May 2010 Weddings
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Weird/awful gifts!
This is another one stolen from the H&F board. I almost died reading that thread (you should totally check it out), so I decided to reincarnate it here, even though we've already shared a lot of our awful wedding gift stories.
You all know my story-- the infamous bridal-shower "basket" from MIL-- but I think I forgot to tell you that inside was age-defying body wash and cellulite-reducing lotion. Matt just found that part out a couple of days ago.
So let's hear it, girls! Random/odd/awful gifts! Go!
Re: Weird/awful gifts!
Nice MIL. Glad she's thinking of you down the road (WTF!?).
I honestly can't think of anything too horrible right now. I'll have to think about it overnight!
I guess I have been fairly lucky not to have gotten anything too horrible. I do remember a fugly turqouise turtleneck one Christmas when I was like 15. Nice.
Oh, we did get a gift basket (homemade) from a well-meaning but slightly out there couple we're related to sort of remotely as a house-warming gift...all sorts of totally weird food products (we're talking banana chutney - what does one do with THAT?) As I'm going through the items I find that one had been opened already. Ummmmm....needless to say, they all pretty much got tossed.
One gift also stands out as being particularly bad. One winter my then-BF and I were forced to leave our apt with no notice due to a physical threat from an insane (and previously incarcerated, in turned out) resident who lived in the apt above ours. We moved all of our crap into my BF's mothers' condo and had no idea what our next move would be. A rather selfish friend of mine gave me a birthday gift that year in the midst of all that insanity - a $10 gift "certificate" - handwritten on an index card - good for $10 off a Pampered Chef purchase from a party her mother was hosting. Mmmkay, thanks. I have no kitchen of my own right now and your gift is something that ultimately benefits your mom with profits if I buy something from her party? Super thoughtful. Our mutual friends and I talked about that one for YEARS.
2 years ago MIL bought me a bellybutton ring for christmas and I didnt have my bellybutton pierced anymore. She saw old pictures and just figured that I still had it done.
Haha last year my grandma bought me a pair of bright yellow panties with the joe boxer smiley face on the butt. I don't know if she was trying to embarress me or what, but I didn't care. I held them up and showed everyone lol
one year during our yankee swap/ dirty santa I picked a pair of glow in the dark handcuffs. Knowing I was dating a cop, my family was all like NO NO put those back, she's got the real thing at home.
awkward at the time, but don't care now haha I think people know better than to buy me crap... besides maybe my MIL