I have a sister in law who buys us bad gifts. Over the years I've recieved a fitted sheet - not a set of sheets, just the bottom fitted one and used none the less, an old worn out diet book, a child's cowboy hat when I was about 16 years old, a set of three disposable razors, a broken Rotato (one of those cheap plastic potato peelers), and for my birthday one year she sent me a box of cake mix and a package of McDonald's paper cups.

She gave my Dad an empty plastic jug of BBQ sauce that hadn't been washed, she gave my mother several used articles of clothing in size 3X (my mother was by no means that large) and she gave my husband a child's small t-shirt one year.

These are just some of the things I can think of off hand that she's given over the past 30 years and the sad part is she and my brother are very wealthy. I think my brother finally realized what tacky stuff she was giving and he started buying his own gifts to us which are always very nice and thoughtful.