Poor hubby, he tries. I feel so ungrateful, but I hardly liked a thing he got me. If you start the sentence with - I know you said you don’t like xyz…but went ahead and did it anyway because this time will be different…it’s not different. I don’t like turtlenecks, whether on a sweater or shirts, etc. I literally feel like I’m choking, I sweat half to death just thinking about it. We don’t live in the north pole. How do you pick the one ugly purse at tory burch? How many crystal figurines am I supposed to have around?
I have decided, I don’t care how much money was wasted buying me this stuff - I’m not saying a word. They’re going into my closet, he’ll never remember I didn’t wear any of it and when I clean out the winter clothes out they go and he’ll never realize. It hurts his feelings when I return stuff and it isn’t worth the hurt feelings.
DH gifted me an Amazon DOT.
I don’t want one, he knows it. But it was a one day deal for $30, how could he pass it up?
He’s spent today talking with Alexa. Great.
A year or two ago, when I was still married, my now ex-h bought our daughters and me matching grey hooded sweatshirts, just like the one(s) that he wears and that are really cheap (we know, because he told us).
I always exchange gifts with a friend of mine who used to work with me before we both retired. We usually give each other some kind of kitchen gadget along with a some kind of dark chocolate goody. Our tastes are very different in almost everything but we enjoy each other. For some reason, this year she changed it up and gave me a sort of brown/beige/orange polyester poncho/wrap thing that looks a lot like a horse blanket ^#(^ . I would never wear this in a million years and I don’t know what made her think that I might. She made a point to tell me that she got such a good deal on it because it was on sale for just $7.99. I think she overpaid.
Yea, my sister gave me an odd pink acrylic sweater that’s a turtleneck. Not my style or size, but sweet that she tried!
D was sad because S gave her board games–3rd year in a row! She was very sad and upset because she pointed out its largely for HIM! He was sheepish. I quietly later pointed out that last year he also gave her in iPad mini and she said yes and this year he also bought her a plane ticket with no fuss. She was just a bit teary and tired of having chronic fatigue!
My MIL got me a personal sauna. It’s actually very sweet since they have a “real” sauna in their basement and it helps my arthritic joints. But IRL it’s just oddly bulky, doesn’t fit anywhere, and is really just a warm spaceship looking thing that you sit in. (And it’s really uncomfortable since I’m tall.) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MX19M9E/ref=asc_df_B00MX19M9E4723766/
My mom has really, really gotten into essential oils since I’ve gotten sick. She knows I don’t believe in any of it but still got me a whole essential oil kit plus diffuser. A chakra beads necklace to top it all off. She’s trying so I humor her. Plus the oils actually smell pretty good. And the diffuser lights up and changes colors so it’s pretty at least.
DH would just love me to wear spaghetti strap tank tops, without a bra, but I am just not comfortable in them. But he gets them anyway, I feel like they are presents for him, not me, but not even that because I never wear them. This year he finally figured it out and got me two with the built-in bras! Yay!
But then he got me some fancy pasta - which is more for him, he’s the chef! I’ll enjoy eating it, true, but not really a gift for me.
I didn’t get anything. Not even a card. On the bright side I didn’t have to return anything and now I can buy what I want at clearance prices and I am sure I will love everything that I purchase for myself.
One Christmas senior year of HS, a HS friend gave me Vanilla Ice’s “To The Extreme” CD as a “gag gift” knowing I didn’t care for Vanilla Ice’s music.
Did end up being useful when I lent it to another HS friend who needed it to retaliate against a next door dormmate who insisted on blasting cheesy hair metal until 3-4 am.
After blasting Vanilla Ice into that dormmate’s room from 7 am onwards for 3 days in a row, dormmate surrendered and problem solved.
I bought things I like and put them all in a bag under the tree. I opened my bag and thanked H for them. He’s a poor shopper, but his heart’s in the right place. Everything fit and are things I’ve purchased recently mostly on sale and wanted! It includes a down vest, 2 black washable cardigans, lavender jeans from Costco and a few other small items. Win/win!
As soon as he cleans out the carport, we will get me a new car too! It works for us!
Last week my wife told me she got me some tooth whitening gel at the dentist for Christmas. This morning I mentioned that she forgot to wrap that gift and put it under the tree - it wasn’t there yesterday when I opened my presents. She said she forgot, but I didn’t need to open that present (and ensuing discussion of whether it was needed, etc) in front of my sister-in-law.
My niece, who is quite stylish (she’s an interior designer) and has impeccable taste, gave me something I never expected. She’s an excellent gift-chooser, so I was taken aback. It was a red wool poncho-like item with appliques of Christmas gifts and stars and swirly sparkly embroidery all over it. I really didn’t know what to think. This thing took “ugly holiday sweater” to a whole new level! D insisted that I try it on and then dissolved in hysterical laughter… it was not only very eye-catching but quite unflattering. When my niece phoned later in the afternoon, we weren’t home, but she left a message and asked whether I liked that designer tree skirt she’d sent. Yes, as in the thing you put around the base of the Christmas tree. OMG… and we are still laughing here. =))
Honestly, I didn’t get anything good for Christmas this year. I have asked my husband about a hundred times to stop getting me chocolates because I feel obligated to eat them and I don’t want the added weight. Guess what he got me - AGAIN - for Christmas?
This year, they may just go straight into the trash when he’s not around. It irritates me that he won’t even try to get me a real gift, and he also does this for Mother’s Day and my birthday…
My 15yo son got me an electric stapler from a thrift store. He knew it didn’t come with the power adapter when he bought it but thought maybe I could get one somewhere. Maybe he thought it would make a nice paperweight? My oldest bought me a weird, large, light up angel. I have this strange premonition that it’s going to end up like the lamp in “A Christmas Story” (accidental fall)
And my parents gave me the same bottle of balsalmic vinegar that they gave me last year. My mom has already said it’s likely to become an annual thing. So now I have a collection of unopened bottles of balsalmic vinegar started. At least this I can regift as a hostess gift to someone I guess.
That’s hilarious. I went to an ugly sweater party last year where one of my friends wore a tree skirt as her ugly sweater, so I guess it’s understandable. And hey, you can always use your tree skirt for that purpose if the need arises.
My grandmother was always sending us really weird gifts from afar. But the joke was on us heathens when we told our friends about getting towels with someone else’s initials on them.
YSL.
It wasn’t until years later that I realized she sent us expensive,designer towels.
