Okay, my gift may be considered the best one of the thread, but I think your response wins something, too.
CLEARLY this should be the winner.
Wait, or maybe it’s this…
A vibraslap! Amazing! Mystery solved, finally.
The thing is that I am that music person, I have thousands of CDs, I’m trying to make it as a songwriter, but even for “the music person” they seemed like such silly gifts. Maracas? Panflute? For a 13 year-old boy who obsesses over Madonna and Michael Jackson?
At least they provided lots of laughs and jokes among my immediate family over the years, including the recurring joke that if I don’t make it as a performer in my own right I can buy a fruit hat and take the maracas on a tour of cruise ships.
“He’s hackin and whackin and packin, whack, pack, chompin that meat!”
I received for Christmas the year after moving in with my boyfriend a bottle of body wash from my future mother-in-law. I can’t be sure it wasn’t passive-aggressive.
One time, everyone at work got a boxer shorts, complete with company logo, as a gift. Wtf.
Even the women? 
:dubious::smack:
That was my first thought, too, Brown Eyed Girl.
Someone thinks you’re hot?
That was in a very small software development company. There was no women.
Well, I guess your casual Fridays got a whole lot more interesting then, eh? 
We had a wedding shower for someone here at work a few weeks ago. I was talking with the other 2 people in my immediate department about whether we should do a gift, etc—the bride-to-be is someone from a different, related department and we kind of felt we should do something small.
My manager felt that a $10 gift card would be appropriate. 10. From 3 of us. I would have been completely mortified to hand over something that made it clear that we had each contributed $3.33 (except the one big spender who chipped in the extra penny). IMO, it’s better not to give anything than to look like a cheap ass.
Luckily I found something on the couple’s registry for $15 and we got her that. it’s not much difference financially, but somehow it seemed far less glaring.
OTOH, my manager is wealthy and I am not. This is how rich people stay rich, I guess.
BTW, pbbth, big congrats! Why, I remember when you just started dating this fellow…
I must know what the final offer was.
A musician friend of ours gave us an unusual anniversary present…
A 2 foot x 3 foot framed picture,
now wait,
are you ready,
of himself.
It was from a photoshoot, for an album cover.
An old boss of mine gave us a check for a thousand dollars for a wedding present. Not stange but somewhat unexpected.
On a wedding website I used to frequent there was a HUGE ongoing thread for bad gifts. It started with stuff that was generically useless, but soon veered off into straight-up weird territory. The all-time winner, in a landslide, was a
Gee, just what I always wanted!