What's the worst gift you ever received?

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Every year my sweet MIL gives me some type of item that is meant to make your house smell better. A diffuser, fake candles, yankee candles - you get the idea. Each item is quite nice in itself, but at this point I have to wonder, "Does my house smell THAT bad?"

I also once recieved a used flower vase as a wedding shower gift, complete with bits of leaves still stuck inside it.
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No, by all means, direct it at me, I agree. She DID seem to want never-ending thanks and fully expected me to display all the fluffy kitties.
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She was full of ulterior motives, even subtle ones like that. Who on God's green earth would complain when they go to your house and don't spot their gift??? She was ridiculous, she really was. I should start a whole separate thread on her, she was absolutely out of her freaking mind.
 
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I bet family reunions are a joyous time. You should write her the longest, most heartfelt thank you for her kind gifts, without an ounce of irony or sarcasm. I'd just love to see the reaction to that is all.
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She has been gone for a long time now. Sad thing was, when she died, she was divorced (after 54 years) and estranged from almost all of her family except for her sons. You'll never guess who was the person who spent the most time with her in the hospital. You got it, me.
 
Hi! My little brother bought a case of 'Fix-A-Flat' and gave everyone a wrapped can for Christmas one year --- not the worst, but oddest.
Same little brother annoyed little sister and she pulled their gift for him from under the tree and replaced it with a beautifully wrapped box of muddy, smelly sticks. His 'real' gift had been a great book he wanted (and we all passed it around and read it before he got it).
I had a grandma that was a avonlady and used to give us avon samples as gifts when we were kids, but she was a nasty old thing at her best.
Sounds odd, but my Mom requests *rocks* for gifty occasions. We have lovely slatey-blue stone here that she doesn't have there. A truckload of *rocks* is a treasure!
When I raised pot-belly pigs, I got lots of pig-related gifts --- not all bad really, but some were ugly things (at one point I had 6 ugly 'piggy' cookie jars [I think they were all gifts from my husbands mother]).
Hahaha!
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She has been gone for a long time now. Sad thing was, when she died, she was divorced (after 54 years) and estranged from almost all of her family except for her sons. You'll never guess who was the person who spent the most time with her in the hospital. You got it, me.

I'm so sorry to hear she lived her life pushing people away, and so glad to hear that you don't! Sounds like you have been giving people one of the greatest gifts out there for a while.
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Speaking of bad gifts.. It was my friends birthday yesterday and me and my other friend are putting together a "special" gift together for her...

She hates Hello Kitty, for whatever reason.. so we decided to get her a Hello Kitty backpack, hello kitty band aids, hello kitty t shirt and a hello kitty thong.
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I do feel kinda mean though, but we got her real gifts too.. I kinda do feel guilty because she'll most likely never use them and I'm debating if i should include a receipt or not..


We're giving it to her tomorrow.
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Am I the only person on the planet that actually LIKES fruitcake?
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OK so some are hard as rocks but a good one --
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So gift 'em to me!!
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I've gotten so many doozies from my in-laws there is no point. EVERY SINGLE YEAR without fail my MIL gives me a bundle of spatulas.
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Co-workers had a gift swap, I had only been there for maybe 3 months, they all got these great little coffee cups with Christmas socks, pens, and other fun odds-and-ends from the manager... The manager gave me an OLD RUSTED tub of former bath salts but she filled it with mint Hershey kisses instead of the old bath salts... To make it worse, the chocolate tasted like bath salts. Nice, made me cry b/c crap like that always happens to me and I was only 18 at the time. Never ceases to amaze me how rude and nasty people can be, I would never treat someone like that, ever.

My amazing husband who is a terrible gift-giver and even worse at hiding what he gets me, surprised the heck out of me three Christmas ago... I got an umbrella, a purse umberlla. THANK HONEY! In all fairness all my other gifts were nice
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