We usually go around the room until theyre gone.
After all the presents were handed out I had a pile of rocks.
Then my parents asked me if I was good this year.
My parents then brought my to their room and showed me all my real presents on their bed.
My big gift ended up being a Sega Genesis.
Still not sure how I feel about doing that to a 6 year old.
A week or so later I received a package from them.
I was so excited!
I opened it up and found… everything I had sent them, sent back to me.
40+ years later, this still affects me.
Luckily, not all of your terrible gifts were also intentionally mean.
Some were just…an interesting choice.
Here is a small sampling of my favorites:
A cockatiel, when I was nine.
I spent the next couple of years cleaning up bird poop.
~Rachel Fairbank
When I was 9 or 10 I got a 6 pack of faux turtlenecks.
For the person who wants to wear a turtleneck under a shirt, but hates wearing two shirts.
~lostalaska
One year my husband gave me a dustpan, which I still have.
Another year he gave me a toilet seat.
It was then I realized they never really loved me.
~PrettyGirlMyers
Will never top this one in my lifetime.
A 3-foot-high stack of maxi pads.
the kind you get out of a commercial vending machine.
This was in front of my entire family.
What am I gonna do…with a gun rack?
He got me a turntable.
And Im not going to buy them for you.
We broke up shortly thereafter.
Instead, what I got was an aquarium… but just the aquarium.
No fish, no plants, not even any gravel - just that empty glass box.
Being a well-raised southern girl child, I of course said thank you.
But Im now 67 years old, and it still gripes me but good.
My younger sister got the skateboard.
~ChrisLion
My wifes grandmother gave her aunt a Recipes for One cookbook the year of her divorce.
She also gave my MIL dishwashing gloves.
~I like Dunks coffee and I cannot lie
Not me, but my wife and her sister.
They had an aunt & uncle who were notoriously bad gift givers.
The typical Christmas gift consisted of hair products.
~justfairydust
An exBF gave me a four slice toaster.
~BlackandBitterCoffee
Maybe not the worst so much as a bless-her-for-trying was the Crocodile Hunter movie on VHS.
Had to have been Xmas 02 or 03.
I was desperate for one.
I got a 6 pack of white tube socks, and a 3 pack of boxers.
My moms new boyfriend got a Nintendo 64.
