My great auntie gave me a pair of argyle socks for Christmas

Oh my Mother in law of all people!!! She would buy (now gives money) the kids clothes that were either tooo small or just barely fit... Hows that for knowing your grand kids??? she would buy us.. like a stuffed chicken?!?!? okay... Of course she is the lady that has the rabbit and squirell running around loose in her house!

My mother in law used to send me cuddly toys for Christmas. We had only just got married so I didn't want to upset her buy raising my eyebrows about this. My wife was talking to her brother one time, he said that he couldn't work out why their mother kept sending their young son such adult gifts - books, cologne etc. Turns out that she kept getting our names mixed up. Our names are totally different! Still at least he is a he and not a she. I dread to think what I would have done with all those dolls and make up. My other brother in law and his wife have no children and travel with literally hundreds of teddy bears. They are both well into their 40s.

I had one such aunt who when offered tea in cups refused to drink tea in them and same tea we used to put in a steel glass she used to drink happily. Thankfully I have never received socks as gifts from my relatives.

Yes i have but she already ast away anyway, reiceving from her a wierd gift & any occasion, specailly if the lady still not merried:_)

lol..as far as i know, im probably the oddball of the family. being that i collect "samples" those little detergent or toothpaste samples you get in the mail! my prized piece is a bottle of Tobasco sauce that is about 1 1/2 inches tall!! its the cutest thing! though i have gotten a weird present from my grandmother once..socks too. it was for my 30th birthday..a pair of Scooby Doo socks with the "traction" nub thingys on the bottom and red, brown and black stripes!! ugly ugly things lol! i think i still have them in the back of a drawer too!