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 :-(

My sister once got me a plastic squirrel that was supposed to be screwed on to the side of one's house as a garden "ornament".

I was 18

When I gave birth to a dd (mil had 2x ds and 6 gs and was desperate for some pinkness - her words)
She made me go to her car for a gift she had gotten me. . .
It was a frying pan she had got in the sale.

Tefal no less though. .

I'm the weird gift giver but for one friend only and for good reason. She has a tendency to eBay the gifts I give her. Probably as in the past I'd go for quality stuff. She didn't realise I knew. From that point I've been enjoying gifting her grotesque unsaleable tat, preferably concrete (think monkey statue) so expensive to post and difficult to ditch as well should she want to get rid. It's petty but I can't help it.

Talith I think I love you...

a leather looking coin pouch!......It was a Kangaroos scrotum.

They're a thing, at least in Queensland. I saw these for the first time at Brisbane airport. They also sold kangaroo scrotum bottle openers.:o

A Jewish Bible from my aunt, neither of us are religious!

On our wedding day one family gave us a card containing £7 in B&Q vouchers - one £5 and 2 x £1 vouchers.

It wasn't the low amount that perplexed me but the rather odd figure!

My grandma once gave me for Christmas a necklace that looked like a lump of volcanic rock on a bike chain. She proudly told me she had bought it for 20p at the church jumble sale. I was not offended, just rather amused. When she died we discovered she was sitting on over a million quid. Bizarre.

Some used (stained) tea towels from holiday destinations the giver had never been to.

A giant purple faux fur hat (bowler hat shape) when I was a teenager, it was bizarre!

My father recently bought me a (large) child's toy. It wasn't my birthday or anything. Just a random gift. I am mid-30s and don't have or want kids. They desperately want grandkids.

I recently got someone a charity gift, as in a donation to charity.

I have been worrying ever since that I should have gotten a clothing voucher or bottle of wine instead.

But I really didn't know what to get him. He's not a big drinker, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't really dine out.

Was this a crap gift? :(

A cup for reading tea leaves...

A charity donation, while lovely in many ways, is a bit of a crap gift unless you know that's definitely what he wanted.