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hausboy -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/23/2011 9:13:37 PM)
Actually, Lithium....I'm not angry about it. (no, really, I'm not) I'm having WAYYY too much fun with this to be angry. After they left, and I went through the freezer goodies, my Mom and I were laughing so hard I thought I was gonna die. I just gotta laugh about it.....just as I laugh every year when they shove lamb in front of my face.... after a certain point, it's just damn funny! I gotta say, though, giving two language dictionaries to someone who doesn't speak either language is just plain hilarious! FYI....Anthrax: not a good option. that's the "business" I'm in--Anthrax is too much like work. She doesn't show off her money....she's just remarkably cheap. I was thinking....maybe for next year....I've got a cabinet full of expired canned goods...

hausboy -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/23/2011 9:15:51 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: angelikaJ Mine isn't quite the worst gift but one year when I was perhaps 11 my mother asked for my Christmas list and I told her a doll... and when she asked what else, I think I was insistent on a doll (I collected them) and my mother let it slip that my dad already got me a doll. So the next thing on my list was an easy bake oven and she let it slip that my grandparents had that one covered. (And actually, they got me a no-cook oven that has no-cook cookie dough.) wait a second angelika.... where's the bad gift part? You got exactly what you wanted, no?

xXLithiumXx -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/23/2011 9:17:28 PM)
I know. I agree it is funny. I am glad that you have some sense of humor about it.

seababy -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/23/2011 9:26:51 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: hausboy Actually, Lithium....I'm not angry about it. (no, really, I'm not) I'm having WAYYY too much fun with this to be angry. After they left, and I went through the freezer goodies, my Mom and I were laughing so hard I thought I was gonna die. I just gotta laugh about it.....just as I laugh every year when they shove lamb in front of my face.... after a certain point, it's just damn funny! I gotta say, though, giving two language dictionaries to someone who doesn't speak either language is just plain hilarious! FYI....Anthrax: not a good option. that's the "business" I'm in--Anthrax is too much like work. She doesn't show off her money....she's just remarkably cheap. I was thinking....maybe for next year....I've got a cabinet full of expired canned goods... Store the meat until next year and give it back

LadyHibiscus -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/23/2011 9:28:54 PM)
Okay the joke bit is that both Hungarian and Finnish are languages that are unrelated to the Indo European la nguage group...so an interchangeable dictionary with them is like, GENIUS!! Finnish+Basque would also have been genius. Subtlety AND uselessness, Stella's gift FTW!

angelikaJ -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/23/2011 9:35:18 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: hausboy quote: ORIGINAL: angelikaJ Mine isn't quite the worst gift but one year when I was perhaps 11 my mother asked for my Christmas list and I told her a doll... and when she asked what else, I think I was insistent on a doll (I collected them) and my mother let it slip that my dad already got me a doll. So the next thing on my list was an easy bake oven and she let it slip that my grandparents had that one covered. (And actually, they got me a no-cook oven that has no-cook cookie dough.) wait a second angelika.... where's the bad gift part? You got exactly what you wanted, no? I did say it wasn't exactly the worst gift [:D] but actually a non-bake oven with non-bake cookie dough -especially since my mother had told me I was going to get an Easy Bake oven- ... the non-bake cookie dough was kind of gross... but the good news was they only included 2 packages of it. However, the most disappointing thing for me that year (and I didn't mention anything that hinted toward it) was in my mother telling me: I loved the surprise of Christmas...still do. Edit to add, obviously I knew when I posted I was not in the running for recycled frozen food stuffs... and I am grateful about that. [:)]

erieangel -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/23/2011 9:56:25 PM)
I think the worst gift for me were all the loofahs, body washes, tiny nick-knacks and other mainly "useless" items my mom would throw together year after year just so that she could give out more presents to each person. I finally told her I'd rather have one thing that she knew I either wanted or needed and be done with it. I really couldn't understand her obsessive need to spend hundreds of dollars on useless stuff just to give presents. It took me three years to get her not to buy me "stuff" and just buy one gift--and that year I told her I wanted nothing. She got me an ugly sweater. But the following year, she got me one gift and it was something I needed but had been putting off buying myself. It was a new sink for my bathroom.

LanceHughes -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/23/2011 10:00:57 PM)
RECENT bad gift...... Just started working for the Federal Gov't. Little did I know that it was like being adopted by aliens. WHOLE new way of looking at the world. Any-who, recent gift "exchange" brought me a cheap-o synthetic blanket / coverlet. RED with white snowflakes. "Will keep you warm," said the giver. Not too bad, right? But, but, it came in original Target packaging with $9.99 as listed price...... No wrapping, just a worn gift bag. Quick - I went to Target on my way home. Said, "I just got this in a gift exchange and I'd like to return it." Clerk: "Do you have the recepeit?" ME: "No, I don't think so. Let me look... wrustle, wrustle.... Nope. I guess when you do a gift exchnage, you shouldn't put the receipt in with it." // GLARE - he was kinda cute, but GLARE anyway // Well, I can't give you full value. Okay, give me whatever you can. It will be on a Target gift card. Okay. He then photocopies my Driver's license - I guess there's a ring of folks, buying cheap blankets and turning them in for less than they paid for????????? So, he hands me the gift card and sees that I'm thinking "Maybe christmas gift paper..." // He points to the in-store Starbucks // "you can use it there." AH ha! Re-gifting rears it's ugly head. So I take the $8.48 Target gift card, add $1.52 to it and buy a $10. Starbuck card for a "friend" that I've been thinking of getting ..... a $10 Starbuck gift card. LOL! I got them back at the next gift exchange - I found a custom t-shirt shop that goes from a JPEG file to t-shirt "while-you-wait." Other products? A mouse pad for ahem.... $10. So, I find our departmental logo on internet, send it in an e-mail to the store, and the mouse pad is waiting for pick-up. // GREAT shop, BTW - NO minimum order - national chain - leapfrog // In return, I got a scent-jar. Pour oil into small vase, the "cat-tail" like wicks absorb and dispense scent. That got re-gifted ASAP, ASAP being the time it took me to re-wrap it and give it to a "lady friend" of mine who gushed. I can hardly wait to see what she gets ME. LOL! <For the blanket, I gave some sour-cream dip mixes. And sure 'nuff, one shows up at our "treat" table with a bag of red / green tortilla chips and is "where did you get this?" and "oh, I really like it.">

LanceHughes -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/23/2011 10:13:08 PM)
Come to think of it, my Mother was a kindegarten teacher for many, many years. Her collection of handkerchiefs, and knick-knacks was stored in an extra dresser in her bedroom. We kids NEVER had to buy a gift for our teachers. LOL! It would have been interesting to do a socio-graphic study of how the gifts changed over the years. But just how many apple-shaped soaps can one have? 30 kids per year times 20 years = 600 gift items. YIKES! And she was a teacher for more than 20 years. I think many of them went to our Chuch "Rummage Sale."

MysticFireTopaz -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/24/2011 1:00:43 AM)
Two things come to mind. My deceased aunt was obsessive about her own and everyone else's weight and would badger me about it every time she called. But then at Christmas, she would send me fudge as a gift! The joke was on her, though. Her sabotage and game-playing didn't work. The fudge was flavored with bourbon, I totally didn't like it, and would just take it into work. It didn't tempt me in the least. Another gift that annoyed me was the sweater that my ex-boyfriend got me--two sizes too large! I tried it on and was swimming in it. He tried to blame the salesgirl for misguiding him, but I didn't let him off the hook. I told him he must have told the salesgirl I was really huge if she advised him to buy a sweater that size. I returned it and told him to please never, ever buy me clothing as a gift again!

0ldhen -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/24/2011 2:36:09 AM)
A mouse from my kitty cat, neatly laid on the Xmas tree skirt......But at least he caught it fresh just for me!!!!!!

Phoenixpower -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/24/2011 6:17:02 AM)
My mum posted me 2007 a thing to wrap around the wrist (like a necklace but for the wrist, forgot the english name for it) which was self made by my aunt and a cat-birthday calendar and 5 Euro...I checked my passport after receiving that as I just couldn't believe it... aged 8 I might have liked it but about to hit 30, certainly not [>:] So I thanked her for the "collar for my cat" and donated that calendar to a charity shop as it was still wrapped up in its cling foil...we then agreed no gifts, when she bothers me with such stuff...though that seems to change now with being back home...[8\|] In 2001/2 I got a blue paper box in which you can collect photos...that was very obviously a "i have to give a gift gift" as she had received one from me...well...that one ended up in the bin as I couldn't care less about gifts which are just being done out of politeness and not out of true interest of doing so [:)]

Phoenixpower -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/24/2011 6:31:18 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MysticFireTopaz Another gift that annoyed me was the sweater that my ex-boyfriend got me--two sizes too large! I tried it on and was swimming in it. He tried to blame the salesgirl for misguiding him, but I didn't let him off the hook. I told him he must have told the salesgirl I was really huge if she advised him to buy a sweater that size. I returned it and told him to please never, ever buy me clothing as a gift again! Oh true... I forgot those...a previous friend from the UK also developed the habbit to buy me clothes...something I disliked big time as I am very particular about what I'm willing to wear and what not... So in 2008 I returned the top she bought as I didn't like its fabrics nor did I wear 3/4 sleeves at that time (meanwhile I can tolerate it if I like a top enough, to do so)...but as that shop was a rather strange shop, the alternative which I then found there I never got to wear either and ended up in a charity sack in the UK when I left... That experience did not stop her to continue interfering in my taste of clothes (she was persistent[8\|]) and as xmas and birthday gift in 2009 I received a coat which was four sizes too small (and contained as colour pink, a colour which I cant stand either[>:]) a white scarf (I usually dont wear scarves[8\|]) and ugly leathery brown gloves...if Grandpa would have still been alive I would have given them to him as they were exactly his taste [:)] but not at all mine [8\|] So I exchanged them into two suitcases which were at least useful for my upcoming travel plans at that time [:)]

impishlilhellcat -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/24/2011 6:53:53 AM)
I don't actually have any bad gift stories. I am however, really enjoying reading this thread. I think it's absolutely fabulous that you have such a sense of humor about it Hausboy. I admit I was a little shocked that someone could do that to someone else initially, but after continuing to read I just find the situation funny. My family doesn't usually exchange gifts. In fact, this year everyone is getting a big tub full of baked goodies from me. My aunt is doing the same. My husbands family is all about the gifts, but somehow even though I always tell them I don't need or want anything they always manage to pick just the right thing for me. I do think that is my husbands doing. He always knows just what to get!

JstAnotherSub -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/24/2011 6:54:01 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Ninebelowzero Me & the old man got so pissed off with the whole thing one year that I bought him sun tan lotion & he bought me preparation H. The bastard beat me. I snorted and it hurt! Damn you...

JstAnotherSub -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/24/2011 6:55:57 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: xXLithiumXx My mother and I do not get along. At all. We, in fact, hate each other. Every year, we have to make this show of being around each other because of my brother and his children. (My brother is a whiney titty baby, basically, so I get forced into being around people I hate.) I have decided to up the ante on not only not being invited back, but possibly making it so that she never speaks to me again. I never buy her a gift, and she never gives me a gift. She is the biggest prude on the planet. I am going to buy her a neon pink double headed dildo. The giant, huge, totally impossible to ignore, may have its own zip code, knobby bumps, and super improved vibrating motion twirly heads... Yes. Yes I am. Man, I hope you come to your senses before you do that. **I am required to put the following warning, by law** In 20 years, you will regret doing it, IMHO only.

JstAnotherSub -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/24/2011 6:58:43 AM)
When I was , maybe 13, there was a huge box under the tree, with my name on it. I opened it, and it was a stereo box, with 8 track and turntable both! Opened the box, and it was a mother fucking globe! Man.....someone hold me, the memory hurts!

impishlilhellcat -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/24/2011 7:02:44 AM)
I just thought of something (at least to me) that would be pretty clever and wicked. Next year in lieu of spending all that money on someone who doesn't appreciate it you could do something charitable like angel tree, toys for tots, or adopt a family and then in card put something along the lines of ....." A donation has been made to _____________ in your name." Give the gift of charity!

JstAnotherSub -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/24/2011 7:20:28 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: impishlilhellcat I just thought of something (at least to me) that would be pretty clever and wicked. Next year in lieu of spending all that money on someone who doesn't appreciate it you could do something charitable like angel tree, toys for tots, or adopt a family and then in card put something along the lines of ....." A donation has been made to _____________ in your name." Give the gift of charity! If there was a like button, I would push it for this idea!

LaTigresse -> RE: Worst gift...EVER! (12/24/2011 8:53:43 AM)
I would like to say none, that all gifts, in the nature of the thought that people cared enough to give me the gifts were delightful.......but I cannot. Where I work, the other company, there is a woman that always has expectations attached to her giving. For several years it just kept escalating, getting bigger and bigger, then I just stopped. I cannot sttand people doing things for me with expectations of reciprocation. When I give someone something, do something for them, I do it because I want to. Not because I expect anything in return other than the hope that they enjoy it. The funniest gifts I can ever remember getting. The first year GD and I celebrated the holiday together he got me a crock pot and vacuum. I was not impressed. The next year it was a diamond ring (little did I know it was one his ex had rejected......) And yet I kept him around! Once, when I was a young teen. I saw a pair of shoes in a catalogue that I desperately wanted. As kids, we usually only received one or two gifts, IF it happened to be a year when my parents were not boycotting the holiday. That morning, under the tree was a shoe box sized gift for me. I was so excited. When I opened the box, inside was a totally different pair of shoes. Something that my grandmother would have worn. I was a totally ungrateful brat. I don't even remember whether or not I got the shoes I wanted. I think my mother just returned the wrong shoes and left it at that.

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