Wedding Presents you never used

[MargoLivebetter]

Having just moved house again, I realised that I have moved 3 picnic baskets 4 times since I was married 28 years ago and I've never once used them. Some of them, I have used a few of the bits inside them, but I've never ever taken the baskets on a picnic or anywhere else for that matter. They have just moved from garden shed to garage etc. They were not on my gift list, they were just random gifts that people gave us. It made me wonder what other MNers might have in their cupboards that they were given as wedding or other gifts and never used?

So that’s two people who just shove unopened gifts in the garage/loft?! Did you both have weddings so enormous that your guests didn’t know you/you didn’t know them enough to bother?
we were given a metal family “tree” that you were supposed to put photos of your growing family into. We’ve carted it around for 20 years and never used it but never quite had the heart to bin it…

Omg - anyone who wants rid of random picnic sets, cutlery sets, or table cloths etc PM me....I am more than happy to pay for postage 👍
I didn't get any of these when I got married, I feel left out 😆

Unopened as in unwrapped? 🤯

A gizmo to make fajitas on. It had a warming plate for the tortillas and a grill for the meat & veg. After a year I gave it to the charity shop.

Unopened as unwrapped?

Wrapped I imagine

We said no gifts as we'd been together 9 years by the time we were married, most people were traveling a long way to be with us and DH's grandfather had very generously paid for our honeymoon.

We did get a couple of random bits. Some photo frames I have used and a lovely set of small carved wooden birds from our friend from Zimbabwe that we have in our bedroom and then the one that was very.....well...

My teenage cousin, who was doing art GCSE at the time, had made a sculpture of us embracing.

It was fairly large (think centre piece for a large dining table) looked a bit like us (but not on a good day) and something had gone wrong with the paint on DH'a face, so it looked like he had quite bad acne.

We did of course thank her profusely because she (and my aunt) were so proud to present it to us. And clearly it had been made with a lot of thought and effort and love. With that said it never made it into our house. I was "married from" my parent's house and I hid it on top of my little (but no longer living at home) sister's wardrobe. It scared her half to death when she spotted it one morning about a year after the wedding. My mother then rehoused it in a spareroom cupboard until my parents moved about 3 years ago (at which point we all agreed it was safe get rid of it). Luckily I live at the opposite side of the country to my aunt's family.

A mortar and pestle set. I think I even put it on the wedding list - more in hope than expectation that I would use it, as I'm a very lazy cook. To my shame, I have given several picnic hampers as wedding presents, in the belief that everyone would want a nice one. Clearly not - I wonder if any of my recipients have been posting on here!

We were young and broke. No list , lots of presents. No duplicates. Used them all. Over the years many have gone but the trusty dinner service is still used daily. We are a few bowls and side plates down.

Will have to get back to you on that. Probably unwrapped, just never opened.

Did you not write to the gift givers and thank them for their gift ?

Do you not write thank you cards to people for their generous gifts?! We got a few lamps and clocks even though we specifically asked for none😂

We didn't get many presents - mainly cash tbh. But of the gifts we did get, most have gone largely unused. A bit of a crystal theme which just isn't us. Multiple decanters (DH drinks the odd beer and I don't drink alcohol at all), crystal wine glasses (ditto), several bowls, and a few crystal picture frames.

At one of DCs birthday parties I actually put out the crystal bowls filled with skittles and jelly tots etc (a set of small bowls) and 2 larger ones with rice crispie treats etc in them, half hoping they'd get damaged.

Paper cups and plates were upended plenty, but those blasted bowls remained firmly in place. Too heavy for little hands to tip over I guess!

Don’t remember the worst one but weirdly remember the best one. A very comprehensive toolbox - have used it for years. Such a good gift

Decanters. 5 decanters. We never decant wine. One was even engraved with our initials so we couldn’t give it away.

One of my step- mother’s friends gave me a Sheffield steel bread knife in 1992 for my first wedding. She died very young of a brain haemorrhage and I think of her when I use it. It’s still as good as new 32 years later - lasted way longer than the marriage!

A knife block we didn’t ask for, and a juice press. Both not on our list, but given by a recently married couple. Just assumed they were regifting.
To the PP who mentioned her mortar and pestle, ours is glass but it’s really handy for pulverising frozen berries to make cocktails. So gets used once or twice, at best, in the summer

A bright yellow tie with small black polka dots on it. The present was addressed to both dh and me, but I have no idea why it was sent as a wedding present.

I was given something for my 21st, and I'm still using it decades later.

I use my pestle and mortar a lot, but it was a large one that I treated myself to. I'm not much of a cook but it makes a big difference.

Yep I know we did, but they wouldn’t have been personalised with over 80 odd people there.

Ahhh “some jam sandwiches with lashings of butter, followed by some of aunties rich pound cake.”

when in reality picnics are soggy sandwiches and batting away wasps 😂

We got married last year and had some lovely gifts - restaurant vouchers, membership to an art house cinema, air BnB vouches. The one we haven’t used is a skydive, a) because for some reason it’s in Cambridge and we live in Whitby so not exactly near and b) I really, really do not want to go skydiving. This bloody skydiving voucher plays on my mind as it can’t have been cheap yet I really don’t want to use it. Saw the giver the other week who asked about it too so we may not get away with it.

Hhm, that’s pretty poor.

it doesn’t take much to scribble a few words / lines to 80 people.

We eloped so avoided any of the random unwanted gifts that wouldn't have fitted into our tiny house (although I'd have loved a small picnic basket)!

But I'm shocked by the people who are couldn't even be bothered to open the gifts that people have presumably put a lot of thought into. I mean, if you choose to have a lot of people at your wedding, surely part of that includes taking the time to see what people have given you, check the gifts out - and write and thank them?

But like I mentioned, we eloped, so perhaps I'm out of touch...

Can’t worry about it now, was over 2 decades ago.