Worst Christmas gifts

[bmg88201]

What would be the worst gift you received for Christmas ? My family stopped the gift giving 4 years ago but I can remember getting some useless things for Christmas. Like shirts that didn’t fit and I would never wear, Santa pajamas (I don’t wear pajamas, I cut them up for shop rags), can of shaving cream shaped like an elf (I use an electric shaver), a loaf of fruit cake which I threw out for the possums to eat. Some say it’s the thought that counts, I guess that’s true if thought was actually used, lol.

 

[MossRoad]

Zit medicine.



It was well intentioned, but the last thing a 14 year old kid want's for a gift.

 

[caver]

Not Christmas but birthday...around 1999?? I was dating a woman who got me a door mat and a cordless telephone with an answering machine. She didn't like my current answering machine and the door mat made me scratch my head. There was something else that was also without any thought. She broke up with me maybe a month later. Months later the base of the cordless phone stopped working. You could only dial from the handset.

 

[Dftodd]

Zit medicine.



It was well intentioned, but the last thing a 14 year old kid want's for a gift.

I got my wife a vacuum a couple years ago. She was actually excited when she opened it. It was a roomba

 

[Dftodd]

Not Christmas but birthday...around 1999?? I was dating a woman who got me a door mat and a cordless telephone with an answering machine. She didn't like my current answering machine and the door mat made me scratch my head. There was something else that was also without any thought. She broke up with me maybe a month later. Months later the base of the cordless phone stopped working. You could only dial from the handset.

Seems like she had other issues or the doormat had some passive-aggressive meaning behind it.

 

[Tinhack]

My family is heavy into gift cards. Not always bad but Academy Sports? I'm 72. What am I going to get at Academy besides ammo? The nearest store is a 50-mile trip.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I'll tell this story, but in a way it's not the worst Christmas gift I ever got, if you consider that it was from my cousin, who was not only desperately poor at the time, but one of the most gracious, likeable, caring and beautiful human beings that ever lived (RIP).

It was Christmas about 1948; the extended family had drawn names and my cousin had gotten mine. I unwrapped it and it was a net bag, like about 3 lbs of onions come in, full of raw, in the shell peanuts...and a pair of cheap plastic "Lone Ranger" glasses that I think came free in a box of Cheerios. Me, being only about 10 years old, didn't appreciate her circumstances and immediately started crying. The adults all comforted me, and added a couple of fresh new $l.00 bills to the pot. I recovered completely.

 

[Thomas]

1985 10 days before Christmas wife ask for divorce ...I didn't see that one coming but it turn out to be best Christmas birthday etc. present.

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[drssg]

I'll go slightly off topic, because I don't follow directions well.

When I was about 10 years old, our local hardware store offered a free promotional drawing to win a 10-speed bicycle. I entered the drawing, and I received a call a few weeks later, saying that I had won!

My dad took me down town, and I learned that, although I had "won," I didn't win first prize. My prize was a bottle of stuff to flush down our toilet, to help our septic tank work better. I was not pleased!

 

[Dftodd]

My family is heavy into gift cards. Not always bad but Academy Sports? I'm 72. What am I going to get at Academy besides ammo? The nearest store is a 50-mile trip.

Grilling supplies, grills, smokers, shoes, boots, carhartt stuff, fishing gear, and workout tights . I agree that if it's 50 miles away, they should have considered something else clower to your home.

We have one locally, and the thing I've purchased the most from them is natural lump charcoal and seasoned firewood for the smoker.

We do get gift cards for my mom. But usually, for one of the restaurants locally in the area she lives in. But she enjoys a lunch or dinner out with the grandkids and is on a fixed income. So that's usually what she will ask for.

 

[Dftodd]

I'll go slightly off topic, because I don't follow directions well.

When I was about 10 years old, our local hardware store offered a free promotional drawing to win a 10-speed bicycle. I entered the drawing, and I received a call a few weeks later, saying that I had won!

My dad took me down town, and I learned that, although I had "won," I didn't win first prize. My prize was a bottle of stuff to flush down our toilet, to help our septic tank work better. I was not pleased!

I bet your dad got a good chuckle out of it That's pretty much my luck if I win something. Although I've done really well off the tool truck Christmas giveaway You break a Christmas ornament, retrieve the paper, and tells you what you won.

Teo years ago, I won a remote-controlled monster truck. (Took care of the grandson).

Last year I won an Axe. Of course this year I missed him last week. So, the Christmas ornaments are probably all busted. If there are any left, I'll probably win a pocket screwdriver

 

[Oaktree]

Don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not all that easy to buy for. Most things in the price range of gifts I'd likely as not just go out and buy myself, something out of that price range would likely be out of the giver's comfortable price range too.

Then again, I suck at choosing gifts for others, especially women. Clothes are out. Like most guys I'm more than just a little uncomfortable shopping in the women's section, sizing is inconsistent at best and forget about styles. When I was single, it never failed that I always seemed to meet a new ladyfriend around Sept-Oct...long enough so when Christmas rolled around I was on the hook to exchange gifts, but not really knowing her well enough to have any clue what to get. Fortunately, my wife has no illusions that I'm going to choose the "perfect" gift by myself, and she just gives me a list of 3-4 items to choose from. Still the element of surprise but always something she likes. I generally do the same for her.

 

[Jstpssng]

This may have been a bad gift on my part. My family always drew names, rather than buying something for everybody. One year money was tight and I didn't have anything for my brother. I did have a hard cover book which I had really enjoyed; a collection of 50 mystery short stories, one from each US state. I wrapped that and put it under the tree for him, and have always wondered if he was disappointed.

 

[Robert_M]

One year my brother re gifted me a used book ; a collection of 50 mystery short stories. What a terrible Christmas………

 

[Yander]

Knitted slippers. When I was a teenager. My aunt liked to knit and she knitted all of us slippers one year. They were not only god awful ugly but because they were knitted they were itchy, and the holes made for a really uncomfortable feeling when you walked in them. Yikes, the worst!

 

[Yander]

I used to buy my wife clothes for Christmas. After about 5 years of that nonsense she finally told me not to do that anymore. I was good with that. This year she is getting and ice cream maker because she and the grandkids like ice cream.