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What's your worst present you have gotten from you in-laws?
My MIL would give you the shirt off of her back. She is not wealthy at all and has always helped DH when we have struggled. However we received a box in the mail from her (she lives 10 hrs away) It had baby rattles, simple toys, expired baby food, mouse and bug killer, DH's baby blanket, 18-24 month clothing for boys(see siggy, we have 2 girls, and only 2 girls), and some cloth diapers (we use disposable, and she knows this).
Bless her, I know she meant well but I dont even know where to start....
Tell me yours?
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Re: What's your worst present you have gotten from you in-laws?
A poor credit score for my husband since they knowingly took out loans in his name when he was 17 and never re-paid them.
Oh....baby related? None yet.
Ok nothing that can top yours. My friend's mom is JUST like that - she sends broken stuff.
My MIL has a TOTALLY different style than me and she also didn't have daughters - so I give her a little leeway. For xmas one year she got me an XL sweater......now....pre pregnancy, I wore a medium. On occasion, depending on style I would wear a Large. I never, ever wore an XL! So I did say something to her later because she asked if I needed the receipt. I just said, yes, it's the wrong size, I'm not an XL.
So then Xmas rolls around when I'm pregnant (I was only 16 weeks pregnant at that point) and she gets me a couple maternity sweaters. Size XL.
Ok, thanks......
That's hysterical!
I really can't think of anything awful I've gotten from the IL's. I guess the "worst" would be the wind chime I got for Christmas one year. It was really nice, I just despise the sound of them, which is not something they would have known at the time (and probably don't know even now). We also tend to do really silly gifts at Christmas, and some could qualify as completely horrible if they weren't jokes and part of a fun white elephant game.
My MIL is the same way, she gets me all kinds of flowery random stuff and it is totally NMS. Oh, and for Christmas two years ago, she got me a total "mom" purse. I love her to pieces but we have totally different taste!
PS Leslie, your LO's hats are ADORABLE!
Thank you!
a box of kleenex is hilarious! What could be going through her mind when she picked that out?!
Luckily, I get pretty good gifts from my in laws, but one year, they took a trip to Alaska in the summer and loaded up on cheap souvenirs and gave them all to us at Christmas! I got some socks with "moose crossing" all over them (DH got wolves) and lots of hats and t-shirts.
My MIL is completely clueless.
For Christmas one year, she bought DH and I a dust-collector thing called "Snowbabies". They were carrying a canoe. We had bought a canoe earlier that year. We both HATE that kind of sh!t. One look around our house and you could figure it out. DH made fun of her for it. It was ugly and went in a box that eventually got tossed out when we moved last summer.
Oh and she crocheted 2 hideously ugly purpley-rainbow-ish baby sized shawls, yes I said shawls, for the twins. They are hideous. What boy baby wears a rainbow crocheted shawl? Ugh. I don't even know where they ended up ...
ETA: @Leslie -- love the new siggy pic! Those are great hats!
I love this thread... and have been laughing my butt off reading the responses...
My MIL now gives me money... one year she gave me vaccum sealing bags.... i dont have a vaccum sealer..
A white bread-maker that A:doesn't match my kitchen (steel and black) B: doesn't fit in my cubboards and C: doesn't bake the bread correctly
I don't bake bread... so I don't know why it was a 'good' choice but I wasn't alone in that matter... SIL got one too
Those snowbaby things are terrifying. I hate crap like that but I find those to be disturbing. Same with precious moments figurines. *shudder*
A friend of MIL crocheted these...things. They are like loopy bolero jackets with matching hats and booties. Out of rainbow ombre yarn. They are so strange and look like something that would be worn with sequined hotpants in a gay pride parade. Writing a thank you note for that was beyond challenging.
Last year for the 4th of July, my MIL and her friends bought the tacky flag shirts from Kohls for their husbands. When one guy tried them on they realized they were women's shirts... so she decided that the tacky XL flag shirt should be worn by me on this occassion. I'm glad I don't care to look beautiful out on the lake. : /
My IL are awesome. They get the best stuff ever.
My parents on the other hand?? Wow. My dad continues to send me (yes, me, not my child) those really silly looking stuffed animals you'd get from a claw game at the store. My mom sends those annoying phrase pillows/signs for the house (the ones that say something akin to "now you know what I went through as a mother" I can't honestly remember any specifics right now, I think I block them from memory!........ etc etc)... she sends clothes that I wouldn't wear in a million years. Ugh. We've started just asking them for gift cards for holidays with the excuse that everyone saves on shipping that way as we live cross-country and then we can get what we want instead.
Any of that figurine-y type dust-collecting crap is well.. most especially precious moments -- gag.
I should try to dig out their crocheted shawls and take a picture for you. We can compare the ugly.
Wow, that's a weird one!
This wasn't a bad gift, just an odd situation - ILs gave us a very nice crock pot for Christmas a couple of years ago, but we already have one. After the gift-opening was done, DH mentioned to his dad that we really appreciated the gift, but that we already had a crock pot, could we exchange it for something else? ILs wouldn't tell us where they bought it, and insisted that we keep it, because we would need two of them. Really? I think perhaps we were re-gifted.
My friend has these and they creep me the eff out too....she thinks I'M weird.....
My MIL got these for me too!
The one with its hands on its mouth is all 'OH SH!T MAN, YOUR FACE IS GONE!" and the other one is all "WHA? I CAN'T SEE YOU!"
Those are seriously freaky.
Ahhhhhh!! Good god those are terrifying! *shudder* Creepy no-faced babies! They remind me of a dream I had at the beginning of my pg -- my kids had no faces!