I got a horrible! lime green and white knit cap from my NA, It was huge and had a big pom pom on top I only wore it when she was around.
2007-10-30 01:21:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
I give unusual gifts - but always with the recipient's interests in mind.
I used to have horses. So, one Christmas loaded up the truck with stable cleanings - and hauled it to a friend of mine who happens to be a master gardener. She was thrilled.
I had a coworker who loved the desert southwest - so much so that she pined about it for months. I called a couple of friends - one in Arizona and the other in New Mexico and asked them to go out to their back yards and dig up a shovel full of dirt. Just plain soil. I put the soil in some nice black pottery bowls (from another part of the desert SW) and gave them to her. She wept. She sat down on a filthy office floor and played with her dirt. The next day she said that was the first real night's sleep she'd had in months.
I gave a dear friend - who happens to be the chair of biology at a small private college a mummified frog that I'd found on a window sill. He was thrilled and promptly added it to his collection of dead things. This year I'm sending him a mummified lizard found under a board in the garage.
This past year I gave a coworker - who collects vintage Christmas ornaments - an empty vintage ornament box (Shiny Brite - from about 1950) in pristine condition.
2007-10-30 01:33:30 · answer #1 · answered by Barbara B 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I once dated this girl in Iceland who hosted a kids TV show. So for Christmas she sends me the lame "Best Of" video from her show along with some kids' sized sweatshirts with her and her stupid cat puppet sidekick. Not only that, but the video was unwatchable since it was in European video format. What was ironic was that on the cover of the video, she was wearing silk PJs I had bought her at Vic's Secret. Needless to say, the relationship ended rather quickly.
2007-10-30 01:28:14 · answer #2 · answered by basilgreek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My boyfriend at time now my husband of 3yrs.
He got 32in tv box then he found one little smaller and smaller and smaller. you get the point and the smalles box was 2x2in box and it was an engagment ring.
I thought it was strangest thing is that he took the time and wraped each and every box from the largest one to the smallest one. wow lots of wraping paper and huge mess. But he had the part and could find the perfect time to give me the ring. but it is in heart to find a specail way that i would never forget.
2007-10-30 02:35:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got this horrible bracelet from my ex boyfriend's mother, it was like for a 2 years old girl! I wore once then I throw it away!
2007-10-30 01:50:35 · answer #4 · answered by Cherry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was a kid, a family we knew received a baby pig from an eccentric uncle. (we lived in a big city) It lived in their basement for a few months until they gave it to a farm!
2007-10-30 02:13:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when i was 17 my grandma gave me an iron...i thought it was a joke and that my real present was in the box...ummmmmm...no there was an iron in the box...she thought that i needed an iron for when i eventually graduated and got on with my life...LOL
2007-10-30 03:02:01 · answer #6 · answered by ♥ Infantry Wife ♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noen. Mainly because I get my gifts from people who understand me and know my interests.
2007-10-30 02:55:44 · answer #7 · answered by master J 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My MIL asked my husband if I'd like lingerie from her. It's not the first time.
Um, NO!
:-)
2007-10-30 01:30:48 · answer #8 · answered by dumbuglyweirdo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Toe socks...I think they're ridiculous...
2007-10-30 01:25:59 · answer #9 · answered by kick it 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My sister-in-law gave me an apple peeler. wtf? I ain't got no apple trees, we lived in the city!
2007-10-30 01:26:00 · answer #10 · answered by Squirrley Temple 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋