Gifts that hurt your feelings

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

Hey hey..I never said it was $5! I don't know where you're getting that from. It was under $20, is what I believe the original post said.

I'm over it, now. He admitted he messed up on that one, and has been hinting that he's getting jewelry for Christmas...

I love him anyways

Oh, see? He's totally redeemable. Sounds like a keeper!

[PrettyBoy]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

Hey hey..I never said it was $5! I don't know where you're getting that from. It was under $20, is what I believe the original post said.

Exactly. $5.00 IS under $20.00.

[fantASTic]

Haha, aren't you so clever!

[PrettyBoy]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

Haha, aren't you so clever!

LOL. I was only teasing you.

[ktbug10474]

so i know i'm drudging up an old thread but it's one i get EVERY year and i know it's supposed to be a joke but now it's just not funny anymore.

Every year for my birthday (as a gag gift) i get a partridge in a pear tree.... care to guess what day my bday's on???

[PrettyBoy]

Originally Posted by ktbug10474

so i know i'm drudging up an old thread but it's one i get EVERY year and i know it's supposed to be a joke but now it's just not funny anymore.

Every year for my birthday (as a gag gift) i get a partridge in a pear tree.... care to guess what day my bday's on???

Looks like I've got a new joker to tease.

[nittanyalum]

^^^Arbor day? j/k

[ktbug10474]

hehe nope. i think my birthday is quite a few months after that lol

[tben#32]

will first of all a $20 sweat shirt? will u know u can use it as a night wear....

so here is my story:
i dated this guy for about 3 years, from the beginning of my high school year to the beginning of my junior year in high school. as our 3 year anniversary was coming up i went to town trying to find the perfect gift. as i was looking around the mall i saw this cute dog. he is so into dogs so i thought u know i could buy him a dog. the dog was a pit bull. so the day came and he came over ( to my house) we sat there and we talked about our years together then i told him i had a gift for him, he told me he had a gift for me too so i was pretty hyped up about that day, as i gave him my gift he told me he loved it, as i was waiting for my gift he gave me coupons for a fast food resturant. he knows that i don't eat at fast food resturants. so the next day he told me that we should just be friends...

it was a great laugh though because i gave the coupons to a couple of kids. so yeah right now i am a senior in high school..

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by tben#32

will first of all a $20 sweat shirt? will u know u can use it as a night wear....

so here is my story:
i dated this guy for about 3 years, from the beginning of my high school year to the beginning of my junior year in high school. as our 3 year anniversary was coming up i went to town trying to find the perfect gift. as i was looking around the mall i saw this cute dog. he is so into dogs so i thought u know i could buy him a dog. the dog was a pit bull. so the day came and he came over ( to my house) we sat there and we talked about our years together then i told him i had a gift for him, he told me he had a gift for me too so i was pretty hyped up about that day, as i gave him my gift he told me he loved it, as i was waiting for my gift he gave me coupons for a fast food resturant. he knows that i don't eat at fast food resturants. so the next day he told me that we should just be friends...

it was a great laugh though because i gave the coupons to a couple of kids. so yeah right now i am a senior in high school..

that sucks

[christiangirl]

I'm always a little offended when people buy me clothes that are way too big. Someone bought me a shirt that was a 3X for my birthday. At the time I wore about a L/XL, so I was just sitting there thinking, "Is that really what I look like to you????" It wouldn't be a problem if I were closer to it, but I was definitely offended. Now I'm about a medium, so a 2X would probably tick me off (unless it was someone who hadn't seen me recently). It doesn't bother some people, but I'm a little sensitive about it.

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

I'm always a little offended when people buy me clothes that are way too big. Someone bought me a shirt that was a 3X for my birthday. At the time I wore about a L/XL, so I was just sitting there thinking, "Is that really what I look like to you????" It wouldn't be a problem if I were closer to it, but I was definitely offended. Now I'm about a medium, so a 2X would probably tick me off (unless it was someone who hadn't seen me recently). It doesn't bother some people, but I'm a little sensitive about it.

They are waiting for you to get married and have children - not in that order...

or


They thought you were still a kid and trying to say something about the size of your chest...

[sigmadiva]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

What do you do when you get a gift for an anniversary or something that CLEARLY has no thought put into it?

Advice?

Smile, say thank you, keep it for a while then donate the item to Goodwill or the Salvation Army and use it as a tax write-off. You benefit from the deduction and someone else benefits when they buy it. Believe me, someone *will* buy it.

On the flip side I gave a gift to a guy I was dating and he clearly was not too pleased, but he put a smile on his face and said thank you. See, I noticed that he had these ratty looking bath towels and I felt that he deserved better ones, so I went out and bought some nice ones for his birthday. I gave him this big heavy box and he looked sooo excited to open it. Then when he did he said, 'Oh, thanks....yeah...I guess I needed these.' I thought I was being practical, oh well