One Christmas, my wacko aunt once gave my teenaged brother a coffee mug (he didn’t drink coffee) that featured a cartoon cat in a cheerleader uniform waving a banner that said, “Go Team!”....because my brother was an athlete.

Same aunt gave me one of those personalized children’s books where the recipient is included in the story. In my book, some Disney characters were trapped in a cave and other Disney characters and I found out they needed our help. The only way to save those who were trapped was for a person with a specific birthday to break a magic spell. Unfortunately, the necessary birth date was 2 days before mine.

Same aunt “gifted” me with a handwritten copy of her eulogy for my grandfather after the funeral.

My great aunt paid for cloistered nuns to say prayers for babies lost to abortion in honor of my (very early preemie) newborn. I'm a pro-choice lesbian. It was complicated.

MIL gave me a hideous scorpion shaped pendant for our wedding and I am not even a Scorpio.

My uncle's (now ex) wife gave my then 15 year old brother toddler musical instrument toys and me an ornament for Christmas. Now the ornament may have been fine except for the fact that they were from our family company and I had spent 3 whole months trying to clear them from customs. (This wasn't in the US so different trade rules.) It was a nightmare and was only resolved after I finally spent 3 days at the customs office opening every single box and inspecting it with the customs agent. I was about to smash them into bits when they finally showed up in our store a few days before Xmas. Then I go over to her house on Xmas morning and she gives me 1 single ornament. I went into the bathroom and cried.

MIL- a plastic tumbler with "Wine Me" in glitter writing.

I don't drink. I don't drink out of plastic. I hate glitter.

She knew all of those things.

Aunt: gave me a set of towels that had obviously already been used and washed. They were decent however, and I washed and used them for a while.

Same aunt apparently didn't plan on giving me a gift one year but her granddaughter's boyfriend broke up with her and Aunt scratched out his name on a gift card and gave it to me.

Anonymous wrote:I get a gift from SIL every year that is from the same store that I previously purchased her gift. Found out that she takes her gift back, gets a gift card and then uses the gift card to purchase me gift the following year.

That's actually genius.

Anonymous wrote:MIL-electric face shaver

Ha,.my mom gave me this when I was 20, instead of helping me with a doctor to treat pcos.

My mom gave me a shirt that says
“Quarantining with my cats”

Yeah, that will be a guy magnet mom if you are wanting grandkids.

Faux leather mini-skirt from my mother-in-law that was two sizes too small. Maybe she was thinking of my husband's high school girlfriend?

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Anonymous wrote:My incredibly annoying sister gave my daughter an adult-sized XL summery t-shirt from American Eagle when she was still a tween. Probably out of the clearance bin, or a thrift shop. I cut this idiot out of my life - who needs a sibling who's always behaving like toxic waste dump?

Sorry, but that doesn’t sound so terrible. Clueless, sure, but maybe she thought “the kids these days” like AE.

I hear what you're saying, but unfortunately this was done with malice (Xmas gift, and massively oversized for a child-sized but slightly chubby girl).

Anonymous wrote:I got a pack of batteries from an aunt when I was 8 & a set of "eat this not that" books from my MIL. Not so bad but still. Giving me a hint, MIL? Lol

SIL gave my 1 yo a package of recycled bottle caps and called them toys.

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Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid, my truly wonderful and beloved grandmother gave my sister and I matching praying-hands-nightlights. The glowing, disembodied hands were like old with hands with visible veins and too long fingernails. I was terrified of them! What made it worse was that my sister would torture me by sneaking them, plugged in and glowing, under my covers, in the dark bathroom, hung sideways coming out of the wall of my dark closet...

Even my overly polite mother was like, “whoa, those are creepy!” Loved my dear grandmother but will never understand what she was thinking!

You gotta give your sister a Dead Man's Fingers plant.

My daughter ran in the house and said "Mom, there's a penis growing in our garden."

Grow some Peter Peppers if you want to see some lifelike male genitalia.

I get a gift from SIL every year that is from the same store that I previously purchased her gift. Found out that she takes her gift back, gets a gift card and then uses the gift card to purchase me gift the following year.

Wedding gift - a 1990's punch bowl with the plastic hooks and glasses It was clearly used or bought at a thrift shop or something