Whenever birthdays or holidays come around, I cringe...

From day one of Joe and I dating, I always cringed when anyone in his family's birthday came up...really only his mom's or dad's.  I think Joe had just moved back to Philly from Chiropractic school and I was at my first job after college making peanuts and his dad, who never golfed, asked for a brand new set of top of the line golf clubs (irons and woods) that retailed for over 1800 dollars!  Well 10 years later, nothing changes!

My sister in-law just wrote me:
"so .. XXX suggested that i call his parents to find out what his dad wants for his b-day. that's fine, he said they might like to hear from me. ok. good idea, keep in touch. so i called the store and got his mom.


well, she would like an amway air purifier for the house (how about stop using those mothballs? and don't keep rotten food around?) - she told me it costs $700.

then she proceeded to tell me that XXX HAS to buy it from amway, b/c other companies don't make good ones, etc etc, and when i was trying to tell her thank you for the tips, but i don't know if XXX will buy from amway b/c we know of some really good ones that we have, she went on to say she would also like the water purifier which is about $450. Ah. noted as well, thank you."
So, the funny thing is that Joe and I had lunch with the crazies last weekend and his mom offered to buy us an AMWAY Air purifier and an Amway water filter!!!!!  We declined of course, but UNBELIEVABLE!