worst x-mas present ever recieved

[Showjumper28]

Let’s see… I have gotten so many bad gifts from my Dad’s side of the family, I can’t choose. Worst all time gift? A set of $3 Walmart hangers, and the free gift you get when you buy a perfume gift set when they are running a special. These same people refuse to buy me anything horse related because my one aunt fell off a horse when she was 10 and broke both her arms. Therefore they are dangerous mean animals, and I should never have been allowed near them. I am lucky I get anything at all from them, most times they forget! The odd part… They buy my mom horsie stuff for xmas, even though she only rides because I do and she wanted us to do something together. I hate going to see them every xmas, I am not good at faking excitement. One year my aunt (same that got me hangers) got me this hideous denim jacket that was 3x too big and very western. I found out it was from Sears and when I returned it they were all laughing and passing it around and I asked what was up. They said the jacket was the joke of the store and that it had been on clearance for $3 for years. It was my only gift. I wish we could just stop exchanging gifts, it would make things so much easier. I would understand the crampy gifts if they didn’t spend a $100 each on myother 2 cousins. But whatever, I get great gifts from my parents and my mom’s family!

Worst horsey gift… My dad does try, but he got me and my mom (she rides too) a Russell Crowe movie called the Silver Stallion. The horse was a Palomino, really bad acting and they run the horse off a cliff and kill it in the end. Lol Lord that was one of the worst movies ever! We still joke about it to this day… LOL!

[RNB]

Oh goodie…this is a timely thread! My worst horsey present was from last year. Now if you remember I do not ride…my daughter is the equestrian in the family. My mother had passed away and my dad, never know for his taste in gifts to her, was trying to do all the X-mas shopping for the first time on his own.

X-mas morning my dad shows up with an arm-load of presents and a big smile on his face. We start opening. Hubby got a beautiful suede jacket and my son a leather one. Both fit perfectly and they were stylish, etc. Daughter and I ASSUME we would be getting jackets as well. Daughter opens hers first. I can immediately tell by the frozen smile on her face that is wasn’t good (mom’s can always tell these things). She, being the polite one, oooo’s and ahhh’s over the item in the box then pulls it out. I too had that frozen smile. It was a denim shirt size XL (she wears an XS or S) covered with appliqués of a western theme…wagon wheels, cowboy hats, hitchin posts, horses riding off into the sunset, sequins…you get the idea. These lovely things were on the collar, front, back cuffs…everywhere. Reminded me of the old Porter Wagoner outfits from the 60s! I felt sooooo bad for my daughter.

My turn. I’m hoping that my dad will at least get me the right size jacket. So I open my present. I must have had the same smile as my daughter. Lucky me!!! I pulled out the same identical shirt as my daughter’s!!! :eek: Ummmmm, I don’t ride, never have, not looking to! Don’t own horsey clothes!!!

God bless my dad…he sat there with the biggest smile on his face and said he thought we could match when we went to the barn together!! :lol:
Daughter and I still giggle over the shirts…no, we have never worn them to the barn together…we’re saving them should we ever decided to start a country/western band.

[quarterhorseprincess]

WOW! I was laughing so hard reading some of these that I started crying! I don’t think I have anything quite THAT bad!

My grammas are notorious for buying clothes at Christmas. I HATE getting clothes for Christmas because they are usually not my style or my size, and of course they take it offensively if I wish to return said items.

Worst Horse Gift: Hmmmm. Is there such a thing? LOL…I’ve gotten some really stupid Tshirts w/ horsey logos or pics on them but I usually find them funny so I don’t mind too much.

Guess I haven’t ive long enough lol.

[JoeIsMyHorse]

This is what you can’t have

Last Christmas, I unwrapped from my husband two CDs (my sole gifts) on vacationing in Ireland. The conversation went like this:

Him: “We’re going to Ireland! Merry Christmas!”

Me: “Wow! Awesome!”

Me, the next day: “Um, dear… not to be a spoiler, but how we are paying for this?” (I was hoping he had been saving.)

Him: “Oh… uh… well… we have some frequent flier miles…”

End result: I ended up with two CDs that basically said, hahahaha – wouldn’t this be great?!? Yeah… if you could afford it! Which you can’t! Too bad!!

This year, I’m thinking of wrapping him up a nice toy Ferrari…

[inquisitive]

My great uncle got me a black beauty book and book on tape…

…when I was 21!

[babygreenqueen]

when i was a petite scrawney 12 year old, just started riding lessons, my Dad ( Mr Thrifty ) gave me a new saddle for Christmas. it was an 18" argentine foward seat jumping saddle he hoped i would ‘grow into’. they sold for $125 back in the day at Kauffman’s in NYC.

[sk_pacer]

My absolute worst was from bro and SIL who, while well educated, have their moments of pure stupidity - they sent me a gift certificate…not bad, you say? Well the face value was 25.00 when that was a decent amount of dough, BUT the store it was for was over 500 miles away. Said certificate was sent back and nothing came this way in return after, nor ever since.

Never got any horse items, save for a raft of horse ornaments ranging from fancy china ones (Beswick) to Breyers and I still have most of them…some sadly met the end that much glassware suffers.

[camohn]

I had one very eccentric aunt. She did not have a lot of money (which is understandable) but regradless of her finances she was STILL really eccentric. I really don’t think she would have shopped any differently if she did have more to spend! So…at any rate she always did her Christmas shopping at flea markets and yard sales. WHAT that meant varied greatly from year to year from the really neat to the wildly insane. My brother and I would always leave her gift to be opened last, look at each other, take a deep breath and wonder WHAT the heck was in there this year. One of the better years I got an antique rocking chair. Of course being about 5 at the time my enthusiasm was a bit less than maybe a toy would have brought…but I still have it and like it now! Other years brought knee high toe socks in enough colored (striped) to make a clown take pause and the year I got the box lid. It looked like it came from a pretty pewter box, I think it had butterflies and or flowers on it…but no box to go with it. JUST as box lid!
I was reading this with my 10 year old daughter this morning and we were laughing…so she asked me what the worst gifts I got were. I told her about the boxless lid and the toe socks. SHe agreed the lid was weird but she laughed about the toe socks. (I was a shy conservative bookworm of a kid. Wild toe socks were so not my thing. Mydaughter OTOH is the artsy sort…her taste in clothes runs to “the more neon colors, tie dye or sparkly stuff on it the better” ) She said she would love to get the toe socks!
I wonder if I can still find them…

The only mother’s day my hubby ever got me anything was the first year my daughter was born. He got me a topaz ring. Topaz is the birthstone for my daughter. I was disappointed the next year when I got nothing, have gotten nothing on Mother’s day since. I never did ask him about it. I get really nice gifts on my Bday and Christmas from him…so I just kind of assumed after a while that as I am not HIS mother he is not buying me a mother’s day gift.

[camohn]

OMG I FOUND them! They DO still make them!!
http://www.toesocks.co.uk/Knee-high_Stripy_Rainbow-p-241.html?cat_sel=160_67

For something more local I looked on Ebay. Not only do they have those lovelies (I put a bid in on them for the kid! Not anything I would EVER have bought her unless she said this am she would LIKE them gawd help us…) but I also found an even BETTER pair to bid on. Pink argyle toe socks with pink foofie stuff (think feather boa…) around the top cuff and a pink pig knit onto each big toe!

[LD1129]

I love this thread I read it all over again for fun and out of boredom at work.

I don’t have many bad gifts but a year or two ago I got a gift from my aunt (my mom told her it would be a good idea) to get me a flashlight that sits on your head like a miner. They thought it would be good for when I walk out in the large fields to catch my horse. Well my large boarding farm does have lights and no matter what time of night I can easily find my horse and not to mention he is stalled at night in the winter.

It has stayed in my car trunk for years never used! I guess I am prepared in case I am ever in a cave in.:winkgrin:

[Trakehner]

Ex-Brother-in-Law, who always looked at horses as a “girly” thing, gave me a set of women’s britches and sweater for Christmas…problem, I’m a guy, he knew they were for women and was just his little way of making a comment.

Really special guy…don’t miss any part of that clan.

[Tory_Relic]

@King's Ransom;2054345

Love the watch. What to do?

I’d keep it and wear it when I went out or for special occasions. Heck, it was a guilt present! Wear it with glee.

To the original theme: I’ve been pretty lucky, I guess. When we were teenagers, my family started doing a drawing of names among the kids (large family), so we did that for years. Then we grew up, kids came along, and the ones with kids thought it would be a great idea for the kids to take up the tradition. With that, the gifts to me and my sibs fell to the wayside, which is okay, we still do B-days. So I haven’t gotten a gift for Christmas from my sibs in years (or given one). My mother knows I love Belk’s gift cards because they never expire and you can save them until what you want is on sale. My husband family still gives gifts to parents, all sibs, all nieces and nephews, and selected aunts, uncles and cousins that participate in exchanges. They are all out of state from us, and we basically know what they like and send gift cards to restaurants, Starbucks, department stores, etc. We would rather send a Christmas Card with the gift card than to buy something they might not really want, spend $$$ on postage, when we could just put the whole amount on that. They do a mixture of that, sometimes we get gift cards, sometimes bought gifts. His mother ALWAYS buys me clothing, but she has such good taste and knows mine well enough that I generally get things I like and it keeps my wardrobe updated. One of his sisters buys me “girly” things, which I rarely buy for myself, so that’s always a nice thing. So, I guess I’m very fortunate. I’m really glad his family doesn’t buy “horsey” things for me!

[Dressage_Art]

open jar of cream

[LD1129]

[QUOTE=Trakehner;2876180]
Ex-Brother-in-Law, who always looked at horses as a “girly” thing, gave me a set of women’s britches and sweater for Christmas…problem, I’m a guy, he knew they were for women and was just his little way of making a comment.

Really special guy…don’t miss any part of that clan.[/QUOTE]

What an a$$!!! Not to change subject but I am a woman rider and I hate when non-horsey (and some horsey) people make off the wall comments about male riders. I wish I could ride like some of the male riders I have seen.

ok sorry rant over…

[PinkPonies]

My grandparents got me a shirt that has a horse on it that changes color when you go in the sunglight - I was 19, and it was about as “uncool” as you can get, but I had to wear it! That year they also got me a big, guady replica of the titanic necklace - so UGLY, especially for someone with somewhat conservative taste!!

But they also bought me my 1st horse which was hands down the BEST GIFT EVER, so I feel guilty complaining about anything they get me!!

[DressageGeek_Ribbon]

Well, you all know that I was supposed to get Pancho from my aunt one year for my birthday, and instead (at 8 years of age) received a watch (like, who needs to be on time for things at that age?) with a huge wide patent leather band - white with black polka dots. Never did get Pancho.

To this day I am chronologically challenged, and wear only $5 Walmart cheapo watches (except one year when I found a Felix the Cat watch).

But at the holidays? The knitting machine my parents bought me at age 9. Somehow the single sentence “I WANT A HORSE” must have spelled out “Knitting machine.” Considering that I am spatially challenged, showed no interest whatsoever in the domestic arts, and was utterly horse crazy, that was a very easy mistake to make.

Although…there was the year that my evil SIL gave me cat gifts. And I said, “But…you know I had to put Jeep to sleep in September.” (And I did not have another cat.) And her reply? “Well, I’d already bought this stuff.” Wasn’t that sweet and thoughtful? Bless her heart.

[anabug]

I’m 27 years old. Last Christmas, when I was 26, my Crazy Uncle ™ gave me a plastic toy horse that walks when you push on its tail.

[HorsRdr477]

Last year I received a big huge stuffed horsie.:eek: It was cute, but I was 26 years old! WTF? What is a 26 year old going to do with a giant stuffed horse? Silly people!

[texang73]

Not a gift for me, but for my now ex-husband… my mom gave him an electric fish filet knife… He’s a fly fisherman, who catches and RELEASES… no eating of fish… Pretty clueless that year, mom. :rolleyes:

But for me… the worst thing is that no one give me anything horsey, assuming that I’ll buy it for myself anyway… :sigh:

[tabula_rashah]

A lamp- not so bad you say? Well picture a lamp that when set on the floor was as tall as my waist (I’m 5’5" FYI ) The base is a horribly gaudy western saddle made out of some kind of cheap ceramic stuff. The shade is decorated with wagon wheels, bucking horses, cowboys, etc. My aunt bought it used from a yard sale and the horn on the saddle was kinda half hanging on. I think this was about 15 years ago or so (I can’t remember- I was so traumatized by this hideous thing I think I’ve repressed the memories:D ) Now, when I went to move out of my parents house, I was going to throw the awful thing away- but my highly unsympathetic mother (who thinks it’s hysterical) makes me leave it in her basement because “someday I might want it”- yeah right- maybe to start a bonfire with:winkgrin: