hereca622

In Texas, there are a lot of inside jokes. One is about the class of people that put pink flamingos in their yard. I apologize ahead of time if you have them in your yard. I have become very fond of them and even plan a flamingo quilt because of this story. I think real ones are magnificent.
My good friend moved into a very nice neighborhood in 1993 and another friend thought it would be funny to gift her with a pair of flamingos for her yard. She moved them to the backyard and they lived there for years. One day, the yardmen, accidently, murdered the pink plastic flamingos.
As luck would have it, My friend's birthday happened about the same time. All her DH gave her was a new set of pink plastic flamingos. He truly thought it would be nice to replace them. Can you say, "Angry on Steroids"? Needless to say, she received a piece of jewelry shortly afterward. We all fueled the fire by pointing out every pink flamingo item that we passed. It is still fun today. What are good friends for?

seamstome

Bubble wrap....wow, you arent doing time in a state prison, you are a much better woman than I am!

soccertxi

I got an alarm clock for Mothers day. And if that was not bad enough, I got no cards from my kids. I have always said, a homemade card is the best, so no worries about the $. When I asked him why he didn't have the kids make me a card (or make one from HIM), he answered ;You are not my mother'. That went over like a LEAD BALLOON! I don't think he ever really understood why I was so upset.

justwannaquilt

My husband would have DIED!
Ya know though, there is a reason Mothers day comes before Fathers day.

Today he text messaged me and told me he got me a surprise, come home, he had bought himself underware! However it was a surprise, I don't think he has bought his own underware in the eight years that we have been together.

KatFish

Oh these are funny. makes me so happy my DH asks me what I would like, and then goes and get me what I asked for. Lucky me.

tutt

OMG, I thought I was the only one :) I got screwdrivers (cheap ones at that) and a lint brush one year. Now I buy my own gifts and wrap them up!

QuiltingNinaSue

A smoker's billfold, that could hold a pack of cigerattes for Christmas when the kids were small; never smoked in my life. And without a lighter. Things "lite up" for a while.

I started buying my own to wrap up for under the Christmas tree, and saying, "thank you" to dh. I always purhcased all the childrens Christmas gifts, and dh's. Knew half the time I would get nothing, if I failed to buy myself something.

Love all these stories.

Nanax4

It wasn't exactly SO's gift, but he was connected to it.....

His sister gave me a pair of black lacy crotchless underwear as my only Christmas gift from that side of the family. In front of everybody. I'm pretty conservative and wouldn't have thought this was funny under ANY circumstances, let alone in a large group. The SIL thought she was pretty hysterical.

Turns out my spouse KNEW about it ahead of time!!!!

No one else was given a gag gift, so who knows the intent of that kind of a gift.

No one could understand why I was so hurt, including the spouse. It would have been different if they had at least had another gift that was more reasonable. Especially since I'd given each of them a thoughtful gift.

patchsamkim

A trolling motor...and I did not fish...wasn't pleased!

Kas

I have to buy my own lingere. My DH always buys a size or two (or three!) too small. I take it as a compliment. He sees me better than I am. The year he bought a chainsaw for my birthday, he did take me to a nice restaurant, too! And I needed that chainsaw, dang it. He kept me warm for 10 years with that thing. By cutting wood for the woodstove, of course! Our furnace didn't heat the house very well or very cheaply since we lived on an exposed bluff and had vaulted ceilings. We lived in shorts during the winters, though.