Bad Gifts
 

Today on another listserve, we were talking about Christmas exchanges which lead to BAD GIFTS you have received.

Let's hear them.

I have tooooons but YOU FIRST :D

Talk about some gifts that PISSED me off!!!
 

One year I received a box of three half turtleneck things. You know.....just the neck part of the turtleneck. I think they're called "dickies".

Then when the person who I got them from got ready to hand me the box, she said "You can tell me that you don't like them if you want to." Okay..........If I have any inkling that someone won't like the gift that I purchased for them, then I WON'T BUY IT!!!!!!!
I don't believe in giving somebody a gift just because it's "gift-giving time". That girl knew D@#N well that I didn't want no freakin' turtleneck necks!!!

Oh and last year, she gave me a picture of her daughter. Yeah, the little girl is cute and all, but really....looking at her DOES NOT MAKE MY DAY BRIGHT, AT ALL!!!!!!

No, I'm not an ungrateful person, but ya'll would just have to know this girl. She buys a bunch of cheap @$$ stuff all the time, but swears up and down that she is independently WEALTHY.:eek: Plus....I give her good (good=useful + pricey) gifts all the time.

Okay.....enough of my ranting. Just had to get it off my chest!;)

well
 

My Auntie gave me TONS of socks she had knitted. I mean every color, size, shape, some had stars on them. One sock she knitted said "chocolate sista" down the damn sock.


I never wore those socks unless she came over.


QTE ;)

a lot of people participate in company grab bags. this particular grab bag had a minimum of 10 or 15 dollars that each person should spend for a gift. well, one year, gifts were exchanged and one woman's contribution to the grab bag was a sleeve of saltine crackers. i kid you not. she didn't even offer the whole box of saltimes, just one sleeve.

my thought is that if times are that hard, don't even bother to participate.

LMAOF!!!!!!! I would have taken my gift back and threw those saltine crackers at her... Well, I got a bottle of used cologne for a christmas present one year...I was soooo p@#$@d...

One year and this was a while back, I got a used wallet. I kid you not, I still remember just looking at it like "what the hell":eek:

When I was about 8 years old, my aunt sent me a sexy baby blue lingerie outfit. BUT when I was 17, she sent me a pair of royal blue mittens! Not even gloves, mittens!

My parents gave me a pair of, of all things, gauchos. It was Christmas 1977. They were not tasteful, :rolleyes: although they were from Neiman Marcus.

Let's see....my ex bought me baking pans for Christmas a couple of years ago...he actually bought them so he could use them himself when he came over to my place to make dinner rolls!

My sister (yes, I'm putting you out there Wini!) gave me some damned tea...yes, tea bags for Christmas two years ago.

As a matter of fact, Christmas of 1999 wasn't that great a Christmas! LOL

My Turn
 

In HIGH SCHOOL, we had a gift exchange in Spanish and our limit was $10 -- this boy bought me a $3.49 CASSETTE SINGLE for Sybil's Let It Rain, while that was the crank, could I have not gotten the 3 for $10 deal.

College:
I was a DJ in college for our college radio station, but I used to DJ parties for Upward Bound when I worked for them in the summer. For their Christmas party, they asked me to DJ so I said no problem sure. I was asked by the Assistant Director, a future soror. Anyway at the party, she kept saying we have a gift for you as appreciation for DJing (which was not necessary -- but COOL). Now I was thinking a GC or a Witt sweatshirt or something -- noooooope. They called me up to the stage and had me open the present on stage. WHY WAS IT SOME G D EARMUFFS!!!!!!! -- Royal Blue!!! (nothing against the SG Rhos or Zetas but I had a purple coat) I was piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissed!! My future sands was with me and she knew the look on my face was not good but I recovered and said thanks. I went upstairs and dumped them in the winter coats, gloves drive box. :cool:


Two Christmases Ago:
This denim lace outfit that my mom got me, oh did I mention it was shirt and pants and it was ACID WASHED!!
:eek: :eek:

The worst gift I have recieved was a hat and gloves set. I guess the thought was ok but the set was cream and was knitted...which means it got dirty.

But last year at my Mommy's job they had a gift exchange...and someone gave the boss one of those gift baskets that has sausage, pepperoni, hard salami and cheese in it:) I laughed so much I was in tears.

My family does the Christmas gift exchange at my aunts house. Dinner is nice and everyone is excited. The problem arises when it is gift opening time. My aunt has split a pack of white knee socks amoung her 5 brothers for the past 2 years. It is the worst.

I gotta confess....

I have this aunt who has a litter. 7 kids, so its hard to buy gifts for all of them So, one year I decided a nice board game would be great. I had my eyes set on one of those special edition Monopoly games, like the Boston or New York versions with wooden pieces, etc.

Well, I never really looked into it, and Christmas was right around the corner. So I hopped my procrastinating butt down to the mall and bought... Outburst Junior.

Let's just say, that didn't go over to well....

At my job last year my co-workers exchanged gifts. Well being that I was new, I didn't think they would get me a gift, but oh yes they did. :eek:
1. A co-worker gave me an "alleged" Christmas tree ornament. It was the size of your thumb. The "ornament" was made of cotton and this cotton thing had on a red and green yarn coat, hat, and scarf with a damn broken off toothpick for the nose....IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SNOWMAN......THAT CHEAP HEFFA!!! :mad:
2. Another co-worker gave me some blocks :( yeah some blocks and on each block there was a letter, put all the blocks together and it spelled Merry Christmas...ok what the hell I'm gonna do with some blocks? :mad:
3. The next co-worker gave me a ceramic candle holder in the shape of a mushroom. That gift was screaming cheap isht. She had the nerve to leave the price sticker on it too. It's still in the box along with those damn blocks.
4. Another co-worker gave me some cheap champagne, I think it was Champipple.

So to show my gratitude to everyone, I headed to the Dollar Tree and Dollar Mania and racked up on gifts. :p :cool:

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cheap heffa, blocks, champipple, ROTFLMAO!!!

I just remembered another
 

All right, first my former step aunt used to buy me pajamas every year and while I really do love pajamas, I love the sets of them not gowns. Anyway this woman bought me a Garfield gown with the Garfield feet socks with separate holes for the toes. Now the thing is while I like Garfield this was not my type of gift.

Let's see... I'll start w/the 1st grade:

The girls brought girl gifts and the boys brought boy gifts. Well, each person had to decide who they were going to exchange gifts with. Well, I had two best friends: Alice & Angela. So I decide to exchange my gift w/Angela. My gift was a really cute doll that had a bottle and a bib. Guess what I got in return? A freakin' ragedy(sp?) Ann doll! And not even a big one, it was about the size of my hand. Man, I was soooooo mad! And on top of that, I hated ragedy Ann!

At the age of 8 (I think) my Aunt--one of my dad's sisters (who showed favoritism anyway) gave me a pair of house shoes!!!!! What the hay?
What 8 y/o wants house shoes?

The next year she (the same Aunt) gave me a cheap a$$ watch that I probably had for about 30 seconds, b/c as I was putting it on my wrist, it slipped off, hit the floor and shattered into a gazillion pieces!

After that I never got another gift from her, which was fine by me.

LMAO!!! This thread is too funny. Here are a few of my worsts: When I was in high school, all my friends and I would have a grab bag deal, where you pick names out of a hat and you have to buy that person a gift. The minimum was supposed to be $10. Well, the girl who picked me had the nerve..... the NERVE to get me some hideous earrings that looked like the were made out of papier mache!! Like something a first grader would make in a craft class.

One Christmas, my uncle who doesn't really have a lot of money got my brother and me these HUGE down vests. Now I like down vests, but it wasn't the snug cute ones that girls wear, the thing was gigantic like I would soon be going on a trip to Antarctica and I needed a TENT. But I wasn't mad at him since I was aware of his financial situation.

Another time, in high school, we had the grab bag thing right after me and my best friend at the time fell out over something stupid. So she went around talking ish on me, telling everyone I was cheap and all this. Well, just her luck I got her in the grab bag that year.. and guess what I got her? A big fat-azz bag of NADA D@MN THANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I showed her how cheap I was....

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. :rolleyes:

Oh MY GOD!! I was really thinking maybe you gave her the papier maiche-esque earrings or the down vest but NADA D@MN THANG is hiiiiiiiiiiiiilarious. I cannot breathe too good right now.

My Aunt bought me and my cousins these sweatshirts that light up (battery operated) and then she had the nerve to have our names put on the back...we was like:eek: WTH you do that for? First you want us to look like complete fools and let people know our names too....not cute.:eek:

Then two years ago the same Aunt bought me and my cousins ( mind you we are grown 21 and older ) the whole suite up pajamas with the flap in the back:mad: ...again not cute. Mind you my boyfriend at the the time was like yeah I like those;)

I want some of those!! Feet in, too?! Yeah, I want some of those!!!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by carolyne
[B]When I was about 8 years old, my aunt sent me a sexy baby blue lingerie outfit.

What the h&!! was you supposed to do with that at the tender age of 8? :eek:

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Imperial11
[B]That's exactly what my mom and I wondered. It was too big when I got it, too. When I got to high school, I started using it as underwear under my church clothes. :)

My maternal grandmother is a seamstress, so one year she gives me and my sister these huge, white, holiday decorated sweaters, and...This is where it gets good...

She went through her photo archives and finds two of the most hideous pictures she has, (my sister in her fat years and me with about an inch of hair yanked into a ponytail) blows them up, and sows them to the front of the sweater!
And.....my mom made us wear them all day. It was like a walking advertisement for UGLY! We were the laughing stock of the family all day!:(
Tamika

Nubian,

You got me cracking the hell up...yes that is truly classic.:)

i have a cousin that is known for bad gifts. and when i say bad gifts, i mean BAD (we're talking "pinto beans for birthdays").

well, she gave my aunt a spoon for CHRISTmas once, and a spatula to another aunt. not a spoon set or spatula set, but a spoon independent of a fork and knife, and A spatula!:eek:

for a family gift, she gave us (we are a family of 5) a dish towel with "NOEL" knitted on it.:rolleyes:

she has grandbabies, so we bought them a gift. when we brought it to her house, i guess she felt guilty and was compelled to give us something. she gave my mother a votive candle (just 1), and she gave me, my sister and my brother a game. now, number 1, i was 19, so my sister was 23 and my brother was 15. this game was a little mermaid board game designed for 3 year olds. the game had been opened and played. it had cut-out pieces, that had been, yep, cut out already. but, she did throw in a chuck-e-cheese's pen!:mad:

and, i know we are talking about CHRISTmas gifts, but i have to tell you what this same cousin bought another one of my cousins for graduation. graduations are a big thing in our family (maybe because so many people don't and didn't go to college), so we give good gifts. the cousin who was graduating was making an attempt at college (she did 1 year), so we were buying her things like luggage, a trunk, etc. well, when she came to ms. bad-gift's present, we all sat at attention, waiting for a new story to tell--we were not disappointed. she gave her a box of kleenex and a puff-paint shirt that she had on the day before and that she wore in her vacation pictures she showed us. she told my cousin, "you said you liked the shirt, so i decided to give it to you." by the by, she didn't like the shirt. she was just being nice. :rolleyes:

Never Give Used Stuff as Presents
 

I am over here LMAO as I prepare to wrap Christmas presents.

I have an idea this year PAY HER BACK, get her ONE SOCK, ONE SHOE and other miscellaneous things that would piss u off if you got them. Throw in the shirt you had on the day before and hook it up with a trial size pack of tissue. :p

....words cannot describe how hard i am laughing right now....

This is friggin hilarious...

that reminds me...
 

one christmas my family did polyanna and my uncle and aunt in ga. sent me a dark blue teddy and robe with champagne glasses on it. i was frickin 13 and was like "what the hell? do they know they picked me???"
two christmases before that, in another crappy polyanna gift-giving moment, my cousin who is 2 years older and 2 times bigger than me bought me this zip-up sweater with a leopard pattern and this huge fur collar with matching skintight leopard stirrups... of course i wrapped that sucker up and gave it to another cousin the year after that...
i mean she might be stank.. but it dont run in the family...

Back in elementary school, we had a grab bag gift giving activity. Basically, everyone was supposed to spend no more than ten dollars, and buy a gift to put in the bag.

I bought a Barbie doll, and a Barbie outfit as my contributing gift, so I didn't give a cheap gift. But, when it was my turn to grab, I grabbed a long tube....wanna know what was in it? Some DAMN CONFETTI...AND A CARD MADE OUT OF NOTEBOOK PAPER THAT SAID MERRY CHRISTMAS. WTF?!

Some funky gifts given in my family: I have a cousin that is about 15 years older than me. Well, one year, about ten years ago(My cuz was about 27 at the time), she gave my grandmother an atomizer....WITH NO PERFUME IN IT. Plus she left the price tag on, and we all knew she paid five dollars for it at Family Dollar or something. Needless to say, my grandma was like, "What am I gonna do with an EMPTY ATOMIZER?!" (My granny is very outspoken.) She talked about that thing until about JUNE.

Lawd you and MeezDiscreet have some funny gift giving folks. I thought my gifts were bad.

speaking of grandma's
 

Man oh Man, you made me think about this one Christmas with my grandma.

My cousin(who is the funny one of the family) got a present for my grandma's little poodle Ni-Ni(yeah I know, ghetto:rolleyes: )
Well it's a little shirt and my grandma is like "oh how nice for Ni-Ni!!!" Until she reads what that shirt says:

It said "Granny's number one bitch" on the front and back.

Mind you my Granny goes to church EVERY DAY!

My cousin got kicked out the house by granny and she didn't talk to him for 4 months. he kept telling her it was a joke:rolleyes:


QTE

Re: speaking of grandma's
 

LMAOF!!!!! Oh my!!!! :D

Re: speaking of grandma's
 

CTHU!! Well if HE is the funny one in the family, what are you!?!?! :p

LMAO!!!!
QTE, I would've put his butt out too.

Soror, lol
 

Shocking enough, some of my little cousins think I'm pretty lame:p

Let's just say I'm the "loose cannon" of the family!




QTE

Re: speaking of grandma's
 

ROTFLMBAO!!! Pure comedy! Hahahahahahahahahahah:D :D :D

one christmas my family did polyanna and my uncle and aunt in ga. sent me a dark blue teddy and robe with champagne glasses on it. i was frickin 13 and was like "what the hell? do they know they picked me???"



ok I am in the dark, what is polyanna? like enny-meenie-miny-moe?

Just like I didn't know what goose down was till y'all told me, lol:p




QTE ;)

I was at my family's Xmas party. They were passing out presents. My aunt gave her son a bar of soap. LOL. I couldn't beleve it. Then he turned around and said, I'll use this up in one bath--a regular bar of soap... It was POLO SPORT though. But when I bought my two little boys that, it came with some cologne in a box. We was like where is the cologne. I would never give nobody any personal items like sox-only if they were name brand.

at my last job we had a gift exchange with a max of $20...

everyone got cool stuff like bath & body works, a floating candle set....

this chick brought a *small* loaf of homemade pumpernickel that was wrapped in a red dish rag???

i know its that thought that counts, but what the hell was she thinking?