Remember Ralphie’s bunny suit? A well-intentioned gift from a doting aunt, in whose memory Ralph lives forever as a toddler.
I don’t think I ever received anything that strange; one of my daughter’s wedding gifts is a contender: a cookie jar shaped like James Dean that contained a cassette of Boz Scaggs’ tunes.
A brief query of the internet, however, results in an almost endless list of odd, weird, strange, and unsettling gifts.
Consider a pencil sharpener; a fine gift for the office.
How about a knife holder for your ex-wife:
Does your husband need something to do during his morning ablutions?
Game for two?
For the finicky gourmet, a food sniffer will let you know when your dinner is going bad:
I don’t know who you could give these to, but perhaps your cat would like them?
Another suggestion for your cat:
My shopping is finished for the year, but perhaps one of these would be the perfect gift for a relative, or last minute secret Santa gift?
Stella's Place 
One year, I gave a 1930’s radio that I refurbished. It was considered as an odd, weird, strange, and possibly unsettling gift. It went straight to a closet and forgotten about is my understanding.
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Nye, That’s an excellent gift!! You can never put a a price on sentimental gifts! Made a cutting board, for my Mother, and a pipe for my father in wood shop. Never used.
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I think that’s a cool gift.
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I thought so too.
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I would have loved that gift. My favorite gifts are always old things and things people make me, so the two combined would be top on my list.
I’m still the gal who holds onto the old broken 8-track player and bought one that works on e-bay because it was cheaper than having the old one fixed. I still listen to the old record player and 8-track tapes because I like the sound. I still have the old gigantic speakers that can double as furniture to listen to them with.
Folks keep trying to drag me kicking and screaming into the new technology world, but I keep holding on to my pieces of the old world.
I need a new radio for my old conversion van and my son was assisting me, he kept asking me what features I wanted, I told him I wanted it to have a clock because the clock in the van can only be seen by the driver. He laughed at me. Then proceeded to ask me if I wanted MP3, bluetooth, USB, SD card, etc. Just a clock, radio and cd player I told him. Then he asked me about video/DVD, backup camera ready and if I wanted to change the color of the lights. What the heck, I just want something that will play the radio, has a cd player and a clock and don’t need all that other crap, to which I was told that limits my choices.
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Reminds me of when I bought my Mac desktop. I went into the Apple store, which I’d walked by numerous times and never wanted to actually go in, but I figured that if I wanted to buy one of their fancy machines, cuz my regular pc’s always eventually got the Blue Screen of Death. Soooo, one day I finally got up the courage to go in. Some hipster with his beanie and scraggly beard approached this middle-aged guy (me) and asked me what I was looking for. I told him and he went into his patented, well-rehearsed pitch about the wonderfulness awesomesauce that is Apple. He then proceeded to tell me that they wanted my “experience” to be first class. I told him that I didn’t want a f*@king experience, I was just in there to buy a computer. Him got a sad, then rotely went about the bidness of selling me a whizbang machine. I do love the mystery box that sits upon my desk and I often marvel at how purdy it is, but even after three years, I don’t know what half the stuff is or does that’s on it. I cringe every time I hear someone talk about “the experience” of whatever……..whether it’s a car, insurance, or a jelly cronut. I’m almost getting too old for most any kind of “experience”. IYKWIMAITYD. 😯 😆
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Heck, I won’t be having an experience if I can’t even figure out how to tune the radio or play a CD.
I thought I’d stop looking online and go to the stores and look at them in person. That didn’t help much either. I finally grabbed a brand I know, that was the cheapest, thinking cheap should just play the stupid radio and cd.
My DH and boys are supposed to hook it up and as they were looking at it last night, my son said, “I thought you didn’t want x, y and z. I didn’t want x, y and z, but I was tired of looking at box after box that had all the bells and whistles and didn’t bother to read anything on this box and grabbed it because it was the cheapest. I’ll probably have a radio now I’ll never know how to play, but yay it has a remote and removable faceplate. Who the heck needs a remote for a car radio? I’m also not going to be removing the darn faceplate.
I had the same experience with buying my DH a tablet for Christmas, I finally told the guy at the store that I wanted something simple that he could play solitaire on and check his e-mail. He looked at me like I had grown two heads and told me you could do that on all of them. So I grabbed the one with the biggest screen. lol
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ROFLMTO…..You love your new MAC, and you know it! 😀 😀 😀
BTW…surely you’ve discovered the drop down “Emoji & Symbols” under the EDIT function on the menu bar….dats where all the toys are.
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Well look at that ! Thanks Ad rem!
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❤ ❤ ❤ to my lovely. We MAC peeps gotta stick together! 😀
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❤️ Never had a clue about this neat little feature until you mentioned it 🌀 yippie yahoo!
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Ummmm, no. But when I get back to Houston I’ll be looking for it. Hope y’all had a Merry California Christmas Miss Puddy. 🙂
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I wish I could send ya a screencap of how they look Tex, but for some reason I can’t get any of my larger pics to post on Miss Stella’s blog. I dunno why….but I’m working on it.
Anyhoo….hope y’all had a terrific Christmas!!! 😻 🌲
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I never really received a strange Christmas gift at least nothing memorable.
My dad did give me a garter snake for my birthday which bit me on the finger, it didn’t even break the skin. We let it go in the woods within a couple of days of me getting it.
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A snake? No thank you! I was given a bunny for Easter one year. It was killed by my sister’s cat within 24 hours. I got a dog for my 5th birthday; and she was a beloved pet for a number of years.
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The snake was only about a foot long. A little tiny thing.
Your poor bunny. My daughter received a Lion-head bunny from her aunt. He lived a long time we took care of him for about 3 years after she went off to college.
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I’m with you, no snakes, as a matter of fact if one of my family members were to give me a snake, I’d know they had taken out a life insurance policy on me.
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My husband and I fought over snakes when my children were growing up. He didn’t think I should be transferring my fear of snakes to the children and I didn’t think kids needed to be picking up snakes. We compromised and he taught them the only snake you could pick up was a garter snake, telling them that they wouldn’t bite. Welp, he lied a garter snake latched onto my son’s finger and wouldn’t let go. Guess who had to deal with that? One hint, it wasn’t the person who taught them it was okay to pick up a garter snake, as he was at work.
Kids being kids, I’m sure they picked up snakes behind my back, but our compromise went out the window after the garter snake bit him. It didn’t matter how many times he told me he had played with snakes over the years and was never bitten by a garter snake.
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I received a plaster American Eagle statue one year, and I still have it. He’s on top of my entertainment center, keeping watch.
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As usual for the past few years, I am hoping for a weird gift.
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What is that???
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It’s a giant metal chicken. It will cut you.
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Background information:
http://thebloggess.com/2011/06/and-thats-why-you-should-learn-to-pick-your-battles/
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That story never gets old. I’d forgotten about it and snorted out loud when I read it again. Knock, knock……………. 😆 😆
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That is great thanks 🙂
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