most insensitive gift ever...
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Since I saw someone else speak about their MIL...
My ex-MIL once gave me a card, unsigned, still in the plastic drugstore bag WITH the receipt in it. Happy friggin' birthday! LOL!0 -
I think the most insensitive gift came from my grandmother. She was always quick to insult you...you have such a pretty face too bad your so heavy!
When I was 17 and 20 lbs heavier then I am now...my grandmother was cleaning out her closet and offered me her mu mu's and some of her old torpedo bras! Seriously?!?
Oh...by the way, she herself was pushing over 250 lbs! I was 17!!! How devastating to a teenager that my grandmother thought I was so huge I needed to share her mu mus! OMG!
No wonder I had food issues!!!
This reminds me of something my grandma said to me. After I lost 70 lbs, she would say a couple times a week, "you're getting too skinny." The one time I wasn't wearing a shirt, she said, "You're too fat to not wear a shirt" or something like that.0 -
When I got married, I moved 3 times in a 2-month span, as well as applying to and transferring credits for college. Consequently, I didn't get my thank-you cards for the wedding out right away (I think they went out 6 weeks after the wedding). My husband's relatives (not his immediate family) sent us etiquette books about a month after the wedding. Just, you know, as a "gift." It wasn't a hidden message or anything, I'm sure.
I was offended and amused at the same time. What was funniest about it was that they didn't give us a gift for the wedding. They kept saying how they were getting us something big, and they wanted to deliver it to our home themselves. They didn't visit, and when we did get the gift (sent along with my MIL and FIL when they came to visit, at the same time they brought the etiquette books), it was a clock. Not a big clock, not an expensive clock, just a regular old clock. They forgot to get us a gift for our wedding, but *I* needed the etiquette books. :laugh: I died. 0 -
On my second date with a complete idiot he told me, "do you know how hot you'd be if you worked out?" I didn't dignify that with a response - I was kind of stunned.
On our third date (2 days before my birthday) he gave me a 30 day membership to a gym with a week of personal training.
Yes, that was our last date - but I did use the membership - for about 4 days
I think we may have dated the same guy.........lol0 -
OOH OOH a boy i was going out with in high school gave me for christmas a tape (cause tapes were the rage in 1989, im old) of Whitesnake (again, dating myself here) and it wasn't new from the store. It was played halfway. He never even rewound it AND it smelled like funyons...or however you spell those onion baked fake grossness...
yeah, first boyfriend. poor boy.0 -
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.
:laugh: I love the forks!0 -
On my second date with a complete idiot he told me, "do you know how hot you'd be if you worked out?" I didn't dignify that with a response - I was kind of stunned.
On our third date (2 days before my birthday) he gave me a 30 day membership to a gym with a week of personal training.
Yes, that was our last date - but I did use the membership - for about 4 days
I think we may have dated the same guy.........lol
If we did, we could certainly have some fun over cocktails! Damn, he was a piece of work! 0 -
an exercise bike and a lady shave.....so..I'm fat AND hairy!!! still married to him though!0
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Ex husband bought me a diamond necklace for my birthday....with money out of my account (he had his own account and I paid all of the bills out of mine since I was responsible)....without telling me.....yeah, Happy Birthday! You know all the checks you sent the other day? Yeah, let the bouncing start.....:grumble:0
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on the flip side the worst gift I bought someone was when I was 13 I bought my mum a set of knives and forks for Xmas. She was not impressed. My logic was that she was always complaining we didnt have any matching ones....
Now I am a mother myself I would be so upset if anyone bought me cutlery for Xmas...
Worst gift I ever bought was for my now-husband. We had just been dating for a few months at the time and I had no money, and I had no idea what to get him. None. I'm notoriously thoughtless -- not intentionally, but when I have to get a gift my mind just goes blank because of the pressure. Anyway, I ended up giving him a movie that we'd seen in the theater, a Matchbox car (he didn't have a car, so it was kind of a gag gift and he loved it) and... wait for it... a bed pillow. Because he needed a new one. *facepalm* He got me a teardrop tanzanite necklace and a Picasso print, as well as a poem he'd written for me. Awesome sauce. I felt like a moron. :laugh:0 -
My jaw literally dropped when I read this. :flowerforyou:My sister in law mailed a framed pregnant picture of herself (she did a maternity shoot) to us as a christmas gift, about a month after I miscarried.0 -
i love this, and could spend all afternoon reading it, but then i would probably get fired, so i will read it later.0
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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.0 -
Guys, you are cracking me up!! I am literally laughing out loud at my desk at work, the guys keep asking what, and I am reading them your stories (most the time they don't get the big deal) FYI --> I work at a motorcycle repair shop, they are clueless! lol0
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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.
And she wonders why I don't answer when she calls. The best part is that there are 6 of us. WTH am I going to do with 3 forks? Half of us eat and then the other half waits while I wash the forks?
That was the year they gave my husband a crossbow for Christmas. My husband has never expressed interest in owning a crossbow. Who does this???0 -
Oh My God! I think that's worse than my grandmother's used mu mu's! :huh:0
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For Valentines day my husband bought me a pair long johns underwear from Cabela's.0
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Bumping - this thread is great for some giggles :bigsmile:0
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My friends from college have been celebrating festivus the week before Christmas for 8 years now. And if a gift is not insensitive you have done something wrong. A traditional fesitvus gift is whatever (DVDs, tupperware, decorations) that that person accidentally left at your apartment.
My favorite thoughtless gift I gave was framed pictures of myself, to each person at festivus. They were all christmas themed, laying by the tree, shaking a gift, etc. A few of those pictures still grace mantels around holiday time.
My wife and I recieved not one but two Happy Bar Mitzvah Cards at our wedding.0 -
Ok this is a painful memory, on my 21st b-day my then
husband said i was gonna get a special delivery.
all day every time a car drove down our cul-de-sac
I would look out the window, after hours of this he laughed
and said i never even ordered anything and you keep looking
What a douche!0 -
On our first Valentine's day together my (now) husband didn't get me anything, but gave a card to another girl, because "she'd just broken up with her boyfriend and wouldn't get one from anyone else". I pointed out that I HADN'T just broken up with my boyfriend, but I still hadn't got a card from him......because he'd been more thoughtful of someone else's feelings than his own fiancee's.
I can't say that particular trait is one I have had much success beating out of him.0 -
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: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.
Wow. I can't imagine. Just wow.0 -
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.
Was she mentally ill or have some other problems?
I'm not joking either; those sounds like a gift from someone that isn't quite "there", like the kind of person that collects string or sorts matches or something.0 -
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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.
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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.
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My 6th fiancée (I've had 8, including my 2 husbands) gave me an engagement ring he gave to another woman. He forgot he showed me this ring on our 1st date. I kept it, but made him get me another (which I also kept). I needed to come off the market.
NEVER GIVE BACK THE RINGS!!!!!0 -
Our first Christmas together, I received a fully loaded red tool box!:noway::grumble: Hahaha!:laugh:
He has since grown tremendously and has evolved thankfully to more appropriate
gifts. Like jewelry, flowers and even a Nikon D60 one year for my favorite hobby!
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Now, I'll preface this by saying my neighbors really had no money at all...and they were very sweet people....
However, when we moved in, they brought us a housewarming gift. It was 6 industrial sized boxes of powdered milk....open....with the expiration dates cut off.
Another year for christmas she called my ex over to pick up our christmas gifts (we didn't really exchange gifts with them, but whatever) and she handed him an empty, used but cleaned out, glass mayo jar.0 -
I think I have spotted a trend in these posts.... Ex, Ex, Ex, Ex, Ex, Ex, Ex, Ex, Ex, Ex, Ex, Ex, Ex.... :huh: :huh:0
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Now, I'll preface this by saying my neighbors really had no money at all...and they were very sweet people....
However, when we moved in, they brought us a housewarming gift. It was 6 industrial sized boxes of powdered milk....open....with the expiration dates cut off.
Another year for christmas she called my ex over to pick up our christmas gifts (we didn't really exchange gifts with them, but whatever) and she handed him an empty, used but cleaned out, glass mayo jar.
I just spit my tea all over my keyboard! HAAAAAHAHAHAHA!!!!0
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