Worst christmas present EVER!

[txteach]

So what was yours? I ask this every year but with all the newbies I thought I'd do it again.


About 15 years ago I tell my wife I want clothes for Christmas. Well I'm opening up presents Christmas morning and I get a checkered neon colored Rayon shirt. I almost peed my pants. It looked like the Partridge family bus with sleeves. I thanked my wife and only wore it twice around the house. I still cringe thinking of that scary shirt. Anyone else have a horror story?

[spiderrogue]

before i had a family 1988 - a pack of socks from my mom and step dad..my punishment for moving out and moving to my dad's house instead(i was 15)....
best christmas...the first one that i had with my family...a whole new experiance...

sadly, nowadays, pretty much every christmas/holiday sucks..most of you know why...

[txteach]

Matt, I really hope that changes one day.

[spiderrogue]

^^only if i get a divorce..oh wait, you meant the other sad part, huh? sorry..my bad...lol...

[toys2cool]

I've gotten socks
as a kid,probably the time I got one of those little cheap Coca Cola trucks from like Walgreens or something,it was from a family member and it had the $2.99 tag under

Funny thing is my mom got her kids great gifts,and it wasn't like they were poor...Just super cheap

[spiderrogue]

i used to get a lot of cloths as s kid...or a lot of books from one aunt and uncle...then when i started to get the joes(80's)..it was pretty much a gi joe recruiting party from then on every year..lol...

[Nostalgiabuff]

I can't really remember anything from when I was a kid. As an adult though my mom is contstantly giving completely useless crap. And a lot of Avon products(she's an Avon lady) which none of us use. She means well and I don't mean to sound ungrateful but by some of the gifts she gets me I wonder if this woman even knows me.

[toys2cool]

I can't really remember anything from when I was a kid. As an adult though my mom is contstantly giving completely useless crap. And a lot of Avon products(she's an Avon lady) which none of us use. She means well and I don't mean to sound ungrateful but by some of the gifts she gets me I wonder if this woman even knows me.

lol! my wife does the same thing,that's why I have to let her know what I want,cause she'll spent the money regardless.But on crap I don't need

[saildog]

I can't really remember anything from when I was a kid. As an adult though my mom is contstantly giving completely useless crap. And a lot of Avon products(she's an Avon lady) which none of us use. She means well and I don't mean to sound ungrateful but by some of the gifts she gets me I wonder if this woman even knows me.

Hey, hold on a minute. That Avon Wild Country is a manly scent.

[palitoy]

When I was 15 my mother bought my father and I matching sweaters, we both were horrifed. I get along with my old man ok but we're just not those guys.

Neither ever wore that sweater, for fear the other would be wearing it.

[Captain]

I cant ever really recall getting a present that could be called "worst", but this does bring to mind a funny worst gift ever for some neighbours of mine back home when I was a kid.

My friends dad worked in the city as a draftsmen, and really thought he was a top dog (and made sure we mere farm folk knew it too!). Had a staff under him and everything.

Come Christmas (77 or 78 as I recall) his staff gave him a Christmas present and told him not to open it until the 25th. Well, during the school break buddy and I are doing as kids do, and snooping around his family tree when buddy notices this gift kinda had a smell to it. His Mom comes by to shoo us away from the tree, and when told about said gift, assumes it's a Christmas cake or something and pops it in the fridge to make sure it doesnt go bad.

I really wish I could have been a fly on the wall for this next part!

Christmas morning comes, and buddy's Dad decides to open this particular present first.
Turns out his loving staff gave him a big steaming box of crap! Buddy's Dad of course told the family not to say anything, but buddy and I were 8 or 9 years old at the time, and bathroom humor was high on our list...so he did what any kid of substance and integrity would do and told me and my Sister.... and after Christmas break, everyone else at school.

[MegomanJess]

I once got underwear from my girlfirend (now my wife) that I opened in front of her family.

[Seeker]

well there was that one year as a kid when I got those pink bunny pajamas from my Aunt....... Oh wait that was a Christmas story. Never mind.

[SUP-Ronin]

One year, I had picked out this coat from Lands End that I really, really wanted, and instead I got a totally different style coat from Burlington Coat Factory that totally sucked. I didn't even fake it, I was polite but bummed. At that point we discussed presents and I expressed that I would rather know what I am getting and like it, than have to fake being happy about something I don't want. So, the lesson?? Find out what your kids want, have them make a list, then get them something from their list. Not the whole list cause thats usually too much, but if you stick to the list they can't be too upset.

IMO on this topic there is nothing worse than trying to fake happiness abut a crappy gift. Now my parents are cheap and barely get us anything. I wish they would get something nice for my fiance, but I don't really care about myself.

[Gorn Captain]

My in-laws knew I collected "toys".
So for my first Christmas, I got a stuffed toy dog.
Not exactly what I had in mind. The Punisher, it wasn't....

Later, I put some vintage carded figures on my wish list.
Apparently, I hadn't conveyed the the importance of Mint On Card very well to my in-laws.
I did get the figures, but once I opened the wrapping paper, found that the carded figures had been securely taped to one another with a couple of miles of tapes, so they would stay in place. I have to agree, securely fastened was the correct word. I needed a blow torch to get them off each other.

They were lovely people, but they never understood what I actually collected...