My friend went to Disney when we were 13. When she got back, she showed me all the awesome stuff she got her other friends: t-shirts, hoodies, actual jewelry, and other cool things. I got hotel shampoo and a plastic necklace with a pendant that was supposed to have candy in it, but didn't.
When I was about 8 I really wanted this Barbie pool for hannukah. I told me mom it was what i wanted the most, i talked about it all the time, blah, blah blah. Soe ach night I'm thinking "myabe tonight I'll get the Barbie pool" , but no luck. Finally it's the last night we're getting our final gift so I was excited b/c I had to be getting the pool that night. Nope, instead of the pool I got soem cheap ugly plastic digital watch. It broke after a couple of wearings.
My uncle gave me an extremely elaborate cat applique sweatshirt when I was in college. I can't find anything on google that is even remotely as hideous.
For my birthday my aunt got me a crazy christian magazine that gave terrible advice (including don't even hangout with a guy who may not be christian) & sent me a $1 and quiz to get me to renew my subscription - I answered questions like "After sex I felt a) bad b) guilty c) suicidal" - I wrote in my answer "e) Awesome!" and returned the $1 and the quiz & never heard from them again.
A random piece of wood as a wedding gift, no explanation about the meaning or what it should be used for, it looked cheap, so we threw it out.
A random horror movie as a b-day gift from my brother when he knows full well I do not like horror movies (& he got my sister the same movie & she feels the same way).
Post by mrsw101109 on Nov 29, 2012 18:13:20 GMT -5
I got a Small fake plastic piano that plays christmas music with 2 mice in Christmas outfits that dance around. It was from my aunt and uncle who are hoarders and are famous for giving crap gifts.
Everything my grandmother gets me is terrible. She buys stuff that fourth graders would side eye.
I donate everything so I don't have anything on hand but the most recent gift was a white tshirt with blue and silver glitter and ed hardy-like designs. The font (yes, font) read: "I can bring the drama." It also had a fake "vest" that attached to the sides of the shirt. I'm not kidding.
I don't really have anything to contribute, either I have a bad memory or my bad gifts haven't been particularly funny. I know I've gotten many over the years that weren't awesome but usually not anything too crazy.
Last year my Grandma turned 80, and my cousin gave her a CD for the Halloween concert she sang in (she's in a really great, professional type choir). The songs on the CD were all things like "Death is coming" "and other totally inappropriate songs for an old woman's birthday. My cousin totally did NOT think about that and was just giving her something she knew she'd like, but we were all dying (no pun intended) laughing as she read through the song titles.
At my bridal shower, my Aunt was making a big deal about the gift she got me and how, when she saw it, she immediately thought of me. It was a pink, tutu-wearing, papermache, flying pig birdhouse. Yep. Awesome.
When I got married, my boss at the time gave me a gift before the wedding. She brought it to work and had me go out to her car with her. She made me open it in front of her, too. It was a giant glass vase that was the shape of a styrofoam coffee cup that had a rusted metal swing-of-sorts that held a huge candle. It was so awkward trying to act excited about it. It was also filthy inside so I knew it was used. It ended up in the Goodwill pile.
I have always liked cats, so one year, my family got me a glass cat figurine for a gift. Then every gift giving occasion after, I got another glass cat. I must have had 100 by the time I graduated high school. I even got one as a graduation gift.
Post by UnderProtest on Nov 30, 2012 0:46:23 GMT -5
I've had a couple bad ones, but the one that annoyed me was a monogrammed silver bookmark.....with the wrong initials on it. It was from my matron of honor who apparently never listened when we talked about changing my name.
My grandma was super frugal and bought almost all of our gifts at yard sales. Or shirts on clearance for $1.88 at JCPenny. The list of weird things I got from her is too long to write out.
Used nail polish for each day of the week sticks out as a top contender though.
My FIL sent me a "Time Out Doll". If you haven't seen one before, it is a 3-4" tall doll with no face that is meant to stand in a corner. He made it himself (neighbor had a garage full of the forms and gave them to him). It was dressed to look like me (wig in my hair color, etc). I screamed when I opened it. Ended up in the dumpster.
Post by MixedBerryJam on Nov 30, 2012 9:23:55 GMT -5
For those still in possession of their most hideous-es, I propose a white elephant trade (or giveaway or sale or whatever) ... but I'm not saying the poster I've already contacted to take her hideous gift off her hands, as I don't want anyone else to rip me off!
When I was 10 I received an adult 2x tshirt that clearly came from the Kmart clearance rack. I was incrediby small for my age. At least take the price tag off and try for something that is going to remotely fit.
Our wedding present from DH's grandparents was a wooden chest that his grandfather made. The silver plaque read: TO GRANDSON, LOVE GRANDMA AND GRANDPA. Way to leave my name off my wedding present. Not to mention we found out later that DH's parents had actually paid for it but the grandparents took credit for it. Weird. DH's mom was not happy.
My father is notoriously unfair with gifts among us kids. One year for Christmas my sister received a $500 check, my brother recieved 2 flannel shirts, and I got an unsigned card. No kidding. I was 9 and devastated. My brother was pretty hurt as well.
The last Christmas my father gave each of us kids a card with two gift cards in it. One for the child and one for the spouse. Only ours only had one GC in it. I'm still trying to figure out if he was trying to slight me or my husband. My guess is me.
A couple weeks before H and I got married, H's mom pulled me into their bedroom and handed me a plastic Boscov's bag. It was a white satin, ruffled, uber-virginal piece of lingerie. She went on and on about how she and FIL picked that out for the wedding night. Mor.ti.fied. I mumbled something (I think it was thank you, but I can't remember and don't even know if it was distinguishable anyway), threw it back in the bag and rolled the bag up as small as I could get it as I walked back out to the kitchen.
H saw my face and the rolled up bag I was carrying and decided it was time to leave. So we left and he stopped at the gas station down the street to see what I had. He pulled it out of the bag as I told him how his parents both went shopping and picked that out for me. He was as speechless as I was. We drove immediately to Boscov's and returned it. H spent the exchange money on boots.
When we got back from our honeymoon, his parents were all *wink wink, nudge nudge* with H, asking him how he liked "his present". H said that his new boots came in handy, since where we went for our honeymoon required a lot of walking. The ILs were confused but didn't say anything.