RunningAHEAD - Topic: The oddest gift you've ever received

TammyinGP

posted: 11/27/2008 at 10:44 PM

My mind is wandering tonight. I'm thinking of gift ideas for family members and then my mind wandered to strange gifts . . . not that I'm going to get them strange gifts though Clowning around

Then I started thinking of the worst gift I ever got. . . well, maybe not the WORST, but certainly the oddest . . . in a "what in the he!! were you thinking" type of way. I think that a gift my ex husband gave me probably ranked right up there. A Chia Pet. Shocked

Yes, we were still married at the time, but it was the last Christmas we were together. I don't think the Chia Pet played a part in the impending divorce, but one never knows. I'm sure he got me something else that year for Christmas also, but that's the only one I can remember Roll eyes

What about you? What is one of the oddest gifts you received?

Tammy

fatozzig

posted: 11/27/2008 at 11:08 PM

I can't think of anything weird for me off the top of my head, but my husband got a painted rock from his own mother a few Christmases ago. We were laughing our butts off about that just the other day. Big grin

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xor

posted: 11/28/2008 at 1:24 AM

When I was 8. Panties. You see, my step mom marked the presents wrong. It had my name on it, so I opened it. Twas really a gift for my older step-sister.

vkay

posted: 11/28/2008 at 7:51 AM

Deodorant... When I was a kid my mother decided it was time I started wearing deodorant so bought it for me for Christmas. I don't even know how old I was when I got that but still remember being upset about it. Vicki

Jlynne

posted: 11/28/2008 at 9:36 AM

How about a used Kitchen Aid mixer? Got that from my ex one Christmas (the same Christmas he got his girlfriend a new set of golf clubs Evil grin

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Renee the dog

posted: 11/28/2008 at 10:33 AM

Quote from Jlynne on 11/28/2008 at 9:36 AM:

How about a used Kitchen Aid mixer? Got that from my ex one Christmas (the same Christmas he got his girlfriend a new set of golf clubs

Drat. Too bad he didn't mix those two up like srlopez's Mom...

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Ileneforward

#artbydmcbride

posted: 11/28/2008 at 10:45 AM

A wheelbarrow. It was our first Christmas in our first house. I guess my husband thought it was a good idea. Roll eyes

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Aamos

posted: 11/28/2008 at 1:18 PM

Expensive pierced earrings from an ex-sister-in-law Roll eyes

(I don't and never had had pieced ears.)

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jules2

posted: 11/28/2008 at 1:45 PM

Aftershave.

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Ileneforward

#artbydmcbride

posted: 11/28/2008 at 2:05 PM

Quote from jules2 on 11/28/2008 at 1:45 PM:

Aftershave.

Maybe it wasn't for your beard. Big grin

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jules2

posted: 11/28/2008 at 2:13 PM

Quote from Ileneforward on 11/28/2008 at 2:05 PM:

Maybe it wasn't for your beard.

I tried the alternative places but it stung like Hell.

Old age is when you move from illegal to prescribed drugs.

breger1

posted: 11/28/2008 at 2:29 PM
modified: 11/28/2008 at 2:30 PM

One year my DW asked for (and received) ......................... Rocks. Shocked

She wanted a border for our flower beds but she did not know (nor care) what the actual term was so she asked for Rocks. Not being stupid I bought and installed her Rocks. Bill

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fatozzig

posted: 11/28/2008 at 7:05 PM

Quote from Jlynne on 11/28/2008 at 9:36 AM:

How about a used Kitchen Aid mixer? Got that from my ex one Christmas (the same Christmas he got his girlfriend a new set of golf clubs

Ouch. (I thought of a few other words, too, but don't think I'm allowed to post them. Wink

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Leslie
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xor

posted: 11/28/2008 at 9:15 PM

Quote from Jlynne on 11/28/2008 at 9:36 AM:

How about a used Kitchen Aid mixer? Got that from my ex one Christmas (the same Christmas he got his girlfriend a new set of golf clubs

I dunno about the clubs and the girlfriend, but I got my then wife a kitchen aid mixer one Christmas. To this day, she says it is the best gift she's ever received. Really. (I was stumped by this. I figured it was one of those awful guy-gifts. But she loved it then and still does.)

Holly S.

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posted: 12/3/2008 at 11:28 AM
modified: 12/3/2008 at 11:28 AM

Quote from vkay on 11/28/2008 at 7:51 AM:

Deodorant... When I was a kid my mother decided it was time I started wearing deodorant so bought it for me for Christmas. I don't even know how old I was when I got that but still remember being upset about it.

Oh, that's just MEAN! My nephew got his wife a BB gun for Christmas a couple years ago...she swore had never expressed any desire for such a thing, and had no idea where he came up with that thought.... Roll eyes

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