What's the worst Christmas gift you've ever gotten? Spinoff of pierogigirl's thread.
This year, DH told his family I wanted "stuff for the mudroom." So they sent a boot tray and outdoor rug. Which are things we need, but *I* didn't really want a boot tray for Christmas. Too close to a shoe rack or a vacuum cleaner
I need to preface this with DH is an amazing person with many amazing qualities and is an amazing husband.
He is not an amazing gift giver overall, although there are a couple of exceptions.
Two of the bad ones: One X-mas my gift was a car charger for my cell phone. One anniversary he got me a gravy boat. Not a fancy one and we bought it together. One birthday he got meā¦nothing.
When I was twelve my aunt gave me white tights with green geese and red bows on them that were about four sizes too small (which I was super thankful they were too small, because I would have had to wear them otherwise!)
One year my husband got me a set of three cutting boards, which would have been fine, but my parents also got me a cutting board. So, I got four cutting boards for Christmas -- CUT ALL THE THINGS!!!
When I was twelve my aunt gave me white tights with green geese and red bows on them that were about four sizes too small (which I was super thankful they were too small, because I would have had to wear them otherwise!)
One year my husband got me a set of three cutting boards, which would have been fine, but my parents also got me a cutting board. So, I got four cutting boards for Christmas -- CUT ALL THE THINGS!!!
Ooooh Ooooh! Pick me!
Last year I put a personalized bathrobe from RedEnvelope.com on my Amazon wishlist. People couldn't figure out that they needed to go in and manually mark it as "purchased" so I got THREE. And they were personalized, so I couldn't return them. It's a nice robe, but I won't go through three in my LIFETIME.
We used to do a secret Santa with FIL's family on Christmas Eve.
DH's uncle got me an xxl green sweatshirt with a happy holly days saying on it on year. Thanks. I also received the free robe when you spend $50 at BBW two years in a row from this same exchange. Funny that we no longer waste our time with keeping that tradition alive.
Last year dh gave me a very nice le creuset pot - that my mother bought at the same time my dad bought one for her. So she sold it to my dh and insisted that he give it to me for christmas. It's a great size for making ramen.
My Dad has 6 brothers and sisters, and between the 7 of them, they have 20 kids. So, my aunts and uncles always drew our names for Christmas and would only buy presents for whoever they pulled, and we'd all open them at our big family Christmas party. The year I was 9, my aunt who is a nurse had my name. She gave me, "The What's Happening to my Body book for girls", complete with a hand written message inside. I was absolutely mortified, especially opening that in front of my dad, uncles, and cousins (2/3 of which are males). It was awful.
I get some WTF things from my parents. A few years ago I got a burger press because I made burgers for them when they visited. Uh thanks? My hands work just fine. The burger press was the size of a dessert plate too.
Last year I got a tire pressure gauge. It lives in H's car now.
My Dad has 6 brothers and sisters, and between the 7 of them, they have 20 kids. So, my aunts and uncles always drew our names for Christmas and would only buy presents for whoever they pulled, and we'd all open them at our big family Christmas party. The year I was 9, my aunt who is a nurse had my name. She gave me, "The What's Happening to my Body book for girls", complete with a hand written message inside. I was absolutely mortified, especially opening that in front of my dad, uncles, and cousins (2/3 of which are males). It was awful.
I get some WTF things from my parents. A few years ago I got a burger press because I made burgers for them when they visited. Uh thanks? My hands work just fine. The burger press was the size of a dessert plate too.
Last year I got a tire pressure gauge. It lives in H's car now.
Gift twinsies, lol! I got a tire pressure gauge and a tire pump from DH last year!
Post by dancingirl21 on Dec 17, 2014 20:44:49 GMT -5
My IL's love to give all the adult girls in the family (so their two daughters and my SIL and I) the same gifts every year. Which fine if it's generic stuff, I guess. We are four VERY different people, though.
Two years ago, we all got mink scarves. Black with swirls of blue, hunter green and mustard yellow. God, it's awful. I'm sure they cost a fortune, but I have never once seen any of us wear it.
My MIL is really into craft fair gifts. Last Xmas I got a purse made from mend ties and women's bras. Strangest thing ever. Apparently proceeds go to breast cancer but weird to have a purse made out of bra fabric.
My IL's love to give all the adult girls in the family (so their two daughters and my SIL and I) the same gifts every year. Which fine if it's generic stuff, I guess. We are four VERY different people, though.
Two years ago, we all got mink scarves. Black with swirls of blue, hunter green and mustard yellow. God, it's awful. I'm sure they cost a fortune, but I have never once seen any of us wear it.
And mink, really?
My MIL does this every year. (In addition to regular gifts from our wish list.) It's always kind of...wacky. One year it was feathery, fuzzy scarves that looked kind of like muppets.
My IL's love to give all the adult girls in the family (so their two daughters and my SIL and I) the same gifts every year. Which fine if it's generic stuff, I guess. We are four VERY different people, though.
Two years ago, we all got mink scarves. Black with swirls of blue, hunter green and mustard yellow. God, it's awful. I'm sure they cost a fortune, but I have never once seen any of us wear it.
And mink, really?
My MIL does this every year. (In addition to regular gifts from our wish list.) It's always kind of...wacky. One year it was feathery, fuzzy scarves that looked kind of like muppets.
They won't allow us to give lists. They'd rather give random stuff that no one wants thinking they are clever. Last year they bought us all boot dryers. So you put your winter boots over this electric thing and turn it on and it dries them.....
DH is a terrible gift giver. One year he gave me an alarm clock that rolls off the nightstand and onto the floor so you have to get out of bed to turn it off... Then he gave me another one for my birthday about 2 years later. So he bought the same gift TWICE bc I threw the first one out after I never used it. I was annoyed at the first one. I could have thrown the 2nd one at his head!!! It was a serious "WTF DH?!?!" moment.
This year has to be better though, even if I saw he bought me slippers 2 sizes too small from Amazon... because there's a little blue Tiffany box under the tree already.
Post by purplecow0206 on Dec 17, 2014 21:08:31 GMT -5
For H's family, we've done $5 gifts the past few years, and we've gotten some doozies of gifts. The "best" was my BIL giving us all mugs...with his face on them. We have 2 mugs in our cabinet with his face on them.
My parents gave me rocks "from Santa" when I was 6 or 7 years old. Apparently my brother and I had had a bad December and that was my dad's idea to punish us. It was traumatic.