What was the worst 'gift' from loved one's that you ever got for the holidays?

[Breeze54]

Mine was a huge Christmas card from my husband (now my ex); you know those big ass cards?
The 2 ft long type and he'd taped six, $10 dollar bills to the back of it because he couldn't find
the one thing I had wanted, which was a make-up mirror that had Day, Evening and Office light.
Anyway, he gave me the frigging card and then two days later took the money away from me
because he "needed the money"! What a stingy asshole! :crazy:

[tigereye]

1. a really ugly lamp - which I have gotten used to, because the person who

gave it to me is so sweet.

oh, once I got a crocheted kleenex box cover (I'm really not the kleenex box cover type)

[Breeze54]

4. Well, at least the Kleenex box cover was made with love.

;)

I got a really nasty gift from my inlaws (MIL) once.

It was a dishrag with an electric cord glued on to it. :(

My automatic "dishwasher'. :crazy:

I guess I was a 'hifalutin' city girl, asking for a 'lot'. :crazy:

[tigereye]

12. I don't understand people...

funny story - my parents told my sister we were getting a dishwasher.

My sister replied - what's her name? ;)

[Breeze54]

17. LOL!

It's funny that my ex-MIL did that. She was jealous of me, I think.
I had the gall to marry her first born son!! :P

Before we had moved out to the middle of nowhere, I had been fully employed
and lived in a 'modern' apt. in the big city but none of those accommodation's
were available there, at that time. And hell yeah, I had been whining about not
having a dishwasher anymore but not to the extent to get that as a present.
I guess they didn't appreciate that we had had a good life before we moved there.

[Skittles]

45. I would have whipped them with that cord

yes INDEED

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. Last year...

My husband's aunt gave me a hand painted plastic kleenex box cover she got at a garage sale. It when right into the garbage as soon as I got home. She's a millionaire for Christ's sakes. I don't want anything from her ever, but if she's going to get me something, please don't give me a used kleenex box cover!
Duckie

[Breeze54]

6. What's the deal with all the Kleenex box covers?!?

:P

You guys must both be from the Mid-West! Am I right?

I'd take those over nothing but I do understand your pain!

Talk about gifts with no heart and soul. Gheesh!

[tigereye]

14. well it was a client who had crocheted it by hand

she was such a nice lady, I simply said thank you. I think I did put it in my bathroom for a while....


I'm from Pittsburgh -

[Breeze54]

18. Well; then that was a sweet gift! - A little old lady client!

Not quite the same as family. ;)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

15. Oklahoma....

So, you're close.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

16. Ooops!

[Critters2]

3. My sister gave me a whole set of "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" dvds

last year. Apparently, actually LOOKING at my Amazon Wish List was too difficult.

[Breeze54]

10. Now that sure sent a message, didn't it?

That sucks!

[Archae]

5. Underwear.

From a slightly crazy aunt I used to have.

And the underwear was four sizes too big! :crazy:

[Breeze54]

8. OMG! You made me remember my great aunts and

they always gave us underwear and it was always to big but when we went to visit them?

They'd always lift the skirt on my dress to see if I was wearing them!! :rofl:

[opiate69]

7. A children's video.

My ex's mom gave me a VHS of Disney's Beauty and the Beast 2. Turns out, my ex had been cheating on me and wanted to split up with me, and when her mom told her she didn't know what to get me, my ex told her to get me that movie. (So that her two daughters would be actually getting it)

[Breeze54]

9. Ugh! That's a definate 'non-gift'!

And one with a subliminal message to boot!

"Beauty and the Beast"?

What an ass!

[opiate69]

11. No doubt.. thankfully,

her Dad kinda knew what was up and took me upstairs, poured us each a whiskey and water and gave me his antique gold ring (apparently, the first luxury item he bought after he moved here from Denmark)

[Breeze54]

13. That was VERY sweet of him!

I guess he knew what an ass your MIL was too!

I'm glad he saved you... and your feelings.

What a sweet thing to do! ;)

[Flaxbee]

19. Oh, I was soooo devastated one Christmas ...

I had just fallen in love for the first time, and he was the first to tell me he loved me, it was this wonderful time. We'd been together since August of that year; we were in grad school together. He really, really wanted a nice amplifier for his guitar, so I spent money I didn't have, being a starving student, on a good one for his Christmas present. My best friend's husband was a professional guitarist in a successful band, and I asked him what to get. So I knew I was getting my boyfriend an excellent gift.

And he got me these really cheap, gold-wire earrings. That was it. Probably not even $10. I almost started to cry when I opened them, I was just so shocked and disappointed. He, by the way, was NOT a starving student; his parents were wealthy and putting him through school with plenty of extra $$ in his pocket.

And I don't really 'do' the gift thing, the forced gift-giving of the holiday season irritates me. But I guess I just thought he'd make more of an effort or gesture because it was a special, first-Christmas kind of thing.

Talk about feeling deflated. :cry:

[Breeze54]

22. Awe... don't cry. he didn't deserve you and

I certainly hope you didn't marry him after that! I wish my ex had shown his true colors before
I married him. Consider yourself lucky you didn't stay with him but that truly sucks! I think the
year I got the 'card & money" from my ex; I had bought him a drafting table and a racing bike. :(

AND had given birth to his second son!!!! :grr:

[Flaxbee]

26. yes, you're right ...

we stayed together for about 2 years, but somehow that initial gesture just set the tone for the whole relationship.

Your ex sounds like a turd! The money-taped-to-a-card (then used for his own purposes later) is so bad it's almost funny. I mean, I know it wasn't, but it's the kind of outrageous thing that just doesn't seem real, you know? And it's made worse by the fact that you had gotten him a few things he probably really wanted!

Good riddance to both of those guys!

[Breeze54]

31. It's funny now but it definitely wasn't back then...

I was really hurt but I can talk about it now and laugh. :P

That's why i shared that little story and he was/is a very

selfish person but I didn't see that back then

and he didn't show it until after we were married.

Glad to hear you didn't make it permanent! :hug:

[hedgehog]

27. Sometimes people are thoughtless, sometimes it's the way they are raised.

One family discourages gift giving, another revels in it. When someone from the first family gets involved with someone from the second, people get hurt. The pain is real even if there was no intent to wound.

[jeff30997]

20. An inflatable doll...

I have chronic asthma dammit!

[Breeze54]

24. And who, pray tell, gave you that and do I really want to know?

:P

[jeff30997]

38. Well its a long story...

Back in 1941 the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler ordered a Danish doctor named Olen Hannussen, to develop the world's first inflatable sex doll.

The doll was went meant to serve the sexual needs of the German fighting man, who might otherwise go to brothels and contract a sexual transmitted disease.

The story of the sex doll first appeared in a Norwegian newspaper, which said that Hitler himself provided the measurements and design for the doll: "She should be a natural size with a pretty woman's appearance with white skin, blonde hair, blue eyes, 1.76 meters (5 feet, nine inches) high, with large lips and breasts."

According to the project, which was classified as "top secret," soldiers would inflate up the doll when feeling the urge, and it would meet their sexual needs.



The officer directly responsible for the sex doll project was S.S. commander Heinrich Himmler.


According to another report, Dr. Rudolf Chargeheimer, a psychiatrist appointed by Himmler to help develop the prototype, wrote that "the purpose and goal of the dolls is to relieve our soldiers. They have to fight and not to mingle with 'foreign women.'"


"However," wrote Chargeheimer, "no real men will prefer a doll to a real woman until our technicians meet the following quality standards: The synthetic flesh has to feel the same like real flesh. The doll’s body should be as agile and movable as the real body. The doll’s organ should feel absolutely realistic.”


The plan was never put into action because the factory that was supposed to manufacture the sex doll was in the city of Dresden, which was bombed by the Allies. And so Hitler never got to see his inflatable girls put to use...

(I have no idea if that story is true but if it is we both learned something very valuable today).:rofl:

[Breeze54]

41. ROFLMFAO!!!

:rofl:

:toast:

[Blue-Jay]

21. It was a banner fuckin' year at the old Blue-Jay family.

I got a carton of cigarettes. The old man grabbed me and said "Hey! Smoke up Johnny!"

Okay, so go home and cry to your daddy, don't cry here, okay?

[Breeze54]

23. Cough much now?

*cough* *cough*

Hey, a carton of cigs is worth $55.00 today! :P

[Flaxbee]

28. The Breakfast Club!

nt

[Blue-Jay]

36. !

:thumbsup:

[Broken_Hero]

25. A few years ago...

I got a porcelain moose horn...with a painting of an eagle holding a flag, with a mountain, and some clouds in the background...

You should see my expression when I opened it, its priceless...I got it on video, and every time my wife watches that part, she busts out laughing. I got this horn, from my father/mother in law....

[Breeze54]

29. LOL! ~ Nice!!

:P

What the hell are you supposed to do with it?

Call everyone home for dinner?

Sounds 'purty'! I like mountains. ;)

[Broken_Hero]

30. it wasn't a horn you blow, its

porcelain in the shape of a moose horn/antlers....but on the plus side, I did get a sweet pair of socks from them, :D I put the horn on top of my tv for quite some time, and I think...its now sitting in one of my back closets, haunting the mice. :D

[Breeze54]

33. Oh..ok...gottcha! But you honored them by displaying it and

at least they meant well by it. You're a good person, petersond!

I thought it was hollow... misunderstood. ;)

[Broken_Hero]

39. Thanks,

:hi:

[Nicole]

32. Diet book & exercise tape

from my ex's grandmother.

I was wearing size 6 jeans the day I opened that gift. :wtf:

[Breeze54]

35. LMAO!!

maybe she was near sighted? That's too funny! :P

[Nicole]

42. Her vision was good.

I think it was her not so subtle way of telling me to disappear. :P:

[Breeze54]

44. Could be! I think my Inlaws

came right out and said it at one point...so we did! :P

Fixed them! ;)

[unsavedtrash]

34. When I was 7 my older sister gave me a bag of switches.

She put them in a huge beautifully wrapped box.
Broke my heart.

[Breeze54]

37. Little witch! I hope you got her back!

But kids do weird things when they're that young.

:hug:

I would've hit her with them! :rofl:

[unsavedtrash]

40. All I'll say is Nair and shampoo bottle

She was 14 and she stopped messing with me.

[Breeze54]

43. o_m_g!!

That's hysterical, you little snot after my own heart! :P

:rofl:

:P