my MIL bought me a bag of worthless crap. instead of asking me what I wanted, she went nuts on the horse theme… but for an 8 year old. she bought me a cheezy horse tee shirt, a matching sweatshirt(i dont wear sweatshirts without hoods, and I NEVER wear white to the barn!!) both clothing items two sizes too big and WHITE… a horse picture frame, that i would’ve picked out for my 6 year old niece… and a HUGE horse clock, the big stand up kind where the little pendulum thing swing? Plastic. Gaudy. did I say HUGE? She did buy me a pair of horse socks I like…
God this thread never gets old :lol:
My worst Christmas gift just came by UPS a few minutes ago. My husband went to the door to see what the package was. The UPS guy almost wouldn’t leave it, because it didn’t have the right name, until Hubby realized that was my sister’s name… anyway, after a few minutes of talking to the delivery man, a confused Hubby walks in the hosue and says, “Um, why would you sister send you a catalog???” He pulls a SmartPak catalog out of the big white envelope, turns it upside down to see if anything else is in there. Nothing. I’m wondering why SmartPak would bother to UPS a catalog. Then we found the packing slip and realized my sis had bought me some dee savers, and apparently someone at SmartPak failed to actually put them IN the envelope. I know they’ll take care of it and get them to me eventually, but probably well into January. For now, all I got for Christmas from my sis is an envelope and a catalog! (Which I already had multiple copies of!)
My step-mother-in-law and father-in-law sent my husband and I each one gold-painted actual brick with the word, ‘Executive’ printed on one side. Nice. So we have a pair of these exquisite bookends.
[QUOTE=SarahandSam;4573398]
LOL… my mother called me last week to tell me that she can’t find my Amazon wish list. I told her, well, it’s under my name; type it in again. She insists that no, it’s not coming up. I listen to her typing for a second and then quietly say, “It’s Sarah, with an ‘h.’”
“I know how to spell your name.”
(Silence/typing.)
“Well, now it’s coming up. But it wasn’t coming up before.” (Click.)[/QUOTE]
:lol::lol::lol: Reminds me of my birthday one year… Usually my parents at least call me on my birthday even if we get together before or after the day… Well one year all day I was asking hubby… “did mom and dad call??” to which he always responded “Nope” … he said by the end of the day I was looking pretty pitiful… (I was 30 for goodness sakes but geez it was just a phone call:lol:) Well I thought we were having a cookout the next day with the whole family… maybe they are doing a wee party for me too… (my birthday usually coincides with labor day)…
Next day comes… HUGE party… everyone is there… Aunts… Uncles, brothers, step brothers, parents… Do I get ONE happy birthday from ANYONE??? Nope… not one… I kept thinking this is a joke right??? seriously… not ONE birthday wish??? 
:no: Nope party comes and goes… no card… no cake… not even a Happy Birthday… :sigh:
Fast forward about 3 weeks to my younger BROTHER’S birthday… it wasn’t until then… as they were having a party to celebrate HIS birthday full of presents… cards… cake etc… that little bells and whistles went off in my parent’s head that my birthday came before his… :rolleyes: … I got a lot of red faces… and hem and haws…and someone tried to add my name to his cake by writing in the icing… :no:…
and NO I haven’t let them live it down yet… :winkgrin::lol:
Oh and I got a Bible AGAIN this year from my crazy sister in law… Not that getting a Bible is a bad thing but I have gotten one for the last 5 years from her… I could work for Gideons!!! Seriously… who wears out a Bible in a year except maybe a priest or someone on death row??? 
She does look at me funny as I open them… as if she is expecting me to burst into flames at any moment… maybe it is a test??? I am expecting a dousing in holy water one year just to see if it sizzles or something… she is a little left of center…
horse_loverz, next year buy HER a book about demons or satan. That way, it’ll average out, right? or maybe she will get the concept that you buy a gift for the person, something THEY would like.
You guys really make me appreciate my parents! I only wanted a dog, a cat, and a horse (and later at 16 a car) and I got them all, not for Christmas though, all before my 10th birthday. (Car didn’t come till I was 18.)
I hope everyone gets the presents he/she wants this year. And that you give to a needy family or animal in your community.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
horse_loverz- buy her a book on horse training. Then hopefully, next year, she’ll have forgotten who gave her this stupid book, and regift it back to you, b/c oh yes, she’s into horses isn’t she?
I may just have to do that… I almost ALMOST got her a copy of Bill Maher’s Religulous this Christmas… buuut I took the high road and got her something else… I did get her kids lip balm that says “Lookin Good for Jesus” it claims to “return lips to near virgin quality” … :winkgrin:
HAHAHAHAH!
My mom, bless her heart, grew up in the depression. So all of her gifts were “seconds”. Husband got a shirt with no button holes, plenty of buttons, but no holes. My brother got underwear with the fly sewn shut, which he didn’t discover until he had to “use the facilities”. We girls usually got socks (somewhat mismatched, they were seconds).
:lol::lol: No wonder she keeps buying you Bibles, after this year I think the Holy Water is coming…
[QUOTE=lcw579;4573843]
:lol::lol: No wonder she keeps buying you Bibles, after this year I think the Holy Water is coming…[/QUOTE]
:lol::lol: Hey I showed a tremendous amount of restraint… her husband has been arrested and is waiting trial for tax evasion (out on bail)… I COULD have gotten them a taxes for dummies book… OR higlighted “Thou Shalt not Steal” in one of my many Bibles and regifted it back to her… the lip balm seemed minor… I may be going to Hell but at least I’m not going to Jail. :winkgrin::lol::lol:
I NEED THESE!
omg the fun I can have…
My family must not like me…I haven’t ever gotten anything as cool as you guys!
I did purchase myself an Australian halter/bridle combo and my tack distributor just delivered it to my job (yes, I’m working Christmas Eve!)
I can’t wait to take it home, give it to husband to wrap and place under the tree, and be so surprised tomorrow morning as I unwrap it!!!
My husband doesn’t have a CLUE what I want/need that is horse related, so he’s content with me buying it and him giving it to me!
[QUOTE=Ted the Peep 'Ho;4558402]
Like the year I got a new saddle pad, with skulls on it. Which was this year. I am so humiliated. The eyes have red hearts, not X’s.[/QUOTE]
I’ll buy it off you! My daughter the The Completely Useless and Elderly Pony would sport it like noone’s business!
Do it next year.
My SO and I met this summer, the week after my birthday, so this is our first gift exchange.
Because this is his first Christmas without the kids, I planned a ski trip to kind of keep his mind off of it. As such, we agreed we would not exchange gifts but would instead split the cost of the trip. Cool. No awkward gift exchange.
Except…his family does a $40 secret santa gift exchange (his folks, his siblings, all the grandkids) and he wanted me to participate. Somehow, he manipulated the system so he got ME as his SS person. Fine.
Sunday, we were at a local ma & pa type grocery/hardware store. I spied some tool boxes and told him to hang on a moment while I went to look. I want to get one of those great big rubbermaid tote sized tool boxes to use as a tack trunk. They didn’t have any big enough and as I turned around, I saw the bells and whistles going off with a sparkle in his eye.
You know how sometimes, even though you want/need something, you really really DON’T want someone else to pick it out and more importantly you don’t want it as a gift? You just want to go get EXACTLY what you want?
Yeah, well…surprise. Last night was the SS gift exchange. He was SO proud of himself for finding JUST THE RIGHT GIFT. Only it’s not. It’s way too small. He was absolutely BEAMING and I planned to say NOTHING. Then of course, while we’re all circled around our gifts in the living room, his mother asks, “Dear, what do you need that for?”
Answer? "Well, I want to build a little stand and keep my saddle and brushes in it.
More bells and whistles go off and I watched the smile slide off of SO’s face.
“A saddle won’t fit in that.” he said. “Your brush bag won’t even fit in that.”
“Um…yeah. But honey, you were on the right track!”
When we got home, he didn’t even bother taking it out of the trunk. Just said that he had the receipt and we’d go pick out the right one later. LOL
Nice try though! A for effort!
1 Like
What is a perfect gift for an outdoorsy, horse crazy college student?
…apparently the special edition 2 disc twilight DVD.
Opened it and my mouth dropped open- I didn’t know what to say. Thank God my cousin mailed it and wasn’t here to see my face. I hated the twilight books, didn’t bother to see the movies. (terrible writing, weak plot, not to mention the whole vampire thing is just…ick to me.)
I guess I should just be thankful it wasn’t the Twilight trading cards?? >.<
Other terrible gifts over the years… Bird clock that chirps every hour on the hour, a labyrinth DVD, used clothes (?), a showbow too small to hold all my hair.
