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Perhaps I spoke too soon...
..when I posted that we didn't get any wedding gifts that we really DID NOT like! We received a late wedding gift from my boss. She didn't exactly go cheap either. It's just like buckeye's post about the frame - only ours was a Lenox China brand frame. Really wedding-y, white, frilly, platinum-accented... not our style.
Luckily, my mom (who didn't care for it either) is an avid shopper and immediately knew where it came from. So now we have a $75 gift certificate to Herberger's 
I felt kind of guilty returning it, but I think I would have felt worse just stashing it away in a box and never hanging it up in my house.
I don't think we'll ever have my boss over at our house either, so no worries there! Now we get to go shopping for something we'll love. Did anyone else do this? What was the gift, and what did you exchange it for?
Re: Perhaps I spoke too soon...
I didn't get anything I HATED, but I did return some stuff on our registry just bc we wanted other things more and didn't get them.
BUT my MIL just sent me something she quilted. Now a blanket, I could be down with. But she made me a table topper. It is this weird size quilted thing I guess I'm suppose to put on a side table? It isn't big enough to be a table cloth + it is a quilt!
I threw it in the closet and when she comes to visit, I'll pull it out. Thankfully she lives 1700 miles away, so no surprise visits.
We got a spice rack that I hated. Why she gave us some random, counter-space hogging rack instead of the perfectly good (and slightly cheaper) one on the registry, I don't know. The company was being a major pain about returns and had nothing else that I would want, anyway, so the rack went to the Salvation Army.
MIL gave me a fabric-covered basket thing at my shower. She'd made it, which was sweet, I guess. The thing is that she is one of those people who always gives gifts that she would like, regardless of what the recipient would like. So now I have this baby-blue basket with a lace-ruffled lid. On the lid is a picture of two swans swimming on a lake, surrounded by a pastel-pink border. It's in the bedroom under a pile of clothes...
HAHAHAHHA... that's hilarious.
We didn't get anything we hated but got plenty we knew we would just never ever use. We returned some of it for gift cards. I think we'll just save them until we need/want something for our new place.
We do have one frame that we can't return because we have no idea where it came from. It's a wedding frame but the space for the pictures are like a size of a quarter...who can see pictures like that?? I mean, yes, there are like 8 places for pictures but they're just too small.
We didn't get anything awful, but we did get a lot of doubles of stuff for some reason. We had a registry, and someone would buy something that was similar but not identical to our registry item from another store, and then someone else would buy the actual registry item. This happened to us a few times, and I can't figure it out, because we didn't register for anything that was crazy expensive, and we also had a big range on our registry (some things were only a few dollars, ranging right up to some bigger ticket items that I thought groups of people might go in on - which they did). I guess some people just really feel the need to go hunting for a bargain. "Oh, they registered for an $80 slowcooker? Well, I know where to find a $30 slowcooker, and hey a slowcooker is a slowcooker right?" So of course we ended up having to keep the cheaper not-as-nice item because they always came without a receipt and we'd have no idea where it was purchased from, whereas everything from our registry came with a gift receipt and it was easy to return that stuff. Roar.
Oh well, we now have over $1000 worth of gift cards from the store we registered at! But we have no idea what to spend it on, since we're pretty well set up. So we'll probably just save it until we see something that we really need or want
I can't say I hate it, but my MIL gave me a food strainer. It's something I can absolutely say, I will never use. She's a big canner, makes her own apple sauce and tomato sauce, etc. I just don't have an interest in doing this. I feel like I have to hold on to it, but it's seriously going to just take up shelf space. Right next to the sewing basket and quilting supplies she gave me at my bridal shower
Maybe one day I'll become the type of wife that cans and sews, but not anytime soon...
Oh that sounds horrible!
I'll try to remember to unearth it and take a picture for yinz tonight.
OMG.. I must see this.