Aceon6
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For years when I was about 30 lbs lighter, my aunt would buy me size large. At the time, I was what is today an extra small. Her daughter was a large, so everyone my age must be a large.
I have had the crappiest day and I cannot stop laughing at this post ....my FIL gave the kids a robotic moving and singing MAGGOT.
I just saw one in a commercial on the Food Network! i had no idea! The things you learn on FSU.The pickle ornament is a thing. You hide it on your tree. It is where, "hiding the old pickle" came from. Ha!
I want one!my FIL gave the kids a robotic moving and singing MAGGOT.
I gave a dill pickle ornament to my friends boyfriend-not for " hide the pickle, but because he loves dill pickles. He makes them from cucumbers he grows, tells us about his new dill pickle recipes, brings them to parties, even brings fried pickles. So he loved it.I got a dill pickle tree ornament from my sister-in-law. That was a dandy.
She (former, since she is now divorced) also liked to recycle old things she had lying around the house. One year we got a fondu thingy (in a box that looked like it had been through a war.)
That reminds me of a friend/skating coach who worked at factory that made sanitary products, toilet paper, etc.For my sister's baby shower, her husband's aunt announced that she had to leave early and asked my sister to open her gift first. The aunt said, "Everyone buys things for the baby, this is for the mom." It was an economy size box of feminine napkins.
My brother-in-law chuckled when he heard about it later, shook his head and said, "yeah, that's Aunt Lorraine..."
Birthday, late 70s. A friend who knew my varied musical tastes presented me with a gift-wrapped album (LP, vinyl, you remember). Ella Fitzgerald? Metal band? Show tunes? Dinah Washington? Disco? No. "Songs of the Humpback Whale ". I still have it and still hate it.
That reminds me of a friend/skating coach who worked at factory that made sanitary products, toilet paper, etc.
One year she gave me 4 pack of Christmas printed paper. It was so funny because she knew I would see the humour in it. And of course toilet paper is practical.
Another time she gave me the sanitary products from the hamper they gave her at work which she no longer needed. I really appreciated them because they can be expensive. However apparently they had given the same to everyone at work, even the guys on the factory floor. Now that is tacky.
What is the worst gift you have received? Or what have you heard from social media or people you know on the subject? At another site this came up and I have to laugh (or cry) at some of the responses. Some samples:
A library book for my 13th birthday from my cheap skate grandmother who then got mad at me when I returned it late and she had to pay over $4 in late charges...
From the in-laws:
One year I got a phone book for our hometown (my BIL got the same gift) which is of course free to them. Several years in a row I have gotten fire extinguishers which they themselves get free from their insurance company.
For Christmas one year, we each drew a name and bought one gift for our Christmas with extended family. Gifts were supposed to be in the $30-40 range. My cousin ended up getting me a set of novelty Thanksgiving meal flavored sodas. So there was a turkey and gravy soda, a green bean casserole soda, etc. He left the price tag on it, which obviously had a clearance tag (since Thanksgiving was over, I suppose demand for Thanksgiving-flavored sodas was waning) and it was marked down to $2.99.
So what has been your worst gift or what have your heard/read about on this subject?
A half slip?? @judiz
I used to get some fun teacher gifts. For a few years, they seem to follow a random theme. One year it was cat coasters, a cat magnet, and a cat ornament. Mind you, I didn't own a cat or ever talk about cats. The next year it was an angel Christmas complete with decorative pins, ornaments, mugs and a calendar.
That reminds me of a friend/skating coach who worked at factory that made sanitary products, toilet paper, etc.
One year she gave me 4 pack of Christmas printed paper. It was so funny because she knew I would see the humour in it. And of course toilet paper is practical.
Another time she gave me the sanitary products from the hamper they gave her at work which she no longer needed. I really appreciated them because they can be expensive. However apparently they had given the same to everyone at work, even the guys on the factory floor. Now that is tacky.