Worst Present you've recieved

We did a secret Santa thing at work one year... The woman who got me gave me USED/already scratched scratch tickets (not winners!) and a little baggie of plastic coal.


Hilarious....!?

Every year my dad gives us books. This might not be bad if they were authors I was interested in or books i could actually use. Instead he spends the year looking through book catalogs and if something looks interesting to him, he'll buy it. When arrives, he realizes that he doesn't have time to read it so it goes in the gift stack. Sometimes he'll even see a book and not realize that he already got one (in the gift stack) and order more. There have been Christmases where my mother, sister, and I ALL get copies of the same book (we live in the same house). This might not be a big deal if it was one or two titles but on average we each end up with about 40 new volumes to try and fit on our already over-filled bookshelves. We literally have an entire room devoted to books with full bookshelves on all walls, cabinets full of books, and stacks of books on the floor (as well as having bookshelves in our individual rooms) but it hurts my dad's feeling if we give them away because "they're gifts".

"History of the Great White Shark" anyone?

$100 gift card to Express
I was many many months pregnant

just walking in there made me cry

My brother in law bought me a star for my high school graduation...

A Mickey Mouse Christmas ornament. I don't even like MM.

Can't really say I got a gift I didn't like for Christmas, however my birthday was a different story - so embrassing! My brother in-law (now ex brother-law) got this leather whip for me, and I opened it in front of all my family including my mom and my ex husbands mom at the time. He said don't you remember you told me you wanted this for your birthday - I almost died of embrassement......hahaha

Re-gifted earrings. And by re-gifted, I mean one still had ear gunk crusted on the post.

ewwwww
how did you have the will power not to gag?

I didn't notice it until later, when I went to put it in. I may have gagged. I *know* I sneered.

It was my brother's girlfriend...luckily, she didn't marry into the family.

Dolls. It seemed like every year my grandmother would give me a doll and I have never played with them. They all became dust collectors.

Even worse, one year my other grandmother gave me these Santa Christmas lights. A string of light-up plastic Santa heads with furry beards. I was around 10. What was I going to with those hideous things?

My husband got me TOOLS for Valentines day when we were dating! He still defends this by saying "they were in a red box" and "I used them to fix things at her condo"...but his true motive was that he knew we'd eventually be living together and they'd be his "in the house' tool set....ugh!!

mine was a maternity dress 3 months after I miscarried, from my MIL, just in case I get pg again.

B*tch!

Mine wasn't as horrific as that. My aunt gave me a t-shirt for my 18th birthday that she had originally given to my GRANNY. She thought it was too "old fashioned" so gave it back to my aunt.... She then gave it to me.

Thanks

My grandmother has a habit of buying me weird wooden earrings even though she has NEVER seen me wear anything like that, but one of the worst ever (from the same grandmother) was this teeny little shirt that was sheer and supposed to stretch out to almost any size. Hideous!

My mom is a horrible gift giver... and always gets upset that we don't absolutely LOVE her presents... I've told her repeatedly that I don't want stuff for my apartment, I already have everything I need and all the extra dishes she gets me just sit around and clutter my very tiny kitchen... yet 80 percent of my Birthday and Christmas presents every year... you guessed it! Dishes!

She is also notorious for giving us presents that she already gave us the year before... but we didn't want...so we left at her house... she forgets, wraps them up again next year, and gives them to us again.

When I turned 13, my sister who was only 4 at the time came in and gave me a picture that she drew... Ambiguous as little kid drawings often are, I asked her if it was her or me or what, she said... actually, its a tick... as in the blood sucking insect that gives you Lyme Disease ... she drew me a picture of a birthday tick... at least we got a lot of laughs out of that one.

I tell my husband repeatedly that I want romantic gifts from him since he is the only one I can accept a romantic gift from. So I get the most practical things every Christmas and birthday. Yay. More appliances and stuff when I've said repeatedly that I want a hot rock massage or a manicure... Anything that makes me feel less like a mom and more like a woman. But no, I got a fan bake toaster oven. We use it, but it sits there in the kitchen mocking me.
This year, I'm going to tell him I'm booking myself a massage, he can put some effort into getting a card at least. Or I'll buy myself clothes and tell him its his gift of having a well dressed wife. Haha