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The season of giving is upon us, Pandas! It can be a lot of fun not just for the recipients, but also the givers themselves. It’s nice to feel appreciated and to show appreciation in turn. However, let’s not be naïve. Not all gifts are made equal. Far from it!
In a thread created by content creator and story writer u/dylan1111111112, the r/AskReddit online community vented about the very worst gifts they’d ever received. If you think you’ve ever been disappointed by something you’ve unwrapped, then this might give you some perspective. Scroll down to see what you should never ever get someone as a present.
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#1
It was such a random thing. I was around 7/8 I think I really wanted a doodle bear for my bday. My ‘aunt’, whom I share a bday with asked me a bunch of time leading up to my bday what I wanted. I finally told her I was hoping for this bear mostly bc she kept asking, prior I’d always keep it polite ‘oh ty whatever you get I’m sure I will love’ ‘you don’t have to get me anything’ yadda yadda bc that how my folks raised us. So my bday is in the summer so we’d normally have a pretty big bbq. Mostly everyone gives money and my siblings and I never really expected things from ppl other than our parents, but I noticed my aunt came in with a gift bag so I was low key excited. I got a new bike, super exciting, and I go to open her gift and it is a castle statue, like those ones you would get at the dollar store in the 90’s. I couldn’t hide my reaction…confusion. I politely sd thank you and moved on. As they day went on my aunt asked me where I was going to put the statue? She told me it deserved to be showcased. Went on about how she loves it and knew it was something I would want.
Her kid’s bday was a few weeks after they had a party, my sibling went to dollar store bought another castle and told my parents she got the gift already. When my aunt saw the castle her daughter got her face was priceless. My sibling told her ‘you told us how much youh loved the one you got for metemgee so much we thought we’d get daughter one also’
Alexandra 2 years ago
Yep, like it a lot. Insulting, but polite at the same time. Impeccable. Good job!
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BigCityLady 2 years ago
Well she did conjure up how much she” loved” it so it was fair play at its finest…..
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#2
An expensive and lovely gift basket full of gourmet foods, none of which I could eat because of life threatening food allergies. The person who gave it knew about the allergies.
Rayne OfSalt 2 years ago
I was given a silver tray of prawns, crab and lobster for my 25th b'day. I have a lift-threatening shellfish allergy that everyone in my family knows about.
WhyWouldULookThere 2 years ago
This will be my first year with celiac disease, and I feel like because Christmas bonusen are coming I will need to give every thing away
#3
A gift basket of cucumber-melon bath goods from my ex-MIL. I'm severely allergic to cucumbers and certain types of melons. She knew about my allergies.
Jan van den Broek 2 years ago
Neither did the MIL, but the message was obvious.
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Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
I'm sure the local gift donation places will appreciate this lovely gift from your ex. (and I don't mean that sarcastically. If ex wants to waste their money on things you cant use just to be a petty pos, I'm sure charities will appreciate it being passed on)
Lara Verne 2 years ago
I have some relatives and they don't like me, so gifts are kinda awkward, but they didn't try to kill me (not yet). Worst I received were socks few sizes too big and Barbie-themed set of pens.
Ru Bee 2 years ago
Lol .. pathetic attempt from the relatives 🤣 I'd colour in the socks! Actually everyone needs socks . partial win 💓
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Agent of Karma 2 years ago
I just think of it as a bonus gift for someone else that I didn't have to pay for.
Giving someone a gift isn’t just a nice thing to do—it has a tangible positive effect on the givers, too. The American Psychological Association points out that gift-giving activates key reward pathways in our brains. Especially if the recipient is someone who we’re close to!
To put it bluntly: when you spend money on people other than yourself, you boost your own overall happiness. Broadly speaking, the more generous and kind we are toward others, the better we feel. Ironically, there are very selfish reasons to be altruistic.
#4
I was in a Secret Santa gift exchange at work. We did 4 days of little, inexpensive gifts. I received NOTHING but an insincere apology on the last day from the person who was *supposed* to be my Secret Santa. It kinda sucked because it was my first Christmas away from home and my family punished me for not coming home for the holiday by ignoring my existence for a few days. Not a gift, not a card, not a phone call. Happy ending, the next year my Secret Santa was AMAZING and gave me the most thoughtful little gifts, cleverly hidden for me to find on the job. Laura, you're one of the best coworkers I have ever ever had.
Bored something 2 years ago
In a ast job secret Santa we had a $20 budget. I was a library technician in a school. I received $2.50 swimmers ear plugs and a $1.00 card that said "Shh, it's a library." My co library workers received a nice bottle of wine, and a decent size potted fruit tree. Both worth much more, probably twice, the budget.
Neb Skram 2 years ago
we did that at work where the giver was anonymous i gave a fake 1oz gold bar and BOY was the receiver was soooooooo smug thinking it was a real gold bar and was soooooo not smug the next day whining about it being fake and how he was owed a real bar because he planed on buying a new TV with it it was also the office arsehole that made it more fun
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Sonja 2 years ago
I once was in a special circumstance and had to spend Christmas at a clinic. I was there for 5 months and my roommate of that time was raving on the secret santa that was organised by the staff for the patients. I wasn't that keen on the idea. After a while she realised I wasn't very exited and finally got out of me that in all my life in every secret Santa I had participated I had either gotten nothing or really ugly things. Well, that year I got something special. My roomie pestered everyone behind my back until she found out who had drawn my name. Then she talked them into switching, and then she caught my husband after visiting me and roped him in to get me the perfect gift. I still have the beautiful mug she gave me, with a motive from my favourite show, and she's my best friend ever since.
BigCityLady 2 years ago
That’s such a lovely, heartwarming and beautiful act that your best friend was committed in providing you the very best secret Santa experience!! Her feelings of your friendship was important to her and she wanted to show you that in a meaningful way!! I am so happy that you are still best friends today as well!! 💗💗
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Erik Naumann 2 years ago
I once got a gift from my boss at one of these things. It was a laser leveler/measuring tape combo, like so you could hang pictures straight on your wall. The button you'd THINK was the catch/release for the measuring tape was actually used to deploy spikes, so as to adhere it to your wall better. The way it was situated, you'd 100% nail yourself in the hand with those spikes while fiddling with it. I regifted it at a white elephant party to my brother, who immediately stabbed himself in the hand like I did. His contribution was a Kenny Rogers "best of" CD he got at a 7-11, and my whole family sang "The Gambler" for Christmas together. Memories...
Alexandra 2 years ago
Your family punished you for not coming home for the holiday? What kind of family do you have?
Charles McChristy 2 years ago
My coworkers mentioned doing a gift exchange and even mentioned some sort of swap. I shut that down real quick. We just get everyone a tiny gift to show our appreciation and if you want to get something bigger for one of your friends they by all means do it.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
I never got a Happy Ending from a secret Santa. Too bad, I like ice cream Sundaes. (That's what a Happy Ending is... the free Sundae from Friendly that you get when you order an entree. Seriously.)
Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago
There's always that ONE person to ruin the work secret santa. One bratty coworker didn't get her person anything (meanwhile she complained about the gift she received) and so the rest of us chipped in and bought her person a gift card. Still put a huge damper on the entire thing.
Natty Tempest 2 years ago
I spent the maximum on the gift for who I picked... My boss (the guy who I did not ruin the life of for nearly blinding me because he had a kid on the way) gave me an empty cardboard box from the delivery we had in that day. Grabbed it in front of everyone and said "hah! That will do"...
#5
For my 16th birthday, my grandmother gave me a rain bonnet, the kind that is folded like an accordion to the size of a quarter and you buy from a fishbowl on the counter at the drugstore. They are clear plastic and have one snap under the chin. You used to see old ladies with wash and set hairstyles wear them, if they got caught in the rain. It still had the 25-cent price tag on it.
Ten days later, my cousin also turned 16, and granny gave her a new car.
Kat Lyle 2 years ago
On the plus side, OP won't have to visit her in the care home.
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Meowzers! 2 years ago
One of my grandmas would give me a single bar of random soap each year for my birthday and Xmas. Not even a fancy soap, just a generic bar that goes in the bathroom. My brother got a card with £50 and £100 inside for birthday and Xmas. This was from my birth until I was 12 then the gifts stopped as I was too old for gifts by then. My brother continued to get money twice a year until my grandma died several years ago when my brother was in his late 30s. She did say, more than once, that she was disappointed I was a girl as she wanted my parents to have only sons to continue the family name. To add insult to injury I can't even have kids. So yeah, I was just one big disappointment to her. F**k you grandma.
Charles McChristy 2 years ago
What a slap in the face. I hope you got her something similar for her birthday.
SnackbarKaat 2 years ago
Oh what a joy that would bring me, finding something just as cheap or cheaper! My mum has a friend who gifts her cheap stuff, the kinda thing you get at a school tombola or for free when you buy a magazine. My mum always gives her well-thought and decent worth gifts. I told her many times to lower the bar to her friends level...
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
The favoritism might be more about granny's children rather than her grandchildren.
Ron Baza 2 years ago
That would still lead to the following conclusion: F**k Granny.
Load More Replies... Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
I think after 16 years that this is not the first incident. At this stage I'd say "Goodbye, granny. Nice not having to do business with you any more. See you at the funeral."
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Agent of Karma 2 years ago
There is more to this story but shame on Grandma regardless of her excuses.
#6
My divorce papers came in the mail on my birthday, does that count?
MagicJacket 2 years ago
Mine came on my wedding anniversary. To be fair, she did ask if that was a problem, and I told her no, that we both knew that day meant nothing to either of us anymore.
Happy Homemaker 2 years ago
Same here, but considering how my ex tried to end my marriage, I considered it a gift because I was still alive and now I had my freedom too.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
I gave my ex-wife divorce papers in a Christmas card on the stroke of midnight Christmas eve to Christmas day while she was f*cking my no longer best friend on the sofa in the living room. My mom then turned up at the front door to help pack my things and I was gone in less than an hour
Terry Tobias 2 years ago
I have a friend who told me that the day he got his divorce papers in the mail, he actually danced next to the mailbox. Knowing her, I believe him.
“Oftentimes, people refer to it as the ‘warm glow,’ this intrinsic delight in doing something for someone else. But part of the uniqueness of the reward activation around gift-giving compared to something like receiving an award or winning money is that because it is social, it also activates pathways in the brain that release oxytocin, which is a neuropeptide that signals trust, safety, and connection. It’s often referred to as the ‘cuddle hormone,’” Emiliana Simon-Thomas, PhD, science director at the Greater Good Science Center, explains.
According to her, giving and receiving a gift have more or less the same powerful effect, so long as both people care about each other.
#7
The time I realised my ex MIL hated me. She told me all the things the family wanted for Xmas and I spent about a hundred dollars on everyone individually. I woke up Xmas morning to see all the presents already opened and breakfast was eaten. One present was under the tree for me; a dog mug. I'm a cat person
Also i was involved in the family/with her son for 5 years at that point. I was out by may
Charles McChristy 2 years ago
It was your DH as much as it was your MIL. What a trashy family to marry into. So glad you are doing better!
Apachebathmat 2 years ago
My ex MIL wrapped up a jumper I had left at hers accidentally, that’s it, nothing else, they all thought it was hilarious… I DO NOT knock that ornament over on purpose later
CEECEE Myers 2 years ago
I once spent almost $200 on my boyfriend's millionaire parents for Christmas, I was making about $39,000/year. They got me a $4 wall clock and a used book they probably got for a quarter. I liked the gifts but this and my boyfriend's selfishness in other ways had me thinking about the beginning of the end.
Agent of Karma 2 years ago
I had moved in with a boyfriend when he bought a house. I spent $500 dollars on all the decorations. They opened gifts while I was at work. His sister says, "We didn't think you cared about these thing." "B***h I bought that tree and everything on it."
#8
One Christmas, as my wife and I visited her dad and step-mom, I was amazed at the gifts bestowed upon her younger half sisters by her folks: new MacBooks and iPhones were among the presents under the tree. As we were leaving, they handed us a gift, which we opened when we got home. What treasure awaited us? A decorative tin from Costco containing flavored popcorn — which had expired two years prior.
Chihuahua Mama 2 years ago
Expired flavoured popcorn must be a common bad gift, because I have also received this
BooduhCookie 2 years ago
Me too! Several times. My in laws had a stock pile in thier garage
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Bamamom2boys 2 years ago
This sounds exactly like my dad and stepmother. One year, my little sister got a horse. A real horse. I got a tshirt.
Thrillion 2 years ago
Pure speculation, this sounds like Dad was responsible for "his daughter's" gift. MIL bought "her daughter's" gifts. Dads are not always the best gift givers....
Agent of Karma 2 years ago
If Step mom saw it and didn't stop him, that speaks for her attitude as well.
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My honey loves fruitcake. He would be ecstatic.
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Jeff Heise 2 years ago
I would have used the popcorn to ship them a box...filled with nothing but the popcorn.
#9
Not to me, but a coworker was gifted a colon cleanse kit.
Sami-Jo Ross 2 years ago
If this was a birthday gift, it was probably a playful jab at their age.
However, this doesn’t mean that gift-giving is stress-free. Many people are worried about getting the ‘perfect’ gift for their loved ones. Meanwhile, others hope that their presents are going to leave a positive impression. All of this anxiety can dampen the winter holiday mood.
Ideally, we’d all match the presents to other people’s personalities, passions, and current needs. But after a while, it can be tough to come up with something considerate and creative. In these moments, it can help to take a step back and reframe the pressure you’re placing on your shoulders.
#10
I had a Grandma who was obsessed with dieting & consistently attempted to give me advice & try to get me to diet as an overweight teen. One birthday I got a threadbare XXXL shirt from her she picked up at a thrift store & coupons for what was known then as "diet" bread. I was maybe a Large in shirts at the time and was very insulted. I remember unwrapping the box she mailed to me with family around and my father, her son, saying something along the lines of "Christ Mom, why do you act like this with my kids?!" out loud.
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
That would be the last Holiday she would be "alive" to them - Sorry she is dead and living with Satan. cut my mil off when she got mad at me and punished my kid by ignoring him on the holidays - she died alone in a hospital (none of her 5 kids were with her)- my husband passed holding my hand and our Son's
Justin Smith 2 years ago
Screw that. She can go somewhere besides hell. Thats too good for her.
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kitteh floof lover 2 years ago
my mother gave my brother twelve cans of slim fast, each wrapped separately, one christmas
Melissa 2 years ago (edited)
It would have be nice if he'd stopped after the first few and then thrown them away in front of her and continued with Christmas like nothing happened. She was going for a reaction.
Load More Replies... Lene 2 years ago
That grandma sounds like mine. Only, I wasn't even a teenager when she put me on secret powder (slim fast) -diets when on Summer vacation in her vacation house (I was maybe 8yo). Or when she'd (along with my mom and aunt) would calculate my bmi and tell me that I was simply too fat (when I was 6 or 7).
Himory TheDreamer 2 years ago
Dunno the size of an L in this person's country but here that's far from overweight. In fact some "larges" don't fit even my partner who was underweight till very recently.
SnackbarKaat 2 years ago
My sister received 6 cans of bell pepper soup from an aunt. It wasn't even good
Curlz 2 years ago
I don't get the last line? Does this mean her father is not her biological father?
Upil 2 years ago
"my father, her son" in other word : "my father, the son of my granny saying something along the ...."
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My boyfriend once got gifted scrabble from EVERYONE for his birthday. As in, celebrated his birthday with his parents, scrabble, went to visit his cousins, scrabble, went to visit his grandparents, scrabble, he got seven copies of scrabble for his birthday, and no, it was not a funny prank or something, literally just the entire family got him scrabble without checking what other people were getting him. The kicker? He hates scrabble.
BarkingSpider 2 years ago
By the third one I would be hysterical and the poor gift giver would be confused. This is so funny.
Phil 2 years ago
One year for Christmas me, my brother, my dad, and my grandfather all gave each other the same book. I think it was "Timeline" by Michael Chrichton.
QueenKittyCat 2 years ago
Too bad Scrabble isn't Legos. At least then he could have expanded on that gift.
SmooshyFries 2 years ago
I think someone needs to throw a HUGE Scrabble Party and invite all the givers
#12
The gift I gave them last year.
David Paterson 2 years ago
I wish the gifts I give would return to me. They're the things I really like.
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
Don't bother: just give it back again next year. Maybe take (and give) it as a joke. Saves money, time, and nerves.
Yes, the quality of the gift itself isn’t something to ignore. However, it’s all the effort that you put in, as well as the act of giving, that is more important. It’s not the amount of money that you spend, it’s your kindness and thoughtfulness that has to shine through.
So if you feel like your imagination has been completely wrung out of any remaining creative juices, why not keep things simple? Talk to your loved ones, explain the situation, and ask what they’d like for Xmas this year.
#13
Lol my ex bought me a gift card to a steakhouse but I was a vegetarian.
VonBlade 2 years ago
The big texan is a 72 oz Steak, 3 shrimp, baked potato and massive salad. Eat it all within an hour and it's free.
RagDollLali 2 years ago
Not sure why two jackasses downvoted you for stating a literal fact about the picture, so take an upvote from me!
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PunchinelloTX 2 years ago
I’m a vegetarian as well, and I’m frequently given gift cards to steakhouses by passive aggressive people who are trying to, I don’t know, inform me they don’t approve of my hippie lifestyle, I guess. Also, booze. I don’t drink. But, those things make the people to whom I pass them on (explaining I can’t use them), very happy. So, the joke is on the giver.
Kabuki Kitsune 2 years ago
Good steak houses have vegetarian options. So I don't see the issue here.
Ima Manimal 2 years ago
My mom once gave her friend who struggled with alcoholism and was in AA a FLASK
Devon Archer 2 years ago
Most steakhouses have other food than just steak. I go to Texas Roadhouse for the Rolls with honey butter. So delicious.
#14
My uncle Tommy gave me soap and a razor as a Christmas present when I was 13. Not the best message from my weird uncle to a young girl starting puberty.
Kabuki Kitsune 2 years ago
In all probability, Tommy asked his parents for present ideas for a teen girl, and then parents suggested she could use toiletries for shaving her legs, and so on; but didn't give him specific details. I'm willing to bet that Tommy, himself was barely mid 20's.
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
Every year my boyfriends father would get a new electric razor for Christmas- so my BF would get his OLD one ( not cleaned) wrapped as his gift.
#15
An already-scratched off lottery ticket…that lost.
Will Cable 2 years ago
Should have told them it was a winner with 10k as the prize...then wait.
Joe Russo 2 years ago
I was at a holiday party many years ago, and the hosts gave everyone a lottery card, and turned on the reading of the lottery numbers on tv during the party. There was a *very* tense moment when several people said, "But if one of us wins, we're going to share something of the money with everyone here, right? RIGHT?!" And several us were noticeably silent in response. Very tense moments until we all lost. I thought it was hilarious. :)
Michael Largey 2 years ago
It being already scratched really had little effect on your chances of winning.
Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
Oh I hate getting lottery tickets. Since the person giving it to you always says if it is a winner give me half. If I win a few hundred dollars I won't tell them. If you want to give me something give me the cash you would have used to buy it or nothing at all.
Marilyn Holt 2 years ago
dontcha think lottery tickets are dumb gifts anyway? I mean, they cost nothing and chances are you'll win nothing.
Alternatively, sit down and think about what they love the most in life. Maybe they’ve recently picked up a new hobby that they’re always gushing about. Or maybe you remember them complaining about how they can’t find any decent scented candles anywhere. Your gift doesn’t have to be ‘perfect,’ so long as you do your best to show how much you care for the other person. Don’t just buy something at the gas station because you’re desperate!
Meanwhile, if your budget is too tight to splurge on anything big, consider making something using your skills. Though some might find it slightly cheesy, we think that poems, songs, and arts-and-crafts projects can be a ton of fun when done with a lot of cheer and plenty of smiles.
#16
When I was in my late 20s, I received a r*pe alarm key ring from my mother in law at Christmas. For context, I’m a 6-foot tall, fairly muscular bloke. We laugh about it now. She saw “personal alarm” and remembered my wife saying how bad I was at getting up in the mornings; it never occurred to her it wasn’t an alarm *clock* of some description!
Cricketgeeklol 2 years ago
Yes but a little relief to show that some (and I stress the word some) humans have a bit of decency in them
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Molly Whuppie 2 years ago
I know this was meant as light hearted, but 6 foot tall muscular men can still be victims of assault - including the type the alarm was designed for - so imo it's not a terrible gift at all.
#17
My now ex sister in law gave me a clear makeup bag. She made sure to tell me that it was free with her purchase, and that she had thrown it away, but fished it out of the trash to give to me.
Bella Sennei 1 year ago
I'd go: don't bother taking it out of the bin... here, take it and put it right back where it belonged to.
#18
My mom gave me her high school diploma one year for Christmas when I was 24.
Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 2 years ago
had you NOT graduated HS? if not then holy passive aggressive what the hell mom!
Suck it Trebek 2 years ago
What? Did she have dementia or something? I can't understand why someone would give away something like that. Just toss it if you really don't want it.
2 years ago
I took my son (8M) to a friend's(8F) birthday party. Her grandma and grandpa gave her several gifts all wrapped up which appeared to be pieces of used kitchen equipment, like a manual egg beater and a pot lid.
QueenKittyCat 2 years ago
I need more details behind this story. Did OP already graduate by then? Was Mom not int the right state of mind? Did Mumsy & OP get along at this time? Was OP upset as we are in the comments? So many questions after reading a sentence without emotions and context.
#19
For a secret Santa I received two free promotional tickets to the science museum that had already expired.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
See, I can't just not say something to people over that kind of disrespectful sh*t. I would LOUDLY say, "Oh, thank you so much for expired tickets to a place I have never shown ANY interest in visiting. You are SO thoughtful."
#20
My step-dads dad and much younger wife always give us used presents at Christmas.
One year I got a tube of body wash (already a cop out), only to find some crusted product on the squeezy hole.
Another year (13 at the time) I got a pair of Aldi women’s lacy underwear with the size scribbled out (they were XL). The woman came over to me after present time and said ‘I got them for myself but they were too big, I just blacked that out so you didn’t feel embarrassed’
Fkn kuntz I’d rather not get anything than have to say thank you for that
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago (edited)
2nd hand gifts is not always a bad thing - a nice vintage piece of jewelry or a crystal vase.
Karen Startz Richardson 2 years ago
I'm grossing out over here...She apparently tried those panties ON before "gifting them" 🤢
Agent of Karma 2 years ago (edited)
That is just so weird. Just pick up a candy bar at the gas station on the way over. Without a bite taken out of it.
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
On the plus side: if you're still exchanging gifts at least you're now exempt from worrying to get the right ones. Just go on a ten bucks binge at the local dollar tree or thrift store.
#21
My mother has given me the same cheap boxed crystal chess set 3 times for Christmas over the last 12 years. I have no idea why but apparently she keeps buying them every time target or macys puts them out on display at Christmas.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
I accidentally gave my bro in law the same novelty bar of soap twice, but at least that's something you would eventually use up and need to replace.
Sonja 2 years ago
My MIL gives me the exact same sort of shower gel every year... because it's the only one that doesn't give me pimples LOL. But she also gives me a nice shirt and a generously stuffed Christmas card. So I won't complain. Ever since I married, my in-laws put the amount of money they want to give me and my husband together and split it in two so we both get the same amount. I think it's nice. And it's a really generous amount. I usually use mine to buy stuff for my garden. We live in the same house and in spring when I plant my garden I always tell her I used her money and she always looks so happy about it. I think she enjoys seeing what I do with it and it feels to her as if she gave me the plants.
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Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
a bit unrelated but as someone who occasionally enjoys a game of chess, I can't stand playing with glass sets on those glass boards. Give me a nice wooden set anyday. I found my set in a charity shop for about £10, got it home and it turns out it was worth almost £200. It's a bit worn, but to me that just gives it character :)
Agent of Karma 2 years ago (edited)
How old is she? Would it help if you put them on prominent display (all three) next time she visits close to the holidays?
#22
a beautiful angora sweater that was 4 sizes too small and I couldnt exchange it. he wouldnt tell me where he got it.
Mrs Irish Mom 2 years ago
Omg was he telling you to loose weight without actually telling you to loose weight.. if so what a di(k
Kat-Renee Kittel 2 years ago (edited)
In my twenties, my aunt gave me a sweater two sizes too small on clearance without calling mom to see what size I wore. Granted this was before cell phones, but she could have called before Christmas to find out sizes.
Mobey Drunk 2 years ago
For his birthday, buy a pair of steel toe boots and see kick a better idea into his head.
#23
I remember this one as a kid. I vaguely remember being a little kid over at my grandmother's house, and we had a random conversation one day about out how I liked the squishy toilet seats better than the hard toilet seats because they aren't as cold at night. Well, that year, for my birthday, I excitedly unwrapped the present she gave to me, only to discover...a squishy toilet seat. My grandmother gave me a toilet seat for my birthday. I get the logic but.....really, Nana?
Chihuahua Mama 2 years ago (edited)
I don't get why this is a bad gift. She knew it was something you liked and is something very useful. Even if you already have a squishy toilet seat, those thing rip and need frequent replacement ETA: completely missed that this was a kid. My bad
Quirinus 2 years ago
It's a gift for a kid ffs. That's like getting a bag of frozen peas for birthday because I once said I liked pea soup.
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Joe Publique 2 years ago
Yuk. Hygiene. Use a few squares of TP to banish the freezies instead.
BarkingSpider 2 years ago
Not a bad gift given the context, but those squishy seats gross me out.
#24
My mom forgot my birthday one year & bought me a pond light from the thrift shop. it immediately started to smoke & almost caused a house fir. We don't have a pond.
K Tigress 2 years ago
Could be that she might be getting dementia? My mom had a friend who would purchase weird stuff as gifts. One Christmas or was it my birthday, my mother's friend gave me one of those novelty bleeding eye ball candles that was for Halloween as a gift. Apparently she was slowly getting dementia. I still have the candle sitting on my desk to this day. The woman that had the dementia was a very nice woman. So every time I see the candle on my desk, it makes me smile. Sometimes I feel sad as well.
#25
The first year my husband came to Christmas with me on my dad’s side, my daughter and I each got a gift card and they gave him a ziplock with 2 pics of me as a child. He was like WTAF.
#26
45 years ago my husband gave me an ironing board cover for my 1st anniversary. In all fairness, I had mentioned that I wanted one. I guess I should be grateful he listened to me. PS we’re still married and this gifts got better!
Dillon Sizemore 2 years ago
Hey you did say you needed it. If you want something as a gift from a guy tell them because otherwise we will miss the hints at what you want and buy the last thing we heard you said you need.
Steve Hall 2 years ago
As a man, I'd like to say that we are confused about everything all the time.
Liz Downing 2 years ago
My husband has given me many practical gifts because he remembered that I mentioned wanting them. I've loved every one of them because he listens and cares.
#27
Dad's wife bankrupted two businesses where all she sold was Christmas c**p, year round, in a very small town in the middle of nowhere. After the last bankruptcy, she sent us an absolutely hideous nutcracker which is partially broken. Excess stock from her store that didn't sell. We have at least made it a joke in our chosen family where we sneak it into someone's bag on Christmas, and they sneak it back into our house at some point.
#28
A plastic tub of assorted cheap candy like Tootsie Rolls and peppermints from Walmart and a little teddy bear in a paper sack that emblazoned across the front of the sack was, “Get Well Soon”. This was a Valentines Day gift to me from a very cr*ppy high school boyfriend who had been cheating on me with another girl. I was 17 at the time and he was 19. I didn’t find out until a year or so after I dumped him that the girl he had cheated on me with was 12. TWELVE. And he had gotten her pregnant. Her parents had him arrested for statutory rape. Then they forced them to get married. Then they had three more damn kids! So, honestly, now that I think about it, I guess the s****y candy and nonsensical teddy bear wasn’t so bad after all.
Xenon 2 years ago
He should have been made to register as a sex offender. Later the parents made them marry? Doesn't make much sense to me.
Rayne OfSalt 2 years ago
child marriage is legal in most american states, and a victim's parents can force someone convicted of stat rape to marry the victim. It's usually christians in the bible belt who do this.
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David 2 years ago
I pity the 12 year old. It sounds like the family cared more about their "honor" then they did their daughter. "Your boyfriend is a pedophilic pieces of trash so you should marry him" SMH
SadieCat17 (she/her) 2 years ago
Predator, not boyfriend. Kids don't date adults.
Load More Replies... Thrillion 2 years ago (edited)
I'm really sad for their kids... 4 kids living with a man who had no problem going after a 12 year old. What happens when his kids are that age.... Once that line is crossed they never go back, the temptation stays with them... Also, forced marriage is wrong for all the reasons.
Deanna Crichley 2 years ago
A friend from Poland came to stay with us for a while. At the airport, he bought me a gift. A little pink teddy bear that had "it's a girl!" embroidered on its tummy. I said "Peter, do you know what this means? " I was already just laughing. He said"Yes. The bear is a girl. She's pink!".
Happy Homemaker 2 years ago (edited)
Please watch A&E I Was A Child Bride https://www.aetv.com/specials/i-was-a-child-bride-the-untold-story you can hear from women who have gone through this experience.
#29
My mom bought 2nd row concert tickets for the whole family for my 16th birthday, to a country singer they all liked and I despised (I don’t like country generally, and he was one of the worst to my ears). My mom knew I hated his music, but said the “gift” part was getting to spend time with my parents and brother before he went off to college. Sure….
Jonny Dio 2 years ago
They already wanted to go see him, your birthday just came in the wrong day.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
You could have spent exactly the same amount of time with them and your brother doing something everybody liked.
Justin Smith 2 years ago
Or at least something op like, seeing as its their birthday.
Load More Replies... Cyber Returns 2 years ago
Bev bought me Nightwish live concert tickets for my birthday a few years ago while they were touring the UK. She thought I hated it because all I did was stare at the stage, hardly moving. She apologized for the bad gift and I hugged her and told her I loved it (I did) and the reason I hardly reacted was because I was in awe of the special stage effects, the music and that I was seeing my favourite band live! It's one of my best memories ever
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
Should have said "Oh, so you gave yourself a gift.", torn up one of the tickets to signify OP won't go, then left
BarkingSpider 2 years ago
This reminds me of the time my step mom brought home a puppy on my birthday and said it was for me so my dad wouldn't get mad at her. She didn't even let me name him. He disappeared a short time later while I was at my mom's house and I never got an explanation.
Whitefox 2 years ago
Lol, my parents gifted my sis and I tickets to see New Kids on the Block back in the day. I was mortified as I absolutely hated them. Ended up being guilted to going because if I didn't go my sis and my cousin couldn't. I told my sis she'd have to my chores for the summer if I went. I was like 13 and felt like one of the myriad of parents who accompanied their kids. I just sat there the whole-time hating life and laughing at how silly my sis and cousin were acting., They even tried to chase down the tour bus afterwards.
Brian Droste 2 years ago
Sounds like like they got the tickets for themselves instead of for you
#30
I’ve got two. When I was 11 my birthday gift was to move houses - across town, leaving the school I’d always been at and my only friends behind. No joke. The new house was ‘my gift’. Second, when I turned 15 my mother got me Bob the Builder bedsheets. I was a 15 year old girl. I had never even seen Bob the Builder.
Kabuki Kitsune 2 years ago
OP's family were struggling financially... and OP never even realized it. Moving across town, likely to a house with a much cheaper rent, or cost, and schools that don't cost as much tax wise for the kid to go to. Bob the Builder bedsheets because they're on sale, and cheap. I bet OP has other stories like this, where looking back it should be painfully obvious that the family were doing everything they could to save money, and not let the OP realize it.
Imagineer 2 years ago
I think for the price of cheap Bob the Builder sheets, something a little more fitting could have been found. A pair of earrings, perhaps.
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SheamusFanFrom1987 2 years ago
There are some things even Bob The Builder can't fix. Namely poor tastes in gifting...?
#31
My sister got my grandfather’s glass eye and what was even better he cut a hole in it and put a string through it so she could wear it as a necklace.
Wendy Melissa 2 years ago
My mother was a nurse and a former patient gifted her his glass eye. It has provided endless entertainment at parties where it gets snuck into drinks. My daughter now has possession and shares the fun with her friends.
BossyCloud 2 years ago
Did he gift it to her when he died? Why are people giving their glass eyes as gifts? OP's grandpa was clearly alive if he made a hole through it ..
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Joe Publique 2 years ago
My teacher used to take his glass eye out and warm it in his mouth when it was cold outside. :)
#32
I'm a dude, and I received a magazine with Paris Hilton half-naked in it along with a tube of Vagisil. I think it was supposed to be a m*sturbation joke. but it was a really weird gift to get as a teen during Christmas in front of my family.
Whitefox 2 years ago
Oh, man... My nephew came out of the closet as a teen. It did not go well for him. My hubs, myself and his aunt were all very welcoming and ok with it. We even drove in from out of town to reassure him we love him. His dad bought him a pocket P*ssee and lube and had him open it in front of his whole extended family on Christmas morning. I am rarely speechless.. but that did the trick. He grinned leaned over and said that if his mom got a dildough he'd swap with her just loud enough that they could all hear. I nearly peed my self laughing! Gawd I love that young man !
PunchinelloTX 2 years ago
I have questions regarding the Vagisil which is not… Never mind. I’m good.
IndigoViolent 2 years ago
You know it's a weird day when you're thinking, "God I hope whoever bought it just mistook it for lube."
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
I would think that a photo of Paris Hilton in any state of dress would be a very effective guard against self-abuse.
#33
A fur hat, for me. A vegan. An expansive spa day when I was heavily pregnant (no sauna, no hot steam, basically just the pool) Thanks hubby, you really know me.
Big Chungus 2 years ago
To be fair on the spa thing, I would assume you could get maternity massages and facials (I did when I was in 3rd trimester)
Dillon Sizemore 2 years ago
Fur is bad in most cases because the animal is killed for the fur itself, but leather is actually really good because the amount of leather burnt up because the market has gotten smaller because of animals activists that spread the false information that cows were killed for thier skin when 99.9% of leather come from cows killed for meat so no nothing was killed for my leather jacket it's a meat byproduct that would go to waste if not sold because someplace already payed for the meat before the cow was killed.
Mike Rightmire 1 year ago
I do know that people find the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan confusing. Vegetarian: A diet. Don't give them meat to eat. Vegan: A religion, apparently. Don't give them anything having to do with a dead animal.
Salla Jaakkola 2 years ago
As a Finn I went to sauna weekly during my pregnancy, and when my baby was born, we took her there as well (lowest level, not hot). When we went to baby swimming classes, all mothers would go to the sauna with their babies afterwards. Babies also used to be born in saunas here before people had access to hospitals.
#34
My brother once gave me a half-drunk monster and a gas station gift card with like $.20 on it. We were in our twenties.
Samantha Melnychuk 2 years ago
Lol my brother gave me an unwashed themed movie drink cup for Christmas one year. I empathize with you!
Lydsylou (she/her) 2 years ago
This seems like a brother thing to do tho. My brothers would absolutely do that
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
My former stepson (who I couldn't stand) showed up with my son on Mother's Day. He reached into his bag and pulled out a bottle of Jack Daniels that was 2/3 empty. I had quit drinking years before.
#35
My father (old abusive drunk) promised me a car, and some tools for my workshop if I become a hunter... Took me 3 years, but I did it for him. Never heard any congratulations or anything, it took him another 2 or 3 years, to realise that he should do something for me, so he insisted on going to a hunting trip with him and his (over twice my age, I knew no one there before the trip) friends. I was skeptical about the whole trip with my father, but it turned out, the friends "carried" it, and for first 4 days we had fun without my father intervention. On the fifth day there were my birthday... The first thing that dude (my "dad) did, was to get 3 bottles of vodka in the morning, said something about having some party, in the evening. Less than one hour later, he was chugging one bottle alone, without any afterdrink, and calling me little useless s**t, and how regrets impregnating my Mother.... I was 26 years, and crying like a child. He never said "sorry" or anything about it actually. I never had a rifle in hands since then, he made me HATE hunting (also pushed me into several deppression and few S attempts, but i don't know, if this counts as a gifts)
Pferdchen 2 years ago
I was certain the reason for never touching a rifle again was going to be because of how tempted he was to use it inappropriately that day.
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
The gift he "gave" was to show you what a bad example of a human was. and he made you realize you could make YOURSELF in to a better man than he ever could dream of (presumed you are male but either way you would still be the better man)
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
That creep forgot who is going to select his nursing home!
Load More Replies... Suck it Trebek 2 years ago
I'm so sorry that happened to you. I'm sure this wasn't the first time he hurt or let you down. Just know that he's the piece of trash, not you.
Jeff Heise 2 years ago
Surprised he was not "accidentally" shot with his own gun that night...
Agent of Karma 2 years ago
I'm sorry you turned what should have been righteous anger at him against yourself.
Donald 2 years ago
There is no more ethical way to get meat for your family and wild game is far better for the environment and your body than factory made meat. By in large hunters are more environmentally conscious then most people, they have respect for the animals they harvest and apricate the food they eat much more then people who tweet about how evil hunting is. Not to mention the rampant overpopulation of deer in my state leads to over 15k vehicle collisions every year. I would much rather those deer were harvested and used to feed people as opposed to turning into a big red stain on the highway or wandering off into the woods to die from blunt force trauma.
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XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 2 years ago
You do know that a lot of people still hunt to put food on the table right?
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years ago, I mentioned that I wanted to see the disney movie fantasia, so christmas comes around and I get an unmarked VHS tape and they (some aunt or uncle, I don't remember) tell me it's fantasia. so I put it in a player, and I can tell it should have been fantasia, but they tried to copy from one VHS to another and the copy protection ruined the picture. I felt like such an afterthought. they didn't even check the copy to see if it was good before they gave it to me.
Hi 2 years ago
I think a lot of these are impoverished people just trying to give presents. This list is some bad some sad gifts. They might have just been trying.
Meagan Glaser 2 years ago
Why are these comments full of people who think "hmm, that was thoughtless and/or stupid- OH i GET IT they must be POOR "
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This Face Believes You 2 years ago
This may actually be a really thoughtful, but poorly executed, gift. Disney keeps the demand for their older movies high by only re-releasing them one at a time and only for a short period. Illegally recording it may have been the only way to get it for you. There’s also the issue of money. Disney isn’t cheap. It’s unfortunate the copy was below standard, but I wouldn’t assume it was because you’re an after thought. Unless this was a pattern with them, of course.
#37
My niece and nephew gave me a dirty fork a few years back. I still have it in my office being held by my stormtrooper.
MarieTDr 2 years ago
Fifty-five years ago, my young son bought me a ten-cent blue pearl necklace from the corner grocer. (toy necklace) It is a treasured gift of mine. I have a glass-fronted jewelry box and have it hanging where I can always see it. It can bring tears to my eyes.
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Mallory Morrison 2 years ago
My sister gave me a rubber pepper she stole from a grocery store when we were like 16 & 11. We're now 44 & 39 and I have it on a shelf in my kitchen. Every time she comes over we have a giggle about it. What you do when you receive a ridiculous gift really makes or breaks the gift.
Hakitosama 2 years ago
Some friends' baby (she's 18 months old and just the cutest thing that ever walked under the sun) just gave me a piece of the gift warp from her own b-day gift............ I'm seriously thinking of framing it 😭❤️
#38
A CD of his favorite country western songs. I loath country music.
VonBlade 2 years ago
If you haven't found the country songs you like, you haven't heard enough. Sure bro-country can die in a fire, but there are tons of great songs out there.
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 2 years ago
Exactly. I'm not much of a country music fan, but I love me some Bonnie Guitar and Patsy Cline! And don't forget the phenomenal Ms. Dolly Parton is a country singer.
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My mother gifted me her favorite movie on DvD, being full aware that I hated that movie, so she just kept the DvD for herself.
Happy Homemaker 2 years ago
I don’t know really. My stepmom gave me my dead grandmother’s broken camera that she found in the basement for Christmas one year. The look on my Dad’s face when I opened his mother’s camera was just priceless. He asked her why she chose to give me that for Christmas. I was 15. She claimed it was because we didn’t have much money for gifts. Then her 5 year old son opened a brand new $500 BMX bike. Now I knew why we didn’t have that much money for gifts. My dad asked again why she gave me his dead mother’s camera that was broken. She said she thought I would want it for sentimental value. Needless to say he took the camera, my only gift, and I never got a replacement gift. So that was the year that I got nothing for Christmas. I’m so glad I see my family very sparingly. Small doses. Small doses! 😂
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Anna Drever 2 years ago
I’d have kept the DVD and then sold it. Probably get b*gger all for it but at least mum doesn’t get it.
Rai Serl 2 years ago
My 16th birthday, my mom didn't even say happy happy birthday until I got home from work at 9pm. My boss threw me a little party and made my day after me telling her how upset I was. But here's the kicker: I had been begging my controlling, upright mom for permission to dye my hair, so the next day, I get a present the shape of a box of hair dye. I'm so excited... I rip the paper off, and I'm right! It's hair dye! I'm the exact. Same. Color. As my hair.
#40
My late father gave my husband and myself walking canes. We're both able-bodied.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Living room dueling matches, and the loser does the dishes.
Load More Replies... David 2 years ago
Maybe you should be less concerned about the gift itself and more concerned that dead people are sending you gifts. /S (were the canes in his will or something?)
Rayne OfSalt 2 years ago
My friends got me one when I turned 40 as a joke. Turned out to be very handy, as I wrecked my hip in a car crash the next year.
Gabrielle Domingues 2 years ago
The morning of my 50th birthday I got a notification that a delivery of 50 balloons was coming, and I was thrilled for something big and fun... This is what was delivered: F53otECXAA...c1fd7f.jpg 
#41
My ex gifted me a short film script for my 19th birthday about him being interrogated by the police after I had been r*ped and killing my fictional r*pist. (I’ve never been assaulted in real life btw). After I read it, he said “I wrote it for you to show you I’d do anything for you, I’d k*ll for you.” It was pretty disturbing and overall the worst gift I’ve ever received.
Roxy222uk 2 years ago
It's absolutely one thing to have these kind of thoughts (it happens in all types of loving relationships, e.g. parent imagining something happening to their child), that isn't disturbing. But telling the person about it is moving the boundary. Turning it into a script and expecting them to take pleasure in the whole set up is a big red flag that someone doesn't understand boundaries very well at all.
Lorem Ispum 2 years ago
Would be sweet if the crime was something like stealing, and the killing part was replaced with the person just being turned into the police, but like this it sucks.
#42
A cup that was stolen from The Spaghetti Factory and a package of Halloween napkins.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Tell the giver that you returned the cup to The Spaghetti Factory, but the Halloween napkins came in very handy during the toilet paper shortage.
#43
A used hairbrush from my aunt-that she told me she picked up at a garage sale.
Joe Publique 2 years ago (edited)
Comes with free head lice. Hundreds of gifts for the price of one!
#44
A half a pack of granny panties (xxl) from a boyfriend's step mom. His poor sister got the other half-yes those were a pack of his step mom's undies. I thought it was funny (for me) but incredibly cruel to BF's sister.
#45
A live turtle for my wife 1,500 miles from our home. Needed birth cert, vet checkup, and a TSA approved lock and carrier. Funny how none of this was available on Christmas Day. Thankfully we found a reputable shop that was open the next day and willing to take the little guy off our hands.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
Neeeever give someone a pet for Christmas unless it's by prior agreement.
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
IMHO if you want to give a pet as a gift - Give them a gift certificate from your local humane society/ pet shelter. LOTS of animals that need homes are there - and they can take their time and find the right forever friend.
brandyy17 2 years ago
never gift a pet unless its planned or the person asked for it and is ready. i asked for a dog for years wen i was a kid. one day my parents got me a gold fish wen i was 7. 3 years later it passed away over the summer. my birthday is in december. the same year my fish died was the same year i got a puppy for my bday. once i was an adult i learned the fish was a test to see if i can care for a dog. the fact i made a carnival goldfish live for 3 years shocked them and considered me more then ready. that dog lived for 17 years and was my best friend of all time.
Roxy222uk 2 years ago
Just to check - does this mean turtle or tortoise? I don't know with Americans as it seems to be common to have exotic pets like turtles, but also I know they call tortoises turtles for some reason. A pet tortoise would be awesome. However no one should ever give a surprise gift of a pet, that's just cruel to all involved.
Roxy222uk 2 years ago
To differentiate: tortoises can retract their head and limbs into their shells, but turtles cannot. Aside from the fact that tortoises live on land and turtles live in the water.
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My ex boyfriend gave me a sexy Santa Claus lingerie set for Christmas. Of course in the presence of my family 🙃 I was mortified and that was even before I saw my parents’ faces lol
Featherytoad 2 years ago (edited)
Unless the girlfriend asks for lingerie, he's buying it for his own enjoyment.
#47
Not me but a dear friend had a boyfriend of 6ish months. She’d recently celebrated his birthday with a nice home cooked meal, flowers, a creative date night, and a jersey for his favorite team. A month later was her 30th birthday. No dinner, no flowers, all she received was… a box of k cups from Wal Mart $9.97 on rollback.
#48
When I was about 13, my grandma gave me a card for Valentine’s Day that had a paper doily in it. The card had a note that told me to “enjoy the doily”. I don’t expect a gift or anything for Valentine’s Day, and I recognize the card was a nice gesture. It’s the comment telling me to “enjoy the doily” that I won’t ever forget. What would a 13 year old boy do with that? I was really more confused than anything. Still am. I am 41 now, this has stuck with me for a while.
David 2 years ago
Was grandma senile? I have some cotton doilies. Good for protecting furniture from some art and sea shells sitting on them. But I chose to use them as an adult. A paper doily is pretty much useless.
Robyn Acker 2 years ago
Not useless, you put a cupcake on it & have high tea :D
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ScarletRos 2 years ago
My step grandmother once gifted me a cotton doily “for my dressing table” and in the card I thought it said “dolly” (I was about 8 so I’d have loved a doll) and I was hell confused until I asked my mother where the doll was and she explained.
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
The cotton doily might have been made by your step g ma. It is/ was a popular craft.
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A rock. Not a fancy gemstone, just a rock.
David 2 years ago
Context matters. I still have some of the rocks my grandkids gave me when they were little because THEY thought it was a special rock(s).
junipurrrrr 2 years ago
They are special rocks! (A former and current rock collector who was born plastic containers upon plastic containers of rocks.)
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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
Tbh a rock is great compared to all these other stuff on the list. If I got a rock and it was a suitable size, at least it would’ve gone in the aqua tank
Biana Weatherford 2 years ago
A coworker gave me a rock. I looked at him, waiting for the punch line. There wasn't one. But within a year, I had a collection of great rocks adorning my desktop. Still...when a geologist gives you a rock....what's the hidden message?
DarkGlassSphere 2 years ago
It's in a shape of a heart... Was it a gift in the middle of a random day, or a special date?
JoNo 2 years ago
Unfortunately that may not be the actual rock, rather a stock photo.
Load More Replies... Jennifer Johnson 1 year ago
i have a rock from the 1st auction my husband and I ever went to. i wrote the date on it and keep it at my desk. and yes the auction was my idea probably due to Storage Wars
#50
Got measuring cups after dating someone for 6 years. One set of plastic measuring cups.
Kevin Snyder 2 years ago
My wife got me measuring cups last Christmas. It's exactly what I wanted! And no, I'm not kidding. We've been married a LONG time...
MarieTDr 2 years ago
I had a co-worker who got ribbed mercilessly because he bought his wife a weed-whacker for her birthday. He kept saying, "But that's what she wanted."
Load More Replies... Alexandra 2 years ago
When I was dating, I made it very clear that any household gifts would mean an in-depth discussion about where this relationship was going. Just because I'm a woman, it doesn't mean that I pine for a cheese grater or a coffee machine. Men who give their SO that, unless their SO's want them to, just don't know their SO that much. My humble opinion.
#51
MIL gave me visibly used clothes, some with stains or pilling, books with someone else’s writing in it, puzzle with missing pieces, and expired candy. All for garage sales or dumpster diving. She refuses to buy new. And no they aren’t hurting for money at all. Does the same with my kids. It’s so annoying and weird. Like I will gladly accept some cool finds on a random day. But saving this junk for a birthday or Christmas gift? Makes me feel real special, thanks.
Kimberly Young 2 years ago
I've absolutely given gifts from thrift stores, but it's always in decent shape and stuff I know the person will like. For example, my nephew loves wrestling, so one year we gave him a huge box filled with wrestling action figures we'd thrifted. He loved it!
Suck it Trebek 2 years ago
That's when you have the conversation where you say this year we aren't exchanging gifts. We just want to enjoy the holidays with the family.
#52
One Christmas, my mother in law bought me a small Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo plushie. We used to place it on top of our Christmas tree each year in lue of a star. I later learned that this gift was meant as an insult as years later she was p**s drunk at a family party and let it be known that she only bought it for me because "I upset you, so I bought you a Hankey" Fot context on how she "upset me" was that we tried to establish some boundaries and asked her to stop binge drinking in front of our preteen kids as she would start digging at us and the kids would always say Grandma was acting weird or different that day/night.
#53
No worsts for me so far thankfully, but one of my friends once said he received a cold ball of spaghetti wadded up in foil for his birthday when he was 7 from a family member.
SuperTails1008 2 years ago
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#54
MIL got a painting of the lamb of God from her sister and they had the whole family’s names painted on the front, my name was painted on the a*****e.
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
Take a moment to read about WHO really rules the body - it is NOT the brain
#55
My sister used to always get constant phone calls, all day long, and she was never at home. This was way before everyone had cell phones, so getting ahold of someone was tougher. Anyway, I never really bothered to write down any information about who was calling or whatever, because I guess I just didn't feel like it was my job, and we didn't have pen and paper just lying around the house. Well, my sister generally did not give me birthday gifts, so imagine my surprise that year when she did. Excited, I opened the gift to discover...a telephone Iog book, so that I could keep a written record of everyone that called her.
Eric Sandoval 2 years ago
Here unpaid PA, there unpaid PA, everywhere unpaid PA!
Load More Replies... Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
Thank you, It will be $1 for every message you receive payment in advance..
Hey! 2 years ago
When our middle child, a daughter, turned teenager, she was the one answering all the phone calls. When she went away during summer, we put a message on our voicemail to leave a message at their own risk, saying our daughter was out of town; it was better to call back at another time. That same summer, my husband had a book signing at a local book store, and when we came in to check how the arrangements were doing, the man was about to call us back, after leaving a message at his own risk. We had a good laugh and explained what was going on.
Dillon Sizemore 2 years ago
I would of just removed the phone from the hook if that was her private phone line as soon as she leaves for the day after that. Oh sorry you didn't get any calls today. What some guy was supposed to call to set up a date, I'm sorry but why would you leave when you knew he was calling.
#56
I received a cheap plastic salad bowl with a lid…. There no food I hate more then salad 🥗 You don’t win friends with salad.
Lydsylou (she/her) 2 years ago
Always swap salad for alcohol because no good story starts with someone eating lettuce
Biana Weatherford 2 years ago
I don't know about that....have you seen pictures of people eating salad? They are always laughing! Maybe lettuce is a comedian.
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Hi 2 years ago
Sorry someone down voted this. I'd give you a double up vote if I could.
Load More Replies... #57
A bolo tie. The second christmas with my girlfriend she gave me a bolo tie and nothing else. I NEVER really dress up, and when I do its pretty casual as I'm blue collar and dont have fancy clothes. And I'm definitely not some cowboy wanna be. Out of all the things she knows I like, I got a bolo tie.
Suck it Trebek 2 years ago
No one should ever get a bolo tie for any holiday. Or anything really.
#58
When I was a kid, a shirt with a dot matrix picture of me screenprinted on it from Sears. Why?! (70s)
#59
Aside from the turtle neck I was expected to be excited about at age 3, I’d have to go with the book on how to be racist. I’m still stunned at the audacity for either of these gifts. At least it wasn’t the same year.
Sian Edwards 2 years ago
Mein Kampf, a KKK members handbook, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the list is endless.
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#60
A $10 hat when that person gave my twin a $150 bag.
Alexandra 2 years ago
Yep, the reason being that this person clearly lacks a moral compass.
Load More Replies... #61
A Juice Box Holder with a belt clip. As in, you put your juice box in it, on your belt.
Lorem Ispum 2 years ago
Not a bad gift for some people, for some an awful gift. Depends on how much you like silly novelties. I would love that.
#62
A boyfriend that I had to guilt to come see me for my birthday stopped at a dollar store to get me a card and a little make up kit. I was 29 years old and i don't wear makeup. He didn't even bother to sign the card. I stayed in that relationship for another 10 months lol
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
Why do some men refuse to sign cards? My husband never signed them unless I brought it back to him and MADE him sign it. I have found a stack of cards un signed that I am pretty sure he had given me over the years ( married 42 years)
#63
My mom gave me tooth whitening paste last year in my stocking. Only gave it to me.
mommamarmar 2 years ago
Sounds like mom's getting a mustache bleaching kit for Christmas this year.
MarieTDr 2 years ago
Your comment goes to the top of my list of great comebacks.
Load More Replies... Jennifer Johnson 1 year ago
i don't know if I'd be more upset for getting it or the fact that I can't use them on my teeth
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
Gee MOM I saw you really need botox treatments - you are looking OLD
#64
My childhood karate dojo had a large Christmas party one year and everyone had a secret santa. My brother got a cool bo staff and I got...a used barbie camera (I'm a man). I was definitely bummed out.
Lorem Ispum 2 years ago
I just want to say that you can like Barbie if you are a man. I understand you dont, just saying
Charles McChristy 2 years ago
Not even close to ATM machine, lol. Bo requires context. Bo could mean more than one thing, but if you say Bo Staff everyone knows what you mean. Not everyone trains in martial arts.
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#65
When I first got married many years ago to my first wife my aunt and uncle were invited. Their wedding gift to us is a brown vase that had a small crack in it that had obviously been picked up at someone's garage sale or something like that.
#66
A t-shirt that said "fast food removal service" it was a secret Santa present from a coworker who didn't like me much.
#67
Husband left 2 days before my birthday. It was a surprise.
#68
My grandmother once mailed me a shoebox with a large bag of M&M’s and a dead Venus fly trap…. I had to ask her what is was it was since it was so wilted and decayed I couldn’t figure it out. I still laugh about that and it’s been over 2 decades now. I still miss her quirkiness.
#69
For secret Santa at work, I wrote on my paper I didn't want candles. The first gift I opened from my secret Santa? Candle. Am I a joke to you?
#70
My wife still claims i was cruel gifting my daughter canned unicorn meat. It even came with extra sparkles :(
David 2 years ago
My oldest granddaughter would have been traumatized by a gift like this when she was younger. She took things very literally. Hypothetical - but if I had said something like, "Wow! It's raining cats and dogs out there! They are really landing hard. I think it's breaking their legs." She would have been bawling for the hurt cats and dogs. I learned to be careful not to joke about such things because "obviously just a joke" was not obvious to her. She wasn't stupid - just took things quite literally.
Roxy222uk 2 years ago
To be honest, joking about animals breaking their legs wouldn't work for a lot of people, although they'd have understood that it wasn't true.
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A large box of beat up old shoes from a thrift store. Assorted sizes, none fitting. Birthday present from my well off mom
Rae North 2 years ago
My mom did this c**p once, huge box (that smelled upon opening), different sizes of things I wqould never wear, I'm 5'8 and there was also a Petite Sized blouse. Wine bottle earrrings after attending rehab, etc. Fortunately, I called her out on all of it and explained that gifts from her weren't like gifts, just things she imagined me or a younger her wearing.
Alexandra 2 years ago
Did you know that where I live, low-income people tend to donate more to various charities than people who are well-off? Apparently, as soon as you are well-off, you lose the ability to appreciate that other people struggle on a daily basis and that having money is all well and good, but that sharing puts value into money.
#72
A Clinique makeup kit from my ex's second step mom. We all hated her. I don't wear makeup, at all. And it looked like one of those "free gift set" ones.
#73
A long-ago boyfriend gave me a used handbag. It was an old-lady style. I'm pretty sure it came from his mother's discard pile.
#74
A big cardboard box of Atari games from a friend when I was 14. I didn’t have an Atari. They were vintage even back then so no one had one. A size XXL shirt from my b***h sister in law. I wore a M at the time but she said she “had to guess” my size.
#75
A box of chocolates with nuts in it (I'm severely allergic to nuts).
#76
For my graduation of high school I got a trip to California where I was proceeded to be enrolled into a religious camp for a week. only able to do one thing I wanted, rushed, when we stayed for another couple of days. And my dad and his girlfriend got Into a fight because he was cheating and tried to drag me and her daughter into it
#77
I did a Secret Santa thing in the dorms my freshman year. I was gifted a poster that was very obviously just taken off the wall. It had thumbtack holes in the corners and everything. It wasn't even a cool poster either; it was some dumb Family Guy poster.
Jilltdcatlady 2 years ago
My old job had a good angle on Secret Santa. We drew names and the office manager kept a list of who had who. She then asked each of us what we liked-ish and told our pick. Nobody knew who or exactly what, but it was still a surprise.
Load More Replies... #78
White gold earrings. They were from my ex-husband. We separated not long after. I did not, and never intended to get my ears pierced. Still don't have them pierced 18 or so years later.
Alexandra 2 years ago
But still poor in taste, which is what counts. Money is easy; manners are not.
Load More Replies... #79
for my 12th birthday my parents turned our garage into an art studio for my sister. i just recieved books:/ and thats fine! but i was a 12 year old with severe adhd and i couldnt read for longer than 5 minutes without being distracted or losing complete focus
#80
I used to be bullied in high school, mostly because I had an eating disorder. So when we did secret Santa, one of the girls who bullied had my name and gave me mouldy bread with some pens stuck in it
ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago
My high school did events like this. I’m certain there was a Secret Santa for each year I was there. There were 7 of us in my graduating class and under 100 students total K-12.
Load More Replies... Alexandra 2 years ago
Well, there are a number of places where these pens should have gone instead....a pen holder, for instance.
Lara Verne 2 years ago (edited)
I high school, we used to give each other gag gifts. My friend gave me plush Pikachu, I gave her coloring book for children.
#81
A flute for Christmas and I didn't even know how to play I cried I got it as a gift at a Christmas party.
Joe Publique 2 years ago
And you didn't consider the beautiful journey that is learning to play a musical instrument? Fair enough if that's not your thing, but not a 'terrible' gift by any means.
Rayne OfSalt 2 years ago
You seem like the kind of person that gives a blind kid a paint-by-numbers kit.
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#82
Fish and tackle box button covers. These dumb things that you are supposed to slide onto buttons for a button up shirt. I'd imagine they would have been too heavy and and just fallen off. I was about 8 years old and didn't fish.
#83
One year for Christmas, my SO at the time gave me a 42 inch, black leather, studded belt. I was 5’0” and weighed 100 pounds. 😖🤬
Charles McChristy 2 years ago
When life hands you an oversized black studded belt, make black studded bracelets.
Phil 2 years ago
Yeah, bracelets.... that's what I thinking too. I totally wasn't thinking cuffs....
Load More Replies... #84
My mother gave me a stuffed octopus for my 28th birthday when I was practically homeless
#85
My great grandmother got me fish magnets for Christmas, even though I had never shown any interest in fish. They were also of dollar store quality. The next year I got a pack of socks from her. They were size 5-8, I wear size 13.
#86
Trivial Pursuit, specifically because I said not to buy it when asked. Person who got it for me then goes play it and wonders why I'm not joining in. The other one was a very kitsch decanter with shot glasses that came in a car and was a music box. It was made worst that every three seconds I had to hear how nice it was. The person who gave it basically cleared off a shelf to put it front and centre in my bedroom.
Alexandra 2 years ago
And that's okay, but it's not okay when a) you specifically mention you don't like Trivial pursuit and b) it's someone the giver likes and not the receiver.
Load More Replies... #87
Car keys.
To a toy VW Bus.
#89
My sister gave me a small food processor for Christmas last year. I didn't even need it, but when did decide to open it months later, it was covered in dust and didn't work. It was sealed so not sure what was up with that. I assume someone returned it to Amazon, and they packed it up and sold it as new. Either way, it was a s****y gift.
#90
When I was 10 my Aunt sent me a horse shaped plastic shoe horn for Christmas.
Charles McChristy 2 years ago
I still have the shoehorn/lint brush my cousin gifted me when I was 8. At the time I was like, wth, but now I love it, though I have no idea how I've held on to it after losing nearly everything else.
#91
A shovel, and I already owned a shovel. Thanks mom!
#92
For my 30th this year my parents wrapped up a bunch of things I’d left at their house from past christmases that I hadn’t wanted (cheap small cutting boards, a f*****g shower curtain, scrubbing brushes for carpet in my hardwood only home) and gifted it to me. They’d also that Christmas got me silver earrings when I only wear gold and an apron with my full name on after I’ve spent 20 years going by a nickname. Some laugh.
Charles McChristy 2 years ago
So, Instead of saying "thank you" you just left the gifts behind like an ungrateful child. Yeah, we all know who the AH is here...
Ginger Grumpybunny 2 years ago
Who says they didn't say "thank you" before abandoning their gifts?
Load More Replies... Alexandra 2 years ago
Look, what if we all decided not to pretend to like presents we don't like?
Kevin Snyder 2 years ago
My grandmother gave me a used card for Christmas once. She cut out a piece of paper and glued it over the greeting, and wrote a greeting to me. She died of cancer a month later. This was 48 years ago, and I still remember. I miss you, Nana.
Load More Replies... #93
A cologne I didn't like I don't even like cologne It looked expensive, so I felt bad for never using it
David 2 years ago (edited)
An indicator that karma is real - I have both given and received Old Spice. LOL! Me as a kid to a step dad in the late 60s or early 70s and received it from a grandchild many years later. As a little kid I thought I was giving a nice gift and fortunately stepdad was polite about it. Last Saturday I saw it on the shelf in - I think it was Walmart - and thought, "wow, they are still pushing that stuff
Robyn Acker 2 years ago
I gave my uncle Old Spice every year ! No way he could use that much :D
Load More Replies... #94
A harambe sweater, "Cause I know you like memes." Goddamn it mom.
Dane 2 years ago
For context, Harambe was a gorilla in a US zoo - a young child got into the enclosure, and zoo-keepers had to kill the gorilla to protect the child.
#95
It was my 22nd birthday and I was in the backseat while my boyfriend asked his sister if he could stop at Walmart to get me a birthday gift she responded “Dude, she’s in the car”. As pissed off as I was, I was going to get my birthday hair done later so I blocked it out. He texted me to close my eyes, puts something in the trunk. When we got to the house, I was surprised with fuzzy socks, a cup, 1 rose, and 4 cupcakes. I’m usually a grateful person but we had a traumatic family death and moved across the country together. He made GREAT money, but to get fuzzy socks, a cup, and one flower? It was over about a month after that 😵💫
Lara Verne 2 years ago
Well, at least he gave you something nice, even if it didn't cost fortune. And it wasn't intentionally offensive.
#96
My husband gave me a netti pot for Christmas once. And a $130 iron. And a Roku which was basically an “us” gift. All in the same Christmas. I got him concert tickets for a band he really liked.
JoMeBee 2 years ago
Downvoters suck. I don't particularly like the comment, but it didn't need the downvoted. And yes, I know what's next...
Load More Replies... #97
A set of dishes from my boyfriend when I was in my late teens. I was on my own so it made sense in that regard, but clearly it was something his mother picked up and zero effort had gone into the gift. I drove to his place and left it in his car.
#98
A sake/raki drinking set. I never drink that. Obviously something picked up from the back of a closet right before leaving for my house
#99
A used pencil wrapped in newspaper from a classmate when I was in preschool. Didn’t know how to react, still don’t.
David 2 years ago
Maybe come to terms with the fact you were both in PRESCHOOL ?? Not very many 4 year olds have mastered gift giving.
Roxy222uk 2 years ago
Yeah, that one seems like they liked you and wanted to give you something, and this is what they could come up with on their own.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
Give a preschooler a pencil and a sheet of newspaper, and you'll be amazed what he'll come up with.
#100
A leather baseball hat, from my mom. I don't even wear hats often.
Lorem Ispum 2 years ago
Not too bad, but not a good gift really. Doesn’t deserve to be on the worst gifts ever list, just a bad gift.
#101
An English dictionary. English is my first language.
TeenieMeanie 2 years ago
I’ve been asking for an Oxford English Dictionary for years (the one that is weighty enough to double as a blunt instrument and comes with its own stand). My husband and family think I’m joking for some reason.
Load More Replies... David 2 years ago
eye of the beholder. English is my first language as well but I still have the Unabridged (English) Webster's dictionary my grandmother gave me for my 7th BD. She was a librarian and she knew I loved to read / words / etymology. It also had tons of extra info in the back after the Zs. These days I tend to google rather than go to the bookshelf but back in the 60s it was a pretty bomb gift and it is still a fond memory. I'm sure I got some other gifts that day but it is that dictionary I still have / still remember.
Charles McChristy 2 years ago
If you don't think you need a dictionary, you definitely need a dictionary.
Herringbone 2 years ago (edited)
So you already knew all the words? Aren't you clever? English is my first language, but I have half a dozen dictionaries, which I use constantly. This is an excellent present.
Joe Publique 2 years ago
This is silly. A dictionary is an excellent gift. English is my first language and I have multiple dictionaries/thesauruses.
The Starsong Princess 2 years ago
A dictionary used to be a common gift for a high schooler, pre internet.
#102
I was with a guy for 5 years who gifted me a choker for Christmas one year. For one... I never wear chokers. Two...the metals bits were gold colored and I only wear silver colored jewelry. Three... The rest of it was a brown lace and it had a fairy charm on it. I wear black and neons. I don't think I've ever owned something brown in my wardrobe. Not even a pair of shoes. No brown eyeshadow. Literally nothing brown. The choker itself wasn't hideous or anything, don't get me wrong. But I couldn't understand how he decided on THAT for me. It's as if no thought was out into it whatsoever. It felt like he didn't know anything about me. And that hurt. And it's the reason why it's still the worst gift someone has ever given me lol. I'm the easiest person in the world to shop for. Anyone in my life will tell you that. And the man who claimed to love me bought me something I wouldn't wear in a million years. Just that. No other gift. He didn't even wrap it. I sometimes wonder if he had just picked it up on the way to my house xmas eve
TheElementalGod️️ 2 years ago
"the metals bits were gold colored and I only wear silver colored jewelry" man he dodged a bullet!
Destiny Kruse-Brainard 2 years ago
I feel like some of these are just from people who aren't good at gift giving. They're not malicious or cruel, just misguided.
Ginger Grumpybunny 2 years ago
"I've never actually received a terrible Christmas present but I want to join in so I'll just tell you about one that was my "worst" because I prefer people to get me more of the same kind of stuff I already have instead of taking a chance on something different that they thought I might like."
What do you think ?
Joy 2 years ago
This just happened yesterday. My husband and I are fixing up the house we bought a few months ago. We just had 2 light fixtures installed. He pointed up at one of them and say that it was my Christmas gift this year. I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but that kinda stung, lol. Btw, I got him a bench press with weights.
Bored something 2 years ago
Return it. Tell him the other light installation is his.
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Weasel Wise 2 years ago
My "lovely", religiously zealous parents would cram a bunch of Jesus down our throat, make us go to every hyper boring candle lit service for weeks leading up to xmas. I, solo, as a child would unpack the shìtty plastic tree and decorate it cuz nobody else wanted to. Come xmas day, there would be big, heavy gifts for us kids to open...and to further the torment, only one person at a time could open a gift and my parents always went first...and my mother would hymn and haw, shaking the wrapped gift for easily 10 minutes per gift, simply to drag out the time and torment us kids cuz we weren't allowed to open our stuff until she was done. To top off our "celebration of our Lord's birthday ", we would finally be allowed to open the big heavy gifts....only to find things like bricks and rocks and rolls of toilet paper. ...if we DID get something we enjoyed (like the cheap, depressed looking Dollar Store Barbies), those were used as a weapon and would be thrown away while we weren't home
Olivia Mansfield 2 years ago (edited)
Omg so sorry that you had so much evil happening ,They are Not parents,This is why I ducking HATE Religious hypocrites fascists. Most are disgusting like them.
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Little Wonder 2 years ago
One of my exes who loved me "just the way I was" gave me a gym membership because "You're getting kinda chunky". Thanks darling.
Ralph Watkins 2 years ago
One year my wife's family sent her birthday present a month late. Her brother got his on time. Apparently they forgot my wife's date of birth. My wife is a twin.
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
I sent my best friend (who's currently at work in Japan) a Steam key for Baldur's Gate 3, and she responded by sending me a quite large and realistic naked anime figurine. I now know more about Dio Brando than I ever wanted to. Honestly, it's not a bad gift, I like the character, but where do you put something like that without everyone seeing it? xD
KesTheExquisite 2 years ago (edited)
Sooooooo - wrong venue but I do not use any other Social Media - does anyone else get bummed out when BP starts a thread and it is called 100 Facts You Never Knew Before - and you scroll through, and scroll, have a little giggle, furrow your brows at some twit commenting something pants - scroll some more, find one you want to comment on- comment on it. Then BP edits the whole thread so you get a bunch of likes on your comment, but you can’t read any of them because the poster has changed the thread to “25 Facts You Never Knew!” - am I the only one that gets annoyed by this?
witchling 2 years ago
When I was 6 I bought w box of different colored nail polishes for my aunt. It was a big deal for me to pick out all the presents I was giving people that year and I was so proud of the gifts I gave!! Ten years later I hat that very same box back. The polish was all separated and were unusable. Still, it was better than the 3 year old daily planner she gave my mom. FYI my aunt was extremely well off, just stingy.
Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago
For me, it was crafting scissors. Like a long fabric roll of pockets with a different pair of crafting scissors that could cut different border designs (zigzag, wavy, etc.) Now, this isn't a TERRIBLE gift, but I was 10 and very confused because I did not ask for crafting tools at all, never showed an interest in crafting, and was caught off guard so much I know my thank you sounded fake as can be. I used the scissors once to make a project board for school.
Joy 2 years ago
This just happened yesterday. My husband and I are fixing up the house we bought a few months ago. We just had 2 light fixtures installed. He pointed up at one of them and say that it was my Christmas gift this year. I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but that kinda stung, lol. Btw, I got him a bench press with weights.
Bored something 2 years ago
Return it. Tell him the other light installation is his.
Load More Replies... Weasel Wise 2 years ago
My "lovely", religiously zealous parents would cram a bunch of Jesus down our throat, make us go to every hyper boring candle lit service for weeks leading up to xmas. I, solo, as a child would unpack the shìtty plastic tree and decorate it cuz nobody else wanted to. Come xmas day, there would be big, heavy gifts for us kids to open...and to further the torment, only one person at a time could open a gift and my parents always went first...and my mother would hymn and haw, shaking the wrapped gift for easily 10 minutes per gift, simply to drag out the time and torment us kids cuz we weren't allowed to open our stuff until she was done. To top off our "celebration of our Lord's birthday ", we would finally be allowed to open the big heavy gifts....only to find things like bricks and rocks and rolls of toilet paper. ...if we DID get something we enjoyed (like the cheap, depressed looking Dollar Store Barbies), those were used as a weapon and would be thrown away while we weren't home
Olivia Mansfield 2 years ago (edited)
Omg so sorry that you had so much evil happening ,They are Not parents,This is why I ducking HATE Religious hypocrites fascists. Most are disgusting like them.
Load More Replies... Little Wonder 2 years ago
One of my exes who loved me "just the way I was" gave me a gym membership because "You're getting kinda chunky". Thanks darling.
Ralph Watkins 2 years ago
One year my wife's family sent her birthday present a month late. Her brother got his on time. Apparently they forgot my wife's date of birth. My wife is a twin.
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
I sent my best friend (who's currently at work in Japan) a Steam key for Baldur's Gate 3, and she responded by sending me a quite large and realistic naked anime figurine. I now know more about Dio Brando than I ever wanted to. Honestly, it's not a bad gift, I like the character, but where do you put something like that without everyone seeing it? xD
KesTheExquisite 2 years ago (edited)
Sooooooo - wrong venue but I do not use any other Social Media - does anyone else get bummed out when BP starts a thread and it is called 100 Facts You Never Knew Before - and you scroll through, and scroll, have a little giggle, furrow your brows at some twit commenting something pants - scroll some more, find one you want to comment on- comment on it. Then BP edits the whole thread so you get a bunch of likes on your comment, but you can’t read any of them because the poster has changed the thread to “25 Facts You Never Knew!” - am I the only one that gets annoyed by this?
witchling 2 years ago
When I was 6 I bought w box of different colored nail polishes for my aunt. It was a big deal for me to pick out all the presents I was giving people that year and I was so proud of the gifts I gave!! Ten years later I hat that very same box back. The polish was all separated and were unusable. Still, it was better than the 3 year old daily planner she gave my mom. FYI my aunt was extremely well off, just stingy.
Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago
For me, it was crafting scissors. Like a long fabric roll of pockets with a different pair of crafting scissors that could cut different border designs (zigzag, wavy, etc.) Now, this isn't a TERRIBLE gift, but I was 10 and very confused because I did not ask for crafting tools at all, never showed an interest in crafting, and was caught off guard so much I know my thank you sounded fake as can be. I used the scissors once to make a project board for school.
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