most insensitive gift ever...

crazymama2two

so i'm on the way to the gym getting more and more mad that i'm not getting an answer to my text from the ex about something important.

and SOOO since i was getting more and more mad a thought popped into my head and it made me laugh. the most insensitive, idiotic, dumbass gift he ever gave me was:

(drumroll please)

a janitor bucket and mop.

you know, those yellow buckets where you put the mop in and then squeeze the water out...ooh and it had wheels too.

*face palm* 10 years wasted with this dingbat...

now your turn...

sbwood888

I once received a sweater that was about 4 sizes too small. My family member said "I'm giving you this so you will have incentive to lose weight". :embarassed:

Sarean

I got red roses every valentines day for 9 years. Which normally wouldn't be considered insensitive, except every year leading up to Valentine's Day I reminded him that I hate red roses and would much rather get wild flowers, or peonies, or gardenias.

1sisrat

My ex gave me his old play station 2 for my 21st birthday so he could have room to get the newer one at the time. I don't even play video games.

MissAnjy

My ex-boyfriend (and this probably why) went out West to B.C for 1 week (didn't invite me mind you) for a snowboarding/skiing trip. Apparently while he was there, he stopped at a souvenir shop, bought me a STICKER (not a bumper sticker, just a STICKER) that you would put in a sticker album (as a child) & a t-shirt. All well and good, except that the t-shirt was a CHILD'S small. It would have fit a 6 year old, but probably would have been tight on her .... i was 21. Uhhh, thanks?

LimeyTart

My MIL gave me a magazine for Christmas one year. A magazine. Not a subscription, just a magazine. Another year, she gave me 3 forks.

MGleason2010

a gift card that was already partially used and then they denied it and said it must have been the store's mistake. But what store puts like 23 and change on a card when it was supposed to be a $50 card. Needless to say, they aren't close family members lol.

crazymama2two

you guys are killing me....3 forks...thanks for making me laugh!

JackieJ13

I once received a sweater that was about 4 sizes too small. My family member said "I'm giving you this so you will have incentive to lose weight". :embarassed:

Ouch...not cool!:noway:

kbdelarosa

Not from an ex...but someone we invited to our wedding gave us a little crystal clock from Marshalls, the tag was still on it and was marked down to 5 bucks.

Grimmerick

I wanted a ring for christmas, just one with white gold or silver, and sapphire, we agreed to spend at least $100 dollars on each other. I bought him an xbox. I knew when I saw it that it was cheap, it was in one of those gray felt boxes with a cardboard insert , but I couldn't tell how much it cost, until I pulled up the insert and saw a price on it for $10 dollars at walmart. I was pissed, it didn't even have the gem I wanted, what an *kitten*. I told him I was going to tell his mother how cheap he was....she would have guilted him forever. Needless to say he is an ex.

BECav0602

Tiger woods golf for xbox for valentines day. I do play video games occasionally but that is NOT appropriate for Valentine's Day. Especially when I put together an album of pictures since we had met. Wasted almost 5 years on that *kitten*. You live and you learn. And get wiser. With a much better bf now who knows how to make you feel special!

kbdelarosa

3 Forks? WTH?

Oh, this year my brother gave my 1 year old daughter a used size 7 sweater for Christmas. No words.

aflane

MIL gave me a cross pendant.... I'm Jewish.

kbdelarosa

Best thread I have read in a very long time! I am cracking up at work!

LuckyLeprechaun

I got red roses every valentines day for 9 years. Which normally wouldn't be considered insensitive, except every year leading up to Valentine's Day I reminded him that I hate red roses and would much rather get wild flowers, or peonies, or gardenias.

this is your fault, really. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Just kidding, but men do not listen to the whole sentence. You said "I don't like red roses" he heard, "......red roses..."

JujiBean

My MIL gave me a magazine for Christmas one year. A magazine. Not a subscription, just a magazine. Another year, she gave me 3 forks.

YOU WIN!

A few years ago my husband bought me a gas powered leaf blower and an industrial dehumidifier. I wouldn't have minded the leaf blower, but it held 5 gallons of gasoline. I can't pick up 5 gallons of gasoline, let alone wander all over the yard with it.

_SusieQ_

Ahhhh, I just love to tell this story.

My husband and I have been married almost 18 years. but back in '99 we were separated for about 10 months. We moved back in together early 2000. Along comes Valentine's Day, so I decide to bake cupcakes and cookies for him. I spent all evening making them, packaged them up all pretty with a nice card. Now, my husband is a bowler, has been bowling on leagues for years. This was bowling night. No big deal, I'll see him when he gets home....which happened to end up being around 3 am, rip roaring drunk. The next day, nothing. No card, no gift, mumbled apologies. So that night he comes home with a card and a big chocolate heart full of candy. I look at him and say, really, you think HALF PRICE candy is going to do it? So I let it sit there a day or two while I'm stewing. Finally I decide to let it go, I go to get a piece of candy and it's gone. I ask, where is the candy heart. He looks at me with fear in his eye and says, I didn't think you wanted it, so I ate it.

Drunk husband, half price candy, that HE ATE.

jmruef

My SIL (who is usually the BEST SIL ever) gave me a sweater once that was a size or two too small. AFTER working hard and putting on a bunch of weight I'd lost because of an eating disorder.

SweetLe

Mine would be the engagement ring my ex gave me.
It was huge, fake and $25 off of ebay....really?:noway:

He was even shocked when it turned my finger green...idiot

MartiJJohnston

This is going to be a GREAT thread!

Maybe not insensitive gift ... but DUMB...

One year for Christmas I told my ex husband I wanted a girly tool box. One that holds my hot glue gun, scissors, wire snips, etc. I said to him "you know, like the pink one XXXX has?" I thought he understood, since he'd just seen my friend's hot pink tool box the night before...

Soooo imagine my surprise when on Christmas morning I get ready to open the gift that I think is my girly tool box and, after the first shred of paper, there is a gray BIG MOUTH BASS staring back at me from the lid of my new TACKLE BOX!!! :noway: :grumble:

What an idiot (that I spent 18 years with). LOL

mzbrandyluv

Ex boyfriend gave me a "Eat this not that" book for my last birthday...(which tells you to eat ribs at applebee's instead of Chellos or whatever...yeah, I don't go to resturantes and he's well aware of this) Oh, and it came with a LOVELY army knife thing....(I'm starting to wonder if he was trying to get me to off myself??) Hmmmm.

:noway:

LorinaLynn

I got chocolate from my ex's mother (before he was the ex) that I swear was something she'd bought the year before on clearance. It was from a great local chocolate shop, but it was terrible! I thought about returning it to the store, but knowing her, what she thought of me, and her frugality, I was terrified that they'd say that was last year's packaging.

taldie01

One of my ex's mom gave me lingerie for xmas... awkward

LovelySnugs

i am allergic to most body lotions - the fragrances or the dyes or something. i've been like that for the better part of the last 20 years.

two years ago, my older sister gave me one of those Bath and Body works gift packs for christmas - the one with the sparkly scented lotion and stuff, you know what i mean.

it really irritated me, too, because at thanksgiving that year, she and i had had a conversation in which i mentioned my allergy AND pointed out that i think B&B products are only the kind of gift you give to someone you HAVE to buy for, but don't know very well.

_SusieQ_

Oh and every year it seems my MIL is determined to buy me clothes. She always asks what size, I tell her, then she proceeds to buy at LEAST one or two sizes bigger "just in case". In case of WHAT???

misschoy

so i'm on the way to the gym getting more and more mad that i'm not getting an answer to my text from the ex about something important.

and SOOO since i was getting more and more mad a thought popped into my head and it made me laugh. the most insensitive, idiotic, dumbass gift he ever gave me was:

(drumroll please)

a janitor bucket and mop.

you know, those yellow buckets where you put the mop in and then squeeze the water out...ooh and it had wheels too.

*face palm* 10 years wasted with this dingbat...

now your turn...

Why the hell would he give you that?!

chevy88grl

The year I was pregnant with my older daughter (I would have been very big pregnant at Christmas as she was born in February) I had asked for a leather coat. I had been asking for a leather coat for 3 years and never gotten one. Well. I got it that year. In a size medium.

The person who gave it to me said "I know it won't fit you because you went and got pregnant, but you've always wanted it so.. so I bought it".

Um. A medium wouldn't have fit me even if I wasn't pregnant! My boobs were HUGE (even when I wasn't pregnant!). *rolls eyes*

When I went to take it back, I was told it was a clearance item and couldn't be returned -- only exchanged. They didn't have one in my size. I ended up giving it to a friend for their daughter.

Yemaya1129

My MIL gave me a magazine for Christmas one year. A magazine. Not a subscription, just a magazine. Another year, she gave me 3 forks.

My MIL does her Christmas shopping in the trial size aisle of CVS. Shaving creams, razors, shower gels, deodorant...you name it. Breath mints too. A big old bag of it. Ironically, she's got the worst b.o. of anyone I've ever met and her breath could take paint off the wall. She also buys clothes that are several sizes too big for me because she's convinced that we wear the same size. When I tried to gently point out that I don't wear a 3X (biggest I've ever been is an 18W, which is big, but is still not a 3X), she responded by continuing to give me the same size, but to cut the size tag out. (Yes, the fabric one that's attached to the garment.) So now she's wasting her money on ugly clothes that are waaaay too big for me, but can't be returned because she's cut off all the tags.

bjmk19047

One time the Ex came to me and said, "You like Robert Duvall, right?" And I said, "Ummm...I never really thought about it."

So a few weeks later on our 10th Anniversary, he gave me a box all wrapped up and it was..."Lonesome Dove" on DVD.

When in the history of humankind did I EVER say anything about a burning desire to own "Lonesome Dove"??? It's like he went into the video store and bought the first thing he saw on the first rack he came to!!!

I mean, this man had known me for 12 years...and he still couldn't put enough effort or thought into an appropriate Anniversary gift!

katt742

MIL gave me a cross pendant.... I'm Jewish.

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HA!! That is too funny!