A good place to hang kitschy art that you like but don’t want in the house is in the garage. I have my collection of weird thrift store paintings hanging there. I have shelves and surfboard racks all around the garage but there’s plenty of room above the top of the shelves and above the garage door to hang stuff.
It stated on the gloves’ inside label that they were rabbit fur. My Mom just didn’t look, and assumed they were fake, I’m sure… I just always look at the labels out of habit… But yes, I heard about the issue with high-end stores getting actual fur items and assuming they were fake… .
This thread really is funny!!
My MIL got us a subscription to some Catholic magazine. We do not practice the religion. I told DH to call her and get it removed…or I was going to call and have it sent to the local Catholic Church.
She also gave me a jadite necklace. Now I know that sounds nice to some of you…but it is common knowledge on my family (and MIL knew this) that I can’t stand the color green…hate it. I had a lot of trouble writing the thank you note. I really wanted to write “thank you for the jadite necklace. It gave me the chance to go clothes shopping…because, as you know. I own nothing to wear that necklace with.” But I didn’t.
My Dad once got me a subscription to the “Limbaugh letter”. Ugh, it was the 90’s, Clinton was President and conspiracy theories were everywhere.
It went straight into the trash. Actually, the recycling!
Speaking of green, it was my MIL’s favorite color. she loved anything green. A shade of green is my own mother’s favorite color. DH knew I don’t particularly like green, I associate it with the two ladies’ preference, that the only thing I even own in the color was one pair of cords. Nonetheless, there were a couple of sweater gifts over the years in, you guessed it, green.
<< @skieurope , cover your ears for this one >>
Reminds me of that SNL gameshow spoof skit: contestants had guess, based on what a guy was wearing, whether the guy was gay or European.
DH gave me a sweater for Christmas many years ago, not long after DS was born. I opened the box and carefully lifted out a sweater which had long sleeves and a cropped midriff. Um - no. He was horrified; said it looked “normal” at the store. We still laugh about it.
As a gag gift for a friend’s 40th bday, we gave the birthday girl a set of leopard fur-covered handcuffs. But the funniest part of the gift was all the couples who came to us during the party to discreetly ask us where we bought them.
Here is a nice Bridal Shower Gift:
My mom is terrible at picking out gifts. We still laugh about the purple and red elephant embossed purse that she gave to my sister when she was about 13. It was the ugliest purse ever!
@Madison85 - I heard about that book when I bought this one (along with the Cookie Sutra) for a “chinese” gift exchange with H’s family. My MIL opened it, loved it, and sat on it, so no one would take it away from her!
I should be grateful for any gifts I get at all - but my mother is a fan of gifting the same item to me and my sibling. This year it was a Downton Abbey desk calendar. Which would be fine if I used a desk calendar and watched the show. I do neither and my mother knows it - but sis loves the show and desk calendars. I’m hoping this year we get a calendar on marathon training. I know sis would love it if she just gave it a chance! 
I was a public school educator. I had lots of holiday sweaters (which I gave away the year I retired). One year my husband gave me a sweater for Christmas. As.i was op I g it, he said “this is NOT a Christmas sweater”.
It was covered with poinsettias.