https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 10 Nov 2026 19:17:25 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1290185 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:49:03 +0000 Torchwood 1290185@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have to update this because I just went to walk the dogs and this was waiting on my porch! It is the coolest! Yay for best friends who really know you well! (Even well enough to know a coloring book is a great gift for this 28 year old!) </p> [attach=3674/13/my16ds.453x600.988416_862970603613_473318871_n.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1283643 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:14:42 +0000 TheSwissWifeStyle 1283643@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best: there really have been too many. Santa always did a good job growing up. Last year, DH got me a Samsung tablet that I use every day. </p> <p>Worst: an ex got me a nose hair trimmer, and a box of life savers, wrapped up, one year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1283509 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:24:17 +0000 Modern Daisy 1283509@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Can't really beat getting pregnant right before Christmas last year. We hid it from our families since it was too early to announce, but it was a really special Christmas.</p> <p>The worst are usually gifts I get in my family Pollyanna every year. When my younger cousins get my name I usually get an ugly tan/brown chunky sweater with no shape or something of the sort. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1283499 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:19:29 +0000 skipra 1283499@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best was getting pregnant with DS but I didn't find out about it until January. Also this year our present to ourselves is a new house. We close on the 23rd!</p> <p>Worst was the year my step mom decided to be crafty. I received my name and address written on fluorescent paper and laminated. They were supposed to be luggage tags. Greatest part was that I was set to move out of my apartment in a month. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1283394 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:15:40 +0000 mediagirl 1283394@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best - a bike. My parents hid it from me (didn't put it by the tree) and made a scavenger hunt to find it. :)</p> <p>Worst - Hmmm...I can't remember anything THAT bad, to be honest. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1283388 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:07:40 +0000 PinkElephant 1283388@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best: a few years ago my husband got me a really nice new suitcase (which I needed). Inside he tucked a flight itinerary for a trip for the two of us to visit a close friend I missed awfully ( we had just moved countries) in Australia for NYE. We left 3 days later - it was the most amazing surprise!</p> <p>Worst: wow, nothing like some of these doozies! I guess I would have to say Diamond earrings in a box I was sure was an engagement ring. They were gorgeous, but it was an awkward moment pretending I wasn't disappointed right when I opened them. I always counsel male friends NOT to wrap earrings in anything smaller than a necklace box! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1283286 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 01:40:02 +0000 Kimberlybee 1283286@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best Gift: I had my eyes on this corner desk set up for our bedroom when we were first married at one of our favorite local furniture stores. DH kept on saying how it would look too big and awkward for our bedroom so we should shop around. Upon returning from a work trip, I came home to find the exact same setup, desks and chair that I wanted in our bedroom. It's the way he played it off and surprised me that made it so special! </p> <p>Worst Gift: gotta get back to ya on this one.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1283278 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 01:23:21 +0000 Kimberlybee 1283278@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pepper: no way! That's crazy. Can you tell us who gave you that? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1283276 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 01:15:53 +0000 Pepper 1283276@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best: Last year DH bought me an iPad, which I love and use all the time. Oh, and the snoogle which was a lifesaver when I was pregnant!</p> <p>Worst: A used knife set. Wrapped in aluminum foil. The knives had rust spots on them. I wish I was joking. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1283275 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 01:09:14 +0000 mrskc 1283275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best I would say is the diamond studs DH got me last year. </p> <p>Worst - my grandma gifted me USED cooking magazines. Like it was her subscription and she just plopped a years worth of magazines in a box, wrapped it and gifted it to me for Xmas. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1283273 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 01:01:46 +0000 lovehoneybee 1283273@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best: a leather chair and a half recliner. D got it for the first Christmas we were married. He told me that he was in the store and it looked comfy so he sat down and had the clearest image of snuggling and reading stories in it with me and our (future) child.</p> <p>Worst: Hmm. My stepmom gave me an Eeyore sweatshirt when I was like 19. And as keeping with her gift-giving tradition, my stepsister received the same one, but in a different color. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1283231 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 23:30:37 +0000 Kimberlybee 1283231@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyMats: Awww congrats on your new car! Love the new car look and smell. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1283229 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 23:29:39 +0000 Kimberlybee 1283229@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swedishfish: OMG that is just too sweet! (Felicity doll gift) What an awesome boyfriend, glad you married him. LOL </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1283096 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 21:31:24 +0000 swedishfish 1283096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best: when DH (then boyfriend) bought me Felicity, the American Girl doll, because I was sad she was being retired and I always liked her.</p> <p>Worst: my MIL bought me and my SIL a bunch of reusable plastic bags in ugly Vera Bradley-ish (and I love VB) patterns last year. ETA - they aren't bags to use in the supermarkets either...definitely something you have to see to understand. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1283069 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 21:17:50 +0000 cascademom 1283069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best: got proposed to on Christmas Day. I think he got me a DVD as well in case it didn't show up in time.</p> <p>Worst: most things from my MIL. I have a really awful pink hat she crocheted as well as an ill fitting pink apron. I have pics of it but won't post publicly without Gold because they're that bad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1282975 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 20:44:53 +0000 Espion 1282975@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Are you guys reading any of the blog comments? Did you see the one where her husband gifted her the $20 check from their joint checking account?!</p> <p>Best: when my husband asked me to marry him on New Year's eve. I can't even remember what he got me for Christmas that year...</p> <p>Worst: There is this huge plastic montage frame that my mom gave us last year full of our wedding photos. I still have it because she obviously put a lot of thought and hard work into it. (And I love it for that. Truly I do.) But it's just not our taste by a long shot. We'll bring it out when she comes to our house. It will probably live underneath the stairs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1282905 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 19:44:22 +0000 bamwam 1282905@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>best: a necklace with a pendant made out of the diamond from the ring my dad gave my mom when he proposed</p> <p>worst: i can't think of one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1282815 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 18:17:18 +0000 mrs. 64 1282815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best: That's a tough one. There have been a lot that I was really excited about, but a sentimental one sticks out in my mind. My dad passed away 2 years ago and my sister had lyrics from one of his songs stamped on the inside of a silver bracelet. Love it.</p> <p>Worst: When I thought my ex-bf was going to give me an engagement ring and he gave me a subwoofer set for my car. I was upset at the time, but clearly I dodged a bullet on that one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1282791 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:55:13 +0000 sunny 1282791@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both are courtesy of DH but when we had first started dating. </p> <p>Best: I had been eyeing a necklace on Nordstrom.com and I had no idea that he even knew I was thinking about getting it. He surprised me with it for our first Christmas! Since then he's never surprised me so this one holds a special place in my heart.</p> <p>Worst: For our first Valentine's day he got me the scariest looking lion from Hallmark. I felt terrible but he could tell I hated it because it was sooooo ugly. I brought it back to Hallmark but they gave me the hardest time because it was Feb 15th even though their sign didn't say anything about returns of holiday merchandise. It's become a joke now between us and I kind of wish I hadn't returned it since we laugh about it now. :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1282773 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:33:56 +0000 avivoca 1282773@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jedeve: That is exactly how I feel. I would rather her get something thoughtful for me instead of just giving her a list of items to pick from. I may refuse to do a list next year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1282771 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:31:18 +0000 jedeve 1282771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@evansjamie: it drives me crazy! I'd rather have a small gift that is thoughtful than having her just pay for stuff. My sisters have NO problem sending her their list though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1282769 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:27:44 +0000 Mae 1282769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best - I'm lucky that I'm having a hard time choosing! I think maybe my diamond necklace from my husband. He got it for me for our first Christmas after we were married and it was SUCH a shock. I just knew it was something I'd wear every day (I do) and maybe one day give to a granddaughter or something. Or tied for first is the year my dad built me a dark room in their basement. He got me started on photography and taught me the basics, and now I'm pursuing it as a career :) </p> <p>Worst - Also hard to choose… hah. My husband's family gives me weird stuff. I think his grandma just picks random stuff from her church's rummage sale to give people every year. I don't care that they don't spend a lot but I'd honestly rather a tin of cookies than some random placemats and a second hand soap dispenser. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1282762 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:18:24 +0000 avivoca 1282762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jedeve: My mom does the same thing with the gift lists. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1282756 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:07:56 +0000 jedeve 1282756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom is very odd with gifts. She gets upset if we don't want "surprises" but likes us to give her an EXACT Christmas list. </p> <p>Best: interchangeable knitting needle set. I think it was the only time she took my hobby into consideration buying a present! She gets things for my sisters all the time saying, "oh that's so your sister," but never me!</p> <p>Worst: I asked for a Jefferson cup for my graduation. She told me to tell her where from. I did. She told me to pull up their website. I did. She told me to order it. I asked her if she would at least like to pick out the engraving. She said, "no, just put whatever you want." Then I filled in her credit card information. Needless to say I don't look at it as a sentimental gift from my parents. </p> <p>She is worse at receiving gifts. Once as a kid she found my Mother's Day present for her and gave it to my sister before I gave it to her. Another time she saw what I bought and told me to return it. Once I gave her something she had been mentioning wanting for years and she seemed completely uninterested. </p> <p>Other worst gift: in elementary school, one of my friends gave out mugs of Hershey's kisses. Then she asked for mine back so she could give it to someone else. </p> <p>Also, journals are the worst. I get like three journals a year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1282737 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 16:45:20 +0000 BabyMats 1282737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best I had alot of awesome gifts growing up but right now hubs trumps them.I have never had a brand new car before and he bought me a car for Christmas yesterday!</p> <p>Worst- probably not the gift itself but how it was delivered. My family had just lost our business and lost our house.it was our last Christmas in the house and I knew we had no money for gifts. So I was like that's alright Santa will pull through for my mom and dad. When I woke up the next morning there was a small shaking snow globe. My parents were so tired my mom just signed from Santa in her handwriting and that's how I found out about Santa. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1282732 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 16:42:10 +0000 avivoca 1282732@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Worst: a scrapbook set, only because it was the same thing I got the year before from the same person. The best was the pearl earrings my husband gave me for our sixth anniversary. I told him years ago that I wanted a pair of earrings to match my grandmother's pearls that I wore on our wedding day, and they are so special to me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1282728 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 16:38:14 +0000 Arden 1282728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best - DSLR camera that I've been wanting for three years. My dad got it for me as this year's early Christmas present.</p> <p>Worst - My grandma bought me a hot pink vinyl-ish puffer vest (soo not me) in a child's size 8. I was 19. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1282720 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 16:20:03 +0000 autumnlove 1282720@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Best- I didn't have a full size fridge and a coworker bought one for me at my first job</p> <p>Worst- 3 month subscription to ESPN magazine </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/best-giftworst-gift#post-1282716 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 16:16:27 +0000 Torchwood 1282716@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So the Bloggess has a post up about the best and worst gifts she's ever gotten, and I'm LOVING reading through the comments. <a href="http://thebloggess.com/2013/12/best-present-ever-worst-present-ever/" rel="nofollow">http://thebloggess.com/2013/12/best-present-ever-worst-present-ever/</a> I think I've seen this sort of thing on here, but not recently, so does anyone want to share theirs? I can start. :)</p> <p> Worst is probably the year my grandfather got us all chick-fil-a gift cards. I was a vegetarian, and had been for a couple years. But honestly, what makes it the worst isn’t that. I wasn’t upset, since he was VERY broke (shouldn’t have gotten any of us anything), and I could re-gift it or get some milkshakes. So I didn’t say anything, wanting to keep him from feeling bad. My cousin not only pointed it out to him, but was snotty to him about it. He felt really bad and I was very upset with her.</p> <p> Best was either the year my parents had all the stuff for a cat under the tree, and I got to go get a kitten from the shelter (I had been begging for a cat for YEARS), or the year they got me this giant cd player. They had my other gifts stacked on and around it, and at first they were confused why I ignored it. It was only after they pointed it out that I realized it was actually for me, not just something they’d set my gifts on. I figured there was no way they’d get me something that awesome. :) </p>