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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:02:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		LOL, Kittensol!!  Those are GREAT!!!!!  I actually asked my daughter for a pair of slippers, great big ones to keep my feet warm 'cuz I really hate wearing JUST SOCKS I think I'll forward her your link!!!  Too funny!

Regarding the thread 'ya know, I was sitting here thinking what gift did I receive that I just wanted to break over someone's head & I honestly can't think of any. I did receive a "Foot Treatment Spa Kit" from my ex on Mother's Day. He said my insole needed some help. It still sits in my closet, unopened.   Hmmmm, come to think of it, I DID want to break this over his big head so disregard previous remarks.

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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:18:16 AM   
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Then I must be seriously ungrateful: to this day, and nearly twenty years later, I still haven't forgiven my oldest friend for giving me a pair of these cheesy monster slippers , you know, the acrylic ones with the stupid faces in the toe area, the ones that give you static and are really uncomfortable?



i have to admit...these were not my favorite gift. Mine were elephants and i nearly killed myself going down the stairs (i stepped on the trunk!)


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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:25:29 AM   
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LOL, Kittensol!!  Those are GREAT!!!!!  I actually asked my daughter for a pair of slippers, great big ones to keep my feet warm 'cuz I really hate wearing JUST SOCKS I think I'll forward her your link!!!  Too funny!



You're crazy  . Get some shearling slippers instead. Soft, warm, durable, gorgeously cozy :-) .

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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:27:37 AM   
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i have to admit...these were not my favorite gift. Mine were elephants and i nearly killed myself going down the stairs (i stepped on the trunk!)



I tell you, these things should come with a health warning. They're deadly, especially if you're a little accident prone like me.



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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:28:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		LL Bean rocks! Love everything there and their return policy is amazing. p.s. I am a size 9 slipper kitten...

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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:30:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		you can get slippers with "memory foam" soles. OMG...are they comfy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:30:52 AM   
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Then I must be seriously ungrateful: to this day, and nearly twenty years later, I still haven't forgiven my oldest friend for giving me a pair of these cheesy monster slippers , you know, the acrylic ones with the stupid faces in the toe area, the ones that give you static and are really uncomfortable?



i nearly killed myself going down the stairs (i stepped on the trunk!)



Shocker.

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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:32:47 AM   
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LL Bean rocks! Love everything there and their return policy is amazing. p.s. I am a size 9 slipper kitten...




PS: I'll have these in a 6.

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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:33:03 AM   
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LOL, Kittensol!!  Those are GREAT!!!!!  I actually asked my daughter for a pair of slippers, great big ones to keep my feet warm 'cuz I really hate wearing JUST SOCKS I think I'll forward her your link!!!  Too funny!



You're crazy  . Get some shearling slippers instead. Soft, warm, durable, gorgeously cozy :-) .


Those ARE nice but I like the MONSTER SLIPPERS!!!!
I like the "unusual" gifts.  Everyone has "Welcome" mats in front of their door in my bldg., I have the Tazmanian Devil screaming, "Go Away"!!!!!


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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:33:24 AM   
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Then I must be seriously ungrateful: to this day, and nearly twenty years later, I still haven't forgiven my oldest friend for giving me a pair of these cheesy monster slippers , you know, the acrylic ones with the stupid faces in the toe area, the ones that give you static and are really uncomfortable?



i nearly killed myself going down the stairs (i stepped on the trunk!)



Shocker.

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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:37:37 AM   
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Those ARE nice but I like the MONSTER SLIPPERS!!!!
I like the "unusual" gifts.  Everyone has "Welcome" mats in front of their door in my bldg., I have the Tazmanian Devil screaming, "Go Away"!!!!!



Aww alright then, you goof. Which ones though? The monster foot with the claws are totally you  .

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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:40:43 AM   
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I'll have these in a 6.

size 6? hell...you barely have feet!!!


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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:41:51 AM   
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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:47:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		FR:  I actually cannot think of a bad gift I've received.  I must be lucky.  Or have VERY LOW STANDARDS!  uh...yah.

I have however witnessed spectacularly bad gift giving.  My favorite was many many years ago, as a young lawyer, my boss agonized over what to send the banking executives who sent us a lot of loan origination business.  (an aside for readers under 40:  Yes, Virginia, once upon a time there were magical places called BANKS...and they actually LENT YOU MONEY.  ... But I digress).

So after discounting TVs, a Tiffany something, etc.  he picks out a really expensive basket of fine wine and spirits (this was pre- S&L crisis and there were no laws against gifting loan officers, or if there were, no one paid attention).  Probably $500 a pop.  I remember there was Stoli, Tanqueray, some pricey single malt -- high end booze stuff.  And he sends about 10 of these out to some big client/sources.  Including one to the managing director of our largest single referral source, who turns out to be a deeply religious recovering alcoholic with 10+ years in the "program".  Apparently my boss received back a terse note wishing his obviously Jewish dumb ass a long "life in Christ", a certificate for a donation in my boss's name to the Salvation Army (I'm NOT making this up) and damn little business the next year.

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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 11:59:06 AM   
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he bloodied my nose. It was so bloodied that my favorite coat I was wearing was ruined.
Guess what he got me for Christmas?


phew...a packet of tissues to stop the bledding?  (don't get me wrong...not making fun out of such a nasty expierience...just a thought...)

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Sorry.
Can't help it.
I have a very small family, and it's quite possible (probable even) that I could lose my dad, my uncle, and my grandmother (who raised me as her own) over the next year.
Sooner, rather than later, for my dad and my uncle.
There will only be a few of us left after that.
I would love to have them here next year to give and receive corny or silly gifts.


Sorry to hear that blushes, but in my case I am as far apart from my family as it is only possible (and not talking about the distance level, talking about the emotional distance), and I am not keen at all to have christmas with them. Therefore I see it pretty neutral in regards to christmas. My granny also raised me up like her own (I lived with my parents but she looked after us during the day, etc...) and she is the only one which I do miss as she passed away last year autumn. In the recent years when I managed to get home I only went home to see her, and as she is gone, there isn't much reason anymore to go home. My parent's wanted to visit me this year christmas and I declined, as I am going to meet a guy on here for 4 weeks instead...they have had time since 4 years already to visit me and never turned up, so I don't bother to cancel him now because of them.

Therefore it just depends on the relationship within families I suppose...

But I hope you will be with your family as long as possible.

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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 12:22:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		My step-grandparents are notorious gift givers in our family.  They never really "get" anything for anyone, they just look around their house and throw stuff in a gift bag that they haven't used or was given as a gift to them that they don't want.  Each year that bag is brought to our house, and it's stuffed with stuff; sort of like a crazy grab-bag.  We all actually look forward to opening it (when my step-grandparents aren't around) and trying to figure out what they gave us and how they got it.  It is now a family tradition that we couldn't live without.  Last years tally included:

-A stolen hotel robe (fancy though, from the Four Seasons) and slippers
-Spice grinder
-Planet Hollywood coffee mug
-Year old calendar (yes, the pics are pretty but what good is a 2007 calendar in December 2007?)
-Used kerosene wick lamp that really stank
-A box of matches
-Packet of gum
-Citrus reamer
-A small toy moose
-A horribly scented candle with clowns painted on it.

There was actually more (they apparently believe in "If we can't give thoughtful, let's just give them lots of it to make up for it"), but these are the only ones I remember.

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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 12:24:12 PM   
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Probably $500 a pop.  I remember there was Stoli, Tanqueray, some pricey single malt -- high end booze stuff.  And he sends about 10 of these out to some big client/sources.  Including one to the managing director of our largest single referral source, who turns out to be a deeply religious recovering alcoholic with 10+ years in the "program".  Apparently my boss received back a terse note wishing his obviously Jewish dumb ass a long "life in Christ", a certificate for a donation in my boss's name to the Salvation Army (I'm NOT making this up) and damn little business the next year.


 - and great to see you  back, Empy :-) .

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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 12:27:46 PM   
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Those ARE nice but I like the MONSTER SLIPPERS!!!!
I like the "unusual" gifts.  Everyone has "Welcome" mats in front of their door in my bldg., I have the Tazmanian Devil screaming, "Go Away"!!!!!



Aww alright then, you goof. Which ones though? The monster foot with the claws are totally you  .


Works for me!!! I sent the link to my daughter.....keep your fingers crossed for me!!!!!!!!! 

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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 3:38:13 PM   
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LL Bean rocks! Love everything there and their return policy is amazing. p.s. I am a size 9 slipper kitten...




PS: I'll have these in a 6.


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RE: Your Worst Gift - 12/11/2008 4:15:31 PM   
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That's why I fall over so easily... not enough surface to keep me grounded. *Cough cough*.


exactly.  fallcon used to say "those feet and those tits?  no wonder you fall over!"

kitten, who wears a 5 if she can find ones that fit.  otherwise a 6.

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