What's the worst ever?????
I've just been listening to talk back radio on this subject and having a good laugh. 
Mine was many moons ago, when my hubby gave me a Lawn Mower for my birthday. I said "Thanks" and told him what he can do with the mower besides mowing the lawn. 
Thank goodness he is better trained over the years now.   |
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I am almost too embarrassed to discuss the worst gift I ever got but here it is. One year my sister gave me some sexy lingerie -- but it was in her size (she is 5 feet tall -- I am 5'7") and it didn't have any tags. . . . So of course I had to wonder whether she was giving me used underwear.  She swears it was new, just from some sale bin and she says she took off the tags. . . |
| One year I innocently, with great love and tremendous pride gave my father a bottle of...
Grecian Formula 44.  |
Poor dad, innocent son, amazing you made it to be all grown up Ron. 
Has to be what you received as the worst, sooooooo?. Just heard one guy receive his grannys false teeth all wrapped up. Poor old dear was not all there
I am stiches as to what some people have received as gifts. |
I got a humidifier from an ex-boyfriend because HE thought my apartment was too dry. I didn't. Happy birthday to me.  |
| Well, Vic is going to read this, but he already knows, so...
One year for Christmas he got me a gun. The reason it was so awful was because I had specifically asked him not to buy me one. At the time I was big into target shooting and it was something we enjoyed together until I could outshoot Vic and then he stopped coming with me to the range. I don't think I have been shooting since then. I actually ended up selling the gun to help pay bills. We were in no condition financially to be buying guns then, which I think is why it ticked me off so bad. There have been a zillion others. I actually have a box in my attic labled "what the heck did you get me this for" and it is filled with stuff not even fit to regift. Sorry folks, I figure if someone else can use it, it's better than throwing it away, but only new stuff of course. Now if I could only bring myself to get that box out of my attic! There isn't a thing in there I'd use. Shellie |
| The oddest gift:
After 4 1/2 months of dating Billy, it was my birthday. He said he had absolutely no idea what to get me, so he bought me a Silver Baby Photo Album. 
The album had one of those generic pics in the cover as an example. It was a picture of a baby with really big blue eyes, like Ryan's and dark hair. He said it reminded him of Ryan, so he bought it for me! Ryan was 3 1/2 yrs old at the time and here my boyfriend gets me a Baby Photo Album??? When my friends found out what he had got me that said "A WHAT??, Are you pregnant?" I was not. So 5 years later I finally had use for the album.... When Hayley was born.
The worst gift: My 1st husband got me a really tacky set of pearls. Like serious Old Lady pearls. I was 20 years old. The set had huge clip on Pearl Earrings, a HUGE pearl ring and a necklace with three pearls and gold balls on it. I told him that I liked it. That night I was feel guilty about lying to him and I woke him up. He couldn't figure out what I was saying, because I was sobbing. I finally screamed that I HATED THE PEARLS!!! He looked at me and started laughing. He said his Aunt told them I would love them, she gave the set to him. He said that he kept saying to her I really don't think their her style. But she insisted. So he gave it to me as an extra X-mas present. Funny thing is that I still have them..... Everytime I come across the set I laugh. |
Shellie wrote: Now if I could only bring myself to
get that box out of my attic! There isn't a thing in there I'd use. Ebay!! |
| I don't get gifts anymore. I don't want them! lol
For my birthday right after we got married, Jason had been deployed for 6 months. He was able to come home for my birthday weekend, so I was expecting something nice since he arranged to come home just for my birthday (which was great in itself and would have been fine as a gift), but he brought me home a filing cabinet... I still pick on him about it. lol |
| Stupidly this past Xmas I told my hubby that I had enough jewelry and not to buy me any. Instead I got a silverware place setting for 12. Told him next year - buy me jewelry. I can never have enough. |
What a great idea for a topic! 
It's been interesting and funny to read all of the stories, and I'm actually disappointed that I don't have anything to add!
I seriously can't think of anything. People know I'm picky, so they buy me exactly what I want, take me out to get it myself, or give me gift cards. There is one close friend who gets me gifts occasionally that I never would have thought of, but always love.... |
| My worst gift that I recieved was a pakage of pantyhose with the sticker "2 for $0.99" still on it from an aunt. They were also for very short ladies and I'm 5'8".
We got a good laugh out of it if nothing else.  |
| That sounds like our gag gifts. My mom and sisters and I
always gave each other gag gifts on our girls' night Christmas. The best one was one I have my SIL, it was a horribly tacky name pin - Marcia - but her name was Gayle. We still laugh about it, because she was a new SIL and had no idea what it was about. Imagine her face! I think I paid 2 cents for it. Shellie |
| Unfortunatley not a gag gift - my Aunt diidn't like me too much and was noted for giving bad gifts. Still was funny.
I like your gag gidt tho' |
| I like the Panty hose one, very funny.
And VAL I certainly hope they were from the bargain bin & not hand me downs Psssst Val, I would of re-wrapped them and given them back as a present years later for her birthday. 
Elissa I sympathise with you and the granny pearls, I have some too my gran gave them as a present, they fell off the string when I unwrapped them the string was so old and rotted , don't know where she dug them out of, what cupboard they had been stored in for years and years and years,  but heck it is the thought that counts and I did have them re-strung later and never wore them ever, just not me granny pearls.
Gotta luv those rellies.
Just heard another one, A wedding present to a bride on her wedding day, "A Self Help Guide to coping with Divorce" from an ex girlfriend of her husband to be. |
| I can’t remember getting a gift that I didn’t want, but I can remember buying a lot of them……
One year my mother constantly told me that she was freezing on her feet’s, and I got the bright idea on buying her a foot warmer, this foot warmer needed electricity to work, but there was no socket within reach from her chair, so she has never used it. And every time I ask her where the foot warmer is, she comes up with a new explanation ……… 
One year my hubby told me that he wanted a harmonica, and I bought him one, but he forgot to tell me that he could not play it, and he didn’t want to learn it either… So now I only buy stuff that I am certain people would like, otherwise I am getting them a gift sertificate, or a bottle of wine........ |
| The Christmas after my daughter was born (she was born in February) my EX husband (note emphasis on EX) gave me a BALANCE BEAM SCALE, you know like the one in the Dr's office so you can weigh accuartely to a 10th of a lb. He thought it would give me incentive to lose the "baby fat" |
| My ex-husband's sister (who I remain friends with) gave me a concrete burro lawn ornament for Christmas. She left it on our lawn (I was still married) with a bow around it and no card. I had always joked I wanted a burro but it was a JOKE. My then husband had to move it to the back deck. It weighed about 100 pounds. I left him the burro when I moved out.
One year my then husband gave me cash for Christmas. I'm glad he's my EX. |
Shellie wrote: That sounds like our gag gifts. My mom and sisters and I
always gave each other gag gifts on our girls' night Christmas. The best one was one I have my SIL, it was a horribly tacky name pin - Marcia - but her name was Gayle. We still laugh about it, because she was a new SIL and had no idea what it was about. Imagine her face! I think I paid 2 cents for it. Shellie My sister and I have a war every Christmas with this Brut cologne gift set that somehow wound up in our hands. It started with us wrapping it up and putting it with the rest of the gifts but then we got more creative. I snuck it into her mailbox one year and it was followed up the next year with her sneaking into my garage and seat belting it into the driver's seat of my car. The first year James and I started dating, she wrapped it back up and gave it to him as a gift. He was so confused why he was getting Brut but he's been playing along every year so far. |
| I've been racking my brain trying to think of some horrible unwanted gift I received and can't think of one.
I do remember when I was 9 however, and emptied my piggy bank..went to the store and bought my mom a Potato Peeler for her birthday! A potato peeler!!! What the heck was I thinking??
Marianne and the boys |
ButtersStotch wrote: My sister and I have a war every Christmas with this Brut cologne gift set that somehow wound up in our hands. It started with us wrapping it up and putting it with the rest of the gifts but then we got more creative. I snuck it into her mailbox one year and it was followed up the next year with her sneaking into my garage and seat belting it into the driver's seat of my car. The first year James and I started dating, she wrapped it back up and gave it to him as a gift. He was so confused why he was getting Brut but he's been playing along every year so far.
We did that for YEARS with a Chia pet, one year as a joke I said I wanted a Chia pet, well I GOT ONE. Every year after that I would hide it, the kids would spend the entire year looking for it and then wrap it and put it under the tree. I still have it, every time I come across it I smile!! |
| Most years for Xmas and Bday I get a crappy no thought to it gift from the inlaws. The worst was they bought hubby a sander set and then bought a tea towel for me. That wasnt so bad except the tea towel was ORANGE and GREEN. My kitchen was NOT those colors. Hubby was SO mad he returned the gift they bought him and bought me something really nice with the money. Every year I tell them....don't buy me anything....I tell them lets not exchange...just buy for the kids. But they don't listen....and then they expect their crappy gift to be DISPLAYED!
My mom doesnt do much better....maybe I'm just picky like Stacey but my mom always takes a shopping trip to the states in October and does her xmas shopping there....nothing she buys for any of us ever fits or is what we like and of course they can't be returned. I rather get NOTHING than get a gift with no thought to it.
The gifts I give are always a big hit too, which I think is even MORE annoying for me. I take the trouble to LISTEN to what people say they want and go nuts trying to find the exact thing they want and I get crap in return....yeah its in the giving....but please dont give ME anything |
| My husband bought me a shop vac once. We were dating & I really didn't think it was that bad since I did want one. But he has also bought me lots of very cool gifts from an art nouveau glass beaded necklace to paintings. My neighbor is always very good at buying weird gifts which I swear sometimes are re-gifts too. |
| I can't remember why this tradition got started, but for years, now, at x-mas, my family has an "ugly sock" competition...The rules are, the socks MUST be purchased on sale (tags w/price still on them) and the cheaper the better. Extra points are also awarded for the socks being particularly uncomfortable!
The "winner" (the person who bought, and gave the worst socks) gets to decide who keeps and has to wear ALL that years ugly socks! Worst ones so far: Black and orange and pink, with skulls...the skulls eyes light up and glow! |
| Lets see, we were married about 2 yrs and I had just bought a Volkswagen Jetta at the end of the summer...that Christmas there was a HUGE package under the tree...all week I kept bugging him..what is it? what is it? Brian just smiled and said "wait, but youre gonna love it..."
Christmas morning arrived ... I raced with enthusiasm to the tree and begged to open my gift first... I race to the big box...rip off the paper...its a big brown cardboard box..... Scissors in hand, I open it....and pull out this big black plastic.................................................................trunk liner |
| Ravenmoonart-That is priceless!!! I just may suggest that tradition to my family, WHAT A HOOT!
And Darce, are you telling me you were dissappointed??????? That ranks right up there with the George FOreman grill I got two years ago! |
| An ugly gift that we passed around as a gag was a lamp shade made out of sea shells. We had a large group of friends we hung around with and it would show up as a present for who's ever birthday, christmas, graduation or whatever gift giving was required. It went around and around for years. I wonder who has that lamp now. Always had a good laugh over it. |
| My brother in law and his friends have for years given each other a can of SPAM at Christmas. A joke started long ago and now has become a tradition. Wonder if they just regift their cans every year or buy new ones?
Marianne and the boys |
| I received some speckled, nasty soaps from my Secret Santa one year, as my final, big gift. I swear she pulled them out from under her sink after they sat there for 20 years. YUK!
Love the Spam idea! Laurie |
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