Have you ever received a strange gift?

I wouldn’t call it strange but maybe funny.

My first Christmas with my hubby there were lots of presents under the tree for me from him. We didn’t have a lot of money then and I was also pregnant with my daughter and I did wear slippers a lot but each present I opened was a pair of slippers...think he gave me five.

He was never the most imaginative gift giver but I remember that Christmas and those slippers fondly to this day.
 
When I was a teenager, I worked in a boutique. One day the manager and some of the others who worked there presented me with a box saying it was a gift. I opened it, dropped it and screamed. Inside was the hugest cockroach I had ever seen alive, and crawling towards my fingers as I opened it. I think this was a miserable thing to do to a person.
 
chic said:
When I was a teenager, I worked in a boutique. One day the manager and some of the others who worked there presented me with a box saying it was a gift. I opened it, dropped it and screamed. Inside was the hugest cockroach I had ever seen alive, and crawling towards my fingers as I opened it. I think this was a miserable thing to do to a person.
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What a nasty thing to do to you. That would shock me on many levels :hug:
 
chic said:
When I was a teenager, I worked in a boutique. One day the manager and some of the others who worked there presented me with a box saying it was a gift. I opened it, dropped it and screamed. Inside was the hugest cockroach I had ever seen alive, and crawling towards my fingers as I opened it. I think this was a miserable thing to do to a person.
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That would have been my last day at that job, Chic. I'd have been sooo outta there.
 
My supervisor gave me a wedding gift and I had no idea what it was. There were two of them. About 8" tall,all glass and shaped like an hour glass but open on both ends and each had their own wooden base.
Back then people wrote out thank you notes and my mom always said it was proper to mention the item by name in the note. I sat there a long time trying to figure out what to write. That's the one time I sent a note just thanking them.
 
As a wedding gift, my wife and I received a lovely pewter candle snuffer. At that point in our lives, however, we hadn't the slightest idea what it was. :confused:
 
An old girlfriends family, at a Christmas get-together, gave me two pairs of black dress socks. The girlfriend definitely knew my "likes and dislikes" and had never seen me wear dress socks before. A Western shirt, boot socks or a pair of Wrangler jeans would have made me feel so, so much better.
 
chic said:
When I was a teenager, I worked in a boutique. One day the manager and some of the others who worked there presented me with a box saying it was a gift. I opened it, dropped it and screamed. Inside was the hugest cockroach I had ever seen alive, and crawling towards my fingers as I opened it. I think this was a miserable thing to do to a person.
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Was that supposed to be funny? Bunch of jerks. :mad:
 
Two years ago, when we were up north at our campgrounds, I went to the post office....Sylvan Beach is so small everyone has a PO Box, and there was an envelope in my box with my name and box number. Took it home and noticed it was from family planning. So I opened it up and it contained a dozen condoms. My wife and I had a great laugh over this. Haven’t used them in 55-60 years.
 
I was just on a railway forum-One guy reported that last week a young woman walked up to him on the train and gave him three packs of out of date bacon.Beat that.:eek:nthego:
 
I know someone who received a bottle of contact lens wetting solution at a Christmas gift exchange. It had been opened, and get this: she never wore contacts. :wtf: She tossed it into the trash.
 
Our first Valentine's Day, together, the gf gave me two stuffed animal rats with heart print skin, in a plastic cage, with heart confetti and ribbons. I was weirded out, but came to like them, over the last fourteen years.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
My supervisor gave me a wedding gift and I had no idea what it was. There were two of them. About 8" tall,all glass and shaped like an hour glass but open on both ends and each had their own wooden base.
Back then people wrote out thank you notes and my mom always said it was proper to mention the item by name in the note. I sat there a long time trying to figure out what to write. That's the one time I sent a note just thanking them.
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You probably don't still have them? I'd like to see a photo. I cant imagine what they were for.
 
My parents once gave me a light that was voice-activated, and would produce different fluctuating colors in response to sounds that it detected through a microphone. They seemed to think that it was wonderful...
 
The only strange gift I remember receiving was from my Dad's Mother, My Grandmother. I should explain first that my Grandmother hated my Mother and was never nice to anyone in my family. At my Bridal shower she gave me a Wooden Last Rites candle. It had holy water and candles, and a last rites prayer in it and was to be used when you passed away. When I opened it she told me that "you never know when you'll need it " I think she would have been very happy if I had to use it soon. Oh and I didn't keep it.
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@ Sassycakes

What an evil old woman.

The MIL of one of my aunts was like that, but she was ultra passive-aggressive.....insult peope then smile and if they reacted she'd make them appear to be overly-sensitive.
 
applecruncher said:
@ Sassycakes

What an evil old woman.

The MIL of one of my aunts was like that, but she was ultra passive-aggressive.....insult peope then smile and if they reacted she'd make them appear to be overly-sensitive.
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She was a real Pistol. You would never believe how hateful she was to our family. We were treated like outsiders. It's funny because my Dad was a wonderful man and my Mom went to visit my Grandmother and never kept my Dad away from seeing his Mom.
 

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