strange gifts 2007

[sera]

Date: 12/27/2007 1:10:34 AM
Author: door knob solitaire
Sera,


Is it possible that she is actually giving the balance on returned items...you know store credits she gets when she doesn't have a receipt?


So what you are saying is the GC amount is some balance like $13.76? How did you learn she does this on a regular basis? Is it known by all? Wonder what the strangest amount has been? Do tell us more!! Strange! I have heard people give cards that haven't been activated!!! So all in all, your cousins relative who is absolutely no relation to you...is actually not as cheap as you think? You know half full thing?

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ETA: I agree Monnie

LOL, yes... it's totally some random amount! They laugh about it now, but when they were younger they were kinda upset. They would go pick out some stuff and the SA would notify them of the amount "left on the card"... now they check what balance is there first. Funny.

Now I suppose we could all give her the benefit of the doubt and say the amount on the cards is all the dollars, quarters, dimes and pennies she could save... but...

 

[monarch64]

Date: 12/27/2007 1:45:11 AM
Author: sera

Date: 12/27/2007 1:10:34 AM
Author: door knob solitaire
Sera,


Is it possible that she is actually giving the balance on returned items...you know store credits she gets when she doesn''t have a receipt?


So what you are saying is the GC amount is some balance like $13.76? How did you learn she does this on a regular basis? Is it known by all? Wonder what the strangest amount has been? Do tell us more!! Strange! I have heard people give cards that haven''t been activated!!! So all in all, your cousins relative who is absolutely no relation to you...is actually not as cheap as you think? You know half full thing?

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ETA: I agree Monnie

LOL, yes... it''s totally some random amount! They laugh about it now, but when they were younger they were kinda upset. They would go pick out some stuff and the SA would notify them of the amount ''left on the card''... now they check what balance is there first. Funny.

Now I suppose we could all give her the benefit of the doubt and say the amount on the cards is all the dollars, quarters, dimes and pennies she could save... but...

Ok, Sera, I would be soooo tempted to run up a Starbucks card down to the last, let''s say....$.25, and give it to her next Christmas. Sheesh, talk about ridiculously cheap gifts. Isn''t there a way to buy an even amount gift card with another gift card or something? If not, there should be.

 

[door knob solitaire]

Yeah, I would go back to the store and add the amount to make it rounded off...you know from 13.56 to 14 or lets go to a nice even $15.00.

SA says "what is LEFT on the card". Too funny. Well, of course I am laughing and all along I realize the sweet heart may be giving her best? What if she is strapped for dough and is stripping her house and wardrobe of returnables to sacrifice to be be able to give a gift. Oh dear, doesn''t that make me feel bad for judging her? Please tell me she has a Mercedes and a large pension. If not I am going to feel really bad!

 

[sera]

If $13.56 was what someone could afford, that would mean a lot to me (and my cousins I'm sure) and would never make fun of it. But rest assured, she's not strapped for cash... which makes it a totally bizarre gift and perplexing and really funny.

 

[monarch64]

Date: 12/27/2007 3:07:34 AM
Author: door knob solitaire
Yeah, I would go back to the store and add the amount to make it rounded off...you know from 13.56 to 14 or lets go to a nice even $15.00.

SA says ''what is LEFT on the card''. Too funny. Well, of course I am laughing and all along I realize the sweet heart may be giving her best? What if she is strapped for dough and is stripping her house and wardrobe of returnables to sacrifice to be be able to give a gift. Oh dear, doesn''t that make me feel bad for judging her? Please tell me she has a Mercedes and a large pension. If not I am going to feel really bad!

Right....maybe she is really reaching to give a gift, period and all she has to give are these gift cards with leftover balances? I guess I didn''t think of it that way either. What do you think Sera? Are we giving her the benefit of the doubt or is she seriously cheap???

 

[door knob solitaire]

I suppose she also could go back into the store and have the card exchanged for a full amount...of $13.00- or even $10. Thats the odd thing here...there are ways to make it look better. That is still very perplexing! Thanks for letting us know she is cheap instead of in lack. Now we can continue to laugh with you!!

I would most look forward to getting a card from her..and then learning the amount. And making it a contest to learn who go the largest one...or the oddest one!

 

[Hudson_Hawk]

My stocking was full of products for my feet. I''m good about keeping my nails trimmed and painted, but I can never keep up with the pumice stone so my heels are NAST-AY. So Fi bought just about one of everything at CVS relating to foot exfoliation...he''s cute. I also got a meat thermometer from my mom because I didn''t have one at Thanksgiving and our bird was terribly underdone.

 

[MrYoung]

I got a smoke ring gun! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

www.zerotoys.com

 

[lumpkin]

These are so funny. I especially like the jewelled shoe horn, that is really unusual! But in a good way -- I think your aunt sounds like a sweet lady.

I got a scum buster for Christmas one year. It was from my MIL at my husband''s suggestion. Boy was he in the dog house!

He always gets me weird stuff, like pot scrubbers, candy thermometers, a chip scoop for adding chocolate chips to cookie dough (why on earth would you need one of those?). But he''s very thoughtful, too. Last year he got me a pink Nintendo DS Lite and Brain Age. I got Brain Age 2 this year. I get really hooked on the sudoku.

 

[sumbride]

It was a surprisingly reasonable year for us... the oddest things I got were more "hmm..." than "uh, gee thanks."

In my stocking... car air fresheners. The paper kind that you hang from the mirror. Not really my "style". I suppose I can tuck them under the seats or something.

My MIL gave me a "novelty pillow" that says "No outfit is complete without cat hair". It''s heading for ebay. Oh, and the pretty box it was in? She asked for that BACK. Seriously.

I wish I could make a public service announcement that just because I HAVE cats, doesn''t mean I want stuff ABOUT cats, or with pictures of cats ON it... but this hasn''t quite sunk in and I always get stuff with cats on it from her because I MUST like pictures of cats since I have three cats. ha.

I opened a card from my brother and sis-in-law, expecting maybe a gift card, since it was tucked in a gift bag. Well, not so much. It was their Christmas newsletter. I usually like to read it, but they also usually MAIL it to me... I guess they wanted to save the stamp.



re: the gift card thing... the checkout lady at Target LAUGHED at me when I paid for a $25 gift card with a $10 gift card and my credit card! It did seem kind of silly to exchange one gift card for another, but I wanted it to be bigger, and not say "Happy Birthday"!

 

[somethingshiny]

The oddest gift I received this year is a shot glass with markings for teaspoons, tablespoons, etc. I realize it''s supposed to be a baking-type gift (which I do a lot of), nut it''s the exact dimensions of a shot glass. It''s funny because it''s from my MIL who has never taken a drink of anything harder than Sprite.

Funniest gift ever was from my mom. Two years ago she decided to get my sisters, my now SIL, and me something great. What she thought to be a neck/back massager was NOT!!! I opened mine up first and asked why she thought I should have a vibrator for Christmas, her mouth fell open....she had never seen a vibrator before but she thought they had pretty colors and the picture showed a woman holding it in the crook of her neck.


My BIL (before he was in-lawed) opened a present at my parents'' house that same year. Apparently a used green plastic cup had fallen into the gift bag. He pulled out the dirty cup and said, "oh, I love green. Thank you." I about died!!!!

 

[doxielover]

Funniest gift ever was from my mom. Two years ago she decided to get my sisters, my now SIL, and me something great. What she thought to be a neck/back massager was NOT!!! I opened mine up first and asked why she thought I should have a vibrator for Christmas, her mouth fell open....she had never seen a vibrator before but she thought they had pretty colors and the picture showed a woman holding it in the crook of her neck.


RMAOL

 

[Haven]

These gifts are too funny!

My aunt once gave my mother a serving dish for the holidays. Sounds perfectly normal, right?

Weeeeeell, this dish was a strange black lacquered dish with ornate gold designs, it stood on a pedestal, and had a little key sticking out of the pedestal. If you turned the key it rotated AND played bizarre music that we had never heard before. When it was doing it''s thang it looked like one of those Walgreen''s Halloween decorations--you know, as in we were waiting for something to pop out of the center of it and scream. Very odd.

To my mother''s credit, she still pulls the dish out whenever my aunt is over.

 

[Jewels305]

A few years ago my Mom found this card that she liked. On the front it had a picture of a mouse with a hunk of swiss cheese and inside it says, "Swissing you a Merry Christmas." That Christmas, she gave my Dad the card along with some swiss cheese that she got at the deli.

My mom saves that card and gives it to him with swiss cheese every year. This year she also gave him some roast beef with it because she felt that she should give him more than just the cheese. Next year... bread?? We''ll have to wait and see.

 

[lisaC]

Date: 12/25/2007 6:14:28 AM
Author:strmrdr

Who received the strangest gift?

I will start: thrown cover aka replacement toilet seat from my sister.

I wonder if she was sending me a message! lol (the old one is in bad shape lol)

I was thrown for a moment til I realised you meant throne

 

[strmrdr]

Date: 12/28/2007 2:23:58 AM
Author: lisaC

Date: 12/25/2007 6:14:28 AM
Author:strmrdr

Who received the strangest gift?

I will start: thrown cover aka replacement toilet seat from my sister.

I wonder if she was sending me a message! lol (the old one is in bad shape lol)

I was thrown for a moment til I realised you meant throne

hehehehehe I was wondering if someone was going to catch that...
your prize is the old one! rofl!

 

[strmrdr]

Date: 12/25/2007 5:12:08 PM
Author: Dee*Jay
Storm, this pic''s for you!

kicken

 

[strmrdr]

Date: 12/27/2007 10:09:38 PM
Author: somethingshiny

Funniest gift ever was from my mom. Two years ago she decided to get my sisters, my now SIL, and me something great. What she thought to be a neck/back massager was NOT!!! I opened mine up first and asked why she thought I should have a vibrator for Christmas, her mouth fell open....she had never seen a vibrator before but she thought they had pretty colors and the picture showed a woman holding it in the crook of her neck.

rofl! now that would take the prize if it had been this year!
That has to be in the all time top 10!

 

[lisaC]

Date: 12/28/2007 7:11:15 AM
Author: strmrdr


your prize is the old one! rofl!

sorry I spoke but it was just too cute to ignore... Please I respectfully decline your offer- having 3 boys myself it continues to be a stuggle

 

[dolphingirl22]

Every year DH''s grandma gets us things that we think she finds in the clearance bin at the local drug store. Its not like she''s broke, she''s just cheap. Every year I get the same plastic snowman ornament. DH said that she probably got them on sale and stocked up. This year DH got two pairs of socks...just the socks...no packaging or anything. He said he bets his cousin got the other two pair out of the package.

 

[dianne]

My hubby's aunt always...ALWAYS...gives strange gifts. Before unwrapping, you usually have to take a deep breath, think carefully abut how to arrange your face in the most genuine fake smile possible and keep the look of disbelief at bay. Well, imagine my surprise when I open a bottle of bubble bath...

Winnie-the-Pooh bubble bath...

with a tiny Piglet shower scrubbie...

it gets worse...it was bubblegum scented.

Now what grown adult could stand to sit in a bath of hot bubblegum scented water? I just knew...KNEW...she put my name tag on the wrong gift---NOPE! It was mine...all mine....lucky me...

(I think my co-workers 7 year old loved it!)

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

My MIL buys me stuff from the Home Shopping Network and quite frankly, I never know what any of the stuff is, so it is all strange to me. I now have a very long cylindrical "pillow" in my posession....

xheers--Sharon

 

[kellyfish]

My wealthy but penny pinching MIL was so proud to tell me that she got my gift of a shirt from a sales rack for $1.00. That''s right, $1.00. She went on to say "I don''t know if you will like it, but I figure that you will get at least $1 worth of wear out of it".