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  • JoyousRen
    JoyousRen Posts: 3,823 Member
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    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.
    My jaw literally dropped when I read this. :flowerforyou:
  • ♥jewel♥
    ♥jewel♥ Posts: 839
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    i love this, and could spend all afternoon reading it, but then i would probably get fired, so i will read it later.
  • mikeyml
    mikeyml Posts: 568 Member
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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.
  • Stacey765
    Stacey765 Posts: 86 Member
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    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! lol
  • LimeyTart
    LimeyTart Posts: 303 Member
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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???
  • kmcgrath1
    kmcgrath1 Posts: 175 Member
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    Oh My God! I think that's worse than my grandmother's used mu mu's! :huh:
  • destinationparadise
    destinationparadise Posts: 59
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    For Valentines day my husband bought me a pair long johns underwear from Cabela's.
  • Happyoceangirl
    Happyoceangirl Posts: 1,993 Member
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    Bumping - this thread is great for some giggles :bigsmile:
  • rgutie1
    rgutie1 Posts: 84 Member
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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.
  • JoyousRen
    JoyousRen Posts: 3,823 Member
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    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 :cry:

    What a douche!
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
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    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.
  • Kityngirl
    Kityngirl Posts: 14,332 Member
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    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.
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    Wow. I can't imagine. Just wow.
  • wewon
    wewon Posts: 838 Member
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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.

    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.
  • DerGraf
    DerGraf Posts: 40 Member
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    [[/quote]

    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.
    [/quote]


    hahhahahhahahahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
  • DerGraf
    DerGraf Posts: 40 Member
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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.



    hhhahahahhahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  • Bootzey
    Bootzey Posts: 274 Member
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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!!!!!
  • Therapist_mama
    Therapist_mama Posts: 135 Member
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    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!:love:
  • shelcof
    shelcof Posts: 62 Member
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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.
  • Kolohe71
    Kolohe71 Posts: 613 Member
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    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:
  • MartiJJohnston
    MartiJJohnston Posts: 517
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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!!!!

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