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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 11:28 AM
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What's the strangest gift you ever got?
My former stepmother was one of those "practical" people - the year I turned 16, I got for Christmas -

a bottle of shampoo
a bottle of conditioner
and a box of Tampax



That woman was a barrel of laughs. :eyes:
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 11:35 AM
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1. My sister doesn't fuck around....
My Easter baskets usually have Vodka, Porno Mags, Condoms, and a carton of smokes in them..

For Christmas I get the somewhat strange gift of 365 pairs of socks. She knows I hate to wear the same pair of socks twice.
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dropkickpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 12:23 PM
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7. I like your family!
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Sewsojm Donating Member (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 11:44 AM
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2. A smores making kit .
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bleedingheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 11:45 AM
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3. a statue of a woman with a gigantic ass and her body had stars painted all over it
from my mother in law...

and she said to me..."I thought you would relate to this statue......and you are into this kind of stuff"....

it was made of balsa wood...and it was hideous and I burned it..

I also get things she would otherwise give to goodwill....

I would prefer to get nothing...
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:34 PM
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25. wow I'm trying to picture that
that is pretty wild. Was it a goddess type thing or something?

:hi:


(trying hard not to laugh about the odd things that people give each other...)







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bleedingheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 07:16 PM
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26. it was not really goddess like at all...
Edited on Wed May-09-07 07:16 PM by bleedingheart
it was too "trendy" to even have a natural look...

A Donii statue would have been far more natural and beautiful...this thing was just tacky so much like my mil


edit:...

by the way :hi: back at ya...!

I am so tired today...Mr. B out of town...and me and the kiddies are holding down the fort..
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 10:28 AM
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27. I was gonna say, put out the lounge chair and have em run in the sprinkler!
take care!
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 11:51 AM
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4. A supposedly very expensive ceramic bust
of a cartoony-type guy with spiky black hair, an earring, and a Stop Making Sense-size electric blue blazer. Looked like something Ted Rall would have drawn. My SIL picked it out and was very proud to have done so. That was years ago and I still don't get why she and my brother thought it was the perfect gift for me--they never said and I was too polite to ask. I think my mom sold it in a garage sale.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 11:51 AM
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5. Handcuffs!
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:47 PM
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18. ..............
:popcorn:
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 12:16 PM
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6. A bottle of Tabasco for Christmas
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Strawman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 01:14 PM
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8. Slipper socks wrapped in tin foil with $5 taped to them
Left on our front porch by one of our great aunts. My parents and sister got the same thing from her that Xmas.
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 02:35 PM
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11. Jack Osbourne always wrapped his gifts in foil.
It may be expensive, but it's easier than using paper!!
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 01:34 PM
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9. A small trash can and a paint stir stick.
A wedding present from my husband's notoriously bizarre-gifting grandparents.
I actually look forward to their gifts; they're always thoroughly odd and amusing.
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 01:36 PM
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10. For our wedding: a platter, crusted with old food, in a box from circa 1975.
It's not that I even mind getting "vintage" gifts, but at least clean the old food off.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 02:38 PM
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12. A live chicken
From my homestay family in Peace Corps
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:12 PM
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15. What did you do with it? Did you eat it? eom
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:11 PM
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20. Yep - it was dinner that night for the family and me
:)
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 02:45 PM
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13. A used waffle iron as a wedding present
had grease and waffle batter all over it.
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Godhumor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 02:59 PM
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14. As a young child, I regifted a NASA crystal radio
Who did I regift it to? My mother.

Considering the present was originally from her father to me, she was not pleased on many levels.
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aljones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:34 PM
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16. Last year my grandmother got me children's clothing......
I am 25 years old with no kids......
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:37 PM
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17. My mother got me windchimes for my birthday.
:wtf:
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:57 PM
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19. A hand grenade.
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MAGICBULLET Donating Member (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:15 PM
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21. tightie whities
for 3 yrs straight from my aunt
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:19 PM
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22. this past christmas i got a heating pad and an umbrella from
my EX boyfriend :rofl:
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Ariana Celeste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:28 PM
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23. a bag of used makeup
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:30 PM
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24. a really, really ugly lamp
but it was from a good friend. So I've kept it.
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 10:35 AM
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28. For Christmas, a box of little soaps and shampoos from hotels
then my "friend" asked for them back when she and her husband were going traveling.
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mikeytherat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 10:41 AM
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29. Soap on a rope that says, "I'm a horny little devil." FROM MY GRANDMA
I got it when I was 17 in my Christmas stocking. Grandma Dora was so proud of it because it had a picture of a little devil on it, and I was "such a little devil," so she thought it was perfect; however, she somehow missed the word "horny." The best part is she told the salespeople that she was getting the soap for her grandson - I would have paid big bucks to see the expressions on their faces!

mikey_the_rat
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