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Mother-In-Law Mall
A place to find great gifts!
and products related to mothers-in-law and other family members.
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Mother-In-Law Stories
June 18, 2004
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Worst gift: This year
was our 13th anniversary. MIL brought over our anniversary card
and said, "I've been carrying it around for a long time, but
just never mailed it. It's not signed either. I couldn't find
a pen in my car, so here you go." Does anyone else think that's
tacky?
Signed - Regifting One
Unsigned Anniversary Card to MIL Next Year
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Worst gift: My MIL and
I went shopping together for a family Xmas gift exchange. The gift
had to be $25.00 or less, and I was putting together a movie basket.
I went to the $5 store to pick up a blanket for my basket, and MIL
was looking at some clothing. She held up a GOD AWFUL sweater with
a huge hole in the breast area and asked, "Do you like this?"
I said, "Not really my style. Plus, it has a hole."
We went next door to a drug store to get DH and FIL some hearing-aid
batteries. I went to get into the car, and MIL said, "BRB!"
She ran into the store and returned with a bag that she threw into
the trunk. Xmas morning I opened - guess - a GOD AWFUL sweater
with a hole in it. She smiled at me and said,"Try it on!"
I was horrified. That same Xmas I opened a jewelry box that a coworker
had given to MIL (but she just had no need for it because FIL had
bought her an armoire. And to make matters even worse, MIL bought
DH an expensive tool box with all kinds of tools in it, knowing
full well that I had bought him one (that is another story within
itself). Am I being ungrateful?
Signed - MIL Driving
me NUTS on the West Coast
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Worst gift: A couple
of years ago, a large, well known candy manufacturing corporation
had a promotion where you got a free Disney World tin if you bought
3 bags of one of their products. For Christmas that year, my MIL
spent hundreds of dollars on her son, buying him everything that
he could ever need for the upcoming fishing season. When she handed
me my one gift, I thought it was a little odd. I thought it was
even odder when I felt how light it was. Did she give me cash,
or a gift certificate of some kind? No, she gave me a tin that
she had gotten for free. That was it. She even kept the candy
for herself. I was shocked, and I don't think that I did a very
good job of hiding it, because she said, "Well, I know how
much you like Disney World!", with a big, fake smile on her
face. We don't speak anymore (she did a lot of awful stuff to me,
and to her own son as punishment for marrying me), but she still
sends my son extravagant gifts all the time. I never get anything.
That's fine with me.
Signed - Tired of Her
Cr@p
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