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What's the worst gift you've gotten from your Mother-in-Law?
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Anonymous
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How about a card with a photocopied coupon for a free Frosty at Wendy's? This is my MIL's standard 'gift' for DH, me, and her three grandkids. This year, I must have ticked her off, because I didn't get the coupon, just the card.
Of course, my in-laws are notoriously stingy. I think they are afflicted with "alligator arms". You know, the kind that don't reach all the way down to their pockets, just kind of flap at the sides when the dinner check comes? |
Anonymous
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My MIL has definetely being buying gifts at the Mexican lead factory. She picks things up at garage sales and overseas flea markets..which could be very interesting if the kids were not under 3.
Favorites include.... a stick pin broach that she gave my 3 yr old while I wasn't looking.... My 1 year old got accidentally stabbed within 5 minutes. a pin wheel full of candy given to us this year with an expiration dates of 1999 |
Anonymous
| I have the best..my MIL always expects that I will buy gifts for the kids and DH and she will just send a check. I hate this and always offer that a nice card or something small would be fine. She drives me nuts and then she never sends the check. For DD, she made a big deal that she would buy us a pack and play..OK fine no problem. Of course then she called and ask that we go buy it and she would send a check ..fine. We did , she never sent the check and honestly we didn't care. We later gave the pack and play to friends..and she complained "Oh how could you give away the pack and play I bought you?" |
Anonymous
LOL, PP. I think your MIL wins the Razzberry award for gifting! My mom does this to some extent at Christmas too, but she always sends me the check. My favorite is when I pick out a great gift for my child, and remark about it to her on the phone. Then she asks me if she can buy that gift from me to give to them. WTF? Um, no? But, I usually give in and let her "have" it since the alternative is to go shopping for her, when I have no ideas, and then wait for her approval of the item before she sends a check. Ah, gifting... |
Anonymous
OMG, I think this might have taken the prize!!! Thanks for the laugh... 
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Anonymous
Oh brother. Nobody is bitter or angry, I think we're all just having a bit of fun and laughing about it. Can't we all blow off steam without being accused of something? My MIL and other members of my DH's family have given me some pretty tacky stuff that so obviously does not go with our taste. But, they give us stuff that would look good in their house. I don't care, but I do feel bad that they spend money on stuff we don't use. On the other hand, I know the in-laws don't much like the stuff we've given them for gifts. They never ever say they like any gift we've given them, so I know they're probably saying the same things about us. Now we just give them gift cards. |
Anonymous
| Everything she gives me is trash. One day she gave me an old sweater with a big stain, she is so cheap and the worst of all is that she has a lot of money. |
Anonymous
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Oh this thread is WAY too much fun.
1) A QVC cheesecake which was opened and eaten from when she brought it over and gave it to us 2) Every battery powered singing, dancing, warbling, bleating, piece of crap lead-painted, animals, trees, etc from the Hallmark store -- we get one EVERY holiday 3) Precious Moments figures -- some people love them -- I do not. 4) Smocked t-shirts with cats or puppies on them Really, some of her gifts are awesome...my friends beg me for stories when we return from any holiday time with her. |
Anonymous
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Here are 2 of my favorites:
1. HUGE can of rancid peanuts. With a much expired (years, not months) date. 2. The first Christmas after my DH and I married, my MIL made a big show of how she bought me a Christmas gift. She is Jewish, by the way. It was a box that contained a bag of Lifesaver candies "the ones I know you like". That was it. |
Anonymous
| lol- thanks for posting- i was going to post a day ago about the tacky stuff I received (given how MIL is plain vanilla on her taste and I'm not a trend setter) - but clearly there are funnier stories to share! |
Anonymous
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My MIL is a super flake. The worst 'gift' for us was the promise to come & babysit. DS got sooo excited and happy to have one-on-one time with his grandma.... Until she called 5 mins in advance to say she 'forgot' and is busy.
Of course, once would be easily forgivable, but 20+ times = unreliable. Sometimes she will do it and sometimes she just flakes out. (It isn't just us: she's got a serious history in repeat performances vis-a-vis marriages, jobs and other commitments). We don't bother saying anything to DS now until we see her car parked & shoes on the flagstone. |
Anonymous
| A garbage bag of coupons. Lots of time and effort went into that. |
Anonymous
| OMG!! This thread is WAY too funny. I already posted my worst gifts and I am returning to see more. My sis just had a boy and called me up days after he was born and said, "OMG, I am (my MIL's name)!!" And I said, "Yes. Yes, you are." Now, she defends my MIL to the death. I think I will send the tacky presents to her. |
Anonymous
| My MIL must also think I am obsessed with cats. Over the years, I have gotten (and still get even though our cat has since died), cat socks, cat posters, cat calendars, you name it. One year she sent me a porcelain cat for Christmas. I set it on the banister to take up to the attic, and forgot it was there. A few hours later, my husband and I were moving a peice of furniture and as I was backing out the door, I knocked it off the banister and it broke into a million peices. To this day my husband swears I did it on purpose... |
Anonymous
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How about this: (My DH is foreign, by the way.)
I got a novel about an expat whose wife vanished, leaving him and the child to begin a new and better life without her. I got this novel two years in a row. |