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

[peg2001]

ok, a co-working just came in and gave me a chocolate turkey. . .what's he trying to tell me?

Peggy

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Alrighty gang, the story about the frozen dog is up.


I have lots, lots more. It's hard to know where to start with some of them!

I'll have to do a thread about the birthday gifts that I received from them one day. They once gave me a video camera as a bday present. It was apparently his father's. He, uh...left a homemade video in it. I stupidly played it when I got home because it had a sticker slapped on it that said HAPPY BIRTHDAY! So, I assumed it was for me. Oh my goodness, it was not.

Next day, he called and asked me not to watch the tape, he had gotten the video camera from a private owner and he needed to return the tape to them. Suuuuuuuure.

 

[rascalmom]

Well... in-laws seem to be winning to prize as the givers of these lovely gifts.

Here's mine: canned olives.

My mother-in-law gave me a can of olives once for Christmas. At the time she & fil owned their own plane, a 3-story lake cabin, a boat, had made 2 trips to Germany & one to the Virgin Islands on vacations that year. So money was not an issue at that time.

She had toured the olive cannery at some point years before & it was such a happy memory for her that she thought she would share by giving me a can of olives!

 

[MHopkins2]

Originally posted by Stepharoonie!
I have lots, lots more. It's hard to know where to start with some of them!

Does anyone know if www.lunaticinlaws.com is available? Because you could make a MINT with these stories, chickie!

 

[FANTASMIC]

I won't receive any craptacular gifts

HA HA I love IT!!!!

 

[Lewski709]

A crocheted cow, that you hide a roll of toilet paper under, for your bathroom. This came from Step MIL.

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Originally posted by MHopkins2
Does anyone know if www.lunaticinlaws.com is available? Because you could make a MINT with these stories, chickie!

Hehehehe

Well, I like telling these stories to people who have never met them before, because people wonder why I didn't care for my inlaws very much. They were just...odd! My FIL had a long white ponytail, smoked and drank ALL of the time, and had so many women come in and out of his house, I'm surprised he just didn't put a revolving door in

He also liked to show off that he had money. In his Tommy Bahama shirts and elastic waistband pants, his portly belly looked mighty handsome to many girls younger than I. He'd have huge gold rings on each of his fingers, 7 or 8 huge gold chains on his neck, and bracelets and watches to tomorrow. His rings were always huge $$ signs.

He must have known what "bling" meant.

 

[tmq2766]

These are TOOOOOO funny.

 

[MosMom]

Originally posted by cinmell
I almost forgot but last year I got a space pen that writes upside down and under water. And by space, I mean up in space, it's a pen that astronauts should be able to use.

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Why do astronauts need to write under water? That pen has always made me laugh. You are truly among the elite now.

 

[olena]

This thread is killing me! ROFL!!!!!!!!

Hey Stepharoonie,

Since you have all those gifts, how about sharing some pics of them?

 

[phorsenuf]

While mine isn't as good as others it did come from an in-law. My SIL and BIL have money and are very happy to let everyone know that. One year their Christmas card was a photo of their house. It's easily worth 1/2 a mil and they wanted everyone to know it. Anyways, last year we open their gift and it is a basket filled with shampoo, conditioners, moisturizers, dental rinse and shower caps from hotels they had stayed at. There was also a very nice little cloth pouch with bisquick in it with a little note attached so we could make "homemade" bisquits. There was also a little bag of coffee (I think they split the pound 4 ways). Oh yes, and the little blue duck shaped soap. Mu husband and I just looked at it and shook our heads. The sad thing was she gave her parents the same thing!!!! Every year they give some interesting things. One year they sent my kids sweatshirts. That was 4 years ago and my youngest (who's 11) still can't fit into it. I wonder what this year shall bring???

 

[Kimickey]

I appreciate gifts that are given to our family, We rarely complain about gifts but two Christmas's ago take the cake. DH recieved a set of three flashlights and I recieved a set of white cheap towels with ONE washcloth from is Dad and girlfriend. My husband was pissed. There was at the time three of us in the house DH, DD and myself. DH asked me what was he supposed to do with a set of flashlights and ONE washcloth...share it!!!

Oh and by the way his twin brother and wife recieved the same gifts as us. It is now an on going joke. We later found out that his father does not do the Christmas shopping, his girlfriend does. Everyone hates to recieve gifts from them because they know it will be something off of CVS's shelf.

 

[cinmell]

Originally posted by MosMom
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Why do astronauts need to write under water?

Who knows?!?! I have no idea why it was labeled a space pen.

 

[luv2nascar]

WHAT DOES YOUR GRANDMOTHER GIVE YOU FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY
she has sold $1,000,000 in property in the 10 yrs that I've known her
last gift she gave DH before she stopped giving
brown paper bag with 3 $2 bills in it she got them from someone else as a gift

 

[FreshTressa]

Hmm, I got lots of weird ones.

1) A good friend of mine once game me a tiny baggy of dead sea salt that was dusty and some of the writing was worn off of the bag so it had obviously been around a while......I didn't get it.

2)MIL, who wears a 12, just like me, bought me a dress and sweater set (that were very pretty and just my style) in a size 2XL and 3XL from the Women's department. I mean, I know I'm not exactly thin, but geez. ???? I bet she just couldn't imagine that I wear the same size as her cuz I am so much taller.

3) On our first christmas, DH, then DB, bought me a an ugly stuffed gorilla. I now know to never expect nice gifts from him. One year, there were all these prestents wrapped for me, there must have been 8 or 9 and I was SOOOO excited. So, I unwrap the first one, and it was a breadmaker, which I wanted, but then he had wrapped different flavors of bread mixes in different shaped boxes for all the other gifts. Not reallllly bad, but I WAS disappointed.

4) DBL bought me a toy little kids broom and mop and feather duster set for me when i was 15. Same guy bought me a coffee mug when I was 6. When I was 9 he got me dishtowels. Last year he got me a Rosie O'Donnel Barbie?????? I think he is confused about my AGE!!!

5) My mom always buys all of her daughters the same thing, which really bugs me. It seems so inpersonal. I know she is just trying to be fair, but it seems like only one person of us 3 is ever happy!

6) Once I got a star-wars trading card set from a friend. I had never even seen star wars, nor have ever been into trading card games.


My family, I love 'em, but sometimes I swear, they just don't know me!

 

[nealymouse]

At Thansgivings we used to do a name swap with family members, it was only a $20 limit. I was late this year and my cousin in law who I was picked for hands me a list of different patterns of the dishes she collects and said " You can pick anyone of those for me" She by chance also picked my name and I just so happen to collect the same dishes so I marked the ones I wished for.

I spent more then the limit but said "what the hell I know I am going to get pretty much the same thing.

Christmas day we are all opening gifts and I hear across the room " Beth this is perfect I love them" I then reach for my gift from her and its the free plastic check book cover you gert when you order checks !!!!!

The best or worst then was I said something to her about it and she said " Well everyone needs one of those !!!

It never happend again my couse dumped her fast hahahaha

 

[nealymouse]

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.




OMG we have the same MIL !!!! But mine let me buy her old car for $300.00 and bough my BIL a brand new truck LOL

 

[BeachCutie]

I've never really gotten a ggift *crossing my fingers* but my brother got a shoe buffer once. I don't know cause he doesn't have any shoes that need to be buffed.

 

[MosMom]

hahaha I forgot about the coffee mug that I got once in an office gift swap from some idiot. It said "Women, you can't beat em". My husband still laughs at it.

 

[msdznyduck]

OMG ! These are great......I can't even compare........I guess I am lucky. THe only thing I can think of is one year at work , the supervisor gave gifts to the people in our department. All the "professional" people got expensive pens and us support staff got weird stuff. I got a wall hanging thingy that had a stuffed chicken, chicken wire, and fake eggs in a kinda basket.
#1. She did not know what my house looked like to begin with, so why did she think I would like a "country-type" (but really ugly) decoration for my wall? (and I like some country stuff)
#2. It was very obvious that she thought that us support people (receptionist, aides,) were beneath her.

I took off the hardware hanger, in case I needed one sometime, and tossed the rest.

Oh yeah, one year my SIL re-gifted part of the gift I gave her the year before ( a definate No-No---to give it back to the same person) I picked out a set of holiday dish towels, oven mitt, and pot holders and got 1 pot holder and a dish towel back. Thing is, they had just gotten married in Sept, and had said how she had nothing for the holidays, so I thought it would be perfect. I guess not!