Worst Christmas gifts

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  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    Got a school uniform as a christmas present one year as a kid. plus some other presents. but who wants a school uniform as a present during the summer holidays? school is the alst thing you want to be thinking about.
  • greedyian23
    greedyian23 Posts: 3 Member
    The present I still remember from many years ago is a pair of lime green sparkly socks given to me by my now wife's elderly grandma.
    I profusely poured out my thanks and gratitude.
    Her son ( wife's uncle ) who still lived with his mother, expressed his amusement.
    Guess what he got as a Christmas present from me the following year?!
    I wasn't there when he opened it but it still amuses now thinking of what their reactions were.
    Needless to say my wife wasn't overly impressed with my generosity.
  • NoCookiesBish
    NoCookiesBish Posts: 126 Member
    At some point in my childhood, someone decided I liked porcelain dolls. (Which I don't at all) So every Christmas I had to open at least 3 and pretend to be happy about it.

    My mother tried to pawn them off on my daughter last year and I told her she could throw them out and confessed I never liked them. She still kept them :expressionless:
  • KosmosKitten
    KosmosKitten Posts: 10,476 Member
    cogirljb wrote: »
    I got a summer sausage, not with cheese and crackers like the one above...just a summer sausage

    I'll consider myself super lucky that I got the whole set then! :D
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  • klkarlen
    klkarlen Posts: 4,366 Member
    slessofme wrote: »
    @klkarlen I brought home this bad *kitten* fanny pack from the white elephant today!
    @midwesterner85 Look for me at the fair next year, I'll be sporting this:

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    ^^ This may be the winner! You have to wonder who modeled for it!
  • LittleLionHeart1
    LittleLionHeart1 Posts: 3,655 Member
    somebody gotta give me a present first
    :laugh: Just kidding!
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  • LittleLionHeart1
    LittleLionHeart1 Posts: 3,655 Member
    c6aijq96tpoi.gif I hope he likes this.
  • DebLaBounty
    DebLaBounty Posts: 1,169 Member
    I was home from my second year in college. My grandma gave me a small jewelry box. Inside was a clear rain poncho that was folded up into its own little packet you could fit into your purse. I lived in California where it never rained.
  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    a ring...meant as an engagement ring...worst most awkward gift ever
  • elizarizo
    elizarizo Posts: 470 Member
    A scale
  • klkarlen
    klkarlen Posts: 4,366 Member
    Anyone get anything amusing or awful this year? I didn't (well, except for the grab bad one), but mainly because I either bought them for myself, or was with my daughter shopping.
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    A phone charger. I guess it'll find friends in the drawer with the other 4 or 5 I have ...
  • tulips_and_tea
    tulips_and_tea Posts: 5,741 Member
    slessofme wrote: »
    @klkarlen I brought home this bad *kitten* fanny pack from the white elephant today!
    @midwesterner85 Look for me at the fair next year, I'll be sporting this:

    qcuwdhtb1i0v.jpg

    Oh dear god, this is horrid! I couldn't figure it out in your avatar so thanks for posting the pic. I'd LOVE to see reactions when you wear this thing!
  • slessofme
    slessofme Posts: 7,740 Member
    @BZAH10 I'm getting an equal amount of cringes and belly laughs. I hope people find it funny, rather than insulting.
  • klkarlen
    klkarlen Posts: 4,366 Member
    slessofme wrote: »
    @BZAH10 I'm getting an equal amount of cringes and belly laughs. I hope people find it funny, rather than insulting.

    Not insulting, but cringe worthy for sure.
    81Katz wrote: »
    A phone charger. I guess it'll find friends in the drawer with the other 4 or 5 I have ...

    I bought one for my daughter, but only because she asked for it. Her old one broke.
  • kellyjellybellyjelly
    kellyjellybellyjelly Posts: 9,480 Member
    For a secret Santa last year at work, i got a paintbrush, limit was $25.00.

    My very first work Christmas as a brand new lowly grunt employee, never knew what a "Chinese gift exchange" (or whatever its called), was the very first number to draw, the very first person to pick a package under the tree, with a $20 limit which was expensive for me, and I picked...wait for it...

    A small bottle of mickey mouse bubblebath for kids.

    (Turns out it came from one of the senior executives.)


    Bubble bath ? WTF that’s cheap lol

    LMAO!
  • kellyjellybellyjelly
    kellyjellybellyjelly Posts: 9,480 Member
    The only thing I can think of is getting a plain white towel in my Grandma's elephant exchange game two years in a row.
  • kellyjellybellyjelly
    kellyjellybellyjelly Posts: 9,480 Member
    BZAH10 wrote: »
    slessofme wrote: »
    @klkarlen I brought home this bad *kitten* fanny pack from the white elephant today!
    @midwesterner85 Look for me at the fair next year, I'll be sporting this:

    qcuwdhtb1i0v.jpg

    Oh dear god, this is horrid! I couldn't figure it out in your avatar so thanks for posting the pic. I'd LOVE to see reactions when you wear this thing!

    At first I thought it was a comparison of their stomach after losing weight!

    That thing has to be one of the tackiest things I have ever seen.
  • onefortypoint6
    onefortypoint6 Posts: 11 Member
    My SIL couldn't afford to buy my kids gifts and would pick out something from the Toys for Tots charity to give to them. It was sad because we are very well off, and she was potentially taking toys away from kids who would get nothing otherwise.
  • BBritt26
    BBritt26 Posts: 145 Member
    I got a n64 -so awesome! But then it didn't work. And then I got a New Hockey Jersey of my favorite player and it came fake
  • kellyjellybellyjelly
    kellyjellybellyjelly Posts: 9,480 Member
    edited December 2017
    Working at the SD at Walmart a few days ago a guy returned a metal paper towel holder he had bought his wife for Christmas.
  • MonkeyMel21
    MonkeyMel21 Posts: 2,396 Member
    Working at the SD at Walmart a few days ago a guy returned a metal paper towel holder he had bought his wife for Christmas.

    I’m all for appliances as gifts but it better be something extra that I’ve been hinting at or just wouldn’t spend the money on myself, lol.
  • klkarlen
    klkarlen Posts: 4,366 Member
    Working at the SD at Walmart a few days ago a guy returned a metal paper towel holder he had bought his wife for Christmas.

    I'm surprised it wasn't dented from the wife throwing it at him ;)
    A hug button

    What exactly is that?
  • klkarlen
    klkarlen Posts: 4,366 Member
    Bumping this back up to see if anyone got bad gifts this year.
  • _BlahBlah_BlackSheep_
    _BlahBlah_BlackSheep_ Posts: 2,148 Member
    klkarlen wrote: »
    Bumping this back up to see if anyone got bad gifts this year.

    I got nothing. *shrugs*
  • tinak33
    tinak33 Posts: 9,883 Member
    Nothing bad yet, but we haven't done the family white elephant gift exchange yet. That will be on Saturday..... So who knows?