What is the WORST or Most BIZARRE Christmas Present you have received or given?

[cowgirlnerd]

I know I have gotten and given some real doozies for gifts through the years.  What are some of the most bizarre or odd things you have given or have received through the years (non-gag gift) - come on, keep it clean!

For example, my Mom gave me a toy chest when I was little that looked like a coffin - I swear.   It scared the **** out of me and refused to put my dolls in it.  She is always giving weird things - like last year, she gave me an antique (I love antiques) CHAMBER POT - in other words, a toilet that people used before plumbing.  Just the can part of it that they carried the poo out to dump it.  

[teko]

My brother got me a great big picture of satan sitting on a toilet, smoking a reefer. It was Red and black velvet.  I painted my bathroom Red and Black, put it up over the toilet and could not figure out for the life of me why my little one refused to get up at nite to go to the bathroom. Looking back, I cannot believe I was so totally dumb!

[wonko]

Vacuum cleaner, from my brother the year I moved into the upper half of the duplex we then occupied....

[suzi-q]

Of course I love all the gifts my students give me!  They come from the heart and I cherish them all!  To me they are all PRICELESS!  My situation was that another teacher ran to her room and "regifted" a gift from a student that was given to her and tried to play it off like an "antique"...I was upset because I can't believe that she thought I was such a moron!  She was suppose to be my friend...she simply could have said, I am sorry that I do not have anything to exchange with you...or better yet, SAY NOTHING AT ALL and just say thank-you for the gift I gave her....BTW...I didn't want to accept ANYTHING from her after that, but she pretty much left it in my room even after I told her to take it.....what a mess! when a simple THANK YOU would have surficed!

[mommy52]

The gift those children woul have chosen, to me, would have meant the most to me. If the teacher was giving, just tobe giving, well that gift would not have meant as much no matter where she got it. But for a teacher or a child to give me a gift, no matter where they got it ( home or $$$ store ), ifit came from their heart---that would say it all, It wouldn't have mattered if it was slightly damaged. BUT on the other had, it damaged and telling the recipient it was an antique..that would have mad me angry. Not sure of what I might have said, ????Not sure I could have received the gift in the spirit that I had given my gift. Where I previously worked, they didn't want to exchange gifts anymore. Why? Well some said we spend x amt dollars on gift we give and then we receive a" llittle cheap gift that is worthless to us." My reply was.. you have made the best choice not participate. We will not miss your prescence. May have ben cruel, but they were more cruel in my opinion. As I have mentioned peviously, not sure if on this forum or not, I live to thrift shop. This Christmas and for special gifts year round I am shopping at many thrift stores. Without a job, this has to take back burner at times. I have foung many expensive gifts, some even with price tags attached. A note is attached with gift telling it came from thrift store and reason for so. Most of the gifts, if bought new, I probably would have felt out of place shopping in the stores they were sold in due to the cost. I take time searching for just the right gift and the recipient is aware of that. 99% of recipients are proud of gifts. The 1%..well if thy don't want I wish they would return to me. Am I wrong for being/feeling like this? If I am please pray for me. In my family I'm knwn as the Thrift Store Santa. I give the gift that keeps on giving. In giving, I give love and shouldn't love keep on giving? Closing. Going to put pride in back pocket. Gooing to DFACS. Hopefully will be able to get some assistance with meds since being out of work.

[suzi-q]

I am a teacher and I work in a poor community.  Many times the children give us gifts for Christmas from their house, 99 cent store, etc.

Well, one year, I was exchanging gifts with a few teachers..just token gifts...I gave one of the teachers an adorable teacher wreath with her name on it.

I guess she didn't think we were exchanging.  She gave another teacher a beautiful wreath to hang on her front door...you can tell very expensive and this teacher was quite weathy to boot.  .....She gave me this trinket that was from a dollar store that said $1.99  that one of her students most likely gave to her. She told me it was from an "ANTIQUE STORE!"

Well, I was extremely insulted for her to give this to me and say it was from an "antique" store.  She simply could have said she didn't think we were exchanging and I would have completely understood.....but I made sure that she found out that I didn't believe her load of garbage.  She had a friend of hers who owns an antique store write me a letter saying that the ceramic thing was an "antique bought in her store!!!"  SHE JUST WOULDN'T LET IT DIE!!! Well, this thing had a chip in it so I told her to exchange it for a new one.  Of course, the store was "sold out" and then, she proceeds to get me a gift from the "antique store" after it...it was a Green Oval Box....with a gold ribbon....yes, you heard me, a GREEN OVAL BOX with a gold ribbon......NEED I SAY MORE?????

[cowgirlnerd]

I have inherited my Mom's unusual outlook on things, too.  She is just the queen of the odd finds.  I bought a house a few years ago that had a big barn and you should see the treasures I found in there.  Junk to others - treasures to me.  The previous owners had lived there until their deaths and she was a home economics teacher.  I found a pressure cooker, canning jars, old ice trays, just tons of stuff.  I loved it.

I think because she knows I like odd things is why she gets me that stuff.  To her, everything is a treasure though and she could really benefit from being on "Clean House" because she throws away NOTHING.