Stolen from ML:Worst gift you ever got?

[peach]

[peach]

My step-grandma is really artsy and likes the finer things in life. Wears pearls and goes to the opera, that sort of thing...

We knew not to really expect toys from her. She usually got us something like books of poetry.

One year when I was around 8 or 9, she gave my sister and me these limited edition handpainted plates that she ordered from reader's Digest. Mine was wolves howling at the moon.

[emoflamingo]

Oh that is bad.

I vaguely recall a year where my parents got some weird wooden carved mugs from someone with faces on them. They were bad.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Worst gift ever? For our wedding (in July), we received a fundraiser-style calendar with kittens on it. For the present year. So yeah, a half-useless $5 calendar.

Worst Christmas gift ever was a book from a member of our extended family when I was about 10. I was reading at a high-school-or-above level and this person bought me a copy of curious george. I was SOOoo offended. LOL

[peach]

Our worst wedding gift was so funny!

DH had a great aunt and uncle come up for the wedding. We made the effort to visit with them a few days before the wedding as I had never met them. They had a little lap dog that was all blinged out and they called their baby, and they came in a fancy motorhome that had hardwood floors....obviously a well to do couple.

The great aunt was so excited to give us our wedding gift, she asked if she could do it early so she could see us open it. We agreed. I admit, inwardly I was really excited thinking this was going to be a nice, expensive present (Cut me a break, I was 19).

She brings me a dusty cardboard box.

That should have been my first clue.

We open it, while they stand close to us all excited....

And inside, covered in a layer of dust and also sporting a bunch of scratches that showed it was clearly used was something that looked like this

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I got a avacodo green plastic clock with a gold pendelum and on the face was a scary Jesus.

When we were on our honeymoon my sister hung it above our bed with a note that says "Jesus is watching." LOL.

It gets passed around at all the white elephant exchanges now.

[sierramist03]

A scarf with pug heads on each end from MIL

[sassafrass]

my aunt hired a personal shopper to do her Christmas shopping for her one year. I assume my aunt told her this person her budget for each person, what store to go to, etc.

I got this pajama type thing that had arm and foot holes but other than that, it was a huge shapeless thing. I'm not describing it well (kind of like a huge zip up blanket with arm and leg hoels) but it was also a size 4X. I think I was a size 10 then. It came form K-Mart. I went to return it and got my store credit for $1.99.

[kaylie]

My dad (who some of you might know I'm not too keen on) took us deep sea fishing one weekend. I was a vegetarian and didn't really want to do it, but I played along. I ended up catching a sailfish but it got injured as I was reeling it in and didn't make it. I was in tears because I felt so terrible.

Two months later at Christmas he gave me the fish, mounted and preserved for all eternity. More crying.

[pitterwoo]

Peach, you're taking me back with that tray! Wow, my grandmother used to handpaint flowers on them just like that. She did a bunch of them.

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This is my post from this same thread on MM-

My mom is pretty terrible so I will just go with a recent one. Last Christmas I got a package of "Bump-its", you know, the Snookie-like hair accessory. It still had the price sticker from the thrift store where she got it for $1. There are many, many others but this one was good. My SILs and I had a great time with the bump-its that Christmas (after I washed them, of course).

Also, for my last birthday DH's grandparents gave me a used Visa gift card. It didn't have any money on it and Grandpa had signed the back of the card before he used it. They are old so I just give them credit for remembering my birthday at all.

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The hot pink Hanes sweatsuit my grandmother bought me when I was in college. When I received it I thought it was the weirdest gift ever for a 19-year-old.

I wore the shit out of that thing in law school though. I was long distance from DH and only left the apartment for class (no, I didn't wear it to class though I may have worn it to the convenience and/or liquor stores down the street once or twice). I also kept the apartment COLD because I had no money. DH finally made me recycle it when we moved in together. I only agreed because it was full of holes. So it turned out to be a great gift in the end. I just had to enjoy it in private. Well, in private and with the liquor store guy.

[bunnymendelbaum]

We got a pair of large purple glass kissing dolphins for our wedding.
We opened them in front of my ILs and I think I gasped in a not polite way. They are Murano glass, from Italy and probably pretty expensive.
They are just so corny that I've grown to love them.

[april37]

One christmas my MIL got me a sweater with reindeers on it. I was in my 20's at the time.

[RoxMonster]

Many things from my MIL. She means well, but she either doesn't ask me for suggestions, or asks but buys what she wants. She and I have opposite tastes. She's very much into crafts, scrapbooking, cooking, etc., and I am.....not. At all. So the worst gifts I have gotten were not bad gifts for someone else, but bad for me. Examples: an apron with my new married last name on it the christmas H and I were engaged, cookbooks, a cookie jar, etc.

[bunnymendelbaum]

Dec 1, 2012 11:46:03 GMT -5 FormerlyRR said:

Dec 1, 2012 8:48:36 GMT -5 bunnymendelbaum said:

We got a pair of large purple glass kissing dolphins for our wedding.
We opened them in front of my ILs and I think I gasped in a not polite way. They are Murano glass, from Italy and probably pretty expensive.
They are just so corny that I've grown to love them.

PIP

A friend got us the blue one when DD was born.

[peach]

um, is Santa worshiping the dolphins??? haha

And that thing is +o( wowza! I can see how it has grown on you - like a wrinkle dog, it's so ugly that it's cute sort of thing.