My cousin is the queen of bad gifts in the family. I am the pickiest person in the world when it comes to bath and shower stuff (Buttonz can attest to that) and I usually only use Victoria's Secret or Bath and Body Works stuff. This year I got her a gift set from Victoria's Secret because she told me that she liked their stuff. It was Very Sexy 2 and had the perfume, lotion, etc. on a tray. Well we exchanged gifts because her birthday is two weeks after mine, and she also decided to go the smelly stuff route for me. Except mine still had the Walgreen's sticker on it. A few days later I found the same exact set that she got me in Duane Reade for $5.99. Another year I got her a beautiful silver necklace from Fortunoff. The following year, we were hanging out in her room and I saw the necklace and said "I love that necklace it's so pretty" and she went "you can have it if you want it, I have no clue who gave it to me but I hate it."
My mom still thinks that I should have taken it, especially since that year, I got a candle from Walgreens as my gift.
Another relative one year thought it would be a great idea to give EVERYONE in our family just one candle from the 99 cent store (didn't even cost a whole dollar) for our Hannukah/ New Year gifts. Well they were the tacky colored gel candles that had the fake roses and whatnot at the bottom of the candle. As soon as she left, everyone in the family decided to give their candles to me. Why in G-d's name did they think I wanted them?
One year in HS, one of my friends told me that she really wanted GAP perfume so I got her a bottle along with some lotion, shower gel, and made a nice gift set for her. She got me a set of these bath fizzy things that looked cheap, smelled horrible, and were just generally falling apart. Two weeks later, I saw the same exact set in Walgreens for 99 cents. (What is it with my gifts coming from that store?) Had I been smart, I would have just exchanged the bath fizzies and gotten myself a large bag of M&M's or something.