WORST gift your SO could get you for Christmas?

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  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
    A dead cat would bt the worst....but not a commonly gifted item.

    Worst common gift type item....
    Diamond earrings.
  • JoelleAnn78
    JoelleAnn78 Posts: 1,492 Member
    Oddly, I LOVE my Kitchen Aid (mother's day), Toaster Oven (birthday), Lodge Cast Iron Frying Pans (birthday), Lodge Cast Iron Dutch Oven (wedding).... Hubby got a new Crockpot (birthday), Pasta Pot (Christmas) and we bought a set of Pots & Pans for Christmas for each other. LOL

    To each his own -- but, why the hatred for the kitchen items? Must be in homes where someone is expected to do the cooking. In my house we love the cooking!

    The worst gift I can think of would be a surprise pet of any kind. Never happened to me, because I am 100% vocal and up front about it. No - No - No. Pets are not something we give unexpectedly. We talk about it as a family and decide together.
  • hbrittingham
    hbrittingham Posts: 2,518 Member
    When my husband and I had our first Christmas together (before we were married), I weighed 120 lbs and was a size 10. He managed to pick out some nice gifts, but was lost when it came to getting my stocking stuffers, so he called my sister and asked her what typically got put into stockings. She mentioned candy, toothbrushes, toothpaste, underwear, etc.

    So yeah. He got me underwear. Size 10 underwear. He tried! He just had no clue how women's underwear is sized.
  • PaveGurl
    PaveGurl Posts: 244 Member
    The worst gift? An IOU for something that never materialised.
  • just_Jennie1
    just_Jennie1 Posts: 1,233
    To each his own -- but, why the hatred for the kitchen items? Must be in homes where someone is expected to do the cooking. In my house we love the cooking!

    I would be stoked if I got a stand mixer and a new food scale for Christmas.

    With that said the BEST present I got for Christmas was a S&W .38 special.
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
    A Christmas sweater.

    A-Florida-Christmas.jpg

    Seriously... where can I get this? My wife would LOVE it. Not even kidding.

    While I detest traditional Chrostmas sweaters....I love colorful and eclectic and would so wear this! Probably in April or May.
  • ideang
    ideang Posts: 95
    My husband always says he going to get me one of those 5lb candy bars, which would sit and tempt me to eat it all.
  • alphabull
    alphabull Posts: 45 Member
    I would guess, Divorce paperwork.
  • FerretBuellerr
    FerretBuellerr Posts: 468 Member
    I don't think I've ever had a "worst gift" because I appreciate the time, money and though put into every gift I get, regardless of if it was dissapointing or not.

    I'm glad I'm not exchanging gifts this year and doing family activities instead for the holidays. No "bad" gifts or gifts to be jealous of that others got that were better than the ones I gave, just real Christmas values and fun without the consumerism bull****.

    ETA: Although some of the "gifts" listed here are quite terrible and I wouldn't want :laugh:
  • Llamedos1960
    Llamedos1960 Posts: 78
    I would guess, Divorce paperwork.

    I would so love to get this for Christmas!!!

    I got NOTHING for my 26th wedding anniversary this year. :cry:
  • nathotte
    nathotte Posts: 51 Member
    A Christmas sweater.

    A-Florida-Christmas.jpg

    I need to get an ugly sweater for my guy. That would be a joke gift as I already got him some very awesome gifts: xbox external hard drive, a freaking awesome winter jacket, a nice bottle of whiskey, a tv series on dvd that he wants, xbox live, a bunch of stocking stuffers...... so the ugly sweater would just be the joke gift.


    I don't think I've ever really gotten a bad gift, and doubt it's going to happen this year as I am a spoiled woman :) and the guy knows me well. :)
  • SamanthaD1218
    SamanthaD1218 Posts: 303 Member
    Here is a TRUE story.

    My birthday is a few days before Christmas, so I never really get a celebration just for me. So I had been dating this guy for about 3 years and he told me he was going to make my birthday all about me for once. I was so excited!! I had a small get-together with close friends, and he told me he wanted to give me my "extra special" gift after everyone had left. I was hoping for jewelry or something equally romantic.

    Instead... he pulled out a giant popcorn tin. You know, the kind you get at Christmas that's divided into three different flavors? It wasn't even wrapped! And I think the very worst part was that it had a huge Santa face on the tin - he must've picked it up at a grocery store on the way over (those things cost about $8). This was his way of separating my birthday from Christmas?? I thought he was joking, but he was completely serious. He said he knew I liked popcorn and was quite pleased with himself. I was so shocked/confused that I awkwardly pretended to like it, then acted like I was tired and said I was going to bed.

    When he left I called my friend to share the horror that had just gone on, and she said maybe he had hidden a romantic surprise in the popcorn. So I checked. Nope. Three years of dating and he knew how I felt left out on my birthday because of all the Christmas hype - and he got me a CHRISTMAS POPCORN TIN??

    We broke up before the New Year and to this day my friends call him "Popcorn Boy."
  • DrMAvDPhD
    DrMAvDPhD Posts: 2,097 Member
    My DH hasn't gotten me anything awful. Worst hypothetically would be nothing, or something that he was really buying for himself.

    Worst gifts I've been given are monogrammed everything (I hyphenated my name so it wasn't even MY initial), off brand tupperware, and used cooking magazines (I don't do the cooking in my relationship and detest cooking, which this person was aware of and apparently thought they were going to change my mind).
  • karllundy
    karllundy Posts: 1,490 Member
    An invitation to be the guest on Maury.

    Awesome! Perfect answer!
  • roxylola
    roxylola Posts: 540 Member
    worst gift?

    nothing.

    from someone who said he deeply loved me.

    Now I get bike parts =D
    Man knows how to win a ladies hard over- last year got my suspension fully upgraded- the year before that steel braided brake lines and new brake pads.
    This year I'm getting a new sproket and chain!!! WOOT WOOT

    Yep, this year I got a bike, last year I got a car (an oldish one but still!)
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
    (for the record, my husband is really awesome at picking out gifts for me...I kinda stink at the gift giving thing and sometimes feel bad for him because I get cool gifts for birthdays and christmas and he doesn't always and it's my fault)
  • rosemary98
    rosemary98 Posts: 632
    something chocolate or sweet. i have no control.
  • ACepero79
    ACepero79 Posts: 711 Member
    Jelly of the Month Club. She said it was the gift that keeps on giving. (I'm allergic to jelly)
  • lsorci919
    lsorci919 Posts: 772 Member
    Nothing.... Happens every year.... My fault for marrying a non celebrator... I just go but myself whatever I want though :)
  • nklp
    nklp Posts: 62 Member
    Herpes.

    Haven't gotten it, but you're asking for worst case...

    :') THIS
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    This is my mother:

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  • AlongCame_Molly
    AlongCame_Molly Posts: 2,835 Member
    Pregnant. Not now. Anything but that! :laugh:
  • catnipburrito
    catnipburrito Posts: 21
    Herpes
  • UpEarly
    UpEarly Posts: 2,555 Member
    Personally, I don't wear or like jewelry. If my husband ever bought me jewelry, I would be sad and think he either fell victim to the sappy commercials that run incessantly this time of year and/or that he doesn't really know me at all.

    But, I am also certain that my husband would never buy me jewelry. :-)
  • AlongCame_Molly
    AlongCame_Molly Posts: 2,835 Member
    Oddly, I LOVE my Kitchen Aid (mother's day), Toaster Oven (birthday), Lodge Cast Iron Frying Pans (birthday), Lodge Cast Iron Dutch Oven (wedding).... Hubby got a new Crockpot (birthday), Pasta Pot (Christmas) and we bought a set of Pots & Pans for Christmas for each other. LOL

    To each his own -- but, why the hatred for the kitchen items? Must be in homes where someone is expected to do the cooking. In my house we love the cooking!

    This! My husband has actually asked for a Kitchenaide this year...the pink one! :huh: Hahaha, he's a special case.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    What is the absolute WORST present you have gotten, or can imagine getting, from your significant other for Christmas?

    Mine was actually given to me right before Christmas one year...before I separated from my (now) ex husband, during counseling we agreed that there would be no more sex until he straightened some stuff out...

    So he bought me a bullet.

    Gotta give him points for balls! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    I think a rifle would be the worst thing. I keep telling my wife I'd like an ar15... she's a huge anti-gun person.

    So I know if she buys me one, the relationship is over.
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    Here is a TRUE story.

    My birthday is a few days before Christmas, so I never really get a celebration just for me. So I had been dating this guy for about 3 years and he told me he was going to make my birthday all about me for once. I was so excited!! I had a small get-together with close friends, and he told me he wanted to give me my "extra special" gift after everyone had left. I was hoping for jewelry or something equally romantic.

    Instead... he pulled out a giant popcorn tin. You know, the kind you get at Christmas that's divided into three different flavors? It wasn't even wrapped! And I think the very worst part was that it had a huge Santa face on the tin - he must've picked it up at a grocery store on the way over (those things cost about $8). This was his way of separating my birthday from Christmas?? I thought he was joking, but he was completely serious. He said he knew I liked popcorn and was quite pleased with himself. I was so shocked/confused that I awkwardly pretended to like it, then acted like I was tired and said I was going to bed.

    When he left I called my friend to share the horror that had just gone on, and she said maybe he had hidden a romantic surprise in the popcorn. So I checked. Nope. Three years of dating and he knew how I felt left out on my birthday because of all the Christmas hype - and he got me a CHRISTMAS POPCORN TIN??

    We broke up before the New Year and to this day my friends call him "Popcorn Boy."


    YOU WIN. What a tool that guy was.
  • tzig00
    tzig00 Posts: 875 Member
    My ex boyfriend got me a gift certificate to the tanning place. I'm a ginger, I don't tan. I'm pretty sure it was the only place still open on Christmas Eve when he bought it.
  • julie3227
    julie3227 Posts: 162
    My ex gave me pair of undies that he later told me he stole -__-
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    To each his own -- but, why the hatred for the kitchen items? Must be in homes where someone is expected to do the cooking. In my house we love the cooking!

    Because most people can't cook.

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