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.
If you still have it, if that’s your picture, probably worth some dollars now.
At the risk of being insensitive, I have to ask: Was everyone in your house deaf?
I mean, the sound of sawing on a dining room table leg had to be easily audible.
Naaaa - thank google image seach for that. Andy became the subject of several cruel makeover attempts.
I wanted Barbie - got Andy - Turned him into Andrea!!! OMG I made my doll into a transvestite!
Then again we all know Ken is gay (good-looking, has all the great clothes, best friends with Barbie). So "Andrea" fit in well. Now give me GI Joe - now there's a REAL MAN!!!!
From a Grandma: Packets of Green Kool-Aid. That I promptly had to give up so we kids could have something to drink with dinner at granny’s.
I’d love one of those planters to put on my desk at work!!
One year I put the branch of a tree in a planter, and glued an empty .38 shell on one limb and set it on my filing cabinet. One guy finally figured out what my Christmas decoration was.
OK I have never really gotten a “worst gift ever” but my husband has. my sister is notorious for crazy weird gifts. one year she gave my somewhat balding husband a box of Rogaine. then another year she gave him a elk call. he doesn’t hunt at all. AN ELK CALL.... we still get a kick out of it when we come across it...
I was a teenager,in Love with my high school sweetheart. We were planning on marrying after graduation. That Christmas, she broke up with me on Christmas eve. To add insult to injury, the next spring she won the Miss Teen Pennsylvania contest .
Yeah, 5th grade year my Grandmother got me the Sesame Street Letters book. I don’t know if she misunderstood my mother when she said I was in the gifted class to mean I rode the short yellow bus.
The next Christmas, after graduation, my parents bought me my first “new” car. It was a Yugo.
Here’s my story and the actual gift involved wasn’t the important thing - my reaction was.
A good friend gave me this particular gift, and in previous years, he had tried to fool me by using different packaging. For example, putting a small book in a humongous box which he carried in and put in front of the tree as though it weighed 70 pounds or something, with the box completely filled with packing material and the book in the middle of it all.
OK, so this one year, as I removed the wrapping paper for his gift I saw the box was an item that was a terrible gift, one that nobody would like to receive. Yuck.
So, at that moment in time, I announced in a loud voice for everyone to hear, “I sure hope it’s not that ugly thing.”
Well, you guessed it - I opened the box to find THAT EXACT ITEM.
As the Southwest Airlines TV spots used to close with, “Wanna get away?”
Guys don't expect you to keep Valentines gifts, flowers and candy, (except for diamonds of course). If he can afford to give you diamonds for Valentines every year you are lucky indeed.
Its an imaginary holiday designed to extract money from people and make them feel terrible. Women are perpetually disappointed that their partners didn't spend more, and men perpetually feel guilty for not spending enough.
I expect he tossed it out, embarrassed that you would keep it. Bet he never got you a gas station gift again has he?
That was the thing- we never did Valentine’s Day gifts before this. I never expected any gift until he started going on and on about this incredible gift I was going to love.
The fact that you didn’t refer to him as your “ex” means you have the gift of forgiveness. Or it means that he spend a number of years making it up to you...
“Ok and I am NOT making this up...a douche bag. It was from my mother in law.”
You shouldn’t talk about your husband like that...
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I had an old boyfriend who got me records (of people that he liked) when I didn’t have a record player. He was so nice and made cassette recordings for me.
We broke up a few months later. (I wonder why.)
Am I the only person that actually likes fruit cake?
It doesn’t count because that was the worst gift given to the entire country.
We have to come up with individual gifts.
An tragic or insensitive act by a loved one right before Christmas can be construed as the act/gift that lasts forever. Any loving gift for Christmas is a good one. Seven years ago after Thanksgiving my wife took her life leaving me and my three year old alone. It still reverberates every Thanksgiving and Christmas. Loved ones and cherished giving means so much more now.
We used to have a perpetually regifted item too, a really ugly lamp. I wonder how many others have a tradition like that.
Nope. Mr. RightField adores fruit cake. I buy a tiny one for him each year, wrap it in a fabric napkin and keep the fabric moist with bourbon for a month or so before I give it to him. I just KNOW it's the cake he loves ... the bourbon is just an enhancement!
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