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July 2020 Moms
meanjellybean
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GTKY: Worst Gifts
meanjellybean
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I was inspired by @stlbuckeye132 's FFFC (which was more about thank you notes than gifts, but whatever!) to post this GTKY. What's the worst gift you've ever received? Could be birthday, wedding, baby shower, whatever. I'll copy and paste my story in the first comment.
Re: GTKY: Worst Gifts
It is NOT small. It kiiiiiiind of looks like us. He paid a fortune to have it painted and shipped from FLA. My husband always said he never wanted to have a huge wedding portrait hanging in our house and then he picked this thing up at the post office
. The worst is this is probably the 4th of 6 massive paintings good ol Uncle P has sent us. The pro is he lives in Florida so the paintings can be stashed until he makes the rare trip north haha.
ETA: painted you looks great though!
@modoodles wtf is a clip on camisole? Is it similar to those fake turtleneck things? Whatever they're called... dickies I think?
This is what DD actually looks like
My MIL is the actual worst at gift giving and stocks our yard sale pile every year. Ya know the things you see at Marshall's that are super random, don't really have a 'spot' in the store and there's definitely no one who wants it? My MIL is the one buying up those things as gifts. Things like moscow mule shot glasses..... when I've never even had a moscow mule and definitely don't like shots. Like, why? lol
@blaf322 omg lol, it doesn't look like her at all! Hahah. At least they didn't gift it to you without asking you first.
We had our portrait hanging in our house for awhile after we got it and our friends would either burst out laughing, or thought we were seriously hanging it.. it was a good test to find out who our true friends are lol.
K sorry, here's another one:
It's him, his late wife, and his taximerdied lion that he killed on a trip to Africa. Super pumped to hang that in my house.
Also, poor lion :-(
This thread is everything bahaha
I can't think of any truly awful gifts I've ever received that are this level of crazy. But I'm here for everyone else's!
A somewhat unfunny one, my mom has a friend who is pretty severely bipolar and was not on the right medication combination and brought over the contents of her junk drawer the day before our wedding. I could tell she was in a bad spot so I accepted graciously but boy was it hard.
Another friend of my mother's got us an antique, non-functioning lantern. That we left in Memphis (where we got married/where I'm from but no longer live).
Valentine's day about 6 years ago, my mom bought me a Neti Pot. At the time it was weird, and I laughed about it for so long- but it ended up being a great gift!
not me, but my poor dad. My grandmother makes it known he is not the favorite (youngest by 12 years and she tells people ‘he was a mistake’)
for his 50th birthday....she got him a dog bed. We don’t have dogs. She also got my mom a blow up swan for her birthday....
she’s always been on the mark for all the grandkids so idk why my parents always get these awful gifts
My MIL stays at our house with our dog sometimes when we are out of town. She showers in our bathroom and decided she didn't like our shower head so she gave me a new one for my birthday. Not sure what was so wrong with the other one but that is not a gift! Also, I take a bath more often than a shower (UO?) so not a gift fo rme
She also is more of a quantity over quality gift giver. She will give you 10 little knick knacks that you will never use instead of one thing you would actually use. This is pretty annoying when it comes to DS. I can't imagine it x2 soon. GAH.
@mrsdrez I can not handle that portrait. Thank god he lives far away 😂 Also, that poor lion!
@blaf322 oh boy, that portrait did your DD so wrong! Why would they add all that ridiculous shadowing to a child’s face? It makes her look like a melted wax figure lol. She’s adorable, though (real her, not portrait her).
Now I’m wondering, why would people ever want painted portraits when a camera can do so much better?
@modoodles must’ve had some cleavage around her one too many times. Must cover it up!!
My ILs give me notoriously useless stuff - like a full-body Superman pajama fleece onesie. Like, is that a joke? I couldn't tell. My MIL used to give me clothes that were also too big for me by 1-2 sizes and say things like, "you can't be a beanpole your whole life!" Implying that a) I should keep whatever she gave me for years and years, and b) my body would definitely be changing size soon. What really happened is that I have stayed generally the same size, and all of the clothes are just completely useless.
Then for Christmas this year, my MIL gave me a box of chocolate chex cereal. It was a super silly gift but I loved it and was like, FINALLY, something that makes me feel like you know me and something I'll actually enjoy!
@kristinl492 I couldn't figure out what was so weird about it at first, but the shading is what my friend, who paints some, pointed out too! It's so weird!
@Pascal86 the pjs