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What's the worst gift you've gotten from your Mother-in-Law?
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Anonymous
| a bed. it's actually a very nice gift, it's just a little --overdetermined, shall we say -- coming from your in-laws. |
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When she has re-gifted gifts to me that I have seen her open.
When my husband and kids got something and I got nothing. |
Anonymous
| My MIL gave me as a wedding gift a variety of old glassware and odd items that really she didn't want anymore as she was moving. |
Anonymous
| I didn't receive this personally, but a close girlfriend got a sack full of hotel toiletries from her MIL. |
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This thread is funny and all, but I dread the day that I am the MIL and my DIL is mocking me on the internet. Ever since I had a son, I've tried a little harder with my MIL because I can't bear to think that some day my son's wife will patronize me the way that so many daughters-in-law do.
As for my own MIL, she and my FIL lived through the Depression era and are therefore very thrifty. They live on a fixed income and buy gifts at flea markets. Although they have yet to purchase anything that I really enjoy, it touches me that they never fail to remember a birthday or holiday gift. They really really can't afford to be so generous with their many children and grandchildren. |
Anonymous
| So don't be mock-able. Be thoughtful. That's the point and that's what these women very obviously are not. Some of these are BAD. |
Anonymous
| Oh, just about everything. She buys me the same crap that my sister in laws like but i don't. now that we have a baby, she buys lots of cheap plastic crap and clothes from walmart when she knows we try to buy wood and organic stuff as much as possible. |
Anonymous
Is your MIL my MIL?! |
Anonymous
We get these, too. And you know what? They're my daughter's favorite toys. I just have to remind myself that the gift is for the baby, and the baby loves it. *sigh* |
Anonymous
Exactly. True thoughtfulness in gift-giving considers the taste of the recipient. I shop year-round to get Christmas gifts that I think my family members will really love, even if they're not what I would want for myself. Which makes it all the more disappointing to receive things that have nothing to do with my own preferences. |
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Wow, everyone on here sounds a bit spoilt!
Sure my MIL has given me some interesting gifts that are normally not my taste, but nothing that I would feel the desire to be bitter or angry about. They are of a different generation and are not "up" on the current trends. If I get a plastic toy, that is not "Melissa and Doug" steam does not start to blow out my ears. I hardly think my son's pyschological development will be in peril over it. DH & I are much better off financially than his parents, so wish they would just save their money and just enjoy being with family on the holidays rather than get wrapped around the whole gife giving thing, but it makes them feel good, so who am I to say? |
Anonymous
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PP - you are the nicest person on this board. I hope my sons have the good sense to choose someone like you to share their lives with.
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Its not quite a life-size goose, but my mom got me a 5ft tall inflatable monkey. Its only ok bc its inflatable and I can store it deflated. Its ridiculous but it made her happy. My mom also does not believe that the Washington region has any paper goods and she will ship a box of paper goods before the family comes up for a visit - god forbid we have to wash anything. Even though there were only 8 of us, she sent 128 plastic cups.
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My MIL sends me jewelry and things all the time but I can tell its the sort that SHE likes. For example she set me this graduated circle of wires necklace... it looked like something out of National Geographic. The best was a purse that was made out of laminated newspaper with a steel ball-link handle. She forgot to take the tag off, so I know she wasted $100 on a flimsy piece of crap.
She's so sweet, so I just thank her and put them in the closet. |
Anonymous
Ewwww...my girlfriend's MIL showed her lingerie that the FIL had bought the MIL for Xmas. That was kind of icky!! I like the E-Cards post. My mom will send us and our DD funny E-cards, but she also send packages of really thoughtful gifts. My mom ships a box full of brownies to my DH every yr for his birthday (he really likes her brownies). My MIL however doesn't send anything for any holiday!!! Not even phone calls on anyone's birthdays! I guess I'm lucky that I don't get the type of gifts you have mentioned here and have to figure out what to do with them!! |