Wow. At least all these crazy gifts give you something to laugh about years later. :teehee:
I got nothinā. I mean I canāt remember anything particularly weird that was meant for me. :shrug: DH got toy trucks from his mom once though.
Yāallās responses are making me smileā¦and I need it as I write the papers Iāve procrastinated over all termā¦
Something someone said made me remember somethingā¦
My mil did refunds for years and years. When you do refunds, you get some cute, er āoddā things. But we love these things! She puts āRefund Santaā on the tag, so you always know youāre in for something interesting.
My kids have gotten Macaroni Tex (you knowā¦the dinosaur) radios, Caprisun soccer balls, and all sorts of odds and ends. Itās really quit humorous, but the gifts are interesting.
My mom sees my kids once a yearā¦at Christmasā¦her choice. So she has no idea, really, that they are actually getting older each year. I have a nephew who is the same age as my son. I also have a nephew that is about seven years younger than his brother. One year, my mom gave my son and my younger nephew the exact same thingā¦a transformer. My older nephewā¦same age as my dsā¦received some awesome electronic thing or another. My ds kept a straight face and said thank you. Later we had discuss some specifics about āGrandma fill-in-the-name.ā
The next year, when my mom called to ask what ds would like for Christmas, I delicately told her that he liked the same things as my older nephewā¦that they are, after all, the same age. He got a bb gun that yearā¦made up for the previous year. :teehee:
One year when I was probably 14 or so (which means my sisters were aged 7-12) we all got bath towels from our grandma. It got to the point where we would get a box (all identical) and say to each other āI wonder what color my towel is!ā
One year my dad asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I told him that I wanted a pair of tennis shoes. I told him the brand, the style, the size, and the color. Oh yeah, and the exact store where they could be purchased. I ended up getting a book about mummies and a book about Victorian costumes. I was 15 at the time.
One year my dh and his two brothers all got matching homemade smoking jackets from their grandmother. They were all in elementary school at the time.
I have been pretty fortunate, even my odd gifts were okā¦
One year my dad got me rollerblades. Top of the line, super pricey, rollerblades. This kinda proved how much my dad doesnāt know me. I cannot rollerblade to save my life. I can barely walk without falling. When I called my mom that morning and told her she started laughing āROLLERBLADES!? YOU!? HAHAHA!ā He later took us to exchange everything we didnāt like. Dadās pretty easy going.
One year I did a swap with friends. My friend Manda got me a pot of Chia Pet Cat Grass. So it was more a gift for my cats than me. I do not like plantsā¦ I kill them and my cats eat themā¦ in this case the last part was okā¦ but my cats ended up knocking over the pot while eating it and tracking grass and dirt everywhere.
My friend Brian gave me a giant stuffed Catā¦ with fairy wings and a haloā¦ and it was a FREAKY looking cat. His reason, for Halloween that year I was āThe Gay Fairyā and I have a lot of cats (2 at the time, 3 now.) , so this stuffed creature is the Gay Cat Fairy.
One thing I donāt like about having 3 cats, is everyone thinks I want cat thingsā¦ Cat toys, cat knick knacksā¦ cat picturesā¦ lol. Oh well.
My cousin is 5 months younger than me. Every Christmas we always got the same thing in different colors. One particularly snotty year, probably when we were 13 or so, we divided our presents so that we each opened presents from different people (she opened aunt Judyās and I opened uncle henryās and I didnāt open Aunt Judyās and she didnāt open uncle Henryās because we already knew what they were)
Wow, we were brats!
I used to be friends with a pair of twins who were born on Dec. 23rd, and they had tons of relatives who would buy them one gift to share for both holidays. How cheap! It wasnāt even like they got nicer stuff; they got regular things, but only one of them.
When I was in 8th grade, my mom gave me an American Girl doll for my birthday. I have noooo idea what she was thinking; she must have lost her mind for a bit. Those are expensive dolls, too, and I never played with that one because I was too old.
For christmas last year my brother and sister gave me Yankee memorobilia. Iām a Sox fan. 
Oh, and my cousins around the same age and I always got the exact same thing for Christmas from my grandma and grandpa. There are three of us girls around the same age and one boy (plus all the older and younger ones.) One year they gave all of us jewelery in our stockings at their house, and they gave my boy cousin one too by mistake. We call him āAhemā because whenever we get together, the adults would always be like āGirls!ā and he would say āAhem!ā haha.
This thread is great and prompted me to ask the hubby what his odd gift was and now we sitting here like a couple of 80 yera olds that canāt remember what we ate for breakfastā¦canāt remember any particularly odd gifts (although in my family I know there were more than a few) and canāt even remember what we got each other for Christmas last year !
I got 100 feet of Coax cable from a boyfriend one Christmasā¦wasnāt the ring I had wantedā¦needless to say he wasnāt a boyfriend for long after.:whoosh:
OMG my brother got one of these from my uncle, except the ācandle flameā was dyed neon pink.
I havent gotten too many odd Christmas presents. My best one was the time my friends and I got Alvin and the Chipmunks T-shirts made by our guy friends - each of us had a nickname of one of the chipmunks and Dave, so the guys made us T-shirts of our character.
I also got a work uniform T-shirt from my brother. He swears it cost him $20, which is strange, because I got a hooded sweatshirt for $8. We now try to get each other the cheapest gifts possible.
My brother also has almost a competition going with our one aunt, uncle, and cousins. One year, he gave half of a penny. He literally got coal. Then there was the light thing. He gave a clamshell. There was a can of spam one year, too. A used golf ball (just one). One of those monster finger puppets. A theatre program with eye holes in it (donāt ask).
I havenāt worn makeup, except VERY Gothic-style makeup at Halloween (would wear it more, but nowhere to really go around here, lol), and that is pretty much it. Everyone in my family knows this. Itās just an accepted fact.
Well, my aunt apparently lost her marbles because not only did she give me nailpolish (in a crazy white creamy color with craploads of multicolored glitter in it and a hot pink color) and makeup, but she gave me USED makeup, at that. I just kind of smiled, and tried not to cringe.
:ick:
Guess you didnāt re-gift, eh?
:roflhard::roflhard::roflhard:
LOL Nope, definitely not.
Donāt get me wrong, not all used gifts are bad. I actually am a fan of things with sentimental value and the like.
But used makeup, especially lipstick and mascara, are biiiiig germ spreaders.
My grandfatherās wife (sheās my dadās age BTW ) is the queen of horrible gifts. It is fun to try and guess what she will bring every year. I am particularly fond of the sausage I got one year. Wrapped sausage. :clink:
Hmmmmnā¦not Christmas gifts, but when dh and I were married at the ripe old age of 20, his idiot best friends (and I can say that, because they were actually my friends first) decided to ātreatā us to a honeymoon gift box. It included edible panties (ew!), KY jelly, condoms, and a hershey bar (?).
Then, they decorated our car to match. They put a python textured thong on the steering wheel, vagisil and monistat 7 on the dashboard (in the containers, not spread out on the dash board, thank goodness!). They dumped about 10 boxes of condoms in the back seat, and wrote āFERTILEā on the back window. They had our whole wedding party sign the poster board on the back that said, āJUST MARRIEDā¦And getting our āfreakā on.ā:oops:
They also chipped in and bought us a toaster.:eyebrow2: They were (and still are) so WEIRD.
This thread is hilarious! :roflhard:
Okay, I have a few. . .
The first Christmas DH and I were married we were flat broke, but we wanted to give each other some sort of gift. I ended up splurging a little and bought him a nice pair of black leather gloves. Well, he had heard me mention a few things I wanted around our apartment. I got a paper towel holder and a baking spatula thingy. :pout: It was really weird. But I can honestly say they were better than any other junk that I didnāt need.
The second Christmas we were married, third celebrating together, we went to visit DHās family. You would think his mom would know me by now, right? I got a set of rainbow colored pencils with my name on them, a kids stamp with my name and stars on it (that didnāt even work!), and kids scissors in a butterfly holder with my name on it. Not to mention, she got THE SAME THINGS for DH! :roflhard: Oh, and she gave me the most hideous earrings and hair clip I have ever seen. I think she bought them 30 years ago and was waiting for the right person to give them to. I couldnāt even regift them because they were so bad! :teehee: