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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Second hand flannel pajamas. On Christmas.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

A waterpik

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

"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.

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.

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.

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

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