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My DH got some weird stuff from his mom who always has some goofy theme every Christmas. One year everyone got lottery t-shirts. This year the theme was safety. DH and his cousin both received a big first aid kit, touch light bulb thingys and a lantern. From your mom???
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I got a basket of fruit that is slightly past it's prime, some cheese that required refrigeration, but wasn't, and a tube of mystery meat that seems to have some sort of mystery cheese in it that also required refrigeration,but wasn't...from my own mother. The basket has a liner in it that's embroidered with airplanes. Why she chose airplanes, I have no idea, but I know she embroidered it herself because she told me so. I'm just baffled.
Nothing odd this year. DH was really very good this year. No windshield wipers. He did get me hair dye (not really my shade), but he also bought me warm, cozy jammies and diamond earrings. I can live with the hair dye.
I lucked out too, nothing really weird....just problems with the whole size thing. DSIL gave me Christmas slippers that say size 4-10 (really, that's a big span!!!) and I think they may for children. I am a size 8 and I can barely get my foot in the silly things! DH got me new Eeyore pjs (LOVE THEM) and grabbed the wrong size. THEYARE GIGANTIC!!!! Gotta head to Walmart to exchange them! And he got me warm fuzzy slippers....also a size too big, I was walking out of them!!! But he went and found me new ones that are the right size! YEAH!!!! And kept the other ones for himself.
I did get one silly thing. DH got me a pair of Santa socks. They are knitted and have 3-d Santas on them right down to little boots sticking off to each side of the sock (look like little horns). No way to wear these in a pair of shoes!!!
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A couple of years ago he got me boxes of gravel (to pan for sapphires).
We bought DH's buddy a bag of "pay dirt." It is tailings from a local gold mine that have been salted with gold. He is a gold panner and figured he would enjoy that.
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It wasn't weird but I gave my DH a Yoda t-shirt and it says, "My finger pull". lol
OMG - how fun!! At Halloween, I got DH a t-shirt that is brown with fur and bandolier screen printed on it.....it's a Wookie t-shirt! He wore it as his Halloween costume.
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Haha these are some great stories! I didn't get anything strange this year, thank goodness. But I did send someone an Edible Arrangements fruit basket...hope they didn't think that was weird.
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I didn't recieve anything odd this year, but I got hooked on the website www.shirt.woot.com and gave a bunch of goofy/nerdy t-shirts this year. DH got the "Cuts of Meat" diagram shirt, and my friend's DD16 got the "Cloak of Visibility" just to name a few I realize now, not as funny just reading about them, but if you saw them, HILARIOUS, lol!
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I just had to share this gift that my DH gave me earlier in the year as a "just
because" gift. I had told my DH a joke in the spring that I heard and he found
the t-shirt that matches. The joke is: what do you get when you cross a brown
chicken and a brown cow..........brownchickenbrowncow, brownchickenbrowncow.
Think 70's bad movie music/adult theme.
So DH found a t-shirt that's brown and on the front has a brown chicken + brown
cow. I when I saw it. I only wear it around the house so far but I
might get the courage to wear it out some day.
I got heart cookie cutters and hand saniteizer by Avon from my DSis , although I sell Avon myself . O.k. it may not be unicorn meat or a bathroom scale but it was kind of weird.
I didnt get any strange gifts I guess I asked for a strange gift...DBF sister drew my name and I wanted a pizza pan she gave me that and 15-20 pairs fo silly/fun socks....
I did almost get him the Unicorn Meat, but it sold out too fast. Is it just a decorative can though? I wondered, and you can't really tell from the description.
Yes, it had cuts of meat in it--like, a thigh, a shoulder, etc---stuffed animalized, of course.
I got Solar Powered House Numbers from my FiL. Except the front of our house gets absolutely no direct sunlight!
Put them on the back door so any animals know where they are?
I was lucky this year - nothing particularly unusual as yet although I do still have a few to come. MIL bought DH and I a fake bonsai tree but that was actually quite sensible as we probably would have killed a real one and it is very pretty.
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This year the theme was safety. DH and his cousin both received a big first aid kit, touch light bulb thingys and a lantern. 
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But I did send someone an Edible Arrangements fruit basket...hope they didn't think that was weird. 
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