To ask what's the strangest/funniest gift you have ever received.

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Someone gave me baby clothes as a wedding gift.
I wasn't pregnant. I didn't have any DC.

I didn't have DC till many years later.

My ex-MIL used to recycle what appeared to be Reader's Digest free gifts and shite she'd found in charity shops. Among Christmas gifts from her were:

A set of 6 different place mats, depicting rural scenes, with only 5 in the set, two of which were duplicates

A carriage clock-style clock, made entirely of plastic

A set of hideous gilded and coloured glass wine glasses, so badly made that they wouldn't actually stand up on a table

A box of no-name after dinner mints, six months out of date

An opened tube of hand cream

A mauve knitted hat and gloves set, the hat stained with make-up and with someone else's hair on it

My Ex's mum would buy lovely presents for her DILs, but as we weren't married I used to get a can of hairspray or a pair of tights - we'd been together over 8 years and had DC.

We used to do Kriss Kindle in pils house. Our budget was 100 euro. It was going great until BIL met my now ex sil. She was so mean with money. She always went on about how much she loved Guess handbags. So as luck would have it I got her, knew to get her a Guess Bag. She got me too. She left my present in pils house so didn't even give it to me personally. I worked in transport at the time as a supervisor in a haulage company. She bought me an A-Z road map book of Ireland, a high viz vest, a fleece from Primark and a thermos flask. The whole family couldn't believe it. I then found out she returned the gift I bought her and got the cash. We ended up scrapping Kriss kindle for a few years whilst she was around as nobody wanted to be stung the way I was.

This reminds me that many, many years ago a friend told me her elderly aunt had bought her a plastic stag wall hanging with screw in antlers. She said it's awful and that she would only hang it up if aunt was visiting. She used to say why on earth would anyone want that on their wall?
Fast forward to about 2014, they were the height of fashionable interior decor and it seemed they were everywhere! 😂

For my 18th birthday, my best friend bought a book of sex positions (with actual photographs of the "action").
I was absolutely horrified. There was no way I could take that home, so on the way home I detoured via the recycling bins at the local supermarket and dropped it in there.

My late Dad gave me at various points

• dvd box set of Sharpe (15 yrs after my teenage crush ended)
• book on how to use microsoft excel
• book on how to fold napkins

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It was over 40+ years ago, people didn't know as much about animals like guinea pigs as we do now and things were done a little differently. It was a large box, there was hay/straw, food and water and I'm sure no one was expecting it to die overnight, just tragic that a 9yr old finds it :-(

My SIL has form for dodgy gifts. She once bought our MIL a photo album. Lovely, except she had obviously bought from a charity shop - it had someone else’s photographs in it........

I once invited a lot of friends around, not for any particular reason, certainly wasn't expecting presents. One couple turned up with a week's grocery shopping (Milk, bread, eggs, fruit and vegetables etc) and gave it to me as they weren't sure what to get and that they'd only realised it was my birthday as they left the house. It was another seven months until my birthday.

It was actually quite useful and I'm sure that the leg of lamb, chicken drumsticks and 2 packs of sausages would have been much appreciated by some people but I haven't eaten meat since 1986.

I was 19, woke up from having my wisdom teeth removed after an anaesthetic in hospital to be given a get well gift of a wooden mug tree by my then boyfriend.

My DM once gave my (now ex)BIL eczema cream made from cow's urine for Christmas! and explained in front of everyone what it was for and why it was special...

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My sister did the same for my ds.
It was one of many presents and he loved it

As a waitress, one of my...'quirky'...regulars, a woman of around 50-60, decided it would be appropriate to gift me a used cock ring. Could have cried

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I have a steel ring as a key ring.
Many people have asked what it is for, with suspicion

It's out of a boat-sail. For clipping the corner on to its ropes!

But it is nice and smooth and a nice weight.

And hopefully doesn't have a random public hair on it

I've a few crackers.

My mother went to bovingdon market, and bought me a champneys gift set, which I had an allergic reaction to, and proceeded to buy fake gift sets from there for the next few years. Ofcourse, rumbles too stuck up to use them...they're not from boots!! Theres NO difference you know. (Except she got fakes of what I usually use and the Bovvy ones have me a bad allergic reaction.)

She also bought my husband a wallet that was horrific. Truly truly terrible. I wish I had a picture. I remember him opening it and wondering what he had done to piss her off, because it was not even useable. Another present from Bovvy.

DHs gran gave him some talc a few years ago.

And my dad keeps gifting my 12 year old daughter with his clothes. All army stuff, or 14 hole doc martens and his Jean's. I keep telling him that a she doesnt like them, and B I dont want her wearing them but still he persists.

One year i got a pad of fashion faux pas notes for my birthday from DH .

This.
A gift from my MiL several years ago. I know she has one, and I suspect she just picked up this one and wrapped it up to give me. Makes me laugh when I look at it.
She also, many years ago gave me a pair of lacy knickers. In the wrong size, of course.
I always suspected she didn't think too much of me as a suitable wife for her darling son. But now she has dementia and thinks I'm wonderful. "You're a real daughter to me."

I'm oddly drawn to that clown thing.

A friend of mine worked in the china department in her local Woolworth's for many years and I got several Pierrot dolls with satin costumes and china faces, although she knows I HATE clowns because I told her so. I also don't like random clutter. @Iwantthatname your gift is exactly the sort of thing she would have bought me.

One Christmas my MiL gave me a book; Kim and Aggie’s “How clean is your house”. Bit rude in any circumstances, but totally hilarious as her house was a total hovel all year round.

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Birthday this year BF said he had bought a present but it was in his car which was being repaired so I'd have to wait until he got the car back.
Gift was a teddy with an Interflora tag on so must have come with a bunch of flowers for someone else at some point. Also a picture frame without any box or plastic wrap or label so suspect was second had. Thirdly a pendant on a chain which was pretty but broke that night.

A trio of perfume in a box set, one was half bloody used
A pair of love figures to display complete with someone else's dust/grime trapped in the nooks and the finishing touch was bloody blue tack on the base that I can only assume kept them safe and steady in the charity shop
Come to expect something different now...

My DD was 4 and my DB came home from a lads weekend in Prague with a puppet on sticks with scraggly waist length hair, holding a large stein of beer and smoking a joint.

It lived in our loft for 5 years and then I asked him if he wanted it back. I then went to DGPs house one day, and he had re gifted it to them. 89 years old with a spliff smoking puppet on their wall

A 'stuffed toy ' of a donar kebab