free4rms
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My little pet walrus
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Post by free4rms on Dec 17, 2010 8:37:19 GMT -5
The winner of yesterday's contest is colliel82. It is amazing how much kindness can be encountered in one trip! Especially shipping the backpack at no cost. So, send me your address, and the pendant is yours. Many years ago, when I was a young teenager, I received a Christmas present from an aunt who had no idea what people like or were even interested in. She was famous for weird presents that left you shaking your head. On this particular Christmas day, when I opened the present from her, it was a box of poker chips, of all things. So this got me to thinking... what is the strangest, weirdest, or most inappropriate Christmas present you ever recieved? The best story wins the prize for today, a fossil bull shark tooth necklace with matching earrings. The roots of the teeth are plated with a heavy layer of 18kt gold and the earring wires are gold-filled. I will even make the necklace cord whatever length you want. If a guy wins, wearing the earrings is optional.   Vance |
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Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 17, 2010 9:19:38 GMT -5
Very cool prize Vance! *LOL* Here I don't have a good story. Being from an outdoorsy family, all I got were the presents little boys dream of, building sets, cowboy and Indian stuff, cops and robbers stuff, guns, knives and fishing poles, bows, sporting goods etc. My favorite great aunt who was one of the first female Indian agents and a buddy of President Grover Cleveland's wife gave me without fail, the coolest pocket knife every year. I did get in trouble from one present I got as a five year old though. I got one of those pedal firetrucks complete with a ladder that I promptly used to access a trellis and climb onto the roof of the house. My mom was not crazy about her young'un running about on the roof so I got me a spanking over that one *L*.....Mel
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amyk
fully equipped rock polisher
I'm a slabber, I'm a cabber, I'm a midnight wrapper.
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Post by amyk on Dec 17, 2010 9:40:02 GMT -5
Maybe this isn't so wierd or inappropriate but,,,,,I have always hated to be involved in any group party where they would draw names for a secret Santa. Whoever drew my name was always someone who probably didn't even know who I was or at least didn't know me very well. So I would invariably receive perfume. I am allergic to most perfumes and colognes. So every year I woud just resign myself to receiving perfume again at the office party, and then put it in the box for the next yard sale.
One year I was surprised, an older asian man who barely spoke english drew my name. I opened the package and it was a Christmas ornament, a stuffed santa head with a fur beard and jingle bells around where his neck would be. Kinda ugly. I still hang it on my tree, because it wasn't perfume. Silly huh?
Of course I would always draw a name for someone I didn't know very well either, so I would always try to get them something that everyone could use and no one could possibly be allergic to. For instance, Candy is never a good idea for someone you don't know. It is just not fun to get candy if you are diabetic.
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amyk
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I'm a slabber, I'm a cabber, I'm a midnight wrapper.
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Post by amyk on Dec 17, 2010 9:42:41 GMT -5
Hey Mel,
My gal, Kalena, is my avatar and would be totally freaked out by your gal, Rosie.
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Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 17, 2010 9:57:43 GMT -5
Amyk:*L* You ain't kidding. My wife has an Umbrella Cockatoo. His cage is in a second floor dormer and he looks out on the hill full of trees. When he sees a vulture or hawk, his alarm calls are flat out deafening.....Mel
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Haleysdream
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Post by Haleysdream on Dec 17, 2010 10:36:43 GMT -5
My strangest gift was from my uncle when i was only about 7 years old. It was a 1 brown and 1 black rubber alligators (12 " long with suction cups on the back). Well I thought what the heck was I suppose to do with these ?? Well the following year I wrapped them up and gave them back to Uncle Dick, this then be came a tradition on who could wrap them up the most creatively for about 10 years. Who ever was the recipient always acted surprised.
Nancy
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adrian65
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Arch to golden memories and to great friends.
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Post by adrian65 on Dec 17, 2010 10:37:27 GMT -5
This is a Christmas story from some 25 years ago, when Ina and me weren't married yet, but friends.
Christmas day came and I received a knitted vest from my mom. Then we had some guests and my aunt gave me also knitted vest as a present. In the evening I went out to date Ina and exchange our Christmas gifts. Silly me, I told her: "Guess what I received as Christmas presents from Mom and aunt: two knitted vests, go figure!"
"What???" she yelled and tears almost came in her eyes.
Yes, you guessed: her gift was also a knitted vest! She made that one and that was my favorite.
Adrian
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colliel82
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Post by colliel82 on Dec 17, 2010 11:49:59 GMT -5
WOW I can't believe I won. Thanks, and though I don't post often, I am amazed at all the good will and acts of kindness I see here on RTH.
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papat
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Post by papat on Dec 17, 2010 12:49:59 GMT -5
I can rember when i was 6or 7 i had been wanting i bike fore cristmas the worst gift a little boy could wake up to was red girls bike it had been boxed wrong it had the red and white ribons coming from hand grips thaT WAS THE WORST GIFT I THINK I EVER HAD
Thanks Tim
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Post by fishenman on Dec 17, 2010 12:51:24 GMT -5
When I was a teen, I lived with my dad. My sisters would come over for Christmas. One year we were opening gifts (the first year with my new step-mom). My new uncle Richard had given me a gift. My little sister insisted on opening it for me. Everyone watched her take the lid off the little box. Her face whnt pale and she put the lid on the box and passed it to me.
I had the everyone's attention, opened the box and found a ceramic pot pipe with a note from my uncle........."they have to know sometime" Everyone laughed so hard, knowing Richard was up to his tricks again.
Geoff
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kjohn0102
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Post by kjohn0102 on Dec 17, 2010 13:18:20 GMT -5
These are all great stories!
The strangest gift that I ever received has to be the one I got from my Mom about 10 years ago. Mom always had trouble picking out something for my husband each year, so we always had a good laugh Christmas morning when opening his gifts from her. One year, knowing how my husband loved laying in the bathtub in the mornings and snoozing for another hour before going to work, she got him an inflatable lips- shaped bathtub pillow. The inflatable lips were the butt of jokes for many years until Mom gave me the "Womens Campers Pee Bottle".......The Christmas morning that I opened this package-I held up the Pee bottle for all to see and triumphantly declared to my husband "This beats your inflatable lips ANY DAY!"
Merry Christmas all!
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leadhand
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Post by leadhand on Dec 17, 2010 15:20:31 GMT -5
Christmas Day is one of my favorites. I pastor a cowboy church in Canada. I've never understood the reason but most churches are closed on Christmas Day, to me that is the day we should definately be open... but I digress. On Christmas day we have a short service followed by a pot luck lunch and some entertainment. There are always people without a place to go on Christmas Day and they gather together with us at the church as family and we have a blast. The gathering gets bigger every year and some of those people come back every year (and its the only time we get to see them and catch up).
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Post by frane on Dec 17, 2010 22:48:14 GMT -5
Well, I have a well meaning brother in law that always makes Christmas gifts for the whole family every year. Now, I normally love homemade gifts but sometimes you have to ask yourself...why??? One year, when the boys were younger, we received a cassette of Christmas music that my sister played on the keyboard and he played along with on the recorder...errors and all. This is mean but when the boys would fight in the car on trips, we would put it in and tell them it wouldn't stop until they acted right. Pretty soon, all we would have to say is the cassette is going in and they would stop..It really worked like a charm every time  Last year, we got paper car puppets...Everyone in the family got them. The photos, the copying, cutting everything out, making the mouth to move well was so much obvious work and even cost...but why would I need a car puppet? And why does my Mom, sons, husband, aunts and uncles need one? Every year it is something different and we are almost afraid to open that package  But he means well. Fran |
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But he means well.
