As I'm working on a project to help people understand what it takes to be a good gift giver, I like to have examples of really bad gifts, as many of them are quite funny. If you visit www.WhatNotToGive.com, you can see examples. Obviously, Christmas and Hannukah gifts are most of the entries, but I do not want to limit you to that. Thanks for sharing. You might even win a prize (see WhatNotToGive.com for details.)
2007-12-08 15:15:15 · 17 answers · asked by John H 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
a fake make up kit with a plastic mirror in the 5 th grade!!!! What the heck is a 10 yr old gonna do with that!!! the makeup was PLASTIC!!!! lol!!! thanx for asking because i laugh when i look back on it!!!
2007-12-08 15:35:23 · answer #1 · answered by ~ Michelle luvs Mindfreak!!~ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I mostly grew up in Gillette,Ar.,and every Christmas was bad.As an adopted child growing up in a old fashioned southern family I was not only the outcast but on the bottom of the barrel for just being born(since I and my mother came from Ohio we were referred to as "that d@mn Yankee and her little b@st@rd).As my brother (a true blood member of the family)and cousins were getting the nice toys and latest style of clothing I was getting the $1 at the counter specials and any type of clothing that would make me stand out as a simpleton,and I mean cheap,tasteless,20 years out of style if it was ever in style.
2007-12-08 16:20:36 · answer #2 · answered by JOHN T 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have this friend, and every holiday...Christmas, birthday....whatever, she goes to the 99 cent store and spends about FIFTY dollars on JUNK, and that's what I get. If you're gonna spend that much, why not just get one nice present? Not a bunch of junk that I end up throwing away. She does it for my kids birthdays too, and the toys are so cheap they can not even play with them, they will probably get cut or choke on them. I usually throw everything away. Some people have no common sense.
2007-12-08 15:30:02 · answer #3 · answered by xoxo 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The worst gift was something I have gotten several times from my husband.
Coffee filters.
I didn't even drink coffee at the time. They cost less than a dollar. He is so cheap sometimes.
He gets the kids really neat stuff but not me, always stuff I don't need.
2007-12-08 15:34:51 · answer #4 · answered by Tigger 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can't tell you the worse gift I've ever gotten because I can't remember, but I do remember however that my husband's mother gave him a VACUUM for his birthday one year when we were dating. She was living with him at the time. Think she was giving him a hint that he needed to be her butler and clean. LOL Cheesy gift for a man of 36 years who did not need a vacuum. Ha.
2007-12-08 15:25:05 · answer #5 · answered by lady_bella 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was a kid my dad gave my mother a work out video. She had been wanting one but not as a gift. She is over weight but you don't need your husband making you feel that way, lets just say he was in the dog house for a while.
2007-12-08 15:34:24 · answer #6 · answered by Tara Elaine 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well the worst gift i ever received was a pair of the pajamas with the feet in them. that was about two years ago. and i know my grandmother meant well. but how many people buy their 12 year old granddaughter footy pajamas. i think she thought i was about 7. lets just say that the pictures my mom took of me trying them on ended up "flying out the window" into the neighbor's fire pit
2007-12-08 15:20:03 · answer #7 · answered by Stephanie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty lucky so far..I haven't really gotten anything too terribly horrible. Last Christmas, though, my Grandma bought me plain blue PJ's. They were kind of tight on me so she gave them to my little sister- they were incredibly baggy on her. It was funny, though, because my Grandma spent like $40 on those PJ's. If I had that money in a giftcard or cash, I probably could've gotten something I liked much better. Oh well, I know my Grandma meant well.. :D
2007-12-08 15:40:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was 5 years old a family member thought it would be funny to wrap a tiny candy bar in a ton of newspaper then wrap it Christmas paper making me think I was getting something much bigger.
2007-12-08 15:28:35 · answer #9 · answered by Wantstoknow75 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a aunt who bought us underware every Christmas. She always bought my sister cute colorful bikinis with puppies or days of the week, She bought me the Big Gril White panties. Talk about a mean thing to do.
2007-12-08 15:26:18 · answer #10 · answered by bree 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋