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MABLE03
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Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
I put so much thought and effort ( and money ) into shower gifts and it always cracks me up when people are so cluless, cheap, or weird!
Lets hear 'em!
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Posted 6/16/06 10:38 PM |
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nrthshgrl
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
I told my MIL that I didn't want a Bridal doll. That I'm not a doll person - that I hate dust collectors. Sure enough, there was one from her sister (DH's aunt). Ugliest thing I'd ever seen. They told me to save it for my daughter. I'm thinking if I give it to her now - it should be rightfully destroyed by the time she marries.
I almost gave it to my SIL for her bridal shower - but I like her too much.
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Posted 6/16/06 10:42 PM |
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MABLE03
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Message edited 3/30/2007 12:40:45 AM.
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Posted 6/16/06 10:52 PM |
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mrswask
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Oooh! I'll play this one!!
One of my relatives DEFINITELY wins this award She got me a cheap azz UGLY wedding album - really frou frou on the cover, so not my style, and really tacky looking. Now, being that I had two different albums on my registry, why wouldn't you get me one of those they weren't THAT much.
Then - to go along with that lovely wonder - she got me ONE, yes, ONE beach towel. I had some beach towels on my Fortunoff registry and she gets me ONE??? Am I not marrying someone?? Would it be possible that we might want two of them??? She drives all the way to Fortunoff for ONE towel???
I just don't get people
Message edited 6/16/2006 11:05:51 PM.
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Posted 6/16/06 10:53 PM |
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MABLE03
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Posted by mrswask
Oooh! I'll play this one!!
My aunt DEFINITELY wins this award She got me a cheap azz UGLY wedding album - really frou frou on the cover, so not my style, and really tacky looking. Now, being that I had two different albums on my registry, why wouldn't you get me one of those they weren't THAT much.
Then - to go along with that lovely wonder - she got me ONE, yes, ONE beach towel. I had some beach towels on my Fortunoff registry and she gets me ONE??? Am I not marrying someone?? Would it be possible that we might want two of them??? She drives all the way to Fortunoff for ONE towel???
I just don't get people
OMG ONE towel??? That is sooo strange.
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Posted 6/16/06 10:54 PM |
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MABLE03
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Message edited 3/30/2007 12:41:04 AM.
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Posted 6/16/06 10:55 PM |
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DebG
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Posted by MABLE03 She went to Macy's to exchange it and they told her it was from the Lenox outlet in Fl.
I go there allllll the time
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Posted 6/16/06 10:57 PM |
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mrswask
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Posted by MABLE03
Posted by mrswask
Oooh! I'll play this one!!
My aunt DEFINITELY wins this award She got me a cheap azz UGLY wedding album - really frou frou on the cover, so not my style, and really tacky looking. Now, being that I had two different albums on my registry, why wouldn't you get me one of those they weren't THAT much.
Then - to go along with that lovely wonder - she got me ONE, yes, ONE beach towel. I had some beach towels on my Fortunoff registry and she gets me ONE??? Am I not marrying someone?? Would it be possible that we might want two of them??? She drives all the way to Fortunoff for ONE towel???
I just don't get people
OMG ONE towel??? That is sooo strange.
Tell me about it - I remember just looking at it like "okaaaaay"
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Posted 6/16/06 10:58 PM |
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MABLE03
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Posted by DebG
Posted by MABLE03 She went to Macy's to exchange it and they told her it was from the Lenox outlet in Fl.
I go there allllll the time
Me 2. I just found it so funny that 99% of her registry was lenox.. you could probably go into lenox and every 3rd thing you saw was something on her registry.. so its not like she didn't have much to choose from
That must have been ONE GOOD DEAL
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Posted 6/16/06 10:59 PM |
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Shorty
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Not a shower gift, but an e-party gift.
A used "wishing pot". Its like a bank, but there's no opening to get the money out. You're supposed to break it to get the money.
There was a big ol' crack in it, and the (very used/dirty) box had a "mace's closeout city" sticker for $2.99 on it.
And we had just given these people a $50 bill for an occasion 1 week earlier!!!!
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Posted 6/16/06 11:02 PM |
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mrswask
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Funny related story for you guys:
Years ago, my old roommate was invited to a close friends shower that she couldn't attend so she was going to send a gift. The friend is also the daughter of someone famous so everything with her is very top-notch.
So, my friend happens to see pretty much the same exact item as one of her expensive registry items at a discount store - I think it was National Wholesale Liquidators. So, she buys that one instead - why not - they were literally the same. Packs it up and mails it to her.
Wouldn't you know - friend calls her and tells her it arrived cracked and she was going to call her registry store and complain and have them send another one!!! My roomie was like
I truly don't remember what happened after that - but it was so hysterical/awful!
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Posted 6/16/06 11:03 PM |
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Redhead
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Posted by mrswask
Funny related story for you guys:
Years ago, my old roommate was invited to a close friends shower that she couldn't attend so she was going to send a gift. The friend is also the daughter of someone famous so everything with her is very top-notch.
So, my friend happens to see pretty much the same exact item as one of her expensive registry items at a discount store - I think it was National Wholesale Liquidators. So, she buys that one instead - why not - they were literally the same. Packs it up and mails it to her.
Wouldn't you know - friend calls her and tells her it arrived cracked and she was going to call her registry store and complain and have them send another one!!! My roomie was like
I truly don't remember what happened after that - but it was so hysterical/awful!
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Posted 6/16/06 11:07 PM |
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MABLE03
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
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Message edited 3/30/2007 12:42:25 AM.
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Posted 6/16/06 11:08 PM |
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mrswask
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Posted by MABLE03
Posted by mrswask
Funny related story for you guys:
Years ago, my old roommate was invited to a close friends shower that she couldn't attend so she was going to send a gift. The friend is also the daughter of someone famous so everything with her is very top-notch.
So, my friend happens to see pretty much the same exact item as one of her expensive registry items at a discount store - I think it was National Wholesale Liquidators. So, she buys that one instead - why not - they were literally the same. Packs it up and mails it to her.
Wouldn't you know - friend calls her and tells her it arrived cracked and she was going to call her registry store and complain and have them send another one!!! My roomie was like
I truly don't remember what happened after that - but it was so hysterical/awful!
I did that
Another cousin had her shower ( and I had like 5 showers in 1 month) and almost everything on the registry was waterford. I found the same exact waterford item that was on her registry on ebay brand new in the box for almost 1/2 the price. So I got it.
I was sooo bad that I actually bought it at fortunoffs to have it taken off the registry and then returned it the next day and gave her the fortunoff gift recipt with the ebay waterford
She was so SHOCKED and excited when she opened it and has thanked me a million times and yelled at me for spending so much
Then when my shower came she spent the "real" fortunoff price on me b/c she felt so bad that I had spent that much on her!
See - that's smart though!! You backed yourself up!!!
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Posted 6/16/06 11:10 PM |
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nrthshgrl
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Posted by mrswask
Then - to go along with that lovely wonder - she got me ONE, yes, ONE beach towel. I had some beach towels on my Fortunoff registry and she gets me ONE??? Am I not marrying someone?? Would it be possible that we might want two of them??? She drives all the way to Fortunoff for ONE towel???
I just don't get people
So how long were you shaking the towel to look for the check?
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Posted 6/16/06 11:37 PM |
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karacg
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Weight Watchers magazine -- from my sister. Not a subscription, ONE magazine...
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Posted 6/16/06 11:48 PM |
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mrswask
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Posted by nrthshgrl
Posted by mrswask
Then - to go along with that lovely wonder - she got me ONE, yes, ONE beach towel. I had some beach towels on my Fortunoff registry and she gets me ONE??? Am I not marrying someone?? Would it be possible that we might want two of them??? She drives all the way to Fortunoff for ONE towel???
I just don't get people
So how long were you shaking the towel to look for the check?
I knew not even to bother!!!
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Posted 6/16/06 11:49 PM |
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mrswask
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Posted by karacg
Weight Watchers magazine -- from my sister. Not a subscription, ONE magazine...
I'd a smacked her over the head with it!
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Posted 6/16/06 11:49 PM |
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
How about the toilet plunger WEDDING gift
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Posted 6/16/06 11:59 PM |
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june262004
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
MY MIL (who also threw several tantrums at my wedding including wearing a PURPLE DRESS that I asked her not to wear (so did her son and her daughter) since she would MATCH my Brides maids.) knew that I LIKED the color purple so she went to the 1.00 store and picked up everything purple even though everything I registered for was black and white!
Well I was opening my wishing well at home since I didn't have enough time at the restaurant and this way my DH could help. We opened Purple Ice Cube Trays Purple utensil holder We already had an apt and had all this stuff!!!!
We open another gift of hers... NOW we are in FRONT of a LOT OF PEOPLE HERE.... And Mike and I look at each other and we have strange faces on... Mike is like Mom do you know what this is? And she is like huh what what one is it.. He's like Its a leash you put your KIDS ON... That even if we had kids we wouldn't put this on them WHY WOULD YOU BUY THIS???? She screams out Top of her lungs... BUT ITS PURPLE I was thankful she did though in a way then everyone KNEW how CRAZY she was and that I wasn't just being the MEAN daughter in law!
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Posted 6/17/06 12:03 AM |
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mrswask
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Posted by june262004
MY MIL (who also threw several tantrums at my wedding including wearing a PURPLE DRESS that I asked her not to wear (so did her son and her daughter) since she would MATCH my Brides maids.) knew that I LIKED the color purple so she went to the 1.00 store and picked up everything purple even though everything I registered for was black and white!
Well I was opening my wishing well at home since I didn't have enough time at the restaurant and this way my DH could help. We opened Purple Ice Cube Trays Purple utensil holder We already had an apt and had all this stuff!!!!
We open another gift of hers... NOW we are in FRONT of a LOT OF PEOPLE HERE.... And Mike and I look at each other and we have strange faces on... Mike is like Mom do you know what this is? And she is like huh what what one is it.. He's like Its a leash you put your KIDS ON... That even if we had kids we wouldn't put this on them WHY WOULD YOU BUY THIS???? She screams out Top of her lungs... BUT ITS PURPLE I was thankful she did though in a way then everyone KNEW how CRAZY she was and that I wasn't just being the MEAN daughter in law!
Juney!!!
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Posted 6/17/06 12:06 AM |
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Shorty
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
Juney, too bad that used pocketbook wasn't purple!!!!
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Posted 6/17/06 12:06 AM |
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mrswask
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
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Juney, too bad that used pocketbook wasn't purple!!!!
Hey - at least it was Genuine Leather!
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Posted 6/17/06 12:07 AM |
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june262004
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
You guys are FUNNY!!!!
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Posted 6/17/06 12:07 AM |
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Shorty
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Re: Im Bored - what was the worst shower gift you got?
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Posted by Shorty
Juney, too bad that used pocketbook wasn't purple!!!!
Hey - at least it was Genuine Leather!
i'm sorry,that chain strap was HOT
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Posted 6/17/06 12:08 AM |
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