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OK. I will never forget the worst gift of my life. Lol its so petty I feel bad for even telling this story.
In kindergarden we had to draw names for Christmas. For the name I drew, I went with my mom and we bought the coolest glass Snoopy bank - it was painted, it was awesome. I figured since I was bringing something cool, I just knew I would get something cool in return. The day arrived for our Christmas party, and I got my present - from this dude who spelled my name sahrahara (instead of sarah). I ripped open the paper...and to my surprise, I had gotten a 39 cent Jesus coloring book! I was steamed! How many colors can you even use in a religious coloring book other than brown and green?? Well there was scene...as I tried to take my snoopy bank back...anywho, parents: do not give a coloring book to your child to give as a present. it sucks. i could understand if thats all she could afford, but i highly doubt it - her parents were loaded. bah humbug ;) |
Bad Gifts
This past year, I gave my Secret Santa a gift collection that was arranged in a nice handbag from Victoria Secrets, and what did I get...
A pair of pearl earrings that were valued at ? it is too embarrasing to say.. Nevertheless, I am a grateful individual but "DANG" a couple more $$$$$$$ wouldn't have hurt a bit. I appreciated them anyway. |
HO HO HO . . . Bah Humbug:p
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These stories are too funny...
Alright, I've got one.
In the 9th grade, I had a secret santa with about 7 or so "friends". We had a $5 min and a $15 max. We were to exchange gifts on our last day of school before the holiday. Guess who didn't get a gift? By process of elimination (everyone else got theirs and they were nice gifts with thought behind it), I figured out who had my name. She told she'd have it by new years. Since I'm pretty laidback, I didn't put up a fuss about it... Fast forward a few weeks, during lunch, she gave me her gift. I was like, cool, opened that sucka up, and it was dayum keyring. It had turquoise fringes on it, and a big blue rhinestone in the middle. It was so ugly, dollar store cheap and screamed "I forgot about you twice, so here's something I got at the last minute"...it took so much for me to smile and say thanks. My other friends saw it, shook their heads in disgust. "D@mn," was the general response I got when I showed others the gift. I even went the extra mile and put the keychain on with the rest of my keys and other keychains. (I already had too many keychains, what would I need another for?) A week later, the gaudy blue rhinestone fell off! Needless to say, I didn't ask her to do Secret Santa again.:mad: |
This is a great topic!!!!
One year when I was about 7 or 8, my aunt gave me some button covers, Oh yes I said it button covers. Something your grandma would put on her old church suit to make it look better NOT!!!! And last year I got a pot holder, a pot holder, just one.:mad: Just don't get me anything, it will be easier not to load all that stuff in my car because I'm just going to throw away when I get home. |
WHEN I WAS 14 MY AUNT GOT ME A OUIJA BOARD FOR CHRISTMAS. I NEVER TOUCHED IT THOUGH. I WAS TOO AFRAID
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OK, last Christmas at my job, someone gave the boss a candle that was just sitting around at their house. I mean, the lid was all rusty, candle had already been lit, that sort of thing.
Well, fast forward to my graduation from college. My boss gives me a present in a pretty graduation bag and I'm thinking, "maybe she's not such a b***h after all." Yeah, right. I go home and my fiance (now my husband) opened it and he's like WTF?? I looked in that bag and what do you know?? It was that same f**king candle that she got for Christmas last year!!! :mad: I was so angry that I wanted to throw that stupid thing away, but being the nice person that I am, I used it up and wrote a nice thank you note. Now, I'm glad that I'm quitting after New Year's b/c I'd hate to see what she would have gotten me for graduating from grad school!! :rolleyes: |
My sis is not lying about the button covers or the pot holder--classic crap gifts from our fam!
I mean you dont have to go out and go broke but dam, stop throwing something around your house in wrapping paper, giving it someone to make yourself feel good. Two words for the shade-tree gift-givers of the holiday season....Gift Certificate! a five dollar gc to blockbuster or mickey d's will sit better with me than some socks, you've busted open so that all of us can get a gift, remember that mzmidnight?? ;) I mean couldn't I have at least gotten all 3 pair!:rolleyes: |
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WE do a gift exchange in my family and a lot of the gifts I really wanted to give back. One year my aunt gave me a nightgown that I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. Another aunt gave me a pale yellow shirt with flowers all over it and pleats everywhere on the front. She also gave me a pair of blue jeans that were green on the pockets and had pink bows on the bottom. All of these in late high school/early college. My grandmother always gave me underwear that were usually at least two sizes too big. Traumatizing. LOL. At least this year my nephew has my name so I know my sister will look out for me
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My cousin gave me the NASTIEST sweaters two years in a row. I do not know where this woman picked these things up- one was orange and pink with glass buttons and SHOULDERPADS and the other was this nasty JC Penney Special. It had lace and sequins. SEQUINS.
I have not ever in my life worn sequins. Not about to start. Neither one of those sweaters was EVER worn, although m mother would bug the hell out of me about them every year until she finally gave them away. Ugh. Just don't get me anything. Please. |
This thread his hilarious, lol.
I don't get too many bad gifts, but the ones I do receive that aren't to my (or anyone else's, for that matter) liking, are from my grandfather. I know he means well, so I don't trip out about it. He sends us gifts (myself and my sisters) almost every year. But the thing is, these are gifts that you KNOW he did not go out and buy. These are trial/samples, like sample cheap Vivitar cameras, and clocks, costume jewelry, and other random things that I really have no use for. One year he sent me THREE of those cheap cameras. In addition, they were the exact same cameras. So, by then, I had a grand total of four (he had sent me another one on another occasion). Funny, I tell ya... |
Hubby's family does a gift exchange every year and we all exchange gifts at the annual family Christmas party. Well, since Hubby and I have been married, we are now part of the couple exchange. The $$ limit is the same as individual gifts, which is $20. Hubby and I asked for board games and we even went as far as putting the names of the stores where you could get the games as well as the prices. At the party, we go to get our gift and we saw this big ole bag with our names on it and we just knew that we got our board games. WHY when Hubby and I got the bag and opened it, there were freaking TOWELS in there?? :mad: And not even brand new towels! They were towels that were obviously used and then washed!! :eek: :mad: I was so hot with his ittyshay cousin and his baby momma for that lame-azz gift. And I guess Hubby and I weren't the only ones that got lame gifts b/c we are not having the exchange this year. We are only buying gifts for whatever child's name we pull. That works for me!!
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My mother gave me a bad gift last year for Christmas. She gave me a gift certificate for a relaxer at HER favorite salon!!!!!! Can I tell you that I wear my hair NATURAL. She feels that to be able to make it in the world you must have straight hair (talkin bout GOOD & BAD hair, wether you're dark or you're fair...go on and swear, see if I care...GOOD & BAD HAIR!!!!!)!!!! I didn't want to upset her so I went and some color put in my hair instead!!! She was mad that my hair was alburn and still CURLY/KINKY!!!!!
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Christmas 2000 I was unable to go home due to my job in retail, and also because I was having surgery over the winter break. Luckily I was a seeing a young man in the Army and he couldn't leave either, so his family came to visit. Christmas Day we exchange presents before dinner. His mother made me a beautiful ornament, his father had fixed the headlight on my car, and his brother gave me a stuffed animal. All these gifts are great and appreciated, as well as the thoughtful cards.
So I am sitting with my beloved on the couch, and yes we intended to marry. He hands me a card and a small wrapped rectangular package (think jewelry store bracelet size). Then the isht storm blew into that living room. 1) The card he gave me was the one that his Army PLATOON gave out! It had Santa wearing a parachute about to jump out of the plane with a sack full of RIFLES. He also spelled my NAME wrong on the card. It is Anne, not Ann. You know he grabbed that from the office last minute. 2) I unwrap the present, and no it was NOT a diamond tennis bracelet, a necklace, a watch, or even a damn keychain. It was a PLASTIC FLIP UP BRISTLE HAIRBRUSH with a MIRROR ON THE BACK :mad: :eek: :mad: :eek: :mad: :eek: :mad: :eek: :mad: I was his first girlfriend at age 23. He is now married to some girl that wore a tank top and didn't shave under her arms. |
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I don't know which is funnier -- his gift and card or his wife with her hairy underarms. You stoooopid. :D |
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My sister knows I have a clown phobia and that trifling no good heffa gives me a clown ornament every year, bint!!! |
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EEEEWWWWWWW @ the hairy armpit girl. |
On the Doug Banks morning show today, the topic was bad gifts that people received from their jobs. I thought of this thread and was CTHU. This one person called and said that when's she at work, she likes to nibble on cheese a lot. So at the holiday party, someone gave her a BLOCK OF CHEESE as a gift. LOL!!! Rickey Smiley was like, "Did she give you some Ritz or saltine crackers to go with it?". Homegirl said, "No, she just gave a block of cheese. My mouth was wide open when I saw the gift. The person who gave the gift wasn't even at the party."
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At our holiday party earlier this week, we played a gift exchange game and I got stuck with a bobble-head santa. Everyone else got wine, books, tupperware, coffee sets, bath & body, but I got a bobble-head santa :mad:
The worst gift I have received from a relative was a dollar-store picture frame that had silver, pink, blue, and green INSECTS glued all over it. Not lady bugs or something cute like that, like insects with long legs and stuff. Plus they were covered in glitter. This gift came from the same person who gave my 10 year old cousin and I the same hair-band with a bow on it (I was 23). Another year they gave everyone these scented candles that were so potent everyone was choking when we opened them and two of us got asthma attacks! |
Cheap Aunt
I have this one cheap Aunt that every year I can expect an awful gift from her. Last year it was a strip of felt that I think she thought I would use as a scarf. Its a dust rag now...
One year she got me a pack of Pony tail holders ( the ones with the balls on it) another year some stinky imitation perfume... it burned when I put it on my hand.... and the list goes on. And its not like she can't afford nice gifts shes just cheap |
About 8 years ago, my aunt got all of her nieces and nephews a bookmark for Christmas. Not even a nice one with a tassel, just laminated paper.
We all laughed really hard and made jokes, so she started to feel bad and wrote us all checks after that. We really didn't think that was the final present. I'll never forget that Christmas gift. It doesn't help that she doesn't have any children and is rich. That just made it even funnier. |
this is prolly the funniest thread ever put on GC -
okay - this isn't my gift, but a guy i dated - he's got a rich uncle who sent him the same damn sweater THREE years in a row! horrible looking thing, but to make it worse, they sent the SAME size each year?!?! my sister received a hot glue gun one year from an aunt - which is fine if you're into crafts but my sister was 8 at the time and a tomboy... and my own - i received some horrible stank perfume in a third grade gift exchange. i was all like "mom - what do i do with this?" she just threw it away and got me something else... work gift exchange this year - candy canes and two battery operated light up "candles" - huh? once again, everybody else got bath and body works, gift certificates, real candles, etc. worst part is that i'm such a horrible person when it comes to faking interest in a crappy gift... i'll prolly think of some more later on - marissa |
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love my grandmother to death but...
a few years back, my great grandmother got me a kitchen timer. for what? there was definitely an awkward silence that xmas morning.
another year another grandmother got me a jehovah witnesses (her faith) bible with my name embossed on the cover. for one, im not jehovah's witness. two, i dont even go to church, and i was maybe 8 or 9 at the time, so didnt see the need for it. three, my name was spelled wrong! and that is a pet peeve of mine. heres an embarassing gift... i was maybe 16 at the time, and my uncle got me mickey mouse underwear! not one pair, but 3! and he insisted on me showing everyone, putting it on the xmas tape and everything! and even more embarassing, he had got them at a kids store, and i was nowhere near a kids size! theres my story. |
don't know if i ever posted this but.....
a few years back, a co-worker of my husband's gave he and i for the holidays a religious calendar (something you get annually from a funeral home or your doctor's office) and a jigsaw puzzle of new york city. needless to say i was not pleased. out of tact and never tossed the puzzle but gave it to charity.
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When I was a junior in high school another Christmas rolls around and me and my then best friend decided to give each other gifts. I go get her some Victoria Secret smell goods and some lil cute trinket with something about best friends on it. Well my mama goes to her house and she sends me my gift home wit her. Yall I opened that bag and seen some foot scrub and lotion. I politely cussed her out and gave her "gifts" back at school the next day. Then stopped by her house later on and got my gifts back. I would have been grateful for the gifts if I was having difficulty with crusty heels but I definitely was not because please believe I checked. It definitely was no money issue because she sho did get her funk mouth boyfriend a gold bracelet when he should have got a gift card to the nearest doctor for that halotosis (sp?). Just dogged her potna out is what she did.
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We used to draw names at school. One year the principal gave the teacher whose name she drew a pocket calendar that was 2 years old! Talk about a cheap-azz b*&%h!! I'm sure someone had given it to her when it was new.:mad:
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hahaha this thread is too funny! :)
- As an engagement gift, we got a chip-and-dip bowl, a regular bowl, and some mugs in an absolutely HIDEOUS tulip pattern. It may not have been cheap, but it looked cheap. - As a wedding gift (from Mr. aephi alum's cheap-@$$ cousins) we got one of those 3-tier petits fours serving things (what are they called...) This was an obvious re-gift - the boxes were pretty beat up and had been gift-wrapped at least once before (you could see where tape had been used to attach the previous gift wrap to the box). It couldn't have even set the original giver back by more than $20 or so. :rolleyes: - We have this ridiculous ceramic teapot (I think it was a housewarming gift) that is made up to look like a table set for the Jewish Sabbath dinner on Friday night (candles, wine, bread). We would like to re-gift it, but we're having trouble finding someone who (a) is Jewish and (b) will forgive us :p - When I was a preteen/teen, my great-aunt would give me these baggy sweatshirts because "I know that's what all the young folks are wearing these days." It was (mid 80's) but just because everyone else was wearing them didn't mean I wanted to! - When my husband had his bar mitzvah, the aforementioned cheap-@$$ cousins gave him a dictionary as a gift. Not even a good one - this dictionary was missing enough of its pages to cover about 3 letters of the alphabet. :rolleyes: Said cousin's son is going to become a bar mitzvah in a few weeks... I suggested to Mr. aephi alum that he give the dictionary back. :p :D |
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Well, I have read but never posted in this thread, so here goes:
Well, fortunately, I have been victim to receiving VERY few cheap gifts, but here are some that I really didn't care for: 1987 (high school freshman)--my grandmother gave me and my younger brother Frito-Lay sweatshirts--mine was a yellow shirt that had a replica of the Fritos corn chip bag design--in large lettering and all. Yall, I was literally a walking Fritos bag. I wore it to school one time and got clowned royally. Everyone was singing the then-current Fritos jingle "Munchabunchamunchabuncha Fritos corn chip lunch". I never wore that sweatshirt again, even though a cute junior consoled me by admitting that she had a Ruffles bag sweatshirt. At least my younger brother had a cooler looking Chester Cheetah sweatshirt with the tagline: "It's not easy being cheesy". 1988--my mother's boyfriend gave me some one-piece pajamas, you know, the ones with the buttoned-up trapdoor on the butt. I wore it the first few weeks to please him, then I "lost" them. 2003--You remember the mullet craze on GC last year? Well, my youngest brother, the family smart-aleck, got me the ultimate gag gift: A box of Pink relaxer kit. |
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4 days to Christmas, and there are no more bad gift stories to share? Too bad, 'cause I found them really hilarious.
ETA: I found an article on today's MSN that addresses this very topic: 15 Worst Holiday Gift Ideas |
the most wonderful time of the year. :)
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Ok my husband's side of the fam gives very strange gifts. One year for his housewarming he got:
1 large ruffled pillow sham that was green with big pink flowers on it (he had a king size bed). (That sucker went to goodwill) and his cousins that gave it to him are our age. Why would you give someone 1 sham not even in the package? Don't clean out your closet and give out your junk.. These old mc donald had a farm plates that had cows and pigs on them (still in the box going to goodwill) A couple of Christmases ago his mom gave him some hair tonic! Yes the kind that you see in the barber shop that is green (she does hair now that she is retired). I felt so bad for him that year. Just don't buy him anything or ask me what he likes. Last year she went on and on about how she doesn't do Christmas (but will do the family pollyana :confused: )Since she asked my mom who she was shopping for and she said just us two i guess she felt bad. So my hubby got a pair of sweat pants and I got a scarf/glove/hat set (that I can't wear because it breaks my hair off). This year I have her for the pollyana and she puts 'surprise me'...I have half a mind to give her back the scarf set... |
Has anyone ever gotten a gift so bad that it was funny? Our family had this really tacky coaster set that kept getting "recycled" - the joke was to find a creative way of packaging it, and give it to another unsuspecting person next year.
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Re: Talk about some gifts that PISSED me off!!!
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Maybe that's how she stays independently wealthy. SC |
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We pulled names once at work. I got my person a huge cracked glass bowl/ candle holder. My person got me a durn black & white desk calendar with these corny "funny" quotes.
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Last Christmas, my father's coworkers gave him a sweater that was too small. It was in a HECHTS gift box, so we assumed it came from Hechts. I must admit, it also looked cheap...not like it came from that particular department store. He went to exchange it, and customer service told him they carry nothing like that sweater....they didn't even carry the brand.
A few weeks later, I saw the exact same sweater---brand and all---in Wal-Mart. :o People, if you know the gift came from someplace cheap or if you don't want the recieving person to know where the gift came from, use a plain giftbox.....available at most Dollar Tree Stores. Trying to fool someone into thinking you paid more for the gift than you actually did is not the bizness. :p |
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