ellie

I know Christmas is over but Valentine's Day is right around the corner, not to mention them birthdays! lol

• Received a Scentsy warmer with 3 blocks of wax for no reason from a very good friend of mine. If you're not familiar with Scentsy, https://getascent.scentsy.us/Buy?partyId=20661945. SO addicting. Scents are nice and strong - true to name and description. I HIGHLY recommend 'Satin Sheets,' 'French Kiss' and 'Black Raspberry Vanilla.'
• In 2000, I actually received teeth whitening strips as a Valentine's gift from my boyfriend att. Thing is, I appreciated them. But that was the main gift, followed by roses.
• One year, I made several fleece tie-blankets for folks on my list. Man, that sucked. But everyone still uses the blankets and they love them. Myself included. Making these is very tedious!
• This year, my loving boyfriend bought me a new set of clippers. Never in my life, did I imagine he would go out and buy these as a gift simply because I mentioned a few times that I need a new set to shave my cooch. Guess he agreed?

Fremen

I got a cheap travel translator (that weighs less than its box), and a single martini glass.

I don't travel, and I don't drink.

Thanks, Santa!

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flat5

In the 1970s, for awhile, I used to make electronic metronomes of my design and three trumpet "Happy Birthday" fanfares. Always a new one and presented as a surprise.

Willravel

On my birthday in 1983, I was given a slap and a bath. I'm starting to think it's not unusual, though, because most other people were given the same thing at one point.

ellie

Nothing wrong with re-gifting! lol
That definitely qualifies as unique!

A long time ago, I was set up to meet a guy from an online dating site. Walked into Taco Mac and we hugged, etc. Found a nice booth and started chit chatting. Then he says, "Oh, I brought you a little something." He pulls out a gift bag from under the table. It was a belly dancing kit for beginners - VHS and tappy bell thingys included.

I didn't call him back after that meeting.

Nepenthes

I received of bottle of snake wine from Vietnam as a gift. The botttle has a dead cobra snake preserved in the alcohol. The cobra is propped up so you can see the snake's open cobra hood and it is grasping another snake in its mouth.

In theory, you can drink the wine and bite into either snake, but I am keeping it as a piece of art.

ellie

Nepenthes, I've always wanted a bottle of that! I'd never drink the shit but I think the bottle looks so amazing! Post a picture of it if you can - I'd love to see it!

ZombieSquirrel

My ex once bought me a crockpot for Christmas. I remembered him asking me if I wanted one and I said it would be cool, so I wasn't so surprised until I saw him open a gift from his sister....a crockpot. I thought it was a coincidence and just laughed it off. Then I found out he had bought my crockpot for himself, but then found out his sister bought him a BETTER one. Instead of returning the crockpot he just thought he'd just give it to me and he wouldn't have to go shopping for a new gift.

I shouldn't bitch....I use the crockpot a lot still. It's just the principal.

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flat5

Thank you, Ellie. Way to run a thread.

Lindy

The first Christmas after I got married, (I was eighteen) my husband gave me a kitchen stove. I had mentioned, just in passing, in a casual conversation, about the stove in our apartment being a gas stove, and that I had grown up always using an electric stove, and really liked them better. So Christmas morning at my dad's house, with siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles, etc. I open up this box, and there is a little toy stove (clever, I'll admit) with a note that a real one would be delivered the next day. I know he was trying to give me something that I wanted, and it cost a fair amount of money, BUT . . .
We lived in a small rented apartment, and a regrigerator and stove were furnished by the landlord. Over the next three years, we moved three times, each time having to explain to a landlord that, while we needed a refrigerator, could they please remove the stove from the kitchen, because we had our own. When we got divorced and split up our belongings and I moved out, I told him he could keep the ****ing stove.
But it wasn't over yet. Three years later, after I was living a hundred miles away, I got a call from my dad that while no one was home, the stove had mysteriously appeared on his front porch...

Lindy

Nepenthes

For Ellie




It looks a lot like this one.

ellie

I think this is a compliment.
Regardless, you're welcome lol!
What a jackass lol.
LOVE it!

purplelirpa

Hahahaaha. I can't believe he left it on your dad's porch!

One year, this guy I was dating (who had notoriously given really bad presents), gave me the worst present of all for valentine's day.

He had been working delivering pizzas downtown, so he encountered a fair amount of street vendors during his days. One day, a few days from valentine's day in oh...say...2003, he came home with a bag with my "present" in it. I opened it up and inside was a beanie baby (I've never mentioned wanting a beanie baby, and don't collect them) that had "Y2K" written on the front.

I looked at it for a few minutes, trying to figure out if I was missing a joke. Noticing my puzzled expression he remarked, "Well, you know--because you like computers."

Epic Fail.