Your worst present

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  • lookpretty
    lookpretty Posts: 276 Member
    an ex gave me a vacuum for an apartment that wasnt even mine, really cheap lotions are a close second, wont/cant use them, no way no how
  • Djbass728
    Djbass728 Posts: 71 Member
    I lived in San Diego and my mother got me a knit cap with matching scarf........ummmmmm, must have been a regift cause it never gets that cold in San Diego. Love her for trying....lol.
  • Bella20102010
    Bella20102010 Posts: 32 Member
    Body glitter from my mother-in-law. Serious.
  • lacurandera1
    lacurandera1 Posts: 8,083 Member
    My MIL is the queen of bad gifts. She batted about .25 this year and actually got us a thing or two that not only we will use, but weren't completely inappropriate. Among the inappropriate as a gift category- toilet paper, deodorant, toothpaste, jail house style toothbrushes, soap, sample mouthwash, 3 boxes of tissues, and a ziplock full of k-cup tea and coffee singles (we do not have a Keurig) and a couple hand towels (all pilfered from the local hotel.) Among my things were a medium shirt, a large shirt, and an extra large, i guess she was unsure.

    Among the madness were trash bags. Which sounds lame at first, but the more I thought about it, idk. She never buys the cheap trash bags. As a matter of fact, I get upset when I run out of hers at home and have to use my own! lol
  • FireRox21
    FireRox21 Posts: 424 Member
    I got 12 tubes of dried out super glue, 12 pocket knives, a Gillette for men pack of disposable razors and a can of Axe body spray from my Dad. Guess he didn't get the memo 33 years ago that I was born a girl.

    He got my Mom a giant bag of rubber bands.

    Really.
  • Crazy4Healthy
    Crazy4Healthy Posts: 626 Member
    My MIL found out I like snowmen and now every year without fail, I get something snowman related. I'm so over snowmen at this point. LOL Because my birthday is also in December, I often get snowmen gifts for that as well. She is also great for getting me bath and body works. I like the stuff, but don't need that much of it. You would think after nearly 18 years she would know me better.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    Worst ever, but it makes for an awesome story!

    A few years ago, my mother-in-law gave us what she called a "couple's gift". That year her favorite son (my brother-in-law) had gotten a new laptop, snowboard, a season lift pass, and a quad. In our gift bag we received 3 peppermint dinner mints (the name of the restaurant they'd eaten at was stamped on the wrappers) 4 shop towels (previously used but washed and folded neatly) a small bottle of off-brand drugstore lotion (with the 1.99 price tag still stuck on the bottom) and a painfully obvious regifted plastic ornament (when we flipped it over to the back side, it said, "Merry Christmas! Love, The Hollingsworth's." We still have no idea who the Hollingsworth's are...) I wonder if she just went through the house and grabbed some odds and ends and tossed them all in a gift bag at the last minute. But it's not like we were last minute guests. We'd been invited weeks earlier.

    We know they aren't rich so we weren't expecting grand things, but I think something more thoughtful and caring, such as a handwritten note and a plate of cookies would have been more appropriate. It wouldn't have been so bad if we hadn't been forced to watch my brother-in-law open all those big ticket items in front of our faces. To my mother-in-law, my husband is just the spawn of her "evil" ex, while my brother-in-law is the angel child of her current honey. She's a real piece of work.
  • Danni3ll3
    Danni3ll3 Posts: 365 Member
    Worst ever, but it makes for an awesome story!

    A few years ago, my mother-in-law gave us what she called a "couple's gift". That year her favorite son (my brother-in-law) had gotten a new laptop, snowboard, a season lift pass, and a quad. In our gift bag we received 3 peppermint dinner mints (the name of the restaurant they'd eaten at was stamped on the wrappers) 4 shop towels (previously used but washed and folded neatly) a small bottle of off-brand drugstore lotion (with the 1.99 price tag still stuck on the bottom) and a painfully obvious regifted plastic ornament (when we flipped it over to the back side, it said, "Merry Christmas! Love, The Hollingsworth's." We still have no idea who the Hollingsworth's are...) I wonder if she just went through the house and grabbed some odds and ends and tossed them all in a gift bag at the last minute. But it's not like we were last minute guests. We'd been invited weeks earlier.

    We know they aren't rich so we weren't expecting grand things, but I think something more thoughtful and caring, such as a handwritten note and a plate of cookies would have been more appropriate. It wouldn't have been so bad if we hadn't been forced to watch my brother-in-law open all those big ticket items in front of our faces. To my mother-in-law, my husband is just the spawn of her "evil" ex, while my brother-in-law is the angel child of her current honey. She's a real piece of work.

    That is just sad. I wonder if she has any clue on how hurtful she is being. Or if she does it on purpose or she just doesn't care. I am glad your hubby found you so at least someone truly loves him.
  • WeekndOVOXO
    WeekndOVOXO Posts: 779 Member
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  • davidsgirl145
    davidsgirl145 Posts: 162 Member
    a Dr. Seuss book for High School Graduation! I thought ''THIS SUCKS!!!''
    I flipped through it thinking there was some money stashed inside...but, NO! A children's book! How could that be?!


    I saved it and it later became a treasure to me... I read it to my nephew every night and later to my own children... Now it's in a keepsake box. I love that book.
  • Jessi_Brooks
    Jessi_Brooks Posts: 759 Member
    My worst 'present' I got was just this year, like 20 mins ago.

    I used to have 2 crooked front teeth that made a ^ at the bottom of my top teeth, right in the middle. Hated them IMMENSELY. Was jealous my parents forked over 5 grand to fix my sisters teeth that I thought looked much better than mine, but they never spared a dime for mine.
    Every year the first thing written on my christmas list was "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth" .. like the song ofcourse.
    As soon as I could afford it as a teenager I paid $450 to get the cheapest fix I could.. just some cavity filling material stuck on there... It actually ended up looking pretty good.

    So about 20 minutes ago my boyfriends daughter asks me to help get clothes off her new Polly Pocket. Was tough, so I tried with my teeth....
    Apparently I was a naughty girl this year.

    Picture Lloyd Christmas.....

    :sad:
  • littlebuddy84
    littlebuddy84 Posts: 995 Member
    Im not welcomed in my family during the 364 other days of the year for about the last 15 years. So the worst present i have and will always receive are the current ones that have no insight on who i am. Today i said enough and stayed in bed ignoring their invite. Family should be family All year long.....Not just on Christmas.
    I'm really sorry to hear that :frown:
  • Chubbyhulagirl
    Chubbyhulagirl Posts: 374 Member
    That is so messed up about the MIL who gifts her second son amazing expensive gifts and treats her first son and his wife like nothings. I hope your hubby kicks her to the curb really quickly and that you guys form your own holiday traditions!

    I don't have any "worst" gifts. Ive had a few puzzling ones though. A girl's school volleyball shirt when I was in high school (didn't attend that school or play volleyball). One year my husband and I got popcorn flavoring mixes and two popcorn maker machines like you see at the movies, just miniature versions, from different people! I didn't realize we ate that much popcorn! Either that or popcorn machines were really on sale that year. lol
    My best gift was my treadmill from my hubby! I had jokingly asked for one, one year and he got a really good one as a surprise. It was a huge one because my hubby NEVER buys my Christmas presents! Best one so far 5 years running (pun intended)!

    My mom has gotten some horrible gifts from her in laws. We always stop to watch her open her gift every year cause its so bad. Once was a hot dog heating machine (like you see at concession stands or 7-11). Once was a strapless tube top (my mother is in her 40's and dresses pretty darn conservative! Plus she has D's and would never in her life sport a tube top or any top that cannot have a bra with straps). Best worst one was an "energy rock." Literally a large rock on a stand that you keep in your bedroom or living room and its supposed to suck all the bad energy from the room. Wtf? It was especially funny because it started melting/perspiring and just completely broke down after like 8 weeks. Hahaha
  • carsmakemebeep
    carsmakemebeep Posts: 87 Member
    Fighting all christmas day and I don't know why he's mad in the first place...
  • bettacheckyoself
    bettacheckyoself Posts: 570
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  • iorahkwano
    iorahkwano Posts: 709 Member
    This year - a coupon book for the movies (No, not a gift certificate). A coupon book you get for free in the mail that says things like "Free popcorn with any sized drink" (I don't drink soda or eat theatre popcorn because it's a million calories). Must've had 6 coupons in it maximum.

    Of all time - A doily/decorative doll that you sit on a roll of toilet paper. It looked like dollar store quality too, unless it was a really old personal belonging.

    And bible books translated in a language I don't understand. I'm also not religious, at all.
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    A pack of gum on Easter. I was wearing a semi-permanent retainer at the time so I couldn't even chew gum.
  • LetsMakeupXtina
    LetsMakeupXtina Posts: 627 Member
    an ex gave me a gaming console.. i forget what one it was years ago... and he told me it would be great "together, bonding" time for him and I... I like to play games but come on, dont make it out to be something you got for me and our relationship.. you got it for you.. and sure enough he was always on that thing.. if anything it drove us apart :)
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    Broken picture frame from the dollar store would be mine...
  • cm1458
    cm1458 Posts: 742 Member
    This Christmas my cousin gave me a captain america shirt! I love it... but seriously.... How did he think I wear an XL? I wear a S or M... lol.. I still wear it... but its really baggy. It was nice, He knows I love captain america... but... I couldnt help but feel slightly insulted when I saw the size. lol.
  • lilawolf
    lilawolf Posts: 1,690 Member
    This Christmas my cousin gave me a captain america shirt! I love it... but seriously.... How did he think I wear an XL? I wear a S or M... lol.. I still wear it... but its really baggy. It was nice, He knows I love captain america... but... I couldnt help but feel slightly insulted when I saw the size. lol.

    Has your cousin seen you recently? I'm guessing that you wore an XL at one point... I wear big shirts as pajamas. My uncle got me an XL shirt last year, and I couldn't even use it as a nightshirt, but it had something big and scratchy on the front. I can't remember what it was.
  • Bobby__Clerici
    Bobby__Clerici Posts: 741 Member
    People close to me know better than to give a gift.
    Just send a card; it's nice to be thought of.
    The worse gift was a fancy digital scale with a body fat analyzer...nothing says ‘you're fat’ more than a scale as a gift....lol
    THANKS DAD!:ohwell:
  • MemphisKitten
    MemphisKitten Posts: 878 Member
    My worst present: 1) Not getting a present from ANYONE this year and 2) Not being invited to be with my family. But what is most important is that my kids had a good Christmas and that it forced me to remember the holiday for what it truly is. :ohwell:
  • fight_for_fit
    fight_for_fit Posts: 137
    An ex boyfriend gave me an iron so I could iron his clothes for him.


    LOL omg. That is just terrible
  • NordicAlien
    NordicAlien Posts: 110 Member
    Never had any awful gifts, but had some bizarre ones. When I was about 14, I wanted a Playstation. They were the newest thing then. :) I had it on my list under a section marked "things I don't expect to get" - we were poor, so I never expected expensive stuff from my mom. That year she didn't buy me a Playstation - she bought me a £150, hand-carved mirror...shaped like Winnie the Pooh. I treasure the mirror, because it's from my mom, and one day I'll have kids and it'll go in their room (when they're, you know, KIDS), and I'm sure they'll love it. But the mind just boggles. I don't know why, if a Playstation is too expensive, it would ever seem appropriate to spend £50 more on a hand-carved mirror for a 14-year-old who has never, ever shown any particular emotion towards Winnie the Pooh.

    The worst thing was that she genuinely expected me to be thrilled. I'm not sure I faked it well enough. Some years she follows the list, mostly of books and kitchen equipment, and textbooks or computer games if she feels the need to overspend, and everything goes well. Not too much money spent (usually), and nothing that I can't use. Other years her manic side takes over (she's bipolar, although not extremely so) and we end up with things like ridiculously expensive leather directors chairs (I rarely sit at a desk). Nice things, in good taste, but thoroughly inappropriate. It's like she gets an idea in her head and can't get it out.

    Best things? My Dad and Stepmama have sent me checks for the last couple Christmases and birthdays, with instructions to buy something really nice that I really want. I spend them on that semester's tuition. I can't help it, I'm disgustingly practical. :)
  • DrMAvDPhD
    DrMAvDPhD Posts: 2,097 Member
    My MIL had given me some winners. First Christmas I was dating her son she learned that I didn't cook and didn't care to learn, I received a years with of used cooking magazines and cheap tupperware. The year we got engaged, a book on being a good submissive Christian wife (I'm a liberal agnostic and make no secret of it). After I hyphenated instead of changing my last name, we got cheap monogrammed towels and cups. This year we asked her not to get us anything, but we're given an empty wine bottle filled with tinsel that had stones glued to it that fell off immediately. It's my favorite gift so far.
  • Bobby__Clerici
    Bobby__Clerici Posts: 741 Member
    An ex boyfriend gave me an iron so I could iron his clothes for him.
    That's worse than the fishing rod I gave my wife that I wanted so bad.
    She let me borrow it all the time.
    I am so lucky she did not dump me that very day....
  • vice350z
    vice350z Posts: 1,066 Member
    my last girlfriend looked like she either blindly grabbed ****e off the shelf or regifted stuff for me. A book about dogs where she wrote some corny thing on the inside page...and a Christmas card that looked like all the good ones were taken and she had no choice...i didn't even get what the card meant it was so stupid.

    And all my gifts were all well thought out...i was a little disappointed.
  • Minnesota_Nice
    Minnesota_Nice Posts: 414 Member
    In 8 years of marriage I only got one present from my at that time husband...
  • 15andfat
    15andfat Posts: 10
    I got a Shake Weight for Christmas. No joke!
    i got one last year and i have never used it. haha

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