Poor Pete. Social media can be a disaster. Even on this site I have commented and been slapped in the face y another poster. Something like “you should just kill yourself”. It stung for a second, I can’t imagine what it would be like if it was hundreds of people a day, every day.
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My husband and I worked really hard to pick an appropriate gift for our very close, very stylish friends. They lived in a huge, meticulously decorated home and had very particular tastes. We settled on a lovely, not inexpensive artisan fruit bowl. We were both so pleased at how much they liked it. I legit saw it in…
My parents had gone on a beach vacation in the summer a few years ago, and they bought back nice gifts for my siblings and their families, like hoodies, candles, ornaments, and gave them out at Christmas. And for me, oh boy, they had “saved” for me their USED little bottles of hotel shampoo and conditioner (there was…
The year I sent my grandma a thank you note and she sent it back with grammar and punctuation corrections in RED INK.
My mother in law, for 5 long birthday and Christmas filled years, gave me monogrammed presents- with the wrong monogram. I mean, I took his last name when we got married! We spoke to her about it, but it didn’t finally stop until our first child was born.
I agree, although I completely embarrassed myself once by saying so. My in-laws (before they were my in-laws) handed me a wrapped present and I exclaimed how nice it was for them to think of me and give me a gift and then I went into a diatribe about how no one is thoughtful like that anymore and people just give gift …
When I was 15, I was admitted to the psych ward through the ER for some pretty serious self-harm (cutting, specifically). It was November. I didn’t want to talk to my dad in there ‘cause I knew he’d be an asshole. He was such an asshole to the caretakers, though, that they MADE me talk to him just to get him off their…
A wheelbarrow.
A girlfriend of my brother’s gave me a mustache waxing kit. I’m a lady and we had never talked about mustaches or waxing before.
I have a fairytale evil stepmother. The most incredible gift she got me my friends and I still laugh about-- for about a year she considered herself a budding photographer and bought an iPad to take “stunning” photos. Yes, an entire iPad. She took a blurry, uncentered photo of a trip to London she and my Dad took…
A few years ago, my mother-in-law gave me a pair of niceish socks. They were exceedingly boring and in no way a thoughtful gift, bit I did need a few pairs of decent socks, so whatever, I said “thanks, I’ve been needing to get some more socks.” She replied, “good, because I tried giving them to my dad and he didn’t…
One January a few years ago I was visiting dogless friends and their baby. The baby was gnawing on a dog’s chew toy. I said, “Your daughter is...” and the mother said, “Isn’t it great? It’s a teething ring. My parents gave it to her for Christmas.”
I’ve never understood white elephant gift exchanges as opposed to drawing someone’s name out of a hat and capping the price of an actual present. White elephants are basically saying, “Here, you take this crap I don’t want.” or worse, you’ve got to go spend money to get a piece of crap to give to someone else, and you…
A) fuck your mom, what a horrific way to treat your child
FUCK OFF SERIOUSLY?
My mother in law, who I love, and I think was just being a bit oblivious, once gave my husband 100$ then told me she was going to pay a person to come clean my house for me. I definitely told her no thank you, on the spot.
This gift wasn’t given to me personally but it was still pretty awful from my perspective: