Well, under those circumstances, at least you got it as you should have, but a nicer thing for her to have done is given you a nice gift, and used this item to decorate the bow or something, with a nice note saying it should have been yours all along with a sincere apology. That would have been a nicer gesture.

I don't know that I have ever gotten a bad gift really. The only thing that bothers me is that you can tell not a lot of thought went into them. When I buy gifts I am always thinking about the person. Will they like it or use it. I jsut wish sometimes a little thought was put into something like that for me.

If I've given a bad gift, I wasn't alerted to it. Now, one Valentine's day, my (then future inlaws) sent a box of valentine gifts to be given to my daughter. Long story short, my husband (then boyfriend), didn't give my daughter the gift...instead, he gave the gift to me (a little stuffed teddy bear), then the jerk broke up with me. Without going into full details, he learned his lesson but I did finally take him back almost 2 months later.

Now, bad gift giving runs on hubby's side of the family. His cousin's wife and I were preggers at the same time...her daughter was born 2 weeks before my son. Anyway, for Christmas, the year she was preggers, he got her a pack of scrunchi's (for your hair) and a bottle of Pepto Bismol. I guess cause she complained of heartburn. The following year, a carton of cigs.:rolleyes: