s/o of the birdfeeder post...Most unique wedding/bday gift?

I received a metal dustpan, painted country blue with white flowers and with a music box inside that plays whistle while you work. We've been married 14 years and that and the wine glasses my Grandma gave me are the only wedding gifts that I know we still have. (The dustpan hangs in my laundry room as a decoration.) The best part is that it was in a bag with no gift tag or card...so we aren't 100% sure who it's from.

ETA - It's like this one only blue and white.

That picture of the dustpan takes me back! When I was a kid we had one basically like that, only it didn't have a music box. I haven't seen one like that in years. They all seem to be the plastic kind that snap onto the broom handle now.

I was the giver of an odd gift, I know.

Niece had been on her own for about 10 years, and I figured she had the basics.
So, I purchased Christmas lights, decorations and tree skirt to make their first Christmas special.
She told me she liked the gift and still uses at least some of them.

My sister can still get on a rant about WTH on the gift.

Worst part, my mother fried it for the family dinner that night and my sister had to leave early to rehearse for graduation and didn't get any chicken.   LOL  Why my mother didn't save it at least one day, I don't know.

The chicken was from a goofy neighbor who lived on the farm next door.

DH's aunt gave us a decorative rooster a few years ago (about 2 feet high). It was an odd gift, but I went ahead and put it in my kitchen. A couple of years later, she comes to visit, and says where did the rest of your roosters go? I never had any. She had confused me with someone else.

we received momgrammed towels - with someone else's monogram. (I think they were purchased from a "not quite perfect" store.)

Dh and I had a lot of basic house stuff when we got married, so one of my bridal showers was camping themed. We were married in 1998 and still have and use a lot of the camping related gifts we received.

Actually I am not sure we ever did get a thank you card. And at the time we were a young and poor as they were. If I ever ran across a deal like that I would have called everybody I knew.

The can of pepper we received for our wedding tops my list.

Strangely enough we received a bird feeder as a wedding gift too. It was beautiful----made of teak, very sturdy. That thing lasted 20 years in the sun until it finally fell apart at the seams. That's the second to the oldest wedding gift that lasted.

One we really loved and still use--a toolbox with picture framing stuff, household tools, and one of those rechargeable Black and Decker multi power tools--the power drill/small saw/power screwdriver. We used it all the time. Dh's boss/mentor gave us that as his personal gift to us (he and his wife came to our wedding at the beach even though it was a 7 hour drive).

The company gave us a gift certificate for the Blue Ridge Room restaurant at the Grove Park Inn. Dh took me there the day we got engaged, and we decided to honeymoon in Asheville to save money. Dh started working at that company in college and was hired full time when he graduated. Dh's degree is in accounting, and his boss was a retired partner at Ernst and Young--he helped dh see that he should go into IT and not accounting. 

The best present we got was a gorgeous cross stitch sampler of 2 Corinthians 13 that dh's sister made us. It hangs in the hall on the opposite wall from our bedroom door--a great daily reminder of what true love really does. Here's the version we chose Love Never Fails My inlaws suggested the "what God has joined let no man tear asunder" and got kinda pissed that we didn't want it. I thought it was kinda negative. She actually felt bad that "she couldn't afford a 'real' gift". But I displayed it at our rehearsal dinner and the reception and have told her several times how much I love it. 

We received a food warming tray without the plug. It was clearly second hand and I didn't want to embarrass them by asking for the plug.

We got a large hammock from my sister who knew we had no place to put it and no time to use it. we lived in a tiny upstairs apartment, had no yard or trees to hang it, and I was traveling a lot and working 16 hour days. I was rarely home. We continued to live in tiny apartments for years. She said it was her way to encourage me to relax. It never left the box, and after dragging it from one address to the next for 15 years, we finally gave it away. Even now we do have a yard, lying in a hammock is not how I'd choose to relax.

My Teen DS keeps getting Christmas nutcrackers from his grandmother. No idea why. He doesn't like them. He doesn't want them. It has become a big joke. She has told me I can't get rid of them because they are not mine and DS will want them when he has his own house. Every year he gets more. They take up 2 big totes - at last count there were 19....it's ridiculous enough that he brought them this week to show and tell at the camp he works at, figuring no one would believe a 15 yr old had so many nutcrackers.

I think nothing tops the chicken grad gift!!