Christmas candy in an Easter basket...

[connorlevismom]

My Mom won't actually give gifts she has had to PAY for...My Mom gives my kids free stuff she finds at events and coventions and whatnot. Like last time she gave my DS-4 a MEDICINE bottle (looked like prescription bottle) filled with candy. What a great learning tool for the kiddos that candy comes in medicine bottles!!

Turned out it was a free giveaway from an AARP meeting! I was disgusted and threw it out when no one was looking...I guess I am ungrateful. She means well but is just plain cheap. NO, she is not financially challenged in any way. SO, OP, I feel your pain.

OK really - what adult would think that is a good idea to give child?

Okay.

I must be in a really goofy mood today because your response made me completely crack up.

Kristine

 

[Debbie7452]

OK really - what adult would think that is a good idea to give child?



I must be in a really goofy mood today because your response made me completely crack up.

Kristine

Yes...my thoughts exactly. She figured out the mistake when she heard me loudly lecturing DS about NOT thinking medicine might be candy. She did apologize after...but she's just clueless most of the time!! Don't know how I turned out fairly "normal".

 

[Sorsha]

One year my mother-in-law "regifted" me something I had purchased for her, she forgot. After that I only purchased her monogrammed items--it really cuts down on the "regifting" when your name is stitched into an item.

OK... seriously...
DH's grandmother - an incredibly lovely woman, whom I love dearly - is frugal to the point of cheap, and always shops yard sales for all of her holiday gifts. I get that she lived through the Great Depression, I get that she is on a set budget, but sometimes the gifts are horrifying. MY youngest DD got a previously-burned dollar-store quality candle for Xmas this year. DD is 6. She was incredibly confused... was very sweet, thanked great-grandma, gave her a kiss... but was so confused.

Best story ever though. One year, Grandma went to a yard sale being hosted by DH's cousin. That Christmas, Cousin opens her gift, only to find the item she had sold to Grandma at the yard sale 6 months previously.

I win.

 

[a1tinkfans]

Would not bother me one little bit. Any gift from anyone is always appreciated.

OP: why CARE at all? Candy is candy!

 

[Mermaid02]

First, I'd probably slap anyone who gave my kids THREE POUNDS of M&M's. But I agree with it being tacky that they were Christmas M&M's. Come on- nobody wants red and green M&M's in April... How much would a little package of regular M&M's set her back? 75 cents?

 

[wilderness01]

I agree, I wouldn't want 3 pounds of candy for my child.

Also, yes you are grateful that the child was "thought of" but how much was the child "thought of" if the candy is from Christmas. I would rather a little packet of Easter peeps that cost a $1.00 than getting stale candy from Christmas.

How come you are getting the "you should be grateful for anything lecture from some" but some of these same people laugh and laugh at the annual thread of the horrendous gift giving from Jleaf's mother in law? I think that is the correct poster....if it's not, sorry.

Remember how everyone laughed and laughed and laughed at the cookie monster sweater from a few years ago? I laughed too as her threads are so funny, but why is that ok, and the OP here can not be a little put off with Christmas candy for Easter? Just saying.....