It’s interesting how a Nativity scene evokes such strong emotions, including mine. I will say that I love the one I bought before I was married and likely would only ever use it no matter what else someone gave me.
Hey, maybe instead of Secret Santa we can just have a CC Wedding Gift From Long Ago swap!!
Dibs on the glass cake dome with lid! 
I don’t object to a nativity scene - to me it’s a personal choice of how one is depicted that I want to make for my own home. The one I was given was large and well, I didn’t give off a warm emotional vibe to me.
So yep, we are all different. But also nativity scene’s are different too! 
(Also, the speckled bowl - like the garbage bowl Rachael Ray would use on her shows early on! Then she came out with her own version).
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My mother has a couple that I want when she dies. I’m not mentioning that to my brothers or sister because then they might want them. I know where they are stored!
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We pull ours out for every birthday cake and any other round cake too.
My uncle’s sister-in-law (my aunt by marriage’s sister, so no relation to me) gave us a cast iron frying pan. She was a little apologetic and said, ‘I hope you don’t think it’s too odd, but someone gave us one for our wedding and I use it every day’. I use the one she gave us every day too. Love that thing!
We did get some odd art. I remember some small (like 5 x 8) airbrushed picture of waterfalls. No idea what happened to that.
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We got a trifle dish which lived in its box in the basement for about 20 years.
A friend and I were discussing useless things we keep and I mentioned the trifle dish. “A trifle dish? You have a trifle dish?! You are so lucky! I would love to have a trifle dish!” Guess who is now the proud owner of a trifle dish.
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Why does anybody want to cool their toast? The only thing I could think of is if you want toasted bread for a sandwich.
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I’m going to possibly be wrong here, but the toast rack isn’t for cooling toast. It’s to stop toast from getting soggy when you have more than one piece. Don’t want to stack it and create condensation.
As a person who has had many a classic English fry-up, I can vouch that a toast rack is useful!
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I understand that’s the theory, but we only toast two slices at a time and eat them right away. And I like my butter to melt into the toast.
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Got it. For you, a toast rack is a bad gift. 
I made a tuna macaroni salad today in one of my wedding present mixing bowls. The thread might have given me the nudge to do so.
These mixing bowls are a glass type, but not see through glass. The bottom is clear. The largest is blue, middle is yellow, and smallest is red. We use the red and yellow often so they’ve held up well over the past 33+ years. The blue one that I used for this salad I had to dig out of the cabinet and wash first.
Back to regularly scheduled programming of worst gifts. This one sure wasn’t it for me!
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We received a trifle dish as a wedding present, too. I had never made a trifle before, but because I had a dish, it became my go-to dessert for pot-lucks!
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Pyrex?
Soooo, do you take it down off the wall and carry it to the store with you?
A set of handleless pewter cups with hunting scenes on them. SOOO not our style. And who really drinks out of pewter. Beer, maybe, but these were small and as I said, handleless. Really not sure what they were for. They sat on a high shelf forever; recently donated them to the Vets.
Any chance those “handleless pewter cups” are mint julep cups? If the hunting is fox hunting that rings my Virginia-childhood chimes!
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No they were sort of rounded at the bottom, like some kind of mini-flagons. Hard to describe. Just, nothing we’d ever use.
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We pretty much fell out with the guy who gave them to us not long after, friend of H’s family whom it turned out had some serious issues. I’ll just leave it there.
Jefferson cups?
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I can’t think of any bad gifts that we received.
My sister kept her list of wedding presents and realized recently that 6 cousins all signed their name to a card attached to a basic long gone bathroom scale.
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