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We are counting down to the release of the anthology, A Christmas to Remember, featuring Jill Shalvis, Kristen Ashley, Hope Ramsay, Molly Canon and Marilyn Pappano. Yesterday, they stopped at Fiction Vixen and told us their twelve favorite gifts. Today, they are telling us their eleven worst or funniest gifts.
1) The worst was the first Christmas we were married, when my mother-in-law gave me a sexy sheer black nightie with teeny-tiny matching panties. If that wasn’t bad enough, I was seven months pregnant at the time! (Marilyn)
2) One year I received one of those contraptions that yanked the hair out of your legs with coils. It hurt like a son of a gun, and I soon decided it wasn’t for me. I decided it would be a perfect gift for my older sister! She passed it on the next year to our younger sister. After that it would show up as a surprise for somebody. It has disappeared- I’m not sure where it ended up, but it was good for a laugh. (Molly)
3) Second funny gift- One year a relative made us a big wooden contraption, and we weren’t sure if it was a spice rack or a record holder. We used it for a spice rack, but I always worried he might come to visit and would ask why we weren’t using it to hold records. Alas it was lost when our house burned down so I don’t have to worry about it anymore! Silver lining! (Molly)
4) A shoe tree to help me organize my (apparently messy) closet. (Hope)
5) Underwear in my stocking. (Hope)
8) It wasn’t a funny gift, but I did something stupid with it so everyone thought it was funny…that being, me getting a bottle of perfume, getting excited, spritzing it into the air and running through it – with eyes open. I nearly blinded myself Christmas morning! (Kristen)
9) When we were kids, each of us got a mustard yellow hard side suitcase from my Mom. Mustard yellow! It was the waning time of the Brady Bunch, of course, but I look back at those pictures of me hugging my hideous mustard yellow suitcase and giggle myself sick. I was so proud. Yikes. (Kristen)
10). Once I asked Alpha Man for an overnight trip, just us. I was thinking somewhere warm, maybe even with a beach, drinks, and room service. What I got was tickets to the NCAA finals. Note to self: be more specific (Jill)
11). My favorite presents are always plants. But unfortunately I kill them. So one year my family bought me a huge, fake plant. Only they didn’t tell me it was fake. I watered that thing every day until it molded. Yes, I’m still living down the fact that I killed a fake plant, thank you very much. (Jill)
I also have one print copy of A Christmas to Remember to giveaway. To enter, just leave a comment and tell us your worst/funniest gift.
Winners will be picked on November 25. Open to all.
Follow along on the tour!
10 quotes from your novellas (11/24): http://www.abookishescape.com
9 Items on your Holiday List (11/25): www.hesperialovesbooks.com
8 Favorite holiday movies (11/26): http://lbookbliss.com/
7 Things on your holiday wish list (11/27):http://tiffanytalksbooks.com/
6 New year’s resolution (11/28): http://www.cocktailsandbooks.com/
5 Best Holiday Stories (11/29): www.sosaloha.blogspot.com
4 holiday favorite foods (11/30):www.stitchreadcook.com-
3 books you plan to read during the holiday season (12/1): : http://www.thewindowseat13.com/
2 holiday songs (12/2: http://kindlesandwine.com
1 holiday recipe (12/3):http://takingtimeformommy.com
My aunt once bought me this knitted thing. It had a hole for your head, and was rectangular but not symmetrical…
Molly’s #2 was my #1! It was returned for something infinitely more useful, but regrettably forgotten! The things you learn here…Jill killed a plastic plant! (Kinda serves her right for not appreciating the NCAA finals.) Thanks for the giveaway.
Thanks for the giveaway! I think the weirdest gift I ever received was a couple of packages of cookies from a family member who told me she heard that we couldn’t get those cookies near where I lived…which made no sense to me since they were Stella D’Ora cookies…and really, this is what I needed for a Christmas present, why not a bottle of wine?!!
Some of the worst gifts I received were from my cousin who gave out trinkets she bought in Job Lot.
Easybake oven, from my mother, and I was 42 at the time
I was in college and had a reasonably good body image,but with the occasional doubt. My brother thought that he was being helpful to by me a thigh exerciser. Not really what I wanted to see on Christmas morning.
My funniest gift was way too big jeans that were meant for my dad but accidentaly ended up to me :D
I got ‘toe socks’ one Christmas..not sure whether funniest, worst or ‘questionable’…lol
The worst was the year my mother in law gave me huge canvas storage bags for the garage. Really, really thoughtful, huh?
Thanks!
Weirdest gift I every got was a miniature log cabin made of metal that played music. I still have it because it is just so odd it is funny.
Well, it wasn’t my own gift, but my husband’s. After we were married, his mother sent him socks & underwear for Christmas. I told him he was married now, so that was my job!
My best gift was my ring with my birthstone. Thanks for the giveaway.
There was the year that my sister got two of the same item in two different colors. We thought it was strange. Later my mother told me that one was supposed to be mine. The sad thing is, I can’t even remember what the item was anymore.
The funniest Christmas gift I remember was actually my sister’s. An aunt sent her this sweater that had a whole winter scene on it with pine trees and woodland creatures. I believe my sister lived and worked in New York at the time and the look on her face had me laughing for a while.
last year I gave some very nice gifts but I put them in some boxes that were printed like they contained some very tacky items – I made everyone open them at the same time and they were trying to be polite as they saw what was printed on the box – they were very relieved when they saw what was actually inside. I’m going to use the boxes boxes again this year for the rest of the family.
Mine is actually a best gift, but it is funny. My dad gave me a Furby last year for Christmas. He told me that as a child I really really wanted one but they were so popular the Christmas that I wanted it that he wasn’t able to get one. So, now, 15 years later, they are popular again, and he got me one. And he said, “Now I have give n you everything you have ever wanted in life!.”
Thanks for the giveaway
Great giveaway. Funniest gift I got was from a grab bag at work –
I got a little statue that had a man sitting on a toilet with fuzz on the seat and it said something like you have it really easy.
From my first serious boyfriend I got a pearl jewelry set; ring, bracelet, necklace, earrings. I was 22 at the time so getting something that my grandmother would wear was not so thrilling :)
The worst gift was only the worst for about a minute. My husband-then- boyfriend gave me a hand mixer. (insert sarcastic YAY!) Since I was raised right, I of course thanked him politely for it. He said he couldn’t believe I would actually think that was really “the” present! He then gave me my “real” presents of earrings & a stereo system.
When my sister and I were teenagers, our Mom bought us matching underwear for Christmas. Suffice to say, we were hoping for something else that year!
One of my funniest, yet sweetest, gifts was from a little Cambodian girl in my kindergarten class. She gave me a cheap framed picture of Elvis! Elvis was the king, after all! :-)
My mother in law bought me a snuggie in ballerina pink. Um, thanks. But I’d rather paste an “L” on my forehead than zip myself into that.
Fabric. I’ve literally gotten a piece of fabric for Christmas.
My grandma gave me sexy lingerie she got for her wedding (and never used), so it is antique and floor length lace nightgown and robe. But it was a bit weird opening the gift in front of the whole family ;-p
Worst gifts to give a kid….school supplies. Yup, one year I got a glue stick in my stocking. Not a great Christmas for me!
We usually got socks and underwear in our Christmas stockings. Not what a kid wants to see. LOL
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My husband once bought me the same fountain pen two years in a row for Christmas.
The best gift was my husband coming home from overseas. The War was over and he was done. He came home on Christmas Eve.
For 17 years now (been married 18) I have been getting absolutely nothing. I don’t even rate for a bad gift thanks for the chance