I can truly sympathize with all the ladies who have received household items for Christmas... I think I have gotten them all: vacuum cleaner, lamps, sheets & pillowcases, dishes, pots n pans, the works...

But the most impersonal gift that I received that really haunts me to this day has to be the paint roller... the house was in bad need of a paint job and we really couldn't afford to have it done professionally.

That year they had been advertising these new fangled paint rollers on t.v......it was like a sponge on the end of this long handle...you stuck the handle into a can of paint and as you pulled the handle out it would suck the paint up into the tube... as you pushed the handle in it would push the paint up into the sponge, and away you went. Great for all those hard to reach places...lol....no mess...no clean up.

I had to be the worst gift ever. I was tempted to buy myself a nice gold chain, attach the paint roller to it and wear it around my neck one day in hopes that the ex would take the hint to try and get just a lil more personal at Christmas time....