most insensitive gift ever...

KBrenOH

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.

The sarcastic side in me would totally have to re-gift that back to her.

MzBug

I usually give thoughtfull gifts, but last Christmas I didn't. Every year I make a wish list on Amazon of 5-6 items that are less than $30. Things that are inexpensive, but have some value/use to me personally. My guy and his family use this list to buy Christmas gifts for me. My guy does the same. This year I asked for gift cards...I was losing weight and would need to go clothes shopping at some point. My guy didn't make a list. When I bugged him about making it he would just pop off with some smart @ss item.... So... I followed up on one of his suggestions. Bacon. He got the "Bacon of the Month" (6 months worth) from a smokehouse, and a stocking filled with assorted bacon flavored/scented items...lip balm, t-shirt, candy, bacon salt, gum, dental floss, car air freshener... The look on his face :frown: He was NOT impressed. I did get him is NFL team Cheerleader Calendar too, but he had to wait and open that at his parents house.

dragonbait0126

I usually give thoughtfull gifts, but last Christmas I didn't. Every year I make a wish list on Amazon of 5-6 items that are less than $30. Things that are inexpensive, but have some value/use to me personally. My guy and his family use this list to buy Christmas gifts for me. My guy does the same. This year I asked for gift cards...I was losing weight and would need to go clothes shopping at some point. My guy didn't make a list. When I bugged him about making it he would just pop off with some smart @ss item.... So... I followed up on one of his suggestions. Bacon. He got the "Bacon of the Month" (6 months worth) from a smokehouse, and a stocking filled with assorted bacon flavored/scented items...lip balm, t-shirt, candy, bacon salt, gum, dental floss, car air freshener... The look on his face :frown: He was NOT impressed. I did get him is NFL team Cheerleader Calendar too, but he had to wait and open that at his parents house.

that is freakin' awesome and hilarious! it's his own fault. i would have done the same thing. hahaaha.

misslyssx

A couple years ago my boyfriend at the time told me that we were going to walk to Stop and Shop for a surprise. Weird, I know, but I followed him. As we were walking, my legs started to itch because the roadside has so many plants and weeds and trees that I developed allergies. I was miserable the whole time but I kept asking and wondering about my surprise. I thought maybe he was going to buy stuff to cook or whatever. So when we got there, he goes up the store refrigerator and grabs a Mountain Dew. I asked him if thats why we came here. He said yeah. I was thoroughly angry but he said, "Well, you were surprised!"

Hannahrenee86

I have gotten a couple of bad gifts in my past

~My aunt and uncle sent me a card in an envelope for Christmas that said that they would not give me any more gifts until I got married or had babies.. I was 16.. the part that made me mad was they got presents for my 3 sisters and my parents.
~My grandma always tries to get me clothes that are not my style.
~For Valentine's Day, my ex gave me a bunch of condoms in the shape of a rose. I had come over since he told me he would take me out for dinner.

For my family, I end up telling them exactly what I want and they buy it. When I lived at home, they would even let me pick it out. My husband isn't that bad at picking out gifts. I usually just tell him. Like our Anniversary is today and I got new running shoes, a sock monkey (which I wanted), and Kindle cover. The only problem is that he waits til the last minute.

janiscurry

How could I have forgotten this one...my husband's grandmother gave each family one Christmas a portable urinal - the kind that truckers take on the road so they don't have to stop to go to the bathroom. She thought that was the best gift, because we had each just bought vans and that way we wouldn't have to stop on our trips. Sold ours in a garage sale, but I think my MIL still has hers...LOL.

Kolohe71

Not really a gift per say, but a good disappointment story none-the-less.

My wife and I were just dating and I was invited to dinner at her dad's house (mom passed away 2 years before we met). I had met him before but this was our first time eating dinner together, and at that time I was a VERY picky eater and would hardly eat vegetables. Well dinner was severed and on my plate was a HUGE pile of brocolli. I guess dad noticed that I wasn't eating my veggies so he started teasing me, saying "If you don't eat your veggies, then no Chocolate Mousse Pie for dessert". Not wanting to miss out, I forced myself to finish them. I was torture for me. An hour later, I asked about the Chocolate Mousse Pie. Dad started to laugh and fessed up that there wasn't any. My wife, then GF, felt so bad for me she took me out for Ice-Cream later that night. To this day, Chocolate Mousse Pie is a joke in the family when we finish dinner together...

BTW: Dad is a HUGE prankster. The first time I met him, he gave me a glass of water in a "Dribble Glass" just to see how I could take a joke.

Oishii

My mum gives me, and only me, truly terrible gifts.

Last Christmas she gave me a scrubbing brush (because they wanted to be able to use one at our house) and some posh hand soap (because she'd nearly used up the one I had already).

My brother, on the other hand, got a book of Banksy graffiti... When my husband and I had driven to Bristol just to try to catch the last day of his exhibition (queue was too long so missed it).

It's like, because she lives with us part of each week, she's forgotten that our lives don't completely revolve round the kitchen and bathroom sinks!

hroush

Something that still burns me is that my grandma gives every grandchild $1000 for highschool graduation. Why does this bug me? Because my mother decided that it would go to pay for my community college and then told me after the fact. To continue along this thread, I had loaned my parents practically all the money I made growing up (probably $10,000 ish), which I only half expected to ever get back. After two years of paying for my college, my mom tells me, "We've paid you back everything that you've loaned us for your tuition and we can't afford it anymore, " After two years, she finally filled out the financial aid forms to discover that because my parents make so little I actually GOT PAID to go to my community college.:noway: Thanks for wasting my money, mom

Stacey765

Damn, This is a tough room! I guess I won't say ANYTHING about the year I bought my wife road flares for her birthday. It's a long story, but I can see there would be very little appreciation for my gift.

Oh I don't know. I mean, what if she breaks down late at night and could use them to alert drivers she's there? Keeps her safe. Shows you love her. I think it's romantic. Women just don't get it.

hehehe, there's nothing wrong with giving your lady road flares, or things of that nature to keep her safe. BUT WHY OH WHY do you think you should give such a thing to her as a 'GIFT' on a "special day"?? hahaha, If it's just some random Tuesday and you say Hey hun, I was thinking of you and I want to make sure you're safe, here's a kit of jumper cables, fix a flat, and road flares....there would be NO issues. Or you could always take it a step further and say "Hun, I was thinking of you and want to make sure you're safe...This is Sven. He's going to be your personal body guard/choffer from now on....you won't need a jack cause sven can lift 400 lbs with one arm...."
Whoa, sorry...little day dream there

PLEASE SEND ME ONE TOO!!

teresaq1

My mother in law who is loaded one christmas gave me a dollar store set of salt and pepper shakers.

missbp

How could I have forgotten this one...my husband's grandmother gave each family one Christmas a portable urinal - the kind that truckers take on the road so they don't have to stop to go to the bathroom. She thought that was the best gift, because we had each just bought vans and that way we wouldn't have to stop on our trips. Sold ours in a garage sale, but I think my MIL still has hers...LOL.

OMG! I am laughing so hard I think I might pee. That portable urinal would sure come in handy right now!!!

Michelle

RuthRW

The first Christmas my fiance (now husband of 10 yrs) and I spent together we exchanged presents on Christmas Eve because we were driving to his folks the next morning. My birthday is actually Christmas Eve and we had just moved in together a month before, so we were still setting up the apartment. Think you can see where this is heading?
First gift I unwrapped, a spice rack. I didn't say anything as he opened the Motley Crue box set I gave him. Second gift I opened was an iron. I was pissed and in shock as he opened my gift, which was some . . . ahem, adult toys.
I love this guy and knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him so I had a decision to make, to I grin and bear it or set the record straight?
I calmly told him that this was not my idea of Christmas or Birthday presents, I only wanted fun, frivolous things and that stuff for the kitchen . . . hell, anything that plugged in was not a gift unless I specifically asked for it. I said we can return this stuff or you can just buy me some perfume or jewelry. He was kind of in shock and I almost felt bad until he said, "well if that's how you feel don't open that other box, it's a toaster."
It has been a lot of years and I have learned to make a short list of possible gifts that also specifies WHERE he can purchase them.

PJS323

After dislocating my shoulder the night before my 35th birthday, the next morning my husband gave me a card with a clown sitting on the toliet as my only gift. This thread is hilarious!

healthyjen342

THIS...IS...A...FUNNY...THREAD.....

shallo

I usually give thoughtfull gifts, but last Christmas I didn't. Every year I make a wish list on Amazon of 5-6 items that are less than $30. Things that are inexpensive, but have some value/use to me personally. My guy and his family use this list to buy Christmas gifts for me. My guy does the same. This year I asked for gift cards...I was losing weight and would need to go clothes shopping at some point. My guy didn't make a list. When I bugged him about making it he would just pop off with some smart @ss item.... So... I followed up on one of his suggestions. Bacon. He got the "Bacon of the Month" (6 months worth) from a smokehouse, and a stocking filled with assorted bacon flavored/scented items...lip balm, t-shirt, candy, bacon salt, gum, dental floss, car air freshener... The look on his face :frown: He was NOT impressed. I did get him is NFL team Cheerleader Calendar too, but he had to wait and open that at his parents house.

My husband would think that is the best gift ever..lol!

Newmammaluv

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.

OMG I'm dieing laughing!!! LMAO This is EXACTLY something my husband would do!!!

Tamstar1985

my fiance's mom gives me a pair of granny panties and several 36C bras every bloody time i see her! WTF? first off. i wear 34B, and that is already too big for the girls. second. granny panties?!? i am talking those high-waisted pretty much go down to your knees sort of granny panties. ummmm, thanks, i am not 100 years old, and i really prefer my spongebob boyshorts! she also buys me huge, baggy jeans and sweaters and t-shirts, handing them over with the words "because you've gotta cover up more!"

i have several bags of clothes and assorted underwear in my home that i routinely throw out because of this!!!

KayleighDawn13

My ex gave me a case of waterbottles for my birthday...after he drank half of them..WTH?!

JackieJ13

This one is insensitive but also really awkward:

At Christmas (just 6 months ago) my dad's girlfriend invited her kids, my sister, my wife and me to the house for dinner. She gave everyone their presents but saved 2 for the very end. After everyone was finished opening their presents, she gave the last 2 to me and my wife. Everyone sat there looking at us, waiting for us to open them. She chimed in, "Open them up at the same time!"

The one she gave to me had 2 hard core pornos in it. One was 3-D and even had 3-D glasses. The other was Avatar themed. My wife got a see-through nightie.

*dead silence*

To this day I want to know what she was thinking. What part about those gifts sounded like a good idea? I just can't wrap my head around it. Even my dad was speechless since she had kept them a secret.

This has got to be the weirdest thing I've ever heard. :laugh:

musica814

Hahaha these are cracking me up! Keep 'em coming!

nrvo

Two birthdays ago, my husband kept talking about how great it would be to go on a hot air balloon ride. Since I'm not so great with heights, I said that I definitely was not interested. So what did I get for my birthday? You guessed it - hot air balloon ride! My husband and I crammed into this tiny basket with the guy driving the thing, and then I got to be completely ignored for an hour while my husband was talking to the guy about hot air balloons. Ugh.

My last birthday, he kept talking about how great it would be to get an iPad. Since we had juuuust closed on our condo and were pretty broke, I said that he was ridiculous; we definitely didn't need an iPad. I saw his credit card bill before he even gave it to me, found it, and returned it, telling him I just wanted a card and a cheap exercise ball. A few weeks after my birthday, after reminding him about a dozen times, I got my card and uninflated exercise ball.

His next birthday - he is getting a Coach purse. His present will be getting to watch me carry it around

jonbobfrog

I don't have a most insensitive gift story, but I have a most insensitive first date story . . . I met a guy on a blind date once, at a restaurant, and he was showing me his new phone and how you could play you tube videos on it. Well, the you tube video that he chose to show me was TWO GIRLS ONE CUP!! 15 minutes into our first date? I got up and walked out and have never spoken to him (he was a friend of a friend) again.

nrvo

Last Christmas I did a Secret Santa with some friends from work - we had like a $30 limit or something like that. The girl who had me gave me an expired can of cranberry sauce, a generic chapstick, and a mini-journal from the dollar store. She didn't wrap it - just left it all in a pile on my desk.

Also, my MIL bought me lingerie when my husband and I had just started dating. Awkward.......

tiaydew

Ok, here's my contribution, one year my husband and I didn't make any plans for Valentines Day until the last minute. He was an hour late getting home, he'd stopped by Walgreens to buy me some chocolate, a light-up rose and valentine-y candle holder. I was a little annoyed because I was hungry and I'd told him earlier I wanted to go out to dinner and of course he was late. I give him my gift, I was pretty proud of it, it was a home-made card...and the glitter and letters hadn't even dried on it yet! Needless to say he got to pick the restaurant!

I asked him if I'd ever gotten him any bad or insensitive gifts and he told me this one right away. Our first or second Christmas, I got him a book about Chess, strategy, tips etc. He was always getting beaten by another BIL and I thought it would help him, he was offended!

Lastly, I've been married to my husband for 13 years, our first year, my MIL asked for a picture of me since she had pictures of my husband and his sister. Last year, she told my husband she was sending me something...guess what it was?? haha!

Lleldiranne

Last Christmas I did a Secret Santa with some friends from work - we had like a $30 limit or something like that. The girl who had me gave me an expired can of cranberry sauce, a generic chapstick, and a mini-journal from the dollar store. She didn't wrap it - just left it all in a pile on my desk.

Yeah, I've grown to hate secret sister/secret santa exchanges. I feel like I try to put a lot of thought (maybe too much) into them and I get junk in return.
That, and white elephant. Why do people think it's at all appropriate or funny to wrap up things they wouldn't even give to goodwill and call it a "gift"

ivyjbres

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???

grandchildren?

knittnponder

These were too awesome! lol I read all eleven pages! I don't really have an insensitive gift but the first Christmas my DH and I were married his mom made me granny underwear. Yes, you read that correctly. My new MIL gave me homemade underpants! The things were HUGE too! Seriously, they could have been used as the mainsail on a Spanish Galleon! And flowers? Oh the flowers!!

I put them on later when DH and I were alone and paraded around in my sexy new skivvies! (Should I mention that I had the leg holes up on my shoulders? lol It was quite the look!)

SweetTooth68

Thanks for such an entertaining thread!
Last year for Xmas my sister gave me the music for Terence Trent D'arby's song Sign Your Name.
She said "Didn't you used to like him?"
I never like him and I am also not a musician.....and I'm 42. LOL

fridayjustleft04

My ex gave me flowers for my birthday one year, which would have been nice..until he told me they were left over from a funeral and he got them at a discount.