What is the most thoughtful gift you ever received? the most thoughtless?
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this was spawned from the Pinterest thread here
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One of the best gifts I ever received, and I didn't realize it at the moment, was the iPad my son bought me.
He had just graduated from college, which I paid for, and the first iPad had just come out. I had minor interest in getting one and he bought it and surprised me as a "thank you". It's probably the most used gift I have ever received. I'm now on my 3rd or 4th iPad but I still have the original as a reminder of his thoughtfulness. |
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Most Thoughtful: Usually no one believes me when I ask for no gifts (I truly don't like "stuff" and prefer meals out or time with fam and friends, like tickets to a play or a ball game), but last Christmas my parents and siblings gave me cash so I could go "all out" on getting clothes, books and toys for the kids in a women's shelter I support. It was awesome!
Least Thoughtful: My MIL always gets me what she wants for herself: Vera Bradley bags and the heavy perfume she prefers. We have different taste, but I think she just wants me to like the stuff she likes. It's NBD, but she clearly isn't thinking of me! |
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| I was thinking about which gift I'd consider the most thoughtful and I'd have to say that my daughter has given me some very thoughtful gifts over the years from her handmade creations to more recently room deodorant because she overheard me telling her dad about a stinky situation at work. But her best gift is probably the random "I love you mom and dad" accompanied by a big hug. |
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| I got regifted a lemon candle as a secret santa gift in college. It wasn't on my idea list and I didn't get it until Christmas was well over, almost into February. I know it was regifted because it was one of the items my roommate had given her to help cheer her up after her mother had died a few months earlier. |
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The most thoughtful was from my husband. He had a friend who is a local artist known for her paintings of our historic town center paint an oil painting of my first home, in said historic town center. It was beautifully framed. He gave it to me shortly after I had had my second child, for my birthday. I knew that it must have taken so much planning, and it just meant so much to me. That house represented a lot to me as I had worked really hard to be able to buy it on my own.
Most thoughtless? Some stupid pink robe my Mom gave me. I actually cried later, I remember feeling like "she actually, truly does NOT know me at all". |
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For Christmas my one year my MIL gave us a professionally done 8x10 photo of her and her new husband. It was beautifully wrapped and when we opened it my husband and I had the hardest time stifling our laughter.
For about a year it was shoved in a bookshelf and I'd pull it out before she visited. Finally my husband outed me and it's been on the bookcase permanently since then. |
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3 boxes of brand new shoes from Payless. I literally had holes in the shoes that I was wearing to work but couldn't afford to replace them. Someone else at the time gave me a gift bag full of brand new knee hi's. Also my MIL put together a pretty little sewing kit for me with scissors, different high quality threads, needles, pin cushion, you name it - that was over 10 years ago and dh and I both use it all the time. And my own Mom had a way of sending a care package to me at college at just the right time when I really needed it.
Least thoughtful? Probably the Tom Tom that my dh gave to me when I was caring for two little kids and was lucky to leave the house to go across the street to the grocery store. Poor dh. |
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My MIL gives the best gifts. Truly puts thought into each individual and what they would like. I cannot think of any time that her gifts were not just wonderful. Makes the rest of us up our game.
But her own mother gave the worst gifts. We once got a large pine cone, mounted in a shadow box. She also gave me a scale right after we were married - I am pretty sure that it was a veiled message about not getting fat and happy. |
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Wow. That's a good one. |
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A friend gave us a bottle of wine when they came for a visit after I announced I was pregnant (at 34).
They were are other 'childless' couple friends who we traveled extensively with us throughout our late 20s/early 30s and I think she thought we didn't want kids. She was very anti-kids and upset that we decided to have kids. She ended up changing her mind and had a baby at 41 and one at 42 and did a complete 180. She loves kids now  .
When she came to visit recently I reminded her about the bottle of wine--it was over 10 years ago and she was horrified at herself. She didn't remember . We had a good laugh about it.
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After my grandparents died, my aunt gave me a small framed piece of artwork that included a piece of my grandmother's wedding veil and grandfather's wedding suit. They hadn't been preserved so were not in condition to be handed down or anything, so she had these pieces made for all of the grandchildren. It's really beautiful as art and has the added beauty of the sentimental meaning. It was a very special gift.
My extremely wealthy aunt and uncle gave us a regifted salad bowl from their "gift closet" as a wedding present. Thoughtless but it's a running joke in our family to see who gets the worst gift from the gift closet. One cousin got a carton of cocktail napkins with my aunt and uncle's last initial on them (also cousin's initial but still!). |
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Most thoughtful was a wedding gift from coworkers of all people. It was very tailored to my personality.
Least thoughtful was a Christmas gift from an ex. I got him a really awesome present that took a lot of tine and effort to gradually acquire/put together and he got me a shitty book. It made me cry, mostly because it signified how much more I cared and put effort into the relationship than he did. |
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| Most thoughtful: bff from college gave me a small album of photos of us over the years when we were about 25. Still love it and reminds me how much I love her even though we live far apart now and don't talk so much. |
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| Least thoughtful: aunt and uncle who are multi millionaire got us a chips and dip bowl off registry for out wedding. |