What is the most unusual gift you have ever gotten/ given?
11-21-2011, 06:04 AM
#11
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY!
One year I gave my brother-in-law a remote control "fart" machine. He is a policeman/detective and said he took it to work and used it for years and said it was the best present he ever got. His is a practical joker in real life!
One year I gave my brother-in-law a remote control "fart" machine. He is a policeman/detective and said he took it to work and used it for years and said it was the best present he ever got. His is a practical joker in real life!
11-21-2011, 10:02 AM
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Years ago our school had a Christmas gift exchange between teachers. My gift was a pair of small little girl socks. The teacher told me her daughter has picked them out. I gave them back to her for her daughter to wear since I certainly could not. Everyone else received gifts for adult teachers. Guess something got lost in translation, but the little girl was happy.
11-21-2011, 11:34 AM
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My ex-husband gave me a toilet paper roll holder one year (the kind that you can stack a few rolls on that sits on the floor). Another year he gave me a bright, and I mean bright, orange puffy jacket - we live in Los Angeles, first we don't need puffy coats and second I looked like a Cal Trans (the fellas that work on the freeways) worker. Did I mention he is an ex????????
LOL I am thinkin' I have an idea why he is an ex!!
The very first gift my husband ever gave me was for my birthday and it was... bananas and tube socks. Each sock had a banana stuffed inside it and they were in a beautiful box with a riddle he had written on the top of the box. He would not let me open it until I guessed, which I really didn't want to do because I felt like an idiot that all I could think of was "socks and bananas!" Turns out, I was right. It was the most creative, thoughtful gift I'd even been given.
On the giving end, I once gave a man an entire jar of jalapenos (like a huge 5lb jar) with a note containing a wild tale of gypsies who deliver bewitched items. It was left on his doorstep and not signed. He loved it, displayed it proudly on his fireplace mantle. He of course knew as soon as he saw it that it came from me. Go figure.
11-21-2011, 11:42 AM
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Many years ago, when my old high school friends and their husbands got together for the holidays and exchanged gag gifts, I crocheted some "Peter warmers" for the guys and decorated them with little holly leaves and berries. My husband was a little embarrassed since I didn't tell him about them before the guys opened them up.
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