worst Christmas present

[debilorrah]

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At least they weren't fake and got you and hubby a shared gift only hubby would get use from

next year I am getting DD19 and her hubby a pair of size 38/30 MENS jeans for the BOTH of them and see how SHE likes being OBVIOUSLY LEFT OUT with a lame excuse of "I couldn't afford 2 pair, maybe you could share!"

ETA: I'll take your Scrooges and give you my half of the WAAAYYYY too big shirt and throw in the ENTIRE lame excuse for free.

I think they deserve each other.

 

[Rozzie]

The worst I've ever gotten?

A battery operated bug/spider vacuum cleaner, as seen on TV & a Swiffer, from my in-laws. This was the first year that Swiffers came out. You "DO NOT" buy your DIL cleaning products, unless she asks for them!
I've also had my share of absolutely atrocious clothing gifts from them, often several sizes too large. The worst was the most garish sweater ever made -- it had at least 10-15 colors splashed across it in no detectable pattern. I was AT MOST a size medium (perhaps a small) at that point in my life, and it was a women's XXL -- about her size. Need we say more?

This year, they gave their ONLY grandchild, my son, who is 16, some nice gifts. However, they also gave him those miniature sized containers of Play-Dough & Dot to Dot books. Yes. I'm serious. For a computer-geek 16 year old whose idea of arts & crafts involve doing fine pencil sketches & wood carvings. I would suggest that someone is starting to slip mentally but they've been this nutty for years...

 

[verthandi]

Hysterical now...but it wasn't when I was a teenager. I wanted a pair of blue ice skates with gray fur trim. (they were soooo cool, baby blue color) I had a perfectly good pair of skates. My father painted (badly with a paint brush), my white skates a dark navy blue. I can't remember if he changed the color of the fur, but I got my old skates with the new paint job for Christmas that year. The whole family was laughing like mad. I was MAD, Now I didn't even have my white skates.

 

[Imp]

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Cindiloohoo,

Get the shirt altered to fit you, and be sure you wear it every time you see your SD. And give her the way too big jeans next year. When she comments about it being the hubby's size, just say "I thought you wore the same size"

The only gift that I ever got upset with was, as adults, my brother sent me a pair of socks.

The following year he got a black light poster.

Imp- payback's a bear.

 

[mississippifarmboy]

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I'm so sorry for your loss. Our thoughts are with you. THAT I know all about!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

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Cindiloohoo,

Get the shirt altered to fit you, and be sure you wear it every time you see your SD. And give her the way too big jeans next year. When she comments about it being the hubby's size, just say "I thought you wore the same size"


Imp- payback's a bear.

Oh, yeah. I would totally be confiscating that shirt, especially since DH thinks you are being ungrateful. See if HE ever gets to wear it. I think it would be the PERFECT shirt to wear for chicken chores. Tie a knot in the corner (aka the 1980s) and wear it with pride!

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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Cindiloohoo,

Get the shirt altered to fit you, and be sure you wear it every time you see your SD. And give her the way too big jeans next year. When she comments about it being the hubby's size, just say "I thought you wore the same size"


Imp- payback's a bear.

Oh, yeah. I would totally be confiscating that shirt, especially since DH thinks you are being ungrateful. See if HE ever gets to wear it. I think it would be the PERFECT shirt to wear for chicken chores. Tie a knot in the corner (aka the 1980s) and wear it with pride!

Ya'll are cracking me up! It really hurts my feelings that she is such a butthead. I told DH this afternoon that I am buying son-in-law a pair of pants for them to "share" next year...he didn't say a word. He knows I'm right, he just is in denial. This is the THIRD time she has given him a gift through me, and I got the shaft....dunno what her stinkin deal is, but even on my birthday she did this?!?! Why not just NOT get me a gift

at least THAT would be an honest approach.

 

[michickenwrangler]

When I was a teenager my grandmother gave me a hand-crank egg-beater

This year she got me an alarm clock. "It's atomic," she said proudly.
"Ooohh! Radium!" That was me.
"Shut up and tell your grandma thank you." My mother.

When I was pregnant, this same grandma got me some maternity clothes at my baby shower that were made from some cheap material that was on sale at JoAnn Fabrics. "Now these are highly flammable, so don't wear these while cooking and for God's sake, whatever you do, don't put them in the dryer!"

 

[Rozzie]

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Grandma's age makes ALL the difference in the world with this one. If Grandma is 75+ she gets a free pass on giving oddball gifts (usually). If the grandma is 40 or 50...no free pass.

 

[verity]

This year I am getting ---- a root canal!
Seriously!