What is the weirdest gift you have given. I once went over to dinner at a friend's house. I brought

[applegrove]

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a can of apple juice instead of a bottle of wine. I was putting on airs and trying to come off as a original type person at 24. I don't think she or her boyfriend appreciated it. I wish I had pursued the novel and originality more at that time in my life. I spend a lot of time now thinking novel things up politically and really enjoy it.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. For Christmas, I once gave a friend a gift certificate to the vet so she could get her kitty spayed.

She was facing hard times and it really needed to be done. She was thrilled with it.

[applegrove]

5. That is sweet. What a perfect gift.

[riderinthestorm]

2. My then-fiancee (now husband) gave my mom a rolling garbage can on his first Xmas with us

He used to volunteer to take her garbage out to the curb since she struggled with dragging it out there down her long drive. Our first Christmas spent together, he surprised her with an enormous rolling garbage can.

She LOVED it!! He's been her favorite son-in-law ever since. He's come up with some real winners since then.

[applegrove]

6. That is sweet. My dad once had my mom pick up a large box from the post office. It was huge.

My mom lugged it to the car, and then from the car to the garage. It turns out it was a 'dolly' to lift and transport large boxes. LOL!

[libodem]

3. This wasn't me

And it is creepy and gross. No, I can't tell.

[applegrove]

7. Please don't. LOL!

[siligut]

4. A travel atlas and tire gauge

She had just bought her first car, she was surprisingly touched. I think it is wonderful you were thinking of ways to let your originality show.

[applegrove]

8. Nice. She must have been stoked to get driving.

[frogmarch]

9. Well, not really weird, but

I think the walking stick flutes I gave my daughter and granddaughter were unusual.



I came up with the designs myself, and the co-owner of Serenity Bamboo Flutes hand-painted the designs on them.

[applegrove]

10. I gave my sister & her family a walking stick. I burnt into it the birth and death dates of

all the ancestors. Dam I wish I still had the vim to find, make and give gifts like that.

Those flutes must give out a beautiful sound.

[frogmarch]

11. What a unique idea!

I like your idea very much! What a wonderful keepsake! I'll bet it's beautiful with the dates burned into the wood.

My granddaughter is intrigued by our Salem witch trials ancestors, so I found this design in a magazine and worked with the flute artist on getting it colored the way I thought it would look best. At my request, because I knew my granddaughter would like it, I also had inscribed on it a quotation from one of our "witch" ggggg-grandmothers that she said at her trial.



With the men in black (3 of our distant gr grandfathers were jurors) and the women in colors the Puritans wore, and with sky and grass and the hanging tree (complete with noose and ladder) also portrayed, the design turned out to be stunning.

The flutes sound beautiful. They were under $60 apiece. Shipping was included in the price.

[applegrove]

12. Bookmarking for a great idea.

[frogmarch]

13. I've also had

regular, smaller bamboo flutes made as gifts, some of them with designs I came up with, and others with standard designs I saw at the site: http://www.serenitybambooflutes.com/

On a smaller flute for my daughter (who gets a kick out of UFOs and aliens) I asked the artist if she would come up with an UFO/aliens design, which she did, and it was great! It was a scene with airborne saucers and one on the ground with ET aliens around it. For the inscription I used a quote from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

[applegrove]

14. Thanks.

[mikeytherat]

15. Not given, but received. From my grandma.

One Christmas, I got some soap-on-a-rope from my grandma. On the soap was a picture of a cartoon devil, and grandma went on and on about how she bought it for me "because I'm a little devil." Well, one thing grandma didn't do was read the text under the cartoon, which stated, "I'm a horny little devil." Man, oh, man, how I wish I could have been there when she bought it, telling the sales clerk "I'm buying this for my grandson!"

mikey_the_rat

[kcass1954]

16. I gave my brother Legos for his 50th birthday.

He's an architect, and I bought a set that makes Falling Waters. I shipped it to his office, and his co-workers were soooooo jealous.

[applegrove]

18. Sounds lovely.

[rurallib]

17. a CD of Polka music for my daughter's boyfriend their first Christmas together

Theirs was a long distance relationship for a while. He hadn't really been exposed to my strange sense of humor.

The look on his face when he opened it was priceless. Had I taken a picture it would be the face of the unspoken "WTF"

[applegrove]

19. LOL!