One Christmas DH's parents gave me a blow torch and him a fire extinguisher. We never did figure out what the hell they were thinking but I ended up using the blow torch years later in my silversmithing. Guess they knew what I needed a decade before I did. Or how about the one year they gave me my present and the wrapping was a diaper bag. I was unable to have children and they kept harping about how we needed to have kids.