:mad: the worst Christmas present(s) have all come from the individual I married. One year, he gave me a 5 lb jar of peanut butter. Last year, a “snuggly”
horseshoe shaped cake pan
Former SIL (she left the family, not I), gave me a horseshoe shaped cake pan for Christmas one year. I am not a cook nor have I ever posed as a cook.
For my husband’s birthday that January, he had a horseshoe shaped birthday cake made out of cake mix with the pre-made frosting that comes in the jar and sprinkles. Ugh, we threw over half of it away, I somehow managed to ick it up. My husband got a kick out of his special cake.
The next Christmas, the pan was re-gifted as part of a Santa gag gift game at a local civic club in our community. I still grin when remember the man who choose this gift wearing it as a halo on his head the rest of the game, trying to talk someone into taking it from him. Sadly, he went home with the cake pan that night.
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OMG I must find one! I have a friend who has a phobia about running off the road, into the water, and drowning.[/QUOTE]
Well, you’d be welcome to mine IF I could find it. I think I lost it somewhere along the way.
BES
This made me laugh. I think I like your husband’s sense of humor. Just a bit warped. 
[quote=BlueEyedSorrel;5278610]Well, you’d be welcome to mine IF I could find it. I think I lost it somewhere along the way.
BES
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They have to be available somewhere… I got one of them puppies…not that I think they are especially worthy of having in the car…I am aiming to live to be 100 and never need one… but somehow one found it’s way into my life. Seriously, of all the bad things to give and get, by far not the worst! 
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OMG I must find one! I have a friend who has a phobia about running off the road, into the water, and drowning.[/QUOTE]
The Container Store usually has them in their stocking stuffer bins, if you have one close to you.
I got a card saying that I was going horse shopping for xmas. vetted a horse, the seller backed out and that was that. no horse for xmas. thanks mom!
I think I have said I want nothing ever since then.
He sounds like a great brother!
I never know what I am going to get from my husband at Christmas. One year it was an EMPTY plastic tool box. Another year it was a LOVELY Pikeur Diana dressage coat
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Well, you’d be welcome to mine IF I could find it. I think I lost it somewhere along the way.
BES[/QUOTE]
It’s probably under the driver’s seat with the french fries and spare change. Exactly WHERE are you supposed to keep those escape tools so you will A. Be able to find it and B. Be able to reach it… when you are rapidly sinking into Lake Erie and panicing? And it CAN happen. You hear of a floater at least once a year.
HAHAHAHA if you are actually near Lake Erie…
I don’t live THAT near, but it does come to visit. 
We’re expecting another 18 inches of Lake Erie on our doorstep today. Almost certainly there will be escape scenarios occurring :yes:
bad boyfriend, bad gift
Very self-centered boyfriend gave me an electric teflon-coated griddle for Christmas, saying, “Now you can make bacon right”. Got rid of that, and the boyfriend. True to form, when I broke up with him, he said…“But I was so happy!”
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“Now you can make bacon right”. "[/QUOTE]
:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: OMG, snork, sorry, I canNOT stop laughing at that one, I can almost hear the self-satisfaction. AHAHAHAHAHAH!
Well, my sister-in-law strikes again. Bless her, she is so sweet but she’s got a long record of strikeouts in the gift department. She tries really hard and puts a ton of thought into it, but really, she does best when she sticks to gift cards.
Part of it is just her taste. She is very into “cute”, and “quaint”, and “charming” and “darling”. Nothing wrong with that but it does not match either DH’s (her brother) or my style.
This year she was SO excited - kept saying she couldn’t wait to see the looks on our faces when we opened our “big” gift. I kept this in mind and thankfully she has no idea that I’m just not grokkin’ her gift. Husband was less successful in that regard.
Ahem. It’s a “personalized painting” from Current (the stationary people). It’s a stretched canvas with two horses gazing dreamily at each other over the fence. The fence itself has my name and DH’s carved into it, inside a heart.
The horses actually do look like horses, though they are clearly of the “majikal long & flowing mane & tail” variety.
It’s just soooo not us. Or even me.
Are you required to hang it in the house?
I almost think there should be a room devoted to bad horsey decor.
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Well, my sister-in-law strikes again. Bless her, she is so sweet but she’s got a long record of strikeouts in the gift department. She tries really hard and puts a ton of thought into it, but really, she does best when she sticks to gift cards.
Part of it is just her taste. She is very into “cute”, and “quaint”, and “charming” and “darling”. Nothing wrong with that but it does not match either DH’s (her brother) or my style.
This year she was SO excited - kept saying she couldn’t wait to see the looks on our faces when we opened our “big” gift. I kept this in mind and thankfully she has no idea that I’m just not grokkin’ her gift. Husband was less successful in that regard.
Ahem. It’s a “personalized painting” from Current (the stationary people). It’s a stretched canvas with two horses gazing dreamily at each other over the fence. The fence itself has my name and DH’s carved into it, inside a heart.
The horses actually do look like horses, though they are clearly of the “majikal long & flowing mane & tail” variety.
It’s just soooo not us. Or even me.[/QUOTE]
I feel faint, just imagining it…what on earth will you DO with it?!! :eek:
A horse? Not.
Worst horse related gift I ever got was when I was around 6 or 7 and horse obsessed. I opened a small box to a note saying “clip clop clip clop, come find me on the back porch” for the entire ten seconds it took me to scream in delight and run to the back porch/back yard I was convinced I got a pony for Christmas. Come to find out I got a horse head on a stick that made noises. I was so so devastated, but I was a good kid and pretended to be happy. Right after we got done opening presents I went to my room and cried. Still to this day my parents think I was merely delighted to get the stick pony… they don’t know that in reality they traumatized their daughter :lol:
Speaking of horrid horsey decor, I once got a “foal laying on patch of grass” statue. Only said foal had his ears coming out of the side of his head, very bovine-esque. I used it as a door stopper for a year, then tossed it.
