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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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My ex also used to give me weird gifts, such as poop sculpture on Christmas, which we celebrated with my family. It was so humiliating, so it was my last drop. Why he could't get me jewelry or something like that?

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We received a bath towel, for a wedding present from my eldest brother and his wife. And this was just the start of all the crappy gifts that we got from them over the years. I think the wife of my brother is a complete witch. He has been generous till he met and married her. Now we are with my husband, also making the crappy gifts for him, never regretted it, I think they are just trolling us for years, so we decided to gift them to the next marriage date theirs photos face socks. I think it will be a funny gift.

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every piece of clothing my mother ever got me when i was a teen. ugh, polyester!

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It had to have been something my former MIL gave me for xmas, which would off the top of my head be a tie between some type of strainer found in the gadget aisle of say walgreens, a plastic rice maker? (bitch I know how to make RICE in a pot!).

Then again, I can't feel too bad she always gave her son the same grey shirt every year, which was always left in the box. I think that must have stung him as she always went to so much trouble to get his sisters exactly what they wanted. 😟

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As a child i always got a pair of socks every year for Christmas from my aunt

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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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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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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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I'm not big on gifts as an adult, but I recall as a kid receiving a pair of loosely knitted slippers from my aunt. They were ugly, uncomfortable, and one was much bigger than the other.

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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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Oh I almost forgot.......nothing

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A waterpik

@Redcupcoffee yep

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Yikes! That is terrible. The worst gift I ever got wasn't that bad but I wasn't ready for it. My mom gave me an electric razor when I tuned 13. I hated it. I was growing up but didn't want to yet. I just thought it was the most terrible thing she could have gotten me. Looking back, it was a nice gift just a year or two to soon.

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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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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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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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We got some kind of leather tube to carry a bottle of wine in, I think, for a wedding gift. Anyone want it?

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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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I don't really care all that much about gifts. I'm not a spectacular gift giver myself, so I really don't have much in the way of expectations, and I'd like the same grace given to myself... BUT the first holiday gift my (ex)husband gave me (in 1981) was a puce jogging suit and jump-rope. He was very into "fit" girls, and I was not "fit" enough for him. This was his way of helping me to be someone I was not.

I was 5'6" and 120 pounds, but still too fat for him. His gift giving didn't improve much from that over the decades, but as I said, I don't really care about gifts. Some people just don't have the knack, and I admit to being one of them... But there are some gifts you can easily take as an insult.

I remember being disappointed that he felt I needed improvement and couldn't be celebrated for something likeable about me.

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Second hand flannel pajamas. On Christmas.

A bag of Skittles. For my "birthday" Two days after my birthday. .

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In a Yankee swap, I ended up with a device to measure the distance to the next hole by narrowing in on the fLag they stick in the hole. I've never golfed.

godef Level 7 Sep 1, 2018

Please edit this. I know it was not intended. It can't be THAT bad of a gift.

@Redcupcoffee No, it was cheap, supposed to be a gift under $20. Size of cigarette lighter, plastic with a peep hole and some measurement marks.

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My ex once gave me a Mickey Mouse snow globe for Christmas. I always thought it was because I gave no gift, but she forgot that I bought her round trip flight to Kenya.

Tickets to Africa are not cheap.

Do you even "like" Mickey Mouse?

That sounds like a re-gift.

@BufftonBeotch I agree.

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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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Nothing. On my 50 th Birthday, the guy I was living with went out drinking with another woman. Nothing unusual. By that time I was sleeping in the guest room. Funny I honestly don't care about gifts any more.

@CoastRiderBill people are so insensitive. Needless to say eventually I left him but it was just another vase of unrequited love. Happens to me quite frequently.

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