Coffee mug warmers. Everywhere I’ve worked, outlets are at a premium, and it means I can’t use my travel mug. I’ve gotten two of them (which then were given to Salvation Army).
I figure that they must wash about $20 of that expensive chocolate down the sink at clean up time. I want solid chocolate, not melted if I eat some. I rank it about as useful as that televised microwave potato chip rack that went over like a lead baloon. Cut potato slices very thin, stick one in each slot, and microwave until ready. Now you have 15 potato chips that are not really potato chips, just dehydrated potato slices.
My wife has two, one in her office and one by her bed, and loves them, since she forgets to drink her coffee for long periods. I have one at work (plugged into the power bar) and I use it every day.
Who buys those listen to a CD in the shower things? I’d hate to see the water bill of anyone who stays in the shower long enough to make it worth having one.
I guess I don’t leave coffee long enough to get cold usually, and if I do, I just grab another one. That and my travel mugs have non-slip stuff on the bottom so they couldn’t go on a warmer anyway.
My mom also got me a rotisserie one year. Very odd thing to get someone unsolicited, and I can’t say it does more than collect dust. It costs more for me to buy an uncooked whole chicken then it does to buy one already done for me.
Actually, this was true for me last year. I would never buy them for myself, but I bought scratch-off tickets for someone I didn’t know well enough to know what he would want. He ended up winning about what I paid for them and so it was like I gave him cash, but more fun!
Overall, though, this thread is tough for me because I had it drilled into my head early on to buy people things that I would like for myself. So much so that I bought a doll for my godsister’s birthday and ended up opening the box and having to keep it. :smack:
The one I have was definitely a gift, but I take 20-minute showers regularly, which I think is more than enough time to enjoy part of a CD (or I just turn on the radio for any portion of time I’m in there).
These are great to put large jar candles on. Releases the scent and doesn’t smoke up your ceiling. And you get to play in warm wax. Bonus!
My sister gave me a stapler one year…shaped like a cicada. Ok, so she was only in the first grade at the time,but still,a cicada stapler?
I still have it and she is 28 now.
I just might give it back to her this year.
Ah well, maybe it wasn’t so bad a gift after all.
Merry Christmas!
I would like that - it sounds cute!
My father-in-law and his wife bought us a Pizza Oven. Never mind that they knew we were on diets or that we hadn’t eaten a store-bought pizza in about three years. Why would you own an appliance that serves only one real purpose? I have an oven, a stove, and a microwave.
I’m actually surprised we haven’t gotten one of those chocolate fountains yet. Those definitely qualify as most worthless household appliance on the planet. I can’t even imagine what household would eat so much chocolate fondue that it would make it necessary to have that kind of object in their house.
May I present the Sharper Image Automatic Lighted Mill for Pepper or Salt? Not only does it look like a big space-dildo, but it falls apart now and then, dropping 4 AA batteries into your soup. As for the light feature, I cannot confirm or deny that it works because I DON’T EAT IN THE DARK. Thanks, Mom!
That’s hilarious!
That is just freaking bizzare! It’s a Mag light. It’s a pepper mill! It’s a floor wax!
In an emergency you can use the light in the shelter, and when you come out of the basement the house will be gone. Then and only then will you appriciate your mother’s wisdom, because you will have pepper for your roast varmit and the neighbors won’t.
Now if only she’d given me the self-igniting model so I could start a tiny fire…
I love seeing these things in department stores…they’re always surrounded by puddles of dried wax.
Mom had one for use with tiny jar candles; it didn’t work very well.
My mom. No, really, she loves that show. She gets no broadcast channels because she has the Dish. (No, I don’t get why not either.) So she doesn’t get Raymond in syndication five times a day like the rest of us. She also owns five or six seasons of Frasier on DVD!
What, so now I’m not sane?
I’d love a chocolate fountain!
When I was going through my loss-of-faith period in DC, I went to a few different churches hoping one would light a spark in me. One I went to on an open house Sunday had a chocolate fountain. If they’d used it every Sunday, I’d still be going! (I’d also weigh 300 lbs.)
Mind you, I can’t imagine I’d use it more than once or twice a year for big parties, but it would be great for those. I doubt I’d buy one for myself, but that’s the point of a gift, isn’t it?
On the subject of the chocolate fountain… Seems like you could just add hot water and let it clean itself for the most part.
I got Van Gogh socks one year. Not something I would’ve even though once, much less twice, about buying for myself or anyone else… I love my Van Gogh socks, though. Same girl also gave me socks with little socks embroidered on them.
Soap made with human milk? We don’t sell it (make me an offer), but that’s what we’re giving out this year.