OH!! Fun topic! I had an ex who was a bad gift giver!
He started off as a good gift giver...for our first Christmas together he got me a really pretty necklace and this stuffed animal (mind you that was an inside joke, and it was also high school). Simple, but cute. For Valentines day, I got a dozen roses and really good chocolates. Overdone, maybe, but still really nice...and like I said, REALLY good chocolates! lol
However, we ended up dating for 2 and a half years, and he just got really lazy and cheap. I hate calling people cheap, but he was VERY cheap. I'm not saying he had to splurge on me, but he had no expenses (besides gas, which he split with his bro) because his parents paid for everything. And he had a job, so he had money coming in. Again, I'm not saying he should spend tons of money on me...but he shouldn't be so blantently cheap...ah, you'll see what I mean...
Next Christmas I got Elf on DVD. Good choice--so far, so good. I go to put it in the DVD player, and I realized it doesn't have the plastic covering on it. I open it up, and take out the disc and realized theirs finger prints on the back. I asked him if he opened it, and then he told me he got it in the used DVD bin at Blockbuster. Okay, it was just a DVD, no big deal.
Next summer my b-day comes around. A lot of our mutual friends got really into frisbee that summer. Someone got this super cool light up one that you can play with at night. I mentioned I wanted one...not like OMG I HAVE TO HAVE ONE! But rather, if I saw one at the store, I might by it. My birthday comes, and I got a light-up frisbee. I think I played with it once.
Now here comes the lazy part...he started to not even try getting me presents on his own. When a present event came around, he just said we could go to the mall and he'd by me something (as long as it was around 25 bucks of course). He even pulled that on our 2 year anniversary. He said he wanted to get me a bracelet but he didn't know what I would like...so we go to a couple of jewelry stores, and I see one I like for $60. He asked if we could keep looking. I ended up with the $20 fake silver bracelet from one of the carts in the center of the mall. It eventually turned yellow.
Now, my current boyfriend did not start off well. However, we weren't dating yet, so I gave him a break...it's pretty funny to think about now, though, lol
My bf, who was then just a friend, my roommate, and his roommate, all became really close friends our first semester of college. We did a present exchange between the four of us, but it was kind of like, me and my roommate bought a joint gift for each guy, and him and his roommate bought a joint gift for each girl. The future bf and I were hanging out the day after they had gone shopping for our presents. He told me he was really excited to give us our presents--he thought they were good. I told him he could tell me what they got for my roommate. They bought her an LA Angels hat. Now, she's not sporty AT ALL, but she just pledged Pi Phi that semester, and because she talked about it non-stop, they had learned how angels are one of their symbols. When he told me that, all I could think was, "WOW, how sweet...these guys actually picked on up something like that...I can't WAIT to see what they (he) got me!"
Our little present exchange comes, and I open up mine. It's this big, tacky Puerto Rican flag belt buckle. He said they saw it, and it reminded them of me, because I recently told them I would be visiting family in PR over Christmas break. I just kind of laughed it off and thanked them. Later that night I get a Facebook message saying sorry that the present didn't live up to it's hype. "I'm sure you'll find some use for it!" Oh dear...
He's gotten VERY good at gifts though.
Last year, he didn't give me anything so I guess the foot cream wasn't bad in comparison...a true testament to our relationship. 
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