What weird gifts have you received?

One of the weirdest that I can think of from the top of my head was when my mother went on a daytrip to London and went shopping in Selfridges. she bought me a toilet brush in a holder, that might sound fine but I was about seventeen or eighteen at the time and lived at home!

Sue, maybe that was a hint for you to go? My mother has equally strange ideas. She is obsessed with me having cold feet. She asked me one year if I'd like slippers for my birthday. I said "No thanks, I have slippers." She didn't let up and asked me twice again if I wanted slippers and I kept replying in the negative. I suspect she'd already bought them as when my birthday came around I received a pair of slippers... and another pair of slippers. Two pairs of those fuzzy velour ones with satin bows. Being a cheapskate and not wanting to waste things I wore them around the house until they wore out. And perhaps I lost one accidently... She's given me other pairs of slippers over the years. It's my birthday later this month and the weather here is cooling. I'm dreading getting more slippers this year!

One year a girl I didn't really know or like (she was my friend's sister) gave me a framed picture of herself.

LOL - maybe you could have used it as a dart board, Molly?

The mother in law keeps givng me smelly girly stuff even though she knows full well I'm allergic to half the stuff and am not girly in any way.

My first mother in law gave me "Tweed" perfume and soap every year for birthday and Christmas, even though it was not a perfume I EVER wore - it smelt like cat's pee on me, and I told her so long before she ever gave me the first lot !
Now, I wonder......

A girl in our office gave me a mysterious Christmas gift last year. It was a babies pusher and spoon set. My youngest grandchild is 11!

My mother-in-law gives me chocolates and sweets, or recipe books for cakes and biscuits (cookies), despite the fact that I am diabetic.

When I was a teenager and went flatting for the second time, my mother (vile woman to this day) showed up on my birthday with an appropriately wrapped gift. When I opened it, it was 'things I'd forgotten' from when I moved out! And she told me, just in case I missed the point; as she wanted "her" house cleared of my things.

What A Peach:-)

Interesting the number of us who have had weird gifts from our mothers in law !
The first Xmas I was engaged, MIL asked what I would like for Xmas. I suggested knickers, and told her the type and size, and which shop in town kept them.
What I got was a pair from Woolies, nothing like the nice ones I suggested, wrong size and in a boring colour.

Not so much weird things from my mother-in-law but certainly she bought me the wrong things. I used to tell her exactly what I wanted, and what I didn't want and sure as eggs are eggs she bought the one I didn't want!

I once got some incredibly old-fashioned handbags from my mother's partner (at the time). They perhaps would have been fashionable in the 40 or 50s, and now would only be used to play dress ups. He thought they were great, and when we went out later that night, asked why I wasn't using it. I told him I was saving it for something more special...