whats the worst gift you have ever recieved?

[DTchickens]

a happy meal toy from my aunt

short, sweet, simple

-Daniel

PS Oh. and this wasn't just me. gave all the kids one. 3 years straight

 

[Lobzi]

Fredrick's of Hollywood from a bf who insisted it was a gift FOR Me when it really was a gift for him with an additional gift for him when I wore it FOR HIM.
Ah the mentality of the male.....

 

[farmergal]

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Bible first is good, the second gift was a test to see if you'd READ IT.

HA! I never looked at it that way.
I did read the bible, and ended up buying some cozy flannel PJs with the gift certificate (the store DOES have some non-risque stuff)... guess I passed the test after all

 

[Royicus]

I don't think I've gotten too many bad presents since I usually explicitly call out what I'd like. My list, if someone chooses to get me something, reads a lot like a bill of materials

Though I do have one present that my mom got me last year that I didn't see myself needing, but I'm very glad to have now...


A nice rice pot. That and a vacuum cleaner that my mom also got me are probably the two most useful gifts that I've gotten.

I'm not too big on presents though since I usually don't ask for anything that I wouldn't buy myself that is of reasonable cost, but these criteria also lead to me purchasing it myself.

My sister usually refuses to get me anything on my list and picks something that she thinks I need. I can't even recall a lot of the gifts that she's gotten me over the years since they never get used. I believe the most success she's had is a folding knife and a compass that fits on my watch. I use those two everyday (untill I lost the knife and replaced it with one just like it). She has only the best of intentions though.

 

[derby]

My worst gift was on my 35th birthday. A shower head wrapped in the store's plastic bag, handed to me while I was in the hospital after 18 hour of child birth. I'm afraid I haven't figured out how to laugh about it yet.

 

[Pumpkinpup]

As a wedding gift a rich, miserly couple I know gave me a glass dime store pumpkin jar filled with safety pins, markers, electrical tape, a spool of black thread, push pins and automotive fuses in it from out of their convenience store stock. I could not believe that millionaires would be so cheep! I didn't expect them to give me anything out of the ordinary, you know, measuring cups and spoons or a set of mixing bowls, something I could use when setting up house, not a bunch of little junk that cost $5 when you added it up! I could not believe someone would have been so tacky. Why even give someone a gift, just send a card. It would mean a whole lot more.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Let me do it for you! Talk about off the wall!!!

 

[Redfeathers]

My DH "surprised" me with a dishwasher....a USED dishwasher that he hid at my aunts house. He hyped me up by being so excited during the drive to her house. I enjoyed his happiness and excitment so much more then the dishwasher....it leaked and kept breaking down... Bless him. lol

When I was a kid, my Grandma would deliberatly buy me clothes that were way too small. We had to open our gifts at a family Christmas eve get together...so all my thin cousins and relatives would see me open a dress or top that would never fit me. She could be a little mean sometimes.

Some of these stories I'm reading are just too painful.

 

[lovemychix]

A few years back I recieved a sweater with a hamburger, fries, and a shake sewn onto it. No joking. This was from my hubby's crazy family.

Looked like they picked up the first thing off the clearance isle.

 

[fowltemptress]

I don't wear jewelry . . . ever. Of course my SO manages to forget that and every possible chance he gets he presents me with some form of jewelry. I don't even pretend to appreciate it anymore. He recently told me he had a gift hiding in his trunk, so I should stay out. I had my suspicions and checked . . . a necklace. I immediately went to him and we returned the necklace . . . two days later he came home with guinea pigs for me instead

When he stops to think about it, he knows me very well