Weird/useless bridal shower/wedding gifts

I got married in August 1992. I had two bridal showers just before the wedding. I very much appreciate the people who took the time and money to give those gifts, and I was not/am not greedy or bitchy about any of the things I got. But I just went through my cabinets yesterday, and I found a couple of the strange things I got as gifts back then:

*A Weighdle - a soup/liquid ladle with a built-in weight scale. It might have been a cool idea had it not been for the shape of the handle. Absolutely nothing stays in it. I guess it's a good diet tool. :rofl:

*A set of towels with the price tags still on. There were two towels, two hand towels, and one washcloth. The tags were from a store in our area that closed in 1978, and the style was very 1970s. The wedding was in 1992. :yoiks:

*A cheap jam/jelly serving (in the box) set that came from Big Lots and was missing a lid. :yoiks:

*A tomato aspic serving utensil in our stainless steel flatware pattern. (We didn't ask for it.) I traded it in on another serving piece. :P

*A set of lemonade glasses and matching pitcher. Every single one of the glasses AND the pitcher cracked the first time we washed them. :yoiks:


What about you?

The inlaws are "regifters" so I got a huge collection of dishes, mugs, ceramicware etc. in harvest gold and olive green shades. Somebody sent me footed corian "goblets" (?) in olive green w/turquoise nightingales. I got a lovely plastic tablecloth, in anticipation of the kids, I guess... Oh I don't remember except my sisters and I were laughing so hard we were crying.

:rofl: At least you all got a good laugh out of it. My great aunt Louise (RIP) was a notorious regifter, and we got all kinds of weird tacky gifts from her. When I was a kid, I got a checkers set that she had stored in mothballs for years, and it was missing two pieces. It reeked of mothballs. :puke: My brother got a 1950s pen set from her in 1972 which also stank of mothballs, and my sister got an ancient dryrotted stuffed animal, complete with the scent. :rofl:

Geez....I'm glad you're away from your in-laws now. :hug:

It actually makes me feel bad, the tremendous relief I have knowing I won't be dealing with them. :hi:

Our first Christmas together, my MIL gave the STBE the free watch that came with her TIME subscription. That and a secondhand red wool vest that was too small for me, let alone Chris. Bizarre.

:rofl: :hi: That's a lot of pasta....:P I found that we got a lot of things that were "in vogue" in 1992. I guess pasta forks were in vogue when you got married. :)

I used it a couple times. It does dry salad well, but we usually use the bagged salad that doesn't need to be washed.

I don't recall which Swiss relative gave them to us, or why they thought a novelty item might be a good wedding gift for a Swiss man and an American woman making Switzerland her home. No doubt, I sent a handwritten "thank you" note to the sender but I can't imagine what gracious phrase I must have used to express my thanks. :shrug:


Disclaimer: I do not own this display case.
This is a Googled example.

least bit worried about getting an iron and an ironing board. My Aunt Betty worked at Sunbeam and you could always count on her to get you an iron and and ironing board.

Not this time though, she bought us an electric egg poacher. My Mom said the look on my face was priceless when I opened it up. Needless to say, Ma wanted the electric egg poacher for herself, so she went out and bought us an iron and an ironing board, which I still have and use.

when it comes to wedding gifts. My son got married a couple of years ago and received:

An orange strainer, 6 used dessert forks thrown in a used cardboard box, a Coldplay CD, 2 very gaudy placemats.

The oddest gift Mr Pip and I received was a 10 lb block of cheese from his very strange sister.

Mz Pip
:dem:

thats hilarious. got a pic?

with little brightly-colored molded flowers around where each votive went. It was the most hideous thing I'd ever seen.

And it's a good thing we live far from reprehensor's relatives, as his niece will never see where it ended up (trash bag).

For all the registering we did, it was completely useless. These ignorant Alberta farm people had never seen a registry in their lives, and we got some really useless and ugly gifts. Even the useful ones were in godawful colors (harvest gold fondue set, anyone?).

In total, including the Texans and other assorted friends and relatives on my wide, I can't count all the freaking candles and candleholders we got.

that is fine art compared to this thing.

Imagine something with the approximate branching look of this:



and the ugly flower cups of this....



Then paint the entire thing various gaudy shades of bright pink, violet, and blue.

Then imagine you purchased it at Dollar General.

'Nuff said.

I guess I would have donated it to Goodwill or something. Likely, there's someone out there who would gladly have made use of it (there's no accounting for taste) and at least delayed it taking up space in a landfill somewhere. :shrug:

and you'll see why I was not overeager to foist it upon any other members of the public. Plus, I was not quite as "earth savvy" as I am now. Mea culpa.

and need some ideas.

On the other hand, what if I bring a gag gift and it's a duplicate of what someone else brings?

a farm house in the middle of bumb-fuck-Egypt and it had nothing modern in it, to say the least.
I mean NOTHING!!!! Anyway, I was complaining there wasn't a dishwasher.
The Apt. we moved from, you know, the one back in civilization, came with AC and a dishwasher!
So my smart ass mother-in-law, who hadn't been at my bridle shower, gave me a "present".
It was a dishrag, folded up in a pretty box, with an electrical cord attached.

I wasn't laughing...until a long time later.

What gifts have brides gotten multiples of in times past?

I've heard of people getting several crock pots in the 80s.

And people getting several compotes back in the early 50s or late 40s.