The Weirdest Gift You Have Ever Received?

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I will kick off....

At a dinner party held by some Australian friends. Lovely meal, lovely conversation and then to open our 'present' which was a beautifully box and inside......a leather looking coin pouch!

......It was a Kangaroos scrotum :-(

Plastic rainfall measurer - Yeah!!

Who doesn't want one on their 30th birthday from their sister?

Not me but my DH and siblings each got a wholesale size pack of chewing gum as part of their Christmas presents.. his dad is a max fax surgeon and a rep had left a ton of oral b chewing gum so he took it home and put it in their stockings.. aged 9,8,8 and 5 not sure they appreciated it! I know his mum went mental!

A 4 inch wood handled fruit knife for my 12th birthday from my lovely but random aunt and uncle.. I didn't even know fruit needed a specific knife!

A Mad Cat Lady action figure from one of my oldest friends. 6 months after our beloved (and only) cat had died. While I was actually still pretty heartbroken. Um...thanks?

Aged twelve, a pack of very racy lacy thongs from my 70 + year old relative. Leopard print, diamante, bright scarlet etc. They were a sight to behold

This isn't weird but it is crap (& 25 years later I need to vent). Got 3 plastic bins that apparently potatoes and onions were meant to live in. Potatoes and onions with no self respect.

Forgot to say - this was one of our many really crap wedding presents. I should have taken the hint and ran for the hills.

Stunt kite. From Boyfriend. I was 19. It was more than £100 and I was a student as was he so no money to burn. We had dated for more than 2 years at the time and I was (and still am) the least outdoorsy person I know. Unsurprisingly We split up soon after.

I was 13 and got carrier bag handles (similar to these m.miniinthebox.com/multifunction-candy-colored-silicone-material-bag-filter-random-color_p2535985.html?currency=GBP&litb_from=paid_adwords_shopping&sku=1_26449&utm_source=google_shopping&utm_medium=cpc&adword_mt=&adword_ct=202525839299&adword_kw=&adword_pos=1o1&adword_pl=&adword_net=g&adword_tar=&adw_src_id=92424158091_866082400_52171763188_pla-327790567666&gclid=Cj0KCQjwh_bLBRDeARIsAH4ZYEOlK16qaZ_7aB3Nu-tzZj_ZzABUdC65A2KFL_h51ZZm8Tsu_zyyGCkaAkGxEALw_wcB

Just what a 13 year old wants!

Same people got me a pineapple for my 25th... I do wonder now if it was a stunt pineapple after being on here!

My grandma once gifted me a pair of tights that didn't have bum cheeks.

She gave my 14 year old sister maternity trousers though and that's worse.

Christmas monkey pjs... on my birthday... tag in (sale shitty pjs) from exdp

A DVD of 'over the hedge' from my husband, one Christmas.

Another Christmas, a torch and a wallet - clearly dropped in the trolley when he was Lidl shopping.

I have a friend who buys me weird but fab presents. One year it was five small plastic washing baskets, still used 6 years later! This year a selection of dylon dyes. I was like but have had great fun dying clothes and bedding!

I was once given a guillotine by my MIL for Christmas or birthday. I was pretty about it, apparently it was because we'd recently bought a printer for printing photos out at home (obviously going back a few years!!). Very thoughtful...!!!

A pack of coloured elastic bands & a tub of assprted kids lolly pops... for my 40th birthday. Totally random but the friends are random so I'd expect nothing less... weird!

USB powered heated gloves. By far.

One bra strap.

My nan once bought me and my sisters jars of pickles for Christmas. Nothing fancy, just bog standard ones. I got piccalilli. I think there was also red cabbage and Brandon pickle.

Paper made from elephant dung.

Duracell that's a traditional Australian souvenir type of gift! Like a novelty gift.

My MIL (who is lovely, but as mad as a box of frogs) regularly gets me the second book in a trilogy, because she assumes I will have read the first one. Doesn't matter what genre; I will always have read the first one, then stopped. I quite look forward to diving into the confusing middle episode of whatever mad thing she's decided I will enjoy this year.

My late ex-father-in-law's girlfriend (I know - confusing!) once gave me a Christmas present of a black half waist slip. Not that odd you may think, but when I went back to Marks and Spencers to exchange they took one look at the label and told me that they hadn't had labels like that for at least 3 years. The following year she gave me 3 pairs of very large old lady knickers. I was about 30 I think. I think the year after that she gave me the very pretty blue silk scarf I had bought her for her birthday! I didn't mind that so much......

One of my aunts bought me a panty girdle one Christmas. I was 12!

My gran knitted me a tank top another Christmas which was day glo orange and was knitted from wool so nylon it positively crackled when touched. Suffice to say to was never worn.

Potatoes and onions with no self respect.

This made me laugh out loud.

I've never really gotten anything weird. My husband's grandmother once gave us a set of sconces with candles in them that had clearly been hanging in her house for quite some time. But she was becoming senile, and it was more sad than weird.