most insensitive gift ever...
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My BIL gave his wife a dictionary for their first wedding anniversary. A dictionary! And not even a nice leather bound one, either.0
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My favourite happened to a friend of mine. Her partner's father and stepmother were rather racist and didn't approve of their inter-racial relationship at all. They made comments of "refugee status" and going back to where she came from and all that. After 3 years of the abuse they started accepting her a little more, albeit begrudgingly.
Anyway, she showed me the gifts she received on her birthday, of which she had:
Ripped out magazine coupons - "to feed that growing indian family of yours" as it said on the card. She has no kids by the way.
A book on how to become more British.
A leaflet on why BNP (British National Party) should be in power. They are the racist group in the UK.
Skin whitening lotion - "for the dark spots on your skin dear."
She even got told that Michael Jackson did it, why can't she? I am amazed she lasted this long without exploding in a fit of fury. She's a saint.0 -
My dear father tries, he really does, and I love him for it, but one year he just couldn't get it right.
A couple of years ago I asked for a Red Sox hat for my birthday, a blue one with a green "B". He got me a green one with a red B (i think all he heard was green). I admitted it wasnt the one I asked for, but it was fine. I returned it and got a blue with with a red B. A few days later I met up with him and he said he felt really bad about not getting me the one I wanted and handed me a new hat. A green one with a red B.
A+ for effort, daddios.0 -
I worked for a weight loss clinic and I had to work my tail off for my boss and she would always have me traveling everywhere at Christmas time I ordered her a flamingo wine holder( a little corny i know but she loved flamingos she even had a flamingo convertable) anyways I was excited to get my gift from her because I had worked so hard that year. She made everyone slippers out of maxi pads. I was like wow really! The store called me and said they had her wine holder I told them I didn't want it because she got me maxi pad slippers. All I really wanted was a card that said Thanks. I also boycotted the Christmas party.0
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My ex's mom (who eventually got him to break up with me) gave me a set of lotion and soap for Christmas one year. Ok, nice enough gift, even if it's not super personal, right? Um wrong, I make my own soap and lotion (and sell it, which she knew since she'd purchased from me before) due to skin allergies and don't use commercial bath products. What a wench! I knew it was a re-gift.0
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A portable TV from my step-mom. She would always buy me cheap crap for Christmas because she did all the holiday shopping, never my dad.0
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One of my ex's mom gave me lingerie for xmas... awkward
LOOOL!!! OMG AWKWARD!!!
Can totally beat that.
When I was 14...as in...one-four... My grandmother gave me a red teddy for Christmas. Not a nightie. Not a camisole. A snap-crotch teddy.
She got it at Goodwill for $2 and the tag was still on it.
(She was a hoarder and well, not all there. But I was still horrified.)0 -
One year for Valentines day my husband got me a really sweet card. On the front it had two little girls holding hands, when i opened it it said something like although you are my best friend to me we well always be sisters.
I asked him why he bought it and he said because of the two kids on the front holding hands it reminded him of us because we have known each other since middle school. I said," Did you read it?" and he said," No, was I suppose to?" I didn't talk to him for a few days.
Needless to say every card I get now he always writes " I read this one."0 -
My ex husband said he had a fabulous surprise for my birthday and he was coming to pick me up and to be ready. I put on a beautiful black dress and my favorite Nine West high heels. I thought I looked perfect to what I though would be a wonderfully romantic afternoon. The surprise was a trip to the local llama farm. Yup, trudged around in the mud looking at llamas and wrecked a gorgeous pair of shoes. Worst part is that he knew that I not am animal lover other than dogs.0
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My husband (ex) promised me an overlocker sewing machine for my birthday, but when it came around he said he couldn't afford it and bought me scissors. Now the scissors were nice, but they were not what he promised.
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An Ex-boyfriend that I was living with at the time bought me a sewing machine. Not a bad gift, only problem is: 1) I don't sew 2) never have even expressed an interest in sewing 3) Didn't want to learn to sew! So Wt??? When I asked him what he was thinking...he thought it would be a good idea if I learned to sew so we could save money and I could learn to sew HIM shirts!!0
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After a yr of marriage talk and looking at rings.. my now ex husband, father of my 2 girls... bought a ring. My close friend, he & i went to Walmart at like midnight . I wandered off as usual & she & he went to the jewelry dept. Came home &was busy chillin w my friend having some Irish coffee.... i get up to pee.... "hey come here" "hey i have to piss, what?" "Just come here" "can i piss first?" "Fine but hurry up"
So i finish my piss & go to the bedroom while my friend is still waiting. Here i findmy bf sitting on the end of the bed in his underwear holding open a box w a hideous ring from Walmart .....big $#/! Grin on his face.... and I'm like... "seriously ?" I took the box, "go back to bed, u know I'm going to marry u" turned off the light and went back to my friend... i came out w the box in hand and i guess my look was obvious dissapointment.... cuz she said "i told him not to buy that Walmart bull$#/!"
A style i dispise. Not even a whole diamond, but one of those settings w a buncha specks on it, 50 bucks from Walmart, proposal in his under wear.... I'd have beenmore impressed w gumball machine ring.... but the worst part is that it was everything i said i disliked about rings and there was NO planning or anything ....just tidy Whiteys.....
he never got smarter 0 -
I remarried and that Guy got me.... nothing for Christmas and didn't even want to get out of bed Christmas morning... he didn't get any of our kids anything either. What a puts . He also proposed to be crappy w a ring i had ordered for myself...it came in the mail & he thought it would b a nice surprise ....i was a lil touched by the planning... not. He was too rushed & while we did go eat, we had Bo time for ourselves.... that marriage lasted 4 months...
My mom gave me part of a set of China, telling me she still had part of it cuz she wanted to use it .....? Wt....
My grandmother randomly gave me some dishes from her cabinet as a wedding present.. mine u they were pretty.... it was just odd to b Ike o hey.. sorry i didn't come to ur wedding or speak to u since u were 12... here's some dishes ....0 -
This one is from my first boyfriend (about 15 years old):
He liked puzzles and video games. I like video games too, but not excessively. The weeks coming up to Christmas he kept telling me how much I was going to love my present, and I told him the same. I got him a pyramid puzzle that when put together, you could figure out what the heiroglyphics meant. He LOVED it. What did I get? A PS2 memory card so that I didn't have to start over everytime I wanted to play Guitar Hero. Hello, it's called UNLOCKING CHEATS.
I didn't think I had anything until you reminded me of first boyfriends! So my first boyfriend, I met at summer camp, and we tried the whole long distance relationship thing. Which is really pointless at 15. So the most insensitive gift: A pentagram bracelet he shoplifted from Hot Topic, but never had the postage to send. I was raised a Christian so... no real occasion to wear that.... or want to.0 -
Unfortunately, really.
\MIL gave me a cross pendant.... I'm Jewish.
HA!! That is too funny!
OMG! Really?? Really.
As revenge, I enjoy reminding her over and over that "The Last Supper" was Passover Seder. It drives her bezerk!
ooh a whole series of "revenge" gifts comes to mind
Mezuzah
Menorah
a necklace with a star of David or a Chai (spelling)
Torah and Talmud
or, if you want to educate her a bit, a copy of the two volume set "The Jewish book of Why" (or similarly titled) I read this in school in comparative religions and it was quite interesting (I was about 12 or 13 at the time, so not a difficult read perhaps she might learn a thing or two)0 -
Unfortunately, really.
\MIL gave me a cross pendant.... I'm Jewish.
HA!! That is too funny!
OMG! Really?? Really.
As revenge, I enjoy reminding her over and over that "The Last Supper" was Passover Seder. It drives her bezerk!
ooh a whole series of "revenge" gifts comes to mind
Mezuzah
Menorah
a necklace with a star of David or a Chai (spelling)
Torah and Talmud
or, if you want to educate her a bit, a copy of the two volume set "The Jewish book of Why" (or similarly titled) I read this in school in comparative religions and it was quite interesting (I was about 12 or 13 at the time, so not a difficult read perhaps she might learn a thing or two)0 -
A friend of mine was upcountry for work and only got back on his girlfriend's birthday (which is at the start of January). He didn't have time to buy a gift so grabbed the christmas card her parents had sent her, crossed out 'christmas' and wrote 'birthday' and crossed out her parents names and wrote his own. He also gave her an expired first aid kit
He did get her a proper present the next day, but she didn't look too impressed that night.0 -
My uncle was a big prankster so I guess the year my dad gave him a laminated cow pie for Christmas with a poem about "giving a ****" he probably deserved it. I still remember walking through the pasture with my dad, hunting for a "good"'one and thinking what a crappy gift. Turns out there was a "real"'gift too.. Curvy lady mudflaps for the big rig. (Uncle was a trucker). A very classy Christmas, indeed.
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This one is insensitive but also really awkward:
At Christmas (just 6 months ago) my dad's girlfriend invited her kids, my sister, my wife and me to the house for dinner. She gave everyone their presents but saved 2 for the very end. After everyone was finished opening their presents, she gave the last 2 to me and my wife. Everyone sat there looking at us, waiting for us to open them. She chimed in, "Open them up at the same time!"
The one she gave to me had 2 hard core pornos in it. One was 3-D and even had 3-D glasses. The other was Avatar themed. My wife got a see-through nightie.
*dead silence*
To this day I want to know what she was thinking. What part about those gifts sounded like a good idea? I just can't wrap my head around it. Even my dad was speechless since she had kept them a secret.
OMG!! I just... I can't... omg... :noway:0 -
My brother gave me a poster (which I didn’t want) in the box from a skateboard (which I really did want – he took the box from a neighbor boy, knowing I wanted it). That was pretty insensitive, but yea, I think I he was 12, so I forgive him!! LOL!
My husband gives fantastic gifts, has great taste and NEVER forgets a Holiday, especially Valentines Day… yup, you guessed it, he didn’t get me ANYTHING our first Valentines Day, he had that “it’s a stupid made up Holiday that doesn’t mean anything” attitude. I thought I handled it pretty well, but I tell you to this day (25 years later) he makes a point of sitting down ANY young man in a relationship and explaining the importance of Valentines Day, including long (and in my opinion exaggerated) examples of the consequences!!! :blushing:
lol - LOVE THIS! Kudos to yer hubby for teaching the young & uninformed. I dated a Jehovah's Witness - so NO HOLIDAYS or b-days of any sort. This was heart-breaking to me because holidays & b-days are very important to me - it's one of the few ways in which I've very traditional. Going into the relationship he said things like "Why should a person need a holiday to let you know how they feel or give you a gift? Shouldn't that be done daily or at the very least weekly?" Well that SOUNDS all fine & well but the fact remains that in the year & 1/2 that he & I lived together I think I got flowers from him 2x. I will say this - he was great at the necessities tho. If we were in the store and I so much as LOOKED at clothes, he would suggest I get a few things - usually more than I had any intention of buying. If it was something for the kitchen or house - he bought it for me. He made 2x as much $$ as I did and I insisted he handle all our money 'cause I suck at it. So yeah, my money was in there too, but most of it was his. The point is - his "daily or weekly" gifts didn't happen. That's why we NEED holidays to remind us to be thankful (Thanksgiving) or generous (Christmas) or loving (Valentines) or whatever. Yes - we should always be appreciative of our fallen soldiers, but it's important to have a day like Memorial Day to force us to remember.0 -
For my birthday my boyfriend didn't get me anything. I know he was low on money and had to pay his car insurance that month, but seriously? Plan ahead a bit... So the next day, "to make up for it until I get you a real gift," he got me a bag of beef jerky, five $1 scratch off tickets, and a stupid gag card with a hamster saying "I'm giddy whenever your near, and please dont get mad but I just have to add" (OPEN CARD) "You look really great from the rear!" By the way, that was my 17th birthday. Scratch off tickets? At least I got two bucks out of them.
I don't think guys realize the $$ is NOT IMPORTANT! For the $10 he spent on that silliness he could've put some thought & effort into something that would've touched you. I could care less what a gift costs - and honestly if they want to get me something from a yard-sale or Dollar Tree store I wouldn't mind if that's all they could afford - as long as they were THOUGHTFUL in what they chose. My mom collected the big porcelain Precious Moments dolls - she did NOT collect dolls in general. But people who knew of her collection would often default to just buying her some cheap doll because they didn't want to put more thought into the choice. That always offended her.0 -
My aunt and uncle/cousins one time gave me a re-gifted orange watch and a cow pie candy. when I went to return the watch, the mall kiosk that they got it from, informed me that they don't sell anything like that.. bah!
Also, I graduated college this past fall and these same family members only sent me an email and my uncle called my house and left a message that sounded like he had been smoking something for awhile... and they wonder why we never want to see them.0 -
When I was a young teen, having Christmas with all of my family... I have three very competitive brothers and being cool was Very important.
So anyway I get this big present to open in front of everyone and apparently the gift tags got switched around because when I opened it and pulled it out of the box in front of everyone, it was a lacy, frilly pink nightgown - intended for my grandma.
I'm sure yer brothers didn't rib ya... much
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My daughter got a barbie doll from my FIL and his girlfriend.....great gift for a girl if she wasn't 16 years old!0
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For a wedding present my husband and I received a giant Christmas snowglobe. The wedding was in October and my husband doesn't celebrate Christmas. It was given to us by the Justice of the Peace who officiated our wedding and is a friend of my husband's family. She also didn't show up for the rehearsal. Also for our wedding we got a garbage can from my husband's step brother.
At work we were doing a secret santa. the day of the party the girl i had didn't show up and she also happened to have my name as well. the next day at work I told her i brought her present and we could exchange at lunchtime or something. She just stared at me blankly and then asked if we could do it at the end of the day. At lunch I watched her walk across the street to the dollar store. She bought me an angel figurine and a pair of socks and gave them to me in a plastic bag. My boss felt bad and gave me another gift the next day.0 -
My ex and I had at the time agreed to buy each other promise rings since we were dating long distance. He kept pressuring me to buy him an especially expensive ring (600-1200), even going as far as to say the cost of the ring showed how much I really cared about him. Very shallow I know... He then presented me with a ring (in a half broken box) he insisted was worth $3000. I used to do jewelry making as a college art class and knew instantly this was a BIG LIE. I could see it was in no way worth more than 200, which is more than he could afford anyway. I got him one worth 200 but priced 150 and refused to tell him the price. Turns out when I went to get my ring resized (it was 3 sizes too big) the jeweler told me the whole ring was in the most worth 30 dollars! Later on his GIRLFRIEND called me and we both discovered his double life and that he had actually stolen her ring from her jewelry box, and he had thrown mine away saying it was a cheap fake. I think I know WHO the cheap fake is!0
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An Ex-boyfriend that I was living with at the time bought me a sewing machine. Not a bad gift, only problem is: 1) I don't sew 2) never have even expressed an interest in sewing 3) Didn't want to learn to sew! So Wt??? When I asked him what he was thinking...he thought it would be a good idea if I learned to sew so we could save money and I could learn to sew HIM shirts!!
lol obviously his little money-saving scheme had little research behind it - by the time you've bought fabric, thread, needles and other supplies, and maintained the machine. . .sewing is NOT a cheap little hobby anymore. . .0 -
I was a terrible boyfriend one year, to an ex way way back.
My birthday is a couple of days before valentines day, and for my birthday she'd bought us a trip to Dublin, in Ireland.
So we left on the 13th to get there, and the next morning I was woken with 'Happy Valentines day', with presents and card.
I headed straight for the loo, where last nights pint of Guinness or twelve made themselves known again. And there I stayed for the next 4 hours.
And I'd forgotten to get her anything.
She was understandably upset and we split up 4 years later.0 -
This gift isnt at all insensitive, because its actually really really sweet, if perhaps a bit misguided. My boyfriend gave me a really nice REI sweatshirt...I was super excited (because I'm a big backpacker and really could have used one) until I realized that it was MASSIVELY large. Like, it was a mens medium when I wear a womens small. I think he could tell I was starting to be confused / hurt when he said, 'i got it too large because I know how much you like to wear mine and I thought you would like a big comfy one like it.'
That was def. an 'awwwww' moment, except...I like his because I get cold when i'm trying to look cute and didnt want to wear a fleece jacket. Also, his smells like him and is just comforting that way. Basically I wasnt going to carry around a jacket that was like...5 sizes to large. I ended up just wearing it around the house to make him happy. It was kinda bummer, because after that I couldnt really ask to wear his either because he just bought me my own...0
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