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A playgirl magazine (wth?)
Hmm, what else. OH. A children's windsuit (like, for a six-year-old) when I was 15. And over 6' tall.
I actually WON concert tickets in a radio contest based on this one crazy gift I got. They were doing this contest on the radio that the DJ could guess your crazy gift in ten questions or less. He couldn't guess mine and I won!
My dad's sister gave me and my sister insulated jeans. Like for people who hike, work outside, etc. My sister and I were fashion-obsessed junior highschoolers at the time. Bizarre.
When I was 16, I worked at a veterinarian's office that did Secret Santa...the 65 year old veterinarian got me and gave me a stuffed animal killer whale....apartently being 16 was like being 5 in his eyes. LOL
For my 12th or 13th birthday, from my great grandmother, I received a kids' book about recycling and one of HER bras!
insulated jeans! LMAO Reminds me of some pants I saw in a strange magazine recently, called LTD or something like that, that got delivered to our office. They are lounge pants but made to look like jeans...with tears!!! I so wish I could post that page...and the description, I swear, says something like "an awesome look for you and your man" LOLOLOL Really??????? So many things are wrong there I don't even know where to start.
My little brother got me this weird blue monster thing a couple years ago. I didn't have a clue what it was, but I laughed so hard when I unwrapped the funny-shaped package.
I guess they're called Uglydolls. I don't know why he got it for me but it still cracks me up...
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My brother in law bought us a set of six HUGE blue glass vases. Not like flower vases... like vases with huge bodies and skinny necks so you really can't do anything with them. Supposedly they were on my registry, but I didn't put them there that's for sure :)
My crazy hippie aunt who lives in Cambridge Mass once got me a patchwork vest. Like, TOTAL bohemian. A few months later for my birthday were crushed velvet gloves. In April. I mean, really?
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One Christmas, my cousin gave me a paper doll. I was in high school, but I would have loved it 10 years earlier! LOL
My birthday is in November, so a dear family friend normally sends my birthday and Christmas present together in one package. Last year, for my November birthday, she sent me a Halloween decoration, and for Christmas, I got a Thanksgiving wall hanging...
I got a pair of knickers! New, thankfully, but there was no note or anything inside to say where they came from! They just appeared in the post. Luckily I knew the handwriting on the front ;) It was hilarious opening the envelope though.
My Granny tends to give me and my cousins some really off the wall gifts. For ages, I would be getting things like a Barbie pony when I was 16 and stuff like that.
The weirdest one by far was when she gave my two cousins, my brother and me these creepy Wizard of Oz dolls. My cousins (guys) and my brother opened them and were like, "What the...???". It was bizarre.
I had a series of ongoing gifts when I was younger. My family liked to cling to a theme, apparently. LIke when I was 2 or 3 and I said I liked pandas, EVERY gift for the next 5 years was panda themed. I had more panda stuff than I knew what to do with. Then out of nowhere my uncle bought me this fairy statue and I said I loved it (what do you say?)... i was maybe 8 or 9 at the time. After that for every holiday he'd get me another fairy statute. Basically until I went to college lol. Well meaning obviously, but a bachelor with no kids has no idea what to get his niece I guess. :)
I also had an ex who liked to get me really weird gifts. Like our first vday together he got me a body pillow "ya know, to cuddle up to when i'm not there." Hmm... lol. And then another vday he got me a blender and a book on smoothies. Wha?? Someone apparently never told him never to buy a woman a gift she has to plug in.
The boy's great-aunt will find something, think it's awesome, and then buy one for every couple in the family (me + the boy, the boy's two brothers and their wives, and the boy's parents).
One year, she bought us a combination coffee maker/toaster over/griddle:
She thought it was such a cool multitasking gadget, but we were all like "Um, you KNOW we already all have fully stocked kitchens, right?" Well, not to her face, but we were all thinking it.
I gave it to my little brother who was in college at the time. Something like that is perfect for a dorm room.
Oh, also, when I was 15, my dad and stepmother gave my little sister and little step-brother (who were 11 and 7, respectively) Teddy Ruxpins. So, they decided to give me Grubby, Teddy Ruxpin's friend.
I was brutally honest and told them I hated it. They took it back and bought me a CD player instead (this was 1990).
@danadelphia: Ahhh! I love Grubby. I had one when I was little because my sister had Teddy Ruxpin and it was seriously my favorite. Although I was definitely like 5, not 15.
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The post for weird wedding gifts got me thinking... I haven't had a wedding yet, but I've certainly gotten some strange gifts before! The weirdest was from my uncle for Christmas - the uncle that chain smokes and has like 3 teeth hehe...we draw names at Christmas. A big vase filled with different shades of pink potpourri. White Christmas lights were woven throughout the potpourri and then a doily (sp?) was placed over the top and tied on with some ribbon. You plug it in. LMAO! This is the same uncle that usually hands you some cash for your gift. Glad he decided to get creative the year he got my name! LOL
Funniest would have to be the year I got a "grandma Christmas sweater" from my aunt. And the gift wasn't so much the funny part, but how my brother and FI were acting!!! It was the most gawdy thing ever...had buttons down the front - each a different color. Little sparkles and sequins and cotton-poof snowmen. I could go on...and this was from an aunt that should know better! AND this was when I was like 23 (not that I would even wear it now at 28!) I was fine doing my "smile and pretend you like it face" until my bro and FI were like "ooooh hold it up for everyone to see!!!" Jerks.... LOL So then I had to hold it up to oooohs and ahhhhs from everyone. OMG. It was all I had in me not to just bust out laughing!