To ask what is the strangest prezzie you got?

[calamityboo]

My mil got me a panda onesy and a parrot that is also a doorbell!

I though the raspberry scented socks that I got were weird!

A fake ration book from my dad. He rang me up to ask if I remembered the real ones.

I am in my 40s.

egg timer and balloon whisk

And what was that, Shiregirl?

A car air freshener from my IL......

Oh mine looks really boring now!
Stainless steel very modern sharp cornered coasters.
We live in a listed old traditional cottage and have a toddler.
Just odd.

Nothing, they were all normal this year. Last year I got a rectangle of floral polyester from DH's gran which I couldn't fathom

'ooh lovely it's a umm.. ooh isn't it pretty, thats um? so nice'

It took me until March to find some handles and realise it was a fold up shopping bag

Oh no shiregirl what was that?

A potato peeler - from dh. It's actually the second time he's bought me one.

It was a stocking-type present - he did also get me a tv.

My DH's step mother got us an airwick reed diffuser. My Mum got me a dog shaped windscreen cleaner. I never clean the car and she knows that.

An egg slicer and two packets of immodium.

(Not from the same person)

greenice

All normal here but about five years ago my brother bought Dh some salt.

A water pump which will be given in my name (evidently) to a poor rural community in Peru.

A variation on the Oxfam goat theme, methinks.....

I am a bit addicted to those diffuser things miodori I think there at least 6 in various locations around the house

Shiregirl, we are desperate to know what you got!

A high visibility vest, in size xxxl (to be fair, that was 2 years ago but it was so weird I think it bears repeating. Nb. We have not yet exchanged presents this year with that side of the family so there could be weirdness to come.......)

Popsicle if it is any consolation you have given dh and I an excellent (and slightly drunken) great laugh.

Please elaborate. Was it some sort of "in" joke?

just posted in the swap thread about the cardboard dress up Lady Gaga doll my DH got
ilovemel.me/j17/index.php/lady-gaga-doll

from my sister.

Keep us posted soapqueen!

Some pickled onions and a packet of tissues.

devonshiredumpling, I got a balloon whisk too! to be fair, I did ask for it on account of it being a thing of beauty

And Soupqueen, DPs parents got him a high vis vest too one year! To add insult, he already had a couple in his boot from when he was working on site at the time . The mind boggles.

My weirdest present this year was a Gary Barlow 2012 calendar, but I think it was Mr. Pru's idea of a funny.

thing is that he got me one last year too [hmm}