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What's the worst gift you've ever gotten?

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    What's the worst gift you've ever gotten?

    I'm glad we still have the dumpster out front.

    Today, I got a package in the mail from my mom. It was a little beanie cap for me made completely out of recycled plastic grocery store bags. Yup! Basically, someone made a long string of grocery store bags and crocheted them in a cap. My mom is a sucker for her patient's stories and couldn't help buy buy one from a patient ... and then send it to me since we get cold weather in MN. I don't really see myself wearing recycled grocery store bags on my head this winter!!!

    What about you? What is the worst gift you've ever gotten?

    Kris
    ~Mom of 5, married to an ID doc
    ~A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss
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    My middle kiddo does that, but makes market bags out if the material. A hat? NFW.

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    • #3
      OMG. Um, thanks? I like the park benches made from recycled grocery bags. A hat, not so much.

      I'll have to think about this one. OH WAIT. DH used to print up photos of what he wanted to get me and stick it in an envelope and tell me to go pick it out. So yeah, my first mobile phone, a piano, and something else never happened. When I did finally go to get the piano, he decided it wasn't a good idea and I don't have time for lessons. Needless to say, he doesn't do that anymore.

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      • #4
        Lol! What an awful item! My mom always gives me ugly stuff and junk my sister or herself don't want. Other than that the worst gifts I've gotten we gifts given to me as an excuse for giver to get himself similar item that I never wanted.
        Wife to Hand Surgeon just out of training, mom to two lovely kittys and little boy, O, born in Sept 08.

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        • #5
          Well, to add insult to injury, I have to add that the little cap came with a catalog for plus sized clothing. Thanks mom.
          ~Mom of 5, married to an ID doc
          ~A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

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          • #6
            Originally posted by PrincessFiona View Post
            Well, to add insult to injury, I have to add that the little cap came with a catalog for plus sized clothing. Thanks mom.
            Can we please add in photos of these gifts...if they are still around. I REALLY want to see what a hat made out of grocery bags looks like!


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            • #7
              Fitness for Dummies for our 3rd Christmas. Yesssss, I am still married to DH. . It was so bad that I had to laugh and remind him of it when it is convenient...for me.
              Finally - we are finished with training! Hello real world!!

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              • #8
                My brother has a habit of giving gear from whatever university he is currently at. Mugs are great, but I'm not going to wear t-shirts from an ivy league I didn't attend, that's just weird.
                Wife of PGY-4 (of 6), cat herder, and mom to a sassy-pants four-nager.

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                • #9
                  Tickets to Pearl Jam. The ex's fav band at the time, but definitely not mine.
                  Kris

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                  • #10
                    "I'm sorry I didn't get you anything even though you made it explicitly clear that you want something and that I should, indeed, get you something."

                    Also, we got some gems for our wedding like:





                    Only worse. A 70s style cross-shaped glass terrarium with old moss and crap in it. Awful. And, yes a birdhouse decoration with a fake bird. Also, some really thin, shitty, ugly bath towels when returned to the store got us $5.24 in store credit.
                    Heidi, PA-S1 - wife to an orthopaedic surgeon, mom to Ryan, 17, and Alexia, 11.


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                    • #11
                      Oh, I forgot. My ex gave me a copy of Ghostbusters. I hate that movie. When DH asked me why I owned Ghostbusters, I explained. He then bought it for me again as a joke because he was so entertained by the situation.
                      Wife of PGY-4 (of 6), cat herder, and mom to a sassy-pants four-nager.

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                      • #12
                        My high school boyfriend gave me a necklace one year. I think I knew that's what I was getting and I really had my hopes up for something nice.

                        Nope, it was a pretty thick, long figaro chain necklace. Like this:
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                        I tried so hard to be excited, but I know when I went to show my mom I was holding back tears, and she knew it. At some point I had it shortened just so I could wear it without feeling completely like a gangster, but I always hated it.

                        MIL gives some pretty crazy gifts too sometimes - usually junk that she picks up at yard sales or Goodwill.
                        Allison - professor; wife to a urology attending; mom to baby girl E (11/13), baby boy C (2/16), and a spoiled cat; knitter and hoarder of yarn; photographer

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                        • #13
                          Martha Stewart's guide to housekeeping from MIL....
                          Student and Mom to an Oct 2013 boy
                          Wife to Anesthesia Critical Care attending

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                          • #14
                            When we were completely broke facing a multi state move with the prospect of unemployment and a newborn, my MIL bought me multiple expensive Longaberger baskets to commerate everything. Seriously, these things collectively cost hundreds of dollars. Never mind the fact we lived in a shoe box and had nowhere to put them, I am the opposite of a collector, and did I mention we were BROKE and didn't have things like a washer, dryer, stroller?

                            This is right up MIL K's alley.
                            In my dreams I run with the Kenyans.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by alotofyarn View Post
                              My high school boyfriend gave me a necklace one year. I think I knew that's what I was getting and I really had my hopes up for something nice.

                              Nope, it was a pretty thick, long figaro chain necklace. Like this:
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                              I tried so hard to be excited, but I know when I went to show my mom I was holding back tears, and she knew it. At some point I had it shortened just so I could wear it without feeling completely like a gangster, but I always hated it.

                              MIL gives some pretty crazy gifts too sometimes - usually junk that she picks up at yard sales or Goodwill.
                              My mom buys awful stuff at thrift stores. I actually love thrift stores and get awesome things but mom sends things that are soiled, several sizes too big, picture books with pages torn out, broken toys....

                              DrK does the bad jewelry. It breaks my heart because I know he overpaid for it and wants me to cherish it, wear it every day. .....

                              Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
                              Wife and #1 Fan of Attending Adult & Geriatric Psychiatrist.

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