Weirdest Thing You've Bought This Season?

Posted by Vulnadia on Dec 20, 2010 at 11:48 PM It's Christmas time, and I've found myself searching for, and sometimes even buying the most peculiar things for folks! Then again, I come from a home where it wasnt unusual for Mum to buy weird things, too... After all, there was the year that she bought everyone rubber fake roaches (the kind that looks real & for the 80's it was the latest innovation believe it or not!) and had them wrapped up beautifully to look like a cartier box or something bought from Tiffany's and then gave them to all of her best friends for Christmas. So I guess my purchasing what I so lovingly dubbed "The Grim Golfer" wasn't soo very out of the ordinary in retrospect...in my defense, the little skeletal golfer figure in resin was for a white elephant party for our theater group, but still...you get the point...and he was in good company with the skeletal rock band that will go to the lady who just HAD to have a copy of the morbid anatomy tableau portrait of baby skeletons all decked out in rockband formation with microphones & all... Then there are those elusive yet simple things, the things that used to be quite mundane and easy to come by but now are considered rare...or worse, "Antique" or labeled antiquated due to lack of technology...example A: a jewelry box with a ballerina inside that spins when you open it...people just stared at us incredulously when we went to the counter to ask for such an outdated thing...but by golly we finally scored one!!! One day, I shall have to tell you how I came by that elusive almost non-existent chocolate moose pillowpet that cannot be found by my friends in Dallas, Houston or Jacksonville, Florida... So what have you found yourself purchasing this holiday season that is considered weird or bizarre...or even something that you normally wouldn't even consider buying? Fess up!!!