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For the win. LOL LOL LOL
What did you do with the Hammer pants? Do you still have them?[/QUOTE]
No, they went to the local thrift shop a couple years later after being buried in the back of my closet. Still have no idea what the hell she was thinking. I did try them on once, though…oh, the horror…:eek::lol:
I’m just reading what some of these people think are “gifts.” UN-believable. I mean, WTF - if you got them something like that or treated them in such a cavalier fashion they would have a FIT and you would never hear the end of it.
This is the kind of thing my mother would do -
What she thinks would be an appropriate present for a vegan or vegetarian person
http://www.omahasteaks.com/products/Gift-Center/Gift-Plans?
and would be upset that they were horrified
I’m totally serious…
And while this doesn’t compare to most on here, this year I got THREE horse calendars. One was from MIL, who gives everyone a calendar with their hobby - the boys get football or baseball team calendars and I get horses. Everyone got one except SIL who loves to cook, is a fitness instructor and avid reader and knitter. She got left out, inexplicably.
My DH got me two. One generic horse calendar, like all the others, but one that he made on Shutterfly with pictures of me and my horse. <3
Except for the calendar SIL and I got identical gifts from MIL: touristy trinkets from their trip to Europe this past summer.
My MIL gave all her adult grandchildren boxes of biscuits except for our youngest daughter…she got a weight loss cookbook :rolleyes:: ouch. Daughter and her partner are very sportsmad so fit and healthy and not in anyway carrying any extra weight. Not that it would make it better even if they were fat. Who does that? And why?
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So this is not the “worst” by a longshot but it’s a headscratcher.
I have a friend who has been in my house and barn many times. It does not take many visits to the house to notice that I don’t really do “horsey” décor. I have a photos of my own horses here and there but otherwise I have a pretty modern style without a lot of equestrian tchotchkes. The barn is a work in progress, though it was laid out with the possibility for a tack room, it doesn’t have one yet. Just stalls, a wash stall and then a big empty, 2-stall area where I currently store hay and feed.
When I moved into the house 2 years ago, friend bought me a housewarming gift. It was these horseshoe hooks (the 3 in a row ones)… https://www.smartpakequine.com/pt/small-horseshoe-hooks-6108 which to me seem like they belong in a tack room. So I figured she meant the gift to be for the barn (which wasn’t yet built when I moved into the house.
Then the barn was built. And she bought me a barnwarming gift. It was a another set of those hooks. The same ones. Even though she knew I hadn’t done the tack room yet. And, presumably, she knew I already HAD a set of those because she bought them for me. So I held on to them for eventual tack room use.
And then for Christmas last year… she bought be a couple small things including another set of those hooks. Again, the same ones! Why? She had bought me two sets already? And been to the barn numerous times to see I didn’t have a tack room yet to put up hooks. Also, who needs that many hooks?!
This Christmas I received a box from here that was too large and too heavy for those same horseshoe hooks. So I breathed a sigh of relief.
It was two of these…
Massive horse-head shaped hooks. For certain meant to be “home décor.”
Which leaves me wondering, why on EARTH my friend things I so BADLY need HOOKS?!?!?![/QUOTE]
FYI my husband almost bought me some of those GIANT HORSE HEAD HOOKS because he saw them in my eBay browser history.
:lol:
My mother (a classically terrible gift giver) always said “If you don’t know what to give someone for a gift, pick out something you’d like yourself, and get them that”. I think she learned that from her mother. This ridiculous statement equals gifts like Omaha steaks, for vegan recipients, and other travesties. It also resulted in something I wanted when I was ten, getting for a gift when I was in college, and mom never understood that tastes change.
My MIL gave all her adult grandchildren boxes of biscuits except for our youngest daughter…she got a weight loss cookbook :rolleyes:: ouch. Daughter and her partner are very sportsmad so fit and healthy and not in anyway carrying any extra weight. Not that it would make it better even if they were fat. Who does that? And why?
The only thing I can come up with is that perhaps since they are very fit and athletic she thinks they only eat really low fat meals or something. I do know a lot of people who are very into healthy eating and exercise and would probably be disgusted if they received cookies as a gift :lol: but thrilled with a healthy cookbook
I love my sister, but with her gifts it’s hit or miss, lol. I keep telling her - no gifts please! She can’t help it. She loves arts and craft fairs and Christmas markets but her tastes are very much different from mine…
For instance: a very kitschy indoor thermometer with a ceramic bunny on it (???), a small hand-made, blue glass cartoon-ish horse (she KNOWS I just don’t do trinkets and other Catch-The-Dust thingy)…
She tries with my daughters. She doesn’t know them well since we live an ocean apart, and her gifts are always a miss sigh It’s been a running joke between daughters and me for the past few years. We recognize that Sis is well-meaning and generous, but her tastes are just not ours!
As for the “hook” lady…did she just forget what she gave you from one year to the next…!!!
(FWIW I’d rather get hooks than useless trinkets, lol!)
I love my sister, but with her gifts it’s hit or miss, lol. I keep telling her - no gifts please! She can’t help it. She loves arts and craft fairs and Christmas markets but her tastes are very much different from mine…
For instance: a very kitschy indoor thermometer with a ceramic bunny on it (???), a small hand-made, blue glass cartoon-ish horse (she KNOWS I just don’t do trinkets and other Catch-The-Dust thingy)…
She tries with my daughters. She doesn’t know them well since we live an ocean apart, and her gifts are always a miss sigh It’s been a running joke between daughters and me for the past few years. We recognize that Sis is well-meaning and generous, but her tastes are just not ours! With one BIG exception: One year, I received from her a long, super warm, down “trainer’s” coat. I love it, it’s great when the temps are 1F!!! But it’s way too nice to be worn anywhere near the barn! 
As for the “hook” lady…did she just forget what she gave you from one year to the next…!!!
(FWIW I’d rather get hooks than useless trinkets, lol!)
If hook hysteria infected someone else, I would have felt very bad! Close call, abrant!
4 solid glass really heavy horse figure bookends…and $100. mcD. Gift card…and a weathervane for my all TB eventing barn that is of a very evident High Stepping Gaited horse…
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and $100. mcD. Gift card…[/QUOTE]
Is that $100 cash and a McDonalds gift card or a $100 McDonalds gift card?
Judy-I know people that eat out at McD’s so often, that card would have been used up in a couple of weeks.
Oh Jealoushe!
It’s been a few weeks - inquiring minds are hoping that things went well for you at the trial . . . . . (and basically we want the scoop!)
One year I told me husband that I wanted a new vice. Old one was a hand me down from my grandfather and just not quite large enough for the work I do. He ordered it from the local hardware. They just could not believe that he was buying it for his wife for a gift! After Christmas, when I happened into the store for something, the clerks had to ask how I liked the vice my husband bought for me and was I still speaking to him??? So I had to explain that I loved, loved, loved it and it was the only thing on my list and therefore he couldn’t go wrong in buying it for me. They have since decided that I’m kind of a weird wife.
furlong47 that’s a nice thought, but, no, not in this case.
All my 5 kids and their partners are very fit sporty types, they do marathons etc.
They all have a sweet tooth and love biscuits and chocolate and certainly enjoy treats at Christmas.
And the recipe book wasn’t about healthy eating it was called ‘How to loose Weight’ and had a fad diet which aimed (on every page!) to ‘reduce calories’ and ‘daily meal planning under 1200 calories’.
I tried for years to give her the benefit of the doubt but as COTH says 'if someone shows you who they are, then believe them.
I think it’s time to revive this thread since there are new people and there have been a few years since the last reply, so come on, give us your worst present received.
A meat thermometer.
I was vegetarian.
Thanks, Dad.
My meat thermometer has a veggie setting for roasting veggies, so maybe that is what he was thinking you could use it for? Idk, I’m trying to be helpful lol
These are so entertaining - and remind me of back when i was about 11 - just got my first horse and I was obsessed! The horse was a huge expense for my family so i was working to help pay for board and using hand me downs / second hand tack etc.
That Christmas I was hoping for maybe a new bridle or fancy brushes, but as i unwrapped a package it revealed the box for a beautiful expensive set of leather boots I would never have dreamed my (non-horsey) parents would have known about nor been able to purchase! I screamed and cried and hugged my parents…my mother looked very confused and encouraged me to open the box…
…inside was a plastic rain slicker, so i could trail ride in the rain. I suppose the tack store had given them the box to help wrap it.
IT was a thoughtful gift, but from that Christmas forward I always open the box before I say anything!
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