Awkward gift giving moments

milkandsugar
Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:14:36 +0000

My MIL was never good at accepting gifts or giving gifts. We would never see her using any of the gifts we gave her over the years. Until one year, my mom and I invited her to join us in doing a neighborhood tag sale and several of the gifts my mom and I gave her showed up sitting on the table. We were really insulted that she didn’t even care enough to realize that those gifts had been from us at various times over the years.
One year, the UPS man was showing up at the door almost everyday with packages for her around November, December, foolish me thought, Wow, we are going to get some gifts this year. Christmas morning came and she announced that she couldn’t get anybody gifts because she was broke and didn’t have any money. Didnt see that coming!