What's the worst gift......

[Marilyn]

Originally Posted by DianaB

That was pretty tacky to give you back a gift that you had given to your MIL!!

Did the sister-in-law know you had given it to the mother-in-law? If not, that's just too funny!!!! LOLOLOLOL

I received a gift last year that I know a couple had received as a wedding gift (we were at their shower), and my daughter received a gift from the same couple that we had given him for his birthday a few years ago. People need to be more careful recycling gifts. In our case, this couple is very special and we know their heart is in the right place, and they have no idea that we realize what they did. Life can be interesting and humorous at times.

[Willow]

Originally Posted by Marilyn

Did the sister-in-law know you had given it to the mother-in-law? If not, that's just too funny!!!! LOLOLOLOL

I received a gift last year that I know a couple had received as a wedding gift (we were at their shower), and my daughter received a gift from the same couple that we had given him for his birthday a few years ago. People need to be more careful recycling gifts. In our case, this couple is very special and we know their heart is in the right place, and they have no idea that we realize what they did. Life can be interesting and humorous at times.

Yes she knew before she gave it to me. The sad part is when my MIL passed my FIL was going to give it to me. That same day she stole it from the house. She had it hanging in her house for the next year then took it down and wrapped it up and gave it to me for Christmas. Her husband flat out told us it was because she felt guilty everytime we came up there and seen it on her wall.

[Marilyn]

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.

[Emmsmom]

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.

[Kimberley]

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.