LOL - you'd think so, wouldn't you. There is a reason I refer to this one as the Crazy SIL, vs the Mean SIL (both are DH's older sisters). Evidently the CSIL thought the tuna fish can strainer was the greatest thing ever. Some gadget that is a metal strainer with small upright rim, the size of a tuna can. So, you toss the lid, and use this highly useful gadget instead. Definitely a waste of a a couple of dollars. Although - the hardboil egg rubber cone that is essentially a nozzle which you'd hook to the faucet, then make a pin hole in the end of a hard boiled egg, and put the egg under the nozzle and blast water through it to peel the egg, was even dumber. WRT the strainer - the garbage disposal had broken in the old house, and before we replaced it we used the strainer thing as a strainer basket - perfect fit. IIRC, in that year's package, was also a wondrous microwave your corn cobs holder, and a pizza slice micro container. Yup - she's a treasure trove. The year of cleaning things - she snet us a cordless scrub brush thing (which really doesn't work well). Also, hmmmm, a paper shredder - which only worked for a couple of months - and we already had one, and she wouldn't send us the receipt so we could exchange the one she sent. The most ridiculous thing - the package postal costs - sent priority at least if not overnight - were about $45 - far more than the worth of the contents.
She has some issues - as in dealing with the real world. Donna has enjoyed my retelling of her phone calls detailing "when the Ets talked to her" . Yup.
Last year - we got a really not so good chocolate fountain - us and the other sister. The mean one gave hers to the daughters then boyfriend. We couldn't give it away - so we donated it at a big Stitch Away as a raffle prize.
This year - she was evidently going to send us a hydroponic herb garden but evidently thought better of it - as although we're actually always gracious about these gifts she's truly neurotic and thought we weren't properly gushing over the tie for DH, and sweater for me (which required her to actually go to a store in some mall in Chicago). That would've been a follow-up to the "mushroom garden of the month" we got one year. IT was extremely bizarre - even for mushroom lovers.
The one we have now also has the lint trap in the front below the door - as did the prior "new" one. I used the brush thing pretty successfully with them.
Good luck.
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