Worst Christmas gift you've ever recieved??

**Pemberleyan** · 12-06-2008, 09:34 PM

Here's 23 pages of bad gifts, some sad, some appalling and some hilarious:

http://www.backyardchickens.com/foru....php?id=107168

**pat in east texas** · 12-07-2008, 10:16 AM

What a great thread!
My dear grandma, who brought up 4 kids and 1 grandkid on a shoestring, knew that the Catholic high school I went to required the girls to wear stockings (this was in the garter-belt days). Every Christmas for 3 years she gave me a box of 3 pair of COTTON stockings! "They'll keep you nice and warm, lovey." The last year, she thought I was grown-up enough for rayon. But only one pair - I think rayon cost more than cotton, and she didn't have much money. But she "knew" that stockings were something I could always use.

**LuvMyHubby** · 12-07-2008, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by JustMegan79

I beleive this one will take the cake. I must place a warning though.

************WARNING SEXUAL CONTENT********************

Now that the legalities are out of the way. The absolute worst present I ever recieved was three years ago. I got...are ya ready?! Two umabrellas, two pair of gloves, and....................A jackrabbit hot pink rubber vibrator.

Yes, that is what I opened under the tree from my ex. Notice, now, that he is my ex. I could have died, and I felt so degraded on such a happy, spiritual, family day. Needless to say, I could have easily murdered him with the turkey knife.

Oh, my Lord........now that I got that out of the way and the coffee off my monitor..........Turkey knife, sledge hammer, baseball bat, etc. I would started with heavy and blunt and then work my way to sharp and sadistic and would have been cursing a blue streak the whole time.

**Missourimom** · 12-07-2008, 02:11 PM

I have enjoyed this thread so much....it was a lot of fun reading it! I'm a terrible gift giver and I hope one day I don't read about some dreadful gift I gave. I honestly try, but I'm just awful at it. Thank goodness for giftcards.

**Katybird** · 12-07-2008, 03:26 PM

Mine has to be a horrid bright neon orange sweater that was hand crocheted by my former stepmother. I know she meant well and she was good as gold but what the heck could she have been thinking

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**AprilP** · 12-08-2008, 05:46 PM

I know I've posted this on the Christmas survey before, but for those who missed it...

I actually have 2. In fourth grade in the school Christmas gift exchange, It was a year where yo-yo's were all the rage, I received one of those furry Christmas stockings that cost about .39 cents at the time with a lump in the bottom, I was stoked thinking it was a yo-yo. Lo and behold in the bottom of the stocking was a VERY small tangerine. And nothing else. When our teacher came around asking everyone what they got, I held out my tangerine and she said "Oh......how.......nice." Even she was stunned.

Now for the big one. I think I was about 8 or possibly 9 at the time, and we were still celebrating Christmas with my 2 cousins. So 3 kids. My uncle (mom's brother) and his wife (childless and apparently with good reason) showed up Christmas Eve wearing floor length fox fur coats (mind you my uncle was a good 6' 8" and 350 lbs), and gave me and my two cousins a single serve package of vanilla creme filled cookies from the corner convenience store. (They still had the price sticker of $0.59 with the name of the store on them). Not each, One package of cookies for the three of us.

Clearly they were too busy spending thousands on fur coats and couldn't even be bothered to THINK about their relatives. I don't think they brought anyone else any gifts at all, though, so I guess technically they did THINK about us. For about a second.

**shortstack** · 12-08-2008, 05:53 PM

The worst gift I've seen around here occurs every year to my husband and BIL. My super cheap grandmother buys a pack of socks that has 2 pairs in it and splits it with my DH and my BIL. I crack up every Christmas to watch them open their socks with a pleasant fruit cake face

Andrea

**Nishu** · 12-08-2008, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by AprilP

I actually have 2. In fourth grade in the school Christmas gift exchange, It was a year where yo-yo's were all the rage, I received one of those furry Christmas stockings that cost about .39 cents at the time with a lump in the bottom, I was stoked thinking it was a yo-yo. Lo and behold in the bottom of the stocking was a VERY small tangerine. And nothing else. When our teacher came around asking everyone what they got, I held out my tangerine and she said "Oh......how.......nice." Even she was stunned.

I know a lot of people get their panties knotted up over children not being able to do the gift exchange anymore, but I really think they have no place in school. I gave a used stuff animal and a package of cheap bracelets one time for a gift exchange. The recipient was not happy with it and I was so embarrassed. I'd been happier just not showing up that day. I'm thankful for the first teacher to see this one too many times and decide that there's no need for the gift exchanges anyway.