The most unusual thing you have ownership of is:

a piece of driftwood

in the shape of a whale.
 
I own a gigantic blue dildo with nubs on it. It is still in the package. It scares me:eek:

If I were to die tonight, someone would find it and think I was a pervert or something;)
 
An iron wine bottle holder.

Because if I ever do have wine, it wouldn't be sitting around long enough to be shown off. And it certainly wouldn't be sitting around at room temperature.
 
A whaling spear.

I hate it. Hate the whole idea of whaling, but it has been mounted in the study of this house for about 60 years now and my husband loves the bloody thing.
 
Several Marvel Action figures that at age 19 I still enjoy playing with when the inspiration to do so hits me...the spider-man movie was such inspiration...
 
A pack of wrigley's gum ... there are only 2 sticks of gum in it...


I was at the airport and I could not stop crying so hence he trys to make me stop crying by offering me gum ... I kept it... as a reminder.
 
An 1854 Shakespeare's Comedies Volume.

I got it from a family friend who never married or had kids, so she gave it to me.
 
My apartment is a veritable museum of the weird.

There are the movie psycho killer action figures (Jason and Freddy), the 'grey' alien doll in BDSM gear, the gummi alien in cryogenic suspension in our freezer, the box of bottles some of which are over 100 years old, the ever growing occult collection on our bookshelves, the dinner jacket that looks like it came right out of the TV show "The Prisoner", the painting of the pumpkins that looks somehow vaguely sexual that was given to me by a woman who told me to keep it for her and then simply disappeared, the collection of fimo heads, the bodhran, and the book entitled "Housekeeping in Old Virginia" that was printed in 1879 and contains several recipes for cow's brains among other things.

There's probably more, but that's what comes to mind offhand. If I had to choose the weirdest among those, I'm not sure I could. :)
 
a really cheesy clay snail about  1/2 the size of my palm. it's not even painted or glazed.
I love that thing.
 
My house is also a treasure trove of oddities, naudiz! Together you and I could have the country's freakiest yard sale.

If I had to pick what others might find unusual, I would say my Christmas hairball collection. One year I couldn't find any of my ornaments after a crazy move, so I purchased several boxes of clear opalescent glass balls and asked my friends to donate a lock of their hair to insert in them. I wrote their name and the date in silver and copper metallic ink and hung them from a long branch in my picture window. That was the year we found 'Copter Clauses' at the thrift store too - small metal Santas with helicopter blades on their heads. We strung them on a length of flamelights by inserting the end of the bulb in their asses so it looked like they were farting flames!

That was a great Christmas.

I also have two horseshoe crabs framed in a shadowbox that we found on Shell Island and brought home with us as a keepsake. They look vicious. They sit on my mantle next to a snake candle holder with a tiny baby in it's mouth. I found the baby in a king cake in New Orleans. It's supposed to be good luck. I'm still waiting.
 
Must unusual thing?

I have so many, it's hard to tell which is the MOST unusual.

An antique wooden clarinet. (still plays, but needs some minor repair)
An old accordian that needs new leather straps.
An antique sewing machine. (still works, but your foot gets really tired pumping the pedal)
A 1829 school dictionary. (fun to look up words and see how their meanings have changed.)
Ah.....I think that's enough.

Moon
 
a bouncy penguin. you push down on its head and it hops and sings.
 
A hat made out of red felt, lined with a head band that has two eyes, antanae, and a pair of Lobster claws that are as large as the hat sticking out of it.
 
Ooo, Rambling Rose! That sounds like a great idea. Or we could have a traveling show and sell snake oil on the side. Though, truth be told, I've never tried to oil a snake and I'm not sure I'd care to.

I forgot about the silver-plated clarinet that was made somewhere in the 1920s. Mr. Naudiz has a beer bottle whose label reads Arrogant Bastard Ale. I've also got a psaltery, which is kind of like a dulcimer only it's plucked instead of hammered. I can play the Oscar Meyer Bologna song on it.

If this keeps up I'm going to actually clean up this place to see what else I can find. :D
 
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Hmmmm... lots of stuff would fit this thread. I think I'll pick my pieces of the Berlin Wall. Those are kind of unusual.
 
I own a bottle opener with a picture of Pope John Paul II on it. I call it my 'Pope bottle opener', naturally. I bought it in a shop near St Peter's several years ago.
 
beats me... I sometimes have an eclectic taste... see something wierd and think... I gotta have that... then I box it up... and shove it in the closet with everything else.
 
An un-opened 16-0z glass bottle of coke?

How about my grandfather's gamecock training manual?

The original printing of the transcripts of Nixon's "Watergate" tapes?
 
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