What's the Weirdest/Worst Christmas Gift You've Ever Received?

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  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    melmelw03 wrote: »
    My ex hubs was really horrible at gift giving. Like would call me from the mall on my birthday and ask what I wanted because he'd been shopping all day and couldn't figure out what to buy.

    Legit....one year I think on valentine's day he gave me a candy bar, some funny card, and a shower head. And not the good massaging kind. It was so random and weird.

    Lmao. I was just about to come in here and post that a few years back my husband gave me a shower head for Christmas and these super ugly puke green colored dishes. The shower head wasn't a special one.. it was just a normal old shower head. I wasn't ungrateful but inside I wanted to cry and scream. I made a joke about it and his response was "Well we needed a new shower head." I wanted to yell back "SO YOU EFFING GAVE ME ONE FOR CHRISTMAS WHEN WE WOULD HAVE JUST BOUGHT ONE ANYWAY????"
  • sbrandt37
    sbrandt37 Posts: 403 Member
    My brother and I both played instruments in our youth through early adulthood. I played guitar and he played recorder. When we were in our early 20s, our parents visited Vietnam. That Christmas, they gave me some small hand-painted glass bottles (sooo not my thing). They gave my brother a beautiful, handmade traditional Vietnamese stringed instrument with a note that said, "For the musician in the family." Seriously, WTF?
  • peaceout_aly
    peaceout_aly Posts: 2,018 Member
    One of those MyPillows. I ended up being terribly allergic and the entire side of my face swelled up like a bee had stung me! LOL
  • dc8066
    dc8066 Posts: 1,439 Member
    _unsteady_ wrote: »
    For some people they would be happy to get what you guys are getting j/s

    It's not exactly about the things the've received as gifts but how inconsiderate the gift givers are, might've just skipped giving anything at all
  • dc8066
    dc8066 Posts: 1,439 Member
    Not a Christmas gift, but..One of my exes tried to give me bread as a gift. Three kinds of packaged bread, e.g. Hawaiian rolls, etc. and enough to feed a village for a week. I don't eat much bread and never buy the pre-bagged ones from the bread isle at the supermarket because they all smell stale. I was on the strict diet then too. It is possible that some people would be happy to receive bread as a gift, but I just couldn't take it home or throw away food. I can afford to buy my own groceries just fine so that was really weird plus I got yelled at for being ungrateful
  • JustMissTracy
    JustMissTracy Posts: 6,338 Member
    When I was young, I mean really young....an aunt of mine gave me a huge box present. I was so excited to open it! Much to my surprise, inside was a box of tongue depressors, some gauze, a few bottles of baby oil, packets of Vaseline, some pamphlets from some places she had visited, and a small Canadian flag on a stick.

    She meant well... ;)

  • JustMissTracy
    JustMissTracy Posts: 6,338 Member
    dc6088 wrote: »
    _unsteady_ wrote: »
    For some people they would be happy to get what you guys are getting j/s

    It's not exactly about the things the've received as gifts but how inconsiderate the gift givers are, might've just skipped giving anything at all

    I don't think anyone giving gifts is inconsiderate....maybe they aren't good at gift giving, many people aren't. To me, they tried. True, they could have just skipped giving, but they were kind enough to think of the person, so no, not inconsiderate at all.
  • KyleGrace8
    KyleGrace8 Posts: 2,205 Member
    When I was kid I wanted a telescope really bad. I got a box of vch tapes of some old person show... I was like 12 or 13 so I wasn't thrilled at all. Apparently my gift got gifted to the old lady and I got hers and they decided to not correct the mess up. :'(
  • PowerMan40
    PowerMan40 Posts: 766 Member
    I got the clap one year on Christmas, from someone, I had been married too, where did she get it from, had I been the only one she was sleeping with. ????? That was an awesome conversation with my doc
  • JustMissTracy
    JustMissTracy Posts: 6,338 Member
    PowerMan40 wrote: »
    I got the clap one year on Christmas, from someone, I had been married too, where did she get it from, had I been the only one she was sleeping with. ????? That was an awesome conversation with my doc

    Now that WAS highly inconsiderate of her. Glad she's your ex, there's way better out there!
  • PowerMan40
    PowerMan40 Posts: 766 Member
    JustMissTracy wrote: »
    PowerMan40 wrote: »
    I got the clap one year on Christmas, from someone, I had been married too, where did she get it from, had I been the only one she was sleeping with. ????? That was an awesome conversation with my doc

    Now that WAS highly inconsiderate of her. Glad she's your ex, there's way better out there!

    At least some antibiotics took care of the problem and it was not more serious.
  • 44to44
    44to44 Posts: 896 Member
    I got a melon baller and a really bad smelling candle from a boyfriend one year. That was it. It's like he had gone to the dollar store and taken the 2 items nearest to the cash register. The melon baller was especially puzzling.
  • htimpaired
    htimpaired Posts: 1,404 Member
    I love how many of these gifts were given by people who are now ex's.
  • 44to44
    44to44 Posts: 896 Member
    _unsteady_ wrote: »
    What is a melon baller?

    A useless kitchen tool for all those times you really want your melon to be shaped like a small ball, which for me, is exactly never.

  • denversillygoose
    denversillygoose Posts: 708 Member
    km8907 wrote: »
    Land of the lost. The one with Will Ferrell. Yeah...


    This would be acceptable if it were the series. I think I gave my brother a box set of Land of the Lost and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters one year.

    My grandma gave me her 8 track stereo in 1995. I miss her.
  • jnichel
    jnichel Posts: 4,553 Member
    Karb_Kween wrote: »
    jnichel wrote: »
    A carton of cigarettes from an aunt. She knew I smoked at the time, but didn't know that my parents didn't know. That was a fun gift to open.

    Were you a youngun?

    17 at the time.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    RunHardBeStrong wrote: »
    melmelw03 wrote: »
    My ex hubs was really horrible at gift giving. Like would call me from the mall on my birthday and ask what I wanted because he'd been shopping all day and couldn't figure out what to buy.

    Legit....one year I think on valentine's day he gave me a candy bar, some funny card, and a shower head. And not the good massaging kind. It was so random and weird.

    Lmao. I was just about to come in here and post that a few years back my husband gave me a shower head for Christmas and these super ugly puke green colored dishes. The shower head wasn't a special one.. it was just a normal old shower head. I wasn't ungrateful but inside I wanted to cry and scream. I made a joke about it and his response was "Well we needed a new shower head." I wanted to yell back "SO YOU EFFING GAVE ME ONE FOR CHRISTMAS WHEN WE WOULD HAVE JUST BOUGHT ONE ANYWAY????"

    * motor returns shower head to Home Depot; gift receipt no longer needed.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    My former roommate's girlfriend was expecting an engagement ring at Christmas.

    Instead, he gave her a microwave safe warming tray.

    ... she might have been a little disappointed.
  • AnnyisOK
    AnnyisOK Posts: 121 Member
    Hand puppets.
  • JustMissTracy
    JustMissTracy Posts: 6,338 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    RunHardBeStrong wrote: »
    melmelw03 wrote: »
    My ex hubs was really horrible at gift giving. Like would call me from the mall on my birthday and ask what I wanted because he'd been shopping all day and couldn't figure out what to buy.

    Legit....one year I think on valentine's day he gave me a candy bar, some funny card, and a shower head. And not the good massaging kind. It was so random and weird.

    Lmao. I was just about to come in here and post that a few years back my husband gave me a shower head for Christmas and these super ugly puke green colored dishes. The shower head wasn't a special one.. it was just a normal old shower head. I wasn't ungrateful but inside I wanted to cry and scream. I made a joke about it and his response was "Well we needed a new shower head." I wanted to yell back "SO YOU EFFING GAVE ME ONE FOR CHRISTMAS WHEN WE WOULD HAVE JUST BOUGHT ONE ANYWAY????"

    * motor returns shower head to Home Depot; gift receipt no longer needed.

    Don't return it! Depending on which one you picked, it could be a great gift!
  • Mary_Anastasia
    Mary_Anastasia Posts: 267 Member
    WORST: expired Russian chocolates from my ex. He knew I was trying to lose weight, that I don't really like chocolate, and that I'd asked him previously to stop giving me cheap gross chocolate. Plus they were expired.

    In high school my dad gave me a student bible, with anecdotes and lots of discussing relatable situations young adults face. At the time I wasn't ungrateful, but it was definitely not something I was overly excited about. In retrospect it was one of the best gifts I've ever gotten, and I loaned it out to others throughout my late twenties. I came across it recently, it was all torn up, cover missing, stained and dog-eared. I'm not sure if I kept it though <.< I kinda hope I did.
  • jennybearlv
    jennybearlv Posts: 1,519 Member
    I forgot the Christmas my aunt found Jesus and gifted the entire family some book from her church.
  • michael1976_ca
    michael1976_ca Posts: 3,488 Member
    no bad gift but i bought my ex tight clothing. i stayed home one night to look after her two kids. she got all dressed up in her new outfit went clubbing with her girl friends. hooked up with a gf ex. o well the best gift i got was my freedom from her. i looked her up on fb she still the same. i didn't even say hi
  • ClubSilencio
    ClubSilencio Posts: 2,983 Member
    My mom used to put gifts inside of empty cake mix and cereal boxes. She'd drop a video game inside a Duncan Hines Angel Food Cake mix box and gift wrap that. So weird.


    And now I do it. :hushed:
  • walkermom75
    walkermom75 Posts: 45 Member
    These are some of the funniest stories I've ever heard. I have nothing to add, except I'm counting my blessings right about now
  • sunburntgalaxy
    sunburntgalaxy Posts: 455 Member
    My cousin (who is a year younger than me) got me the Pam Anderson/Tommy Lee Porn Video with Bonus Tanya Harding Wedding Night Porn. Which I opened at Christmas at her parents apartment with my father, aunt, uncle and my uncles young kids there because of course I didn't know what it was going to be. It was horrifying (I am easily embarrassed) and I tossed it in the dumpster outside their apartment on the way home.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    When I was in high school my dad had a heart attack and on Christmas morning that year I opened a box containing a black dress that my dad immediately informed me I could wear to his upcoming funeral. It was not a horrible dress but the message was pretty upsetting.
    My dad is still around 26 years later btw.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    JustMissTracy wrote: »
    When I was young, I mean really young....an aunt of mine gave me a huge box present. I was so excited to open it! Much to my surprise, inside was a box of tongue depressors, some gauze, a few bottles of baby oil, packets of Vaseline, some pamphlets from some places she had visited, and a small Canadian flag on a stick.

    She meant well... ;)

    OMG, that's my mother-in-law. So random.
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