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#1
Baby clothes 1 month after a miscarriage. And yes, they knew all about it. And it wasn’t the first time. My fave was the advice to follow so I didn’t do it again. Um no. I can promise it wasn’t something I intended to happen, assholes.
Final score:
23points
royal_antelope 4 years ago
oh those people were sh*tty. i hope you don't keep in touch with them and found better friends by now.
Kyndal T (Submission author) 4 years ago
Husband's family on his dad's side, unfortunately. 2 hour drive to see them every single year at Xmas.
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#2
Crayons and really simple children’s colouring books with pictures of trans and teddies, im 23 but my relatives think because i have autism im not an adult ☹️ also lots of hideous brightly coloured pom pom sparkly tinsel christmas sweaters when ive been a goth and worn nothing but black for at least 8 years, im too polite to say anything though and always pretend i like my present 😩
Final score:
18points
Stephanie IV 4 years ago (edited)
You can spell fine. It was a typo. Typos just happen. It’s alright! Get dye and turn your bright and cheerful sweater into a dark and gothic sweater.
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Carol Emory 4 years ago
Stop pretending or they will keep doing it. My son is autistic. I know there are things he still likes that are childlike and things he likes that are more mature. But the only way I figured it out is that he told me. Parents can be dumb sometimes. They also want to keep their kids as young as possible so they don't feel so old. There is no shame in standing up for yourself.
Goth mouse (they/them) (Submission author) 4 years ago
My mum is great and always knows exactly what i like no matter how weird like a giant isopod plush pillow or a out of print vintage book of pterodactyls she had shipped from america 😂 its my other relatives that we hardly ever see, they’ve just never bothered to ask me or my mum what i like and just assume because im autistic i must act very young 🙄
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janel jones 4 years ago
its def not always the thought that counts. if people genuinely cared they would get something you know and like.
#3
Clothes that were extremely not my style and way too small for me. It really hurted me how my grandma kept pretending that I was super skinny (I was in the middle of a healthy BMI but considered fat by her).
Final score:
16points
#4
Worst Christmas gift I ever received was the one time my brother thought it'd be funny to throw an ice block at my head and send me to the hospital on Christmas Eve.
Final score:
8points
Mattie 4 years ago
wait, what? were you having a snowball fight? were you badly hurt? what was the injury?
Solar_Eclipse (Submission author) 4 years ago
No, I was shoveling the walk and my older brother thought it'd be funny to throw a 20 pound ice block at my head. Hurt like the Dickens. It ended up just being a concussion, but my parents freaked.
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#5
One Christmas long ago, I was a happy girl with a boyfriend I adored. He told me he wanted to marry me but nothing was official yet. He came over unexpectedly as we were just hanging with our own families that year. I could tell he was super nervous but had no idea why. Well, since I was saving myself for marriage and unbeknownst to me, he was seeing a former girlfriend for sex. My present that year was she was pregnant, she was keeping the baby and she wanted them to get married. They did and got divorced. Ho! Ho! Ho!
Final score:
8points
Carol Emory 4 years ago
Sounds like your present was dodging the bullet of what would have been a disaster of a husband.
PicnicsEverywhere (Submission author) 4 years ago
I was glad I found out what was going on before marriage but at the time I was devastated.
#6
A lame self-help book. (Sorry brother, you've gifted many great presents before and after that, but it is what it is)
Final score:
7points
#7
A dirt-filled burlap head. If watered, it would spout cress. It was from an adult, not a child.
Final score:
6points
#8
My parents gave me a book and a cd on how to speak with an American accent because they didn't like the fact that I sounded British even though I would spend my summers in the UK throughout elementary school. Plus I'm dyslexic and partially deaf...
Final score:
5points
Carol Emory 4 years ago
Had a friend that got that for a present. She spent the first 10 years of her life in an orphanage in India before being adopted by a couple from the USA. She had a British accent and the kids teased her for it. Some Americans can be really cruel towards people they perceive as non-American.
Saint Thomas 4 years ago
*Some children can be really cruel towards people they perceive as different.
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#9
A coffee mug. The mug outfitted with a golden ring-shaped handle, accented by a large, clear crystal. You held the cup by putting your ring finger through the ring. It was made to look like you had a big engagement ring on. The boyfriend who gifted it to me thought it was hilarious...me not so much.
Final score:
4points
#10
as written couple of days earlier in other post: my godparents gave my parents 2 cups for coffee, and for me and my sister - pack of chewing gums each. And they opened 1 pack of gums on their way to our place, and since my sister is younger, she got the opened pack hahahaha
Final score:
4points
#11
Rum from my mother. Sounds ok, right? Except she was an alcoholic and it was really for her.
Final score:
4points
#12
I received a cemetery plot for Christmas one year. I was 12.
Final score:
4points
#13
Cheap box with like 3 pieces of candy (we agreed to exchange not only symbolic gifts). They got big bag of gifts from me :/
Final score:
3points
#14
When I was a child, I made the mistake of telling my grandmother I liked owls, and that is what I got for Christmas from then on-things with owls on them. You name it, there was some version of it somewhere with owls on it. The weirdest, when I was about 11, was a roll of paper towels.
Final score:
3points
Carol Emory 4 years ago
My mother loved owls until she got them as gifts constantly. She was so overrun with seeing them every day, she soon grew tired of them.
#15
My mother bought my sister down winter coats for each of her family. My family, a cheap $1 barbie that broke on contact, a used electric knife with moldy dried meat still on it, and for my son, a t-shirt my mother found in the road with asphalt in it in a walmart bag. She didn't wrap a single gift. The knife at least had a box. Her comment about the t-shirt, "Here, I found this in the road and you're so good at getting stains out!". I'm the young child, obviously not the favorite! 🙄
Final score:
3points
Glen MacLeod 4 years ago
Gads! I can't think of a word that would adequately describe my disgust.
#16
When I was a teenager in the 1970s my boyfriend's mom got me a giant plastic purse with a pirate ship on it.
Final score:
3points
#17
I got a makeup kit from my grandmother. I was six, and not amused.
Final score:
2points
#18
My friend got a boxed enema. It was stolen three times...
Final score:
2points
#19
Every damn X-mas gift I received as a child from family. Stupid dolls, make believe kitchen crap or girly clothes. Never books or art supplies. I hated all of it, and I could never hide my disdain like a little lady.
Final score:
2points
Carol Emory 4 years ago
As I said in an earlier post, my father always got presents he thought we'd want based on the girl/boy factor. The year he gave my mother a hand held vacuum was the last straw for her and she stomped to her room slamming the door shut. I explained to my father that his presents were very stereotyped and that he needed to choose gifts based on the person and their likes. The next year my mother got pampering gifts, my sister got power tools and I got a Tyco Race Track.
Glen MacLeod 4 years ago
When you get crap gifts like that it makes you think your "loved ones" don't know or pay attention to you.
Goth mouse (they/them) 4 years ago
Stereotypical gendered presents are the worst 😩 not every girl like dolls or boy likes football or cars people shouldnt assume everyone likes the same thing, why not ask them what they like? Im 22 and still get only get gendered presents from my relatives even though ive looked, dressed and liked things for the opposite gender since i was little. Even my mum is like why on earth would they give you that???
#20
A really expensive electric coin sorter without coins. 15 year old me was buzzing.
Final score:
2points
#21
Underwear. Why would you give a young girl, who is already iffy about the changes in her body, training bras and cute undies in a gift unwrapped in front of the whole family. It's embarrassing.
Final score:
2points
#22
My ex MIL gave me a book on weight loss. I wasn't over weight.
Final score:
2points
#23
Pink shoes with Pompoms on them. I immediately returned them and got better shoes.
Final score:
2points
#24
One year I swear everything i got i didn’t want. Turns out my parents made my Xmas list
Final score:
2points
#25
My best friend got me some sort of fancy chocolate and I got sick, I was sick for about 4 days and couldn't even get out of bed! :(
Final score:
2points
#26
Not me but a boy scout friend, In a boy scout white Elephant gift exchange, we were al supposed to spend about 15$ on a gift. The friend ended up getting a vegtable flavored V8 bottle with a note that said "Eat Your Veggies". Another scout felt bad and gave him their gift. If you saw this before I mentioned it somewhere else.
Final score:
2points
#27
Foreign concept. We only get gifts on birthdays. I have to admit that when I was young and in Sunday School, we did exchange gifts randomly with other kids.
Final score:
1point
Lisa Shaw 4 years ago
Might be Jehovah witness, they do not celebrate any holidays except "the memorial" which the rest of us know as Easter. We had 2 families on our street when my kids were growing up, couldn't invite their kids to anything, in fact, one of their daughters left school bag at another student's house, went to pick it up and it was someone at the house's birthday, her sister told the parents they were having a party, while she was there for like 5 minutes. Father hit her with a belt for an hour and grounded her for 6 months for violating their "religious doctrine".
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My father had us going to church in a cult religion. No holidays (except Thanksgiving) no birthdays... couldn't do any of the art activities in school, couldn't go to any parties, nothing. I would've loved any kind of present. (Grew up got married and joined the real world. Made sure my child got the whole Christmas experience! Unfortunately my (ex) husband didn't ever buy gifts.
#28
i got a pizza pan... i didint even know how to cook a frozen one back then and my dad got me one... we still have it and use it.
Final score:
1point
#29
My worst gift I ever got was origami paper
Final score:
1point
#30
My little brother got 5 pet rocks, one each from his five siblings. He was less than happy.
Final score:
1point
#31
A *cheap!* super detailed paint by number. I have OCD and hate arts and crafts.
Final score:
1point
#32
I was around 10 when our family moved to a new town. Had not met any neighborhood kids yet & my parents both worked. Grandma basically raised me & was of course, pretty old. I got a bunch of board games that required 4 or more players. Like, okay. What’s a lone kid supposed to do with these? Invent 3 imaginary friends to play Candy Land? 🙄
Final score:
1point
#33
The most ugly tan rectangular pull along shopping trolley from my future in-laws because I didn’t drive and they thought it would be great to bring the shopping home in. I remember feeling very excited at the wrapped big box under the tree but now firmly believe small is best, and I drive now to get the shopping, Ps I do actually love my now in-laws of 21 years (RIP Brenda)
Final score:
1point
#34
I did secret Santa in school. I gave him everything he wanted and more. He gave me mints. I like mints but they weren’t even the brand of mints I wanted.
Final score:
1point
#35
One Christmas when I was around 4 or 5 years old, the whole family went to an aunts on Christmas Day and all the presents were put in a large sack , Aunt would pull a present from the sack, the recipient would open it and so to the next one. My Sister got a bubble bath with a happy clock face on it that you could play with. When I finally got a present, I opened it and it was socks . I screamed and shouted that socks were not a present, threw the socks across the room and in tears, stormed out . The whole room was in hysterics. I’m now 57 and all surviving relatives STILL recall the story and dig me about it
Final score:
1point
Glen MacLeod 4 years ago
Kinda jerks, aren't they? I think I'd be plotting a late life revenge.
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Not Proud British 4 years ago
A Christmas card from my mother, without my name on it and signed with her first name, not 'mum'. She now doesn't even bother with cards. I'm kinda grateful.
Not Proud British 4 years ago
A Christmas card from my mother, without my name on it and signed with her first name, not 'mum'. She now doesn't even bother with cards. I'm kinda grateful.
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