It’s worth mentioning (again) that this thread make me LOL so hard. Someone needs to make a book out of this thread!
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ummm…we just recieved a GIANT like 4ft long TROUT pillow from my hubby’s brother.
Is that bad enough??? What do you DO with something like that???
Edited to add something horsey… my Dad’s SO…bought me a “helmet”…it was about 2mm thick…fake velvet…and had an elastic band for a chin strap…that wasn’t removable…Couldnt sell it, couldnt give it away, couldn’t return it!!! I have NO earthly idea where she got IT! (and I don’t really like her either anyways so it made it that much worse…)[/QUOTE]
perhaps she doesn’t like you either 
why else give someone a faux helmet lol
Is that bad enough??? What do you DO with something like that???
Well, first do your thank-you - “Thanks for thinking of us. Blahblahblahblah, It’s interesting. We just love the way the eyes follow us around the room. Bless your heart, etc, etc.”
Then post it to your local freecycle or craigslist and see if anyone actually finds it a great thing. Often the stuff that I don’t like has people that just RAVE over it. Different strokes and all that. 
I still like the hair dye/douche combination gift the best. That was awesome! :lol::lol::lol:
I don’t have a horrid story. But these stories are the reason I pretty much banned everyone from getting me horse stuff unless specifically directed. I have lots of aspects to my life and there are plenty of other things to get me!
Thanks for the laughs!
Sandra
The huge, honkin cowboy belt buckles, one for me and one for my husband. I do not come from a rodeo family and the only buckles my husband and I wore were trophy buckles that we had won.
They cost a lot of money, but they were the size of dinner plates!!!:eek:
I HATE horse-related gifts. I’m 18, not 8. Last year I got a hideous horse candle. We always ask my cousins what they want, yet my aunt thinks she knows I want a horse candle, lol.
Also, my brother got married last year. At Christmas, his wife’s mother was going to get me some stuff from Bath & Body Works, but my SIL told her that if she wanted to get me something I really wanted to get me something horse related. Umm, no. hahaha
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Well, theres always the array of bath and body products that my aunt gets me every year, even though I’ve clearly asked for a gift card to a store so I can actually buy myself jeans or clothes, and the fact that she knows I can’t even use them since the perfume in the lotion inflames my already sensitive and uber-dry skin. Apparently I’m supposed to get all giddy and excited about it…and even more so when the mani-pedi tool set comes out…I got one 5 years in a row…I don’t think that she really gets the fact that my nails will never stay nice for more than one day. Maybe she’s hoping that this will coax me into spending more time grooming myself than my horse.
Though this year takes the cake, at school, my RA staff was having a gift exchange, $10, not so hard, very easy, right? I got my giftee a movie night from Blockbuster, $10 gift card, with a box of candy all inside a bowl of popcorn, and my giftee got me a book. Not just any book, but one from the Border’s ‘bargain book rack’ about horses. The ones that everyone gets from family members when they find out you’re into horses, and this was a guide to breeds. Did I mention, I’m 21 and have been riding for…about 10 years…and she knew this. What made it even better was the sticker on the back that said $4.99.
:no:
my husband bought me a sewing machine, do i look like i want to sew
altho he also got me the closed circuit tv for the barn but in a way it was his own gift since if i hear the horses at night i wake him up to go out and check them
Thank goodness my inlaws have given up on buying me clothes. If they want to get me clothes (and at times they do) they have my hubby do the shopping for them now. The first couple years we were married the problem when THEY did the shopping was size. MIL was probably 5’1 in her heyday. She is about 4’11 now. I am 5’8. Shopping for me at Talbots petites shop really does not work very well…I have enough trouble getting anything not labelled “tall” with the hems and sleeves long enough not to be 3/4 sleeve tops or clamdiggers…
One year I got a Ralph Lauren sweater with a horse on it. NICE sweater though at a size too small think the old tight high school cheerleader look. I could not exchange it as by after the holidays they no longer had it in a bigger size so I still have it. For one the hubby kind of LIKES it if I occasionally wear a sweater a size too small! I figure at the rate my daughter is growing she can wear it soon…so she will soon inherit it (along with be helpful doing wash not knowing wool sweaters MAY survive the washer but definitely NOT the dryer…and he did it TWICE after I was upset he did in the first one!!)
A good friend (but non-horsey) gave me some bubble bath, lotion and spritzy misty stuff for christmas a few years ago. Thank god I waited to open it up when no one was around because the first whiff of it smelled EXACTLY like, um, shall we say ‘a stinky horse dinky’. I couldn’t just chuck it because every time she came to visit, she asked if I put the lotion in the guest bath and if people loved the smell as much as she did. Ugh. I finally emptied the bottle for her last visit and left it in the bathroom so she could see that it was all done. I told her PLEASE don’t stress out about replacing the lotion. She told me the company didn’t sell that ‘flavor’ anymore anyway. Probably too many horse people all making a gagging sound at the same time. . . . . .
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hahahaha!! I love this thread! Work is so slow today and this is keeping me entertained! Some of the presents are so funny! And some are just terrible.
Now I’m not too fussy about things, in my humble opinon you don’t HAVE to spend a lot to get someone a nice gift, it just takes time to find something that they’ll like. I’m good at being thrifty but still getting awesome presents (at least I think I am LOL). I personally LOOOVE to get people things that I know they’ll love.
I am SOOOO SICK of getting cheap Walmart/Zellers/Grocery store “Bath” sets, y’know the stuff with the bubble bath, bath salts and stinky lotion. Bleh. I rarely take baths and don’t use stinky bath stuff.
Worst present ever? Hmm… that’s a tough one. My step mother’s mother always gets cheap, stinky weird stuff but she means well. My step mom is actually pretty awesome about presents.
Last year my aunt sent me a big carepackage of interesting foods (some VERY interesting lol) and a book on “Women’s Health”. You name it, this book had answers/descriptions about it. Kinda handy I suppose?
Probably the worst is that I rarely get horsey stuff. Nobody in my family knows much about horses so they have no clue as to what I want, even if described in great detail. My mom actually does pretty good, she’s gotten a lot better over the years.
Oh and nobody buys me clothes anymore THANK GOD!!! Not only did most of the clothes not fit but they were sooo not my style.
Folks, we have a winner.
:lol::lol::lol: I second that motion.
:lol: Off on a tangent here - Mr. RR did much the same thing on our wedding day.
We had a dishwasher that didn’t work real well. And another one, slightly used sitting in the garage. On our WEDDING DAY he decided that having the “newer” one from the garage installed might be a nice present. :eek: He was late to the church waiting for the dishwasher installer guy to finish. There’s Mr. RR, standing in the kitchen in his tux, tapping his foot while Mr. Installer Guy fiddles around trying to get the slightly used dishwasher installed.
He failed - to install it that is - and Mr. RR finally kicked him out to get to the church before everybody thought I was being left at the altar. We returned home on our wedding night to the kitchen all torn up and no dishwasher.
He’s a great guy, so he’s long forgiven, but good grief, don’t ever schedule a major appliance install the day of your wedding! :rolleyes:
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My grandmother went on for months and months about how I would love my christmas present… I was thinking, new show coat or something like that. Day after Christmas when we went to visit… I got a Tiffany lamp shaped like a horse. Probably fairly expensive, but it sits dusty in the basement in all its pink-maned glory.
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Alright. I was just given a T-shirt that says “15 hands between your legs is better than one.”[/QUOTE]
I guess it is aimed at western riders.
If it was aimed at DQs it would say “18 hands between your legs is better than 15.”
OH…MY…GAWD!!! TOO flippin’ funny! :lol::lol::lol:
I am always worried when someone prefaces handing over a gift to me by saying, “Really. You are going to LOVE this.”
My cousin is awesome. I send the info, she gets it. She may not know what it is (like the year I received a beautiful leather halter, but she seemed - squeamish - about me opening it in front of my then 10 yr old godson. Because, it seems, she wasn’t sure if it was really for the horse and was worried it was something “kinky.” But a “kinky” leather halter beats a pair of frilly young jr pajamas hands down.
Bad presents… hmmm…welllll…not so much. Usually stuff it’s easy enough to recycle if it’s not to my taste. But I have been the victim of hideous horsey candles and multiple horsey calendars, and, oh yes…a fringed cowgirl shirt. (Ridden “english” in one form or another since I was 9, 'tho I have been on a few cutters and reiners along the way).
However… I do have a friend who has it down pat (but of course, she used to have horses): She always asks, “What does _________(horse’s name) want for Christmas.” LOL This year, I (that is Mark) will get a new leather halter. G And my brother and SIL give the best present of all for a horse owner: CASH.
I did a bad thing. Well, maybe. A fellow COTH (name not disclosed to protect the innocent) was complaining to me about her sister, who works for the fashion industry in NYC. Who decided this year she was going to get (using her major discount, of course) something for our fellow COTHer from the collection she works for. A “young junior” type collection. J-Lo’s specifically.
Our fellow COTHer was disheartened. Money is tight, she’s a student in a combined MD-PhD program. In lab, you wear jeans. At the barn, you’d wear breeches. At a meeting or seminar, you’d wear nice, adult, professional slacks. You wouldn’t wear anything made by J-Lo aimed at the 14-18 year old market. Trust me on this one.
The fellow COTHer had gotten a nice gift for her sister. Something her sister wanted. Something the sister specifically asked for.
I advised her thusly:
Bring the original gift, keep the receipt at home. IF the sister was simply messing with her, and gets her a more lifestyle- and age-appropriate gift, go ahead with original plan. If not, get her a gift in kind. And hand it over with a beaming smile, and say, " I had gotten you something else, but when you told me what you were doing for my present, I realized that you were trying to share with me what it is you do, and how important to you it is, and I felt that the original gift wasn’t in keeping with that wonderful sentiment! So I decided instead to get a you something that would share with you what I do. Thanks for thinking of this!"
She has the perfect gift. It’s a book about the discovery of one of the first cancer genes. Even better, it was free - someone left it in the lab’s library, and it’s new.
My reasoning is, this way, our fellow COTHer makes her statement with a “spirit-of-the-season-sentiment”, and her sister will not pull the same stunt next year. Really, these issues need to be addressed!
Next question. Does this make me evil? Bwaaa ha ha ha ha!
