Wow. I just… wow. What practical use does a tote with TWO HUGE HORSE HEAD HOOKS on it have???
Wow.
LOL, the hooks aren’t attatched…just very ugly.
Since I don’t really want a tote with HER dog on it, I have dachshunds, I will donate it to Goodwill. I haven’t decided whether to donate the hooks as well, or hang them in the garage
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Nice tote, isn’t it? I made it for her a year ago because she has a golden doodle[/QUOTE]
This has long running gag gift written all over it. For next year you can add a milk-bone pocket or a retractable lead thing and give it back to her.
Regifting is fine but giving the gift back to the person who gave it to you just is not right.
Well, a pooper scooper would be tempting, her yard reeks of dog poop but there’s to much history. I’m done with gifts from her. And to her. I gave her and her DH a signed copy of “Secretariat’s Meadow”
She’[d love Mexico. Every tourist/souvenir shop has 1000 of them 
Hang them in the barn. They are not toooooo horrid, and one can never have enough hooks in the barn - or the garage or mud room…
The tote is cute though.
Put it on ebay. :yes:
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I gave her and her DH a signed copy of “Secretariat’s Meadow”[/QUOTE]
Maybe give her one more year and you’ll get the book back. For a signed copy it might be worth it but don’t put too much into next year’s.
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I was in line to give among the Worst Xmas Presents ever…does that count? For the first time ever, our barn was going to a Big Show that was a destination as well. We were pretty excited. It would be new, Dobbinette was going well, we were giddy with anticipation that she would win something, some barnmates came along for the fun, trainer even brought along her BF. We set off in high spirits with high hopes. The first day or two at the show was good, and I bought some tasteful,cute horsey themed Xmas ornaments with little helmets, boots and saddles and the name of the show and year written on them. I was going to tie them on the trainer’s and friends’ presents for the barn party. So…that’s when it all went South. Trainer and BF quarreled the night before the Big Class, and he drove away in a huff. One friend lost a bunch of money the evening before as well. During the Big Class itself, Dobbinette uncharacteristically took spectacular exception to the salmon-colored flowers at the first oxer and dashed hopes of winning the class, or even getting around the course for that matter. The barnmates were bummed and tension was palpable. Our group all looked haunted, packed and looked ready to go home even before the show was over. We drove home, reliving the Bad Class over and over in our minds. A show gone bust. Sigh…and I unpacked those ornaments, which were winking and chorting at me. So here they sit, ungiven. Can’t even donate something like this. I’m waiting for the day when I can laugh at it. ::::insert rolly-eyed smilie here:::: Still, Dobbinette redeemed her equine self at the next show and trainer and BF smoothed it over, so all’s well.[/QUOTE]
Aww man,
I’d still give them out, maybe not for Christmas but even my worst shows, i wouldn’t mind a keepsake like that. Not to mention that you were so thoughtful before it all went south.
[QUOTE=Happyhooves;6045091]
I was in line to give among the Worst Xmas Presents ever…does that count? For the first time ever, our barn was going to a Big Show that was a destination as well. We were pretty excited. It would be new, Dobbinette was going well, we were giddy with anticipation that she would win something, some barnmates came along for the fun, trainer even brought along her BF. We set off in high spirits with high hopes. The first day or two at the show was good, and I bought some tasteful,cute horsey themed Xmas ornaments with little helmets, boots and saddles and the name of the show and year written on them. I was going to tie them on the trainer’s and friends’ presents for the barn party. So…that’s when it all went South. Trainer and BF quarreled the night before the Big Class, and he drove away in a huff. One friend lost a bunch of money the evening before as well. During the Big Class itself, Dobbinette uncharacteristically took spectacular exception to the salmon-colored flowers at the first oxer and dashed hopes of winning the class, or even getting around the course for that matter. The barnmates were bummed and tension was palpable. Our group all looked haunted, packed and looked ready to go home even before the show was over. We drove home, reliving the Bad Class over and over in our minds. A show gone bust. Sigh…and I unpacked those ornaments, which were winking and chorting at me. So here they sit, ungiven. Can’t even donate something like this. I’m waiting for the day when I can laugh at it. ::::insert rolly-eyed smilie here:::: Still, Dobbinette redeemed her equine self at the next show and trainer and BF smoothed it over, so all’s well.[/QUOTE]
Awe man! Hate it when that happens! All pumped up for a letdown! Oh well, what can you do, thats horses!! :lol: Still though, very thoughtful and cute gifts! I am sure they would have loved them no matter what!
K, I was all set to get some really stupid stuff for the baby this year. Well, it wasn’t too bad! We’ll only have to return some toys that he doesn’t care for and one goofy outfit.
But one gift that I could seriously hurt my mom for if I didn’t have a sense of humor was this for the hubby:
http://www.cafepress.com/+goats_rock_ash_grey_tshirt,37358052?cmp=pfc--f--us--007--37358052&utm_term=37358052&utm_campaign=Light%2BT-Shirt&utm_medium=productfeed&sourcecode=affiliate&utm_source=froogle&pid=6673073
You see the hubby keeps threatening to buy a goat and I HATE goats. And goats HATE me. It’s a standing joke. Enough so, I bought him a goat puppet to appease him and he can play goat with the baby which he does all the time.
So my mom has to get in the fray. It’s the first hatefully funny things we’ve gotten.
Ditto. My gift was funny (or pathetic) but yours is really worrysome. I hope you get it straightened out
I have just wasted an hour or so reading this thread lol. Then I remembered I have had two bad gifts…
Firstly when I was an absolutely horse CRAZY 13 yr old. I mean, my world revolved around horses…
My grandmother gave my (not very horsey) sister, a saddle. yes, a saddle. Me? I got a pair of underpants. $2 at most. I was gutted.
Then keeping with the underpants theme… my ex BF’s mother gave me a g-string no less. Um…thanks… I especially was thankful when she told me she’d washed it first. Huh? Yep, thats right folks, it was a USED g-string belonging to someone else!!! I didnt ask who it came from or how she got it!!! And I swiftly tossed that sucker in the bin!!! Seriously, who does that?!!
And yes, we broke up a year or so later, and she rang me to gloat that “you were never good enough for my son, I knew that the minute to you told me you didnt want to have his children” hahahaha.
Well my poor little niece just got a doozie of a bad Christmas gift! My cousin and her husband sent a gift to my brother’s for my niece, who is one. They gave her…a stuffed doggie squeak toy with a blanket. He texted me a picture - the big cardboard tag clearly says “Pet Blanket with Squeaker Toy”. Poor kid! I guess at least she got something from them, her three year old and five year old brothers didn’t.
I really hope they didn’t realize it was a dog toy. They have a six year old, so it’s not like they’re clueless with kids!
I got the same thing I got last year, and oh, yeah, the year before
From my husband.
Nothing.
Zip. Zilch. Nada.
And I spent $1500 of my own hard-earned money on gifts for him, our kids, and HIS MOTHER, who dislikes me.
And before you say it, I pay all my own horse bills, and many others besides, in spite of the fact that he out-earns me by 7 to 10 dollars to one, depending on the year. I stayed home with our kids, because we could afford it, but if I had known that he would grow into such a cheapskate I wouldn’t have done it, and my career would be much farther along, because I wouldn’t have had to start over at my advanced age.
I would stop. Just stop. Get presents for your children only. No more for him OR his mother (ESPECIALLY not the mother!) No birthday, Father’s Day, or Mother’s Day presents. NONE.
If he or his mother have the gall to say anything, just reply: Since we haven’t been exchanging presents in the past few years, I finally figured out that you don’t want any.
You shouldn’t have… no, really, you shouldn’t have…
This year I got a very dear family friend a ring of melded brass and silver, with a garnet bezel set in each side. We got her husband a nice vintage bottle of red.
They got us…
A Slapchop
Because “we know you like to cut up vegetables…”
I think holiday stress may have gotten to them because it is not usually like this:)
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From my husband.
Nothing.
Zip. Zilch. Nada.
And I spent $1500 of my own hard-earned money on gifts for him, our kids, and HIS MOTHER, who dislikes me.
And before you say it, I pay all my own horse bills, and many others besides, in spite of the fact that he out-earns me by 7 to 10 dollars to one, depending on the year. I stayed home with our kids, because we could afford it, but if I had known that he would grow into such a cheapskate I wouldn’t have done it, and my career would be much farther along, because I wouldn’t have had to start over at my advanced age.[/QUOTE]
Girlfriend…take HIS money and buy yourself a GREAT gift, have it gift wrapped…and write to my dear wife from your husband in large print on tag…open it in front of his Mother and your children…if he Doesn’t get it…honey get a new husband…
Hey Mocha! Send that slapchop to me…I’ve been lusting for one of those things FOREVER! :D:lol: I think they’re neat!
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