Here is the link to all the gift ideas I shared: www.amazon.com/shop/organizedclutterbug/list/38XBPIUDWVTGK?linkCode=spc&tag=clutterbug07-20&domainId=influencer&asc_contentid=amzn1.ideas.38XBPIUDWVTGK
Getting someone an experience is also great. I once was gifted a glass blowing class and it was so fun. My bf at the time also got a latte art class with his dad. It’s a great gift for people who are decluttering because they get a great memory instead of a physical object.
Love this idea! I can absolutely relate, because I am that person. I know I’m not easy to buy for. I strive to be more minimal and I am not a person who wants gifts. But I know gift giving is some people’s love language and I always appreciate the thought, so something like this (especially if the experience was with the person who gave it to me) would be very much appreciated!
My wife (butterfly) and I (cricket) absolutely LOVE your channel. Here is a funny gifting story for you. My mother received a Christmas gift from my father one year - a Vacuum. All I will say is the evening of the day after Christmas, there was a diamond bracelet on her wrist. ;) She gave me some great advice that has served me well. "Never buy a woman ANYTHING that plugs in that she did not directly ask you for." Keep up the great work!
This is actually one of the better gift guides I've seen. Everyone just kinda shows the same stuff.....but this one is actually thoughtful and unique ideas. Thank you 😊
My sons pitch in and together got me a spa day. I had access to the spa facilities all day and got a facial , massage, pedicure and a manicure. I got treated to champagne 🥂 and later to some wine 🍷. I even took a nap in their relaxation room. It was marvelous. Then they took me to several art craft events. Oh and the extra surprise we went up on a gondola 🚠 to the top of a mountain in Tahoe. It was absolutely amazing. I can't top that gift. I don't know what to get them. 🤷♀️
My first birthday after I was married 45 years ago. My husband bought me a flowered memorial cross that you buy for Graves for Memorial day. He had no clue what he bought me, he just thought it was beautiful. Lol.
My uncle is schizophrenic and always bought me weird gifts growing up. When I was 8 yrs old he bought me a bottle of diet pills that were specifically made for cows!!! Like the bottle literally said “ not for human consumption” 😂 One year he bought me a case of 100 kiwis. It was always comical what I was going to get every year.
I would love to receive a box of 100 kiwis. 👀 That's awesome to have somebody in da family to surprise You with d most unexpected strange gifts. 🤭 Wishing Your uncle a strong health and a peaceful life. 💖
You asked for some ideas the other day for new content. I love watching your organization videos, but also love all of your frugal living ideas. I like videos that you make that have frugal DIY's. Anything frugal from cooking, thrift shopping, what is new at bargain stores, garage sales in the months with nice weather, how to do thrift flips, entertaining on a budget, how to shop sales, vacationing on a budget. Maybe some grocery shopping hauls. People always look for good ideas to save money, and you are excellent at it. Love your channel and your sense of humor!!
A few years after being married to my ex-husband (and dating for 5 years prior to that), his mom got me a bunch of cookbooks for Christmas. I can understand maybe getting the for me the first year we lived together or the first year of marriage but after 4 years in...I got the message...haha! I appreciate where her heart was with it. And funny...almost 10 years later and remarried...I would love to get some cookbooks as a gift. 😁🙌 Merry Christmas all! 🤗💖☃️🌲🎅
5:34 I started getting Lego Christmas decorations for my teen son, like the wreath or Christmas tree. They also have instruction for two designs. He loves putting them together and he can take them when he gets his own place. 😁
My mom received a gift card to get her upper lip waxed from her mother-in-law. 😂 My grandmother also gifted me the exact same Barbie 3 years in a row. She gave my sister a planner for Christmas that was about to expire that year. She gave my teenage sister a giant case of bar soap. Opening my grandmother's gifts was a highlight of the season for sure 😂
Oh yes, my father is the same. He already gave my kids like three pocket watches each and the same books over and over. Most gifts are for kids that are much younger than mine as if he would not know how old they are. 🙄
Oh Cas, most steakhouses also have chicken or salmon entrees too! If you still have those giftcards, it might be worth a look at their online menu! For our wedding someone gave us this gigantic vase. When we finally opened it up years later when we were decluttering, we found dried leaves in the bottom and a note from the person who originally regifted it to the people who regifted it to us! 😂
I got a hideous 1980’s style clock… and not just a clock… a 6ft tall heavy resin monstrosity in teal, peach and mauve. Because I have a beach themed house & it slightly resembles a surfboard. The sad thing is that my friend gave it to me, I kept it for a while, then I donated it. I kid you not, she went, found the one I had donated, BROUGHT IT BACK TO ME, because “it matches the one you already have…” Oy vey.
The worst gift I received was from my mother-the gifts were gifts she had been given to by my father (who she divorced) that I helped him pick out for her (she didn’t know that). So not only was a dealing with the divorce trauma but also getting physical reminders of when our family had happier times. It was just an emotional trauma bomb 💣
I’ll give my husband a pass, but the on our first Christmas (2 months married), he gave me a vacuum and a coffee pot (to make coffee for his thermos). We have been married for 52 years and “most” Christmas’ he has done a bit better😄
My worst gift I ever received was from a Secret Santa. It was leftover Halloween candy (with Halloween designs on them) and an eyeshadow sample. Everyone else got inexpensive, but nice, stuff.
My brother in law (whose kitchen is red) gave me (whose kitchen is blue) a red Dash egg cooker. Obviously a regift, but I smiled, said thanks, and stuck it in a cabinet 🤷🏽♀️
I love my vaccum i got for Christmas. One of my favorite gifts. And I love steak. I live gift cards for anything. I do not like getting clothing and i do not like getting fuzzy socks. People always love fuzzy socks. Not me. 😂 Gifts are not my live language though. If i do get a gift i like useful and functional over cost or fancyness. Or a gift of hanging out with somone.
I think the photo frame could be a good group gift if siblings wanted to get something special for Mom and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa. It would be nice especially if there are family members all over the country.
Admittedly, it's a better gift if your loved one *actually has home wifi for it to connect to* so they can actually receive new photos 😅 And if they're unlikely to want to deal with batteries, make sure you get a unit that can be plugged in! My aunt meant well but I'm pretty sure grandma shoved that thing in a closet and forgot about it as soon as the batteries died. Recurring costs like internet and batteries are not something she is interested in with her limited pension (and if you're going with rechargeable batteries, at that point you might as well plug the whole thing into the wall to save a step)
I purchased 4 digital frames this year (not aura - a much cheaper one). I plan on preloading pics from my late wife’s phone for each of our children. On a side humorous note… how many of the recipients of some of these gifts will be watching the declutter videos next year to declutter them lol.
That screaming goat is so adorable, and I know just the co-worker who REALLY needs it! LOL The thing that I like most about your choices is that most of them are interactive--making candles, writing, Legos, etc. So, it's not just something on the shelf. The worst gift that I ever received was from my EX -- he gave me an empty heart box for Valentine's, telling me that "You don't need any more sweets, since you need to lose weight...but you can use the box for something..." YEP...no question there as to why he's an EX. LOL Sometimes the rear-view mirror is the best view---"Buh-bye!!"
The worst gift I received was when I was a kid. My mom's friend crocheted a clown with super long arms and legs. I had just watched Poltergeist and that clown freaked me out. I kept it in the closet and it was eventually lost or given away when we moved. Also, there was a dead tree outside my window!
My sister inlaw is a VERY frugal type. One year for Christmas, she gave my mother (a spoiled "princess" 👑type) a bag of dried beans with a typed recipe card for Navy bean soup! Omg, my mother was offended for years 😠she doesn't even cook! Lol, it was so ironic & hilarious 🤣
I was given an “Easter basket” during my senior year of high school by the kid who had asked me to the prom. He meant well enough, but oh my goodness. It was the strangest-looking basket I had ever seen. It had a pair of giant glittery and fabric hearts wrapped around the handle with wire that made it look as though it had antennae, and the faded floral fabric lining the inside was dusty, almost as dusty as the contents. Said contents were a couple of containers of those little 1980s-era bath marbles that are supposed to dissolve in the water and leave behind scented oil. There were also several foil-wrapped, talc-based, even older bath powder cubes that a lot of our grandmas or great-aunts surely kept in their linen closets at least once or twice. The smells were several, none of them great, and the dust made me sneeze. I could appreciate the fact that we were all kids and had virtually no money of our own, and would have had to save up for anything related to the prom, but yikes; I wasn’t expecting or wanting anything from this guy at all, so that was awkward enough. And on top of that, this bundle had clearly come from either an elderly relative’s attic or an elderly neighbor’s garage sale. I smiled, thanked him, and slunk home with it. Made an honest effort to try just one of the bath cubes but it clunked to the bottom of the tub like a rock, and the little bit that did dissolve into the water made me itch like crazy.
One year I was given the “inspirational” t-shirt that was too small and a tin that was purchased containing candy , but the candy was removed before they gave it to me.
Worst gift that I've given was a craft fail into which I had invested far too much time to abandon, but I wish I had just abandoned it instead of gifting it. Worst gift given was from the neighbor to my brother who was a teenager at the time. He got a can of Planters nuts that was already opened. That was repeated for many years as a prank gift, but the original from the neighbor was not a joke or a prank. 😂
The worst gift: Days of the Week underwear that I opened at a large family Chrstmas function. I was 12, and mortified. I'm in my 50's and still remember it 😂 Close second: I was overweight after pregnancy, and my dad gave me a Thigh Master.
Love the gift ideas! Especially the screaming goat! 😂 Perfect for work friends. I’ve received toy fruit ornaments, plastic basket in the shape of a fish in the color blue, & an ugly pot with flowers painted on inside. These are my top 3 worst gifts I think
My husband gave me Gummy Boogers for mother's day when our kids were little. The kids thought it was hilarious. I would have thought so too...if he had gotten me something else that wasn't a joke!
Thank you so much for this video, really helped me find some lovely last minute gifts and yes, someone is getting the screaming goat as a gift! We’re going to make sure they open it here so we can have a tap too!
When I was 10 years old,my father's sister gave me a sterling silver 45 piece of dinner ware & my sister,who was only 7 at the time got a silver lame mini dress!!! Even at those young ages,we knew they were re- gifted to us!! Lol!!!
My extended family used to draw names for a Christmas gift exchange. When I was around 10-12 years old (to my horror!) my aunt gave me 3 pairs of screaming bright blue silky underwear! I was mortified!! They came all the way up to my chest and my dear mother took them and made use of them.
Oh wow. This made me laugh so hard! A gift like that to a young girl is horrible 😂 The fact that you remember it so vividly is a testament to how traumatic it was. Also that you tried them on and they fit so poorly. I’m so sorry
One year my mother gave my daughters clocks. Wall clocks & alarm clocks to help them from being late. It isn't the lack of knowing the time that makes a teenage girl late... Needless to say, they just smiled and thanked her while she complained that she spent more money than she planned on them.
This is not a Christmas gift, but for Valentine's Day, my stepsister received Bath and Body works spray and I got a book titled, How to better your self esteem in 15 mins. I did have a self esteem problem, but I didn't think it was that bad until I got the book. It was more of a book for adults, it was HUGE, and I was a teenager. I did try to read it, but eventually, I gave it away. My step mom did apologize years later.
Thanks for the gift ideas! There were a few I'd never seen before and are really cool ideas! My worst gifts were a set of socks and underwear from one of my grandmothers (like, no. preteens/teens do not want this type of gift, lol). She only gets a pass because after I became an adult I realized she lived through the Great Depression so she probably thought I'd appreciate it? My worst Christmas was one year when I had TONS of presents under the tree and I was SO excited--only to find that the vast majority of them were board games. A couple were even missing parts. I found out later that they were all new, but they were from a store that was going out of business so they basically got them at fire sale prices! 😂 If I had siblings, these probably would have been great. Sadly, I was an only child and my parents would even play any of these games with me. I have no idea why neither of them thought of this when buying them all, lol! So yeah, super disappointing Christmas that year.
My mother-in-law was the queen of bad gifts for me. One year I got a super bright red sweat shirt(I never wear bright red) that was 2 sizes too large. Another time she gave me a hand painted nanna vase.
After my first child I received a present from a family member. A box of weight watchers soup. Then I opened it up and found baby booties inside. The family member was mortified, she hadn't realised what she had used to out the shoes in. Lol
I gifted my SIL a Christmas sweater the had the phrase "merry Christmas you filthy animal" which i knew from home alone and was a movie she really enjoyed. What I did not look at closely was on the actual sweater pattern was the deer mating.. yeah. 🙈 definitely embarrassed 😅
The AURA frame is awesome 💯... We got it three years ago for my mom and mother in law. Super easy to load pics... And other family members can have all the pics in frame on their phones when you invite them to get the app
My husband gave me an ironing board for our first anniversary. There have been other horrible gifts throughout the last 39 years (gift giving is not his love language, apparently) but he's never lived that one down.
Okay…you talked me into it! 😉 I have a running joke with my DIL about labeling all the light switches in their new home because no matter what switch we use, we end up turning off the TV…and in the middle of football season (with a son/spouse who is a coach), hitting the wrong switch is bad…really bad! So I am getting her the label maker. I know it will be an excellent gift for her as she also owns two bakeries and it will come in handy for her at work too! Thanks for the awesome suggestions…I’m off to browse through the rest of the list…
Oh thank you so much, half way through and I’ve already added most of these to my to buy list…and let me tell you, I was struggling for ideas!! You have saved Christmas at my house with this one!! 🎁🌲🥰
My worst gift as a little girl...dolls. I never liked dolls but my grandmother gave all 8 of her grandaughters dolls for Christmas every year until we were about 13. Best gift as a child was a big truck made of about 2 dozen pieces that had to be put together. It was made to fly into pieces when you ran it into something. So much fun!
The oddest gift I've received was a pair of silky patterned panties with stiff lace trim in a size too big for me, from a new friend of my parents who had just met me and my boyfriend for the first time. I got the sense she was eyeing my middle when we were first introduced.
Great Ideas!! Thank you! One gift I'll never forget was at my teacher's "White Christmas Party" where everyone brings a Crazy gift to exchange. You could pick from the group of gifts or steal from someone who'd gotten a cool gift. I picked a "half toilet seat" (not realizing what it was all wrapped!) The card said, very rudely: "For my half-assed friends!" Very gross, but everyone laughed and obviously, no one "stole" it from me!!! So obviously I trashed it! That was way back in the 70"s and I've never forgotten it! LOL!!!
I honestly don't think I've ever gotten a bad gift. I mean maybe some books I already had or clothes I didn't like, but that just happens. Nothing really atrocious or mean that I can remember lol
The worse gift to me was in my late 20’s, divorced with two young sons. The cute guy who lived in the apartment above me gave my sons beautiful jars filled with candy. My jar contained Sweet and Low.
Some great ideas thanks! Worst gift was actually a wedding gift. One of my favourite aunts, who could afford something really good, gave us this parcel with some wooden place mats, she clearly bought years ago and did not like ( she travelled a lot) and a set of these horrible roughly made brass teaspoons from Burma (I think the place mats were also from there) The place mats actually worked well for hot potholders lol, but were butt ugly.
My sweet daughter-in-law's stepmother was even worse. She would send the tackiest gifts, often ones that were obviously not new. One year she sent a partially used bottle of hand lotion. She spent more on postage than on anything she ever bought for her stepchildren.
Worst gift was for my son, he was dealing with a new diagnosis for apraxia (a speech disorder) and we were gifted a “learn how to speak French” thing. He was struggling in his mother tongue and they wanted him to start learning a second language 😅
LOL, my ex walked into the house after work on Valentine's Day, handed me some half-dead freeway ramp roses, threw a Snickers bar on the table, and said, "I know you don't like these, but it's all they had"! Yeah, sorry ladies, he's taken! 😂🤣🤣😂. Good riddance!
My husband gave me a pen (in a box) that a sales rep had given him! And yes it had the company name on it and even though it was in a fairly good box, it wasn’t even a fairly good pen. My husband wrapped it though! That didn’t help! Someone pass me the screaming goat!!! 😂 (But this was 30 odd years ago, and he’s never done things like that again. 😄)
Great gift ideas. The worst gift I ever received was perfume. It was called Street scents or something like it. (Here's your sign) It stunk like all bad street smells but I kept it & gave it back to the recipient a few years later. She thought the same thing & wasn't happy with the gift. It was then that she realized she had originally gifted it to me. Lmao 😂
Absolutely best list ive seen this year!! ❤❤❤ Im loving the many affordable options!!! Actually stuff i hadnt seen, and im a chronic shopper lol...and...screaming goat 😂
good, different ideas. 😃👍🏼 My husband would love the unusual knowledge book. I personally would love the slippers. I love the back and forth journal idea. (that might make a great gift for Valentine's Day, or an anniversary). I can't think of a bad gift I've received.... (I'm sure there have been some.... but I must have blocked them out of my memory, or something).
I once had a butterfly shaped journal, likely from the dollar store or a similar place, for a good long while my partner and I would send notes back and forth in it. I don’t remember who wrote it last… still love the memories of that experience.
My father in law was gifted the Ancestry DNA kit. He has always celebrated his German roots. Turns out he has no links to German but is 98%English and Scottish. He believes the test was defective 🤣
The worst gift I ever received was a can opener! My mother got me the can opener because every time she came to my house she would complain about my can opener. I happened to love my can opener and told her so many times. So for Christmas one year she gave me a can opener. And no, this was not part of any “set” of gifts. It was my one and only gift from her that year. She bought herself a can opener for my house as my Christmas present! 😡
Here is the link to all the gift ideas I shared: www.amazon.com/shop/organizedclutterbug/list/38XBPIUDWVTGK?linkCode=spc&tag=clutterbug07-20&domainId=influencer&asc_contentid=amzn1.ideas.38XBPIUDWVTGK
Can you please make links available for Canadian shoppers please. When I am asked to change countries, it messes up my Amazon app.
Getting someone an experience is also great. I once was gifted a glass blowing class and it was so fun. My bf at the time also got a latte art class with his dad.
It’s a great gift for people who are decluttering because they get a great memory instead of a physical object.
Love this idea! I can absolutely relate, because I am that person. I know I’m not easy to buy for. I strive to be more minimal and I am not a person who wants gifts. But I know gift giving is some people’s love language and I always appreciate the thought, so something like this (especially if the experience was with the person who gave it to me) would be very much appreciated!
My wife (butterfly) and I (cricket) absolutely LOVE your channel. Here is a funny gifting story for you. My mother received a Christmas gift from my father one year - a Vacuum. All I will say is the evening of the day after Christmas, there was a diamond bracelet on her wrist. ;)
She gave me some great advice that has served me well. "Never buy a woman ANYTHING that plugs in that she did not directly ask you for."
Keep up the great work!
I like power tools like saws sanders drills but no vacuum for Christmas 🥴🤣
This is actually one of the better gift guides I've seen. Everyone just kinda shows the same stuff.....but this one is actually thoughtful and unique ideas. Thank you 😊
I'm so glad you think so!
My sons pitch in and together got me a spa day. I had access to the spa facilities all day and got a facial , massage, pedicure and a manicure. I got treated to champagne 🥂 and later to some wine 🍷. I even took a nap in their relaxation room. It was marvelous. Then they took me to several art craft events. Oh and the extra surprise we went up on a gondola 🚠 to the top of a mountain in Tahoe. It was absolutely amazing. I can't top that gift. I don't know what to get them. 🤷♀️
All I can say as a woman is ...WOW!😳👍🏼😀
My first birthday after I was married 45 years ago. My husband bought me a flowered memorial cross that you buy for Graves for Memorial day. He had no clue what he bought me, he just thought it was beautiful. Lol.
My husband would have done that. I miss him so much.❤
My uncle is schizophrenic and always bought me weird gifts growing up. When I was 8 yrs old he bought me a bottle of diet pills that were specifically made for cows!!! Like the bottle literally said “ not for human consumption” 😂 One year he bought me a case of 100 kiwis. It was always comical what I was going to get every year.
Kiwis are good
Reminded me of reading James Herriot
I would love to receive a box of 100 kiwis. 👀
That's awesome to have somebody in da family to surprise You with d most unexpected strange gifts. 🤭
Wishing Your uncle a strong health and a peaceful life. 💖
You asked for some ideas the other day for new content. I love watching your organization videos, but also love all of your frugal living ideas. I like videos that you make that have frugal DIY's. Anything frugal from cooking, thrift shopping, what is new at bargain stores, garage sales in the months with nice weather, how to do thrift flips, entertaining on a budget, how to shop sales, vacationing on a budget. Maybe some grocery shopping hauls. People always look for good ideas to save money, and you are excellent at it. Love your channel and your sense of humor!!
A few years after being married to my ex-husband (and dating for 5 years prior to that), his mom got me a bunch of cookbooks for Christmas. I can understand maybe getting the for me the first year we lived together or the first year of marriage but after 4 years in...I got the message...haha! I appreciate where her heart was with it. And funny...almost 10 years later and remarried...I would love to get some cookbooks as a gift. 😁🙌 Merry Christmas all! 🤗💖☃️🌲🎅
5:34 I started getting Lego Christmas decorations for my teen son, like the wreath or Christmas tree. They also have instruction for two designs. He loves putting them together and he can take them when he gets his own place. 😁
My mom received a gift card to get her upper lip waxed from her mother-in-law. 😂 My grandmother also gifted me the exact same Barbie 3 years in a row. She gave my sister a planner for Christmas that was about to expire that year. She gave my teenage sister a giant case of bar soap. Opening my grandmother's gifts was a highlight of the season for sure 😂
Oh yes, my father is the same. He already gave my kids like three pocket watches each and the same books over and over. Most gifts are for kids that are much younger than mine as if he would not know how old they are. 🙄
I actually love hand knit gifts and I’m low key jealous of the talent for something I can’t do
I got that screaming goat for my hubby. His birthday is the 30th of December and I usually do a gag gift for his bday and a sweet gift for Christmas.
Where did you get it at?
Oh Cas, most steakhouses also have chicken or salmon entrees too! If you still have those giftcards, it might be worth a look at their online menu!
For our wedding someone gave us this gigantic vase. When we finally opened it up years later when we were decluttering, we found dried leaves in the bottom and a note from the person who originally regifted it to the people who regifted it to us! 😂
WOOOOOOOOOW!!!! Lol
That friggin goat! And you keep inserting it through the video! HILARIOUS!!
I got a hideous 1980’s style clock… and not just a clock… a 6ft tall heavy resin monstrosity in teal, peach and mauve. Because I have a beach themed house & it slightly resembles a surfboard. The sad thing is that my friend gave it to me, I kept it for a while, then I donated it. I kid you not, she went, found the one I had donated, BROUGHT IT BACK TO ME, because “it matches the one you already have…” Oy vey.
That is hilarious 🤣
OMG you can’t make this stuff up! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The worst gift I received was from my mother-the gifts were gifts she had been given to by my father (who she divorced) that I helped him pick out for her (she didn’t know that). So not only was a dealing with the divorce trauma but also getting physical reminders of when our family had happier times. It was just an emotional trauma bomb 💣
My 24 and 22 year old sons both love Star Wars Lego sets!
I’ve often wished a law would be passed so all games needed to be in the same size box. I love those games so much.
The screaming goat had me laughing at loud. It would be great for a white elephant gift.
We have a secret Santa gift-battle thing we do at our friend's party, the screaming goat is one of the gifts we are bringing.
We have the goat. It’s hysterical and we use it all the time 😊!
Lovely, you make me smile 😊
I’ll give my husband a pass, but the on our first Christmas (2 months married), he gave me a vacuum and a coffee pot (to make coffee for his thermos). We have been married for 52 years and “most” Christmas’ he has done a bit better😄
My worst gift I ever received was from a Secret Santa. It was leftover Halloween candy (with Halloween designs on them) and an eyeshadow sample. Everyone else got inexpensive, but nice, stuff.
Thank you! Just ordered 3 shawls and 2 slippers! Great ideas
My brother in law (whose kitchen is red) gave me (whose kitchen is blue) a red Dash egg cooker. Obviously a regift, but I smiled, said thanks, and stuck it in a cabinet 🤷🏽♀️
give it back as a gift and tell him you got him his own to match his kitchen! (or donate)
I love my vaccum i got for Christmas. One of my favorite gifts. And I love steak. I live gift cards for anything. I do not like getting clothing and i do not like getting fuzzy socks. People always love fuzzy socks. Not me. 😂 Gifts are not my live language though. If i do get a gift i like useful and functional over cost or fancyness. Or a gift of hanging out with somone.
I think the photo frame could be a good group gift if siblings wanted to get something special for Mom and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa. It would be nice especially if there are family members all over the country.
Admittedly, it's a better gift if your loved one *actually has home wifi for it to connect to* so they can actually receive new photos 😅 And if they're unlikely to want to deal with batteries, make sure you get a unit that can be plugged in! My aunt meant well but I'm pretty sure grandma shoved that thing in a closet and forgot about it as soon as the batteries died. Recurring costs like internet and batteries are not something she is interested in with her limited pension (and if you're going with rechargeable batteries, at that point you might as well plug the whole thing into the wall to save a step)
So how do I hint to my husband & kids that I want this?!
I purchased 4 digital frames this year (not aura - a much cheaper one). I plan on preloading pics from my late wife’s phone for each of our children. On a side humorous note… how many of the recipients of some of these gifts will be watching the declutter videos next year to declutter them lol.
That screaming goat is so adorable, and I know just the co-worker who REALLY needs it! LOL The thing that I like most about your choices is that most of them are interactive--making candles, writing, Legos, etc. So, it's not just something on the shelf.
The worst gift that I ever received was from my EX -- he gave me an empty heart box for Valentine's, telling me that "You don't need any more sweets, since you need to lose weight...but you can use the box for something..." YEP...no question there as to why he's an EX. LOL Sometimes the rear-view mirror is the best view---"Buh-bye!!"
What a douche.
😮I would have served him the divorce papers in that box.
The worst gift I received was when I was a kid. My mom's friend crocheted a clown with super long arms and legs. I had just watched Poltergeist and that clown freaked me out. I kept it in the closet and it was eventually lost or given away when we moved. Also, there was a dead tree outside my window!
😂 that thing would have found its way to a trash can immediately. Poltergeist did in clowns for sure.
Oh, YEAH! I HATE clowns--always have. Never thought they were funny at the circus. Creepy!
Nightmare fuel! After Poltergeist absolutely zero clowns allowed.
Lol, Gail. That would be freaky! Glad it got lost 👍👍
😂 No further explanation needed 🤡
Oh, my! I literally gasped at 11:00, a half second before you! And, I feel happy when the thought crosses my mind that you are in the world.
My sister inlaw is a VERY frugal type. One year for Christmas, she gave my mother (a spoiled "princess" 👑type) a bag of dried beans with a typed recipe card for Navy bean soup! Omg, my mother was offended for years 😠she doesn't even cook! Lol, it was so ironic & hilarious 🤣
Is someone touchy? This seems like a very nice gift - not just more "stuff", and is practical and consumable.
A couple of years ago, I got similar chopsticks for my daughter, she loved them!
I love that stinking goat. My husband needs this! Lots of cool ideas. Thanks for the help.
I was given an “Easter basket” during my senior year of high school by the kid who had asked me to the prom. He meant well enough, but oh my goodness. It was the strangest-looking basket I had ever seen. It had a pair of giant glittery and fabric hearts wrapped around the handle with wire that made it look as though it had antennae, and the faded floral fabric lining the inside was dusty, almost as dusty as the contents. Said contents were a couple of containers of those little 1980s-era bath marbles that are supposed to dissolve in the water and leave behind scented oil. There were also several foil-wrapped, talc-based, even older bath powder cubes that a lot of our grandmas or great-aunts surely kept in their linen closets at least once or twice. The smells were several, none of them great, and the dust made me sneeze. I could appreciate the fact that we were all kids and had virtually no money of our own, and would have had to save up for anything related to the prom, but yikes; I wasn’t expecting or wanting anything from this guy at all, so that was awkward enough. And on top of that, this bundle had clearly come from either an elderly relative’s attic or an elderly neighbor’s garage sale. I smiled, thanked him, and slunk home with it. Made an honest effort to try just one of the bath cubes but it clunked to the bottom of the tub like a rock, and the little bit that did dissolve into the water made me itch like crazy.
Oh my gosh i can smell it 😂
You're lucky the whole cube didn't dissolve!
One year I was given the “inspirational” t-shirt that was too small and a tin that was purchased containing candy , but the candy was removed before they gave it to me.
Worst gift that I've given was a craft fail into which I had invested far too much time to abandon, but I wish I had just abandoned it instead of gifting it. Worst gift given was from the neighbor to my brother who was a teenager at the time. He got a can of Planters nuts that was already opened. That was repeated for many years as a prank gift, but the original from the neighbor was not a joke or a prank. 😂
Lots of great gift ideas. I don't really have a "bad gift" that I got. I loved getting a vacuum and other household items for Christmas.
I bought some of your recommendations...the journals, the light sabre chopsticks. Thanks for the video. Love all your choices.
Some really good gift ideas, thank you Cass. Can’t think of any particularly bad gifts, but I never buy perfume as a present (or enjoy receiving it).
Thank you so much for suggesting the Aura e-frame. My mom (age 84l) loves it so much!!
Lmao the random goat scream cuts are slaying me 😂😂
The worst gift: Days of the Week underwear that I opened at a large family Chrstmas function. I was 12, and mortified. I'm in my 50's and still remember it 😂
Close second: I was overweight after pregnancy, and my dad gave me a Thigh Master.
Oh geez…thanks dad 😐
Love the gift ideas! Especially the screaming goat! 😂 Perfect for work friends.
I’ve received toy fruit ornaments, plastic basket in the shape of a fish in the color blue, & an ugly pot with flowers painted on inside. These are my top 3 worst gifts I think
My husband gave me Gummy Boogers for mother's day when our kids were little. The kids thought it was hilarious. I would have thought so too...if he had gotten me something else that wasn't a joke!
Thank you so much for this video, really helped me find some lovely last minute gifts and yes, someone is getting the screaming goat as a gift! We’re going to make sure they open it here so we can have a tap too!
When I was 10 years old,my father's sister gave me a sterling silver 45 piece of dinner ware & my sister,who was only 7 at the time got a silver lame mini dress!!! Even at those young ages,we knew they were re- gifted to us!! Lol!!!
Aunty helping you get that hope chest going😂
On @Cityline yesterday, the craft project was making those board game book things.
These ideas are so helpful! That label maker was super cool! We have the Aura frame to my in-laws last year. I'm going to hang onto these ideas!
My extended family used to draw names for a Christmas gift exchange. When I was around 10-12 years old (to my horror!) my aunt gave me 3 pairs of screaming bright blue silky underwear! I was mortified!! They came all the way up to my chest and my dear mother took them and made use of them.
Oh wow. This made me laugh so hard! A gift like that to a young girl is horrible 😂 The fact that you remember it so vividly is a testament to how traumatic it was. Also that you tried them on and they fit so poorly. I’m so sorry
Amaz ball ideas ❤
Merry Christmas to you and your family ❤
One year my mother gave my daughters clocks. Wall clocks & alarm clocks to help them from being late. It isn't the lack of knowing the time that makes a teenage girl late... Needless to say, they just smiled and thanked her while she complained that she spent more money than she planned on them.
This is not a Christmas gift, but for Valentine's Day, my stepsister received Bath and Body works spray and I got a book titled, How to better your self esteem in 15 mins. I did have a self esteem problem, but I didn't think it was that bad until I got the book. It was more of a book for adults, it was HUGE, and I was a teenager. I did try to read it, but eventually, I gave it away. My step mom did apologize years later.
Thanks for the gift ideas! There were a few I'd never seen before and are really cool ideas!
My worst gifts were a set of socks and underwear from one of my grandmothers (like, no. preteens/teens do not want this type of gift, lol). She only gets a pass because after I became an adult I realized she lived through the Great Depression so she probably thought I'd appreciate it?
My worst Christmas was one year when I had TONS of presents under the tree and I was SO excited--only to find that the vast majority of them were board games. A couple were even missing parts. I found out later that they were all new, but they were from a store that was going out of business so they basically got them at fire sale prices! 😂 If I had siblings, these probably would have been great. Sadly, I was an only child and my parents would even play any of these games with me. I have no idea why neither of them thought of this when buying them all, lol! So yeah, super disappointing Christmas that year.
Aww that’s really sad ☹️ maybe they thought you’d play with friends?
These are fantastic! Thank you! Thank you!
My mother-in-law was the queen of bad gifts for me. One year I got a super bright red sweat shirt(I never wear bright red) that was 2 sizes too large. Another time she gave me a hand painted nanna vase.
After my first child I received a present from a family member. A box of weight watchers soup. Then I opened it up and found baby booties inside. The family member was mortified, she hadn't realised what she had used to out the shoes in. Lol
I gifted my SIL a Christmas sweater the had the phrase "merry Christmas you filthy animal" which i knew from home alone and was a movie she really enjoyed. What I did not look at closely was on the actual sweater pattern was the deer mating.. yeah. 🙈 definitely embarrassed 😅
Embarrassed? It sounds amazing!!! I would LOVE that sweater!
The AURA frame is awesome 💯... We got it three years ago for my mom and mother in law. Super easy to load pics... And other family members can have all the pics in frame on their phones when you invite them to get the app
Wonderful ideas! I wish that I had watched this a week ago! We can't count on any next day delivery in Northern Ontario, let alone close to Christmas!
Great gift ideas Cass. Thanks. Wishing you and your family a joyous Christmas season.🎁🧑🎄🌲🎅🤶
I once got a bag of old potpourri (the bag had a layer of dust) that had an odd fragrance... like old towels... 😂
My husband gave me an ironing board for our first anniversary. There have been other horrible gifts throughout the last 39 years (gift giving is not his love language, apparently) but he's never lived that one down.
Okay…you talked me into it! 😉 I have a running joke with my DIL about labeling all the light switches in their new home because no matter what switch we use, we end up turning off the TV…and in the middle of football season (with a son/spouse who is a coach), hitting the wrong switch is bad…really bad! So I am getting her the label maker. I know it will be an excellent gift for her as she also owns two bakeries and it will come in handy for her at work too! Thanks for the awesome suggestions…I’m off to browse through the rest of the list…
Oh thank you so much, half way through and I’ve already added most of these to my to buy list…and let me tell you, I was struggling for ideas!! You have saved Christmas at my house with this one!! 🎁🌲🥰
Glad it was helpful!
My worst gift as a little girl...dolls. I never liked dolls but my grandmother gave all 8 of her grandaughters dolls for Christmas every year until we were about 13.
Best gift as a child was a big truck made of about 2 dozen pieces that had to be put together. It was made to fly into pieces when you ran it into something. So much fun!
How fun!
The oddest gift I've received was a pair of silky patterned panties with stiff lace trim in a size too big for me, from a new friend of my parents who had just met me and my boyfriend for the first time. I got the sense she was eyeing my middle when we were first introduced.
Great Ideas!! Thank you!
One gift I'll never forget was at my teacher's "White Christmas Party" where everyone brings a Crazy gift to exchange. You could pick from the group of gifts or steal from someone who'd gotten a cool gift. I picked a "half toilet seat" (not realizing what it was all wrapped!) The card said, very rudely: "For my half-assed friends!" Very gross, but everyone laughed and obviously, no one "stole" it from me!!! So obviously I trashed it!
That was way back in the 70"s and I've never forgotten it! LOL!!!
Thank you for all the great ideas!! ❤
OMGosh! You rock! What a perfect Title. Just what I needed to see in my inbox.
Omg I Love The duck night light! I want to get one for a gift and one for myself. Thanks great video !
I honestly don't think I've ever gotten a bad gift. I mean maybe some books I already had or clothes I didn't like, but that just happens. Nothing really atrocious or mean that I can remember lol
Amazing gift ideas!
My favourite is the screaming goat!!! 🐐 And that label maker is dreamy 😃 Thanks so much for the inspo!
That screaming goat is mine. Im going to get one for my boss too
Thanks cas wonderful video!
Love these! Merry Christmas!
I love the goat...i HAVE the goat!! lololzzz
Such a great collection of ideas. Thank you, Cas!
The worse gift to me was in my late 20’s, divorced with two young sons. The cute guy who lived in the apartment above me gave my sons beautiful jars filled with candy. My jar contained Sweet and Low.
ouch!
One year my husband gave me a pair of rubber hip waders😮😮😮. I don’t fish and I was heavy at the time and I couldn’t even fit them!
Some great ideas thanks! Worst gift was actually a wedding gift. One of my favourite aunts, who could afford something really good, gave us this parcel with some wooden place mats, she clearly bought years ago and did not like ( she travelled a lot) and a set of these horrible roughly made brass teaspoons from Burma (I think the place mats were also from there) The place mats actually worked well for hot potholders lol, but were butt ugly.
My sweet daughter-in-law's stepmother was even worse. She would send the tackiest gifts, often ones that were obviously not new. One year she sent a partially used bottle of hand lotion. She spent more on postage than on anything she ever bought for her stepchildren.
Worst gift was for my son, he was dealing with a new diagnosis for apraxia (a speech disorder) and we were gifted a “learn how to speak French” thing. He was struggling in his mother tongue and they wanted him to start learning a second language 😅
LOL, my ex walked into the house after work on Valentine's Day, handed me some half-dead freeway ramp roses, threw a Snickers bar on the table, and said, "I know you don't like these, but it's all they had"! Yeah, sorry ladies, he's taken! 😂🤣🤣😂. Good riddance!
My husband gave me a pen (in a box) that a sales rep had given him! And yes it had the company name on it and even though it was in a fairly good box, it wasn’t even a fairly good pen. My husband wrapped it though! That didn’t help! Someone pass me the screaming goat!!!
😂
(But this was 30 odd years ago, and he’s never done things like that again. 😄)
Great gift ideas. The worst gift I ever received was perfume. It was called Street scents or something like it. (Here's your sign) It stunk like all bad street smells but I kept it & gave it back to the recipient a few years later. She thought the same thing & wasn't happy with the gift. It was then that she realized she had originally gifted it to me. Lmao 😂
This was a very big help seeing how Xmas is 2wks away. Thanks
Loved this video! Thanks for creating such amazing content 😊
I have these sleepers. They are the best!!!!!!!
Absolutely best list ive seen this year!! ❤❤❤ Im loving the many affordable options!!! Actually stuff i hadnt seen, and im a chronic shopper lol...and...screaming goat 😂
good, different ideas. 😃👍🏼
My husband would love the unusual knowledge book.
I personally would love the slippers.
I love the back and forth journal idea. (that might make a great gift for Valentine's Day, or an anniversary).
I can't think of a bad gift I've received.... (I'm sure there have been some.... but I must have blocked them out of my memory, or something).
I once had a butterfly shaped journal, likely from the dollar store or a similar place, for a good long while my partner and I would send notes back and forth in it. I don’t remember who wrote it last… still love the memories of that experience.
@@bookhuggah oh that's wonderful. thank you for sharing that. 😊👍
Before the video ended, the screaming goat was added to my Amazon cart🤣
Love them❤❤❤❤❤❤
My daughter has that duck nightlight. It's super cute.
My father in law was gifted the Ancestry DNA kit. He has always celebrated his German roots. Turns out he has no links to German but is 98%English and Scottish. He believes the test was defective 🤣
Screaming Goat! Ordered one for my dad for a stocking stuffer. I can't wait!
I got those light saber chopsticks! Their awesome!!
The worst gift I ever received was a can opener! My mother got me the can opener because every time she came to my house she would complain about my can opener. I happened to love my can opener and told her so many times. So for Christmas one year she gave me a can opener. And no, this was not part of any “set” of gifts. It was my one and only gift from her that year. She bought herself a can opener for my house as my Christmas present! 😡
Very helpful video, thank you!
These are so creative and fun!