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I’m already in the holiday mood, Pandas, and I hope you are, too. I’ve been listening to Christmas songs at work and I’ve been polishing my rusty cookie baking skills (so far, it’s all gone disastrously wrong). But! Most importantly, I’ve already started searching for gifts for all of my loved ones. It’s far from easy to be original every year and sometimes we simply mess up. And the internet has proof of this.

Internet users have taken to the r/AskReddit online community to share the very worst gifts they’ve ever gotten. There are more than a few twists and turns in their tales, however. Take a break from school or work, grab yourselves a big mug of tea and some snacks, and let’s dive deep into the world of horrendous gifts, dear Readers. As you’re scrolling down, don’t forget to upvote the stories that took you by surprise. And if you’re feeling up to it, why not open up about the very worst presents you’ve ever given or received in the comments?

I also reached out to author and child independence expert Lenore Skenazy for a few comments about gift-giving and the burden we face as the holiday season comes every year. Scroll down to read what she told Bored Panda. Spoiler warning: we shouldn’t focus so much on the gifts themselves, nor about trying to be ‘perfect’ but about the holiday spirit and being genuine!

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received When I was 8, I told my gran that I liked jeeps. So every year, for Christmas I got a crappier jeep. The first year was a model. Ok I like models I put it together it was fun. Next year was a remote. Then a matchbox. and so on. When I was 15 she gave me a jeep calendar. I love my gran so I hung the calendar and told her I loved it.

On my 16th Christmas, she gives me a key ring that says Jeep. UGH. Then asks me to go out and get some preserves from the barn. In the barn was a brand new 86 jeep! Gran plays the long game.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received Growing up I used to hate that my uncle would get all of us kids the same $1 pair of cheap one size fits all gloves. I clearly remember thinking how I'd really rather just have the dollar, and yet he never failed to get them for us. It was always the last gift my cousins and I would open... Thanks uncle Craig.

Craig was developmentally disabled, and although he was well into his 30's when we were kids he would come out into the street and play baseball with us, he'd ride bikes across town with us, buy us beer and nudey mags when we were older... And yet every year, these damn gloves even when we were grown adults and his health was fading, and we all moved away. This will be Christmas number 3 without Uncle Craig, and as I look back at it now it makes more sense. He was living in a shack that he was renting for $350 a month there were 15 nieces and nephews... We knew he couldn't afford to get us any toys or anything, but he wanted us to have something more meaningful than a dollar bill, and Christmas was his favorite holiday.

RIP Uncle Craig. I wish there was a poorly wrapped pair of gloves under my tree this year.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received Ex boyfriend gave me a pack of cigarettes after I had quit for 3 months to "celebrate my progress".

Most memorable thing he gave me was clamydia though.

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Lenore, the president of Let Grow, a nonprofit that promotes childhood independence and resilience, and the founder of the Free-Range Kids movement, told Bored Panda all about how we can ease the burden of the holiday season. In her view, all we have to do is turn on the power of our imagination.

“To ease the burden of the holiday season, think about two possible scenarios,” she said.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received I met my wife in january of 2010. For her birthday in July I bought her a crockpot. She was .....appreciative, but later had told me she was upset. Her sister told her to break up with me cause what kind of guy buys his new girlfriend kitchen appliances.

About 2 months later she finds a recipe she wants to try and busts out the crockpot. Inside it she finds a smaller gift. It was a brand new ipod touch.

She was pissed.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received It was nothing. My in-laws bring gifts for my husband but not me because I'm not "real family".

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received My wife used to give me things that were intended for herself.

This was a win-win for her and a lose-lose for me. She could give me something, then get mad at me for being unappreciative. One time, she gave me a frilly picture frame, thinking I would never use it. I thanked her and took it to work.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Damn, she sounds like a selfish asshole. I'd do the same to her.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It remind me the simpsons episode when homer give to marge a bowling ball with "homer" engraved on it...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My ex did something similar. He'd said earlier in the year he loved the look of a good chess set on a table in the sitting room, liked to play chess with his friends etc. He spent the entire Christmas gift budget we'd agreed on to buy me an expensive lacquered board and pewter-looking chess pieces. He was well aware I had never played chess and had no interest in starting. Truly a prince among men.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a friend who got a tractor attachment for her birthday from her hubby. Said it was OK as he was getting a new sewing machine for his.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother and sister are the same, awful gift givers and receivers . One year for Christmas I had no idea what to get my sister. she is super picky, she is also gullible and petty. I took her to an upscale retail store told her that my friend has the exact same taste as you, money is no object, so dont hold back, get what you like, I think she will be fine with whatever you choose. THE SKY IS THE LIMIT. She picked out some horrible looking pieces of clothing, on sale. I wrapped them up put her name on them and stuck them under the tree. She opened the packages and was crest fallen, then mad as hell. First words out of her mouth are “these were on sale and not returnable, what the hell”…I stared at her and said “I told you money was not object, that the sky was the limit, you could have chosen anything, I made certain you knew that” she mumbled, “yeah but I thought it was for your friend. I doubt the clothing even made it to a thrift store.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She saw that Simpsons episode where Homer buys Marge a bowling ball and she must have thought it was a brilliant idea. It's not. Your wife sucks.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For her next birthday, get her something she would never use.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's incredibly selfish. Dont think I could stay with someone like that

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Dorene Rowand-Schmidt
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why did you take it to work? By the way, it looks a lot like two picture frames I purchased YEARS ago at a yard sale. I put needlepoint I did in them after attaching the work to cardboard cut to size to back them. Still on my walls and look great.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yes but did he take it to work put a picture of her in it and throw darts at it though? ....

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I grew up in an emotionally abusive environment--my mother moreso than my father, but he had his moments. One of his favorite things to do was buy me something *he* wanted, for Christmas or *my* birthday, then when I'd politely thank him and ask if we could exchange it for something *I* actually wanted, he'd deliberately wait until the return window had passed. "Oops, sorry honey, guess I forgot! If you don't want it, can I keep it?" Didn't take too many years for me to realize that was his plan all along.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My older brother does that all the time. he's bought me films that he likes and then borrowed them and never returned them, he knew I have a collection of Anime models so bought me an Army Ranger & Marine statues (i know he wanted them for himself because I took them out of the packaging and displayed them and he went in a huff), and now that he knows his plans won't work he buys me useless things that he knows I don't want like random Funko's for shows I don't watch.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This gift giver is exactly my husband. I started passing my gifts on to my brothers.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once gave something that we both liked, I bought it for mysekf but coukdn't find a gift and knew dad liked it too

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mum does this. She deliberately gives people things that she knows they won't use, specifically so she can scream at them for being an ungrateful piece of s**t and tell everyone what a victim and saint she is.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe she wanted you to insert a husband and wife portrait in that? 😉

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My Mom would just get gifts for herself and sign stepdads name, since he sucked at gift giving, and hated it. It was their arrangement. Yes, she wrapped the gifts she bought for herself.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This would happen once. Then we would sit down and discuss. And depending on the outcome and if it happened again it would be separate ways... Like how manipulative and greedy can you be.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once received a Christmas gift from my ex and didn’t know what it was, even after I’d unwrapped it. Thought it might be a rice steamer. Turns out it was hub caps for my car, I neither needed nor wanted hub caps, but as he drove my car quite a bit I think it was a present to himself.

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The expert then went into detail about the two scenarios we should think about and compare in our minds.

“In one, you are invited to a party at a very fancy home. Everything is perfect, clean, expensive. Everyone there is on their best behavior. No one shouts, runs, slips, yells, spills, eats too much, or bursts into song. They can’t wait to go home and take off their too-tight shoes,” she went into detail.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received About 10 years ago my uncle was giving out Christmas gifts to everyone in the family. He's mentally handicapped but he makes sure to go to the dollar store to buy everyone something, typically mugs. Now my uncle doesn't really put much thought into who gets what mug. He just wraps the mug and puts someone's name on it. Sometimes people get multiple mugs and other times you get none because he doesn't keep track of who has already been assigned a mug. Well my cousin was married to a Muslim (it's relevant, I promise) and her gift was a mug that said, "Jesus loves you." It was the only religious themed mug out of probably 50 and she got it. The entire family was laughing, including her. She thought it was great.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thats sweet and a good story to tell. Its a win of you ask me

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received I'm asian. My secret santa gave me a box of instant rice. I wasn't offended by the rice. I was offended that it was the instant kind.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received I’m gonna speak on my husbands behalf here. We don’t speak to his family or see them at all, there’s a history of abuse and just a lot of toxicity so we cut them out of our lives. It’s been almost 3 years of radio silence, which is amazing and it was absolutely the right choice for us. Whelp, unfortunately my husbands parents live in the same city as us and they know where we go to church. So this year, on my husband’s birthday, my MIL dropped off a gift at our church for him because she doesn’t know where we live and can’t contact us any other way.

The gift was the DVD of the movie I Can Only Imagine. If you’re not familiar with the premise of the movie, let me fill you in. It’s about a man who was abused by his father as a boy. He leaves home and stops having a relationship with his dad. Years go by and the man decides to reconcile and rebuild a relationship with his dad, who was previously abusive but because he found God, he isn’t anymore.

It was really f**ked up to get that movie from someone who manipulated and abused my husband until his early twenties. So that gift absolutely takes the cake. And in the event MIL or the family finds this comment and reads it (though I doubt they use reddit), the only thing I’ll say directly to you in 3 years is “Shame on you.”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Its very common of abusive people to demand forgiveness from the victim without apologizing or even acknowledging the pain they caused. Gaslighting the victim and not taking any responsibilty for their past behaviour just shows that they are not capable of true change. Good for u that u cut them out.

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Lenore then painted us a word picture about a different sort of party. One that’s more genuine, heart-warming, full of good times with loved ones.

“Now imagine you’re invited to another party the next week. The house is kind of messy and some of the food looks like leftovers. Someone’s playing the piano and people are singing. Someone else is showing the little kids a magic trick. Someone in the kitchen is making hot cider and the dog is sniffing everyone in a slightly embarrassing way.”

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received My sister received a brand new bike.....on MY birthday. My grandmother felt bad, so on her birthday she got me an Encyclopedia

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received It wasn’t really the gift itself, but what my dad said after I opened it.

It was one of those ninja blenders that a lot of people starting using instead of juicers. I was 16 when my dad gave the blender to me, even though I had never expressed any interest in wanting or needing one.

After I opened it, he said he chose this gift because he wanted me to live a healthier lifestyle and hopefully lose a few pounds.

At the time, I was taking ballet classes 5 days a week, and I often performed with my dance troupe on the weekends, so I was pretty fit at the time.

It didn’t help that he said this in front of his entire side of the family.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received My extremely cheap uncle visited my family once for christmas and upon his arrival he gave me and my brother the chips that he had gotten on the airplane. This man is a Neurosurgeon.

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She continued: “The teens are rolling their eyes in the corner, Grandma is repeating that joke she tells every year, and uncles are one-upping each other with stories about the times they had to sneak into the house after curfew. Which party is more fun for everyone? The one that gets people together with a chance to be themselves and feel unself-conscious.”

According to Lenore, it isn’t expensive and fancy things that we need. In fact, we can have an amazing holiday without them if we focus on our family and learn to relax instead of chasing the ‘perfect’ way to celebrate.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received Nothing. One year my very well off (we're talking millionaires) aunt and uncle got everyone in the family a gift except for me because suddenly, since I was 20, I was "too old" for gifts. But all the other aunts and uncles got gifts, so it wasn't just me being singled out among the many cousins, but among EVERYONE. If they were not absolutely loaded and they had also not given anything to the other 18+ people I might have understood. But they didn't.

As an already very stressed out, poor (parents were lower class) college student it really upset me. I spent most of the celebration crying in the bathroom and trying to hide it.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so painful! Had something similar happen to me when brother and sister in law were about to become parents. My boyfriend (of 10+ years then and we were living together) and parents in law all got a present because they would become uncle and grandparents. I got nothing. Because we weren't married. And whenever we visited them they would exclaim excitedly "hey there's uncle whatshisname!" I would add ".. and aunt whatshername" myself. Joke's on me though. My then boyfriend and I are happily married (+kids) and her side of the family (that got gifts too) fell apart in the years after.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received My mother in-law have my wife and I a book about surviving infidelity. Neither of us have ever cheated on the other in 20 years of marriage. Merry Christmas.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Should have made some comment about not needing your in-laws' hand-me-downs

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received An ashtray. I was 7 years old. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now.

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“People might think you need fancy food, gifts, clothes to have a truly wonderful holiday. But really all you need are people you love (and a few who drive you crazy), some food, and some time together. Don’t stress about spending money and time making things perfect. Use that time to connect with each other instead. That’s a holiday everyone will appreciate—including you!”

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When I was a little kid (going back about 25 years) I cut the legs off a pair of sweatpants and gave them to my dad for Christmas as "leg warmers." No clue where I came up with the idea. Found out a few years ago he still has them and it still cracks him up whenever he sees them.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aww that’s kind of cute. I don’t think that’s a bad present at all, considering you were young.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received As a small child I got a water bottle and a helmet for Christmas and nothing else. I was totally pissed because I thought my mom just thought I was extra special and needed a helmet to not hurt myself while running around and that I was especially underhydrated. Turns out I had actually gotten a bicycle for Christmas but all of my presents were stolen except for the helmet and water bottle. The worst gift I received wasn't those presents, it was the knowledge that the world is a cruel and uncaring place.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It probably broke your poor mothers heart when you opened those presents knowing she bought you a bike that you would never see

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received My husband received his recently deceased grandfather's used disposable razor as a Christmas gift from his grandmother. Complete with hair and all.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received A box of Hillshire Farms sausages from my wife's grandparents. I'm a vegetarian, they had known me for 10 years at this point.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received My uncle got me a taxidermied dove for my 9th birthday.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received When I was twelve my grandmother gave me a one-foot tall statue of a frog playing the flute for Christmas. She gave my brother bananas and a granola bar.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received I got a spray that you use against foot-odour by my Sister last christmas, she had packed in a box for a power tool I wanted so I went from excited to dissapointed.

She got a quite expensive set of fancy soaps and body products + a gift card from me.

Apparently she gave the power tool to some friend and gave me the box.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received My grandmother got me a nightgown one year. I'm a guy.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received I was in 7th grade and dating my first ever boyfriend. He lived in the next town over (about 20 min to drive). His friends were dating my friends (there were several of us girls all dating these cooler out of town boys.)

We spent our Christmas gift giving night at the bowling alley and took turns making out in the alleyway behind the bowling alley. It was my first kiss and I was awful. Like open mouth shark breaching for a seal.

That's another story-we each received a gift. They had group picked out necklaces to match our personalities. Sarah got the one with a sports pendant, long chain to match her long hair. Elizabeth got the dainty chain and tiny heart with a jewel, because she was girly and dainty. Leah got the cross with a jewel, because she was religious and it was her favorite color. I got the fake gold biker chain with nothing on it, because it was "manly like you are." So my friends all got cute little dainty necklaces and I got the equivalent of a something you'd see around the neck of a man with a hairy chest that is trying to sell you stereos that his brother got at a cheap price.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received Had a friend that received a gift from another friend of ours. It was a McDonald’s gift card. When he went to use it there was nothing on it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I swear all these gifts sound like they were random things people found in a panic because they forgot to buy an actual present. That’s why I have a stash of random things to give to people in case I forget.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received My sister got me a rat as a gift. I'm f**king terrified of rats but I decided to let it be and see if it helped curb my fear of them. It did not.

Instead, while I was sleeping it got out of it's cage, crawled up on my bed, and started chewing on my lip. Didn't sleep for a week after that. Thoughtful gift in the sense she was trying to help but dear God it made my fear so much worse.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a rat owner, this makes me so angry. For one thing rats should be kept in pairs at the very least because they're social animals and become depressed if they don't have a friend, and for another - don't give a pet rat to someone who hates rats! It's unfair and cruel to both of them! I hope this person re-homed the poor thing.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received My aunt gifted me a snowscraper for my car. When I opened it she said "I bet you don't have one of those! "

I was 21, living in northern Midwest and driving everyday. Including that day, which had 4" of snow.

I gave it away to some fool clearing his widow with a credit card a few weeks later.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received I got a half of a box of chocolates for my birthday one year. Yep - I opened it and half of them had been eaten already. It wasn't from a child - it was from adult family members. The reasoning was that they knew I would share them when I opened them, but I was away on a business trip on my actual birthday and they couldn't wait to eat some.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haha, sorry to laugh but one year my middle brother and I gave my younger brother a completely empty box of chocolates with a note saying "here hold this". We did that coz my younger brother is a cheeky bugger. He would say "here hold this" and put something in our hand or arm, like a takeaway coffee cup, bag of lollies etc. And then he would walk away. He gave us his rubbish lol. We did get him a real present too.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received First Christmas with my husband of three months, my mother decides to make everyone underwear and boxers. Weird as is. The boxers showed total disregard for male anatomy (things didn’t line up) and the girls’ underwear were all way too big. She wanted to fix them, and asked us for a pair of underwear to fit correctly to go off of. It’s my favorite ‘my family is weird’ story.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received A bunch of random tools from my wife. Not tools I needed. Not tools I asked for. Not tools I could use for my hobbies. Just random tools she picked out from Lowes because "Guys like tools".

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received I got a Game Boy. The original. The year it came out. I was, as you could imagine, thrilled, especially as it came from my older brother, who wasn’t always particularly nice to me. I was absolutely horrified and instantly hysterical when I opened the sealed box and it was filled with D batteries, thinking it was another “prank.”

Turns out someone had bought it, stolen it, re-wrapped it, and returned it to Walmart for someone else to buy. Fortunately, they replaced it. I am still emotionally scarred.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the poster should remember that the older brother being nice instead

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received My ex gifted me tickets to a big country music concert for some goofy relationship milestone (like 5 months?). I reminded him that I don’t like country music and he said, “Well, I do and I already bought the tickets so we’re gonna go so the money isn’t wasted.”

That was a dumb relationship.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He could have gone with a friend instead. It sounded like he was ordering her to go, not giving her a choice.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received My husband gave me a $10 keychain on my birthday this week. It was in a box that definitely looked like jewelry. Nope, keychain.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Eek, I just bought keyrings for my family. A bit more personal though. I have ordered 2 dog tag style keyrings that have a photo of my mum and her partner, one for each of them. And I have ordered 2 one for my brother with a pic of his dog and one for my dad with a photo of his dog that passed away. I hope they are received well and don't end up on a list like this lol.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received A 1kg box of dried milk for babies from my uncle

We don't have any kids and they knew.........

LavendarAmy , HowToGym Report

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

maybe he thought you needed to make a kilo of coke into 2 kilos

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received Foundation (as in makeup) from my husband. Turns out he went to Sephora, pointed at a colour and said “that looks about right” (with his FEMALE friend who ALSO wears makeup AGREEING) and bought it for me!

I am a pasty white girl. Like I’m always the lightest shade, and sometimes the lightest shade is too dark.

The colour they picked was from the middle-to-end range. Like for a black person.

I laughed so hard I almost peed and we (and the female friend) still laugh about it years later!

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received A girl I dated for two years got me a blue Powerade for my birthday because “you like blue Powerade”. I don’t even drink Powerade. Plus it wasn’t even a big bottle, it was one of the smaller ones that come in the packs. That was the end of that relationship

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not a very strong relationship to start with I guess.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received My parents renovated my bathroom at their house. It was a “surprise”. Thing is, I didn’t live at home anymore - I had been living in a different state for 4 years. I was visiting for Christmas with my fiancé. Bathroom is connected to my room and everyday for the five days we were visiting we were woken up at 8am and had to leave so the construction guys could work. When I sort of complained about being woken up she called me ungrateful and screamed at me. We didn’t speak for four months.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like they just wanted it renovated and needed an excuse to do it

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received For Christmas, my aunt (Aunt 1) gave me and my sister liquid soap that had already solidified. She's known for being "thrifty" and re-giving old gifts.

Aunt 2 gave Aunt 1's son a shirt for his birthday. After a few years, Aunt 1 gifted the shirt to Aunt 2's son.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s not being thrifty. That’s just disgusting. Might as well not have given them anything

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received My mother and her friend came to stay with me last year for Christmas and I got them both standard stuff like scarves and bath bombs and stuff.

My mom’s friend got me one gift, which I opened on Christmas morning - it was a package of ground espresso, which I don’t like. I was nice about it and said thank you and then put it in my cabinet and went about celebrating the holiday.

The next day I woke up late and went to go make coffee - she had opened the espresso and made it for herself! I remain deeply offended.

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40 People Reveal Rude-As-Hell Gifts They've Received Worst gift I ever got was last year from a friend from school. I was 3 weeks post partum with my first kid and in a motel alone for Christmas and she came by with a bunch of JuicePlus tablets and an ItWorks wraps. Then she told me since I’m “doing nothing” I could help her sell it. I was cordial at the time but afterwards I thought it was pretty s**tty thing to do

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