- Pregnancy
- Baby & Toddler
- Parents
- Getting Pregnant
- Baby Names
- Product Reviews
-
Registry
- Community
-
More
Want a personalized experience?
Download the free app
Trying to Get Pregnant
OMG SO BORED!
So I'm starting a game. Who ever has the funniest Christmas present story gets a shiny new penny.
Here is mine...My family does a gift exchange game every year on Christmas Eve. Well one of my cousins always gets a stupid gag gift. One year it was a little hula girl that goes on your dash board. Some how my grandmother ended up with the thing. She was not happy, and so the next year she brought the hula girl to try and get rid of it only to end up with it again. It kinda became a family joke. The third year she gave the hula girl to my cousin as his Christmas present and to finally get rid of it.
He thought it was so funny that the next year he brought a hula girl for the gift exchange game again...and my grandmother ended up with it. Lol!
Warning
No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
This discussion has been closed.
Re: OMG SO BORED!
My story is a bit like yours... Our family used to do a gift exchange, too. Someone wrapped up a baking potato as a gag gift. My brother ended up with the potato. Because he was quite young at the time, he started BAWLING. Apparently, he didn't want a potato for Christmas.
We still tease him about it sometimes...
Mr. & Mrs. - Est. 10.03.2009
TTC #1 since 06.2011 Me-24 DH-24
12.2011 SA = Normal
06.2012 First visit with OB/GYN
10.2012 Clomid 50mg + TI = BFN
11.2012 Clomid 50mg + TI = BFN
12.2012 Clomid 100mg + TI = BFN
01.2013 First visit with RE
02.2013 Clomid 150mg + TI = BFN
03.2013 Femara 5mg + TI = BFN
05.2013 Femara 5mg + TI = BFN
06.2013 Femara 7.5mg + TI = BFN
*Taking a break*
One year my Aunts DH gave her a case of oil for Christmas. She was SO MAD at him she screamed at him right there with all the family around. Her car had been leaking oil and he REALLY thought it would be a thoughtful gift. To make matters worse it was the ONLY gift he got her.....
When I was 10 one of my aunts gave her sister the most hideous china swan in shades fluorescent yellow, green and pink. The following year the recipient regifted it to another family member. The swan made the Christmas circuit for nineteen years, from one family member to another, in sighting fear and hilarity into every Christmas. It's currently in my attic, and I'll be gifting it to a cousin this year.
ETA: added exact age
TFMC 08.02.13 at 19+ weeks. Everyday I grieve for my little Olive.
A friend of mine always get really hilariously bad gifts from his grandparents in Germany, but his sister always gets great ones. One year his girlfriend was telling me how that year they had sent him a really really girly horse ornament, he was 23 at the time and has no interest in horses, and his gf and mom had lost it laughing at him and he got pretty pissed off. So, the next day wwhile I was Xmas shopping I saw this HORRIBLE ugly ornament, a glittery alligator with a lime green tutu and a lei so obviously, I bought it for him. When we all got together to exchange gifts i told him it was to replace the horsey one. We laughed our arses off, he really didn't think it was funny.
One year my mom really wanted a real tree. She was a single mom at the time. She took us to a friend's horse farm.
We were nearly trampled by horse when a random gun fired and spooked four of the horses. One actually grazed me as it passed. That's not the funny part.
So, we pick out our tree cut it down, and take it home. Only to realize it was to tall to fit in our apartment. My mom takes a saw to the bottom of the tree. It still didn't fit. She cut it again. It still didn't fit.
She got mad. She then preceded to cut the top of the tree off!!
It was the ugliest tree I had ever seen. I was almost 8 and I remember crying because I thought Santa wouldn't come. LOL.
My brother's friend came to spend the night that night. When his dad came to pick him up the next day he had bought us a new real tree. He felt so bad for the single mom that tried her damdest to make Christmas perfect.
::gigglesnort:: Priceless.
Well, my family celebrates Christmas in a big way. And when he moved to California to be with me, he ended up spending the next Christmas with my family.
On Christmas Eve we all stay at the same house every year and try to sneak out of our rooms in the middle of the night to fill stockings and put out any gifts from Santa without being caught by each other. DH slept through all of this.
On Christmas morning when DH got up the tree was lit, the cookies and milk were gone, and there were presents everywhere. He was so excited he ran down the hall to get me yelling "Santas been here! You have to get up! You won't believe this!"
It was like he was 5 all over again! Now each year, the first one up runs through the house yelling "Santas been here! Santas been here!" to wake up the rest of us.
My Ovulation Chart Simple Link: My Ovulation Chart
We stay at my in-laws for Christmas every year now, so my DH orders my gifts online and has them shipped to his parents so I won't see them. 2 years ago I found out that he also asked him mom to wrap all my presents from him and I was so mad at him for making her do it for him. (playfully mad but still.) I spend a lot of effort making sure everyone's gifts look perfect so he knows its important to me. I nagged him about it quite a bit that year.
So last year he had my gifts delivered there again and was going to remember to wrap them Christmas Eve and really impress me this time. But he's my DH and of course he forgot. He didn't even remember to set them by the tree with all the other gifts! So Christmas morning everyone's gifts were passed out and I had nothing from him. I looked at him and said "have I been bad?" The look on his face when he realized what he'd done was priceless. He ran down stairs and got them and I unwrapped all my gifts out of the packing they were shipped in. Honestly I wasn't really mad because it doesn't really matter, but it was hilarious that it turned out even worse than the year before. This year who knows what I'll be getting......
Married October 2009. Me 29 H 28.
After 1 year of infertility, our little miracle was conceived via our 3rd IUI on May 5, 2013.
Holland Sophia was born Jan 24, 2014.