Weirdest thing you've wrapped up for your kids?

[DorothyCannoli]

Or anyone really I suppose!

I've just wrapped up a massive (800g I think) bottle of Heinz ketchup for my kid! We've had to cut costs recently and have been trying various own brands (of which none come close to the real thing so far, according to DS) so I thought I'd treat him for Xmas. Don't worry he has some proper gifts too 😂

What's the oddest thing you've found yourself wrapping up?

A bottle of salad cream and a packet of cream crackers for DD when she was 4 from Father Christmas.

It was all she wanted and repeatedly asked for - she did get other stuff but was so happy with her salad cream and crackers

Giant bag of Walkers salt & vinegar for DD1

He is right ketchup has to be Heinz and brown sauce HP😂

Pot noodles

A coconut for DS (who'll be 15 in Feb...)

Spicy niknaks for DH

A knitted santa toilet roll cover thingy for DS. He always wants ketchup with his dinner and I hate the look of the bottle on the table, so it was a festive compromise. It still sits on the ketchup bottle in the fridge many years later, its called the ‘modesty cover’ 🤣. It does mean we always have to buy the ketchups that open from the bottom though!

A lump of coal.
My then teenage children had been arguing the night before Christmas and I warned them that Santa would put coal in their stocking. Their younger sibling still believed and hoped they'd be punished. On Christmas morning there was much shock and hilarity when the teenagers each unwrapped lumps of coal from their stockings.
They still talk about it years later.

A dragonfruit !

Bag of sand. It was fun watching him him unwrap it in the living room of the friends who have gone out of favour.

Yeah, I'm a dick :)

Snap. DS will be getting a 900g bottle of Heinz Ketchup in his stocking.....

Not for Christmas, but when my cousin got engaged I sent her two loaves of bread as a present from the bakery in my town that she loves. Had to send to her work and I don’t think her colleagues understood her excitement!! 😂

Mine absolutely loves a shoe horn! Won one in a Christmas cracker last year and it was suggested by the adults at the table that he wouldn't even know what it was...

Also some blutac... apparently its "satisfying"

Now you know why we call him Nigel.

Both by request, different years - blutak and a feather mattress topper, “Just like Mummy’s!”

A tin of spam

Packet of instant mash for my (adult) brother. He loves it.

Packs of tissues.

My 12 year old daughter has asked for a (fancy) coat hanger this year. She isn't getting one, at least not for Christmas.

DS had a very big jar of pickled eggs last year.

Not for my own kids but for my neice. Some different flavours of hot chocolates from tk maxx. She chose it herself that's what she wanted. She's obsessed with the place.

Packet of breakfast cereal with a Star Wars light sabre inside He was 4 and very excited 😆

For a friend - a snow shovel. We used them for mucking out woodchip bedding at the stables. Also a giant box of salt & vinegar crisps, with a large bottle of salad cream on top (same friend).

A vape

When dc were little I used to get them the packs of kelloggs mini variety cereal boxes. They thought they were an amazing treat and they looked impressive wrapped up 🙂

A box of tissues for our 18 month old many years back. He loved taking them out one by one.

My kids would give anything for their own packets of blu tac! I know what I’m getting in the next couple of days! 😂

A water bottle

A pen cup

Pencils, pens

Crayons