What is the worst gift that you ever received? Mine was an ice crusher for my wedding shower.

[debm55]

[OLDMDDEM]

1. Mine was a mother in law that lived with us.

[debm55]

2. That's funny. Or maybe not.

[OLDMDDEM]

4. Looking back on it....

it was funny. Fortunately, I am divorced from my first wife (MIL's daughter) and happily married to my current wife for 33 years.

[debm55]

5. Congratulations.

[OLDMDDEM]

8. Thanks.

[Shermann]

3. Clothes that didn't fit my persona

I was into hard rock and heavy metal growing up but was gifted some gangsta-rap attire at Christmas.

[debm55]

6. HAHAHAHA. What did you do with them?

[Shermann]

31. My little brother WAS into gangsta-rap so I gave them to him

He just needed a couple years to grow into them.

[Botany]

7. A motion activated Christmas Tree that played "I saw momma kissing Santa Claus" and "jingle bell ...

... rock" when you walked by it. One day it grew wings and flew against a wall.

[debm55]

10. That was gifted to you? Gee that is a strange gift and I could see how it would grow wings and fly

against the wall.

[Diamond_Dog]

9. My late M-I-L God bless her

Often gave me clothes that looked like they were for an 80 year old woman back when I was in my 30s. She meant well.

[debm55]

11. That's sad. What did you do with them?

[Diamond_Dog]

12. I returned them to the store.

I always thanked her but later on made up the excuse it didn’t fit. She seemed okay with that.

Hope you’re feeling better today, deb.

[debm55]

13. That's good and very nice of you.

[Dulcinea]

14. A fake designer purse.

It was hideously ugly. I just thanked her & gave it to charity. This was about 25 years ago before a lot of people knew that the money for those things goes to nefarious purposes. (Not illegal in those days)

[debm55]

15. Oh, I didn't know that. I bought a fake designer purse from a parent of a student. I thought they

would be really cheap. It was 70 bucks and it was the cheapest. That was way more than I ever spent on a purse.

[Basic LA]

16. An expensive bathrobe from my then young son.

It was a hideous fluorescent green but I had to pretend I liked it for years.

[debm55]

19. I got velvet shoes with gems on them from my young son for Christmas. I wore them.

[MenloParque]

17. When I worked at Lockheed Martin a director gave me a New Revised Standard Version Bible for Xmas.

I hated working there surrounded by the most egotistical conservative right wing a-holes you can ever imagine.

[debm55]

22. That would be shitty. What did you do with it???

Did you regift?

[MenloParque]

27. I gave it to my aunt who is a Christian. I have no clue about versions and who uses what Bible.

[RoadRunner]

18. Socks

Just what a kid dreams of.

Hey, glad you’re back!

[debm55]

23. Sock, what eveyone dreams of for a gift. thank you,

[Freddie]

20. A brown padded toilet seat

From my brother, who I adore. That same year he gave our cousin, who lived in Southern California, fur-lined leather gloves.

[debm55]

24. I had one of those--did not have a long shelf life in this house. Funny about the fur lined gloves

in this Southern California. Maybe your brother got the gifts confused??? Did you use the padded seat ?

[Freddie]

26. Actually, yes

I may have mentioned to him that the house we’d just bought had a bathroom decorated in orange and brown (it was the 80’s). 4 years later we sold the house and the toilet seat, and 80’s decor, stayed.

[Layzeebeaver]

21. Old spice stick deodorant in the 1970s

[debm55]

25. Now that is funny.

[Mad_Dem_X]

28. For Xmas one year, my mother gave me

fake dog doo, wrapped in plastic and tied with a festive bow.

To be fair, it was supposed to be a gag gift. But I couldn't believe she got me that! BTW, I was an adult when she did that, so I didn't really get that upset. LOL

[debm55]

34. Sorry, but that's shitty,

[Mad_Dem_X]

58. Agreed!

My mother has a warped sense of humor.

[Niagara]

29. This title I almost missed due to the word "Wedding"

I had to remove it from trash can.



Anyway, the worst gifts that I have received have been clothing.


When I was about 6 or 7 years old, my mother purchased this outfit from either J.C. Penney's or Sears for Christmas. It came from the girls section but it looked like a boys outfit. It was a white collar shirt, with both blue courdroy vest and matching pants. It was hideous.


My older cousins and I were hanging out in one of the guest bedrooms at grandmother's house during this event and my oldest cousin asks me, "Do you like your outfIt?" I replied that I didn't in fact like it at all. Well, her parents ended up purchasing me that same hideous outfit for Christmas so my cousins threatened me never to talk to me again if I didn't act like I liked this outfit.


By the way, they're both MAGAts and the 2nd oldest cousin I stopped talking to in 1995 and I stopped talking to the oldest in 2018.



My in laws have purchased me shirts as well and all the shirts were not complimentary to my body shape and made me look 5 to 9 months pregnant. I just politely asked them to please not buy me clothing. I can purchase my own clothes.

[debm55]

32. That was a good idea on both counts. Sorry that happened to you, Niagara.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

30. Boxes of chocolates like Ferrero Rocher

I love chocolate, which everyone who knows me knows, and hate hazelnuts, which nobody I know seems to remember, so I've been gifted numerous boxes of hazelnut-adulterated chocolates over the years. Oh well, I don't need them anyway, LOL!

[debm55]

33. Great idea. I kept my ice grater and made snowballs out of them to eat.

[sinkingfeeling]

36. Mike, is that you?

[debm55]

42. HAHHAHAHAHA

[thatcrowwoman]

39. Whew! Finally found one I can share. Many thanks, 50 Shades Of Blue.

No hazelnuts, please. Ferraro Rocher chocolate boxes were given to the cafeteria staff during their lunch break in the high school where I was once upon a time The Librarian.

Nutella? Just no, thank you.
The rest of the family loves/loved it. I found little snack packs with a small bowl of Nutella and a packet of pretzel sticks. My mom would enjoy those when she just wanted a little something sweet and salty, chocolate-y and hazelnutty, creamy and crunchy. And she would always insist I take a 2-pack of fig newtons or Lorna Doones from her snack stash in exchange.😂

One person’s regift is another person’s day-maker.

Thank goodness. I searched my long-term archives and came up with 3 possible worst gifts.
The first one I thought of is still too personal, too embarrassing.
The second one I returned to the giver and it broke my heart like never before.
The third one, never mind.🤡😱
Hooray for hazelnuts. Thanks again for the save, 50 Shades Of Blue!
Hazelnuts,I’m more than comfortable sharing.😉
💝🕊thatcrowwoman

[debm55]

43. Oh, you both could have given to me. I love them.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

62. I would have, gladly!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

64. I'm glad they came in handy for once! ;)

[Backseat Driver]

35. In my youth, Mommy Dearest, gave me a puffy girdle for girls w/those

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hanging stocking clips garters to hold up a first pair of nylon hose. I recalled what a fit she had when I shaved my legs without permission, and I was thoroughly embarrassed when she demanded I hold up the puffy floral crotchless underwear Christmas gift so everyone in the room could see what I had received from Santa. You see, my aunt brought Gramps and the family friend, her neighbor in Chicago, along to visit us or perhaps to help drive or keep Gramps occupied? Yep, the great guy with the British accent I could listen to all day on whom I still had a pre-teenage crush.

My mother, OTOH, once received a sparkling new white wooden toilet seat for her B-day or Mother's Day from my father. It was her only gift from him celebrating the event/holiday and became one of those "secretive" family jokes for years. Good doG, who could you tell? Ahhh...romance and/or gratefulness in full bloom, and a home maintenance must-replace-soonest chore that we had no choice but to all try out--only one bathroom for which there was always, to the day it was emptied of lifelong residents' possessions and sold, someone of at least one to 5 or more, depending on the number of seldom visitor(s) with the next number waiting for necessary relief and/or a shower.

[debm55]

45. What a great post. For one Mother's Day, my husband asked me what I wanted. I wanted a chain saw to

cut the neighbors bushes that were growing in our yard. It is still a joke about the romantic gift of a chainsaw. Your story sounds like my family. We only had one bathroom too. On special occasions, he would give me money to buy her a gift. Romance in full bloom..

[3catwoman3]

54. One of our younger son's good buddies just got married.

His only request on their wedding registry was a $399.00 chain saw - seriously!

[debm55]

59. I don't think mine cost that much, but I'll tell you what--it sure beat cutting with hedge clippers.

PS You gave me an idea for a new post,

[sinkingfeeling]

37. A Betsy Wetsy doll from Santa. I hated dolls. Just

wanted teddy bears.

[debm55]

46. My Betsy Wetsy also peed. I didn't like it. I didn't mind feed her, but I didn't like changing the

diaper.

[Ocelot II]

38. Dish towels from my former MIL.

I'm sure she thought I was a shitty housekeeper.

Also, when I was a kid (about 11), my grandmother sent me an outfit - a hideous brown plaid skirt and top - for my birthday. But the worst thing about it was that it was designated a "Chubby" size (they had those insensitively-named sizes in those days). I wasn't overweight, just kind of awkward and shapeless; and the dress was too big (fortunately, because it would have been ugly in any size). But was so hurt that my grandmother thought I was so fat I needed a special "chubby" sized outfit.

[debm55]

48. I remember those. My cousins passed clothing down. Janet wore the size plus + , which meant chubby.

I was always underweight. so wearing Janet's 10+ was so no looking right. I'm sorry that happened to you.

[3catwoman3]

60. I used to get hand-me-downs from my 2 oldest...

…cousins, which were generally quite nice, and i really looked forward to the boxes from Barbie and Debbie.

One cousin topped it at 5 feet, and the other about 5’4”, so those days came to an end when I reached 5’8” at 14. I was sad about that.

[debm55]

61. So sorry, loved getting boxes. Even if it had crap inside.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

66. there were other terms they used like "Husky".

[debm55]

67. I think husky was for the guys.

[ProfessorGAC]

40. A Salad Shooter

Was a AA battery operated piece of junk that couldn't slice lettuce, let alone a radish or a carrot. We got it from my parents. They were all the rage at the time.
Thing is, they knew, even before I started cooking, that I did the prep work because I like the cutting, slicing, dicing, chopping. And, I could cut carrot ribbons 3x faster than this toy, so it didn't even save time.
Used it once just to see. Dropped it off at a thrift shop a few days later.

[debm55]

49. I remember those from the late night infomercials. Almost got one. After reading your post, I'm glad

I didn't.

[Mr.Bill]

41. When I was eight years old

my Aunt gave me a jar of pickles she had canned.

[debm55]

50. Did you eat them, Mr. Bill? What a gift.

[Mr.Bill]

52. I honestly don't remember.

Probably not, I wasn't a big fan of pickles at that age.

[TexasBushwhacker]

44. A pair of black candlesticks from the dollar store

Back when my brother spent all his disposable income on drugs.

[debm55]

51. Those sound like the ones they sell around here at Halloween

[3catwoman3]

47. There are several contenders.

I got my ears pierced when I was 15, while we were spending Thanksgiving of 1966 with my favorite maternal-side aunt, my uncle and cousins. My aunt got her ears pierced, too. A few weeks later, she sent me 2 pairs of earrings. My aunt usually had very good taste. I was horrified and disgusted at one of the pairs of earrings which looked like houseflies, which I detest. My very proper mother insisted I write a thank you note. Fortunately, the other pairs was cute little green frogs, so I probably managed to come up with some generic “Thank you for thinking of me and adding to my earring collection.” I threw them away. I kept the frogs.

When I was in junior high, cable knit mohair sweaters were all the rage, in soft pastel shades of blue, pink, or yellow. I wanted one desperately, but my mother said they were too expensive. She got me a pair of mohair knee socks in a deep shade of rust/orange. They were hideous. I don’t remember if I ever wore them.

Another mohair story. My other maternal aunt, was living in Germany with her Army husband, and mohair sweaters were much more reasonably priced there, so my mom arranged for my aunt to get one for me. I was numb with disappointment when the sweater arrived - it was a very intense shade of purple. Another “what the hell am I going to say” thank you note to write. I eventually came to like it, but it was definitely not what I had wanted.

One more story. My husband and I were a couple for 4 year before we got married, and we lived together for 2 of those years. He’d been thru a bad divorce and it took him some time to feel confident about the idea of marrying again. We had discussed it many times. He was away for my birthday, and left me a note that told me to go to a certain address to pick up my birthday present, on Pearl Street in Denver. I thought he was sending me to a jewelry store to pick up an engagement ring. I got nicely dressed, and drove to the address. It was a sporting goods store.

I drove home, changed into jeans, and went back to pick my gift - a pair of inline roller skate. I felt like a real idiot. I can’t even remember what I said.

[debm55]

53. Sorry 3catwoman3 but your post made me laugh for the first time in days. We never wrote cards, but

had to call and thank the person even if it was a cheap shit that only sent an empty card. I would have thrown the house fly earrings away too. Yuk.

[3catwoman3]

57. No need to be sorry. I'm glad you got...

…a laugh from my recollections.

There are certainly times when you really mean it when you say, “Oh, you shouldn’t have.”

[Mr.Bill]

55. A gift I liked when I was in my 20s

was my mom always put a carton of cigarettes in my stocking. Seems rather bizarre now, 20 years after I quit smoking.

[debm55]

56. My husband use to give them to me when we first got married.

[LuckyCharms]

63. This thing right here:

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[usonian]

65. Oh, pain. Could be worse, though.

Mine was a case of ultra slim fast.

[debm55]

68. It's a mushroom? what is it used for?

[LuckyCharms]

69. I think it's supposed to be a penis that someone carved.

My friend dropped it off at my house while laughing his ass off.

[debm55]

70. Why? Did they give it to you? That's a shitty gift.

[LuckyCharms]

71. He saw it somewhere and bought it for me.

He and I have a similar sense of humor.

[debm55]

72. Still looks like a mushroom.

[LuckyCharms]

73. That's probably what it was meant to be...

but we both think it's a penis. I had it sitting in the garden for awhile, just so my neighbors behind me would ask "What the hell is that thing"?

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

74. outdoor plant stand. put a small plant on it, A plant that will vine downwards.

I'd make great use for that.

[LuckyCharms]

75. I got rid of it.

But not before I took a pic of my wife lewdly caressing it.

[debm55]

84. -------

[Niagara]

76. What do you call a man with a 9" penis?

A FUN-gi!








Sorry, totally inappropriate. It was a joke from high school that I never forgot.

[LuckyCharms]

77. Jesus Christ.

Round these parts, we call him a "liar".

[Niagara]

78. Lol!

[LuckyCharms]

79. Don't get me going on penis jokes.

"Mine is 3 inches...from the ground."

"I have 12 inches...if I put it in 4 times".

Seriously, don't get me going.

You'll be sorry.

[Niagara]

80. Dammit.

I couldn't help myself.



I viewed the wooden mushroom photo that you shared and that triggered a memory of that particular joke.



I swear LC, I didn't mean to start a thread about penis jokes.

[LuckyCharms]

81. Just remember, it's not the size of the boat, it's the motion of...

nevermind...

It's the size of the boat.

I was wrong.

[Niagara]

82. I can't stay up all night partying on DU, Lucky.

Last call for me tonight.

[LuckyCharms]

83. Goodnight.

[debm55]

85. Yes you did,both of you. I just woke up. JC how in the hell did this turn into a thread about a

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penis?????? I must still be in a fog. Oh Lord, help me. I'm going back to sleep.

[Niagara]

86. I blame the photo in post # 63.

I actually messed up the joke.


I knew that Lucky would appreciate my joke since he has a twisted sense of humor like I do.


I had to leave the party last night due to:

1. I had to go to bed since I have to go back to work this morning.

2. I didn't want to get a "hide". Some people don't have a sense of humor.


I didn't mean to hi-jack your thread, Debbie.

[debm55]

88. I was joking, Thought it was funny. I wasn't mad

[Hekate]

87. A pair of monkey bookends that were the ugliest things I ever saw, as a wedding gift, 1972...

My new husband said his aunt and uncle must have put their son in charge of getting the gift. Neither of us was amused in the slightest with this classless piece of painted ceramic junk, but I was determined to do the right thing and write gracious thank you notes to everyone in a timely manner, so I did.

We spent our 9-year marriage 3,000 miles away so I never did get to really know his extended family. There was just one aunt and uncle I had warm feelings for.

[debm55]

89. I know. Over the years I have gotten some real winners-, Also, at my shower got an iron board,

electric skillet, crock pot, --typical gifts for the happy homemaker.