What is the worst gift you have ever received?

Question

My mate got one those figurines made out of nuts and bolts, can you beat that? http://www.inspirations4u.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=283

Answer 1

My great aunt once gave me a can of pineapple. For a 6 year old girl, that was very traumatic, when I had been so excited over the gift.

Answer 2

I guess it could be worse but every year my in-laws gave me clothes. Like, they live on the other side of the country and we've met a handful of times in ten years of marriage. The clothes were always a size small, because they used my sister in-law as a comparison - who is all of 5 foot nothing and weighs 85 lbs after Thanksgiving dinner. Anyway my hubby finally said something, very diplomatically, that his 6-foot tall wife with a rather large frame most definitely does not fit a size small. That year for Christmas they gave me hideous flannel pjs in size XXXL. Yes, triple extra large. I sliced up the jammies and made about 10 different outfits for my kids' Cabbage Patch dolls.

Answer 3

My ex was travelling in Australia last year and for my birthday he thought I would like a Sammy Schlong the singing dong, erotic dot to dot book, the greatest chat up lines in the world book and a stuffed finding nemo.

I was so livid that when I was on my birthday night out I purposefully went looking for someone else!

btw this is not the reason he is now ex. a contributing factor though.

Answer 4

A friend was once given a brace of pheasants following a colleagues trip to Scoltand hunting.

It became known as "The Unpleasant Pheasant Present"

Answer 5

The first Christmas after I was married, my mother-in-law asked me what we would like for Christmas. I said a toaster and we got a soda syphon. That was over 30 years ago. Since then I've been wondering what you have to ask for to get a toaster. Any ideas?

Answer 6

Nylon panties in a puke kind of green that had scratchy lace on them that were the wrong size (as if I would have ever worn them). The worse thing is that the person who gave them to me for Christmas, repeated the identical gift the following year.

Answer 7

A valentine's present of a mug (?!) which carried the legend

"The Girl Who Was Beautiful On The Inside"

Answer 8

One christmas when i was about 8 or 9 i was at a family Christmas party, me and my cousins were given some interestin gifts i.e money, toys etc. But unfortunately one of our uncles and aunt didnt seem to bother. They gave me and 6 of my cousins a bottle of handwash...That wasnt even the worst of it coz we were all wonderin what we were gonna do with it apart from the obvious washing of hands.
A couple of days later I was in the pound shop and i saw the same bottle of handwash we'd received days earlier but can u imagine dat it was reduced to 50p. (50p in the pound shop????)

We laughed for days and we never 4got dat. The worst part of it all was having to hug my aunt and uncle and tell them how grateful i was...NOT!!

People say that its the thought that counts and i agree but in that case they shouldve HELD THAT THOUGHT!!!

Answer 9

My daughter bought me for my B-Day and was soooooooo excited . It was one of those foot bath things that you melt this 2 lb. block of wax and put your feet in there , then peel off the wax. I didn't know what the hell it was. It was expensive too. There was no way I could have covered my facial expression when I opened it. She kept saying she thought how much I would love it. I felt sooo bad. I still have it along with another 2 lb. block of extra wax.

Answer 10

My granny sometimes gives me clothes that she buys from charity shops. And they're the sort of clothes she likes- floral blouses, long pleated tweed skirts, oversized wool cardigans. How is it that she sees me in jeans and cute tops all the time, and then goes out and buys me that sort of stuff? It baffles the mind, it really does!