What is the most unusual gift you have ever gotten/ given?
 

I want to wish you a happy birthday today in case I can't find this post tomorrow. haha I just turned 59. Don't feel any different. I can't think of any unusual gifts, but for my birthday my husband left me a note on the kitchen table that said..." I was going to buy you a "Lincoln" but decided you'd rather have a "Franklin" instead." He had left a penny inside the note and down at the bottom was a $100 dollar bill. Needless to say, I was a happy camper.

Happy Birthday tomorrow!!! My unusual gift was back when my boys were small. My DH gave me the WHOLE day to myself. He took them out in the morning and didn't come back until it was time for them to go to bed. It was not a wrapped gift but it was truly MY OWN DAY!

I got a dozen dead roses for my 40th from our ladies birthday group!

I got a bottle of Geritol for my 30th birthday from my smart alec 2-years-younger brother.:D

Lol I haven't received any unusual gifts but at the time my then ten year old made me a card with the saying "you don't find mothers like you on the street". Well his siblings had a field day with that one and every year I get a variation of it.

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????????

One birthday DH got me a pick-up load of well-aged horse manure. And I loved it.

I can't say it... there are those that would be offended and not see the humor of it. Let's just say that my BGFF and I had a great time figuring out different ways to pass this particular gift back and forth to one another for YEARS! LOL I don't know what finally happened to it tho...and don't recall which of us ended up with it!

Year before last BIL gave us a back deer leg, frozen, not skinned, wrapped in brown paper.

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 of my closest friends got me a size "long" bra.

I've gotten car parts in the past from my husband. My friends felt sorry for me, until I said that I had asked for them. then they made fun of me!

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.

I can relate to this!!!!

Cant remember any really unusual gifts I have recieved but would like to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY anyways

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.

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.

One of my best friends sent me a male dancer, at work, when I turned 40. The whole office loved that one. Oh, we had cake and ice cream too.

I used to make those peter warmers too, for some church members, LOL

My husband gave me a rear spoiler for my car one year. I sent him a belly dancer for his birthday one year. The boss called an "impromptu" company meeting. You should have heard the grumblin until she came out. Have it all on video.

The Peter warmers are cracking me up! :D

A fun read.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY:)

Pat gave me money in a card one year. I told him that if I EVER accepted money left on the bed-side table it would be for services rendered, and trust me buddy THIS would NOT be nearly enough! I practically screamed it at him. Come to find out, he wanted to get me a purse (but with the exception of fabric shopping, the man has no idea of my taste) and he thought that a gift certificate was TOO IMPERSONAL! ROFL. Soon after that incident we just plain old gave up gift giving. It's too painful. We are just the two of us and we should get what we really want. So now, we go get "it" together.

I told my husband I needed something in which to store earrings. I got a mini muffin pan. I remember that every time I see the pan. Incidentally, he also gave me a nice jewelry box too as the real gift.

I'm bummed, can't think of any unusual gifts on my end, but my quilting buddy gave her soon to be son-in-law anfive gallon container of ketchup(with the pump) for christmas one year.

First Christmas with my soon to be husband - he gave me long underwear and windshield wiper blade replacements....... I married him anyway.

All of these are cute. I don't think I have ever gotten or given an unusual gift. Just an old stick in the mud.

My DH is usually very good at giving gifts for special occasions but one Mother's day, he didn't know what to get for me. He bought me a weed whacker that year. I thought "I can get mad or get even" and the get even part won. For father's day he recieved The Big Book of Scrap Quilts as his gift. We laughed so hard that we do this every year. It takes the pressure off of finding a gift for each other.

Well... er... um... I must confess. I was invited to a birthday party, and I was told to bring a prank gift. It never occurred to me that the prank gift should be age-related, since the birthday girl was only 35. So, I went to - ahem - a marital-aid kind of store and purchased a certain leather item. I was just mortified when everyone else brought Geritol, Depends, and Metamucil. :shock:

DH likes to get me practical gifts, although to be fair, I did ask for these two. One birthday he got me a cast iron skillet. Last Christmas, he got me a scale. The sales girl thought it was just terrible and tried to talk him out of it, but he kept telling her it was what I asked for. Fortunately, my DDs were there to back him up. Poor guy. ;o

LOL....Warmers! I made them but I put little eyes and arms on them and called them P-puppet....Make it wave!....LOL

I don't recall any getting or giving of unusual gifts myself but my very best friend got a manure spreader from her dad for her 16th birthday. NO JOKE!

"Well... er... um... I must confess. I was invited to a birthday party, and I was told to bring a prank gift. It never occurred to me that the prank gift should be age-related, since the birthday girl was only 35. So, I went to - ahem - a marital-aid kind of store and purchased a certain leather item. I was just mortified when everyone else brought Geritol, Depends, and Metamucil. "

I had to laugh - I went to a "divorce" shower once, and I took an item from the same type of store - problem was, everyone else was giving her items as if it was a bridal shower such as new sheets, wine glasses, etc. Fortunately everyone had a sense of humor and some kind of slapped their foreheads in a "shoulda had a V8" reaction!

I almost choked myself laughing!!!!!

Happy Birthday, Miriam! The first year my husband and I were dating on my birthday, was the year of the Kansas Centennial (1961). He gave me a Silver Kansas Centennial emblem with a birthday card that read: "I was going to get you a real classic, distinctive gift, but I was short 1143 green stamps! I still have that card somewhere, but the Kansas Centennial Emblem was stolen by 10-12-year old kids who broke into our house about 35 years later! I really wanted to use a hickory switch or a leather belt on their little backsides at the time, but not sure that would do any good at all! Next year, I'll hit the "70's" decade!

Jeanette

roflmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I see this old thread has been revived.... I actually have another gift to add to the list! :)

I gave my 76-year-old MIL - who is an absolute HOOT - an ironing board cover one year for Christmas. This was no ordinary ironing board cover. It had a picture of a very attractive and hunky man on it. The man is laying on his side with a towel strategically covering his fig-leaf area. When you use the iron, the heat makes the towel disappear, and this particular dude is very well endowed, and well on his way to being happy to see you. :D My MIL loved it and showed it off to all of her friends, who then wanted one for themselves. I ended up ordering a case of these ironing board covers and shipping them to her to hand out to her friends. It makes me giggle, thinking of all these little white-haired old ladies, ironing their "manly" board covers all afternoon....

I thought I didn't have a "weird gift" in my background, but in reading through this, I do remember one. When DH and I got married (he was a SSgt in the AF) and we went to pick out my diamond, we settled on 1/2 C diamond, and for years and years I would say "Is this the year of the perfect l full Carat"--and one year he really came through with a doozy--a beautifully gift wrapped present and he handed it to me with the big eyes meaning this one was special. It was special allright--One perfect Carrot, wrapped and tied with a beautiful bow.

But, for all who are wondering, for my 70th, he came through with the 1 perfect Carat, and I love it. It hasn't been off my finger since he placed it on me at a fabulous birthday party with all our loved ones present.