Worst Mother's Day Gifts You've Recieved?

I remember being given a gosh awful suit.. Completely looked like a granny outfit. When I put it on, my husband apologized and handed me the receipt to take it back and get whatever I wanted..
Poor dear.

My MIL for one birthday was given a rifle... ???
"So she could shoot the squirrels that were getting into her garden"
FIL told her "Look, you can lean out of this window and have a great shot every time, here are 4 boxes of shot too!"... I laughed so damn hard..

You're supposed to get gifts?

Hate to say it, but if you aren't happy with that it doesn't get any better. I didn't get anything for my first Mother's Day either. Actually, he doesn't give me anything on any holiday.

This Mother's Day, I was finally okay with it. I bought cinnamon rolls the day before so I would have breakfast and I BBQ'd and made lemonade while the kids played outside. It wasn't as bad because I wasn't expecting anything.

Hmmm, if you are not surprised because this is what you expected, then why still the complaining? Actually, you received the best mothers day gift, when your baby was born! :)

Wow. I'm sorry. But I bet you can now say you're the only woman ever to receive a watermelon AND cookies AND a $10 Jamba Juice card for Mother's Day.

My son is 8 and I remember the first Mother's Day being a little lame...just don't remember WHAT it was...but men tend to nail it down a little better over time!

It wasn't mothers day but once in our early days before children my future husband got me a hatchet for Christmas . Not what I was hoping for but I still married him. I can understand your disappointment on your first mothers day. I find that unless I tell my husband exactly what I want he'll never just figure it out. He's not a natural at the gift giving thing. Our tradition for mothers day is to just make mom a nice breakfast and I like hand picked flowers and cards. Someday I'm going to buy myself one of those really pretty mom necklesses that have a pendent for each child. If I was you I'd just cuddle that baby tight and look forward to that first hand made mothers day card . It'll happen before you know it.

Clothes line I still refuse to use it till this day it has been 4 yrs now

For my very first mother's day I got absolutely nothing, not even a "Happy Mother's Day, Dear." His excuse: "Well, I didn't even think of getting you anything. You're not MY mother."
Now my daughter is older and drags him to the store to get me a gift, but I have to say the handmade cards are the best part. I save those every year.

I asked for an alarm clock that plays my iPod and got that as well as a plant. However, my daughter is/was potty training and the time and woke up poopy and decided to smear it all over her carpet. Then the dog rolled in it and jumped on our bed.

So...unless you were cleaning poop off a carpet at 7am on Mother's Day you had a decidedly better morning than me! LOL

Just for the record - Mother's Day is SO DAMN OVERRATED - I would totally prefer the kids and DH to just get up some random Saturday - pack their stuff - and give me a quiet day alone.

I never got a mother's day gift from my ex.... because I was not his mom. All the gifts I've gotten from my kids have been precious. Some years it was just a hand-made card. Now that they're older they buy things. If I were you, I wouldn't hold my breath next year for something. But when your little one gets older... well those are the best gifts.

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This year I got nothing. I don't even remember him saying 'happy mother's day'. He left for a training class on the other side of the country for 7 weeks the day before. So there's my present... have fun by yourself for 7 weeks with 3 kids 2 months before we move overseas! Awesome!

So - when I go to Safeway to buy groceries I don't feel bad when I buy myself a couple bottles of nice wine. ;)

Hmm.....I got a Black Hills gold pair of earrings for Mother's Day one year and at the time I thought it was the worst present ever. The thing was most of the day had gone by and nobody even acknowledged it was mother's day. I was in tears by early afternoon and when my DH asked why I told him I was just disappointed that nobody even said Happy Mother's Day to me. That's when he went out and bought the earrings, a card and some roses. I would rather have gotten an insignificant little ditty over the earrings any day if he had put some thought into it and didn't get it because I was upset.
I still have those earrings and every now and then I wear them :-) because they are pretty. They aren't really my style though so I don't wear them often.
These days I'm perfectly content just to hear my kids and DH tell me HMD and that they love me. It's all I really need.

When my son was almost three and I was trying to wean him, and had been since he had turned two, I received a T-shirt with a big ugly patchwork cow on it. Later, another year, I got a big ugly lime-green purse, which I had to exchange. But this past year, they got it right. I got a tool bag to put all of my work supplies in.

Well, I think you just described most men. They don't really put much thought in to gift giving if you ask me. My husband and I have been married for almost 7 years and unless I tell him specifically what to get me I get some really crummy gifts. This year for mother's day I got a shredder (he said he was going to get me a romba, which in all honesty would have been great because I need a new vaccum, but he said it was too expensive). Last year, he went out the day of and bought picture frames for which I told him to give to his mother because at the time I had zero wall space to hang anymore pictures (thus proving he put zero thought in to the gift). But the worst gift he ever gave me was a Christmas gift. He bought me a trash can! And the worst part was that his mother was shopping with him when he bought that trash can!!

We arent into doing a lot of fancy stuff for Mothers Day, but I usually get a card and maybe dinner out. Im happy with a hug and being told I am loved. (Then he goes off to golf) Id have to say our worst MD by far was the year our daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Shed been sick for a few days in May and ended up in the ER and ICU for a few days over MD. A few years later she was sick again and spent 6 days in a coma in CICU over MD again. Yep I was havng a real special time! Shes been in the hospital for a couple of our anniversarys too. Its hard to celebrate when youre fighting for your childs life. Id trade for watermelon and cookies anyday. But you can keep the jamba juice cards,, Im not fond of them,,lol

Ummm... I didn't get a mother's day gift...you got better than me!

My goodness, you get a gift and then complain about it? Better than nothing which is what I usually get. Your boyfriend isn't the only one that isn't very mature I'm afraid.

How about nothing?! I feel your pain :0

My husband actually forgot Mother's Day this year! This was my 10th Mother's day. If my 7-year-old wouldn't have said something about it that morning, he probably would've went all day without knowing. Needless to say, I was pretty hurt. Not so much because he didn't buy me anything, but because there was no sentiment.

He felt really bad, of course, and knew there was nothing he could say or do to make it up to me.

It took me a couple days, but I did get over it. I realized that people make mistakes, and if this is the biggest one, then I could forgive it.

Guys aren't very perceptive about such things in general. I think you said it all about yours when you called him your "on again, off again". I'm just wondering why he's not just 'off again' permanently? It sounds like you could do much better than him... and not just because he's not good at figuring out a good Mother's Day gift.