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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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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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A leather bound fricking Bible!!! Although the pages do make great rolling paper!!!

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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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A level and pair of gloves ! That cost about 2 dollars when I had both that equaled 50. I didn’t need it and they knew it! A hug would have been fine

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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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I got a bath towel from a past girlfriend once for Christmas. That was it, just the towel.

All you need now is a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide & you'll be set. Not bad as gifts go.

@davyjones I suppose so.

I got a bath towel as a gift once and liked it.

@Stephanie99 yes, but was that the only thing you got?

@Captain747ex It was from a friend who stayed at my place when I only had beach towels.

@Stephanie99 Well I'd say that's a bit different. The gifts I got from my parents last Christmas were house necessities since I had just moved into an apartment and didn't have very much of those necessities. That I can understand. But, "Oh, hey, merry Christmas, here's a towel." isn't quite the same.

@Stephanie99, @Redcupcoffee It was your standard, run of the mill, towel. Nothing fancy.

@Captain747ex The towel I got was plush and fluffy. I still have it.

@Stephanie99 Sounds like a nice towel.

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I bet I am shorter than you.

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A spitoon. Need I say more?

Thanks for the vocabulary lesson. Had to google spitoon. ?

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I got a car one time. We had opened gifts at home and there wasn't one for me. Then we drove out to his parent's house and on the way past the shop he said "there's your present, that car" and pointed to an old car. I don't think it was even a month later he sold it.

@Redcupcoffee It was some old car somebody abandoned at the radiator shop and they did a mechanic's lein on. He sold it less than a month later. I never even sat in it.

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A cooking pot on our first Christmas. What?

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

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Ex-girlfriend gave me a can of spray on waterproofing for shoes.

@16classic

I'd love that for boots, shoes and purses, especially in the winter.

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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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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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My birthday is December 12. When I turned four, my godmother sent me the biggest package I had ever seen, but I wasn't allowed to open it until Christmas. It was a build it yourself telescope. I don't know any four year olds who are that into astronomy. And it was only 200x magnification. Even more disappointing than the cleaning caddy my ex got me for Christmas when I tried to break up with him in 2000. He thought I could use it for my new place (that I stayed in for two nights). (I wish I had stayed there much, much longer.)

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we had a great Aunt that was honestly and simultaneously both the most thoughtful and the worst gift giver of all time. When I was young, she lovingly and meticulously hand sewed rows and rows of lace and rosebuds on panties for me. That was nice, but you know, it was the 70's and we were rocking bikini underwear under our bell bottoms and halter tops. That underwear was so UNBELIEVABLY scratchy. She also knew I liked art and had some modest aspirations to create art. She felt as a person who liked art, I would want paintings to hang in my bedroom. So, for my High School Graduation, she gave me an incredibly amateurish oil painting of two cockatoos where one had a foot held up in such a way it looked like a cockatoo penis. She was so proud of this purchase. She found it at a flea market from a "local artist who had won MANY awards". We had a dedicated nail on the wall at home. When she would visit, the "Cock"-atoo painting would come out and be hung in a prominent place. As soon as she left it would go back in the darkest recesses of the closet. She was a good person. She just was horrible at gifts. But we never let on how bad her gifts were.

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As you get older... you don't care for gifts anymore... give me money... That's what I do. Let them buy what they want, use the money as they feel fit. My son gave me a guitar as a BD gift... a righthanded guitar... I am lefthanded!!!! Geeks really Suck at Gift Giving!!!! My sister bought her husband... the same shirt twice within a year... He didn't used it the first time!!!! Second time will be a charm? Nope. A GF back in my College days (70's) gave me a very beautiful and expensive spoon and chalice emulating catholic church for consumption of cocaine. I never liked cocaine!!!!

@Redcupcoffee Yep I remember giving my son on his mid 20's a large drone helicopter... he was behaving as a child, wanted one since a child he said. Was worth the money to see him so happy.

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I dated a man for near 6 yrs .. I don't think he ever got me six gifts . I don't celebrate Xmas so he was happy about that I guess , but nothing for birthdays or just something ? One year he got me a device to hook up both of my dogs and walk them w one hand .. I don't know y he thought I need a free hand while walking my babies . The man wasn't cheap other ways . Just cheap and not thoughtful w me I guess . Or simply enough , did not loved me . And I am smiling ?

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Well, do you use it ??? 🙂

@Redcupcoffee You are freaking adorable ?

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A percussion massager so he wouldn’t have to rub my shoulders anymore

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I'm sorry . That is just a little bit funny.

@Redcupcoffee

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@Redcupcoffee I am sorry..it was funny ?

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