My mom gave us a queen sized blanket for our wedding gift. A queen sized blanket that SHE received for HER wedding 38 years before, still in the original package. At least it wasn't used, I guess? It's light blue with flowers all over it. I feel like for the hell of it I should keep it and give it to my daughter when she gets married.
I am impressed that she hung onto it that long and remembered she still had it. White Elephant wedding gift!!
XH gave our kids one pillowcase each one year. We thought maybe the next year they would get the pillow but it never happened. They were told that since they had me to buy them gifts he would not. He buys for is wife's daughter who has no one else......... Any guesses who made this sh....t up? Then he adopted his stepchild(said child) trying to get out of paying child support on our two. XH got me nothing one year saying that we did not have any money and if he got me something then I would just have to work more... Guess why he is the X.
I think last year's was hands down the worst. From my H, I received a piece of lingerie and a carton of cigarettes. I was so bummed because I put a lot of time in my gifts to him and he saw me as a hooker who needed cigarettes lol.
Yeah I let him know that it wasn't cool.
That's pretty bad, I hope he does better this year!
I remembered another one from my wedding- a gift card for a restaurant near my hometown (2.5 hours from where I live now), that had NO credit on it! There was no value specified, but I gave it to my parents to use anyway, and it turned out to be worth nothing.
My brother's wife's family bought me and DH "Bible for the bride" and "Bible for the groom" for our wedding... We're both Atheists and my family is Jewish. I was so offended.
My mom gave us a queen sized blanket for our wedding gift. A queen sized blanket that SHE received for HER wedding 38 years before, still in the original package. At least it wasn't used, I guess? It's light blue with flowers all over it. I feel like for the hell of it I should keep it and give it to my daughter when she gets married.
bwahah, what a great family tradition that would make!
I looked on line for a picture, but it's so long ago now that I couldn't find anything close. My father was a terrible gift-buyer. The. Worst. Every year my sister and I would get perfume, but neither she nor I ever wears it. Ever. Ever ever. As in never.
Anyway, one Christmas my father brought us each the requisite bottle of perfume (well, mass-marketed eau-de-toilette), but they were shaped bottles: My sister's gift, cologne for the ladies, was in a bottle that was slightly concave on one side. The other, aftershave for the well-groomed gentleman, was equally convex, and nested next to the other bottle in the original packaging. But my father had broken up the set, and I got the aftershave. For years we laughed at, however much of a loser my father is, at least SHE didn't get aftershave for Christmas.
Our first Christmas dating, H gave me a copy of the movie Van Wilder. I am really not a fan of that kind of comedy in the first place and BTW, who thinks a movie featuring Dog Semen is a good idea as a holiday gift? We laugh over this endlessly.
Fortunately, H has turned his gift buying game around with Louis Vuitton and more appropriate wife gifts.
Two come to mind: First one was a birthday gift from one of my mother's friends with a daughter around my age. It was a great big Lisa Frank box FULL of Lisa Frank stationary. I was PSYCHED. Until I opened it later and all of the stationary had her daughter's name scrawled on every single surface and every page of paper with pink and purple ink. The daughter had even addressed all the matching envelopes to herself. Did she just grab something out of her kid's room and wrap it as a gift?
Second one was from an aunt at Christmas when I was 10. We did the thing where everyone opened gifts one by one and had to show EVERYONE what they got and thank the giver. I got a ziplock baggie of deodorant, razors, shaving cream, zit cream, and a can of Malibu Musk perfume. Wut.
Post by momof2boys on Nov 29, 2012 16:17:19 GMT -5
For years my grandfather insisted on passing out the gifts, he apparently had an eye sight problem. I had a male cousin with a name that started with the same letter as my name. Numerous times i'd open the gift and have to pretend I loved, what was clearly, a male toy/clothing. After a few minutes they'd figure it out, and I'd be so embarrassed. I remember one year opening a gift and thinking, this must be for my cousin, and looking around waiting for someone to say something....yeah, it was mine. Another year my sister and cousins all got underwear with their names on it. Every package I opened I was dreading the underwear...what 12 year old girl wants underwear with their name on it, and definitely don't want to open it in front of others! Anyways, when all the gifts were opened and I didn't receive the underwear I was thrilled. Then my aunt made a huge deal about how my underwear was missing and made everyone search everywhere...
My FIL sent me a "Time Out Doll". If you haven't seen one before, it is a 3-4" tall doll with no face that is meant to stand in a corner. He made it himself (neighbor had a garage full of the forms and gave them to him). It was dressed to look like me (wig in my hair color, etc). I screamed when I opened it. Ended up in the dumpster.
As a kid I thought the worst gift ever was that my grandma would make me and my cousins matching dress up clothes or dolls. This happened way past the point where I would want either of these. Now I am glad my mom hung onto them for DD.
Oh I can top that. My mom sews. She made mother and daughter matching outfits every year for my birthday until I was about 13. My "gift" was that I could choose the fabric pattern.
I was about 14 when my grandmother got me Chapstick on a rope. That was right around the time my BFFs grandma gave her a hideous acrylic sweater featuring Chairry from Pee-wee Herman.
My sister and I got a "Family Dental Center" (an electric toothbrush with 4 heads, and a water pick with 4 heads, all in one!) from my grandparents when we were like 8 and 10.
The kicker is that my grandparents lived down south and shipped the gift ahead of time so we were staring at it under the tree for weeks, and the shape of the box was JUST like Nintendo, which is all that we wanted in life. The video of us opening the box and discovering that not only was it not Nintendo, but it was a Family Dental Center, is priceless.
My grandparents always gave very practical gifts.
LOL. I would love to see this video. Dental hygiene equipment should never be wrapped up as a gift.
I loved dolls as a child, and my mother always balked at buying them. Then suddenly when I was 13 and she realized I was growing up, she decided I needed another Cabbage Patch Doll for Christmas. I mean, I was in high school and looked like a woman. I would have looked ridiculous playing with that doll.
My sister and I got a "Family Dental Center" (an electric toothbrush with 4 heads, and a water pick with 4 heads, all in one!) from my grandparents when we were like 8 and 10.
The kicker is that my grandparents lived down south and shipped the gift ahead of time so we were staring at it under the tree for weeks, and the shape of the box was JUST like Nintendo, which is all that we wanted in life. The video of us opening the box and discovering that not only was it not Nintendo, but it was a Family Dental Center, is priceless.
My grandparents always gave very practical gifts.
My first Christmas with H his parents bought us each an electric toothbrush. He was all "this is really nice gift" while I am all "what is wrong with you people"
Same year his sister was excited that she got an ironing board. I am glad we draw names and make wish lists now.
Random drug store cologne still in a paper bag, from a BF. And a card telling me not to come visit him over Christmas break.
And my dad, while great at picking out jewelry, sucks at clothing. He got me this pink puffy coat that made me look like the Sta-Puft marshmallow man. He was so proud that he picked it out himself, so I couldn't say anything
Post by explorer2001 on Nov 29, 2012 16:45:59 GMT -5
Last year my grandma gave me a collectible Barbie plate. I'm not into Barbie. It was from Hallmark so I took it to the store to exchange it. It was from 1996. So I took it to Goodwill.
Last year my grandma gave me a collectible Barbie plate. I'm not into Barbie. It was from Hallmark so I took it to the store to exchange it. It was from 1996. So I took it to Goodwill.
Ha! This reminded me of my birthday present from my great-aunt this year. It was a black plate. Not a platter for serving. A single dinner plate. It had the Bloomingdale's sticker on it, so I went to take it back. They don't sell it anymore and has a return value of $1.87. It got donated.
MIL really pressured us to have a gift registry for our wedding, which we wouldn't have normally done, but we ended up caving. Her gift to us was not off the registry, but a door prize she won on a cruise, which was a serving bowl and matching spoon that contained lead.
She gave it to us months before the wedding and it was wrapped in newspaper using masking tape to secure it.
My MiL got me these seriously hideous serving dishes last Christmas. They currently live deep in our closet. She loves getting crap that is a "good deal" and then tries to pawn it off on us. Ugh.
DH once got me a coffee maker and coffee beans. Not special coffee beans. Just from Costco. He got yelled at for giving me a kitchen appliance as a gift. The next year, he gave me a card that said he tried really hard to come up with something but couldn't. That's it. I'm happy to report he has since learned better.
Probably when DH (then BF) got me a hoodie that said Hottie across the chest with lips for the O. He got it at Wet Slut I mean Seal! I gave him a lot of shit for getting that for me and returned it.