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Just to pass some time I thought it would be fun to share stories of funny gifts we've received.
I'll start with one I got this morning. My dad gave me a tree ornament, a dove, made from real seal fur. I opened it and told him it looks like the fur of the seals I will be working with come pup season in January. He apparently didn't sense my dismay and said, "I know, that's why I got it!" I volunteer at the Marine Mammal Center, where aparently we all like to adorn our trees with the flesh of the little guys we work so hard to save. I will cut the guy some slack though, because he lives in Alaska where there's just so much more of that kind of stuff around, and people seem to have a different attitude about it

Come on guys, let's make each other laugh!
 
My uncle got married about three years ago. Before he got married, we used to get money or gift cards for christmas. Which was great!
So now, he's married, and his wife apparently did the christmas shopping. (I've met her twice, so obviously she doesn't know any different). She got me this HUGE gift bag of all makeups and perfumes and things I cant even identify. I appreciate the thought, but well, I'm not exactly a makeup person. I don't even think I own perfume other than eau de wet doggy. There was a little note and everything saying that she'd love to give me a free makeover next time I'm down there.

And then my cousin got me a huge pack of like ten lint rollers. Hint, anyone?
 
My grandparents are pretty cheap (but they are NOT poor). For my birthday and christmas they usually give me 5$ and a card with their names signed. This year I received 10$ for christmas, WOOO!! lol they also know i'm into science and evolution, but their card has this written on the front. JESUS
huge ass font and a super religious poem. with a quote from the bible inside.
my dad put it on top of our fireplace BEHIND another xmas card to deliberately cover it haha
 
BlacKAT33 said:
My grandparents are pretty cheap (but they are NOT poor). For my birthday and christmas they usually give me 5$ and a card with their names signed. This year I received 10$ for christmas, WOOO!! lol they also know i'm into science and evolution, but their card has this written on the front. JESUS
huge ass font and a super religious poem. with a quote from the bible inside.
my dad put it on top of our fireplace BEHIND another xmas card to deliberately cover it haha
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I love that your dad was in on it and hid the card in the back!
 
cowgirla said:
My uncle got married about three years ago. Before he got married, we used to get money or gift cards for christmas. Which was great!
So now, he's married, and his wife apparently did the christmas shopping. (I've met her twice, so obviously she doesn't know any different). She got me this HUGE gift bag of all makeups and perfumes and things I cant even identify. I appreciate the thought, but well, I'm not exactly a makeup person. I don't even think I own perfume other than eau de wet doggy. There was a little note and everything saying that she'd love to give me a free makeover next time I'm down there.

And then my cousin got me a huge pack of like ten lint rollers. Hint, anyone?
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Ten-pack of lint rollers, ha ha!
 
haha the ten lint rollers cracks me up because we go through a ton at work every day from all the hairy monsters we see. Maybe she's just stocking you up for the future?? :laugh:

seriously what can you do with $5???? It's like an insult, like you should just not bother giving any money at all if you are going to be that weird. I'd understand more if they bought you something and it was $5 at least that takes effort and thought. Congrats on getting a 100% bonus this year! haha

I didn't really get anything weird this year, but last year my grandma gave me this really creepy looking cat. It has what appears to be real animal fur and creepy glass eyes and is hard like an animal mount would be.
 
I got this really weird painted wine glass from my grandma... it says "princess" about 20 times all over it in pink scroll and there are rhinestones all over the place. It actually makes sense because she's always called me princess and it's my first Christmas as a legal drinker, but I'm really not that girly at all! I prefer uhh... simpler... things. 😳 It's really weird but there is a drink recipe on the bottom that actually sounds good, so it wasn't all bad!
 
I got a steamer, but I hate ironing so it makes me happy..hahaha
 
My aunt (the one from my dad's side who I haven't seen in probably 10 years, who my fam doesn't really talk to and who lives on the opposite coast) sent her usual bizarre, cheap, tacky holiday-themed junk. This year, it was a tube of "Christmas Tree Tarts" candy with a gymnast snowman on top. When you squeeze the sides of the lid, he twirls as if on the high bar.

I'm not even gonna eat the candy. I've got enough yummy, high-caloric food that I don't need to eat colorful Christmas trees that look (and probably taste) like plastic.
 
Snuggie for dogs (yorkies). And little pink slippers to match. WTF Mom!?!? :laugh:
 
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At the white elephant gift exchange for my work I got electric toilet tissue (it is a corn cob) and a three stooges cook book. They already came to great use on X-mas Eve for my family's white elephant gift exchange. I have a strange feeling I will be seeing those again next year.
 
squibby said:
I volunteer at the Marine Mammal Center, where aparently we all like to adorn our trees with the flesh of the little guys we work so hard to save.
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If you ever have to call the UCD microbiology lab to check up on one of their necropsy samples, you might talk to me on the phone. 😉
 
ImaJerseyGirl said:
Snuggie for dogs (yorkies). And little pink slippers to match. WTF Mom!?!? :laugh:
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I got a snuggie for me! It is hilarious, but rather soft and cozy too:laugh:! My dogs didn't get matching ones though. Boo!
 
My boss (not gay) and his best friend (is gay) have lived together for over 40 years. My boss' mom and dad are worth a few million and have a building named after them locally. One year the parents gave the best friend a pack of plastic coat hangers from Walmart as a gift!
 
Highlsnds3 said:
My boss (not gay) and his best friend (is gay) have lived together for over 40 years. My boss' mom and dad are worth a few million and have a building named after them locally. One year the parents gave the best friend a pack of plastic coat hangers from Walmart as a gift!
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Wow, plastic hangers. But wait, who lives together for 40 years and isn't in a relationship? People must joke with the straight guy about that all of the time.

These posts are making me want to get my dog a snuggie!
 
Oh dear. My father's wife is known for this. She has NO idea what I like, and I generally try to give them a list of like, horse things straight out of Dover to get me, or specific gift cards. And when I don't, I end up getting things like a tower of scented candles with a stuffed reindeer sitting on top, or the World's Ugliest Wine Bag. Red and green with silver glitter patterns and BELLS. Bells, guys. Seriously. Or I end up with a basket of scented bath things from one of those stores. *gag*
 
gone2dogs said:
I got a snuggie for me! It is hilarious, but rather soft and cozy too:laugh:! My dogs didn't get matching ones though. Boo!
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I got a snuggie too! It's my favorite present! I'm naturally always colder than the average individual, so I usually spend most of my time curled up in my fleece Finding Nemo blanket.

My little brother said I'd look ******ed with it on :scared:
 
My grandma is the funny gift giver in my family; she buys things just becuase they are on sale even if she knows they won't fit or we don't like that particular thing🙄. For example, she buys my cousin 4 or 5 western shirts every year ("You can wear them when you play your banjo!") even though he has tried to indirectly tell her he doesn't really want them. Her and my mother went shopping this year, and grandma picked out a shirt for my brother. When my mother told her there is no way that would fit him (2 or 3 sizes too small), grandma said he could give it to my aunt after she gave it to him. This year, though we all got less gifts, we got a giftcard, so I only got one sweater that will probably be returned.
 
i love snuggies! let me warn you DO NOT BUY THE ORIGINAL BRAND. go to brookstone!! they have snuggies in that super soft material that their famous blankets are made of. they are only 30$ (at least they were in the store)!! i have one and my bf always steals it from me. I think we'll be buying one for him soon. I bought one for my dad for christmas lol he loves it.

http://www.brookstone.com/nap-comfy...=searchResults|C4CategoryProdList1FDT|8281601

Today a dog came in for an ear trim and was wearing a blue snuggie, it was sooo cute!
 
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ckd816 said:
I got this really weird painted wine glass from my grandma... it says "princess" about 20 times all over it in pink scroll and there are rhinestones all over the place. It actually makes sense because she's always called me princess and it's my first Christmas as a legal drinker, but I'm really not that girly at all! I prefer uhh... simpler... things. 😳 It's really weird but there is a drink recipe on the bottom that actually sounds good, so it wasn't all bad!
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that is funny. my dad is the same. he KNOWS im a sporty tom boy. but ever since i was little he called me his princess and he still does now. My parents moved last year and he got me a new key made for the front door that is pink with princess on it and rhinestones lol.
I also made it worse, i went to buy a name tag for my cats collar and they were mostly big for dogs. i didnt want her to wear something heavy so i ended up getting the pink princess one also with rhinestones LOl now we match even tho I HATE PINK PRINCESS THINGS haha
 
Every year my grandmother makes me make a list. I spend a lot of time putting together a list of cheap things that I actually need (they are on a tight budget, but I can't convince them that I am happy to not get anything.) Every year, I never get anything on my list, and I get all this stuff that I literally can't use. Like soaps and lotions that I am allergic to, knee socks (I go ultra low or barefoot), tacky christmas shirts, and my favorite so far; pie beads. I decorate cakes, and asked for decorating tips... I have never made a pie in my life!

Oh, and another family crazy...my grandmother insists that everything must be wrapped, including stocking stuffers. She wraps packets of tissue, chap stick, air freshners, even oranges! Argh!
 
my mom gave me a pack of pencils. She did that last year too. I'm not even in school this year
 
sumstorm said:
Oh, and another family crazy...my grandmother insists that everything must be wrapped, including stocking stuffers. She wraps packets of tissue, chap stick, air freshners, even oranges! Argh!
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Haha my mom doesn't wrap each individual item, but she always puts oranges in our stockings. This year she bought a big bag of mangoes on accident, and didn't realize until after my sister's boyfriend cut into one expecting a nice sweet orange... Let's just say the look on his face was priceless!

Anyway, I usually don't get anything tacky, mostly just creative. For instance, I asked for the Harry Potter movies this year. My brother taped all of them into a prism shape and wrapped them. Then he gave me $75... in three rolls of dollar coins.
 
BlacKAT33 said:
i love snuggies! let me warn you DO NOT BUY THE ORIGINAL BRAND. go to brookstone!! they have snuggies in that super soft material that their famous blankets are made of. they are only 30$ (at least they were in the store)!! i have one and my bf always steals it from me. I think we'll be buying one for him soon. I bought one for my dad for christmas lol he loves it.

http://www.brookstone.com/nap-comfy...=searchResults|C4CategoryProdList1FDT|8281601

Today a dog came in for an ear trim and was wearing a blue snuggie, it was sooo cute!
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Mine isn't an original, it's some other brand 😛
 
I got a stuffed Chickenpox virus (Varicella-Zoster Virus) from the giant microbes series, complete with eyes sewed on to its...protein coat? And it's colored red and white like a chicken.
 
Adrift108 said:
I got a stuffed Chickenpox virus (Varicella-Zoster Virus) from the giant microbes series, complete with eyes sewed on to its...protein coat? And it's colored red and white like a chicken.
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I have H. pylori! 😍
 
sumstorm said:
Every year, I never get anything on my list, and I get all this stuff that I literally can't use.
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This is funny because the only thing I asked for this year I didn't get! Although I'm not super girly, this time of year I do obsess over my bath products, lotions, etc. because I have psoriasis and it's particularly annoying in the winter... I just wanted a gift card to this store with natural products but my mom can't stand going in there because there can be some strong scents going on in the shop. Oh well! :laugh:
 
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I'm glad I'm not the only one with dorky giant stuffed microbes!!! Last year for christmas I was given a batch of the vet related ones...I have heartworm, rabies, mange, and toxoplasmosis. Every time someone comes into my room they are like...what the hell is that. I can't even explain.
 
natalieises said:
I'm glad I'm not the only one with dorky giant stuffed microbes!!! Last year for christmas I was given a batch of the vet related ones...I have heartworm, rabies, mange, and toxoplasmosis. Every time someone comes into my room they are like...what the hell is that. I can't even explain.
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I actually want the heartworm one now.
 
I got the flea from someone from work but I didn't know that there are so many others. I am in need of the giardia one! I'm the flea and fecal queen at work haha.
 
I love how the flesh-eating one has a knife and fork! I described it to my biochem professor and he got this look of utter horror XD

I have a bunch of those, plus a white blood cell to keep them all in line. XD
 
I received a pair of flip-flops from our work party...we live in Michigan😕
 
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scarcelyheard said:
I've got the heartworm one. I got my mom MRSA because she's a nurse 😛
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I have the MRSA one also. My Microbiology professor gave it to me when I graduated, because I did Independent Research on MRSA under her my last semester.
 
I love those microbes! I should have asked for some of those. Lol. I just have Staph. 😛

Nothing too bad for me this year, though my grandma used to get me lots of mail order type stuff. I'd get jewelry with interchangeable stones (so cheapo!) and my parents would get, like, a steam cooker...

"Cook turkey, green beans, and brownies, ALL at the SAME TIME, in the magic Super Awesome Crap-o-Cooker®!"

Nope. This year, my husband got me these:

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😍
 
Awww good ol' giant microbes! I love them. I've given my mom and dad the plague and Ebola years ago. This year I gave the vet I shadow Mesa and a petri dish of mini giardias so cute! I've also got my own bordetella and Ebola on my lab bench at school. They are such great gifts
 
twelvetigers said:
I love those microbes! I should have asked for some of those. Lol. I just have Staph. 😛

Nothing too bad for me this year, though my grandma used to get me lots of mail order type stuff. I'd get jewelry with interchangeable stones (so cheapo!) and my parents would get, like, a steam cooker...

"Cook turkey, green beans, and brownies, ALL at the SAME TIME, in the magic Super Awesome Crap-o-Cooker®!"

Nope. This year, my husband got me these:

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Your husband has good taste! I have been looking for a pair of sexy boots for ages and I love these - who makes them?
 
GellaBella said:
Awww good ol' giant microbes! I love them. I've given my mom and dad the plague and Ebola years ago. This year I gave the vet I shadow Mesa and a petri dish of mini giardias so cute! I've also got my own bordetella and Ebola on my lab bench at school. They are such great gifts
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I have toxoplasmosis and a petri dish of mini mad cow in my lab! 😀
 
Twelvetigers: Those boots are gorgeous! **wipes drool off keyboard**

I thought I got off scott free from tacky gifts this year until my mother in law gave me a religious book in spanish (I'm not religious and I don't like reading in spanish) and a bunch of silk scarves with egyptians all over them. I just finished getting rid of all the other weird silk scarves I've gotten over the years and was so happy I was done 🙄.

The one present we were excited about was the popcorn maker his dad didn't like and regifted to us at last minute. We drove cross country with it, pulled it out to use it and found it's missing a piece.
 
luplodw said:
My parents put scratch off lottery tickets in my stocking...I actually love it!!
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My grandma does that too!! Last year I won $150, but I wasn't even 21 yet so I had to get my dad to cash it in for me! :laugh:
 
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