Did anyone get a bad gift?

TinaL99 · December 2009

I feel horrible about this and I have NEVER had to return a Christmas gift. This year, we have about 4 or 5 gifts to return and I can't shake the guilt for some reason! We are so incredibly lucky to get anything at all, I feel like a spoiled brat for returning something.

srblack72 · December 2009

We always get something random from DH's parents/sister. This year he got a sweater that is just kind of scary. We can't complain. They're very sweet and really that's all that matters. There's just always something funny that makes us say "huh??"

Dar080808 · December 2009

I got 5 pair of slippers... from the same person! I don't understand why one person needs so many slippers. Shoes, fine, I get that. But do slippers really need to match the PJ's every day?

Cutemin · December 2009

I actually have an overwhelmingly large pile of returns this year. And I certainly do feel guilty. It's things like the ugliest old man shirt you ever saw in size small when DH wears size large. Socks, DH got 21 yes TWENTY-ONE pairs of dress socks from his family. He didn't even ask for socks! And some purfumy soaps and lotions. I just don't understand my SIL. Every year she gives me smelly lotions, soaps, candles... Which would be fine if it weren't for the fact that her own mother is severely allergic to smelly stuff to a point where she can't work and collects disability because she can't be around people. I can't use or have purfumes in my house because they make her sick and she is here at least once a week. I have a huge box in our bathroom filled of unopened soaps and lotions she gives me. At least this year the stuff says walmart.com so I know where it came from.

Mitzzi23 · December 2009

It is a running joke in our house just how much bad stuff my MIL will give us. This year I spent Saturday making returns. The kicker this year was an odd piece of glass "art". She saw it was red and yellow (the colors of our dining room) and thought it matched. It just isn't our style...and we already have plenty of stuff in there. DH got several shirts he didn't like, I got some weird salt and pepper shakers all from MIL. I get slightly worried returning things because sometimes she asks about the stuff. She always gives us junk from her house, I will take it since she is so hard to say no to, and then to make it all worse she will sometimes ask for it back.

sugarland726 · December 2009

Overall the gifts were pretty good this year, with the exception of my brother. He is tight on money and seemed to think it was appropriate to give his secret santa a used book. Then, if she didn't know it was used, he called her the next day to explain about it (my family is notorious for giving a gift and telling the story of it's inception, purchase, or what a good deal we got). For me he got the Would You Rather? game, which had some really gross questions. I can't remember the former, but the second question was 'or lick your cat's butt.' Needless to say DH and I will not be playing that game...

jess!ca · December 2009

I got mostly gift cards (which is what I asked for) so that prevented many returns. LOL!

I did get a HIDEOUS necklace from my cousin. It looks like it came out of a vending machine. The weird part is we did a secret santa thing this year so you only had to buy for one aunt/uncle/cousin, rather than everyone, so with the money people saved you'd think people would do something nice. But no... oh well.

I shouldn't complain though. We are really blessed to have happy and healthy family and for the most part I was spoiled rotten.

JenJar · December 2009

I got a Snuggie from my MIL. Not quite sure how I feel about it, but since DH already threw it in the washing maching, it looks like we're keeping it!

sugarland726 · December 2009

JenJar:
I got a Snuggie from my MIL. Not quite sure how I feel about it, but since DH already threw it in the washing maching, it looks like we're keeping it!

I absolutely ADORE my snuggie. It is so comfortable and so wonderful. I hope you give it a try and like it! I keep one in the car (DH likes to keep it cold and I like it warmer, so that is the perfect solution) and I have one for home.

My sister was totally anti-snuggie, but then she tried it and fell in love with it. I got her one for Christmas and she wore it in the car on the way home!

Lady* · December 2009

SIL bought me a pair of decorative rubber cleaning gloves.

Nuff said.

MelissaSue81 · December 2009

I returned a few pairs of pants, but just exchanged them for different pants. They weren't really a bad gift.. I just wanted different colors/styles.

The only bad gifts were the christmas decorations/dishtowels/candle holders etc that I have no room for..(but not something I'd return). DH's cousin knitted eve a bib and a "burp cloth".. but they both look remarkably like (ie ARE) the pot holders that you learn to make when you first learn to knit or in like home ec class in middle school..

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