Back when we were first dating, my now husband mentioned that he was thinking of buying me a vacuum cleaner for Christmas. He said all his female friends thought it was a great idea. I told him they just wanted to pick him up on the rebound when I dumped his a$$. He got me jewelry instead.
Now, years of housewifing later, I’d love a new vacuum for Christmas.
I was the typical horse crazy pre teen/teenager. I BEGGED my mom for tall boots for Christmas. At the time I was riding a family friend’s horse in a dressage saddle fairly often and we really clicked. Family friend convinces my mom to get me western boots instead because they would be “more practical.” I HATED them. I felt like an ingrate but there was NOTHING redeeming about them. The high heel and skinny toe area made my feet hurt and they were ugly. They were sort of a light $h!t brown out of faux leather with grey lowers. :no: I ended up never wearing them. I have gifted myself tall boots several times as an adult now. 
I have a very horsey DH, so he gives wonderful horsey presents… However, whenever he strays from horsey things or jewelry it gets interesting. For instance, this year for my birthday he went to Sams Club to buy me some more or the running short I had bought there earlier and loved. They had ran out of running shorts and instead of leaving the freaking store he proceeded to buy me razors, cheap face moisturizer, short socks (not the kind you can wear with riding boots), ugly tank tops, and cheap bedroom slippers… All in bulk! I mean, who needs cheap bedroom slippers in bulk??
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Back when we were first dating, my now husband mentioned that he was thinking of buying me a vacuum cleaner for Christmas. He said all his female friends thought it was a great idea. I told him they just wanted to pick him up on the rebound when I dumped his a$$. He got me jewelry instead.
Now, years of housewifing later, I’d love a new vacuum for Christmas.[/QUOTE]
LOL, buy your own vacuum cleaner! that way you can get one that sucks in a good way! 
One year when I was probably 12 or 13, my grandmother tried to get me something horsey related for Christmas. I opened several boxes of horse treats. Yes… I now had a year-long supply of a questionable brand of varying flavors: peppermint, apple, carrot, molasses, etc. Everyone else received things on their lists such as CDs, movies, gift cards to their favorite stores. The best part was, that neither my horse, nor any others in the barn, would eat the things. Oh well, she tried!
DH is pretty good…two years ago he went out on his own accord and bought me a pair of winter paddock boots. Unfortunately they didn’t fit with my halfchaps and had to go back.
I was in Camden a couple weeks ago, and stopped by The Tack Room and picked myself up a new bit, a set of curb reins and a pair of winter leather riding gloves. When I got home that Sunday I handed him the bag and told him to get wrapping! 
He thought this was grand.
Also purchased at The Tack Room was a lovely Ariat vest and a new pair of halfchaps. My mom had to have emergency neck surgery (:eek:) and is out of commission until the new year, so I called her up and asked if she wanted to pay me back for those two items since they were on my Christmas list anyway. She, too, was relieved and thought it was grand. :winkgrin:
Merry Christmas to me!
I think I had this shirt! When I was about 8 years old…I liked it back then, haha!
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A large white t-shirt (I am not a size large) with a cheezy photo of three horse heads that says: “Let’s Be Friends!”
From SIL. Who genuinely and sincerely dislikes me. 
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I have been horse mad since, well, birth. For some reason, most people don’t even attempt to get me horse related gifts for Christmas.
The last few years, however, every time my mother sees something even remotely horse related at Goodwill, she buys it for me. Books, movies, pictures, etc. Problem? Most of them are for children, young children. I’m 44. I wish she had bought me this kind of stuff when I was young. Fortunately, the neighbors have a little girl that really loves it so most of it goes to her.
My youngest brother somehow got it in his head that sending me the Elmer style figurines was a great idea. God love him, but I am not really a trinket person and the figurines are actually quite…well…ugly. I appreciate the gesture in that he’s trying to do something horsey for me and really don’t have the heart to tell him to stop even though I email him other ideas…a nice scarf for example. LOL So now I have a collection of Elmers. I keep them in a box and I swear, if he ever visits me, I will whip them all out and display them prominently, but I am crossing my fingers that I won’t get another one this year.
I’m a firm believer in that it’s the thought that counts so I know he’s really thinking of ME when he buys these.
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Last year DH gave me wool socks… because we all know how comfy those are under field boots! I sent him a list, with links, this year.
This isn’t an x-mas gift, however, I had to share. For my baby shower last Jan, my grandmother was all proud of herself for getting me something, since usually people just brought stuff for the baby (I thought that that was the point?). She hands me a beautifully wrapped present, declaring that it was the PERFECT thing to wear after delivery.
I unwrapped a size xxxL (I’m about 5’2 and 110 lbs) mu-mu type floor length nightgown. It had buttons from one end to the other. It had a VELVET AND LACE COLLAR. It was royal blue, with bright pink and red rose buds scattered about. It was made from some feed sack/wool blend that was super comfy. She completed the ensamble with rainbow toe socks and purple house slipper with grippies on the bottom. Thanks Grandma.
You betcha I had to wear it when she came to visit too![/QUOTE]
“WeeZie Jefferson, Is THAT you???”
I always get the “anything that has a horse on it” gifts as well. My grandmother bought me a vest with western horses on it. I think it was a child’s medium… I have 34F boobs… I’m pretty sure not even one boob would have fit into it, even if it had been something that I would be caught dead in.
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Now, years of housewifing later, I’d love a new vacuum for Christmas.[/QUOTE]
Hold out for a Tri Star - Best vacuum ever! It can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.
I can’t think of any terrible horse related gifts. I don’t get as many of those as you’d think. The worst gift in general, however, was Proactiv, from my then-fiance’s grandma.
Yes, I have acne (and all the scarring that comes with it), but it’s a subject I’m sensitive about–and I’d already tried that stuff before and it didn’t work! It’s just an incredibly insensitive gift to give someone you don’t know very well. It must run in the family, because when I was playing with the Wii and making my Mii, then-fiance asked why I didn’t pick the freckles option.
…BECAUSE THOSE AREN’T FRECKLES, YOU BUTTNUGGET.
That’s really crappy Beau!
I can’t think of one for myself. I’m sure there’s something that I’ve blocked from memory.
As for other family members… The first Christmas in their new house, my dad gave my mom chair casters. Because they needed them. Another year he gave her an iron because she wanted a new one (but not as a gift). I think she threw it at his head. It’s no wonder that as soon as I was old enough, Dad put me in charge of picking out her gifts.
Perhaps your grandmother thinks you should stop at one kid and has given you the means to prevent any further pregnancies??? No further contraception needed lol…
This is addressed to Superminon…who I was trying to quote and somehow screwed up…still not used to the new system!
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I can’t think of any terrible horse related gifts. I don’t get as many of those as you’d think. The worst gift in general, however, was Proactiv, from my then-fiance’s grandma.
Yes, I have acne (and all the scarring that comes with it), but it’s a subject I’m sensitive about–and I’d already tried that stuff before and it didn’t work! It’s just an incredibly insensitive gift to give someone you don’t know very well. It must run in the family, because when I was playing with the Wii and making my Mii, then-fiance asked why I didn’t pick the freckles option.
…BECAUSE THOSE AREN’T FRECKLES, YOU BUTTNUGGET.[/QUOTE]
then fiance?
as in ex?
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Perhaps your grandmother thinks you should stop at one kid and has given you the means to prevent any further pregnancies??? No further contraception needed lol…
This is addressed to Superminon…who I was trying to quote and somehow screwed up…still not used to the new system![/QUOTE]
I just snorked Pepsi! I never thought of it that way. Although if you ask DH he’ll tell you that the memory of DD’s birth was burned in his brain. After she was born, and they handed her over, I looked at him and his eyes were all watery. I was touched, “Awwwww honey, it’s okay to cry!” I said. “I’m not crying,” he replied “I’m just trying really hard not to throw up.”
Bless his heart.
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then fiance?
as in ex?[/QUOTE]
Oh yes. I ran away from that one (for other reasons). Still friendly with the guy, he’s just…
…not very bright, socially speaking?
ETA: I’m now seeing acne product ads on the sidebar. Siiiiigh. Hahaha.
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Oh yes. I ran away from that one (for other reasons). Still friendly with the guy, he’s just…
…not very bright, socially speaking?
ETA: I’m now seeing acne product ads on the sidebar. Siiiiigh. Hahaha.[/QUOTE]
:lol:
(ad block!)
My memory is shot – I don’t think I mentioned this before, but I’m too lazy to search for my previous posts…
My MIL’s taste is all in her mouth. I’m a graphic designer/illustrator, so she thinks I’ll love gifts of “art.”
For our wedding present, she went to a supposed Native American art sale and bought a truly heinous painting of buffalo running with a woman in the sky blowing – “This represents the wind,” she informed me. I love and greatly respect true Native American art – this does not qualify.
Later, she gave us a huge finger painting she did as a child – judging from the colors, I would hate to speculate on the medium she used. I don’t want to sound like I don’t appreciate the sentimental value, but this thing is unbelievably ugly, and we’d much rather think of her in other ways. We could never get rid of it, of course… but hey, how many people hang “art” in their closets?
We hang the “art” my SIL gave us 2 years ago - a horrible personalized thing from Current, the stationery people, behind some books. When SIL is due to visit, we pull it out and actually put it where people can see it. Once she’s gone, back into hiding it goes.
It’s a sickeningly “precious” horsey painting, and it’s bad. Unfortunately my SIL’s tastes lean towards sickeningly precious.
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