worst x-mas present ever recieved

[Mara]

[QUOTE=DressageGeek “Ribbon Ho”;5299744]
Are uou required to hang it in the house?[/QUOTE]

Heh, I asked my husband what he thought (once we were safely in the car on the way home). He said it’s definitely on of those things we haul out only when the in-laws are coming over. Which, thankfully, is only about 3x/year.

I felt sort of bad, because she does try so hard and she was so excited about it. But she thinks that my liking horses translates into liking EVERYTHING horsey. One year she bought me a book of horse stories that I swear was written on about a 4th grade level.

[farmgirl598]

Not really horse related, but years ago, my Dad and Stepmom got me a navy blue wrap around skirt trimmed in multi colored grosgrain ribbon. The thing is, it was very “preppy”. I am usually in comfy jeans and a t shirt or tank top, and barn boots. Never could tolerate the “preppy” fashions, and they knew that! The thought was nice, and I am sure they meant well, but I remember thinking I would use it to wash the car. (I know, I am terribly ungrateful!)

[pony4me]

In the “doorstop” department, we once received a wooden dog. It was an ugly wooden dog. We kept it around for a while, and as is our family tradition, we named it. “Kindling” soon went where all kindling goes. In the fireplace.

[Frank_B]

The Christmas after I bought Normie, clueless artsy-fartsy SIL painted a pastoral scene on a mailbox with Normie running through it – wearing a halter with leadrope flapping in the breeze.

[judybigredpony]

Every year my dear sister who is horse clueless, gives me a Polar fleece jacket with a Western theme of horses cavorting on it.

Make great saddle covers for my Passier…

[Mara]

[QUOTE=Frank B;5300168]
The Christmas after I bought Normie, clueless artsy-fartsy SIL painted a pastoral scene on a mailbox with Normie running through it – wearing a halter with leadrope flapping in the breeze.[/QUOTE]

What in the world did you do with it? I mean, a mailbox isn’t like a bad painting in that you can’t really put it up and take it down just when you think the gift-giver might be coming over and need to see their gift on display.

Of course, if it were me, I’d just lie and tell her the neighborhood hooligans smashed it with a baseball bat.

[Equine_Studies]

I know a great home for the pink vest

[QUOTE=FridayzFortune;2054388]
My worst gift was from my dad. When he gave it to me he said “If you don’t like it just let me know and I’ll return it” but I couldn’t bring myself to tell him the truth, I didn’t want to hurt his feelings. But he bought me what can only be described as a zipper vest version of It, or the pink monstrosity. The whole thing is bright pink, the pockets are suede, with lots of pink faux fur all over the whole vest. My description does it no justice, you really have to see it to believe it.[/QUOTE]

My sister in law (well brother’s girlfriend-close enough) would probably love it. Or at least love it in an “it’s so ugly but it’s pink and perfect”. I mean that sincerely. She works at a farm where the owner loves pink (their barn jumper polo shirts are pink, and their Christmas gift this year were pink winter riding jackets) and since she’s Barbie blonde, she loves pink too. The flashier the better. If you need a home for it let me know.

[ThisTooShallPass]

I have an Amazon Wish List for a reason. If it is not on the Wish List, do NOT buy it. At my age one already has enough strange crap gifts.

[Alagirl]

@Frank B;5300168

The Christmas after I bought Normie, clueless artsy-fartsy SIL painted a pastoral scene on a mailbox with Normie running through it – wearing a halter with leadrope flapping in the breeze.

LOL, but mailboxes are at least usefull:

Aside from being a mail receptical, you can always place on in strategic places around the barn/farm to hold small items that tend to run off other wise, like hoof picks, gloves, knives etc…:yes:

[ThisTooShallPass]

I swear to God, I absolutely swear an oath that this is true:

My hauler just showed up fresh from the Dollar Store, handing me the bag saying Merry Christmas. It contained two cans of chili, a wedge of cheese, some saltines, & the a cheap holiday wrapper chocolate bar. I politely asked if he wanted me to make us lunch. He said no he was going up to the truck stop for a hamburger.

Believe me, this does not even rank in the top 10 of a life of strange Christmas gifts…:no:

Obviously, someone did not get the memo about the Amazon List. :lol:

[JanM]

ThisTwo-at least the stuff was from this year.

My grandparents (who apparently didn’t like my parents or any of the kids very much) would go shopping for our side of the family on the day after Christmas, at a department store that sold things that Goodwill wouldn’t have accepted. Gloves that smelled so bad they had to be clipped to a hanger and put outside for a week to air out, and still smelled so bad that we trashed them. Candy that was so old it not only had chocolate bloom (the white coating on the outside) but was crumbling from age.
Of course, the final insult was seeing their other children and grandchildrens’ presents that were very nice, and definitely not years old either.

[horse-loverz]

sigh my hubby is guilty this year… again… and he was soooo proud of himself too…

I present you… my new house shoes… or should I say… Horse shoes.…

me wearing them…

And a close up… I have named them Captain… and Oblivious after my husband…

He totally missed the sweat shirt and other items I had circled in a catalog and layed next to his wallet, his keys, his luch bag, yes I did move it around… When I asked him he said “What catalog… I never saw a catalog” to which my daughter replied… “you mean with the stuff circled on it that mom kept putting near your stuff??” facepalm…

Well maybe next year…

[Eleanor]

Last year was Dh and I’s first Christmas together. I love Dh he gets me want every I want I just have to say I need something and he pulls out the CC and buys it for me even if it is way more then I ever would spend as he says “if you need it for the horses we get it.”

Well last year I didn’t give him a list because he is so good about getting me the right thing. There was this store in the town we lived in that sold these fancy pots and pans. now they are very $$$$ type of pots and pans. He would ask me each time we would go in there if I would like them and each time I would say no I have some really nice ones that I love using. So on Christmas morning I open a big box of these pots and pans. I had a hard time not showing how hurt I was. I had told him so many times that I didn’t want them but he wanted me to want them so I got them. He even told me later he was sorry but he wanted to buy them for me. they sat in the box for about 3 weeks before they even made it to the kitchen cupboard.

This year I just gave him a list with items, sizes and website. He is still waiting for something to come in the mail, so I will get it when it shows up.

[MunchkinsMom]

My dear mother, bless her heart, really does try to put a lot of thought into her gifts. This year I got to practice my award winning acting skills when in the gifts was this movie about horse racing: The Derby Stallion (2005) with Zac Efron (Actor), Bill Cobbs (Actor), Craig Clyde (Actor).

Then we decided to watch it with her while we were still there visiting. My 15 year old daughter fell asleep 5 minutes into it, and it was all I could do to not point out all the flaws from a horse and horsekeeping perspective - let’s not even talk about the plot or acting.

It’s not the worst gift I have ever received, and I just pray that she got it at a bargain price.

[jaslyn1701]

If my grandmother was still alive I just know she would create a patchwork saddle pad just for me - lined in hot pink. That, plus the matching vest she would make for me to wear while riding horsey with his really cool pad…

[Wayside]

Poor DH, a few days before Christmas I lit a red scented candle, and he said “That smells nice. Is it Cherry?” and I said “No, it’s Apple. The Cherry candles are disgusting, they smell like cough syrup.”

Yeah, I got a cherry scented candle. I don’t know which one of us felt worse about it, though in my defense, it’s not the first time I’ve told him how much I hate the cherry ones :lol:

[Mtn_trails]

[QUOTE=mcm7780;2054285]
I really want to be able to add something besides sarcastic comments to this thread but I can’t because I’ve never gotten gifts that were THAT bad!!!

I guess the worst would be the paint by number horse set I got last year from my secret Santa at work. I was 25. He also gave me a barrel of monkeys. But it wasn’t that bad of a gift…I’ve actually played with the barrel of monkeys and look forward to painting the horse! :winkgrin:[/QUOTE]

You think that’s bad, this year at work we did a gift swap game and I ended up with a Silly Putty, a Slinky, a Yo-Yo, a set of dice, a balsa airplane, and a Whoopee Cushion, all packed in a nice box. I’m 51 BTW, not 12. Other people got nice bottles of wine, chocolate, etc. But no, I end up with the useless gifts.

[Miss_J]

I was at my almost MIL’s house when she flat out told me: “I ain’t buyin’ nuthin’ for no one this year! we can’t afford it!!” and my reply was “no worries we are kind of strapped as well and we can just exchange cards” she said(I’m not shittin you on this either), she said: but we do want a digital camera, you can go and get one I picked out at Canadian tire"…that was my first “jaw dropping” experience WTF?!

Christmas was kinda a fiasco this year, my SO and I just bought a house in the country, and I would have liked to have a Christmas meal at our new place. But it couldnt be on Christmas day as I don’t have my ten year old son(he goes to dads that day around 2pm) and I was not about to prepare a huge meal and spend a couple of days scrubbing my house down when my little man wasn’t even going to be there, makes no sense, but…I was willing to have it on boxing day or the day after what ever worked, because at the same time my almost MIL stated that ‘she ain’t buyin nothin for no one’, she also stated that; ‘she aint cookin’ no big dinner for everyone’ as well. Ok fine so that is when I had offered for those two days.

She was not happy about that…I truly didn’t get it as she wouldn’t have to lift a finger and get a huge feast out of the deal, and she said whatever I wanted to do was fine, that’s why I was kinda confuzzled as to why she was upset. I find out from SO that she wants it Christmas Day, because it’s important to her because she is so religious(not really whatever) I held my ground and said, I am sorry your mother feels that way but, ‘I ain’t cookin’ no big dinner’ LoL because my son isn’t going to be with us. I said you wanna cook it, giver hun. :lol:

LoL so she calls me the next day and asks me, to ask her son, to bring over a moose roast so they can have something for Christmas dinner, I said why don’t you come over here and grab it, doors open, (we work, they don’t and it kinda is out of the way, but if there wasn’t this drama I wouldn’t have given her a damn roast my self)) heeheehee(and I truly shouldn’t giggle but I think I actually heard steam come out of her ears)

So then I decide ok we will have it at thier place I will buy and dress the turkey and make cranberry sauce, I will bring the bird to thier place early afternoon, then drop my son off with his dad. So all she had to do was boil the potatoes and carrots.

I picked out an awesome turkey made a fantastic stuffing and a zesty cranberry sause as well as the turkey gravy!

Christmas day rolls around, and between running around with work(I run a lab of eight employees)errands associated with it, my moms dinner, my house bla bla bla, I was flat out for a week running!!! She called me four f*****g times asking when I was coming with the bird!!! I seriously almost lost it!!! I told her I told you on friday I would be there at 1:30pm.

So get it over(at 1:30pm), visit til 2:30pm, drop son off with dad, come home clean up the Christmas morning mayhem, shower do hair make-up, and sit and collect my brain for 30 minutes and leave to in-laws place. I walk in the door at 5pm, that’s 2.5hrs, and the first thing she says: what? you guys fall asleep??? 'bout time you got here! lol my SO had to hold me back:lol:

get dinner over with, go to the ‘card’/‘gift’ exchange,but first I noticed a box open already, and it looked electronic, I asked ‘oh did you get a new pnone?’ nope lorne(HB) bought me a digital camera!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!:mad::mad::mad: OMG!!!LOLOLOLOLOL, I couldn’t help my self, I said how many people did you demand a camera from? She looked puzzled…I gave her her gift, and wow shocking an effin digital camera.

And thats the end of that chapter!!:lol:

[Miss_J]

[QUOTE=SimplyRed;5299822]
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.[/QUOTE]

That is the saddest thing EVER!!! my heart actually cried!

[Alagirl]

@Mtn trails;5330786

You think that’s bad, this year at work we did a gift swap game and I ended up with a Silly Putty, a Slinky, a Yo-Yo, a set of dice, a balsa airplane, and a Whoopee Cushion, all packed in a nice box. I’m 51 BTW, not 12. Other people got nice bottles of wine, chocolate, etc. But no, I end up with the useless gifts.

I hope it was a lottery…:lol:

Or somebody saw a big prankster you keep locking in the closet!