Worst Christmas Present Ever Contest!
Karen
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The worst present I ever got? Library books. Not even the ones the library sells off when they add new books to their collection and get rid of the ones that aren’t borrowed often. The ones you have to actually return within 3 weeks. This was apparently a tradition in my husband’s very ch…, ugh, frugal family. His family would go to the library a couple of days before Christmas and pick out books for each other, wrap them up, and then read them over the Christmas holidays and then return them. His mother thought this was a great, ‘non-wasteful’, and thoughtful gift. Nothing like a book you have no interest in but feel obligated to read because someone picked it out and borrowed it for you, or even worse, one that you love but don’t get to keep!
Luckily my husband has come to understand that his parents are cheap, hoarding, weirdo workaholics and has learned to enjoy giving and receiving things you actually want and get to keep (even if I do have to make a list).
The worst present I ever got? Library books. Not even the ones the library sells off when they add new books to their collection and get rid of the ones that aren’t borrowed often. The ones you have to actually return within 3 weeks. This was apparently a tradition in my husband’s very ch…, ugh, frugal family. His family would go to the library a couple of days before Christmas and pick out books for each other, wrap them up, and then read them over the Christmas holidays and then return them. His mother thought this was a great, ‘non-wasteful’, and thoughtful gift. Nothing like a book you have no interest in but feel obligated to read because someone picked it out and borrowed it for you, or even worse, one that you love but don’t get to keep!
Luckily my husband has come to understand that his parents are cheap, hoarding, weirdo workaholics and has learned to enjoy giving and receiving things you actually want and get to keep (even if I do have to make a list).
OMG!! LIBRARY BOOKS?? You get my vote for worst present ever! ROTFLMAO
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The worst present I ever got? Library books. Not even the ones the library sells off when they add new books to their collection and get rid of the ones that aren’t borrowed often. The ones you have to actually return within 3 weeks. This was apparently a tradition in my husband’s very ch…, ugh, frugal family. His family would go to the library a couple of days before Christmas and pick out books for each other, wrap them up, and then read them over the Christmas holidays and then return them. His mother thought this was a great, ‘non-wasteful’, and thoughtful gift. Nothing like a book you have no interest in but feel obligated to read because someone picked it out and borrowed it for you, or even worse, one that you love but don’t get to keep!
Luckily my husband has come to understand that his parents are cheap, hoarding, weirdo workaholics and has learned to enjoy giving and receiving things you actually want and get to keep (even if I do have to make a list).
They give library books?! That you have to return?!?!?! O.M.G.!
It was in a junk store, and the water had cut all these beautiful channels in it---and the boor that ran the junk store was going to PAINT it! One of the best $10 I've ever spent. I have it displayed in my garden, in all it's natural glory!
We have been estranged for over five years, but the Christmas prior to our estrangement, I was happily buying and wrapping gifts, giddy with the excitement of Christmas and spending the holidays with my family and grandchildren.
One evening a few days before Christmas, my daughter called while I was wrapping gifts and I began lightheartedly teasing with her about what she was getting me for Christmas, and her response was a harsh “Mom, you’re so greedy, the only thing you care about are the presents you’re going to get…"
I felt as if I had been punched in the stomach because my biggest thrill and joy at Christmas has always been the excitement of giving my loved ones gifts I think they’ll really like and enjoy. I would so much rather give a gift than receive one because, for me, that is where the true fun and joy of Christmas actually resides.
I had always thought one of most enjoyable things about Christmas was the playful teasing and the back and forth guessing games families share with one another regarding what might be in each wrapped box, yet doing this in my home was, in my daughter’s eyes, something to be ashamed of…
Though I know my daughter has issues, to this very day, I still find it difficult to get caught up in the innocent and excited back and forth lighthearted Christmas banter with regard to what’s in each gift box because whenever I do, I inevitably hear those hurtful words my daughter spoke to me.
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