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you've ever received?
I saw this question on another blog, and the answers had me cracking up. I had to bring it here...
Here's mine:
My grandmother liked to give fuzzy tissue box covers, and I remember getting one that was meant to look like a dog. It was made of long, shaggy acrylic dyed a deep aqua with navy stripes. It had two largely googly eyes on one end and a little tail. All in all, it was like a little Apso Lapsa kleenex dispenser. 
Where she ever found these things, I'll never know. But the memory stuck. I also received a set of plain white bed sheets from a relative one year- useful, but a little strange as a gift. 
OK- now I know the rest of you can make me laugh some more... this could also be a fun conversation starter for Thanksgiving gatherings.
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Well a relative who has a shopping addiction gives odd presents that don't always fit. I've peeked in the bags and I know this year my ds' 16 & 14 are receiving power boards (energy saving ones  )
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On year I got hand-me-down clothes from DH's aunt. They weren't her hand-me-downs, either, but from a friend of hers. This was when I was in my 20s and she was approaching 60.
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A silk screened sweat shirt with "Dental Hygienist" on it. I have never been a DH. Actually, it was for an aunt, and she received my teacher shirt. 'Grandma" never figured out what happened lol
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Angi wrote:
| A silk screened sweat shirt with "Dental Hygienist" on it. I have never been a DH. Actually, it was for an aunt, and she received my teacher shirt. 'Grandma" never figured out what happened lol |
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It wasn't for Christmas, but dh's aunt gave me a cookie jar just like this one, the first time we met. The box looked like it had been sitting in the closet from a Christmas gift she didn't want, I think it even had a bit of wrapping paper and tape still on the box. They live 16 hours away, and it was the first time meeting, so you want to be nice and make a good impression. That wasn't the only funny thing we received that trip, she gave us a HUGE outdated can of cranberry sauce, and a ton of outdated Ensure drinks. We just politely thanked them with a smile and as much enthusiastic graciousness as could be mustred, and dumped the food when we got home, and gave the cookie jar to Goodwill.
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and just think, you could have sold that lovely cookie jar on ebay for fifty bucks!
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Oh my- that is too funny about the cookie jar, and the sweatshirts, too.
Monica- what did you do with the clothes?
My grandmother used to also give us clothes- my poor brother would often get items with a ruffle or something pink. When my mom questioned this, my grandmother would say," Well, he's young. It doesn't matter".  
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Aagot wrote:
and just think, you could have sold that lovely cookie jar on ebay for fifty bucks!
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