What is the craziest gift you ever got from your N's

[debkor]

I once for my birthday got a model to build *The Bride of Frankenstein*. Not even the paints with it.

My friend once got for Xmas from her dad  One not two just One Pocahontas pillow case and she was 35 years old.


Oh do we laugh about it now.

Deb

[spyralle]

A present that my Nmum has often tried to coerce me to receive is breast implants.....   She feels my small chest reflects badly on her somehow.... 

Work that one out!!!

Spy x

[Sela]

    The bride of Frankenstein?

Honestly I almost peed my pants!  That's just too funny!   



Actually, let me be the first (and maybe only) to say that the gifts I was given were usually very nice.  Part of the hook and the confusion.  Act nasty, say nasty things, nasty body language but hey.....give a real nice gift to show such deep caring and generosity.

Phleggggg! 

Which reminds me that  from one Nish person, not that long ago, I got one of those fake apple cinnamon pies (the ones that are usually filled with lovely sweet smelling room fresheners and are used to make a room smell nice,  except mine was totally missing any good smell and instead had a sickening stink wafting from it, causing me to gag, when I opened the box. 

And the person smiled and said:  "You can use it in your house".

 

  Maybe that was a compliment??

Sela

[Hopalong]

Lord.

A few Xmases ago, NMom went to all the trouble, at 90...to order me a little flower-decorated plaque from a catalog. It read:

I smile because you are my daughter.
I laugh because there's nothing you can do about it.
She was SO pleased with herself. Never seen such a smirk. I laughed but I was kind of shocked. It was during a particularly exhausting Cinderella period...too true.

I did find the right place for it though, where it still hangs, above my toilet.

Hops

[changing]

Sela-

You did it again! You caused another laughing fit (hope no one ventured past my house at the time- I 'm sure my cackling and screeching sounded absolutely INSANE!

Thank you for the laughs,

Changing

[debkor]

I cannot stop laughing at all of these.

Omg Sela my eyes are tearing that is too funny.


Deb

[changing]

Hops-

Too funny! Oh Lord, I can't stop laughing!

Changing

[JanetLG]

When I'd known my husband only 4 months, for the first Xmas I'd been with him *he* bought me silk underwear (great!)....while my NMum bought me a Winceyette nightie with high pie-crust neckline, long sleeves with frilly cuffs, ditsy print and a frilly hem. Absolutely hideous. When I opened it, I saw the heart-shaped pocket on one side (hip-level), and said 'Oh look, it's got a condom pocket!'  Needless to say, she was livid at my 'rudeness'!

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The first Xmas after I started NC, she sent my Dad round with a large carrier bag full of presents, which he handed over with an embarrassed smile. After he'd gone, I looked inside, and there was a note with them from her : 'You don't deserve these, but you're getting them anyway'.  Just so that she could tell people SHE bothered, even when I didn't.    I took the bag back round to her house and dumped them on her doorstep, unopened. She told everyone *I* was wicked enough to refuse her presents.

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I used to work with a woman who had an NMum too, and she called these kinds of 'gifts' 'presents you NEARLY wanted', as they *almost* get you what you've asked for, but manage to twist it so that it's NOT right. Weird people.

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When me and my husband got married, as we'd lived together for several years, we already had a house full of 'stuff', so we asked people to buy us plants for our garden, as we were having it landscaped specially (from scratch). Everyone chose presents from our planting plan, and at the wedding, we displayed the plants (in pots) with labels on from everyone, so that they could see what their plant actually looked like.....only my NMum and NSister wouldn't go along with this idea. My NMum bought us a cutesy ornamental wheelbarrow, covered in painted flowers (like bargeware). Yucky.  My Nsister bought me (ONLY ME - it wasn't addressed to my husband too!) a watercolour print of two teenage girls doing each others' hair. Bleh! How sickening!

We considered taking the print out and just using the frame for something else, but we decided we couldn't even face doing that, so we took it to the charity shop straight after we came back from our honeymoon.


Janet

[lighter]

Everyone's stories are funny but janet.... you made me really laugh.

[axa]

These are just so funny.

I once got a bunch of cheap flowers, he told me he did not buy the ones I liked because they cost $6 each!!!!!!

For a BIG birthday he bought me a bottle of champagne and proceeded to tell me the cost... this was Mr Rich

He told me he would buy me a car............ still waiting

He did buy me a beautiful painting towards the end of the relationship but this was after he moved xwife into his house!

One day he brought D(golden child) to the shops and bought her exactly what she wanted.  We had watched a DVD the night before with his son.  He went to return the dvd and the store would not accept it back so he returned home, D sporting the gift she wanted, and handed son the dvd we had watched the night before telling him I bought you a gift also.

Oh El Cheepo Creepo

axa

[Overcomer]

One birthday I was dating a guy I was head over heels in love with.  He told me he got me two birthday gifts.  I was thrilled.  Would it be jewelry or perfume?  Maybe both!  So he hands me a sack and in it was a package of Twizzlers and some Pull and Peels.  At least he got me a card.  Later when we broke up my friend told me she would have dumped him the minute I got the candy!

[JanetLG]

Axa,

"Oh El Cheepo Creepo"

Too right!

That's so funny though!

CB, I think your is one of the best, especially the one about the teas.

Janet

[Overcomer]

How bout what wy got them and what they did with them?  She said she wanted a robe so I shopped for hours for the perfect robe-she took it back.  I bought her some perfume and she gave it to my daughter to "play" with.

[Ami]

Kelly.
  I LOVE the idea of 'What did we get them and what did they do with it? It would make a good thread on it's ownt I have a history of ways that she "dissed" my presents                                                 Love  Ami

[tayana]

Well . . .

For my birthday this year, my nmom said she didn't feel like or have the time to go shopping, so she gave me a set of jewlery I had gotten her for Christmas or her birthday a few years earlier, and told me, well it would all be mine one day anyway.

This was before she decided to disown me for moving and told my father that she wanted him to sell all her jewelry to pay for her cremation.

A few years before that, she got me a Darth Maul figure from Star Wars, then wrote an inscription about how good men were hard to find and complicated.  I think it was supposed to be a joke, but at the time, I was no longer questioning my sexuality.  And I was thinking that I didn't need, want or having any interest in finding a man, no matter how complicated he was.