most insensitive gift ever...

HappyathomeMN

Ahhh, the memories . . . . a high school boyfriend thought this was clever.


A HUGE box for christmas, all wrapped up (must have taken at least three rolls of paper) put beside the tree in the beginning of December. A whole month of anticipation:


it contained a 3x5 card


which read



"No box can contain my love for you"



That's all I got that year.

kateanne27

ooooooh I almost forgot! My husband got me book shelves as a wedding present, I was disappointed at first, kind of pissed, I got him engraved guitar picks with special sayings and dates from our relationship, which actually probobly cost less then the shelves, but really I realized, I was moving into his house, bringing very little beyond kitchen equiptment into it, and the shelves were my space to put all my stuff (he lived pretty sparse) since then we have done a fair amount of joint redecorating, but those shelves were the first thing that made me feel like the space was mine too.
I asked him about it tho, and he just said "well you have a lot of books, you needed to put them somewhere"

DESIREE1210

Now if ya know me, I'm a jeans and Harley girl. My X gave me a blue sweater with a satin (yes Satin) big Bunny on it. OMG what the heck was he thinking. Yes, I did return it....LOL

windy1367

I love this thread, have laughed a lot!
My ex father-in-law gave me a penis shaped cookie cutter for Christmas! While it was very creepy, it did come in handy for my sister's wedding shower! We used pink and blue icing....

mustangurl

my ex and i had been together for 3 years and he had never bought me anything until the christmas i was 6 months pregnant and he bought me size 3X sweat pants/shirt!!!!! i wasn't even close to that size (even tho i was pretty big) when the hell would i ever be able to wear them again?!?!?!

askme12

"dingbat" That's Great, I haven't heard that in years! Thanks I needed that.

1234lbsgone

My mother bought me a tee shirt that said Desperate Housewife. When I asked why, I'm not even married, she said to motivate me cuz I ain't gettin any younger. I threw it in her garbage can and left. Oh, it was Christmas and the whole family was there.

tattoodfreek

One of my older sisters is a world class tight wad. Not when it comes to herself mind you, but when buying for others. She is the type to say, "I didn't buy you a present for (your birthday, mother's day, father's day, Christmas, etc) but I LOOOOOOOve youuuu." And she is also the type to remind you not to forget her daughter's birthday present, as it falls on Christmas Eve.

At the time I only had two children, and my eldest sister had 2 as well. My middle sister also had two nieces on her husband's side to buy for, so a total of 6 children. I don't know where she bought it, but it was of dollar store quality. It was a stuffed animal, 6 little Easter bunnies holding hands. What did she do with it? Cut the bunnies apart and gave one to each of her nieces and nephews. Apparently the love of my children is not worth an entire dollar store plush toy on their own, but ARE worth the 17 cent investment. Ironically, she's an elementary school teacher, so one would think she might have some kind of understanding/appreciation for other people's children.

MartiJJohnston

My mother bought me a tee shirt that said Desperate Housewife. When I asked why, I'm not even married, she said to motivate me cuz I ain't gettin any younger. I threw it in her garbage can and left. Oh, it was Christmas and the whole family was there.

LOL! I would have done the same thing and made a huge production out of slamming the lid of the trash can! :laugh:

boomboom011

My MIL shops at blair.com and we have told her over and over again NOT to buy us anything for christmas but she ignores us. Last year I got a green sweater with a winter scene on it. Now I know she looked at their online catalog or the one in the mail and saw that and thought "wow i bet she will love that". I dont know what part of that sweater screams ME but apparently it does. My mom was there and knew I thought it was hideous and she says really loud "oh my thats real pretty! why dont you try it on!" Its green with evergreen trees and a man cutting down one of those trees and a little boy pulling a wagon and a dog. Im 36 years old and this sweater belongs on an elderly person.

iheartralphie

My current BF is Horrible at buying gifts. I got a dish drying rack for my bday, he did include a bottle of my fav kind of wine, but it was a lower priced one. I got him an electronic SkyCaddy for his a few months later. For Xmas I got him a new iPod sice he was saying he never had one and it would be nice to have one for when he runs. I got (a day AFTER xmas) a set of sheets (I just bought a set for myself) another bottle f the same kind of wine (ok I live a block from a wine store....; he got it there. probably on the way over) a calendar, and a mini electronic pump thingie b/c I had been having a slow leak in my car tire and always had to put air in. Thoughtful but REALLY??? I stated my unhappiness onNYE, after having a bottle of champagne, and him failing to make plans which I left up to him b/c I ALWAYS make the plans. For V Day, we stayed the weekend at my fav B and B/vineyard, I got roses, candy, a teddy bear, AND dinner. YES! He def wanted to make sure he got it right that time...hehe.

My ex fiance got me NOTHING for my bday the last yr we were together. HE went to a concert out of town w/his frieds. His bday is theday before mine, and I took him to a nice dinner at a place he had been wanting to go, and we stayed the night at a nice hotel (my treat). His defense : we already celebrated OUR bdays the night before!! And he was nemploye, just doing freelance web design, so he used being broke aws an excuse, but he bought the concert tix for himself! Plus he was a GRAPHIC DESIGNER...he could have made me a card nd I would have loved it! I told him that, and he sai well now you're being a ***** and i'm not getting you anything. Whatever. I went out with another guy while he was at his concert, and dumped him when he got home. ****.

curvygirl512

MIL gave me a cross pendant.... I'm Jewish.

This takes the cake, sorry.

My husband only buys me presents a 12 year old would love, but it's nothing compared to what I'm reading here.

xxbeckybexx

I got a wok for valentines day from my ex......not happy!

jterry03

3 forks? lol

Merodie

Nothing like some of these, but .. My ex once gave me a plaque that read " Blessed are those who expect nothing. For they shal no be disapointed" yup! EX

Mommawarrior

My father-in-law got my mother-in-law a welder for her birthday several years back. Of course he knew she wouldn't use it and that she would give it right back to him. That is the funniest thing I had ever witnessed in my life!

aflane

Continuing in the "Let's convert her" vein, since the cross pendant didn't work... my other in-laws gave us Christmas ornaments every year for about 3-4 years, until I got it through to them, that hubby doesn't like Christmas trees. We're not talking about mailing one or two ornaments. We're takling about a xerox box sized box filled with ornaments and various decorations. We'd get that yearly box, and we'd be in hysterics as we opened it (and dumped it, item by item) into the trash can.

I know they live in the "bible-belt" but it really was kind of ridiculous.

Melly1606

My dad is is the worst, although seeing how we don't exactly have a relationship getting anything comes as a surprise!!

My first birthday after being married was a book, a book that was sent in my maiden name, and was called "Breaking the cycle of divorce" Nice But then again my sister got the same book for her wedding present!! lol

Anything he does send me or my daughters is in my maiden name- is he trying to say something- my girls do have there fathers' last name!! Idiot

tiaydew

Bump! Hilarious! and I want to finish reading all of them and I'll think of an insensitive gift my husband gave me too

pragya728

A guy I was dating a few years gave me a git certificate for Victorias Secret which was actually meant for some other girl. I am guessing the girl he was dating before me. How do I know it was for a different girl? Well, he actually used white-out to remove her name and message from the gift certificate. And on top of that, he did such a horrible job of removing it that I was actually able to see her name and the message that he wrote to her. Ewww!!!

angryguy77

HA ha, I was given a photo album that was a regift. It smelled like a basement and was not very clean.

_SusieQ_

I was so concentrated on the hubby's gifts I forgot this one...

The Christmas that my husband and I were separated, we were getting along pretty well, some talk of reconciliation, so I asked him to spend Christmas dinner with the family. My dad, who is typically a sensitive guy, had gotten me/us a vanity plate for the front of my car that said "Sue and David" with the lovely spray painted hearts on it, the kind you buy at the fair for like $10. I looked at him and said, you know we're separated, right? He was like, but you're still married! Yea, that never went on the car, just in case you wondered.

crazymama2two

im so excited this thread went crazy.

i got a millino of em...BUT same said ex, i get a proposal but no ring...later on im like uh, where's the ring (i didnt say it like THAT) but then he says, "how much do you have in your tax return?" "1,200.00" "why dont you go pick out which ring you want, pay for it and ill pay you back."

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD DO THIS???!!! so idiotic, mental-case ME goes and DOES IT?! i never got paid back...

*face palm* thank god for second chances in life!!

littttlelaurra

I got red roses every valentines day for 9 years. Which normally wouldn't be considered insensitive, except every year leading up to Valentine's Day I reminded him that I hate red roses and would much rather get wild flowers, or peonies, or gardenias.

hates red roses too, I love daisies

most insensitive gift I got was a pair of sneakers I bought myself a few days prior to christmas and my husband (now ex) actually figured to wrap them and give them to me for christmas? I was like wtf? lol really? Also my sister in law regifted a wedding shower present she had of juice glasses I know this cus her wedding shower card was inside the box lol.

Clovergirl17

The worst gift (or should I say, non-gift) I've ever gotten was when I was with my ex a few years ago. It was our 1-year anniversary (I'm big on anniversaries) and I spent the whole week leading up to it making a video in Windows Movie Maker of a bunch of pictures from our year together, with our song and everything. I played it for him on our anniversary, and even after watching it he STILL didn't even SAY 'Happy Anniversary', much less get me anything. And me being the love-struck girl I *was*, it took me another 6 months to ditch that loser...

On another note (since we're ex-bashing...) we were about to go clean out his parents' old Bronco (old, had been sitting around with trash in it for a couple of years). He was a mechanic, so while he was working on the engine, I was inside scrubbing the ****ens out of the interior of the car. Before we went outside, he wanted me to wear a pair of his work pants, so I didn't get my jeans dirty. Well, when I went to try them on (he was MUCH bigger in his chest than in his waist, so while we looked proportional, his waist was smaller than mine) I couldn't button them. The jerk had the nerve to look me straight in the eye and say "Your HUGE!" Maybe because I didn't have time to let it fully sink in, I completely forgot about it and dated that jerk for a little over another year.

curleesam

I was really mad at my ex one time as when he was away on a lads holiday I found some pictures on his PC from his last lads holiday of all of his mates taking it in turns to peck some girl on the lips and there was one of him!! I was furious and made sure I rang him to tell him he was in the doghouse when he got back.

Anyway my present when he got back (you would think he would go all out because I was pissed at him) was a candle in the shape of a half peeled Banana. YEP.

We broke up shortly afterwards after 4 and a half years together.

hroush

im so excited this thread went crazy.

i got a millino of em...BUT same said ex, i get a proposal but no ring...later on im like uh, where's the ring (i didnt say it like THAT) but then he says, "how much do you have in your tax return?" "1,200.00" "why dont you go pick out which ring you want, pay for it and ill pay you back."

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD DO THIS???!!! so idiotic, mental-case ME goes and DOES IT?! i never got paid back...

*face palm* thank god for second chances in life!!

My wife essentially said when we were in a large mall that we will go around looking at rings and she chose the one she wanted. She didn't even give me the chance to screw up. She knows me so well :happy:

kmcgrath1

I think the most insensitive gift came from my grandmother. She was always quick to insult you...you have such a pretty face too bad your so heavy!

When I was 17 and 20 lbs heavier then I am now...my grandmother was cleaning out her closet and offered me her mu mu's and some of her old torpedo bras! Seriously?!?

Oh...by the way, she herself was pushing over 250 lbs! I was 17!!! How devastating to a teenager that my grandmother thought I was so huge I needed to share her mu mus! OMG!

No wonder I had food issues!!!

Flocker1979

I once received a sweater that was about 4 sizes too small. My family member said "I'm giving you this so you will have incentive to lose weight". :embarassed:

:noway: You have GOT to be kidding me!

curleesam

on the flip side the worst gift I bought someone was when I was 13 I bought my mum a set of knives and forks for Xmas. She was not impressed. My logic was that she was always complaining we didnt have any matching ones....

Now I am a mother myself I would be so upset if anyone bought me cutlery for Xmas...