Worst gift ever.

GAgirlinSDakota · November 2015

In protest of all the "X days of Thankfulness" crap all over my facebook, I want to know what are some of the worst Christmas presents you've ever gotten. You know, the ones you were horrified to open that day, but are now hilarious (or maybe not) stories. Even if I wasn't grateful for these presents back then, I am now b/c of the funny memories.

Mine? As I watched my 10yr old brother open a brand new TV and super NES for his room, my mom handed me (12yr old) a much smaller package. It was a new plug for the bath tub. There is a video somewhere of me opening it and trying soooo hard not to cry.

My mom is not really an asshole. The very last present I opened that day was a cordless phone (1994 yo) and they had a line installed in my room.

Monilee1017 · November 2015

When I was 10 my godfather got me sock savers and socks for Christmas. This was after my house burnt down and we lost everything we had in June. So it was our first Christmas back in the house, we moved in early December. He called me to ask me if I wanted to restart my collection he bought me the same hallmark girls for my birthday and Christmas barbie for Christmas along with another gift. I said yes but opened the savers instead. I was so sad when I opened my gift. I honestly don't even remember how I reacted.

scornwell717 · November 2015

@GAgirlinSDakota your story is hilarious. It reminds me of one of the deleted scenes from the movie Step Brothers where Dale gets a pair of Hulk hands and Brendan gets a wallet and he's like "this is f*cking bullsh*t, Dale gets Hulk hands and I get a f*cking wallet?!" They had to delete the scene because the mom was physically unable to keep a straight face. I love that movie.

Anyway, I can't really think of any awful presents I got growing up. My parents were really good to me and my brother. I can remember opening a few things from my grandma though and having to act like I loved in when in reality I was like "I have no use for this..."

KFrob · November 2015

My parents gave me a bike for my 15th birthday and then a key chain sans actual keys (or permission to drive at all) for Christmas when I was 16. Both were a real kick in the pants at that age.

alandaim · November 2015

My mom's childhood best friend always gave "interesting" gifts. I usually got sweatshirts with Scottie dogs, but one year I got a Tweety Bird fan pull. I know of liked tweety when I was younger, but I remember opening it and wondering what the heck it was. Yeah, we didn't have any ceiling fans in our house so I don't know what I did with it. I just remember thinking, that out of all of the lame gifts she had gotten me, that was the lamest. She really is a sweet lady, though so of course I thanked her. I still giggle when I see fans that you have to pull to turn on, "damn that fan would look better with Tweety hanging from it!"

SisterSunshine · November 2015

A new kids on the block t shirt. That never got worn.

SisterSunshine · November 2015

OH how could I forget?! A used dirty glass vase in a cordless phone box, as our wedding present from my MIL. She hated me. To be fair though, she hated many, MANY people. Including my husband. That's a rough way to be.

MamaGooGoo · November 2015

My aunt is a little crazy and notorious for giving bad gifts. Over the years I've gotten old rusty looking earrings that I swear had ear crust from the previous owner on them. Also, plain white underwear from Victoria's Secret with no tags and had clearly been washed a few times, plus "vintage" aka used lingerie from the 70s (high cut thighs, bright blue, ew). The best was for my wedding though. This aunt gave us a photocopy of an entire book about swinging, complete with pictures of nude couples and their 70s bushes, plus a game called Romantic Journey, and inside the game box was a bunch of random things like stacks of paper in a rubber band and the wedding favor from my cousin's wedding 3 months earlier. AND, this gift was complete when I opened an envelope to find an itinerary including all of the prices and costs that it took for my aunt and uncle to fly out for our wedding, rent a car, and stay in a hotel. It cost them $1,447 and change.

jeanbug12 · November 2015

One year I unwrapped a 1980's car phone, I didn't even really know what it was when I opened it, it was a huge phone in a giant leather bag. My parents had just cleaned out my grandparents basement and found that, they thought it would be funny to wrap that up instead of the cell phone they had really gotten me for Christmas.

MeghaJake · November 2015

My husband and I got a brand new violin for our wedding from his godparents. Neither of us play the violin or have ever expessed a desire to play the violin and we know it was a very expensive present! It just sits in our closet. Another time the same godparents gave his brother and sister each $100 in cash for Christmas and gave him a three foot tall wooden carving of a cat.

lwebley · November 2015

Mine wasn't for Christmas, it was my baby shower. I was gifted a 2 stroke gas powered party blender! Wtf?! There was no card so we didn't even know who it was from for months. We still laugh about it.

fragglemom · November 2015

I got a box of men's handkerchiefs from my secret Santa in 3rd grade. I was scarred.

jordans_wife · November 2015

This was actually not a gift I received for Xmas but it was for my sil and bil. My mil is notorious for giving weird ass gifts. Every Xmas she wants to participate with my husband and his siblings in a drawing for Xmas gifts. To make matters worse she buys the gift for whoever my fil draws also so 2 people always get screwed. My particular favorite was the yr she got my bil and sil shadowboxes filled with Indian scalps, a tomahawk, and some arrowheads. The cherry on tops was matching teal windbreaker coats from goodwill. One had the name "lick" and the other had the name "olum" printed on them. Ya, WTF???!!

apinkpelican · November 2015

SisterSunshine said:
A new kids on the block t shirt. That never got worn.

I got a NKOTB sweatshirt about 2 years after they were no longer cool. I remember being a snotty teenager and thinking it was so lame and embarrassing.

That particular cousin always got us gifts that were a bit off. She passed away a couple weeks before Christmas one year and her mom still gave us the gifts she'd already wrapped for us. It was uncomfortable to open it and I expected it to be lame but instead it was 2 CDs I had really been wanting and a holiday dish I still use to this day. I felt so guilty and still do I think.
Sorry to be a Debbie Downer on a funny thread!

mamakculb · November 2015

The year I met my DH we started dating in December. He was still kind of friends with his ex, and I went with him to get her a gift for Christmas. I played the stupid girlfriend and said he didn't have to get me anything since we had just started datingg. So he didn't. Lesson learned. The next year, I tried to drop some hints and told him I'd like to exchange gifts. Well, he bought me a ring that he thought was so beautiful (he REALLY loved it) but it wasn't even metal. It was like this bendy plastic fake looking ring that broke the day I got it. It was terrible. He was so devastated that I didn't love it. With the ring he gave me an iron. Why the iron? Because a few weeks earlier I couldn't find mine so he thought he'd replace my missing iron.

The no gift for the first Christmas and the iron are now funny jokes to everyone, but the ring he's still sensitive about.

alisongem · November 2015

For my college graduation I got a boxed set of used "as seen on tv" kitchen knives that had a mark from a garage sale sticker being torn off. (From an elderly couple from church so I wasn't upset but definitely confused)!

Emott13 · November 2015

Wow. Reading these I feel so fortunate! I don't recall ever having such interesting gifts!! You guys are cracking me up!!

mekaswifestyle · November 2015

This sounds kinda tame in light of some of your gifts, but when I was a kid I went to our family Christmas gatherings with my grandpa every year all my cousins and my brother would always get these cool gifts like video game consoles, TVs, new toys, even a dirt bike this one time .... Every year without fail they would see me sitting there with 1 present from my great grandma, realize the forgot me, and get out their wallets and give me money... I always said thank you , but around 15 my grandpa stopped taking me because he could tell it broke my heart that they forgot me every year.

PedsIsHardcore · November 2015

This is not mine, but a friends. Her grandmother got her and her relatives used underwear for Christmas. I'm not sure how it could be worse than that other than the fact they were usually huge underwear too. WOW was my only response when she told me that.

kristen2b · November 2015

mekaswifestyle said:
This sounds kinda tame in light of some of your gifts, but when I was a kid I went to our family Christmas gatherings with my grandpa every year all my cousins and my brother would always get these cool gifts like video game consoles, TVs, new toys, even a dirt bike this one time .... Every year without fail they would see me sitting there with 1 present from my great grandma, realize the forgot me, and get out their wallets and give me money... I always said thank you , but around 15 my grandpa stopped taking me because he could tell it broke my heart that they forgot me every year.

Lurking from d15, @mekaswifestyle how in the world did they remember your brother but not you?? That's awful!

ashs88 · November 2015

Not for Christmas, but for a wedding present we got one of those long reach grabber arm things. There was no card with it so we don't know who gave it to us, but we assume it was probably a gag gift from one of DH's fraternity brothers. Needless to say, it sat in our storage room for a couple of years until we finally just took it to Goodwill.

stephanienjer · November 2015

My sister gave me (in front of our entire extended family) a box set of AR Roquelare Sleeping Beauty books. If you don't know what they are, they're the bondage erotica written by Anne Rice. I was so embarrassed.

I gave them the old college try, but I don't think I even got through the first book. What I did read was certainly educational!

cyanope · November 2015

@MamaGooGoo...you win.

GAgirlinSDakota · November 2015

mekaswifestyle said:

This sounds kinda tame in light of some of your gifts, but when I was a kid I went to our family Christmas gatherings with my grandpa every year all my cousins and my brother would always get these cool gifts like video game consoles, TVs, new toys, even a dirt bike this one time .... Every year without fail they would see me sitting there with 1 present from my great grandma, realize the forgot me, and get out their wallets and give me money... I always said thank you , but around 15 my grandpa stopped taking me because he could tell it broke my heart that they forgot me every year.

Ouch! I've been forgotten before, and it stings.

jrouge12 · November 2015

I can't think of any gift I truly hated but when I was 15 my parents have me a litter box and a poop scooper. Not very exciting, but we got to go pick out a kitten a few days later. Of course he pukes on things and attacks me all the time....maybe he was the bad gift.

maddisonwallace · November 2015

I was dating a guy a few years back who made Christmas a HUGE deal. He always over emphasized gifts and honestly had huge expectations for what people would give him (Should've seen that red flag lol). After dropping a few hundred dollars on collectors edition Star Wars DVD set that took FOREVER to find and came with a few very cool original items and I bought him a MorphSuit he HAD to have, I was given a dollar store bag with candy. Like, he got the leftover candy from Halloween from his parents house and put it in a paper sack. That was my Christmas gift.

GAgirlinSDakota · November 2015

I have another one, though I haven't reached the point where I find it funny yet, and I don't think it ever will.

Two years ago was my first Christmas living with SO. He really, really wanted a straight razor, but b/c of something that happened to me as a teen, I have PTSD and some very visceral reactions to them. He agreed (in October) he wouldn't get one and we'd find a middle ground. Two weeks before Christmas, I found a brand new hidden straight razor in a cabinet. When I asked him about it, he claimed his grandparents gave him his gift early. Liar. He'd spent $250 on this (basically my week's pay) leaving almost no money in our account. ***He told me prior to this, that there wasn't enough money in the account for us to exchange gifts (after kids were bought for) so we just wouldn't. So, I sold a bunch of my own things in order to buy him something, even if it was just a stocking w/ a few goodies.(New watch, a knife he wanted, candy)*** I made him remove the razor from the house and sell it.

Christmas morning, in front of his family, I gave him my gifts, and he gave me...nothing. My first Christmas ever not spent with my family, and without my older 3 kids (dad's Christmas) and no one gave me a single present. I cried so hard that night.

babybluu · November 2015

cyanope said:
@MamaGooGoo...you win.

I agree lmfao.

babybluu · November 2015

One year my grandparents gave everyone framed pictures of themselves for Christmas. Not necessarily a bad gift but I think it's hilarious. Something about their personalities combined with the poses in the picture. They may or may not have been on a motorcycle. I can't remember. So funny to me.

And then either the first or second Valentine's Day that my husband and I spent together (we were still only dating at the time) he decided he wanted to do something homemade. He knew how much I wanted an edible arrangement, and he figured it would be so much better homemade. So he bought a vase, a foam ball, skewers, fruit and chocolate and got to work. And then he hides it in his car. Which was in direct sunlight, and Florida can be decently warm in February. So I open it and there's all this scraggly looking fruit on sticks with the chocolate half falling off. He was so cute and sweet "I thought I would make it for you but I realize now I should have just bought one". I ate some of the fruit still, and it was such a sweet gesture. But we both joke about it now lol. He tried and I loved that

LilyCovello23 · November 2015

I definitely wouldn't say it was worst gift but it's the closest I've come to nearly crying on Xmas.
I'd been talking to my parents about wanting to buy a Nintendo 3DS for months and months.
I was 19, working and living in my own place.
So when Xmas came around I had a little pile of presents.
5 were the same size so I started opening them and I found a Nintendo 3DS game. I guess my face said something cause my dad said that's for your Nintendo 3DS. And I said but I don't have one. And both my parents looked all awkward and said they thought I would of brought it by now
So that's when I knew that all my Xmas presents were 3DS games
And I couldn't even use them : (
I feel so sad it was heartbreaking
Few hours later after dinner my parents give me another present and say you might be needing this then
It was the Nintendo!!!
They tricked me!!!!

Achae · November 2015

Not a Christmas gift, but for a wedding gift we received a huge plastic buddha statue. Which neither my husband or I are into? So it was very out there. I used it to hold down our cats food lid, lol. One of them ended up knocking it down and it shattered (oh darn!).

tinne004 · November 2015

I don't remember any really bad ones, but I do have a family gag gift story:

When my mom was a kid, she was in the car with her sister and my grandmother. Grandma stopped the car near an alleyway because she spotted something interesting... it was an old, dirty doll head. So for whatever reason, she picked it up and brought it home. This thing is disturbingly ugly- its eyes are partially rolled back, and half of its scraggly hair is missing. It's been in our family all this time, and since we are mostly girls (two daughters in each generation), any long-term boyfriend or husband who joins our family will eventually get this for a Christmas or birthday present!

We haven't had any new marriages for a while, so the doll is currently in my attic with my Halloween party decorations. We pass it around at our Halloween parties and tell people the origin story... some friends are afraid to touch it!

alanna3622 · November 2015

I was the giver of a terrible gift once. Sister was recovering from a major health problem, and I dropped by to visit. I brought a set of Chinese Checkers and a newspaper - she hadn't left the house in months. She said "thanks" and asked me to put the game in her basement storage immediately and just throw out the newspaper please. LOL

Cricket99 · November 2015

For our wedding someone gave us a framed American flag. We aren't talking a nice one either. It was a small plastic-like one you can pick up at any hardware store to stick in your front yard around 4th of July. Add to that the fact that we were moving out of the country. Definitely a strange gift, though I appreciated the homemade thought.

dc072175 · November 2015

@GAgirlinSDakota - that made me so sad for you I wanted to cry. Hopefully they've all stepped up their game since then!

GAgirlinSDakota · November 2015

dc072175 said:

@GAgirlinSDakota - that made me so sad for you I wanted to cry. Hopefully they've all stepped up their game since then!

SO didn't do very well last year, either, but this year should be better. I know he ONLY got things off my amazon wishlist.

Krisdee123 · November 2015

Here's my "worst gif ever" entry:

Krisdee123 · November 2015

Also this:

miranderp · November 2015

When I was fifteen my mom gave me a beanie baby, not even wrapped, that I had given her for her previous birthday. She was too wrapped up in her new lover to even realize.

Additionally that was the only thing she "got" me. And I stayed home alone while her and her new friend went to another couples' house for Christmas dinner.

Then she moved to another state and left me behind.

Thanks, bitch!

JNGettinMarried · November 2015

Not a Christmas gift, in fact not even my gift, but...

My husband's brother threw his Bachelor Party (they went to Dave and Busters... nothing crazy) but I guess to try to make it "crazy" he requested that all attendees bring an inappropriate gift. Most of the guys brought booze, which is a-ok since we drink that. He also got a framed picture of the cover of a porno called "My A** is Haunted". Cute, I know, but at the end of the day it's a picture frame, so still not so bad. His brother got him a fake silicone vagina. Like... a life-size replica of some plus-size porn star's vajayjay. And we have no idea how to get rid of it. It's heavy and weird. And currently hiding in a corner of our basement between old tvs and boxes of Christmas decorations. We've considered regifting but there's no one we would want to put this kind of burden on. We also thought about selling it, but it just feels... weird. I'm sure one day we'll just throw it out and let the Waste Management people think what they will about us, but for now it's a really funny "hey, guess what we have?" story.

xxarlannaxx · November 2015

I don't know if this is so much horrific as it was just plain embarrassing...I have a half brother who is 15 years older than I am. Well when I was 14 he got married, that Christmas his wife and himself got me a lingerie.... I'm sure it was more of his wife (it was a cute teddy set) but that's still a bit embarrassing to open up infront of the entire family (which whenever somebody receives clothing items they have to hold it up and show everyone then try it on) thankfully nobody asked for me to try it on. It just seemed a tad inappropriate. I laugh about it now but back then I was probably 50 shades of red.

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