Got a joke knife set from the in laws for Christmas

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Peak_Oil

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It's the free set that gets delivered with your craptastic Omaha Steak delivery. The cutting board is about three millimeters thick, the knives are a total joke. They don't have a website, I can't even figure out what kind of steel they are.

I kind of want to buy a knife block for them, sharpen them up real nice, add a couple other useful kitchen tools, and regift it back to them next Christmas as a kitchen knife set.

http://www.listia.com/auction/631804

That's them!

I was thinking about getting a bamboo block from Amazon for $20 or so, and adding a set of kitchen tools like a vegetable peeler and a plastic lettuce knife, a set of EMT shears, nothing that would run me more than $50 or so, and send it back to them.

What do you think?
 
Of course you could always buy some of the steaks, with the knives, and invite your in-laws over for the meal. Make a point of showing how you think so highly of them you'd invite them over for a special and expensive meal. And, OH, look, we got another set of knives too!

Now they realize that you know the value of the gift, and you care more about them than they do about you (since they didn't invite you over for steak). It's hard to cure parsimony, but guilt and embarassment can temper it.
 
Don't be ungrateful. Show them you are a classy guy by sending them a nice "Thank You" card and gift back.
I recommend for the gift a Claxton Fruit Cake. :D
 
haha, those kinda remind me of the timber wolf brand knives.
oh well, wat do ya want for free....right
 
I got that same set with a set of Omaha Steaks goodies from some relatives a few states away. My wife chuckled when she saw then because she knew what I would say. She re-gifted them as a last minute addition to the gifts she gave her brother. He wouldn't recognize a quality knife anyway. When he gets married I'll pick him out nice set then.

Maybe Omaha Steaks are saying that are steaks are so good you can even cut them with cheap, dull knives.:D
 
sykes3170 said:
The thing you have to realize is most people think a knife is just a knife. I'm sure they meant well, and it's the idea that counts.
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That's the same thing that a friend of mine said when I showed him my Shuns. :eek:

What's that about leading a horse to water....:D
 
Could be worse, my step-mother-in-law invited me over for Christmas when the wife and I started dating.

She realized that she forgot to get me a gift (as if I expected one anyway), and it was visible panic. So she not so subtly disappears upstairs to figure something out.

What wonder of the world did I get, but a jar of some really bizarre curried something or other preserves...o.k. whatever. Until a month or so later, I see them and figure it's worth trying them, lid pops off a bit too easily and there's an obvious tablespoon missing from them. She regifted an _opened_ jar.

That's probably my most classic of all time.
 
among other things, I got a 43 piece folding utility knife by Husky from a friend. I do appreciate the thought, but it went straight to another friend who plans to leave it at work for whomever wants it. the Vise-grips he got me are nice.
 
Tony8179 said:
I think maybe you should just be grateful that you received the gift.
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eisman said:
Of course you could always buy some of the steaks, with the knives, and invite your in-laws over for the meal. Make a point of showing how you think so highly of them you'd invite them over for a special and expensive meal. And, OH, look, we got another set of knives too!

Now they realize that you know the value of the gift, and you care more about them than they do about you (since they didn't invite you over for steak). It's hard to cure parsimony, but guilt and embarassment can temper it.
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alex said:
Don't be ungrateful. Show them you are a classy guy by sending them a nice "Thank You" card and gift back.
I recommend for the gift a Claxton Fruit Cake. :D
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sykes3170 said:
The thing you have to realize is most people think a knife is just a knife. I'm sure they meant well, and it's the idea that counts.
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Be grateful someone out there remembered you and thought about you enough to get you the gift to begin with. It's the thought that counts, and you were thought of.
 
RevDevil said:
:thumbup:
Be grateful someone out there remembered you and thought about you enough to get you the gift to begin with. It's the thought that counts, and you were thought of.
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:thumbup: Bulid your self a camp box and put them in that. They will be worth it when you go camping.
 
alex said:
Don't be ungrateful. Show them you are a classy guy by sending them a nice "Thank You" card and gift back.
I recommend for the gift a Claxton Fruit Cake. :D
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Nothing tells it like it is as well as a Claxton!!:D
 
That is so funny, man. I received the same exact set from my parents. My dad said he knew they were cheap, but thought that maybe I could do something with them. I thanked him and I told him I would sharpen them up and keep them as a backup to our good kitchen knives. He went from apologetic to proud and it didn't cost me a thing.
 
It was a joke gift. We exchange gifts with them every year, this was part of the usual gift exchange.

I happen to know they don't have any kitchen cutlery except for a single chef's knife that I bought for them the last time we went down for a visit.

I thought it would be fun to dress it up and send it back next year as a full knife block set with shears and stuff. Then again, I got a chance to handle the knives last night and they're such junk... Flexible is nice, but these feel like they could possibly bend if she tried to cut through a ham bone joint or something like that.

I don't think I'm going to go through with it.

Maybe I'll just get them a nice set and call it a day.
 
Right now is a really good time to buy a good set of knives. This is the one time a year they really put them on sale. Buy now, and put away for next year.
 
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