Hahahhaha! Omg my mom did almost the same thing to me…except I was in my early 20s 
I think I should have been offended, but I was actually pretty excited because it was the expensive Proactiv stuff. Since it’s a subscription type thing where they auto bill you and send it every couple months I got her to keep paying for it for a couple years.
I do remember her looking a little apprehensive when she handed me the present though :lol:
Yes, your hubby is awesome!
Two words : Amazon Wishlist!! It has a Universal Button where you can add anything you want , heck I’ve added horses! But seriously the rule is for our family and close friends is that you better put it on your amazon wishlist or you aren’t getting anything ! :lol:
thanks guys… he rocks
Perhaps I’ve turned into the grinch, but i’m so weary of money being wasted on unneeded gifts…I find this to be obscene when the money could be donated to those who truly need it.
I’ve suggested that we all pick a charity, but no – my family insists that gifts are more fun. Yes, we can (and do) donate on our own, but we still have to deal with receiving unneeded gifts.
My husband is a musician and composer. From time to time he’s given one of his cds as a gift, and one of my brothers actually had the nerve to say that this wasn’t a REAL gift, as it didn’t cost him anything. Excuse me?
So, yes…I am an unapologetic grinch…at least for today…
Ok, so does anyone want to tell me if this is a bad gift for a friend/ student? I was going to sell all 3 of my Breyer Porcelian USET series. But decided to keep the Cross Country. My friend/student is a show jumper so I was going to give her the Precision, you know this one http://www.howardstables.com/Precision%20Jumper.jpg BUT the standards need to be glued back on 
But this is an almost imposible piece to find and is stunning. So let me know if this is a bad gift idea
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Ok, so does anyone want to tell me if this is a bad gift for a friend/ student? I was going to sell all 3 of my Breyer Porcelian USET series. But decided to keep the Cross Country. My friend/student is a show jumper so I was going to give her the Precision, you know this one http://www.howardstables.com/Precision%20Jumper.jpg BUT the standards need to be glued back on But this is an almost imposible piece to find and is stunning. So let me know if this is a bad gift idea :([/QUOTE]
If she doesn’t want it, I’ll take it! It’s gorgeous!
The Jenners-I think I got that awful ‘foal on grass’ statue too. My SIL picked it out, and I really don’t think she likes me. (the feeling is quite mutual).
Couture-That’s a great gift!
Myalter1-I love your husband too! Maybe this year he can get them matching tshirts with his picture on it (in the wrong size of course).
Wouldn’t it be nice if the idiots who give us this junk would donate it to a worthy charity? Of course, with our luck it would be one that we’d hate.
Worst gift ever was not horse related. My ex husband, one first wedding anniversary, came home with a big, square, heavy box wrapped in white lacy paper with a pink and white lace bow, which he presented with a flourish. “I had the saleswoman wrap it!” Well, I tore into that, I was so tickled, only to find… a steam iron. He wasn’t clueless about gifts. This was what he wanted me to want. Which is why he is an EX!
Best gifts ever from my current husband, who is a wonderful man; a horse, a truck, a trailer.
Best gift from the parents was a round pen for Christmas.
Me too.
FWIW I have seen this
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FRANKLIN-MINT-HORSE-RIDER-FIRST-PRIZE-BHS-PORCELAIN-/260916133308?pt=UK_Collectables_AnimalCollectables_SM&hash=item3cbfd03dbc
and its companion Best Friends available quite reasonably…a lot less than I paid for them. I’ve gotten some nice Franklin Mint horses on eBay.
A good friend of mine usually got “useful” gifts from her husband (steam iron, etc) but one Christmas, she opened her gift to find…a drill. Which was needed to renovate the house they’d just bought, ya know.
The one bad Xmas present I remember was from my sister, who is horsey and usually spot on. But that year, I got a cheesy ceramic bunny/thermometer. WTF?!
We do very minimal gift giving. Hubby and I don’t give each other presents, period, so that’s much easier.
The kids tell us exactly what they would love (and may or may not get!). I admit I do have fun with their stocking stuffers: socks, acne products, toothpaste (for the one who always forget to brush her teeth), underwear, etc. etc.
In-laws usually send me a good book.
Even tho I keep telling people NOT to send us ANY gift. I am a little more disgusted every year with all the gift-buying frenzy.
secret santa strikes again…
So I had to add this because I’ve been bewildered for a week. We are playing Secret Santa at work and they all know how much of a horsey person I am so I was expecting cutesy horse stuff since it’s easy to find and cheap.
Instead… my first gift is a tiny ornate baggie that turns into a glasses polishing cloth.
I wear contacts.
Always.
lol… I’m so confused and amused, especially when trying to figure out what to tell people when they ask about my gift. Coworkers are as stumped as I am, but I just keep repeating that the baggie is lovely and has cute little red birds on it 
Id hafta say StepMom is probably the worst giftgiver in the family. Shes given us:
a satin comforter. It was blue print–our carpet is pine tree green. It was a double bed sized. Our bed is queen. Its satin–DH cant abide the stuff (not that she knew that).
Christmas dishes–that have to be eaten from when they come for dinner. I hate to wash dishes for 7 and they cant be put in dishwasher.
Turtleneck for DH. Size M. He wears XL. I have it now. :lol:
She shops clearence racks all year then hands the stuff out. Now Dad just gives us $$. I give them a gift certifcate to eat out. It works much better for all of us.
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An old rake from my MIL.[/QUOTE]
I know this is from three years ago but I seriously almost wet my pants reading this. :lol:
Winner!!!
My sister bought me one of these
http://www.potterybarn.com/products/horse-hook/?pkey=chardware-hooks
thinking that since it was horsey, I would love it.
Well, it’s ugly for one. But I felt I had to put it up. It took some thought to where to put it, and the only place was on a closet door. The base of it was not flat so it wouldn’t mount flush to the door. It was so big, it threatened to poke a hole in the wall (and we already have a door stop). When we gave up on it and tried to remove the screws, they broke off in the closet door. We had to buy a new hook to cover the screws left in the door. I returned it, and called my sister to tell her how sorry we were that we couldn’t make it work.
My MIL, who is very much into what hubby and I call “ju-ju” got me an anti-negativity crystal pendant for Christmas last year.
Does it repel her?
My dad (who I didn’t see for about 13 years) used to send me snowglobes/waterglobes/musicboxes of all sorts and kinds. Dolphins. Horses. Butterflies. I would have loved these when I was 10, but I was in my 20s. The past few years he’s sent me an American Express gift card or a gift card to the bookstore. Whew. I still thanked him profusely and still have them, though 
I did appreciate the thought, and he knew I loved animals, and he hadn’t seen me in my formative years.
One gift I always thought was the worst was my grandma’s annual bag o’pistachios. Like, a 5 lb bag of them. These always got passed on to my mom. Come to find out - this year, when I’m 30 - I freaking love pistachios. All those wasted nuts… :no:
As for my best gifts? Mom bought me a saddle once… 4 years ago, I bought myself a horse 6 days before Christmas, and this year - my boyfriend got us tickets for the 2012 Derby
I have gotten my share of tacky horsey things from relatives for sure…
Just about every year, Marcus, my SO gets me some kind of “John Deere” wear from Tractor Supply for a gag gift. Last year was pink John Deere gloves, the year before was yellow John Deere socks, and so on…anyone who knows me realizes I hate these :). Drives me nuts but he thinks it’s hysterical.
Luckily, these are only the gag gifts…in 2009 he & his crew built me a new indoor arena and last year I got the down payment for my new 2011 4 Star trailer…HE ROCKS :winkgrin:
I’d happily wear John Deere socks and gloves if it got me an indoor or a downpayment on a new trailer. No such luck, however.
My SIL is a hippy and not exactly tuned into what the rest of the world has been doing since the 1960’s. One Christmas she gave Hindu Mud sculptures to her parents and my DH. Basically these were reddish brown mud tablets with Hindu gods and goddess on them. Allegedly these were sacred Ganges river mud sculptures.
I have no issue to Hinduism and other religions, but my in-laws are practicing Catholics. My husband is non-practicing. Also, my SIL is not Hindu. Why on earth did she think her family would want mud tablets of deities from another religion on a Christian holiday is a mystery.
I took the tablets and sold them on eBay.
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