I think I've posted before what I have received from my inlaws, but it's not really a complete list.
My mother and father in law:
-A blue square handbag with blue fur trim. It looks a bit like a square bowling bag, but not very big.
-Several other handbags that aren't quite as weird, but still aren't me (including a massive leather patchwork "shopper" handbag that you're meant to be able to carry your groceries in as well)
-A shoulder blanket/cozy thing which is sort of like
this, but purple, with a little flower design on the pockets, and a fringe. It's really warm and a great gift EXCEPT she gave it to me in a box with a coordinating dressy short sleeved shirt (lighter shade of purple) which tells me thought I should wear it out of the house. I wore it all the time in our room, but I know she always wondered why I always wore it in the house.
-a "set" of hundreds of stemware for our wedding present (which I didn't know about until we moved and had to find places for it).
-for my husband they are always getting stuff that reminds me of clothes people take photos of and send to sites like Engrish. Usually there's nothing overtly funny about the text (and there's always text of some sort for some reason), but it's just usually off. Like stuff like "New York Subway Pirates". Obviously stuff using English as a decoration, and not paying too much attention to message. Last year they got him expensive cologne....women's cologne...and instead of expensive, it was a knock off. Not a good knock off, if you know what I mean, and I shudder to think what's in the bottle.
My sister in law has gotten me:
-An acrylic, black, furry "bedspread". It actually looks like a black fur blanket from a distance. Now, the package said kingsize, but it wouldn't cover a single from what I can see. This has actually was an awesome present as well, because, despite being hideously ugly, it is the warmest blanket we have. We call it "Russian sleeping furs".
-Tons of little figurines of cats and dogs. Not really my thing.
-the first Christmas here, they forgot to get me a present, so after Christmas dinner, when I was down in the kitchen being the scullery maid, my brother-in-law brought down a cheap fleece scarf that somehow didn't make it into the wrapping.
I think the biggest problem I have with bad Christmas gifts is you feel obligated to keep them, and I am totally not someone who likes keeping a bunch of stuff I don't like or will never use in my house.
ETA: I can't totally complain about gifts from them because my BiL and FiL usually go in on a Playstation game for Christmas (and sometimes our anniversaries).
