Worst gift
 

What was the worst gift you have ever recieved for Christmas?:confused:

My dad's wife always picks out the most hideous things for me. Two immediately come to mind.. a black blouse with HUGE red roses all over it and a fake silver grooming set that sits on old ladies dressers.. a tray with a brush, comb and mirror. I think was like 26 when she got me that. ICK.

This year, she and my dad decided to get my 13 year old daughter luggage, since she's going to Europe this summer. She picked out the most hideous luggage I've ever seen. It looks like an upholstered couch in a 75 year old lady's house.. purple with this gold design embossed over it. HIDEOUS. "Since we know her favorite color is purple".. uhhh, so how about the very cute light purple luggage with black trim that is all over the place???

If I can find a pic, I'll post it later.

A HUGE pewter turkey platter. This thing was so big it wouldn't fit in our cabinets. Not only that, but we had flown home to Missouri, and I don't know how in the world we would get it home. It wouldn't have fit in our suitcase. We took it back to Famous Barr (now the evil Macy's!) and got stuff we actually got stuff we wanted.

Last year my aunt got me a "collectible doll". That's what it said on the box but this thing looked like the type of doll you'd pick up last minute at Walgreens. :mad:

She also started knitting two or three years ago. So last year, I also got a handmade neon oversized green sweater vest. :eek: :mad:

Oh, PLEASE post a photo of it!!! :D

Lovely. At least she'll be able to find it without a problem at baggage claim. It'll be the bag no one's claiming.

As for the worst present, I made the mistake of offhandedly saying to one of my college boyfriends that I thought those Dwarf stuffed animals from the Disney store were cute. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I was thinking Sleepy, Happy, Bashful, maybe even Doc. Nope, he decided to buy me Dopey for Christmas, shortly before I found out he was cheating on me.

I won't get into the crappy regifting that his dad did.

When I decided to experiment in the kitchen, my aunt got me a cookbook. Which seemed like a nice gesture, except the cookbook is meant for people who are on a low sodium, low cholesterol, low calorie diabetic diet. I was still in high school at the time. That same year, one of my sweet but slightly clueless guy friends got me a paperweight. It was clear and had blue liquid with palm trees and little gems floating around in it. You know those things they sell at the 99 cent store? He said he thought it was nice because I like the beach.

I wish I had the forethought to have taken a picture of it. That sweater vest immediately went into the to-be-donated-to-the-salvation-army pile.


ETA: Just realized that in my first post I put "handmade neon oversized green sweater vest". Yeah, that was supposed to be "handmade oversized neon green sweater vest". Oops. Apparently, just thinking back on that sweater vest has traumatized me so much I can't see straight anymore.

Aww, I think that's sweet.

I had an aunt who couldn't cook if Paula Deen was standing right next to her. Seriously, she made potato salad by pouring milk over cold potatoes. When we finally found something she could make well (macaroons), we kept her making those.

But I digress. One Christmas at her house, she showed us two cookbooks that friends had given her and said, "My friends must think I'm a gourmet or something - I always get cookbooks from them!" A quick look at her one shelf proved that to be true. None of us had the heart to tell her the real message that they were sending!

I'm fairly lucky - I can't think of anything too terrible I've received. Which means that this will probably be the year! :rolleyes:

Eventhough it was not a Christmas gift....When I graduated from HS my next door neighbors gave me shoe laces. I was like WTH?!?!?!

A bottle of Coca-Cola from a classmate in a Secret Santa exchange. I hate coke. I hate cola. I hate sodas in general. It was one of those classic bottles. I put it in the freezer. It eventually exploded. I was in the seventh grade- what did you want?

My nana in her old age always sends something that has good thought, just no practicality. There was expired pepper spray, tip keychain, and more. It's been this way my whole life.

Now if we're doing just awful gifts for other reasons, I usually always win the worse graduation gifts. In HS I received a membership to the ACLU from my uncle and his life partner (thanks, but all they did was call and ask me for money), I received a card saying my Dad's cousin had donated money to their child's private school in my name (umm gee thanks?), I've had lots of trees planted for me in Israel, and when I finished my Master's my grandparents gave me the free George Foreman they got for opening a checking account at the local bank.

My favorite nursery rhyme as a child was "Hey Diddle, Diddle" so one year, my favorite aunt made me a red sweater with a cow jumping over the moon, a little cat with a fiddle, and a dish running running away with the spoon. It was covered in sequins and very detailed.

The problem is that as a child, I would have adored it but I was 23 when she gave it to me. The look of horror on my face made my family laugh. Thank goodness my aunt was not there to see me cringe.