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What was the worst gift you've ever received? (My ex gave me a step stool for Christmas, because I'm so short. Wasn't funny.)

Redcupcoffee 7 Aug 31
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A leather bound fricking Bible!!! Although the pages do make great rolling paper!!!

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My second husband's two sisters gave me peanut brittle for Christmas, every
year we while were married.

I have a severe peanut allergy.

Did they know? Seems like a hint if they did.

@Countrywoman Oh yeah, they knew. They claimed it was "just a joke", but their mother didn't think so. She always told me that I treated her better than they did. She wasn't lying.

@Paracosm Sometimes, it's just better to take the high road. I really loved my mother-in-law, and getting into a "feud" with her daughters would have only served to make her feel bad. I will admit that I often fantasized about getting even with them though.

@Redcupcoffee It's okay to laugh. In retrospect, it was funny. At the time, not so much. They were both fairly rude and insensitive, and were constantly trying to start trouble. It's been a while, and I can't remember exactly what they were given, but it was always something nice, and appropriate. Like I said before, I really loved my mother-in-law, and I wouldn't have done anything to hurt her. Putting up with her evil daughters was something I did to make HER life easier. I still miss her all the time.

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I would love it if someone got my short ass a stool.

Right? I've got so many light bulbs that need to be changed and I can't reach them.

@Minta79 Oh, yeah. I guess that kind of stool would be useful too.

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My ex-MIL gave me a box of rocks for Christmas one year. It was a hot stone massage kit, but I'm not a big fan of the receiving massages... So the gift was a box of rocks to use to give her son massages? That's a gift for him, and it's still a box of rocks.

@Redcupcoffee Right?

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A wedding ring, we had been married for 11 years and I never had one. Two months later she divorced me

@Redcupcoffee 4 sure

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One of my cats brought me a baby rabbit - missing its head (of course) and some of its entrails. The cat was actually quite pleased with himself for dropping this little gift on my doorstep.....me - not so much. 😟

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I can't remember ever getting a bad gift. Whether it was a lump of steel, a broken spring, or a half dead plant. Anything ever given was offered with the best intentions.

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An excuse. Got one of them pretty much every year from the ex.

@Redcupcoffee variations upon the theme of 'I've been busy'.

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Jumper cables for Christmas. Like who could live in this dogforsaken winter hell and not already have a dozen of those.

Chocolate sprinkles. My aunts from the Netherlands always brought over chocolate sprinkles as gifts. I guess Dutch chocolate sprinkles are special but really it’s all junk ingredients except in a foreign language.

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For my birthday, my boyfriend took me to the Pendleton Woolen Mill in Oregon. Willy picked out a pattern and plaid fabric for me to sew him a shirt.

I was appalled. When I left Willy three years later, the unused fabric and pattern were still in his trunk.

That's so narcissistic its funny

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When I was 7 my parents bought me one of those stupid child leashes 'for my birthday' (wrapped it and everything) and the next day I went outside while they were sleeping in and 'played' with it on the deck (mostly just attached it to a railing and tested elasticity and full stretch length or whatever) and 'accidentally' snapped the line.

🙂

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Mothers Day 2008 or 2009. I had let my ex know I wanted a flower bed built in the back yard. My ex has a Xian Hymnal website. That year he wrote an Easter hymn. He used music from another hymn and wrote new words. Nothing about mothers or love or children. He dedicated that hymn to me on his website. When I opened the envelope and read the words and the dedication I almost barfed. He should not have quit his day job and I hate poetry anyway. I said "thank you." and changed the subject. In our divorce I specified that my name had to be taken off his website. Gag me, freaking gag me. I filed for divorce a few months later

@Byrdsfan IKR!

I'm glad I'm not the only one here who can't abide poetry.

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"You gave me dirt!" Tony protested for years. He had a point.

Tony, my brother-in-law, loved gardening and had just bought a house. I'm a gardener, too.

For Tony's Christmas present, my husband and I excitedly assembled three large, decorative, clay pots, a gift card for Home Depot, Miracle Grow fertilizer, and a large bag of potting soil.

Now see - a gift like that would have made me positively ecstatic! I love giving (and getting) gift baskets full of things that are actually meaningful and show the giver really knows and cares about you.

@Lavergne

Thank you for your kind reply. Tony brought it up every Christmas to needle us. Terry and I cringed.

Since Terry and Tony grew up Catholic, guilt and shaming never stopped.

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We used to have someone in our extended family that would give people cans of soup.

Done up with nice wrapping mind you.

He thought it was funny ...

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For Christmas or by birthday, I can't remember which, from my sister I got her used panties. They were wrapped up in a box with tissue paper like they were new, and they were too big. That took frugality too far.

@Redcupcoffee They were her cast offs and not a gag gift. By "I got her", I mean that I received her panties as a gift.

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My husband at the time gave me a short flanell gown adorned by two fuzzy balls that hung from the neck!

Sounds more like a request.

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Thought you'd appreciate this given your worst gift ever.It's where my normally heighted (is that a word?) colleagues put the step stool in our school storage closet.

That's fucked up.

@Minta79 right?

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My very cheap mother gave me an iron she got free from the bank. A gift for opening an account. This happened after she asked me if I needed an iron and I said no. Lol.

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Every shirt one of my Grandmothers gave me, no matter the occasion.

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A lap dance from some one who was not at all at tractive.
Although, my friends who paid for it got a good laugh.
I made them buy all of my drinks that night.

Speaking of strippers, I have a funny story. When I was in college we would have a "study session" every Thursday night at a strip club. I feel like a perv going into those place, but when a dozen or so of your buddies want to go, I'd give in. Anywho, one night my old roommate got a private dance. He for some reason zoned off. She yelled "PAY ATTENTION TO ME". I immediately said "he's gay". All of my friends laughed as well as some others. He said "I'm not gay". She replied "I THINK YOU ARE" and stormed off. He didn't talk to me for about 3 days!

Another funny story is one time at the same place a friend of mine ran off to the bathroom. I had to go after a while and he was just standing in there. He was in there for minutes. I asked what was wrong. He said he went to HS with her and didn't like her.

I know this isn't about a gift, but when am I ever going to get the chance to tell the stripper stories again?

@TheGreatShadow I think anytime is a good time for stripper stories. They are usually the funniest stories.

@TristanNuvo Okay here's another one then. My friend (same one that ran into the bathroom) told me that he knew a girl that got fired from Arby's. Now she is a stripper. Don't know if it's the same girl from the strip club. If you don't get the joke I'll say two words. You'll get it then.

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My ex once gave me a broom set for an anniversary present. I should have dumped him back then and saved time.

Close second..I had a sister-in-law who liked to give ugly, mismatched crocheted knick-knacks for Christmas. I filled a drawer with them, then, years later, put them in a Goodwill box.

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A marriage license, oh wait I had to pay for that. And pay, and pay.

@Charity I think you're right!

@Charity true!

@Redcupcoffee you are wise beyond your years!

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Just something to share....every year at Christmas I would try to get all the office employees a little something - it finally got to the point where it was ridiculous. These guys had everything they needed (or wanted) so one year I signed up with that group that lets you buy livestock (chickens, milk cows, etc) to be given to communities in underdeveloped countries in dire need - so I did that - in their names. The guys seemed shocked - one of them said he heard people talk about stuff like that - but he didn't think anyone actually did it. ???????? I think they were actually disappointed they didn't get their usual bottle of booze or whatever.... hahahaha

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I've received nothing for so many birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays that I'm more shocked and surprised when someone remembers or takes the time to say something or get me something. Of course, since I tend to be more generous than intelligent when it comes to family, friends, and significant others....I always give gifts and cards. That is one of the things I'm trying really hard to stop doing.....putting time and effort into people who don't care/notice/reciprocate the feelings. I'm tired of feeling like people only keep me around because I what I either A) do for them or B) can give them.

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