What's the worst/weirdest gift you ever got?

[goofygirl]

I asked this last holiday season!

So what was the worst/weirdest gift ever??

 

[RitaZ.]

Hmm... I don't know about weird, but the worst gifts I ever received came from my MIL. Not really because of what they were, but because they were given to my MIL at gift exchanges (she was a teacher). She would tell me that she hated them/were junk, then she wrapped them up and I got to open them up Christmas morning.

I remember two very distinct gifts (different years): one was a red wallet and another was a Caboodles (remember those) makeup box. She went on and on about what the person was thinking giving her those things and how she had no use for them. I thought, "OK". Then she would wrap them up (without me knowing, of course) and give them to me on Christmas morning. It didn't feel very good...

 

[floridaminnie]

Hmmm, how about my ex giving me lingerie after we were no longer together and there was never a chance that we would. I have no idea what he was thinking. It went into the trash.

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

Last year one of my guy friends gave me a Mr. T. bobblehead.....and i dont really know why.

 

[kessieann]

Ok, don't get me wrong I adore my mom...but she is the worst gift giver LOL! She asks for a list and then kind of tweeks it to what she thinks you really want.

One year I very specifically wrote out the Christmas Village (Dept. 55) that we collect and that we would like some people for it. Well, bless her heart if she didn't go to K-Mart and buy these figurines in a plastic bag that were HUGE. My dh & I chuckled to ourselves that maybe we would build a village for giants up on a hill above our Dept. 55 set. Along with it we received a skating pond for the giants. It was a mirror and she had taken some poor Beanie Baby and opened it and took the stuffing out and glued it to the mirror to make it look like snow. It was pitiful. It was not that she was being frugal, they are well off, it is just that she gets these really weird ideas sometimes.

 

[pumba]

got me a pair of those plastic flamingos.........I could of put them on the front lawn and hope that someone would steal them.......but .....I waited and had them stuck under the rhubarb........

 

[Mishetta]

Oh Rita ~ what an awful MIL!

I guess the worst present I ever got was (a very long time ago) a wallet from my ex-fiance, when I was expecting a ring! (I actually tore the wallet apart looking for the ring too!) I dumped him.

 

[CamColt]

Ive posted this before but it would have to be the sexy lingerie....from my MIL!

 

[Dan Murphy]

I have not seen Jeafl lately here, but if she sees this, I am sure we will hear about some of those great MIL gifts!!!!

 

[HappyMommy2]

Originally posted by kessieann
Ok, don't get me wrong I adore my mom...but she is the worst gift giver LOL! She asks for a list and then kind of tweeks it to what she thinks you really want.

One year I very specifically wrote out the Christmas Village (Dept. 55) that we collect and that we would like some people for it. Well, bless her heart if she didn't go to K-Mart and buy these figurines in a plastic bag that were HUGE. My dh & I chuckled to ourselves that maybe we would build a village for giants up on a hill above our Dept. 55 set. Along with it we received a skating pond for the giants. It was a mirror and she had taken some poor Beanie Baby and opened it and stook the stuffing out and glued it to the mirror to make it look like snow. It was pitiful. It was not that she was being frugal, they are well off, it is just that she gets these really weird ideas sometime.

ROTFL!! I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at a post before! That is just so funny! Bless your mom's heart, though; if does sound like she puts quite a bit of thought into her gifts!

 

[Boo'sMom]

hmmm.....let's see.....how about last year...my EMIL gave me and DH an air freshener that she decorated to look like a doll.......the same year she gave my BIL a brand new wide screen TV.







could I make this up?????

*doesn't beat the emergency hammer though....*

 

[grinningghost]

Japanese candy - I'm gagging just thinking about it

 

[chell]

This is going to be a wonderful thread! Sorry that I don't have anything to add.

 

[binny]

a zebra striped, fuzzy organizer wallet from my granny... I was 23.

 

[Pig Pen]

A co-worker gave me an Easter basket (yes, EASTER) with an assortment of partially used bath lotion samples, shampoos, conditioners, etc. They looked like the stuff you get from motel bathrooms. Also included were a couple of dusty, chipped up candles along with some mis-shapen quilted fabric tree ornaments.

It was all musty, faded, and nasty.

I couldn't figure it out.

 

[huey duey & luey]

There was one year that my MIL and I had a bit of a falling out. She gave me a religious ball and also told me she had it blessed. DO you think she was trying to tell me something?

 

[sha_lyn]

The weirdest gift I received must have been from a woman I went to church with. I received a candle sharpener (it looked like a larger versin of the crayon sharpener on the back of the large box of crayola crayons) and a clear plastic artifical sweetener packet holder.

 

[disykat]

My mom gave me an epilady. Evidently my sister mentioned wanting one so she gave us both one?? She acted like she was so clever even though I was pretty honest when she asked if I would use it. After she asked me that and I told her I really didn't want my hair pulled out by the roots I figured we were being honest and I broached the subject of returning it. She was highly offended so I kept it in a closet for several years before selling it at a garage sale.

I know better now and would just pretend I liked it and return it later. I just thought since she was my mom and she asked me straight out we could be honest. I thought when she asked me that she was trying to give me an "out" since it was kind of a personal choice kind of gift. Oops!

(Why would you give someone a gift that inflicts pain?)

My husband has given me some weird gifts (ones that make really good stories over a glass of wine with girlfriends), but I can always tell that he was really trying to be thoughtful.

That's why I like cheap gifts (both getting and giving) - you don't feel like it's such a big waste. I don't think people should spend big money unless they know for sure it's exactly what people want. (I was dirt poor when I got that epilady - it could have fed me for a month!)

 

[sha_lyn]

oh I forgot about the first present DH got me. We were out Xmas shopping and I saw the crimping iron the a friend's 10 DD wanted. I pointed to it and said if I could afford that I'd get it for her for Xmas. Well DH got confused and thought I wanted one. Then for some reason after buying it he realized I didn't want it but instead of returning it, he ask a friend to give it to me and to not tell me who it was from. He finally gave in and told me it was from him because I was crying. I though my ex husband or ex BF was stalking me. Then he wouldn't let me return it because I might want it some day.

Then there was the yr he bought me a emergency flashlight. Well I'm a practical girl, who likes useful gifts so it wouldn't be an offensive gift. The problem was my mother had just bought me one a month earlier. He bought me one because he thought she might want the other one back. I never did understand that one either. He knew she got herself one at the same time she got mine.

OK I know this is suppose to be Xmas but I have to tell this B day horror story.
My first Bday with DH I was PG with D'S. I had just been diagnosed with gestational diabetes and DH knew that. I had been complaining because I could not eat any sweets so the dummy bought me a chocolate cake and a box of chocolates for my B day even when friends kept telling him I could not eat them. We had very little money at the time and all I wanted was to go out to eat instead of having to cook. A friend knew I didn't want to cook on my B day and told DH she would cook dinner for us. DH once again was confused and thought I said I wanted to cook for my B day. When we picked me up from work I expected to go out to the Mexican Restaurant we had our first date at (after all that is what I had been saying for 2 weeks). He seriously thought I had been joking and had something thawed out to cook. We argued for over an hour and all I wanted to do was go home if we couldn't go out to eat. I even offered to spend the money my mom sent me. He refused to go home because he planned to surprise me at our friends house with the cake. We showed up there and I was begging to go home and eat. I ended up eating some frozen roast beef she had in her store's freezer.

 

[Chim Chiminy]

I don't even know where to begin.

Ive posted this before but it would have to be the sexy lingerie....from my MIL!

I received lingerie from my father! He thought it was a great gift to give to his newly wed daughter. Talk about gross. I threw it out. Could not even imagine wearing that and trying to be sexy with my husband.
My mother has no clue when giving gifts. I know she is trying, and she gives with the best of intentions. Its just that most of the time, I don't think she really knows who I am.
She has over the years given me a straw hat decorated with a teal and silver band, yellow lilies, and silver curly grograin ribbon. Yech! The next year it was a white straw cowboy hat with a red ribbon band around it imprinted with white stars. Off the side of the hat was a blue bow with silver conchs trailing with more blue and silver ribbons.
Gave that one to my son so he could play dress up when he was four.
Last year for Christmas she sent me a huge tan fleece poncho with fringe that my husband calls the Pocahontas robe. He and my kids laugh every time they see it and break into "Just around the riverbend". I haven't had the heart to throw it out yet. She was really proud of that one.
And for my birthday last year she gave me my (deceased) grandmothers fleece coat, remarkably similar to the Christmas Pocahontas poncho, only it is trimmed in leopard fleece with a matching hat. I am not quite sure what to do with that gift.