others ignore: 5 points)

9. After an invitation to a friend's house, you bring
a commercially produced fruitcake and try to pass
it off as home made.
(5 points; 15 points if the fruitcake is from last year)

10. Any stealing from the Toys-for-Tots collection
bins is a definite no-no.
(20 points)



"Grinch Scale Result"

Evaluate your score on the "Grinch Scale" from 20 to
100.

20-30: You are just a cheeseball.

30-50: You are an apprentice in Yuletide larceny and
are probably wanted by the police for overdue parking
tickets.

50-100: Grinch, move over. The Meyer Lansky of
Christmas crime has arrived.