Whats the WORST gift.......

[ZachnElli]

One year dh's brother and his wife got a us a cd for Christmas. They decided to listen to it first. They liked it so much they taped it and gave us the tape! Not the cd itself!

 

[NMAmy]

My worst present was from my DH on my birthday, a battery operated scrub brush with 3 different brush heads.
It's in the utility room collecting dust.
He sees it once in awhile, and says "Don't you use this?"
I don't answer.

Wow, Hopetobee, this is one reason I give DH a list of items I'd like and make dd go with him. She won't let him buy me any appliances. If my DH had gotten me a scrub brush, he'd be the one using it from now on!

 

[Daxx]

I received half a hammock for Christmas one year from my bro.

Half a hammock you say? What's that? Well, it's the hammock w/o the frame to put it in. My bro. thought we could hang it between the two trees in our back yard. Problem is ... there's only one tree in the back yard and one tree in the front yard. Hammock was too small to stretch through the house and tether to the trees. Now, my brother has been over to my house for backyard bbq's about a million times ... and he can't remember that I only have one huge tree in my small back yard? I have nowhere to hang this bloody hammock!!!

Am still waiting to get the hammock frame as a Christmas gift ... but it's been over 5 yrs., so I'm not holding my breath. Unfortunately, no tags on the hammock, so I couldn't return it.

This is typical of gifts from my brother.

 

[EthansMom]

One year, DH and I were unwrapping so many tacky gifts at Christmas that we stopped to get out a box to put things in for Goodwill: an entire Christmas Village made out of candles from my SIL (I'm not a candle person), a plastic "carved"-handled knife from my Grandma (carving in the shape of a moose, I think), and a Chia Head in a battered box (obviously purchased at Goodwill) from my MIL are the ones I really remember most.

The next summer, we asked our family members to please not get us any Christmas gifts -- just send a card.

 

[jx3smom]

DH's grandmother gave our very young son the book titled something like Santa's Evil Twin.

My parents always gave us loads of gifts for Christmas even after we were all married. Mostly were nice gifts. Then they started getting gifts from the casinos and regifted them to us, along with many other nice gifts but some of the casino gifts were weird. My sister and I also got mops one year and I still can't figure that one out.

 

[PneumaticTransit]

Growing up, my older cousin and Godmother was really fashionable and would always get me a great outfit or something really nice for Christmas. She got married when I was about 12, and her gift giving abilities circled the drain from then on.

When I was 15, she slid a heavy box over to me on Christmas Eve. I torn the wrapping paper off and it was a box of printer paper. Um, this can't be it - must just be the box she wrapped my REAL present in... I open the box, and... and... it's 1500 sheets of white paper. Made for a dot matrix printer so they were all connected with little holes along the edges. This was the mid 90's, I had a bubble jet printer so it was pretty much useless. I would tear off a sheet now and then, but that box of paper is still sitting in my father's basement.

Fast forward to next Christmas. I was 16 years old and confident my "cool" cousin couldn't top last years horrible gift. I was wrong. She gave me battery jumper cables. Who gives a teenage girl jumper cables for Christmas?

 

[lecach]

My MIL gives interesting gifts. Once Christmas right after we married and bought our first home we asked for a leaf blower. We really needed one because of all the trees around our house. She got us a ceramic yard statue of a little girl sitting on a bench. She was very disappointed I put it in the back yard and not the front. IM very disappointed that it hasnt broken yet. Other Christmases we received Christmas decorations that she got the day after the previous Christmases. The most memorable was the barber shop quartet bears that sang songs = its awful. Now she gets us paper products (toilet paper, papertowels), large bottles of Tide, etc. We Love these gifts.

My Grandma gave me a clock with James Dean on it. She remembered that I liked James Dean - I used to like him, about 20 years ago.

My SIL gave me a subscription to Southern Living. I dont garden, I dont have time to cook and if you know anything about me you'd know that Southern Living is the very last magazine I would read. She gave DH Parents magazine. He never even opens it - but I do.

 

[Nancy]

At my Bridal shower my Dh's Grandmother gave me baby booties, diaper pins and bottles! As I opened it looking very confused she said...that's my way of telling you that I want great grandchildren right away! I thought it was very tacky. She thought it was funny. Dh just said later...that's my grandma, she does stuff like that all the time. Her gift didn't work though, it took 3 years for her to get her first GGD.

 

[greenyskp]

My aunt and uncle are clueless. All theyd have to do is call me and ask me what i want for x-mas, or take a peek at my Amazon wish list. But no. They just.... find something.

This past year I got one of those cheap lotion gift sets. It was supposed to smell like "autumn honey" It smells like crap. Though it did come in this huge wooden basket that I use a lot.

The year before that they got me 4 votive candles and 4 votive candle holders.... It was just really uninventive.

And the year before that, they got me one of those fiber optic lamps. It looks like it came from some pimps basement. Its bad. But good for a laugh.

My parents got me an alarm clock for one of my teenage birthdays. Not a cool one. Just your basic black, with red LCD screen alarm clock. It didnt even have a radio. Just the annoying ennnnhhhh sound. My mom said, "you need one" lol...

 

[Sthronds]

My (least) favorite was a clear soap with a plastic goldfish stuck in the middle. It came in a bag like you would bring a fish home from the store in. It just makes me sad. The other happened a loooooong time ago but when I was 14 my uncle gave me a Sesame Street lunch box. I was 14! It went away quickly and never seen again. Now I wish I had kept it to sell on e-bay!

 

[CinderellaIam]

A few years (ahem) back my boss was a man I dispised. Everyone in the office knew it, including him. He was an arrogant, egotistical chauvanisitic pig. He was always looking to do something that was against company policy and I would flat out refuse and do things the "right" way, I wasn't putting my butt on the line for anyone. So any way, when he would travel, which was often, I loved being at work and the fact that if I didn't want to deal with him I didn't have to. I would have my assistant tell him I was away from my desk and take a message. I would do what ever that message required and have my assistant get back to him. Well, what I didn't know was that he would push my assistant and ask where is she? And she would usually tell him I was in the ladies room!

Well, my 30th birthday comes and my co-workers throw me a party in the office, and yes my boss is there. His gift to me? A toddler potty! This is when I find out what my assistant has been telling him!

 

[CarolA]

My worst gift has not yet arrived.

When one of my best friends got married her inlaws were fairly old. At the rehersal they bought a bunch of gifts from friends and family and wanted her to open them. She was doing the good bride thing and then she got to the tissue box holder. It was brass and very ornate... still in the orignal box. UGLY as sin and about 20 years out of style. SHe does the bride thing "Look Mike a tissue box holder... isn't it lovely" while the bridesmaids FIGHT to maintain control.... (the box was so old it had yellowed!) That thing is still around. Every time one of us gets married it shows up. My friends are all over me to get married so I can have it... I am nolding out for the oldest child of the first bride.. I mean she's already 12 just a few more years and we can re-gift it to the original family. (And if we are around and know where it is... it will be there! LOL!)

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

For some reason I can't think of anything TRULY horrible that wasn't a joke. DH gave me a Chia pet, but that was a joke. I thought it was kind of cool.

A friend once gave me this container of Christmas ornaments. There were maybe 15-20 little glass ornaments in this big plastic tube thing. I'm not sure if it was something she was re-gifting or not. I make it fairly well known to my friends that I am an avid Hallmark fan, and 90% of our tree is Hallmark, the rest are things DS made in school, etc. The only other thing I can think of is that she had some small ornaments displayed in a huge cut-crystal vase in her dining room that looked really nice. I think I told her I liked it, so maybe she was trying to help me out. The problem is I don't have a VASE!

 

[UrsulasMyHero]

Probably the worst gift I ever received was from my EX mother in Law, it was a stair stepper. Mind you I was over weight at the time, but I never expressed any interest in it... But imagine my surprise when I opened it. *flabbergasted*

We figured out quickly that if we sent her an old fashioned Xmas list, with catalogue refrences on it, Everything (or nearly everything) we wanted would be under the tree...

 

[delilah]

My husband's cousin always gives me interesting gifts. My husband looks upon this particular cousin as a brother. I think this guy and his family are just cheap. One year they gave me a pair of leather men's work gloves, size extra large. I wear size 6 surgical gloves (the smallest size is 5 1/2). They are still clipped together on the porch. Another time, they gave me a denim barn shirt. We live in a rural area, but, I am a doctor, and I work in a hospital. That went to Good Will, tags intact. I also got a large wire ball ornament with peppermints inside. Not sure how old it was--the peppermints were gummy, and the gold finish was wearing off the ornament in places. Last Christmas, they gave me a Thomas Kincade lighthouse nightlight. Unfortunately, the top was broken. I have it on the mantel just now, waiting for the cats to finish the job.