Worst gift you have recieved?

[Demovictory9]

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[applegrove]

1. Someone in my family received a set of kitchen knives for Christmas.

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I can't remember who. It was years ago.They were not wrapped properly and as the person, I think my mom or Dad, opened them a knife fell out and cut them pretty deep. If you are selling knives you should know how to wrap them properly.

[Demovictory9]

2. that's awful

[applegrove]

3. I would guess that whoever bought the gift should have put a warning on it too.

But we were all pretty pissed off. And we were not a family that got angry at others very often.

[sarah FAILIN]

19. I've gotten knives

3 times in a row from my youngish son. It all started because someone had put my favorite peeling knife in the wrong place and I was griping because I couldn't find it. He thought I only had 1 good knife... so I got different styles of knives for 2 years Christmas gift and 1 Mother's day with the last one being a really big cleaver. I'm not disappointed. He had them well boxed, lol.

[Yavin4]

32. Maybe the person that gave the knives came in 2nd place. n/t

[Roland99]

4. My son got one of these

http://www.fuggler.com

[Demovictory9]

6. those aren't even cute ugly

[Roland99]

14. I know! And the teeth look so real. It creeps me out!

[bearsfootball516]

5. My wife, who is politically illiterate, got me "Ship of Fools" by Tucker Carlson

She saw the title and thought it was about the Trump Administration.

It’s the thought that counts!

[TEB]

9. Now I am laughing

[MyOwnPeace]

51. Oh, my!

Hope you got the receipt!

[unblock]

7. Microwave bacon cooker. We don't eat meat.

Fwiw, I'm also Jewish. I never kept kosher, but didn't grow up eating much pork, so never developed much of a taste for it.

But for people who love bacon, surely microwaving it is a disappointment, no?

[sir pball]

10. Actually, it's a really good way to cook it

This coming from a bacon-loving sous chef of all things...microwaved bacon is literally just as good as oven-baked, which is the One True Way. Cookers are nice, but just put it between some paper towels and nuke it for a minute or two at a time till it's nice and crispy.

Might be the only thing I'd ever actually use a microwave for as my first choice..

[unblock]

13. Who know, lol. Microwaving is not known for making things crispy....

[zeusdogmom]

46. I agree

Quick, efficient, great tasting bacon. Now if you are making a lot of it, the microwave can be tedious. Baking in the oven is the only way to go for a large crowd...unless you have a deep fat fryer. OMG is that good bacon.

[MyOwnPeace]

53. You're Jewish - you don't eat meat?

OMG - could this gift-giver have been any less "out-of-it?"

[ProudLib72]

8. I don't get that many presents, and all of the ones I got were good

So that raises the question, Does the chance of receiving a really bad present significantly increase relative to the number of presents you open? I'm sure the stores wouldn't like it if a statistician announced we should each get a single, well thought out present.

[Harker]

38. Not always.

Sometimes it's the presence of relatives that increases the chances.

[ProudLib72]

44. After I wrote that I realized that I hadn't received a present from my aunt this year

She gave me an electric ice scraper one time. I think she gives her sister (my mom) the more ridiculous presents; however, I do use the professional looking head scratcher from time to time.

[Harker]

47. Now that I've heard of one...

I can hardly believe I've made it by for so long without one...

[Hekate]

11. A selection of succulents snapped off in the garden that morning, arranged in a clay pot...

...in dry dirt with a verbal reminder to water it. Oddly, they all rooted and survived. But who the hell does that?

A birthday card repurposed from some mailer -- but couldn't they have used a little white-out on the printed name?

[NightWatcher]

12. An Ancestry dot com DNA thingee..... from my father

Somewhat passive aggressive, no?

I know he's my dad because he passed me a rare-ish disease combination and we look alike.

This year was much nicer, I got a " merry Christmas to your family group text yesterday".

[Ms. Toad]

25. You know the DNA goes well beyond who your parent is, right?

There are a lot of people who are interested in ethnic heritage - which is primarily what the ancestry.com product is about.

[NightWatcher]

33. I come from a long line of Carolina crackers (it wasn't a mystery)

Half my fathers side is Cracker and the other half is Creek.

It was just funny how it was presented to us last year. I had zero interest in sending my dna off anywhere. I'm sick and if my dna is on file, I'm afraid if it were hacked or whatever, that me and my offspring would have preexisting label on us for generations.

[Ms. Toad]

41. My guess is that there's probably a lot more there, that you don't know of.

Like where the Carolina crackers in your background came from before they were Carolina crackers.

There can be useful information - especially in the case of illness. My daughter's illness, for example, is tied to Scandinavian countries - and Ashkenazi jews. Knowing her anscestors gives us comfort that her condition isn't out of the blue - and to the extent there are rare strains associated with particular geograph/ethninc origins, can help sort out disease progress; best treatment for a particular strain.

There are, as you suggest, down sides - but I don't believe the ancestry version of the DNA test identifies genes (e.g. the BRCA genes - the was 23 & me does). So it is less risky in terms of tagging you with specific medical conditions.

[Demovictory9]

34. yep. its really interesting to do.

[Ms. Toad]

42. Using a different service,

My daughter found her biological father (she was conceived by donor insemination). Definitely interesting!

[Norbert]

15. At an office gift giving I received a Big Mouth Billy Bass

It was at the time this particular curiosity had run it's course and some stores were selling them for 50% off. The giver must not have been happy with me because my reaction was probably priceless.

When Springtime came around the Vietnam Veterans called us asking for donations. When they arroved for pickup Billy Bass was right on top of the bag of clothes.

[akraven]

16. Just for a giggle - I got a horse turd in 1968.

Dad couldn't wrap the horse he'd bought for me and bring him into town. I still miss my Stoney!

[sarah FAILIN]

20. That's pretty funny

Kinda hard to wrap a horse.

[akraven]

21. Dad would have tried, but it was 28 below zero -

and Stoney had a heated stall and great paddock area!

[Totally Tunsie]

17. My last Christmas with my ex-husband,

he gifted me with a replacement globe for the exterior deck light AND a soft-cushioned toilet seat. The globe, at least, was innocuous. The toilet seat, however, was god-awful. When you sat on it, it let out a whoosh of air with accompanying sound. We also did not have central air conditioning, so on humid days your butt would stick to it. Fortunately at that time I was a smoker, so the seat met it's death early one morning as I attempted to flick my ash into the bowl. Who knew plastic burned so easily?



Note: As I said...Last Christmas/ex-husband!

[3catwoman3]

22. I sat on one of those things one time in a very dark...

...restroom while at a wedding. I jumped up in horror, thinking I had sat on someone’s naked lap. It was really creepy.

[Croney]

59. I'm heaving with silent laughter because hubby is asleep next to me.

Tomorrow I'm going to read this to him and laugh hysterically.

[3catwoman3]

60. Happy to be of service.

I hope he enjoys it as much as you did.

[Ms. Toad]

30. My MIL loved those. Me, not so much.

Not only was the whoosh an issue, but the plastic cracked and bit the unsuspecting user in the arse.

[Tree-Hugger]

64. I remember those

They were popular when I was growing up. I remember they would get little cracks on the edges. My mom thought they were horrid, so we never had them in our house. My best friend down the street had them, though. And all of their furniture was covered on plastic, too.

[llmart]

65. Guess that's one reason he's your ex-husband!

I only say that because in my immediate family, the stories of the godawful Christmas gifts my ex-husband gave me are legendary. They are too many to list here, but the one that stands out the most is the year I got a necklace for men. It was a giant American eagle.

[Lars39]

18. A Creation Museum brochure

tucked into my box of things that never fit me.

[Meowmee]

23. Prolly not the worst

But very annoying. A friend sent me another plant when I said no more plants because my cat eats things and I’m afraid it will poison him. Turns out it is supposedly non toxic but I’m still worried. It is still in the box while I try to figure out who to give it to. Not returnable. So I end up with no gift, stress and work 😳

[edbermac]

24. Relative gave me Oliver North's book back when.

Never even opened it.

[Polly Hennessey]

26. My mother sent me

wool mittens. I was living in Las Vegas.

[WeekiWater]

27. I have never really gotten a bad gift.

Some that I would have rather not have had but not bad. Growing up, my mother did get a microwave one year and a lawnmower the next.

[lapfog_1]

28. Lawn Darts

when I was 12 and my brother was 15.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

29. Never really got a bad gift.

The ones I wasn't crazy about were still things someone got for me out of the kindness of their heart. Back then the closest to home delivery was a Sears Christmas Catalog and even then, I knew somebody had gone somewhere and purchased that gift for me, so I wouldn't feel/be forgotten. Even a 'bad' gift is a thoughtful one imho. Grandma had so many grandkids even a set of sweat socks was an expense for her. I wish I could go back and open some sweat socks again. I miss her and those days. Todays 'off gift' will be the missed memory in decades to come. Be glad. Enjoy today, bc tomorrow isn't promised to anyone. Merry Christmas folks. C.C.

[backtoblue]

31. Bits of toilet paper soaked in fish oil.

Gag gift from a dirty santa game. There was hand sanitizer and a gift certificate in the bottom of the bag.

[doc03]

35. I got a dummy hand grenade. When I opened the box the pin

came out.

[fierywoman]

37. As a child, getting things I "needed" ...

... socks ... underwear ... it basically turned me off to the idea of required gift-giving on certain holidays...

[NotASurfer]

39. Brother almost got me a Trumpy Bear

last year. Fortunately he didn't see the commercial at the right time, then short attention span kicked in and so awkward delivery this year

[RockRaven]

40. I had a right wing relative who bought whatever right wing books Costco had for sale, then

combined them with some random books other people had previously gifted them (you could tell from the inscriptions), and gave one to each family member, along with a list of who got what, and instructions on how to pass them on in a circle once you had read yours. Called it the "Family Book Club."

They did this several years in a row before stopping. The last year most people didn't even pass on their first book. Every book I read from that episode I rank as tied for first place on worst gift list. They were awful, irrelevant to ANY recipients' interests/hobbies/curiosities, tone deaf, and/or offensive.

[demigoddess]

43. how about a lovely white blouse from my Aunt

a couple of sizes too small because my mother sent her the wrong size, on purpose. This way my younger sister got two blouses for Xmas.

[sakabatou]

45. I think it was a remote control car

[lanlady]

48. my family still laughs about this one

I've always gotten wonderful gifts (this year was no exception!) but many moons ago, my mom's best friend got a set of phony Samurai swords from her husband for Christmas. The husband thought she would enjoy hanging the swords, criss-crossed, in the dining room. Did I mention the house was all early colonial decor? She told him in no uncertain terms where he could shove those swords instead! My family and friends still laugh about it, all those years later, as the shining example of what husbands ought not to buy for their wives.

[3catwoman3]

49. My favorite aunt, who generally had very good...

...taste, sent me a pair of earrings for my newly pierced ears.

They looked like house flies, and were absolutely hideous. I was horrified. I had to be a good niece and write a thank you note to my aunt, acknowledging her thoughtful gift. I knew I was lying. I never wore them.

Runner up was a pair of mohair knee socks, picked out by my mother. I was in junior high, and mohair sweaters were all the rage in 1963-64, in pastel shades of blue, pink and yellow. I wanted one desperately. My mom thought they were too expensive, so she got me the knee socks instead, in a rather harsh, rusty orange color. I can still picture them, and I am know 67. One of those, “Oh, you shouldn’t have moments, when you really mean it. I did eventually get a mohair sweater, from a different aunt - in a very vivid purple. I eventually came to like it, but was initially rather dismayed.

It is difficult, as a kid, to have to hide disappointment when something falls far short of hopes/expectations.

[DFW]

50. I never got a lot, so there were never really any bad ones I remember, however.....

A neighbor, a guy whose wife was a school principle, and he is a judge on the tax court with a PhD, as well as a law school professor, made one of the poorest choices I ever heard of. They have a fairly small plot of land (nice house on it, though), and he got his wife a lawn mower.

She didn't speak to him for three days.

For a guy with a PhD in taxation law, he didn't exactly show a lot of great judgement there.

[phylny]

52. My aunt gave me a butterfly purse made with different colored

fake leather. It was hideous. "Do you like it?" "Yes, thank you!"

She had four daughters around my age. I will guarantee you she'd never buy something as ugly as that for her daughters.

I never used it.

[yewberry]

54. Two boxes of sugary cereal beyond their expiration date.

Office gift exchange. What a massive jerk.

[crazycatlady]

55. A book on kitchen design/renovations

I was 7.

[Liberty Belle]

56. A relative sends a bottle of asbolutely awful wine every year.

This started when she brought a bottle to dinner once and we politely said it was good when asked. So no way out of it now.

I usually wind up using it for cooking or making a wassail bowl where it doesn't much matter what the wine tasted like since you mix in so much fruit juice.

[sweetloukillbot]

57. When I was about 20...

I got a pack of pencils, a trapper keeper and a cheap tiny remote control car from my grandparents. In their defense they were early Alzheimer's at the time, but it was awkward.
I made out better than my sister, however, who got a clown suit.

[MissB]

62. That's hilarious!

Trapper keeper vs clown suit! I hope you can both laugh at it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

58. Not so much the worst gift, but in a way the saddest.

I'm the third of six children, and my parents didn't have a lot of money, and they really did try hard to do their best for us. This would have been about 1958 or so, maybe a couple of years later. I was 10 or 12, thereabouts. Christmas morning there's a large pile of presents under the tree, in part because we kids also bought each other gifts.

The only thing I got from my parents was a box with four pairs of socks. I kept on looking for another present from them, but nope. Just the socks. The other kids got things like toys, maybe a book or a doll or some such. I only got the socks. I was in such shock that I simply didn't say anything, just expressed appropriate appreciation, and of course I did get stuff from my brothers and sisters, and there were always "family" gifts like board games.

I've never really gotten over that Christmas.

[Horse with no Name]

61. A passive aggressive gift from ex MIL

I don’t drink coffee and she bought me a coffee maker. It gave her an excuse to gift her son two things and me none.
She loved to tell me how much she liked my husbands ex wife.
She’s lucky I never had the pleasure of picking out her nursing home.

[MissB]

63. Last year: 2 jars of spice.

It was a couple’s gift, so I suppose I got one jar and DH got the other?

This year we got something - it quite sure what. I actually had to politely say “I think you’re going to have to help me with this one” to the giver. They came over to where we were sitting and showed us what it was.

DH, btw, has moderately decent gift giving skills. He tends to rush at the end, which is how I got the sample spice jar in my stocking this year (with about 1/3 of the spice in it because it was the sample jar, plus the label on the jar was a dead giveaway..) He’s adorable and tries. I love him for that.