Post by mainelyfoolish on Dec 18, 2014 9:30:02 GMT -5
Not a Christmas present, but for my birthday my college boyfriend bought me two miniature glass oil lamps. I have never expressed an interest in miniatures or oil lamps.
My aunt and uncle - who always bought just the worst gifts (but would spend $$$? I don't know) sent me:
Black suede shorts with a gather/ruffled statement waistband with a ruffled button down shirt in pumpkin-colored raw silk.
I was 11.
My husband's a$$hole uncle sent him the SAME video of ice hockey sports bloopers 3 years in a row. My husband neither plays nor follows ice hockey. Spoiler alert: that same uncle has now sent DS a stuffie for last Christmas, his 1st birthday and now this Christmas.
Post by dr.girlfriend on Dec 18, 2014 11:37:25 GMT -5
The leg lamp from "A Christmas Story." MIL gave it to DH, and he doesn't even like that movie. On the bright side, though, we gave it to another GBCNer, and they love it!
When DH and I were first dating his father and step mother bought DH, his 2 step brothers and DH's sister all matching Adidas wind suits. With matching visors. The boys got navy and his sister got red. They were hideous.
Last year I told DH repeatedly that I wanted a Le Creuset or similar cast iron dutch oven. DH, trying to be frugal, went to an army surplus store in a horrible part of town and bought me this giant cast iron camping stove thing. It had to have weighed 20 lbs. I gave him major side eye for that one. We took it back the next week. He was just shocked that I could't find anything else in the army surplus store that I wanted LOL
My senior year in high school, my parents bought me stuff for going off to college. There was literally a box of Tide wrapped under the tree. And toilet paper. Thanks for the household products I won't use for at least 9 more months, guys.
MIL is the queen of bad gifts. Over the years I've received: used clothing Christmas slipper socks
battery-operated toothbrush minuscule picture frames too small to be useful
Sweater from J Crew. I don't think it's THE worst, but it's one that sticks out in my head right now. I'm a boring beige, grey, white and black person....I absolutely hate the color orange. It just was not me at all. I looked like a traffic cone.
I also strongly dislike gift baskets from places like Bath and Body Works or Victoria's Secret. About 98% of their scents are too sweet and strong for me.
Post by shellbear09 on Dec 18, 2014 12:36:51 GMT -5
I get random stuff from one sil, I think she just likes to wrap a bunch of stuff for each person. Like a colander or a many times a badly handmade ornament. And a coupon for something might be tucked into a card lol.
Post by Emerald1486 on Dec 18, 2014 13:57:02 GMT -5
Worst one would probably be the battery operated flashlight keychain with one of those lock thawer things for your car that I got from my uncle. I was 15/16 and didn't have my license or my temps. I didn't get my license till I was 19
The last time (9 yrs ago) I drove 5 hrs to see my parents on Christmas, they gave me nothing. We ate dinner at a Chinese restaurant at my prodding, because they had nothing planned for meals.
We swung by my sister's house and they gave her family gifts. WTF?
That was the worst Christmas.
Apparently I'm the "understanding" child. The one they can go lazy on.
The last time (9 yrs ago) I drove 5 hrs to see my parents on Christmas, they gave me nothing. We ate dinner at a Chinese restaurant at my prodding, because they had nothing planned for meals.
We swung by my sister's house and they gave her family gifts. WTF?
That was the worst Christmas.
Apparently I'm the "understanding" child. The one they can go lazy on.
WTAF? Understanding =/= no gifts but gifts for others
Post by dougthedogsmom on Dec 18, 2014 14:17:22 GMT -5
My stepfather's family have given me some gems over the years. Once I got a size xl cat sleepshirt with the $.99 tag still on it. I was 14, maybe wore a size medium, and am allergic to cats so not a huge fan of them. Another year they gave me batteries. Fortunately, I stopped receiving gifts from them years ago. Everyone else I know gives awesome gifts that are at least thoughtful.
The last time (9 yrs ago) I drove 5 hrs to see my parents on Christmas, they gave me nothing. We ate dinner at a Chinese restaurant at my prodding, because they had nothing planned for meals.
We swung by my sister's house and they gave her family gifts. WTF?
That was the worst Christmas.
Apparently I'm the "understanding" child. The one they can go lazy on.
WTAF? Understanding =/= no gifts but gifts for others
It was the first Christmas my sister either didn't live at home, or next door to my parents.
Regardless, I thought we might keep up the tradition of family Christmas stockings. A few days before Christmas I asked questions, realized they weren't really on track, and offered to fill my sister's stocking. I assumed someone would fill mine, or they would give my sister the task of picking up stuff for mine? I don't know. I was fresh out of college, and trying to figure out what our new norm was. Sure enough, I had gifts for everyone, and filled my sister's stocking, which was presented as being FROM MY PARENTS... and received nothing from them. (Sister did give me a gift.)
But what the heck?
That is one of many reasons I now refuse to spend Christmas with them. They steal the magic from it.
Last year we had them down for Thanksgiving. My mom didn't even lift a finger to help with heating up veggies. Then when the turkey was done (my first time), she laughed about how she knew it went into the oven upside down, but didn't tell me. She was standing right there when I was seasoning it and placing it into the oven.
Man it feels good to get this all out. It really eats me up.
A few years back right after DH and I were married, my sister went on and on about the gifts she was buying for her new boyfriend and his extended family. And then showed up to our house on Christmas and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't get you guys anything. I didn't know what to buy you." I was pregnant and had no qualms so I probably wasn't as tactful as I should have been in my response, but seriously, wtf? Just pick up a giftcard or something, it's not hard. And if you're going to suck at gifts, you better sure as hell be equally as shitty to everyone. /gavel
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.
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.
I really ant that alarm flick actually
If I didn't make DH send the 2nd one back, I'd send it to you!