Worst Christmas gift you ever got..... - Page 5

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

Why is it that every year someone repeatedly starts this thread? Why do you all insist on reliving a bad experience. LET IT GO ALREADY.

PeterDM · ‎07-30-2014

@151949 wrote:
Why is it that every year someone repeatedly starts this thread? Why do you all insist on reliving a bad experience. LET IT GO ALREADY.

@151949 I don't recall seeing this subject before, and I've enjoyed sharing my story and reading those of others. i don't think it is necessary to deprecate anyone for starting what was, up until now, a civil, enjoyable discussion.

proudlyfromNJ · ‎05-01-2010

@151949 wrote:
Why is it that every year someone repeatedly starts this thread? Why do you all insist on reliving a bad experience. LET IT GO ALREADY.

Then why did you open it?? You just love to chastise people. Give it up.

AliJoi5 · ‎03-10-2010

Oh my goodness, there are some sad responses here! Big hugs to you @kootie!! I think I would have said to that boy, now let's see how you look in the mirror, and broke it over the little monster's head.

@Desertdi - Wow, I can't believe someone actually took the time to do that! Lots-o crazies out there...

Ok, so let me inject some levity here. I think regifting mishaps are the funniest thing ever! One Christmas I received a bottle of liqueur. Nothing wrong with that, right?! When I got it home, I found one of those sticky xmas to/from cards on the bottom. Well, my name is Alison. The card said - To: Linda and Pablo, From: Humberto. We laughed until we cried. I sent Linda a thank you text the next day with a photo of the card, saying thank Mr. Humberrrrrto for me too! We still crack up about it to this day.

INDIANA BONES · ‎01-01-2014

@PINKdogWOOD wrote:
@INDIANA BONES 'anything given from the heart' - there's the operative phrase. Someone, anyone who goes to a store to just grab anything and shove it in a plastic bag and hand to a loved one is truly nothing given from the heart. It's a 'why bother' in my book.

Amen to this statement. Brilliantly spoken. A hand picked flower (that is free) is always a well loved gift to a person that loves flowers. It is not the price but the love behind the gift. Trust me, I never thought I would wear a pink dress shirt until a kind person gave me one at work for a gift. I had many compliments on how great I looked in pink. I went to work in fear of being laughed at and came home with a "swollen head" ROFL

birkin baby · ‎01-20-2011

@151949 wrote:
Why is it that every year someone repeatedly starts this thread? Why do you all insist on reliving a bad experience. LET IT GO ALREADY.

Or, 151949, you could have let it go.

Constance2 · ‎09-23-2015

I cannot recall any bad gifts received, but I'm sure there were more than a few. A friend of mine, however, received a stale, outdated box of 99 cent chocolate covered cherries as a Christmas gift one year from the guy she was dating. Talk about making a person feel worthless! Thankfully, after several years of mistreatment like this, she finally wised up enough to dump him.

"I always have a chair for you in the smallest parlor in the world, to wit, my heart." --Emily Dickinson

Fona · ‎11-16-2011

Many years ago I worked my behind off for a particular boss for about three years. Each Christmas he gave me a small basket of bath stuff with the price still attached and prominently displayed. I can also remember one year someone gave my poor brother-in-law a large telephone. No one ever figured that one out.