Friday OT #2 - Point of No Return

[Angie]

Thanks so much to @cyclones500 for this idea! Here's the description, upon which I cannot improve:

Have you received a gift you didn't like, but since they came from a family member/close friend, you had to pretend to like it or even use openly make use of the gift so it didn't appear you were unappreciative?

Are you in that situation right now, trying to make hot dogs on a George Foreman grill so as not to offend Grandma? What have you got?

 

[CtownCyclone]

First thing I thought of:

This year for Christmas, I was given some sort of Santa pajama suit by my mother-in-law or sister-in-law (stories differ as to who the gifter was). Felt just like Ralphie. And of course the kiddos thought it was the best thing ever.

 

[Gossamer]

When I was in my late high school years, a distant aunt gave me a Cyndi Lauper Album...not cassette or cd...but album...and it was long past popular.

I had forgotten about it until this past week when my mom bought me a turntable for Christmas and then proceeded to empty a storage room by gifting me all my old albums...of which the aforementioned Cyndi Lauper album was included. I thought it had been trashed years ago...but alas, it has sort of been regifted.

 

[BCClone]

I used to get Dri fit shirts from my in laws, I hate the feel of dri fit and it hangs in my closet until I secretly give it to goodwill.

 

[JM4CY]

Every damn year my mother in law puts socks toothpaste and a toothbrush in my stocking. Like what in the world? Throw a caseys gift card or lottery tickets in there or something. It’s not even toothpaste I use.

 

[SCyclone]

When I was in my late high school years, a distant aunt gave me a Cyndi Lauper Album...not cassette or cd...but album...and it was long past popular.

I had forgotten about it until this past week when my mom bought me a turntable for Christmas and then proceeded to empty a storage room by gifting me all my old albums...of which the aforementioned Cyndi Lauper album was included. I thought it had been trashed years ago...but alas, it has sort of been regifted.

When I was college, we used our $hitty albums for cleaning our dope.

 

[SCyclone]

Every year when we get together with the vixen's family for Christmas, she has a cousin (who I think is mildly developmentally disabled) who gives us homemade pot scrubbers. Every year. I always smile and thank her profusely.

 

[oldman]

Every damn year my mother in law puts socks toothpaste and a toothbrush in my stocking. Like what in the world? Throw a caseys gift card or lottery tickets in there or something. It’s not even toothpaste I use.

Maybe she's trying to tell you something.

 

[madguy30]

Maybe just a bad gift but my sister in law used to give me gifts that were just kind of odd gifts that didn't fit or make sense.

 

[cyclone101]

This gift doesn't quite fit the mold of the thread because I do think it was a good gift, just really poor timing.

When I was in high school and started driving, my parents bought me a GPS for the car. It was a useful gift, it really was. But at the time my driving consisted of driving to and from school/practice or to a neighboring town with buddies to go out to eat. By the time I started driving places I actually needed GPS, it was a year or two later, smart phones were now growing in popularity and the gift was suddenly useless. It's still in the box in my old bedroom back home. It never got used. I should try to sell it but I doubt I could even give it away today.

 

[Gossamer]

When I was college, we used our $hitty albums for cleaning our dope.

i'll sell it to you?

 

[JM4CY]

Maybe just a bad gift but my sister in law used to give me gifts that were just kind of odd gifts that didn't fit or make sense.

Fair point Sir

 

[Isualum13]

This gift doesn't quite fit the mold of the thread because I do think it was a good gift, just really poor timing.

When I was in high school and started driving, my parents bought me a GPS for the car. It was a useful gift, it really was. But at the time my driving consisted of driving to and from school/practice or to a neighboring town with buddies to go out to eat. By the time I started driving places I actually needed GPS, it was a year or two later, smart phones were now growing in popularity and the gift was suddenly useless. It's still in the box in my old bedroom back home. It never got used. I should try to sell it but I doubt I could even give it away today.

There is a small demand for them. I sold my old Garmin on ebay a few years ago as I no longer had a use for it. I set the buy it now price low as I just wanted to get rid of it and it sold in hours.

There are people who dont want smart phones or dont want to use their data for gps. Put it on ebay and it will sell. Although one can get a brand new GPS for under $100 so I doubt you'd get more than $50. Still better than it sitting in your house unused.

 

[heitclone]

When I was college, we used our $hitty albums for cleaning our dope.

Every year when we get together with the vixen's family for Christmas, she has a cousin (who I think is mildly developmentally disabled) who gives us homemade pot scrubbers. Every year. I always smile and thank her profusely.

So...she's giving you ****** albums?

 

[Farnsworth]

I feel like we have a ton of these, most you have to display when they come.

The biggest example I can think of is our bird bath. I HATE bird baths and so does my wife. We got one from my parents in memory of my grandma after she passed so I feel like I have to keep it out, although it's stuck in the corner of the backyard.

Edit: and of course my sister displays hers right in front of her house, front and center.

 

[cycopath25]

Thanks so much to @cyclones500 for this idea! Here's the description, upon which I cannot improve:

Have you received a gift you didn't like, but since they came from a family member/close friend, you had to pretend to like it or even use openly make use of the gift so it didn't appear you were unappreciative?

Are you in that situation right now, trying to make hot dogs on a George Foreman grill so as not to offend Grandma? What have you got?

First of all . . .Hot Dogs on a George Foreman are delicious!
Secondly . . . Make a quesadilla on it, and thank me later.
Thirdly . . .

 

[heitclone]

My aunt is one of my favorite people of all time but her one major flaw is that she's a diehard Hawk fan. I'm pretty sure there is a pic of me that exists wearing some kind of Hawkeye preseason NIT sweatshirt she purchased for me one year. I was like 4 at the time so maybe i wasn't totally aware of what I had on but I'd dispose of that pic if i ever found it.

 

[MeanDean]

Chocolate covered Cherries.

My mother used to get these for us every year. Well, in the years she wasn't buying us each a bar of soap (Ivory!). Bless her heart.

Now a friend in NY State sends me a box of them every year because it's a tradition in their family.

I really don't care for them.

 

[RING4CY]

First Christmas after getting married my mother in law gave me an electric toothbrush.

 

[CycloneSarah]

Every year when we get together with the vixen's family for Christmas, she has a cousin (who I think is mildly developmentally disabled) who gives us homemade pot scrubbers. Every year. I always smile and thank her profusely.

One year my grandma gifted those to just the men that had married into the family. I thought it was hilarious.

My grandma is the queen of giving gifts that as kids we had to learn to smile and politely say "thank you" for. She tends to focus on one or two things about you or your likes and send anything she can find related to that. I have a Boston Terrier and thus have received many mugs, ornaments, signs, etc. with Bostons on them. I currently own the "Best Bad Grandma Gift" of the family with this "lovely" Boston Terrier necklace she sent a couple years ago!