Worst Christmas gift ever - Page 4

Roni18 · ‎08-22-2013

I remember a secret santa exchange early in my teaching career with other staff members. We were supposed to give a small gift everyday for a week and then something bigger on the last day and guess who gave it to you. I can't remember everything I got but one gift was a set of Thanksgiving paper napkins and another was one of those tiny address books and it had the lady's name written inside!

hummermom · ‎01-01-2015

My mother-in-law gave my husband and me a cheap food processor (Black & Decker). When she handed over the present, she commented that she gave us the exact same gift the year before, so here was the receipt.

I said to my husband, "at least we don't have to pretend to like it."

She wasn't senile or broke or without transportation, so it was really a bummer.

Just one of many bad gifts!

Gorgf · ‎03-10-2010

It sounds like regifting is alive and well. I hated workplace exchanges.

A man I was dating about age 35, after my divorce gave me knit gloves with stripes in every color of the rainbow. UGLY! Something for teenager. or preteen ? I gave him a shawl collar pullover sweater in a wheat color. He wore it alot.

noodleann · ‎06-10-2015

Golf clubs. From my father.

I was four.

I didn't golf. I didn't even jump rope. I could barely do jacks. I remember unwrapping the box--they were kiddie clubs, but it was still big--and staring at them and wondering what on earth he was thinking to give me those things.

I those days, I was gracious, so I smiled and thanked him. The yard was under a foot of snow at the time, but come spring, I gamely tried golfing. I didn't get it and never tried it again.

Have no idea what happened to those clubs.

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

@alicedee wrote:
When my ex first got out of the Marines we were dirt poor..had a 6 month old baby and I was pregnant again.....living on $98 a week unemployment. That year for Christmas I bought my MIL a little gold metal soap dish with a flower-shaped soap.

The following Christmas she gifted it back to me.

She was a very nasty woman.

@alicedee

I think we were "gifted" MIL's cut from the same cloth! She never wanted her smart son to leave her!

Talk about hateful/resentful! She never even saw her grandchildren!!!!!

They deserved a metal, don't you think?

Cakers3 · ‎06-17-2015

A frog sitting on a toilet that my MIL made in ceramics. She made them for all of us who were married.

"" Compassion is a verb."-Thich Nhat Hanh

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

@happycat

Not surprising that I love gift cards, huh? Even a $10 gift card to McD's gets me sweet tea and an apple pie!

alicedee · ‎07-25-2010

I thought of one that was cute. My sibs and I were pretty sheltered, innocent kids. One year when my older sister was 11, she gave me what she....and I....thought was a beautiful little gold purse. I was 9, and carried it proudly to Catholic school each day. We went to Mass every day, and I can still remember how it sparkled against the old, dark wooden pew.

Eventually someone told me my pretty purse was a gold lame cigarette case lol!

Cakers3 · ‎06-17-2015

@ECBG wrote:
@alicedee wrote:
When my ex first got out of the Marines we were dirt poor..had a 6 month old baby and I was pregnant again.....living on $98 a week unemployment. That year for Christmas I bought my MIL a little gold metal soap dish with a flower-shaped soap.

The following Christmas she gifted it back to me.

She was a very nasty woman.
@alicedee

I think we were "gifted" MIL's cut from the same cloth! She never wanted her smart son to leave her!
Talk about hateful/resentful! She never even saw her grandchildren!!!!!
They deserved a metal, don't you think?

@ECBG Yeah, a metal bat. LOL (Did you mean medal?)

I'm sorry I don't like to correct people but I found this funny. Maybe a Freudian slip on your part. LOL

"" Compassion is a verb."-Thich Nhat Hanh

alicedee · ‎07-25-2010

@Cakers3 wrote:
@ECBG wrote:
@alicedee wrote:
When my ex first got out of the Marines we were dirt poor..had a 6 month old baby and I was pregnant again.....living on $98 a week unemployment. That year for Christmas I bought my MIL a little gold metal soap dish with a flower-shaped soap.

The following Christmas she gifted it back to me.

She was a very nasty woman.
@alicedee

I think we were "gifted" MIL's cut from the same cloth! She never wanted her smart son to leave her!
Talk about hateful/resentful! She never even saw her grandchildren!!!!!
They deserved a metal, don't you think?
@ECBG Yeah, a metal bat. LOL (Did you mean medal?)

I'm sorry I don't like to correct people but I found this funny. Maybe a Freudian slip on your part. LOL