Worst Gift Ever

[papayahed]

Not to be ungrateful but what is the worst gift you've received for Christmas or otherwise?


A couple years ago I received Ginsu knives.

[Paulclem]

a calculator pen. The calculator didn't work and the pen didn't write. Good idea though.

[LitNetIsGreat]

I don't know, can't remember, I'll tell you in about 6 days. Er, though probably Manor Farm "wine" which I had to pour down the sink, sorry 'bout that but before you call me and ungrateful basket, just try to drink it!! Actually we used to get it every year for about three years, oh man, it's totally undrinkable. Even alcoholics reject it.

[DanielBenoit]

A few years back I asked for Proust's In Search of Lost Time and I got a book about Jesus by one of those Christian apologists instead. . . . .

[MystyrMystyry]

I don't know, can't remember, I'll tell you in about 6 days. Er, though probably Manor Farm "wine" which I had to pour down the sink, sorry 'bout that but before you call me and ungrateful basket, just try to drink it!! Actually we used to get it every year for about three years, oh man, it's totally undrinkable. Even alcoholics reject it.

Funny.

Reminds me of my wild partying days. Someone would always take a box of Fruity Lexia to one. Horrible muck, no matter how drunk one already was. The person to take that 'same box' to the next party was the one who's house it had been left at the previous week. Sort of the opposite of musical chairs. This went on for months and someone would always race to the kitchen and scream excitedly 'Aarghh! There it is! It's back!' or 'Hullo! There you are! How was your week!'


Worst pesent was an industrial size/strength broom from my landlord for sweeping the wet winter leaves out of the (his) driveway, and it didn't even work

[Lokasenna]

One year I recieved a 'shirt' off one of my mad aunts - it was lurid yellow, had floral-print buttons, and was very obviously a woman's blouse. She was thanked profusely, and then three days later I took it to the charity shop. That might be callous, but there was no way I was wearing the bloody thing...

[Helga]

my aunt once gave me dog food. she said that the dog was the only interest she knew I had so dog food it was, he loved it though

[kasie]

My worst present was - chocolate. Yes, truly, too much of the stuff. It wasn't for Christmas, it was for a birthday, my sixth, I think. It was the year sweet rationing ended: my birthday fell over the Easter weekend and all my relations had the same thought: Little Kasie will not have tasted much chocolate in her short life, let's give her a real treat, a nice big Easter Egg.... I had seventeen Easter Eggs. Nothing else, just Easter Eggs. I was so disappointed. The wretched things were still in the cupboard in August - and the strength of will that kept my mother away from them must have been phenomenal!

[Delta40]

every year, from the mother-in-law - a bathroom set of stuff never to be used in a practical way. I joked last year if she thought I had a hygiene problem. Guess what? No present at all this year...

There is light at the end of the talcum powdered tunnel!

[MystyrMystyry]

Brilliant.

Funniest thread.

[JuniperWoolf]

I got a horrible mirror from my nanny with all of these "inspirational" quotes written on it in. I felt really bad for hating it, she thought that I would love it and I adore my little nanny.

[motherhubbard]

I have received all of the following-
-a big cotton mop
-a lightweight hammer
-a leather tool belt (contractor style, with pouches)
-a tire jack
-a really loud alarm clock

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