What is the worst...

AllieBear725

I actually have that toaster. I got it as a house warming gift, lol. 

MuppetFan

oh Soup, that's just totally ......I have no words but ...It made my day. I love that you have kept it.

HisGirlFriday13

@HoorayforSoup, that is seriously the FUNNIEST gift I've ever seen. And a tiny Oscar to you for pretending to like it.

I haven't had my showers yet, so I don't have any it-happened-to-me stories, but at a friend's shower, her grandmother got her a white, fluffy robe (think the kind you wrap little kids in after a bath, but grown-up size; not even a little sexy). She opened it and was like, "Oh, that's very nice! I'll be warm!" or something equally kind of nondescript, and the gma said, "Well, he's already getting the milk for free, and he still decided to buy the cow, so you don't have to dress sexy for him anymore."

Jaws hit the floor. The other BM and I were just so shocked we didn't say anything. I think I just handed her another gift to open quickly. 

lisabeats

@lemclane - HAHAHAHAHAHAAHA That's hysterical and completely something my grandmother would lovingly say. I hope she saves up some one-liners for my shower. I love that lady!

ETA: I recognize the awkwardness in the moment, and am sorry for your friend. I just can't help picture my Gramma saying it which would make me laugh for days.

HisGirlFriday13

@lisabeats, my friend did NOT see the humor in the situation. Like, at all. 

@Harry87, yeah...we were all kind of just shocked. 

It didn't help anyone's feelings that the bride is...overweight and very sensitive about it.

ScrubGirl83

@lemclane I can totally see my grandma saying something like that. We once had a chat about not letting boys get fresh. I was 22. Lol

This coming from a 99 year old woman who says things are "pussygood" when she's very excited about something. None of us are entirely sure what exactly she means by that.

ETA apparently you can't say the p word. That describes cats.

jenn5628

AddieL73 said:

The worst gift we got was a photo album made of bright white puffy satin fabric and faux pearls. 

My mom used to make those in the 80s and early 90s!!

sdg2502

For an engagement present, my mum asked what my fiancees mum was getting us.  (She got us a KitchenAid mixer) .  I presumed this would be so as she knew roughly what sort of amount they were spending and her and my dad could try to spend a similar amount.  The next time they came to stay at our house, they gave us our engagement present.  It was two items.

1) A bit of plastic shaped like a caricature of a Spanish man wearing a sombrero, with holes in for measuring spaghetti.  So the smallest hole was one serving of spaghetti, the largest was four servings.  I was diagnosed with celiacs disease last year, which means I can't eat gluten, which means I can't eat spaghetti.  I tried gluten free pasta and didn't like it.  Plus, whenever I made bolognese, I also just served it with twirly pasta.  My mum knows this.

2) A pineapple cutter.  It basically cuts a pineapple into rings.  When I was growing up, my mum would cook gammon steaks with pineapple and I always hated the pineapple.  I have never, ever, ever bought a pineapple.

I was convinced these were some sort of hilarious joke present, especially because of how excited she seemed to be about them, but I got them about three months ago and she hasn't given me anything else.  About a month ago, she actually asked if I'd used the pineapple cutter.  I said no, I don't like pineapple.  So she said I should invite my nephew round and feed him pineapple and film us using it.  I genuinely went and checked through the pineapple cutter box after that in case there was something hidden in it.  But no.  She's just really excited about a pineapple cutter.

One year for Christmas she gave me 50 denier black tights.  I haven't worn tights since I was about five years old.  My fiancee thinks it's hysterical and every time I got a weird present, she says 'well, it's better than tights!'

sdg2502

double post.

daveANDkristen

bunni727 said:

We got it at our shower. I deserve a small Oscar for pretending not to notice.

Will this do?

Bonus: you can throw that klassy kasserole kaddy into Oscar's kan!

daveANDkristen

daria24 said:

This photo, framed. No it is not a photo of our cat. I hung it in the bathroom so it stares at you when you pee. 

So many lawls right now!

The worst thing we got was probably a really gaudy baseball-themed plastic shower curtain.  That was one of two shower curtains that person bought us, BTW. We also received the one shower curtain we registered for from a different person, so I was like, mmkay we are now full up with shower curtains (for our one bathroom)

suzie211

Love this!   I can't wait to see what I get at my shower.  Probably the oddest thing I got at my first wedding was a collection of lace doilies for every piece of furniture in my house.  The thought was nice, but I really am not a doily kind of girl.

@hoorayforsoup - I would love to find a menorah like that to give FI as a gag for his bachelor party! 

pearls687

Hubby's uncle gave "us" a certificate for ONE free golf lesson that he'd won as a door prize at a work event a few weeks before. He actually put it in the card box. Hubby plays golf, I do not. I am still baffled as to whether that was meant to be our wedding gift or if that was a means to pass along something he didn't plan on using, but we sent a thank you note anyway.

SummerGrl15

We received some sort of ceramic thing for our engagement.  I literally have no idea what it is.  It's old, white and has a hole in it (it's supposed to be there) but I really have no clue as to what it could be or what it should be used for.  It's just odd. Needless to say, it's sitting in the closet and will most likely stay there. 

smalfrie19

tee0715 said:

We received some sort of ceramic thing for our engagement.  I literally have no idea what it is.  It's old, white and has a hole in it (it's supposed to be there) but I really have no clue as to what it could be or what it should be used for.  It's just odd. Needless to say, it's sitting in the closet and will most likely stay there. 

post a picture?

HobokensFury

These gifts make me feel lucky that we didn't get anything strange/weird.

kerbohl

I got a fondue set for my engagement when the person already knew that I had a fondue set.  However, this fondue set was better, so it wasn't actually a bad present, it just meant that I had two fondue sets.  So I asked a friend if she wanted my other one, and problem solved. 
I have not received many wedding presents yet, but hopefully I don't get any roosters. 

AJuliaNJ

RetreadBride said:

I got some obvious re-gifts, including a set of candlesticks with the card addressed to the original couple in the bottom.

Worst gift I ever got wasn't for the wedding. It was an eighteenth birthday gift.  She kept a scrapbook from preschool onward.  She'd take artwork, A and a gold star projects and report cards "to keep for you."  She gave me that stupid thing. 

Yeah, right.  I want my report card from the second grade, old math papers from junior high and all the ugly school pictures for a present.  Thanks a lot.

It went in the grill that afternoon, and I didn't care that she saw me do it.

I realize this wasn't a gift you wanted, but you put it in the grill? Like burned it? And didn't care if she saw? Was there some kind of backstory where the gift-giver was a total monster? I've received some pretty horrible gifts, but I've always just grinned and thanked them and put it in the basement, returned it, or threw it out when the person wasn't around. 

AJuliaNJ

Gotcha. That must have been satisfying. 

ally91

47 handmade invitations that were left over from her first marriage more than a decade ago. They were literally yellowed with age. I smiled, said thank you, although I'm not sure what type of invitations I'm going with yet (this is a week after I got engaged) and promptly threw them away when I got home.

BostonGIrl4732

Apparently FI's aunt got us a doozie.  I can't wait!!!!

niki&rob

I recieved, hand made, quilted, blue floral placemats and tea cozy. There were very ugly, I hang on to them for a long time because my aunt made them, but i never used them.