CHAT What's the weirdest gift you've ever got or gave someone?

[Walrus Whisperer]

I usually try to get something for someone that's unusual or fits them.
A long time ago when my folks were still alive, I knew my dad loved watching the antelope that would come and graze on their property. I decided I would get him a salt block to help him see them more often. Got the thing, could hardly lift it! I think it weighed 50 or more lbs. That Christmas I left it in the back of my truck, and when gift opening time came around, I walked him out to the truck and he opened the box with its ribbon & bow. He was just tickled pink. He chose where to put it so he could see the antelope from their big picture window from his armchair.
My mother hated it because it was something I gave him that he really liked.
Don't ask, my mother had something against me my whole life, unknown as to why.

 

[marsh]

My father once bought me a star "named after me" for my birthday.

My third husband put an African garnet pendant necklace in the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.

 

[Old Gray Mare]

I unknowingly gave my best friend a poisonous snake, copperhead. It was sent over in a load of mulch hay I gave her for her garden.

 

[fairywell]

Ha, received antique ivory carved opiate pipe as a wedding gift from a childhood friend that worked in a Seattle Design Center, 40 years ago. It is beautiful, never used. Unusual for sure.

 

[Fly Girl]

Deer antlers. From my mother’s weird friend, for my high school graduation.

 

[tanstaafl]

Spurs, for a wedding gift to the bride.

 

[DennisD]

The first birthday gift I presented to my wife (before we were married) was a used jack for her old VW Bug.
The girlfriend standing next to her at the time thought it un-romantic. I think my future wife understood that I cared for her and didn't want her to get a flat somewhere and be stranded.
Our understanding continues even today, some 44 years later.

 

[Dux]

SIL gave me a used candle and a necklace of large, plastic beads one year, bless her heart.

 

[lanningro]

Christmas 1970, I received a Mossberg 500 12 GA from my parents. I have hunted a dozen different states and Canada with it. I have a dozen different barrels 3 sets of wood and 2 tactical stocks for it. It has had countless rounds with no FTF.
Right now, as usual it is sitting beside the nightstand all dressed up in a tactical stock, slug barrel with tru-glow sights.

Four wives up and four wives gone, but the Mossberg abides.

 

[SSTemplar]

At a adult Sunday school Christmas party I wrapped up a tooth from a whale. I had to tell every one what it was.

 

[Broken Arrow]

Prob weird to you folks, maybe not. Sure were the best two gifts I ever got. 3 sheep to start a flock on 3rd wedding anniversary, and a dairy cow for my birthday a few years later.

 

[Martinhouse]

I'll go with the "weird" mentioned in the thread title.

That would have to be the rubber cake I made for my sister's forty-something birthday. Made the 3 layers from inch and a half thick cushion foam and then decorated as usual. It really was a pretty cake.....dark chocolate frosting with lots of black-eyed Susan flowers made with yellow-gold frosting and with green frosting leaves and stems. Had to cut tiny holes in top foam to set some candles into.

Poor sis tried to cut that cake to serve it and it wouldn't cut and she didn't want to say anything and hurt my feelings. She was a good sport about it after we all burst out laughing at her efforts with the knife. I did also bring a huge bag of assorted rolls and donuts, so everyone still had a nice birthday serving of their choosing.

 

[Faroe]

A 1/10 oz gold coin in place of an engagement ring, presented to me in the parking lot of a motorcycle dealership while he was getting his bike worked on.

We are not engaged anymore, but I still have the coin, and I treasure the memory. It was quirky and sweet.

 

[Laurane]

Washer and dryer instead of an engagement ring...... on layaway until we got married.

We have always been practical people.

 

[straightstreet]

I usually try to get something for someone that's unusual or fits them.
A long time ago when my folks were still alive, I knew my dad loved watching the antelope that would come and graze on their property. I decided I would get him a salt block to help him see them more often. Got the thing, could hardly lift it! I think it weighed 50 or more lbs. That Christmas I left it in the back of my truck, and when gift opening time came around, I walked him out to the truck and he opened the box with its ribbon & bow. He was just tickled pink. He chose where to put it so he could see the antelope from their big picture window from his armchair.
My mother hated it because it was something I gave him that he really liked.
Don't ask, my mother had something against me my whole life, unknown as to why.

Some people are just jealous people because they are not confident in themselves (or they don't like themselves). My mom was the same as yours. It's unfortunate because for me personally I longed for a loving mom.

 

[straightstreet]

I got a red wok for our first Valentine's day as newlyweds yes, we're still married lol

 

[PghPanther]

Other than gag gifts done on purpose......................I think I got the 6 pack of the largest bottles of Astroglide you can purchase from my girl friend during the first year of our relationship.............

 

[Swampdweller]

I gave the in-laws half a beef for Christmas one year.(the gift of meat) I also gave the MIL a mill wheel, a wagon wheel and a large (breadbox size) chunk of coal, all for her gardens.

 

[waterdog]

One year at Christmas I gave an employee and life long friend a gag gift. It was a used brass Cremation urn with a scented candle inside. On the note I told him to burn the candle then use the urn for his ashes.He didn't think it was funny at all. It took him months to get unpissed. When I was dumping the ashes out and making the candle I thought it was hilarious. Oh well

 

[meezy]

For his 18th birthday I gave my son a bobcat skull.
He was headed to a college with a bobcat as a mascot, taking environmental biology. So, weird, but definitely appropriate!

 

[Blacknarwhal]

One year, I got my grandmother a box of 30s-era candy. Red Hots, Dots, candy buttons...whole nine yards. She spent almost five full minutes pulling candy out of the box and showing it to everyone. From what I remember, it didn't last the month.

 

[Texican]

One Christmas, my SIL and family gave our sons two little drums. They finally broke, but may have been due to the DW.

The next Christmas, we gave the SIL and family big bottlers of Slime for their two kids. Slime has to be cleaned out of carpet. That ended the gag gifts for the kids on both sides.

Be careful of what you give kids of others for the payback can be __________????

Texican....

 

[Old Gray Mare]

One Christmas gifted BIL with a spanking new toilet. Yup a shinny white porcelain throne to replace his failing one. We also had a weekend get together to install it. A good time was had by all!

 

[zeker]

we lived in a small cabin with no indoor plumbing

wife always complained about the plywood cutout in the outhouse

i gave her a toilet seat for christmas

i sensed that she woulda wished for something 'more'

i was never good at buying gifts

 

[parocan]

My sister gave me a fire bellow last year, like we used to use at my grandparents to get the fire
going. In honor of me using them as a 5 year old on my grandfathers whipped cream which sat
upon my grandmothers famous lemonfluff. I blew that whipped cream all over his face lmao. And
I gave her a stuffed rat in honor of her having a rat run up the inside of her pajama bottoms one
night when she went to check on the chickens. She ended up dropping her drawers in the middle of
the yard which backed up to the local pat bay highway, which was full of ferry traffic from the mainland
at the time lol.

 

[IronMan 2]

From my in-laws about 10 years ago. A wonderful book on the topic of the great world explorers, such as Christopher Columbus, Captain James Cook, and Bourke and Wills (Google them, they are the Australian Lewis and Clark, but crossed uninhabited desert and didn't get home) . Includes such things as removable copies of maps, suitably aged to look like the original that the explorer might have hand drawn. Awesome book suitable for, say, a pre-teen. I was in my late 30's when I got it that Xmas...

 

[Cardinal]

Back in the 90s, during my first marriage, a commercial came on TV that featured a montage of artwork with Don McLean's Vincent playing in the background. It may have been a PBS thing, I don't recall. But my husband fell in love with it.
So I contacted the station manager, explained how much my husband liked it, and asked where I could purchase a copy.
He replied that it was not for sale anywhere, it was something he had created himself, but if I wanted a copy, he would make me one.
I sent him a blank tape and a prepaid addressed envelope so all he had to do was record it and drop it in the mail.
I remember him being delighted that I had included the prepaid envelope.
At any rate, I gave that to my husband at Christmas.
I'll never forget how incredibly happy it made him.

 

[Walrus Whisperer]

One year at Christmas I gave an employee and life long friend a gag gift. It was a used brass Cremation urn with a scented candle inside. On the note I told him to burn the candle then use the urn for his ashes.He didn't think it was funny at all. It took him months to get unpissed. When I was dumping the ashes out and making the candle I thought it was hilarious. Oh well

Jeez! That IS Weird?

 

[DazedandConfused]

A little blue pill!

 

[Walrus Whisperer]

My ex husband for Christmas got a Rocky Mtn sheep skull with horns that I put a small lite inside as a nitelite. He liked it.

 

[Intestinal Fortitude]

box of toilet seat protectors aka "ass gaskets"

 

[Thunderbird]

A coworker often declared his fondness for Spam sandwiches.
At a departmental steak dinner outing I had the waitress serve him a Spam sandwich that I prepared for him.
He ate it up and then moved on to the steak. I just shook my head.

 

[CarolynA]

My now ex-husband gave me a gun for Valentine's day. Probably a message in there somewhere.

 

[mzkitty]

Hmmm. I've been thinking about this. I guess I would have to say that while I discourage gift-giving to me, I have gotten some weird ones over the years. Now you would think, oh wow those were NICE. Not if you know who gave them to me. I had a crazy BF who even though I broke up with him wouldn't just leave me alone. Sent me gorgeous red roses at work. I would dump them in my trash can and the woman who sat next to me would fish them out and put them on HER desk. He also gave me all these amethyst sculptures or carvings or whatever they were -- dragons, wizards, stuff like that. My girlfriends liked them so I gave them to them. I know there were some other things from other people but I can't remember at the moment.

I remember my son had a salt fetish as a young teen, so his aunt gave him a real salt lick from the farm store. He was ecstatic. Eventually he put it in the woods by our house for the critters.

The weirdest thing I ever GAVE anybody was a couple whose wedding I went to. They insisted on opening all the gifts at the reception hall, and I asked them not to open mine because it was VERY personal. Of course being the Polacky type, they opened it. Everybody was in shock and just STFU, they didn't know what to say. The gift was an expensive Royal Doulton baby dish set because the wife had said many times how their dearest wish was to have a kid. Now granted I was a little early with the present, but I had a feeling we were never going to hang out much, and I was right. So I wanted them to have something truly precious for when they did have a kid. I think it was called the Beatrix Potter Bunny Collection or something. Cute, am I right? They must have thought since I didn't want them to open it there that it was a sex toy or something. Duh. Now that they all could have laughed about.

 

[Laurie the Mom]

Well, today's my birthday and my daughter-in-law offered to pillage a town for me. I have awesome kids.

Laurie

 

[Meadowlark]

Ok, I will confess. Years ago I got my uptight brother a joke gift along with a legitimated gift for his birthday. The joke gift was called the fastidious male. I carefully gift wrapped it so it would look like a legitimate gift. It was a box that contained a nice bar of soap, a cleaning cloth and a pan shaped like a penis, literally called the peter pan, meaning that you wash your dick with it.

Needless to say, my brother was not amused at all and my mother was pissed at me . She told me to return it at once.

Well to be honest I was never good at keeping receipts, so getting my money back was out of the question. So I rewrapped it and carried it into Filenes, an uptight high end clothing store. I left it on the combination tie and cologne counter in haberdasheries and left.

To this day I wonder who got curious and unwrapped and opened the fastidious male and got the shock of his life. I was hoping that it was some well dressed cologne dripping puff.

 

[Chicken Mama]

Well happy birthday Laurie.

 

[Meadowlark]

One year at Christmas I gave an employee and life long friend a gag gift. It was a used brass Cremation urn with a scented candle inside. On the note I told him to burn the candle then use the urn for his ashes.He didn't think it was funny at all. It took him months to get unpissed. When I was dumping the ashes out and making the candle I thought it was hilarious. Oh well

I once heard of a house sitter who left a note on such an urn complaining about bad tasting tea!

 

[Laurane]

For my husband's 40th birthday, I wrote to Bobby Orr (famous hockey player) and asked if he would send an autographed photo addressed to my husband...... he sent it with a lovely message and my DH cherishes it to this day - when he sits on his couch it is facing him next to the TV. And again, it moves with us next week.

 

[Texican]

A few decades ago, I was in El Paso on a business trip and there was a sporting goods store going out of business. Being a guy, I had to go see what they had for sale. First trip was by the firearms counter and there behind the counter in the rifle rack were two Browning Mark 2 (Bar 2) 30-06 Semi-Autos with checkered stocks and engraved metal side plates. It was only a short time to our anniversary. Purchased both and flew them home.

The DW and I love the Brownings and they are used to deer hunt, but her favorite long rifle to hunt deer is my old thirty thirty with sabot rounds for it kicks a lot less and she does not want her Browning scratched and it is still not scratched.

The DW is a crack shot with pistols and rifles and I have only bested her once with pistols, but am a lot better with rifles. On one hunting trip, we were in the stands when it sounded like a small war going on toward her stand and when I went over, she was carrying a turkey and she stated that she had hit the turkey and she stated that the turkey was not going to get away after it ran under a cedar and she was correct. Another hunting story for around the camp fire.

Texican....