Posted on 12/07/2008 8:15:32 AM PST by a real Sheila
I saw a blog several years ago asking folks to write about the worst Christmas gift they ever received. It is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Knowing the sense of humor most freepers have, I would like to hear your answers and stories.
An ugly sweater from my mom when I was a kid. Then she made me wear it to midnight mass. A lot of my classmates were there and they agreed, that yes it was an ugly sweater. I should have turned her into social services.
It was one of those old fashioned ones with the bulb attached to spritz.
Obviously a re-gift -— from 1925...
That's considered an antique and probably worth alot. The person who gave it to you probably thought you'd appreciate it!
I heard once that there are only 27 fruit cakes in the entire world. They just keep getting ‘re-gifted’ and sent around......year after year.....
I collect bird figurines (Swarovski, Lalique, etc.) so my husband found a whole bunch of spun-glass bird tchotchkes at Walgreen’s for $0.99 each. He bought every one they had and for 8 nights of Chanukah he gave me a different one.
I put them in the display case with the Swarovski’s and the Lalique’s because he would be disappointed if I didn’t.
Great descriptions, but this thread needs some pictures. That is so funny about your dress.
Honest, it must have been around 1958. I got a bag of coal and a stocking of willow switches.
Luckily I was the first one up and I hid the damned things.
We were also very poor, and one that I remember and cherish was my brother and me getting jars of peanut butter and jelly and fresh oranges.
That happened to my mom once—partially used Mary Kay product.
A set of Three Stooges bobblehead dolls from my brother-in-law.
I have never LOL’d so loud in my life. Did it at least come with some vinegar and water solution?
That’s what I thought at first, but it was actually brand new and worth about a buck fifty, which made the fact that it was empty even worse!
One of my girlfriends got a used candle from her sister in-law. Her other sister in-law gave her one of those horrible Santa planters where it looks like the plant is growing out of Santa’s crotch.
I recieved a giant puffy snowman some years ago from my brothers wife. I am a single guy, so this seemed like a “re-gift” or something that took absolutely no thought at all.
Hey, that's a GOOD gift!
My MIL does the same thing to my brother in-law!! Every single year she buys him black dress pants.
He works for the public works department of his town. He probably dresses up once a year for either a wedding or a funeral and that’s it.
BWAAAAHHH!!!
Now that’s bad!!!
It was somewhere in the 1970's. I remember being in the "Two Guys" store and my mom and sis were shopping and let me window shop in the toy dept. I remember picking up the Andy Gibb doll and staring at it because I couldn't figure out if it was a boy or a girl!!! Next thing I know Santa left me the stupid Andy Gibb doll!!! I did not know who Andy Gibb was - or what sex the doll was!!!! I HATED that present and was soooooooo mad at Santa for it. Santa only left a few presents - Christmas was lean back then and that was my big gift! I guess my mom and sis must have thought I wanted it since I was looking at it - but seriously - I couldn't tell if it was boy or girl!
Okay...I'm still mad about it!
worst gift ever was actually five gifts. It was 1973, I was 12 years old and needed a shave- or so most of my relatves thought. I got five shaving kits. But wait you say, ‘surely you got something else, something fun’. My 6th and final gift was an alarm clock.
I remember hearing a report of something Princess Diana had said Queen Elizabeth gave her—soap on a rope or some such—something really cheap though.
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