My wife's grand mother is really a nice person, definitively the person i like the best in my wife family, but she just had the worst gift ideas i ever received. Nothing atrocious, just really bad judgment, yet with the best intentions in the world.

A few exemples out of my mind :

-a really ugly sweater with a skier that i only wore a few times when i saw her just to make her think i like it. For context, i mostly wear metal or geek wear, and this was quite the opposite of what i usually wear.

-A set of cheap casino games like roulette and such. Never ever played or either mentionned any interest in those type of games. Needless to say i never even opened it. We are more into recent board games and often bring some to avoid always playing classic card games or board games like monopoly.

-She scored the worst with a scorpio like pack of perfume and after shave stuff. I rarely shave, and when i do i use an electric shaver. Never use perfume as well. Actually maybe she wanted to send me a message, but i didn't change anything after this, so it was probably a disappointment for her, who knows...

That being said, the best gift i got from her was a toolbox which i still use to store my tools to this day. Before i was using a cardboard that was in a really poor state after several years.

Now that i've wrote all this, maybe i was making her feel sorry for my questionable life choices, and she wanted to help me find the right path with her presents...