Weirdest Christmas gifts....I got a blow torch from my mom

[yvr girl]

Kind of weird.

List 'em here.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

1. I sense an immediately locked copycat thread in DU's future.

I may be wrong, but I doubt it.

:evilgrin:

[tridim]

5. Gawd, I hope you're wrong

because the obvious copycat thread will be pretty nasty. :P

[Maddy McCall]

2. Hey! Julia Child used a blow torch.

Are you a master chef? Or perhaps an artist who does metal work?

If neither, then I agree--a weird gift. :silly:

[yvr girl]

6. I did want a little mini torch to make creme brulee with

The full on torch, I find a bit intimidating.

[FuzzySlippers]

11. She always used to kind of scare me when she fired up

that thing. That and when she got out that giant meat cleaver and started hacking away at some major bones.

[Fleshdancer]

3. The oddest gifts I've ever received:

I didn't get anything weird this year, but when I was 19, I got two bottles of fix-a-flat and when I was nine, my grandmother got me a godawful chia pet. It never grew it's "hair" and I blame that horrible gift for my brown thumb.

[Beer Snob-50]

14. i have a relative

who buys cheap stuff and fills our stockings with them. This year I got a pair of knee high queen size panty hose.

[Waistdeep]

4. Time for some Creme Brulee'

Nothing like a blowtorch to caramelize that sugar.

[GOPisEvil]

7. I have the perfect companion gift!

[Archae]

8. A brass cat.

Got it this year from my slightly ditzy older sister.

[tridim]

9. The only thing I got that was semi-weird

was a cigarette lighter powered flood light. Like the kind the police use. Weird, but it'll probably come in handy some day.

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. Placemats from my wife's grandmother that match exactly nothing.

Yay, our first item we'll have to put out only when the relatives come to visit!

[TNDemo]

12. Here's mine.

I actually started a thread on this a couple of days ago and I guess it kinda got missed. So here again is what I posted:

About ten years ago (I was about to say before the Alzheimer's took effect but maybe I should give that some more consideration) my father-in-law retired to Florida and decided to make us shell art for Christmas. He got purple felt and glued it to a board and then made shells into snowmen with the moveable eyes. My husband's aunt used to give us paint-by-number paintings she had done but would leave the number of the painting unpainted so we could tell which one it was. My husband's 96-year-old uncle (I notice a trend here about which side of the family this is happening on) gives the most eye popping gifts. He used to make really nice woodworking things but the older he got the weirder they got - of course you gotta cut a 96-year-old some slack (even though he is the hottie of the retirement home). We have gotten windmills made out of bleach jugs, a round wooden thing painted red and blue that spinned with three holes and finally found out he wanted us to get three artificial flowers (one red, one white, one blue) and put one in each hole. This year we got a big plastic 5 gallon drum that has holes on three sides with a little wooden perch. It is a birdhouse but it is really interesting that it has "dangerous - hazardous materials" written on it - right by the birdhole. Said he couldn't understand why the guy was throwing these away (he made 16). My friend now is getting interesting gifts from one of her husband's coworkers. Last year she got a brick that was painted black and a snowman painted on it (doorstop maybe? who knows...) and this year she got dried okra painted white with feathers on them. I think they are supposed to be angels or something.

[mahina]

13. Thanks for the laughter!

hee hee hee