Whats the WORST gift.......

[It's A Happy Day]

You ever got & why (if the reason is not obvious to us readers)? AND would you regift it to someone else???

I will begin: I got the same light fixture from the same person 3 years running. It was one of those garage lamps that you can move around to where ever you are working. Great the 1st time but did they forget that it was the same thing they got the year before and the year before that...I almost have enough to play baseball in my yard after dark

 

[NMAmy]

My ex-MIL (who hated me) gave me a Chia pet one year. It wasn't like she didn't know me--my ex and I had been married for probably 8 years at the time--but I was thrilled she took the time to buy me such a personal gift. DD was a toddler at the time and I "re-gifted" it on to her--she LOVED it.

 

[MosMom]

When I was about 13 my great-grandmother gave me an already colored in Barbie coloring book and a sample of Canoe cologne for men. I graciously accepted it but we still laugh about it. She was a fiesty old gal though. She was pronounced dead and then came back to life and when they told her she had died she immediately asked who had been watering her flowers while she was dead. She hung on for a few more months afterwards. I still have that Canoe sample around here somewhere!

 

[amid chaos]

My MIL gave me a package of underware.

 

[ziggystardust]

My DBF's sister gave him 3 of the same exact toaster ovens. It was christmas, birthday (sept) and then christmas again.

The real kicker is that he was living with his parents, who already had a toaster oven!

 

[SC Minnie]

DH gave me a bunch of CD's for Chistmas one year while we were dating. I didn't have a CD player so I had to leave them at his house.

 

[RickinNYC]

I've never really gotten a "worst gift" by accident but my family has a wacky tradition that shows a good sense of humor runs through all of us. You how each year, there are always endless commercials for really stupid items? No matter what time of day, what you're watching, you see them running constantly? Such as the chia pet as mentioned previously?

Well, whenever that happens, it never fails. Everyone in my family, my brothers, myself, my parents... we always end up buying that item as a joke for someone else in the family. So on Christmas day, either everyone ends up with it, or one person ends up with multiples of the same thing.

One year, we all got seamonkey kits, another year everyone received chia pets, still another year Dad got inundated with the Clapper. And then there's the Mr. Microphone debacle ("Hey groovy chick, what's YOUR name?!")

Another year, when we were home for Thanksgiving, I was making the mashed potatoes but I went into such a mashing frenzy that I busted the masher. So a few folks ended up with massive potatoe chunks over dinner. That Christmas, everyone, from my parents, to my little brother, another family and their kids and even Joe, all got me a stupid potatoe masher. The best one was from my brother. He got it engraved.

 

[lorisnuts]

the ugly off-white ceramic canister set that my MIL gave me for my birthday last year. (the cheap kind of ceramic that chips everytime you bump them) She told me she got them because the set I currently had didn't match the yellow tile in my new house. "the tile in my new kitchen was beige."

 

[Hopetobee]

You ever got & why (if the reason is not obvious to us readers)? AND would you regift it to someone else???

I will begin: I got the same light fixture from the same person 3 years running. It was one of those garage lamps that you can move around to where ever you are working. Great the 1st time but did they forget that it was the same thing they got the year before and the year before that...I almost have enough to play baseball in my yard after dark

That's why a few years ago I started writing down everything I got for people, birthdays, Christmas, etc. A good thing too, because I woulda given the same thing again to my brother.

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.

 

[Tina]

The year that my grandmother discovered that my then-teenage brother had taken up smoking, she gave him a fire extinguisher for Xmas.

 

[kellyf2626]

Ok...this may not be the worst, but definitely the funniest.

A teacher who I share a room with went to Disney a few years back. She was new, and we were friendly throughout the year. So, at one point earlier in the year, I went to Disney - and I just brought her back a little note-pad from Epcot she could keep on her desk. Just something small.

So....she went down to Disney in the spring....and when she came back, she was like "oh, I got you a little something". And hands me THE DISNEY SOAP! I kid you not...like, the free ones from the hotel room?!?! Now, I really didn't expect her to get me anything. But, I thought it was hysterically funny that she attempted to pass off the soap as a gift! And she was serious! "Just something you can keep in your bathrrom".

I was like, oh, thank you!!

I still laugh hysterically thinking about it!!

 

[marybet]

One year for Christmas my former MIL gave me a wire basket of plastic roses that lit up They were just so tacky and she thought they were beautiful, I used to get them out whenever she was coming to visit. Then there was the package of soup mix and bread mix from my SIL, she is a teacher and I figured it was a re-gift, talk about cheap.

 

[mudnuri]

My X- deer warning things

I hit bambi Feb 13 of 05, and Feb 15th is my birthday. He thought he was being funny, the girls thought they were serious, and I should have put them on my truck.

I didnt laugh, and they went in the trash

Brandy

 

[Tiziminchac]

My stepbrother and his family gave me a bag of M&M's for Christmas a couple of years ago. It was wrapped up with a bow and everything. At first I thought it was a joke, but it wasn't. At least it was a big bag of M&M's and not one of those small one's. I don't think we have exchanged gifts since.

 

[figment52]

all got me a stupid potatoe masher. The best one was from my brother. He got it engraved.

I was just at a wedding shower, if I'd known about this idea it would have made a great gift!!

As least you know its one of a kind -

 

[Jockaroo]

Some of the "bad" gifts come from people who truely love you, but haven't got a clue sometimes. We have one funny one though. For our first Christmas together, hubby's aunt developed a "rat theme" for all our gifts. No sure why, except hubby had a few hamsters before we married. Anyway, I received this hideous foot tall girl rat ceramic figure dressed in colonal clothes -- think Betsy Ross dress on a rat. Hubby recieve the matching boy rat. These things were so ugly they made us speechless. Several years later we needed a white elephant gift for a work party. I found my girl rat (tossed in a box of junk that didn't get thrown away when we moved) wrapped it as pretty as can be, then took it to the party. We had to leave early, but found out the rat was the hit of the party. It was voted hands-down the tackiest gift and people were fighting for it.

 

[ckmommy]

I had a boyfriend in HS that bought me a necklace for Christmas. Now this was not just your average necklace, but a rhinstone necklace with a pendant on it. The pendant was a 10+ carret (fake) red ruby surrounded by rhinstones. The kicker, he wanted me to wear this everyday--to school, to the store, the movies,--only taking it off to shower!! Are you crazy!! It got lost somewhere about a month later, which was just about the time I told the guy to take a hike!!

 

[gshanny]

DH thought he did such a good job getting me an Epilady. It ended up in the trash and me trying to sooth my beet red legs. I still tease him about it once in a while.
We moved this last year. We needed to do some finishing stuff at the old house. I always hated this one ceiling fan that was there. We never finished that room all the way while we lived there, so we never replaced it and I always grumbled about how ugly that fan was. DH and dad went over and finished the stuff so we could get it on the market. I told them they HAD to get a different ceiling fan for that room. I refused to make someone else endure it.
Along comes Xmas and after all the gifts are unwrapped they lug out this weird shaped box for me. I open it to find.......that darn ceiling fan. I still have it in my basement and I am trying to think of something to do to it and give it back to my dad who thought he wsa soooo funny. I am thinking of trying to make some sort of yard ornament out of it.
I can just see it though, it will end up like the package of gift wrap my sister and I swap. She started it and we have kept the package going for about 8 years. She didn't take the time to wrap a gift and laughed and handed us the paper. For her B-day that year we did the same back and that is the way we have done it ever since.

 

[hemispheredancer]

My inlaws gave me a Perfect Pancake maker for Christmas one year. I felt a little insulted because I have a family of 4. How long did they expect me to cook breakfast if I have to cook 1 pancake at a time?? Needless to say, I took it to Wal-Mart and got a refund of $14 something on a gift card.

 

[arminnie]

My college boyfriend gave me my own necklace.

He'd been cheating on me with a really rich girl and thought she had lost a diamond necklace in his car.

So he wrapped it up and gave it to me for Christmas.

Such a sleeze bag.