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Do You Like Fruitcake?
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Kd5000 on November 20, 2006, 07:43:38 pm ---Still not sold SouthendMD. I used to get one everyear from someone who never got the hint. It was made by monks in Texas. Well, I'm sure the proceeds went to benefit the monastery. I can just picture those monks making fruitcakes in July to be ready to be sent in December. :-\
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The kind of fruitcake you're describing sounds like penance. :-X
Ain't the real thing.
Who ever heard of monks in Texas, anyway. What do they know? Hunh?
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: David925 on November 20, 2006, 05:39:02 pm ---Fruitcakes and bath soap are the worst gifts! And those musical ties. If anyone ever gives me one of those, I'll hang myself with it. :P
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Yes - so impersonal. Like, hello, everyone uses soap. But how do you really know what someone's favorite scent is, and whether they even want it in a soap? And AS IF anyone would ever actually wear one of those ties who wasn't just totally goofing on everybody else. And how much mileage can you get out of that?
I'm one of those people who puts a lot of thought into the gifts I give. I really try to get something they'll take to like fish to water but yet wouldn't buy for themselves, ya know? So when I get a thoughtless re-gift, it's like a slap to the face.
My husband is the most difficult person in the world to buy for, because he's about the only straight man I know (no offense intended!) who actually enjoys shopping. He shops (for bargains, mostly) all the time and buys himself all the things he wants and needs. So clothing is out of the question. I try to make him something personal every year for his birthday and Christmas, like a CD of his favorite songs or an album of his favorite photos (that he took himself - I can't take a decent picture to save my life). And since I *hate* to shop, even for clothes and shoes for myself, he buys me beautiful shirts and jackets and shoes he finds in his travels - things that immediately become my favorite items of clothing, but that I would never buy for myself.
And then my idiot ex-neighbor gives me an opened box of Crest Whitestrips for my birthday. Seriously. That disturbed me on a number of levels. (I have really good dental hygiene, I swear!)
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on November 20, 2006, 11:05:21 pm ---
And then my idiot ex-neighbor gives me an opened box of Crest Whitestrips for my birthday. Seriously. That disturbed me on a number of levels. (I have really good dental hygiene, I swear!)
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What in the world was she thinking giving you an opened box of whitening strips?
Boy, that gift certainly does take the cake... err... the fruitcake in my opinion. :(
David In Indy:
The worst present I ever received was from my own mother! >:(
She made a dish of mixed vegetables for a party and nobody ate them. She poured maple syrup over the mixed vegetables and then she chilled them in the refrigerator. She called them "Hawaiian vegetables".
She canned a big batch of them up and gave me some as a birthday present. :P
It was the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted in my entire life.
Don't worry, I DIDN'T regift it! It went in the trash.
injest:
--- Quote from: David925 on November 21, 2006, 12:42:45 am ---The worst present I ever received was from my own mother! >:(
She made a dish of mixed vegetables for a party and nobody ate them. She poured maple syrup over the mixed vegetables and then she chilled them in the refrigerator. She called them "Hawaiian vegetables".
She canned a big batch of them up and gave me some as a birthday present. :P
It was the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted in my entire life.
Don't worry, I DIDN'T regift it! It went in the trash.
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ok I was thinking I had the worst gift story but you topped me...
I bought my sister a handmade carousel horse music box for Christmas....she gave me a bottle of hair conditioner she got free with purchase....
oh ...and I like SOME fruitcakes...
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