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What’s the funniest/kitchiest/ugliest holiday gift you received? (Past or present)

For Christmas one year, my husband’s family bought me a velour jumpsuit. You remember the ones with the big ol’ ”Juicy” stretched across the bottom?

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I’m not a fashionista by any means, but I would never even consider wearing something like that outside of my house (or in it for that matter). That baby never even left the gift box.
 
We always do a Yankee swap- and if it isn't booze or scratch tickets, it's something funny or weird. There have been some super weird things 'given'.
One of the aunts brought a full grown stuffed beaver that she found at the town recycling center one year. It was moldering and missing a tail. The artistic choice of eyes was, um, unsettling. Of course, we end up with it. It was a curiosity for the neighborhood kids(friends of my kids) to come look at that summer. He lives in the barn.
Watching.
Always, watching.
 
purplesilk said:
One of the ugliest gifts was the ring I was proposed with, I still refuse to call it my engagement ring just because it was so crappy.
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Oh no!! But now I’m curious to know what it looked like.
 
elle_71125 said:
For Christmas one year, my husband’s family bought me a velour jumpsuit. You remember the ones with the big ol’ ”Juicy” stretched across the bottom?

3720B341-DD9C-499A-ADA6-9C3A9515207A.jpeg

I’m not a fashionista by any means, but I would never even consider wearing something like that outside of my house (or in it for that matter). That baby never even left the gift box.
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Those were expensive and popular at the time though! I would’ve tried to sell it on eBay ha ha.
 
elle_71125 said:
For Christmas one year, my husband’s family bought me a velour jumpsuit. You remember the ones with the big ol’ ”Juicy” stretched across the bottom?

3720B341-DD9C-499A-ADA6-9C3A9515207A.jpeg

I’m not a fashionista by any means, but I would never even consider wearing something like that outside of my house (or in it for that matter). That baby never even left the gift box.
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Only for tweenagers. If I wore that, someone would report concern.
 
Before buying , he asked me about the engagement ring: I told him I didn't want him to spend too much money on a ring because he was saving for a house, I told him I would have been more than happy with a 3 mm yellow gold band with one small diamond, something like this
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What was affordable at the time, although I wish he'd chosen the gold band you showed. That's truly not as bad as you think. It looks like someone wanted to make a statement with the means available. It looks like love.
You put it on craigslist and move on. Taste can be acquired, innate goodness not so much.
 
purplesilk said:
My husband is a good man, but he has neither taste nor knowledge about jewellery.
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I think it's time you explained the word "Upgrade" to him. =)2
 
Ibrakeforpossums said:
What was affordable at the time, although I wish he'd chosen the gold band you showed. That's truly not as bad as you think. It looks like someone wanted to make a statement with the means available. It looks like love.
You put it on craigslist and move on. Taste can be acquired, innate goodness not so much.
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It is worse than you can imagine: dull tiny diamonds, prongs bigger than diamonds.
 
Ibrakeforpossums said:
What was affordable at the time, although I wish he'd chosen the gold band you showed. That's truly not as bad as you think. It looks like someone wanted to make a statement with the means available. It looks like love.
You put it on craigslist and move on. Taste can be acquired, innate goodness not so much.
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I' m sure he did his best, that's why I felt both frustrated and ungrateful , not pleasant feelings for a woman who was just proposed.
 
If he did his best, he probably has no idea how you feel about it. "I'm not a mind-reader." How many times have I heard that?
You don't ask, you make a statement. "I'd like to upgrade my ring. The prongs are bigger than the diamonds and they're not good ones." If you buy your own as a rule, it could be a joint venture.
 
Ibrakeforpossums said:
If he did his best, he probably has no idea how you feel about it. "I'm not a mind-reader." How many times have I heard that?
You don't ask, you make a statement. "I'd like to upgrade my ring. The prongs are bigger than the diamonds and they're not good ones." If you buy your own as a rule, it could be a joint venture.
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I know he's not a mind reader and I respect him because he's truly a good man.
I know he hates spending money on useless things, he prefers to do charity, so I don't feel comfortable asking luxury items.
Let me clarify that he has a well paid job and he had a well paid job also when we got engaged, so money was never a real problem, he wasn't poor.
When he proposed, I didn't want to ruin the proposal, so I held my tongue; a couple of days later, I told him that I didn't like the ring and he accepted to change it: we went back to the shop but I couln't get the band I wanted because it wasn't aviable, so we got another diamond band that was also ugly but not as ugly as the first ring.
I didn't told anyone I was engaged and I wore that ring for a year, then I bought myself a seven stone band with ten pointer diamonds.
 
ItsMainelyYou said:
We always do a Yankee swap- and if it isn't booze or scratch tickets, it's something funny or weird. There have been some super weird things 'given'.
One of the aunts brought a full grown stuffed beaver that she found at the town recycling center one year. It was moldering and missing a tail. The artistic choice of eyes was, um, unsettling. Of course, we end up with it. It was a curiosity for the neighborhood kids(friends of my kids) to come look at that summer. He lives in the barn.
Watching.
Always, watching.
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You win, this is definitely the worst present anyone could ever receive :lol:
 
purplesilk said:
I would have been more than happy with a 3 mm yellow gold band with one small diamond
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I don't know. Looks like his is a 1000X better :mrgreen2:
 
ItsMainelyYou said:
We always do a Yankee swap- and if it isn't booze or scratch tickets, it's something funny or weird. There have been some super weird things 'given'.
One of the aunts brought a full grown stuffed beaver that she found at the town recycling center one year. It was moldering and missing a tail. The artistic choice of eyes was, um, unsettling. Of course, we end up with it. It was a curiosity for the neighborhood kids(friends of my kids) to come look at that summer. He lives in the barn.
Watching.
Always, watching.
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At least that is supposed to be weird!! I proposed doing a swap like that instead of a “real” gift exchange but nope.
 
LilAlex said:
I don't know. Looks like his is a 1000X better :mrgreen2:
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No, the band he bought was ugly, poorly made prongs with dull tiny diamonds, no sparkle at all...I wasn't mean, I accepted the proposal and waited for a couple of days before telling my thoughts, I hoped I could like that ring but it looked like bad costume jewellery.
 
My original "engagement ring" costed two hundred Euros: the ring weighted a couple of grams of gold and it was 0.25 tcw, so what kind of diamonds do you expect for that money?
 
Oh @Mreader … I have to agree, those are both hideous!!!!! :(
 
ItsMainelyYou said:
We always do a Yankee swap- and if it isn't booze or scratch tickets, it's something funny or weird. There have been some super weird things 'given'.
One of the aunts brought a full grown stuffed beaver that she found at the town recycling center one year. It was moldering and missing a tail. The artistic choice of eyes was, um, unsettling. Of course, we end up with it. It was a curiosity for the neighborhood kids(friends of my kids) to come look at that summer. He lives in the barn.
Watching.
Always, watching.
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We also need a photo. In fact I need pictures of lots of this stuff! Haha
 
I couldn’t find hardly any more photos of past Christmas junk but this was one. A snow globe with a cactus. No affiliation to cacti at all.
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