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Re: What are the worst gifts you've received from...
My MIL gave me for my birthday a $25 Target gift card, in an envelope labeled with her name, a blank birthday card and the 'card' that the gift card was attached to said her name.
Disney candle shade, watches, earrings, mugs, sweatshirts, t-shirts, and jackets. We kept it for one year and then it went straight to Goodwill. Except for the mugs, because they are useful.
Ewwwwwwwwwwww.....My MIL gave rehearsal guests a TOUR of our honeymoon suite!!! (She knows the owner of the B&B). I'm so glad I hadn't unpacked yet. Let's just say DH has a thing for nurses.....
I get tons of smelly candles and air fresheners every year - despite saying several times i do not like air fresheners and smelly candles. It seems every time she comes over, they multiply. Last time, it was 8 jar candles.
And another time she got me a carry on bag for a trip we were taking - which was nice, except for the fact that it stunk SO bad, i couldnt use it, and it wouldnt wash out. I think she had been hiding a skunk or a dead dog in there for months before she gave it to us.
I think you should start your own blog about trying it before you buy it!!
My worst gift was a toilet paper roll stand to resemble a big, fat cartoon like nurse. Needless to say my H loves it and sits in our bathroom. I have to pick my battles.
Last Christmas I got a garage door opener....we don't even have a garage!
I almost always get grandma pajamas...like the quilted flannel ones with ruffles.
For my birthday I got an old piece of furniture from someone in their family that died. It's an ugly display case...fake wood with brassy handles... I'm not one to collect little figurines...my husband put diecast cars in it...
Nothing.
Meaning they give us nothing, nothing for Christmas last year, nothing for our WEDDING, nothing for my birthday....
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Where to begin...
An $800 Amish made Heat Surge fireplace. As a house "warming" gift. When we already have a fireplace. That isn't fake or stupid looking.
We have been trying to sell it on Craiglist and no one will buy it, so it's just an $800 box sitting in our closet, taking up space we don't have.
I wouldn't say it's a bad gift, but my MIL loves to get me mugs and hot cocoa mix. I'm kinda a big mug person, but I want to pick them out myself, and I really like getting a lot of random mugs (I collect them from vacations we've been on and what not). Well...since she's gotten me 4 mugs within the past year, my cupboard is too full to house anymore mugs. Yet, I'll probably get more mugs for every other holiday or birthday.
Also, for my bridal shower, my GMIL (who is normally very neat, orderly and tidy) got us a set of chinet dishes that was not on our list. Also, the box was REALLY dirty and smashed in. Very non-typical for her.
BIL/SIL bought me the most hideous jacket I have ever seen in my life (but at least it fit). It looks like it's for someone 3 times my age and that lived about 80 years ago.... She also bought me a blouse for work that was 2 sizes too big. She's a doll =/.
MIL and FIL actually have always bought me gifts I like. I'm lucky.
5 cats. 1 baby.
We got this from DH's grandma at a shower thrown by his cousin.
5 cats. 1 baby.
For our first (married) Christmas together, my MIL bought us a ton of baby clothes! Very generous, but we didn't (and three years later still don't) have children yet!
Yes, my MIL does this too. At first I thought it was cute. But now it's just annoying....we literally have pretty large boxes for each of the past three Christmases, filled with our stocking "junk" that we just need throw away at this point!
My DH's uncle is quite the oddball, and is notorious for wacky presents. One year, I got a broken photo-key chain, with one of his old army pics (he's in his 60's now) taped inside. ???? Another year, me, DH, DH's cousin and his wife all got matching t-shirts.....from a local festival where the uncle volunteered. He proudly told us that they gave away the t-shirts to the volunteers, and he was smart enough to snag four of them.....
My mother in law buys me a purse for every frickin' birthday or gift-giving holiday. And they're obnoxious old lady purses she gets for a couple bucks at sales. I've tried to sell them on eBay, but haven't sold a single one. Not surprised....
But she bought my sister in law a beautiful white down vest for Christmas last year, ironically a vest I'd been pining over and blabbing about to my husband for months.
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Oh... my... there are no words. Does she have her own issues surrounding loss and mourning? That is CRAZY.
Wow, this is the same thing I got!
My husband's brother and sister-in-law gave us a religious gift...specific to his religion, and I am a very different religion.
He thought it was nice. I thought it was thoughtless. I'm still plotting ways to make it go away. I can't wait to move...it will definitely be in the box that gets lost.
I love people like that!!!
My husband and I had a decent-sized registry, and nearly all the items were purchased quickly. We ended up getting a lot of things we didn't put on our registry (and didn't need or want). We have 2 houses that are well stocked.
We got a professional waffle maker (which we didn't put on the registry, because we already have 2). We registered for our China pattern platters and some Wilton ones...and people got us other platters. We registered for knives, and some people got us additional knives that weren't on the registry. We got vases...and oh yeah, we got china that wasn't our pattern, too (NOTE: If you buy Lenox PEARL Innocence, be prepared to deal with returning a whole bunch of OPAL innocence...we got 1 place setting, a vegetable bowl, a gravy boat and gravy stand, creamer, and sugar bowl in the wrong place setting.)
We did get a bunch of great gifts...several of our friends got us Best Buy gift cards. We were able to pay for a 50-inch television and part of a 42-inch one.
My ex-MIL (I'm divorced) gave me a frog lawn ornament for my birthday a few years ago. It was "something she picked up at the street fair". It weighed 15 lbs. and was made out of recycled metal scraps, was spray-painted neon colors, and the hands of the frog were very sharp and pointy...it could really hurt someone if you picked it up wrong!
I was polite and said thanks, floored and confused, but polite. Brought it home to show my husband and he said "what the hell is that"??? The kicker was we lived in a duplex at the time with no yard. When we moved, I threw it out in the trash.