My dad gave me spicy peanuts one time o_o

And do gifts from the cats count..? If they do, then I have an infinate list of dead things and cat toys

My grandad gave me a scorpion-in-acrylic for christmas. I am not partial to bugs, but I don't hate them, so it was just random. I think he was trying to scare me or something.

I once got a bag of pistachios from my Dad for Christmas. No joke.

My dad got me a giftcard, not so strange, but he duct taped it to a block of wood and hid all the scissors and knifes in the house so I add to get open by my non-existant nails. He wrapped it I believe twenty times in duct tape. ._.'

I'd be offended. I think pistachios are gross. :<

@PaintTheSkyRed: You just reminded me of a gift my ex-boyfriend's grandpa received... once he received 8 rolls of duct tape packed in boxes of all different shapes and sizes. Apparently he's one of those people who uses duct tape to fix everything, so yeah. XD I don't know. I think his whole family had a thing with tape. I know my ex's younger brought wrapped a drum stick up in around an inch's worth of duct tape? o_O; For no real reason? He was really weird, now that I look back on it...

Raishin, Wow. Lol huh strange. I had a friend who put my birthday gift in a tiny box, in a box, in a box, in a box, in a box, with a bigger box that had marbles in it. o.O She taped all the boxes too. -.-

An ashtray... I dont smoke

Is that what the gift was? o_o; Just a bunch of marbles?

@Dr. Nyx: Flowers are useless but symbolic. I dunno. I'd love to receive flowers, as I've never gotten them from anyone before ever. ^^;

@Oukan: Apparently someone's hinting at something. ._. Something weird, but something nonetheless. Seriously, how insensitive for someone to WANT you to start smoking.

A huge dildo... :sarcasm:

My grandmother gave me a whole BOX of socks one year... I'm not usually the recipient of strange gifts, I'm more of a giver. I gave my brother an old gameboy box that I had covered up and drawn the cover of Pokemon Crystal on and put an actual crystal inside it. I also gave him 62 paper cranes one year, and I've been known to put a small gift in a VERY large box.

When I was sixteen this kind of psycho ex-boyfriend of mine threw snow at my window to get me to go down and see him so I did and he gave me this ugly gold necklace and earring set with huge black stones in it. It looked like something my grandmother would ware. Yuck. I thanked him and all but then I took them back to the store he got them from. I would never have worn them anyway.

Lol, My friend gave me a condom for my 9th birthday... that jerk. :lol:

My brother gave me a candle holder that was shaped like Buddha. I'm not even Buddhist. I still have it, though.

Yeah...he's a weird artsy type. Everything he does has to be different and creative. My grandma always gives me the most random stuff. I don't think she knows me very well.

A few years ago, my dad gave me a gift card to Abercrombie. If you've seen me, you would know that I don't shop there. It took me forever to find anything to buy...and I think I lost both shirts. Oh yeah, the year before last my other grandma bought me a lava lamp ipod dock. (I don't have an ipod, I have a zune)

My grandparents aways gave me sweaters for my birthday.

My friend from the last school year who isn't my friend anymore gave me a 'Doctor Doolittle 2' video tape, on Christmas, she didn't wrap it and the outside was torn up.

She practically threw it at me and yelled "I hope you don't already have this, hee hee!"

I still have it on top of my dresser, because I can't throw away something somebody has given me, that's probably part of the reason why my room is in such a terrible state.

Good on you that she's not your friend anymore, it sounds like she bought that from a rummage sale. D:

@Agent HEY-LEE: That is super awkward. The Ped-Egg, I mean.
Also, soggy chips are really nasty. Dx
Dollar stores are awesome to find candy. Or other random foods. Otherwise, forget it, I hate going in them.

I have one ex-family member (due to a divorce) that, every year, gives me the "free with purchase" items she gets stuck with all year. It doesn't matter if they don't fit, aren't my style, or anything else. I don't complain about it; I just see if I can find someone who can actually use the items in question and let them have them.

I got lingire from my best friend once... it was wierd...

The funniest present I ever saw was at my best friend's sweet sixteen. Another childhood friend had gotten her a note book.... that my best friend had given her as a present about 5 years ago. And it was the exact same one.... my other friend had regifted a present to the same person XP EPIC FAIL

I don't think I've ever received a really weird gift. I've had gifts that were totally wrong for me, but they weren't weird...I guess.

I always fear Christmas with my husbands family. They don't really know my personality or style too well, and they seem to think I'm a size smaller than what I really am. My husband and I both usually end up returning most of the gifts and pooling the cash in on something big we both want.

Last Christmas, I got this Eeyore hoodie that had 'MOODY' written on it. I'm 23 for God's sake.

About the Eeyore hoodie: I've seen adults wear those, and I just feel like it's so childish when they do. I dunno... might just be a matter of personal preference, but I find them to be really immature. I used to have a friend in high school whose mom collected Eeyore paraphernalia though, she was probably in her early 40's.

Returns are a great idea. I have arguments with my parents yearly about getting me things for Christmas, and I spent last year literally rating things on my wishlist: I'd rank things by low, mid, and high, in terms of how badly I wanted them. They INTENTIONALLY dodged the high ranked ones to buy me low-ranked stuff on my wishlist, when I gave it to them a month in advance from Christmas so things from Japan could be shipped on time. (it wasn't on price difference or something, they just didn't want me wearing punk/gothic lolita anything) Oh that made me so mad, I fought for personal expression for years and they wouldn't let me have it (I was 17 at the time). :evil: I think if that happens again this year, I'll do just that. Thanks for the idea. <3