Oh gosh, a few Christmasses ago I got something from my boyfriend´s mother... Thank god she wasn´t there when I got it because I was in a long distance relationship and my boyfriend came to me for Christmas. He brought it with him and looked ashamed and said immediately "I tried to hold her back, I told her you wouldn´t like it, but she said it was a joke and you´d find it funny, I couldn´t do anything!" It was a terrible looking huge bee made of ceramic, probably something much cheaper, the sort of thing you´d never buy, under no circumstances, looked like a gift from a supermarket or petrol station and that´s very certainly where she got it. Perhaps it was even a savings box for children. Colourful, stupid grin and all

. And another such thing, but I don´know what it was, something between a scarecrow and a snowman. I never found it harder to phone someone and say thank you, lol! At least my boyfriend and I had a laugh and after Christmas I put these things in the cellar immediately. They´ve been thrown away by now. Makes one feel guilty, but what can you do? I won´t stuff my flat with monster bees :

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His brother gave me a similarly awful thing some years ago, too, god knows where he found it, something like a glass cube (only that it was plastic) on a green felt something, you had to plug it in and it would start to revolve slowly and I think it even had some colourful light effects, and an unwanted sound effect, the scratching sound of the thing revolving. Ghastly

! But this family is like that, taste is non-existant, except the youngest brother. He is gay and cares an awful lot about taste and appearance and is quite forthright, I wonder what he would have said to these things ;D.