Welcome the newest addition to your family with a...bag of rice?

by Shayna Glick, Posted Jun 17th 2008 @ 12:00PM

Image from a Japanese website that sells rice bags with the image of your newborn on them.

Apparently that's how some people do things in Japan. One gift that you can give a new mother is a bag of rice with the new baby's image on it. Oh, and the bag of rice weighs the same amount that the new baby does.

There are some funny gifts out there. As the writer of this InventorSpot post asks: what do you do with the bag? I hope that you're not meant to eat something that represents your new baby. Big yuck factor there.

What are some odd baby gifts that you've seen?

Filed Under: On the Blogs
Tags: asia, babygifts, Japan, newborn, rice

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6-18-2008 @9:59AM Silver_Potato said... Shayna are you even remotely familiar with the concept of buying things for commemorative purposes?

The paucity of intelligence here really scares me at times.
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6-19-2008 @10:10AM doodoolemonque said... An unduly harsh comment Potato_Head. No doubt that Shayna, like the rest of us, is indeed familiar with commemorative products. This one hugs a cultural border that begs comment. You're lack of awareness of the reasons this is so, suggests more about your own limitations than the original post does about Shayna. Its a shame you cannot share the joy of discovery which so humanizes the rest of us.
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