My older sister routinely gives me gifts for my birthday and Christmas that it’s obvious she picked up at a dollar store somewhere. Once she got me two DVDs, one about horses which would have been maybe appropriate for a 9 year old girl, and one about the spiders. I mean, I do watch stuff about spiders on YouTube and such because I’m freaked out by them but I also find them fascinating, but this was a pretty cheesy DVD, as was the horse one.
The only other really strange gift I can remember getting was my sister-in-law, who’s from Vermont, got us all Snoopy SnoCone machines one year. She said it was because we all liked to get snowballs so much that she thought she would get us this item where we can make our own snowballs.