What Is The Worst Single Birthday Or Holiday Gift You Ever Got???

[Disney Talker]

People give and get some pretty funny things sometimes, but what was the worst serious gift you ever got, that someone gave you as a genuine gift???


I have a couple of good ones...my parents when I was about 8 years old gave us a Christmas gift one year of a set of Encylopedias..uggghhhh..needed for school but not as your Christmas gift.

Some relative in my family once gave me a really cheap bottle of cologne that was almost one half gone....

An old boyfriend of mine gave me a package of various thread for my Christmas gift, as I could not sew like his Mommy could..we broke up two days later for good....

Share your funny worst gifts ever with us...these can be a hoot i know.

 

[Kteacher]

My SIL gasve each of my kids a gift certificate to a store that's not in our area. They had no way to redeem them.

 

[Wendy]

My grandmother used to give me all her Clinique make up free samples that she'd get as Christmas gifts. It wouldn't have been nearly so bad if they hadn't been half used! The worst though, was the year I got a used hairbrush with hair in it for Christmas. Ewwww! That had to be the WORST gift I've ever gotten!

 

[TinkerPixie]

The first year we were married, my DH proudly showed me the package he had for me under the tree, very carefully wrapped with expensive paper and ribbon. I thought it was a comforter, by the size and shape of the package. I had mentioned a beautiful comforter would be nice for our bed. Christmas eve, DH lovingly handed my the package, kissed me on the cheek and said I love you, I hope you like this. I ripped of the paper to find.....



A pepto bismol pink toilet tankcover set!


I did tell him I loved him too.....after several bourbon laced eggnogs, to help me forget that ......gift!

 

[BarbN.]

I got a litter box for Christmas one year. When I was young my Mom's Aunt gave me a pair of bloomers.

 

[CamColt]

LOL! These are great.
With my MIL, I cant give just one. Its a toss up between the dust pan I got for my birthday or the sexy lingerie for Christmas.

When you use a gift dont you usually think of the person who gave it to you? What was she thinking on the sexy lingerie? If I were to use it, which I havent brought myself to do, do you think DH & I would want to be thinking of her? BLECH!!!!

 

[browneyes]

LOL, Camcolt. Maybe that was her plan.

I don't like to get bday or Christmas presents, but I appreciate the thought behind the gift. I don't think I've ever gotten anything weird for either holiday.

 

[wdw4us]

For mother's day one year, my husband (my kids were too young to buy me anything) gave me a wok and a can opener. He has NEVER lived it down.

My kids are 23 & 21 now.

He knows, diamonds, rubies, emeralds and gold. That's all I want.

denise

 

[Dream]

Well this is easy! When I was growing up I had a rather eccentric Aunt and Uncle. For Christmas one year they gave all of my cousins and my sister Shalimar perfume! Me? I got ONE pair of underwear!!! LOL! It is incredably funny now...one of those classic stories that gets told at big family get-togethers! DH says that's why I have such a passion for shalimar perfume now!! He's probably right!!! It wasn't that they didn't like me or anything...that's just the gift they thought I would enjoy! Yeesh...good thing I have a sense of humor!!

 

[SplshMtn99]

Easy one!

The year I turned 30 was a bad year. I was told I was being laid-off & had a 3 month notice. Had to stay for the 3 months to receive any benefits. Very stressfull. But I still managed to throw DH a very nice party & brunch & gifts he wanted when he turned 30 a month before me. I started a new job on his 30th bday.

A month later, on my 30th bday. NOTHING! I waited until 8pm to ask if he had forgotten or WHAT? He said he didn't know what I wanted, so he got me nothing. I lost it. I cried. So, 8pm at night he heads out to BJ's (of all places). And comes home with a $5 cat-a-day calendar --- and no card.

I still cry when I think of it.

 

[Dream]

Aww..Splshmtn99...you win the prize so far! What a rotten birthday! Hope 31 was better!!!

 

[Tarasmom]

When I was about 14, my dad gave me an Epilady for my birthday (you know, the thing that literally pulls your hair out by the roots!). I think that he knew that I was in the beginning stages of shaving my legs and that it was a "cool gadget"! Good intentions but I thought he had surely lost it!

 

[BabyLove99]

Keep in mind that I am 17 years old. Last Christmas, my aunt gave me these hideous red velvet pajamas. They had white fur type material on the cuffs and neckline. The pants also had these bells on the bottom so everytime you walk, you jingle. I have not worn them yet lol

 

[Disneymomma]

Last year MIL gave me a can opener for Christmas. ( I am still trying to figure out the symbolism behind that.) I guess that she was feeling festive because that was the first gift she had ever given me in 9 years. After this year, I am sure we will be back to nothing again...

 

[PamOKW]

I got a rock for Christmas.

Okay, it was some sort of "special" rock -- a mineral or something like that. But, when you're 8-9 years old and a package arrives in the mail from your godparents you don't expect "a rock" At least it sticks in my mind! Previous years they had sent a chocolate house (like a gingerbread house).

 

[Pam]

My ex-SIL (and I stress the ex!!) gave me HER electric razor when I was 15 - and it still had hair in it!! Years later she gave my DS the gift we had given my nephew (her son) the year before!!

DH gave me jumper cables one year for Christmas. On my 30th birthday, he had a huge funeral wreath set up outside my office building with a ribbon that said: "RIP - Pam's Youth, and my age!!" Last year, for my 40th, he and his family placed an ad in the newspaper and took a photo and distorted it, aging me about 30 years.

When kids were smaller I once got a Troll doll for my birthday and an apple peeler because my son like his apples peeled!!
Pam

 

[Mish19]

From my aunt I got a bookmark (one of those "save the rainforest ones" you get free in their mail solicitations) and a horrible smelling home made sachet.

 

[Jingle]

I can't think of anything really bad that I've ever gotten. But, my mother never lets my father forget that their first Christmas after they were married, he gave her a snow shovel.

 

[BarryHom]

I knew a friend who got used underwear for Christmas!

 

[Dream]

Barry! USED underwear? GROSS!!!