Worst Christmas Gift Ever

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  • Kamikazeflutterby
    Kamikazeflutterby Posts: 775 Member
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    In HS I dropped a bunch of weight, donated the horrible clothing my mom bought for me over the previous year to Goodwill and was looking forward to picking out my own wardrobe post Christmas. For Christmas, I got identical clothing to all the stuff that was donated. And then I made my mother cry when she asked if I liked the clothes. Banner freakin' year.
  • tinak33
    tinak33 Posts: 9,883 Member
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    The classic.

    Underwear from mom........ :grumble:
  • OnionCookie
    OnionCookie Posts: 272 Member
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    A broken coat hanger, no joke.
  • Kamikazeflutterby
    Kamikazeflutterby Posts: 775 Member
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    A broken coat hanger, no joke.

    Well, if you'd been pregnant it would have been a joke...
  • rompers16
    rompers16 Posts: 5,404 Member
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    Once got a "Steely Dan" cd in a white elephant gift exchange.

    I'm not a huge Steely Dan fan, but it could be worse.



    The worst thing that I ever got was cardboard. My great-aunt was born in 1915 and grew up during the depression. She thought that cardboard from packages of pantyhose or underwear was a great gift because I could draw on it and make things out of it. Maybe that's why I was so creative as a kid...but it was still the worst present ever, and she gave me cardboard more than once. The second worst was a birthday present. The same aunt tried to make me my favorite dessert for my birthday...sweet thought and everything, but she was a real menace in the kitchen. The whole house filled up with smoke. We had to pull the batteries out of the smoke alarm and leave all the doors and windows open for like forty minutes in mid-January. Somehow, the food came out okay, but my eyes hurt for a couple of days from all the smoke. :laugh:

    I think you win..:laugh: :laugh:
  • reasnableblonde
    reasnableblonde Posts: 212 Member
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    One year my uncle gave me and my brothers and mom all extravagant, beautiful gifts. I got a whole outfit that was very cute and "in" at the time (I was a kid). Everyone opened them and were in total awe. Then my dad (my uncle's little brother) got to his...

    A set of rubber duckies.

    It was actually hilarious and we all still talk about it. But I wonder if my dad was secretly bummed out.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
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    My first boyfriend's mother (think Marie from Everybody Loves Raymond, multiplied by Howard Wolowitz's mother from Big Bang Theory, plus Endora from Bewitched, with a side of George's mother from Seinfeld) gave me a box of chocolate from a really good local chocolate shop.

    The problem? They were so stale that they had to have been purchased on clearance the year before. If you know me, you know I do NOT throw out chocolate. I tossed them. I was too embarrassed to take them back to the store because I was certain they'd say, "This was last year's box design."
  • sarahharmintx
    sarahharmintx Posts: 868 Member
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    I had 2 Christmases in a row that my family forgot about me. So I got nothing if that counts.

    or the Christmas morning when I noticed the gift from grandma wasn't there and my family informed me that she had died several months earlier and they forgot to tell me.

    yeah I got lost in the shuffle of 11 kids
    DUDE. Im so sorry. Thats horrible.
  • MissAnjy
    MissAnjy Posts: 2,480 Member
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    My ex-mother in law bought me silk pajamas because she said I wasn't "sexy enough for her son" in my pajamas.
    Then, she gave me a kama sutra book (with feathers, oils, etc) and told me that if I didn't want my husband watching porn, I better be his little pornstar.

    ex-mother in law......thank god.
  • itgeekwoman
    itgeekwoman Posts: 804 Member
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    Worst case was nothing..that was the year I had to work and my husband went to his family for the week. Most depressing for sure. I went out and bought a game cube and vowed never to let work interfere with family life to that extent again!

    2 jobs later, I've been able to keep that promise.

    Mother's day I got a steam mop. I can proudly say that hubby was the only one that ever used it. :)
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,867 Member
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    I love her to death, but my wife has a bad habit of filling my stocking full of worthless **** that I'll never use for anything...weird little trinkets and doo-dads that serve absolutely no purpose other than to take up space and annoy. Conversely, I have a habit of filling her stocking with practical items that come in quite handy day to day which seems to annoy her...go figure, we usually end up swaping our own gifts :laugh:

    Actually, it's become quite the joke and I'm always curious to see what weird little trinket she found and she's always curious to see what little tool I found that I thought she could use and we have a good laugh. We make up for it with some pretty good primary gifts...this year I had a pencil scetch done of our 5 month old from a nice photo I took...I did the same a couple of years ago with our 2.5 year old and it was definitely a hit.

    Worst gift I ever received was an electric tooth brush from and auntie that I see maybe once every 5 years. I told her (as I've told all of my relatives)...I'm a big boy now, you don't have to get me anything...shoot me a card and wish me a Merry Christmas and I'm good. I still have that electric toothbrush though....in the box in my closet. Hmmmmm perhaps that would be a good white elephant gift this year.
  • BIRT1956
    BIRT1956 Posts: 31 Member
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    In a gift exchange at work many years ago, the person who got my name gave me a used brooch. It really wouldn't have
    been to bad except one of the sets was missing. He tried to tell me it was old & valuable and his wife had found it at an estate sale somewhere. Right! Cheap *kitten*..
  • Sweetsugar0424
    Sweetsugar0424 Posts: 451 Member
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    A few years ago my mom bought my sister a Magic Bullet and when we looked at it I specifically said I did NOT want one as I'd have no use for it. My sister decided it was too small for her big family and gave it back to my mom. 4 months later my birthday came and I got that exact Magic Bullet...it even still had a piece of the wrapping paper from Christmas.

    My mom is notorious for getting random gifts that no one wants and not really putting good thought in to gifts. I love her, but she needs to try a bit harder.
  • martymum
    martymum Posts: 413 Member
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    well not so much christmas but my birthday is on 9th dec and my nan (84) buys me xmas decorations every year for my birthday...even my 40th....and not nice ones either but ones from the cheap shops

    martyx
  • MissAnjy
    MissAnjy Posts: 2,480 Member
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    Our last Christmas together (before we divorced) my (now ex) husband bought me a vaccuum.

    but that's not the worst part.

    THE WORST PART IS, I had asked for 2 years for a vaccuum and he had said it was unnecessary, so we had JUST paid 7,000$ to install hardwood floors throughout our entire house & he buys me........a vaccuum.

    FOR WHAT CARPET?

    He says......"well, the area rug"

    WTF? He wouldn't buy me one when we had an entire HOUSE full of carpet, but once I shell out money for hardwoods, he buys me a vaccuum for ONE tiny area rug?

    yeah......okkkkkkk
  • zoukeira
    zoukeira Posts: 313 Member
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    Mine's not a Christmas one - but I did get given a toothbrush for Valentines day by my then partner of 18mths. Ok it was a flash electric one that he was really excited about (he sold them - yip a toothbrush salesman) but for VALENTINES??
  • MyOwnSunshine
    MyOwnSunshine Posts: 1,312 Member
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    Maxipads!

    Hands down winner! I'm not even going to mention the alarm clock after that one.
  • DrMAvDPhD
    DrMAvDPhD Posts: 2,097 Member
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    From my MIL, a book on how to be a good, submissive Christian wife.


    I'm an atheist.


    Previous years have included bath towels, tupperware, and the last year's worth of cooking magazines with her name and address on it (I don't cook, everyone knows DH is the cook in our relationship and we like it that way).

    The last couple of years we've convinced them that we don't need to exchange gifts, it gets hard for me to keep a straight face sometimes :grumble:
  • mdhummel
    mdhummel Posts: 201 Member
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    My mother-in-law always gives me clothes that are two sizes too small. I feel it is her way of telling me that I need to lose weight.
  • Yaya1976
    Yaya1976 Posts: 357 Member
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    I still feel soooo bad about this. My boyfriend has tons of tools, if I got him tools for his birthday, tools for Valentines day or any gift giving holiday, he would be ecstatic. Last year (our 1st Christmas), he gets me the best gift ever, a KINDLE FIRE! I got him 2 sets of the same mechanic tools (didn't know they were the same), 2 different, but the same type of flashlights and a $10 pocket knife. Needless to say he had to return the 2 sets of the mechanic tools (he already had all of them), I basically spent only $20 bucks on HIM and he spent $215 on ME! Poor guy.

    I did get to redeem myself this year. I took him to home depot and he picked out his own tools. He was very very very very happy :smile:

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