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IrishEyes

(3,275 posts)
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 10:34 PM Nov 2017

Weirdest Christmas present?

What is the weirdest or worst Christmas or birthday present you have received?

I got an automatic card shuffler one year and an electronic device to ward off bugs while camping another year. I don't play cards and I have never been camping. It was nice of them to think of me though.

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Weirdest Christmas present? (Original Post) IrishEyes Nov 2017 OP
I guess I have a singular focus today True Dough Nov 2017 #1
Technically Trump was my worst birthday present. IrishEyes Nov 2017 #2
And if you had to choose True Dough Nov 2017 #4
In a second IrishEyes Nov 2017 #6
I once received a beautiful crystal vase from a relative. FM123 Nov 2017 #3
My aunt gave my mom some hand me down clothes from my cousin when I was a little kid. IrishEyes Nov 2017 #7
😀 FM123 Nov 2017 #8
An orange shit gibbon as president. nt Xipe Totec Nov 2017 #5
Brown padded toilet seat Freddie Nov 2017 #9
A large bottle of Stetson cologne Generic Brad Nov 2017 #10
I received a make up bag one year IrishEyes Nov 2017 #12
A wooden sculpture madamesilverspurs Nov 2017 #11

True Dough

(17,305 posts)
1. I guess I have a singular focus today
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 10:34 PM
Nov 2017

I read the thread title as "Weirdest president"

I figured the response would be unanimous.

IrishEyes

(3,275 posts)
2. Technically Trump was my worst birthday present.
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 10:38 PM
Nov 2017

My birthday was right after the election last year. This year I had to have root canal surgery on my birthday.

True Dough

(17,305 posts)
4. And if you had to choose
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 10:44 PM
Nov 2017

You take a root canal over Trump, right?

Take one for the team, as they say.

If only there was such a choice!

IrishEyes

(3,275 posts)
6. In a second
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 10:48 PM
Nov 2017

Getting a root canal is more pleasant then listening to that thing speak. Thank goodness for anesthesia.

FM123

(10,053 posts)
3. I once received a beautiful crystal vase from a relative.
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 10:44 PM
Nov 2017

Upon closer inspection I noticed it was engraved with a large "R" on the front. Neither my first, middle or last name begins with r. It still makes me chuckle every time I use it 😀

IrishEyes

(3,275 posts)
7. My aunt gave my mom some hand me down clothes from my cousin when I was a little kid.
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 10:52 PM
Nov 2017

One of the shirts had my cousin's name on it. My mom doesn't believe in wasting things so I wore that shirt.

Freddie

(9,267 posts)
9. Brown padded toilet seat
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 11:23 PM
Nov 2017

From my brother years ago. That same year he got our cousin, who lives in San Francisco (where it’s never cold) fur-lined leather gloves. Maybe he meant to give Dave the toilet seat...? DH and I still chuckle about it once in a while. Since then brother’s gifts have been pretty normal, mostly books.

Generic Brad

(14,275 posts)
10. A large bottle of Stetson cologne
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 11:46 PM
Nov 2017

It's not the cologne as much as the imprinted words: "Sample - Not For Resale" stamped across the front of it.

IrishEyes

(3,275 posts)
12. I received a make up bag one year
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 06:35 AM
Nov 2017

It was a one of those little bags that came with the purchase of makeup. It had the make up company name on it.

madamesilverspurs

(15,805 posts)
11. A wooden sculpture
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 12:17 AM
Nov 2017

of a philodendron. The gift tag read, "Kill this, sucker!" The giver had gifted a few doomed houseplants over the years, and had finally acquiesced to the reality of my notoriously black thumbs.


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