Worst.gift.ever!

Haha well I think I might have been okay with getting a can opener as long as it was a nice electric one!

Last year when my DH and his older brother both got the really cool $250 iPod's along with cases and Best Buy gift cards and their younger brother got a really nice leather jacket (since they'd already given him an iPod for his birthday the year before) - my SIL and I along with BIL's girlfriend each got a jewelry box, a zip up travel jewelry case, ugly slipper socks (mine were way too big) and a glass snowflake soap dispenser! This doesn't even include the tons of really nice toys & clothes they bought for all the grandkids (our 3 kids & my BIL's 4 kids)! On their own our gifts weren't too bad, but what totally ticks me off is what they get us compared to what they get their sons and all the grandkids!
 
Traci Reed said:
how about my passive aggressive grandparents in law giving my 1.5 year old a box of mac and cheese and a pair of girlie leopard print socks for Christmas one year while all the other kids got train sets and computers and those robo dogs...

my poor baby :*(
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Even if I didn't know about the computers and train sets, one has to wonder what's up with giving a 1 1/2 year a box of mac & cheese, that seriously might be the strangest thing I've ever heard. You should have cooked and regifted it back, lol :blink: ... or maybe just give them an opened box of Depends next year (I'm not mean, but seriously what were they thinking?)
 
I can't believe some of these. Mac & cheese? Tampons? WTH?

The worst I've gotten, I guess, is dishtowels. Not great, but not insulting like a job applications. That's just bizarre.
 
Ohmylord, ladies! Have I got a good one for you!!

So, I've been with my DH since I was 16. Thats almost 11 years now (yikes!). So I've known my in-laws since I was basically a kid. And when I was a teenager I liked ladybugs. I even got a tattoo on my foot of one (which i still love, btw) when I was a senior in highschool. So I liked ladybugs. LIKED them. Never collected them or obsessed about them or anything. Just liked them.
So, for over 10 years now, for EVERY SINGLE birthday, christmas, or mother's day (since I became a mom six years ago) my MIL has given me some sort of craptastic ladybug thing.

Over the years I have received...
~ a ladybug windsock from the DollarTree
~ two too-small ladybug t-shirts
~ exactly four ladybug croc button-things (I've never owned a pair of crocs in my life!)
~ a wire and wicker ladybug basket
~ a ladybug-embroidered basket liner (for a different basket than the aforementioned)
~ a VERY VERY ugly ladybug necklace complete with ladybug jewlery box
~ two pairs of ladybug earrings
~ and countless ladybug cards

And thats not even everything!

Seriously ya'll.
 
Oh Oh! I remembered another one! A really tacky ugly ladybug lawn ornament that *accidentally* got taken out by the lawn mower after a mere two days of being displayed in my yard.
 
It was probably a fabulous gift, but just given at the wrong time. I thought DH was going to propose one Christmas and when he pulled out a jewelry size box on Christmas morning in front of his entire family I was just so excited. Umm, yeah, it was a watch. LOL I was so sad. I actually hate that watch (and it is a great watch and he put a lot of thought into it) because of the bad memory. LOL
 
Some people are so thoughtless!!! Yeah, Laura wins though...WTH! a job application? :blink:

I dunno, maybe I'm in the minority, but I when I go shopping, I *try* to find something I think the person will really like. Example, we gave Benjamin a camera for his birthday, a real one, not a kiddie one. He has used it non stop all week. Every time he uses it, his eyes light up. It's not because it was expensive, it's because it's something he REALLY enjoyed to receive.

Ugh.
 
i can laugh it off now though. every time i book a new wedding i make sure they know it. seriously though, i spent the rest of x-mas at their place upstairs crying bc it wasn't just his brother and his wife, no it was aunts and uncles and grandparents there too. i get sick just thinking about it...
 
Yikes. People really don't think, do they?

My husband's grandma is famous for giving us stuff from her stash around her house for Christmas/birthdays/etc. One Christmas before we were married I got a shell dog. It's this little dog covered in white shells. Dh was mortified for me. LOL So that's the standard we use for crappy gifts these days and we say 'well, it's no shell dog' a lot around the house at the holidays. LOL
 
No question that the job application wins hands down.

I thought of another one. DH's grandparents (a different set than the kinky dog card) gave us not one, but TWO, 3-ft tall tacky fiber optic Christmas trees. For Christmas. Like they have any use that year. And why do we need 2? 1 is ugly enough. I did manage to trade one with my BIL (there's no accouting for taste) for a handheld blender he got that he had no use for.
 
(a) plastic bat & ball set when I was 10 from grandparents (WTH?! I never played outside when I was little and don't have an athletic bone in my body!)

(b) a Lord of the Rings elven leaf necklace for Christmas from ex (seriously appreciated the thought, but really?! So geeky-looking even for me.)

(c) a bar of handmade 'fancy' soap for my birthday from my grandmother... and an identical bar for Christmas that year! *lol*

My grandmother is notorious for this, however. She is the cheapest gift giver EVER. One time, one of her Christmas presents for my mother was a pin she received from donating to the American Red Cross. As I'm typing this, my grandmother is in the middle of a 10 day Scandinavian trip which happens to fall on the 1 year anniversary of the 20 day Far East cruise she took last year. That's what rankles my mother the most. :p
 
My Aunt and Uncle are the regifting Queen and King - they have given us stuff that we've given them. They have given us stuff from yard sales. They have given us stuff from their house. It's hard deciding which was the worst gift they've given me or my mother (my uncle is my dad's only brother). Would it be the faux pearl beaded purse with the cookie crumbs in it? Or the expired cookie mix (albeit from Williams Sonoma originally)? Or would it be the used garage sale food processor that didn't work at all? I stopped giving them presents for Christmas (as had my parents) and told them we would rather have them donate to a charity of choice - that doesn't work - they still send us crap and don't bother to donate. They are cheapskates. These are the same people who go off on several trips every year. They have no children (I am their only living blood relative). These are the same people who never bothered to mention to my mom that they were renting out the house that she owns half of (and is paying insurance and electric and tax bills for and she isn't getting any of the rent money as a result - she had to find out through the tenant of another property who was complaining about the kids of the new tenants). As my father used to say - you can't take it with you when you die....
And Jenny - same said aunt/uncle would give my mom at least one if not many weird things with fish on it - because she was a Pisces. She's always been into bunnies and roosters, never fish, lol.
The worst nonelative gift I've been given was from my ex-boyfriend who gave me a white plaster steer head (think longhorns). He wrapped it in his grandmother's afghan which he wanted back. Now I went to Univ of Texas, so I thought it was because of that, so when I asked him curiously why he had gotten that particular gift, and he said "because you have so much other useless crap" I was none too thrilled. There's a reason he is an ex. Later on I had told someone at work about that gift and thy asked me for it - gave it as a joke gift to someone else, who turned around later and gave it to someone else as a joke gift. I think it's still floating around the company being passed from one jokester to another....
I know none of these rank with some of the ones on here (the tampons and the job app are pretty bad - though a job offer wouldn't have been too bad, lol), but it just shows there are cheap people everywhere.
 
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I got a used hand held drink mixer (sort of like this one but old style) from my great-grandmother for my wedding. My hubby is so bad at buying gifts...for our first Valentine's Day together he got my the live action movie Adventures of Pinocchio (never saw the movie before so I dunno why he thought it was romantic LOL) and another year he got me a mouse...a plain corded Microsoft mouse. It was ergonomic though... :D
 
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