Gluten Free Breeze (formerly Brendygirl) Blog

I'm sure I'm not the perfect gift giver,and I don't want to seem ungracious, because these gifts give me great stories to tell and I've often regifted them to people who hopefully appreciated them or could use them. I'm sure everyone meant well upon giving them...almost everyone.

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I really do crack myself up when I recount them.

Here they are in the order they occur to me:

1. A size 14 (in Girls-child- size) fake velvet dress-from a student who probably and misguidedly expected me to wear it.

2. A storebought crocheted jacket thing with feather closure- from a student.

3. A coffee mug that said "I'd rather be drinking beer" from a student.I inquired and discovered later his sister gave her teacher a jar of jam. Hmmmm....

4. Jar of muffin mix ingredients layered with attached recipe that I couldn't pick up because the flour was glaring at me-from student

5. workout outfit that looked like rain gear-from my mom

6. a purse that when I opened it, my sis in law yelled to my mom, didn't you buy that for yourself last year? to which my mother replied, yes, but I'd overshopped, so I decided to give it away.

7. Necklace from boyfriend who begrudgingly went to the store and bought it after I expressed my shock at not getting a gift after he explained he was busy because his dad was in the hospital--I said, but you haven't gone to visit him!

8. shoe organizer I don't need and would have to fit into luggage to fly it back home after Christmas-from Gramma

9. chocolate coated sunflower seeds-from great aunt

10. Kleenex-from great aunt

11. Heavy clothing I don't wear in California-from my brother in IL

12. matching towel set in random color-again that I'd have to pack to fly it home- to my tiny apartment where I have plenty of towels that match my decor...from Gramma

13. tealight candles(from 99cent store) in a $10 gift exchange-from a cheap-a## party-goer/moocher

14. fruitcake-from people at work

15. coffee mugs-from people at work

16. spritz cookies (YUK- even in my glutenous days)-from old ladies

17. wallet (my exact same one)-from sis in law

18. clothes several sizes off- both grandmas

19. towels- from greatgrandma who gave all the other girls and women in the family gold earrings and then called and asked me how I liked my earrings. Upon hearing I'd received towels, she said, oh yes, because you're the great granddaughter. Yep. one and only. so special. i think of her when I wipe my a** with her cheap lavender towel with threads hanging all over it.

20. old lady slippers from my ex husband after I'd requested a certain kind-they were so ugly I took a photo