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

purplesilk said:
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.
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Clearly I'm talking to someone who is self-sufficient and successful and I need to shut my trap.
Mr. Car Parts buys none of my jewelry because I know more than he does. He buys me tires and brakes and and tail lights and things I know nothing about, and he's a good man and I'm grateful beyond words.
 
purplesilk said:
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?
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It sounds like my first one!
 
Mreader said:
We also need a photo. In fact I need pictures of lots of this stuff! Haha
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I would, but I'm not going into that part of the barn unless I have to! :lol: It's a little creepy in some parts :eek-2:I call it a barn but it's actually a three story building that was a General Store/ice room/Post Office/and a dancehall. It even had a few tombstones that were never placed on the third floor( the local museum came and got them)It's bigger than our actual house.
Beaver is upstairs and has been there for a couple of years now...no one but DH goes up there unless they have to.
My DH did tell me today that his friend has asked to take Beaver up to his hunting camp so it can have a place of honor and lurk over the front door where there is a ledge thingy, scaring everyone who enters.
I think it's a smashing idea! But he has to be the one to go get it. In the daytime.
 
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?

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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.
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i'd make it into a cat blankie =)2
 
purplesilk said:
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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i really like this
it would still be useful in a stack or moved to a pinky when one upgraded

sigh
 
About a year ago, my husband bought me a giant Le Creuset dutch oven that I raved about, because it was a beautiful bright blue, and perfect for me ( I love to cook for people)…..but now, he doesn’t even try to buy me anything except Le Creuset pots and pans!!!! I got another slightly smaller Dutch oven for my birthday the beginning of Dec, which was also a lovely shade of bright red. Wasn’t expecting yet a 3rd La Creuset within a year! This time it was a pukey olive green.
I feel like an ingrate…I did tell him I love Le Creuset cookware and would love to collect them in different sizes and colors…but I probably should have specified that I don’t want them for every darn holiday….Especially when I have been hinting big time for a diamonds by the yard necklace!

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jaysonsmom said:
About a year ago, my husband bought me a giant La Creuset dutch oven that I raved about, because it was a beautiful bright blue, and perfect for me ( I love to cook for people)…..but now, he doesn’t even try to buy me anything except La Creuset pots and pans!!!! I got another slightly smaller Dutch oven for my birthday the beginning of Dec, which was also a lovely shade of bright red. Wasn’t expecting yet a 3rd La Creuset within a year! This time it was a pukey olive green.
I feel like an ingrate…I did tell him I love La Creuset cookware and would love to collect them in different sizes and colors…but I probably should have specified that I don’t want them for every darn holiday….Especially when I have been hinting big time for a diamonds by the yard necklace!

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Oh, don't worry, know that he knows you love something you'll get one of everything there ever was! :lol:
 
jaysonsmom said:
About a year ago, my husband bought me a giant Le Creuset dutch oven that I raved about, because it was a beautiful bright blue, and perfect for me ( I love to cook for people)…..but now, he doesn’t even try to buy me anything except Le Creuset pots and pans!!!! I got another slightly smaller Dutch oven for my birthday the beginning of Dec, which was also a lovely shade of bright red. Wasn’t expecting yet a 3rd La Creuset within a year! This time it was a pukey olive green.
I feel like an ingrate…I did tell him I love Le Creuset cookware and would love to collect them in different sizes and colors…but I probably should have specified that I don’t want them for every darn holiday….Especially when I have been hinting big time for a diamonds by the yard necklace!

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Reminds me of the time I told my husband he didn't have to buy flowers for our anniversary, Valentine's Day, or my birthday as our finances were tight. Ten years passed without a single bloom until I told him the flower ban was officially over! Men are so LITERAL :lol:
 
I am the recipient of a variety of stuff animals. I'm sure that sounds "nice," maybe even SWEET. But let me say the menagerie now includes a full tower of giraffes (the largest of which is over 4' tall and currently wears a silk sleeping cap and a necklace) and this year the children got in on it and I received a GIANT blue elephant named Goeff. There are about twenty others too. It all started with the innocent offhanded remark as we were driving by a local farm "I would love to have a pony." Well I GOT a pony all right... and then some!
 
Dee*Jay said:
I am the recipient of a variety of stuff animals. I'm sure that sounds "nice," maybe even SWEET. But let me say the menagerie now includes a full tower of giraffes (the largest of which is over 4' tall and currently wears a silk sleeping cap and a necklace) and this year the children got in on it and I received a GIANT blue elephant named Goeff. There are about twenty others too. It all started with the innocent offhanded remark as we were driving by a local farm "I would love to have a pony." Well I GOT a pony all right... and then some!
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I wouldn’t say no to a giant giraffe.

I got a narwhal for my kid in part bc I wanted it!

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jaysonsmom said:
This is from the same guy who refuses to eat ham sandwiches now because his mom packed ham sandwiches for him every single day because he told her 1x that he loved ham.
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This reminds me of the time my mom made me a lemon Bundt cake for my birthday.
Mom: Why aren’t you eating any cake?
Me: I hate lemon. Have always hated lemon. I don’t eat lemon anything.
Mom: But you told me this is your favorite cake. That’s why I made it for your birthday.
Me: What?! I never said lemon cake is my favorite.
Mom: Last year you said the cake I made was your favorite.
Me: Last year you made a chocolate fudge cake and it was my favorite. What does that have to do with this lemon cake?
Mom: It was a chocolate fudge Bundt cake. I thought you loved Bundt cake.
Me: Who the hell says their favorite cake is a shape?! No one says “gosh, I just love a good rectangular cake!”
We still laugh whenever we have Bundt cake.
 
Oh lord the number of gifts I have had to learn to smile and pretend I like are in the dozens. Thankfully I used to move countries very often so "unfortunately had to donate" a lot of them.

Examples include:
- random imitation jewelry "oh but you love sparkly jewelry" - eh yes but I hate cubic zirconia and am very allergic so break out with silver and the like
- fake gilded plastic and bright blue jewelry box -" it fits so well with the rest of your things" as I decorate with actual antiques they thought it fit right in
- blue wine bottle (empty) - as I collected vintage cobalt glass and this was also blue so they saved it, scrubbed the labels off and figured I could use it for serving water
- handmade sparkly purple wool hat and other similar items despite not being able to wear wool and eh pretty much my full wardrobe is black with a sprinkling of other neutrals

Very happy that this year we finally managed to do a Dirty Santa gift exchange ( everyone brings a nice gift and then people take turns to steal what they want). I happily went home with an air fryer which is something Ive been considering getting and managed to avoid the presents from the two "main offenders" in my family. The list of gifts showcases how people really like very different gifts and that every gift in the past, for weird that it may seem, was bought with love

Two people most likely to get you odd gifts both like opening multiple packets so bought several things in a gift basket
- Gift basket with chocolate, liquor, movie tickets - up to here normal - but then they also included an air thermometer for indoor use
- Box including things like chocolate, candles, etc. - and then some weird pink ball attached to a string attached to a headband that you are supposed to bat around like a cat :confused: and no it wasnt cheap and it wasnt a gag gift, she actually thought it would make a great gift

For a bonus round my mother who brought two huge floor lanterns with fake battery candles in them - rational being that they are perfect for the balcony and child safe, unfortunately she didnt check that they are outdoor safe

Other people brought the aforementioned airfryer, airpods, le creuset cookware, fun games ( we play board games at christmas and other gatherings)
 
My MIL is gave me a used bathing suit. I was with her and my SIL when she bought it for my SIL who wore it all that summer and then changed her mind so she wrapped it up and gave it to me.
 
My dear dad used to do his best, in his own very practical way. I have been 5'7" since I my early teens, with very long legs. For a couple years, mid-late teens, my dad decided to buy all the girls (three of us, including my 4'9" sister and my 4'11" mom) "pantyhose". Ugh. I wore a dress maybe once a year due to being a complete and utter tomboy. The pantyhose fit mom and my sister perfectly, and barely cleared my knees, lengthwise. LOL!
 
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