Fab Freebie: Delight Box
***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries***
Sherry and I always love browsing through those quirky little gift stores that every town seems to have (Richmonders, think Mongrel in Carytown). We’re always bound to come across an eclectic assortment of smartly designed trinkets that inevitably make us think “Oh, this would be a perfect gift for XXXX.” Well, Delight.com is pretty much the online version of that fun shopping experience and we’re thrilled to have them sponsoring this week’s giveaway!
We loved that Delight.com organizes their products by theme (“Luxe!“), occasion (“Engagement and Wedding“) and even type of recipient (“The Traveler“). They even have a special focus on eco-friendly products, which always scores major points with us. And in case you’re the type who just likes to learn about fresh new swag, they highlight a fun, new product every day (and even throw in a special 24-hour discount). So in that generous spirit, they’re giving away two of these modern metal toolboxes from Alice Supply Co. (available in a slew of different colors and patterns) to two lucky Young House Love readers. How’s that for DIYing in style?
- PRIZE: Your choice of one Alice Supply Co. toolbox from Delight.com (valued at $47 – $59)
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “DELIGHT ME” and…
- BONUS QUESTION: Tell us the strangest or quirkiest gift you’ve ever received – whether it was something you unexpectedly loved or one that continues to puzzle you.
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, July 8th at 8pm EST
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: Two lucky ladies/lads
- ELIGIBILITY: Prize ships to the USA only
- THE USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday. Good luck!
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DELIGHT ME.
One Christmas, my mother-in-law (now an EX) bought me a sweater that had 2 large geese on the front, with buttons sewn on for eyes and little gingham aprons sewn onto the sweater. On top of all that, it was all hideously pastel. It looked like something my daughter would have wanted to wear when she was 4. And I was nearly 30 then. It still makes me ask ‘WTF???’ :-)
DELIGHT ME!
Last Christmas my husband’s aunt gave us this ridiculously huge universal TV remote. It had to be at least 7″x11″ in size!!! We still to this day cant figure out if it was a joke gift or not.
delight me!
strangest gift I got was a joke gift. I don’t like clowns-I think they’re creepy. my friends found a dinner plate at a craft fair that had a picture of clown on it and says: ‘The opposite of a friend.’
I find it hilarious and sort of hate it simultaneously.
The strangest gift I ever received was a set of dickey’s (the turtleneck with just the neck and chest fabric), that didn’t Delight Me.
Delight me!
Strangest gift….a garden gnome from our grandmother for our garden….which after doing a second look, no, we did not have a garden…Still today I’m not quite sure what to say whenever that little fellow is brought up:)
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Strangest gift: When I was just over 200 lbs, one of my high school friends gave me size 4 jeans. Clearly, I couldn’t get them past my knees so I asked them what she was thinking. Her reply, “I thought this would give you motivation to lose some weight.” Well, I lost the weight, but no thanks to the jeans.. I just sold em’ on eBay. Needless to say, she is no longer on my speed dial.
Delight Me!
My husband is the king of off-the-wall gifts so I’ve gotten some doozies over the years. I think my favorite was a few years ago for my birthday. My birthday is right after Thanksgiving & since I love shopping the day after Thanksgiving I usually get lots of cash in cards and have a fun day shopping. When I woke up that particular morning (or maybe it was more middle of the night) ready to go shopping I found a “day after Thanksgiving shopping survival guide” with all sorts of hilarious things in it & a big wad of cash! It was great!
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Strangest gift….
We did get this weird frying pan that was seperated into 3 parts. It said it was supposed to make cooking easy. But maybe if you were cooking for one…we just got married we needed 2 person cookware!!!
Also..just because I go to a certain college doesn’t mean I want everything that says the name on it. My MIL gave us a 3′x5′ rug. The dog used to sleep on it…then some oil got spilled on it so we had to throw it away!
Delight me!
Strangest gift: My parents were fully prepared to mark my seventeenth birthday with something big and meaningful. No doubt the expected a request for diamond earrings or some such. But since I was doing a lot of theater, I asked for and received a fully-loaded toolbox instead. Sadly, the intervening years and roommates saw my tools scattered and lost. But what joy to have a smart looking toolbox to call my own again (if I can keep my own little tool-users out of it). And of all the joys, none of them are pink! Thanks for the heads-up.
Delight Me!
One of the strangest gifts I ever received was a jar or orange marmelade that my dad got me from a farmers market. Not saying I didn’t enjoy it, just thought it was weird to put it under the Christmas tree.
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Quirkiest gift… my best friend is the Queen of Quirky gift giving. Over the years I have received a Van Gogh doll with a removable ear, a one-foot tall inflatable Edvard Munch doll, a Cornelius (Planet of the Apes) doll, Land of the Lost tv series tapes (before they ever thought of making the movie!), the Walton’s tv series DVD and The Boy in the Bubble DVD. We are both artist so quirkiness is to be expected!
Delight me! PLEASE!
Strangest gift has to be a vase that we gave to friends as a house warming gift that was then re-gifted to us 3 years later when we bought our 1st house. They didn’t reralize that WE were the ones that gave it to them. If you’re going to re-gift, at least re-gift it to someone new! We polietly said thanks and never told them.
I love these!
My “quirkiest” gift was a set of ceramic frogs dressed in bbq aprons and chef-hats. I’m supposed to do what with these? Uh…..
DELIGHT ME!
(please)
Strangest gift was a wedding present…it was a crystal looking carriage pulled by crystal horses (think Cinderella) from my mom’s garden club friend. I would have understood if it was a re-gift, but she told my mom she picked it out just for us “because people in the South like crystal” – we live in Ohio. We refer to it as the “marriage carriage”.
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The strangest gift I received was a really nice chef’s knife from my boyfriend back in college (now my husband!). I was still living in the dorms and didn’t cook! However, we use it to this day, though it sat in a box for a few years. Love that he was thinking ahead :)
DELIGHT ME… The strangest gift I ever received was a Alice Supply Co. toolbox from Delight.com. I entered a contest on http://www.younghouselove.com to win one, and as luck would have it, I won! The gift was perfect for my smaller DIY tools that I like to keep separate from my husband and I’s heavier tools–not to mention it looks fabulous. I love my Alice Supple Co. toolbox!
DeLight Me!! :D
I received a tooth brush and a mini painting the size of 1/2 a dollar bill. After I opened it (at an exchange with a $20 limit) the giver came up and said “hope you like it – the painting was a steal at $.10 at yesterday’s yard sale. Um..yeah.
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A gift that continues to puzzle me to this day is a “Kitty Cat” picture my mother got me for my 21st birthday… Really. Strange. but I love her for trying :)
My delight me moment:
Last minute, comme toujours, my mom decided on a holiday gift consisting of a few pieces of the Dibbern Black Forest china we had selected for our wedding registry. http://blog.elizabethdorney.com/search?q=dibbern+black+forest
When the china didn’t arrive in time for Christmas, my mom was completely undeterred. Sharpie in hand, she proceeded to draw the bare, winter tree onto an everyday white plate, puzzling us with her artistry until she explained the real McCoy was on its way.
Delight me!
From a high school admirer I received a stuffed monkey for my 16th birthday. At 16, you’re long-past the stuffed animal craze. And generally speaking, guys giving girls stuffed animals usually go the cutesy route (teddy bears, puppies, etc.). Instead I got something identical to this: http://www.stuffedark.com/images/monkeyspiderhn.jpg
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The strangest gift I every received was a snow shovel for Christmas when I was 10 from my mother. She called it a “responsibility” gift.
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The weirdest gift I ever got was a resin skull from a friend. I don’t have any particular fetish for skulls, nor am I a macabre or gothy sort of person, but it sits gleefully on my bedside table, grinning away. …Even if it is kind of weird.
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An small expanding toy heart that would grow when soaked with water. It was part of the expanding human organ series…
DELIGHT ME!!!! PLEASE!
The gift was a chia pet from my husband for our 1st Christmas as hubby and wife! Weird huh??? We laugh about it to this day!
Delight Me! Unexpected and best ever, my Yorkie. I hadn’t expected it from my husband. I was not fully committed to the breed I wanted and he had already moved forward to reserve the gift. When I saw the pup for the first time moving under the bed covers, I thought it was a guinea pig.
DELIGHT ME!
One of the oddest gifts I’ve ever received was about 4 or 5 cans of autumn spice and crisp scented Febreze air effects from my boyfriend. It was a limited edition scent in the Fall that he knew I loved!
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I got a #1 sister charm from my older brother, he was in 12th grade and I was in 10th. Would’ve been ok and kinda sweet, but it was just the charm and no necklace. He said he didn’t know it needed a chain…tops the list of weird gifts he’s given me.
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I was not delighted when my Dad gifted me with a bidet for Christmas a few years ago. I’m not sure what the thought was behind this but I am certain I don’t want to know.
Delight me because I’ve definately from a family who delights in giving quirky or in plain bad taste gifts.
Received a black coffin lined with red velvet from my endulgent parents for Christmas a few years back.
As a kid, I watched as my dad and next door neighbor playfully and gleefully passed a gold spraypainted and thankfully jarred dry horse pucky back and forth for Christmas over a span of several years. It was all in good spirit and a way to playfully rib each over my parents ranch having mini horses while their ranch had tall, graceful Arabians.
My grandfather once gave my dad a rusted, completely unusable pocket knife, with a completely straight face one Christmas, only to receive it in the same manner the very next year.
My Mom oh so craftily slipped luxe rings for my grandmother, sister and myself into specially ordered Christmas balls that opened like ring boxes.
As for myself, I snagged a singing skeleton fish at the Halloween after sales to give to my dear ole dad for Christmas. When I later gave him his real gift, an external hard drive with Lightscribe that he’d been coveting since I’d gotten mine, he was very relieved and very proud of me for following our family’s oft goofy approach to gift giving.
“DELIGHT ME”
My friend gave me a bag full of pennies, 99 to be exact and told me that she couldn’t decide on what to get me for so much money, and that I should check out a 99C store! Haha! It was sooo funny!
deeeee-light me! quirky, but useful(?): my grandma gave me a gravy-boat/crock-pot–to keep the gravy warm! i did use it when i made thanksgiving dinner for the first time, right after i got married. i guess cold gravy is kind of a bummer!
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Weird giftng- a lint roller. Apparently I’m walking around with dog hair all over me and it was offinsive to someone.
Coolest gift- A book of Frieda Khalo prints (my fav artist) and a Incubus mix cd.
Most Awesomist gift!!!!- A cowbell!!! My BFF thought it would be hysterical to send me this because when I saw the ep. on SNL I literally peed my pants. Nice
DELIGHT ME…I love everything in its own place, but this would be CUTE. We once got the most hideous candle holder thing- it became yard art!
DELIGHT ME!
2 Christmases ago my mother-in-law put granny panties in my stocking as a joke! It still makes me laugh :)
DELIGHT ME!!!
Strangest gift I ever got was a lump of coal from my husband (boyfriend) at the time…I was thinking it was a ring! He thought it was hilarious!
DELIGHT ME!
For my birthday, my first grade student gave me a bedazzled white purse. It is not my taste, but it will always remind me of his kind and generous spirit.
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I think the oddest thing I’ve received so far was a LARGE yellow t-shirt from my grandmother (I’m a small). When I opened it she said that she’d bought it for herself, but it was mismarked. It’s actually a small (no, really, it was HUGE). And I hate yellow. But, then again, she also gave my brother and his wife a toy truck (for their boy – no, they didn’t have any kids). It was an odd Christmas. ;)
DELIGHT ME!!
Weirdest gift, last Christmas my Aunt bought me this sweater-looking-thing that had bunnies on the front that looked like something I would have worn when I was 7! It was hideous!
I don’t know if you want anymore but the first year I was dating my husband he bought my a hair dryer for my birthday,the next year it was an electric razor are you laughing yet then we got married and he forgot my birthday two yrs, in a row. Did I stay married to this gift giver? Indeed yes 40yrs. now and he’s gotten much better
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One year for christmas I recieved snowman poo?? (cotton balls)
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Delight Me!
Strangest gift I ever got was a stack of children’s books… when I was 16.