I don't have a specific gift in mind, but I had a great-great-aunt who was up in her 80's and would do all her Christmas shopping at the Family Dollar, and all her gifts were tacky and age-innapropriate. I think when I was 14 I got some play jewelry and plastic make-believe makeup. We do Christmas wish lists with our family, so it's always a running joke that you better hurry up and send your wish list or you're getting Aunt Ruth gifts in your stocking.
Every year, my mom's step-mother-in-law gets her bath salts. She doesn't have a bathtub in her house, only shower stalls.
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[QUOTE] Every year, my mom's step-mother-in-law gets her bath salts. She doesn't have a bathtub in her house, only shower stalls.
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bwahahahaha
Well, that's one well thought out gift.
when I was 12, she sent me the ceramic fruit magnets off her fridge because she "remembers how much I loved them". Yeah. When I was 2 and would play with them because everything else in the house was untouchable.
Last year she sent my sister a kitten calendar because she knows how much she loves cats. It was a used calendar from 1994
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The first or second year we were married my MIL gave my DH a big box, when he opened it he found his high school diploma and a bunch of odds and ends of stuff like that.
I haven't really gotten anything legendarily bad, but I do remember when my brother and sister turned 15 or 16 (they're twins). She got him one gift, and he pulled out a gigantic stack of gifts, taller than any of us. It turns out that most of them were things he'd borrowed from her and never returned. Pretty damn funny. (He did get her an actual gift as well, I think.)
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Sometimes I feel like people think that brides are delicate little flower princesses who get all dressed up and pretty for one special moment of their dreams, when really they're just normal people who just happen to be getting married. Things shouldn't have to be sugar-coated for grown-ass women. -mstar284
I should have known then it wasn't going to get any better, lol.
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[QUOTE]I got a Macy's gift card one year and was told when I opened it that it "may or may not have money on it". It didn't.
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*blinks*
years ago we did a gift exchange with the family, I think it was no more than $25, I got a ugly sweater.=( I guess it could have been worse!!
I did get a crystal clam once. Definitely a re-gift. Who the heck would want that?
[QUOTE]The year I wanted a Nintendo (the original 16 bit, I think), there was a large NIntendo-shaped box under the tree. I opened it- and it was a wooden Labyrinth. Not sure what my parents were thinking there, it was a serious disappointment.
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</div><div>the first nintendo was 8 bits :)</div><div>i know because i still play mine...i'm a total old-school nintendo junkie. FI gets me to try to play x-box with him and i refuse, all the games look boring. give me some 2D mario and i'm happy as a clam :)</div><div>
</div><div>the lames gift i ever got was from my aunt when i was like nine. she sent me a talking, singing stuffed barney. what makes it worse, even as a little kid i had HATED barney.</div><div>
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...it was pretty strange...!!! LOL.
My brother also received a t shirt one year for his 9th or so birthday that Grams had made that had a pic of him pasted in front of an American flag background with the words, "Ryan [Lastname]: Real American Hero." AHa hah ah ha hah a...if only we had kept it, how funny would that be now?!?!? One of his friends told him a few years ago (my brother is 23) that if he could find it, he would wear it out!! LOL.
When I was 13, my aunt gave me a collection of "cd's" that weren't actually cds..but gum, shaped as cd's... it was a little disappointing... LOL!

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