What's the worst gift you ever received?

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Now that is hilarious! I bet you hang it up every time she is over!
 
Great thread
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My MIL sent us a box of oranges one year for Christmas..... we not only were living in Florida but we also happened to have an orange tree in our back yard. She had picked fruit from said tree several times during her visits.
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We always take bets on what surprises we'll get from her next. She's completely daft but we love her anway.
 
Really practical gifts like MFBs are a catch 22 for men.

First DH (an ex for a reason) gave me an iron for my birthday and a vacuum for Christmas. The next holiday he gave me a membership to a gym so I could "tone up some".

Now that last gift could have been some one else's greatest idea for a gift ever. But I weighed 98 pounds at the time and he was telling me I was flabby......



BUT, next DH, a saint of a man, bought me a dishwasher for Christmas.

MIL kept telling him this was a bad idea and I would hate him. I saw the dishwasher and burst into tears. She said, "SEE!" Dh just laughed because then I jumped in his arms and said YES!

Why?

I had told him I would marry him, but would not have kids unless I had a dishwasher! I was only half kidding when I said it, but I knew that dishwasher was his way of telling me he wanted us to have a baby.

Better still, he had also gotten me jewelry!
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And MFB I'll bet she kept you anyway.
 
The only thing I havent opend (and its been years) is a Neti Pot. That things scares me
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Other than that I cant really think of anything. I collect Painted Ponies and somehow I always seem to get the ones Id never pick out
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Oh well, another to the collection I guess



And my MIL always hands me stuff in a 'Here its not good enough for me' manner
 
My birthday was just this week. My dad called me up and left me a voicemail that said "I left you a big gift next to your rain barrel! Call me when you have gotten it!" I spent all day at work dreaming of things like a beautiful fruit tree, a hammock, wheelbarrow, etc. When I arrived home, I jumped out of my car like a girl at Christmas because I could see a big box hiding behind our rain barrel. It was an attic fan. Honestly Dad?
 
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From DH? Hrm. Nothing really bad. He was well trained from his mother. I have NO use for pretty things really - really, am I going to wear a sparkly necklace or spiffy sexy dress around big cats who think I'd be a tasty snack? - and if I want them, I buy them on my own. When I say I want THIS vacuum, he gets me that one and I'm thrilled. I got a new spiffy crockpot for my birthday, I LOVE it. No more fussing over a stove when I want to sit on my butt after work. I got an IOU for painting our bedroom with a trip to the store to pick out the paint for Christmas. Sigh. That was the best ever.

In-laws are pretty good, but they have no idea, so we get money or giftcards. It's fine, we get them gas cards since they happily spend most of their time travelling in their RV.

My parents are insane. Since DH and I got married, we get diapers and baby things for ANY present. Nevermind the fact that I have made sure I can't have children, and we are enjoying life without children and don't want any. Oh well, the crisis center can always use diapers. And cloth diapers make good rags. My brother gets the same treatment, and has tried to point out that he's got a 12 y/o and a 15 y/o and doesn't plan on adding to the flock.

Our sister however remains the frootloop of the family. At least she's so self centered and nasty, she usually just forgets anything other than Christmas, so I only have to throw one thing in the trash a year. Christmas this year was Dum-Dum lollipops, one each, that had been sucked on already. Yes, seriously. Her brats, I mean kids, got into them.

Brother and I just shake our heads. She's the baby and crazy spoiled, so there is pretty much no hope for her yet.
 
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Sigh. Not sure it's better to make all the kids but the youngest feel ignored. Sigh. Think we should make our own family and leave out the idiots.

Christmas remains the final straw I think, we'll see what happens later. Diapers for brother and me, brand new $30K car for sister after she smashed her last car drunk driving and has her license taken away for 12 months. Sigh.
 
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Sigh. Not sure it's better to make all the kids but the youngest feel ignored. Sigh. Think we should make our own family and leave out the idiots.

Christmas remains the final straw I think, we'll see what happens later. Diapers for brother and me, brand new $30K car for sister after she smashed her last car drunk driving and has her license taken away for 12 months. Sigh.

Wow that is terrible..
 
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Sigh. Not sure it's better to make all the kids but the youngest feel ignored. Sigh. Think we should make our own family and leave out the idiots.

Christmas remains the final straw I think, we'll see what happens later. Diapers for brother and me, brand new $30K car for sister after she smashed her last car drunk driving and has her license taken away for 12 months. Sigh.

Wow that is terrible..

I agree!
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