Love it! My MIL always told me what my hub wanted as she obviously knew him better...

Omg, thought of an even better one! My sis and I were poor students in college. We both asked for underwear (ha!!) and my dad took it as an invitation to go to Victoria’s Secret on a shopping spree. On Xmas day, we were so happy to get a pile of pretty things but then we had to hear about how much our dad (?!) enjoyed…

I am guilty of giving a super shitty gift before! A few years ago a recently separated friend invited my little family to her house for Halloween. We agreed to do a secret Santa and I was under the impression that it was joke gifts. Apparently I was the only person with this impression. Cue Xmas Eve, I had opened this…

My brother was the worst, worst gift giver. One year, he gave my sister in law an art kit so she “could paint like a real artist” - she was studying at the Chicago Institute of Art soooooo. The year he pulled my name from our random draw, I knew it was going to be bad. I was recently separated from fiancé (we were…

Well said 

I think two adults were involved! Assholes indeed

A++ there should be Christmas cards or thank you cards for crappy gifts. Something like “thanks for the thought, no matter how shitty that thought was!”

Momster indeed!

She really felt people should get something they want, not something they need. Don’t think my siblings were happy either...

Imagine what she had planned if you had caved...

I always win at shitty mom stories (and losing keys to burner accounts)