Whats the strangest baby gift you've received?

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Skipping rope
New born rain coat

Wall paper which had been taken down from the house where my inlaws lived in Mexico as missionaries 10 years ago!

a tin of Boots own baby formula

An adult-sized woolly hat

A second-hand clothes brush to remove bobbles/fluff from baby's clothes

A beany toy, labelled as a mouse, which looks very much like a real live rat...

This was a maternity gift from my work colleagues and it's still in my living room, although I have vowed to return it to the shop it came from before DC1 is born (I'm 36+ weeks).

It's is simply too hideous for a new born to see, let alone the issues with them potentially chewing on beanie parts...

A jar of home made lime pickle, hot enough to blast your head off.

Three pairs of opaque tights and a towel.

twolittlekittens, lime pickle was my pregnancy craving, so that would have been a great present for me before the baby came!

We didn't have any really odd ones. We have just had DS's first birthday and he now has four money boxes, including a Terramundi one which you can only get the money out of by smashing - not ideal for a small child!

A bottle of (women's) D&G perfume, and a sari with a stain on it.

A MASSIVE bottle of rum

A pink fleece romper suit........my SON was born in JULY!

A quilted snow suit, age 3-6 months. DS was born in April.

Also, it's not a weird present as such but what is it with the thousands and thousands of cloth bibs everyone buys you?!

An extremely sharp, silver (coloured) letter opener,... might as well have been a dagger!!!!

Beveridge - I know what you mean about the cloth bibs - we ended up with 20 of them!

DD ended up with two sets of fleece outfits (3-6 months, born in March), 3 fluffy toy lambs, a really huge fleece bib (big enough almost for an adult!).

Someone bought DH a fillet steak as a treat for him. Nothing for me or DC.

A tin of SMA hungry baby formula... We used Aptamil.
Shorts and a t shirt set that my auntie had bothered to send all the way from America, but in 6-9 months ( ds was born in may and was 6-9 months in November- February!). It's a shame as they've never been worn and of course I couldn't take them back and swap them for the right size. Also received a short sleeved and legged romper suit in 6-9 months, but was able to swap that for 0-3 months and then it was very useful for hot days

stained second-hand clothes which most items weren't even washed!! Oh and to top it off, given(thrown) to me in a bin bag! For a newborn?

I of course said thank you, but that was because it saved me the trouble of putting them in a bin bag myself.

I was totally offended. I thought I got over it.. Clearly not.

Know what you mean about the bibs. We also have several swimming costumes in 0-3 months. Most pools round here won't let her in till 6 months

Weird frog candle holders (dunno 'bout you, but I wasn't about to start lighting candles all over my newborns room!?!).

I also got a 'congrats you've had baby!' gift from an elderly woman neighbour - a pair of fishnight tights 4 sizes too small and a weeny little leather belt. Random!

a jar of extra strong marmite (limited edition I think). It was my favourite present

We got an Asda bath sheet. It doesn't seem so odd compared to the fishnet tights.

My batty aunt presented us with a bundle of straw "I got it from the manger in the cathedral. You should rub it on the baby's head for luck"
I didn't know whether to laugh at the sheer craziness or be outraged that she thought it would be ok to steal from a church for superstition!

Did you rub it on the baby's on just in case?

No way! I was sleep deprived but not completely crazy. Goodness knows where it had been and what germs were on it. I binned it at my earliest convenience.

A used match....
Apparently it is a Young Ones gag best know to DH and his friends
Straight over my head