My mother-in-law purchased a toaster for Mooselet. It toasts the well-known Mickey Mouse symbol into one side of the toast (or is supposed to, anyway), and plays the Mickey Mouse Club theme song when the toast pops up.
Anyone else receive something out-of-the-ordinary? (I don't really want to sift through the entire "what did you get" thread.)
--Pop
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
This is a VERY unusual Christmas gift that some people exchanged.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
LOL!
I got world peace for Christmas. But I'm not sharing.
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
You sure you didn't get whirled peas, Bob? Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Aw cr@p! Again!!!????
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
I tried to give smiles as a present. I have yet to find out if it was a successful operation.
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
That link was hilarious! Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
I got a small sachet of "Iron Goddess of Mercy" oolong tea.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
My financial aid finally came through! Totally unexpected, but very welcome. Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
One of my aunts gave my brother this. Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
That IS odd, RRR. Did she make it herself? I would be proud to own such an odd thing, but puzzled.
I got a tiny piggy bank with my name on it. It says that it will hold one (1) lucky penny. *grin* It's not so odd, though, I like pigs. Hubby is a good man, and perceptive.
Posted by ae (Member # 3291) on :
A relative gave me a Christian book about premarital sex. Now that's just weird.
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
Conversely to ae (or maybe in conjunction to it), last year my father gave my brother a masturbator's kit. It came equipped with lube, a damp rag, a latex glove, and the back of the cardboard package was dartboard-esque target circle.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
I know about an unusual Christmas gift!!
One of my very favorite people in the whole entire world, who used to live here but moved to Australia (where she was born), gave birth to a little girl on the 22nd of December. *bounces up and down*
YAY! Congrats to Deb, and Gerardo (her beautiful Argentinian husband) and little Alexandra!! I know they won't see this, but I'm SO excited for them! I want to babysit! Too bacd I'm 30 plane hours away...
But YAY! Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
I once wrapped up a pack of batteries, wrote "Gift Not Included on the pack, and gave it to my sister for Christmas.
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
Heh!
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Rappin Ronnie!!! Whoa! My eyes! Post a warning next time!!!
Mack, that's pretty funny. I wish I'd thought of that.
Were they dead batteries?
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
My Dad always guesses what we get him for Christmas. Always, no matter how we wrapt it. So one year, we bought him a pepper grinder. The package said "The Perfect Gift." He didn't guess what it was, though! And every time he used it, he would say, "This really is the perfect gift."
Another time we bought him a brand of herbal tea called "Constant Comment," and he thought it was great each time he had some to make constant comments about it.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
I got a raincheck. No kidding. (For a gun.)
Infer at your lesiure.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
They were good batteries. I'm not THAT evil.
My sister also has the "can guess what's in the package before she opens it" syndrome.
One year, I wrapped her presents. My mother had all these random tins laying around, so I gathered all I could. I stuffed my sister's gifts into the various tins, even separating a pair of slippers into individual tins.
She couldn't guess.
She walked into the kitchen and demanded to know what I'd done.
I told her.
Our mother left the room and my sister promptly flipped me off. Posted by larisse (Member # 2221) on :
quote: Our mother left the room and my sister promptly flipped me off.
Now that's a gift that keeps on giving...
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
My sister knows that one of the things I miss at the churches I serve is a strong music program. Her church has a great one, so for the last year she bought a CD for me from every guest artist that played at her church and saved them for my Christmas present. Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
Plaid sent me almond and cashew butter, some postcards, and some comics. It was the most random gift I've ever gotten, but I really liked it!
Ni!
Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
my roommate got a toaster that imprints a picture of tigger on every piece of bread it toasts
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
almond and cashew butter...
*drool*
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
First of: Toretha, do NOT LET LACEY TELL CORELLE ABOUT THAT. Wait... She can't have it in the dorm... On second thought, go on ahead.
I asked for (and got) a baby name book (I use it for stories). The look on my mother's face was priceless (she went dead white). And my father's reaction: "She wants WHAT?!"
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
And Mayday gets a hearty "heh."
And Anna, whoa, roommate? Here I thought you were 16.
Posted by Lead (Member # 918) on :
This year I received a hammer from my best friend.
~~~Lead
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
After a trip to England, I sent out Exmouth cards.
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
quote: I asked for (and got) a baby name book (I use it for stories). The look on my mother's face was priceless (she went dead white). And my father's reaction: "She wants WHAT?!"
lol, my parents had about the same reaction when I borrowed their baby name book off the shelf and kept it in my room for the same purpose. (I was 13 at the time )
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
LOL.
On a more serious bent, I was given a beautiful sterling silver necklace with a "prayer box". I'd never seen anything like it. It's this delicate little box that actually opens and closes, with praying hands and some sort of Celtic design. It's very cool.
The interesting part was that Grammy gave it to me. (Yes, "the" Grammy) What should I pray for, I wonder?
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I used to read my parents' baby name book all the time. Of course, having a new sibling every other year throughout my teenage years was the perfect excuse. Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I read and researched Baby Name books and sites from about aged ten onwards. This perpetually frightened my parents. I always have to patiently warn them. "No, I'm not pregnant, but..." I also had to prove that I'm NOT the only person in the world who reads baby name books. *sigh*
quote: brand of herbal tea called "Constant Comment,"
I know that tea! We always make constant comments about it too!
Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
*laughs* now even ONLINE people think i'm younger than I am, and yall don't even SEE me. Ah well, at least you don't think I'm 12....
I'm 18, and will turn 19 in January. Freshman in college. Although, I could be 16 and in college like my friend tim....
And Mayday, didn't I already tell both you and A about it? or maybe it was just A...anyway-mwahahaahaa, maybe I'll wait until she decides she's sick of dorm living then tell her about it. Or sneak it in.
[ December 28, 2003, 10:27 PM: Message edited by: Toretha ]
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
I received a set of WWE coffee mugs and cocoa mix.
Now, I admit, I am a wrestling fan (feel free to make fun). But wrestling cups and cocoa? I just find that a little weird.
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
Whoa, dude, you're not the small chick who hangs around with Avadaru? Who's sixteen? I think?
Crap. I think everyone here's Cedrios and he's having trouble keeping his stories straight.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I love giving strange gifts.
One year, for our anniversary, I adopted a whale and gave it to my wife.
Then last year, for Christmas, I gave my wife an agreement to adopt.
We spent this year getting ready, and working on adopting from Russia.
So this year I gave her some Russian clothes from a web-site in Russia. It included a beautiful delicate shawl and a really Russian hat.
Its warm and a pretty shade of blue-grey, and, as my wife researched and discovered, a man's hat.
Personally, I recently recieved a single dollar bill from someone, almost randomly in the mail. It made my day.
Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
yes, I'm the small chick who hangs out with Jane (avadaru). I'm also older than Jane. Jane was sixteen until her birthday a few months ago when she turned 17, maybe it was her age and the fact that I look like i'm 12 that confused you....
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
That might've helped, but I think my being a moron was really the heaviest contributor to my confusion.
Heh, sorry, my mistake. If you'd prefer to be mistaken for older than you are, I'm sure I could get Bob and Icarus and Frisco to start calling you a crotchety old geezer. Though Bob may take personal offense...
Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
*laughs* don't worry about it, everyone does it. At the dorm, they stopped me to ask my age, because they were worried i was some child prodigy in college at age 13. THings like that, and you make great stories
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