Worst xmas gift you have received

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  • _Timmeh_
    _Timmeh_ Posts: 2,096 Member
    laid off from work
  • kb455
    kb455 Posts: 679 Member
    Definitely clothes from my grandma. one year she got all the younger girls in our family (ages ranging from 20-30) these pastel-colored "house coats". They looked like something you'd see the women wearing in nursing homes. Then she made us all try them on over our clothes. We all looked like color-coordinated marshmellows.
  • Pandorian
    Pandorian Posts: 2,055 Member
    I'd LOVE it if some of the folks buying me gifts WOULD go to the thirft stores and buy me the hand-cranked meat grinders or wheat grinders or cast iron pans or mason jars... much prefer this stuff that I'll actually use vs the "junk" that often comes. Clothes that I haven't tried on for sizing purposes as an XL in some companies is a medium in others etc. Gimme my Marks work Warehouse 3XL(Tall) shirt so I can wear a T without my belly hanging out in the cold....
  • auntdeedee87
    auntdeedee87 Posts: 706 Member
    OH. A Furby.
  • Lisa__Michelle
    Lisa__Michelle Posts: 845 Member
    When I was about 8 all I wanted was toys and kids clothes. Well, my aunt got me a grandma sweater. It was soooo ugly!
  • Bahet
    Bahet Posts: 1,254 Member
    In August 2004 we moved from MI (where my in-laws live) to AZ. In-laws were not really happy about that and kept asking when we were moving "home". For Christmas that year my MIL gave me towels that matched the bathroom in our MI house (gold, we hadn't redone that bathroom) and not only that, but they had some metallic thread in them that was very scratchy. We ended up keeping them in the trunk of the car for emergencies.
  • PBJunky
    PBJunky Posts: 737 Member
    A cactus...
  • chocolateandvodka
    chocolateandvodka Posts: 1,850 Member
    2 books, 1 was the kamasutra, the other one is called: where to make love except in bed (french translation) it was from my ex bf...never opened them and no wonder why he's my EX bf

    lol... i'm sorry. this is hilarious.
  • heathersmilez
    heathersmilez Posts: 2,579 Member
    My half brother gave me a dance mix tape/CD every Christmas until he finally stopped giving gifts about 3 years ago. Dance mix ‘93, '94, '95, Chris Sheppard’s Dance mix, you name it and I never once expressed an interest in dance music. He was just being insulting due to my bubbly personality. I now have more post-graduate degrees than him, boo ya! ;)
  • writtenINthestars
    writtenINthestars Posts: 1,933 Member
    My Memere gave me a bathroom set....a little soap dish and toothbrush holder covered with roses and crap..


    I was maybe 7......
  • doobabe
    doobabe Posts: 436 Member
    Underwear and socks from a thrift store - *BARF*


    What the??? Seriously??? Thats almost hateful.............. lol
  • mamafrahm
    mamafrahm Posts: 132 Member
    When I was about 18 my Aunt gave me a handmade jean jacket vest with red hankerchiefs sewed on the pockets..... and my Grandma used to always give me a loaf of bread, a jar of peanut butter and raspberry jam... wtf?!
  • acstansell
    acstansell Posts: 567 Member
    my dad and my evil (now ex) stepmother thought it would be a good idea to buy me clothes. I never wore them - they were horrid. I told them I donated them to goodwill. They never bought me clothes again.
  • kimletton11
    kimletton11 Posts: 72 Member
    My aunt gave me a book about math with sample problems when I was 17...that year I also got a little card that said I had made a donation to some llama farm in South America...WTH?!?! She has since started asking what we NEED and gets us stuff that we pick out...thank God!
  • k_stump_13
    k_stump_13 Posts: 21 Member
    My sister and I both received matching completed scrapbooks from our aunt. When we opened them up, it only pictures it had were pictures of my mom and dad. My dad had just passed less than TWO weeks before that and at the very end of the scrapbook, there was a photo of him in his hospital bed the day before he passed. Definitely the worst gift we have ever received!
  • Phoenix24601
    Phoenix24601 Posts: 620 Member
    Those horrible floral dresses with the starched, itchy mesh lining under them to make them fuller. Thanks gramma. lol
  • ak_in_ak
    ak_in_ak Posts: 657 Member
    My grandmother is French and would send us random cheap stuff after a visit, I can't tell you how many plastic key rings I have that say Paris.

    My boyfriend always talks about how he would get plates and kitchen stuff right out of thier drawers from his grandparents when he was a kid. Very strange.
  • boyslie72487
    boyslie72487 Posts: 181 Member
    When I was about 7 I got a piece of coal in my stocking, which sucked. Then I opened my present and it was a box FULL of coal. Apparently I was a bad kid that year :devil:
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    I always get a gift I can't use from my youngest.

    Last year it was a Cowbell and Drumsticks because she knows I like the SNL skit.

    The year before that she got me "Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots" because my Mom once told her that I sent a letter to Santa saying I wanted them when I was little.

    So...they are very sentimental, but impractical. No one wants to play Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots with me and I can't hear my Blue Oyster Cult CD over the cowbell when I play it.

    I ask for Bourbon and cigars each year, but they think that's not Christmassy enough.
  • hazelbliss6
    hazelbliss6 Posts: 253 Member
    A 'secret finder' book for mario brothers (The old 80's nintendo game). Given to me by my 6 year old little brother who was obsesed about the game. He was so 'disappointed' when I decided to let him have it. Well played little bro...
  • atsteele
    atsteele Posts: 1,358 Member
    The one year my husband actually made me cry. He bought me a wooden jewelry box with a horse on it. It looked like something that you would give your 12yo daughter. I thought, WTF?!! Oh and he bought me pens that year too. *shaking head* It's the thought that counts, right? hehe
  • Willowalker
    Willowalker Posts: 26
    A got cookie sheets ( I didn't bake) and a fire extinguisher from an old boyfriend I now fondly refer to as "the thin-lipped balding b@sterd." Who says romance is dead?
  • ncahill77
    ncahill77 Posts: 501 Member
    My mom is the worst gift buyer after you turn about 12. One year when I was traveling a lot for work she bought me this rolling fold up teachers bag with a scene of a panda eating bamboo stitched to the front of it to take on my trips because "it had wheels and would be much easier to use than my laptop bag".
  • woou
    woou Posts: 668 Member
    When I was about 18 my Aunt gave me a handmade jean jacket vest with red hankerchiefs sewed on the pockets..... and my Grandma used to always give me a loaf of bread, a jar of peanut butter and raspberry jam... wtf?!

    it's practical. :laugh:
  • spackham
    spackham Posts: 252 Member
    A thick gold necklace with a matching bracelet that was so cheap it may have been made of recycled foil. Not even gold plated. Looked like costume jewelry. I was probably purchased Christmas Eve for $3. To make it a "fun" gift it was put inside of a large Hershey bar. What made it worse is the nice gift this person was given from me. Worst ever. I hate to even remember it.

    Worst gift my husband was ever given since I met him was a broken German coo-coo clock which HE found as a teen at a garage sale. Basically, we were leaving her house after "celebrating" his birthday the day before (she told him she was going to cook his favorite, BBQ, but fixed a turkey dinner instead.) she said, "I WAS going to fix it for you but..." Whatever. Basically, as we were leaving she leads us to the garage for his birthday gift which was in a storage box with dust on it.
  • Leviram
    Leviram Posts: 77
    My husbands cousin gave me a HUGE bottle of Olive oil hand soap!? I opened it and was looking like wth am I suppose to do with this. It's still intact under my sink.
  • katkins3
    katkins3 Posts: 1,359 Member
    Worst gift I got: dishes
    Worst gift I gave: I had my husband served divorce papers at work on Christmas Eve. Yes, I can be a cold bi#ch.
  • HungryMom
    HungryMom Posts: 280
    Paper cups from my MIL
  • Crowhorse
    Crowhorse Posts: 394 Member
    When we had been dating six months, hubby got me some asian-inspired top and wanted me to wear it on roller coasters. It had no back. It was like wearing a hankerchief that fastened around the neck halter-style, and, I think, just a string around the back. While I wasn't as heavy as I have been recently, I wasn't a light-weight either. And even worse, he bought the same thing in a different color for his (mine now, too) SIL.

    Yeah, way to put some thought in it.
  • 1prettysmile
    1prettysmile Posts: 52
    Some of your answers are hilarious!

    Reasons I no longer play "Secret Santa:"

    *Texas-size, Texas-shaped, hand-painted serving platter

    *Ceramic village (tealight candle holders) with glitter on the rooftops as snow

    Huge Santa's sleigh cookie jar

    Worst of all... a used, chewed up pencil in 1st grade. I had to pick last because my last name started with "W." :-(
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