What was your worst Xmas gift ?

LadyFish

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<br />Let's face it, we've all received the dreaded fruit cake, household appliance, and clothes that couldn't have even fit you in the 8th grade for Christmas. What were your most hideous, revolting, and absurd gifts?
 

POINTER94

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Re: What was your worst Xmas gift ?

My ex-inlaws gave me antacids one year. Not real deep thinkers.
 

LadyFish

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Re: What was your worst Xmas gift ?

Actually Pointer, that was a very thoughtful gift. They must have known the affect they had on you. ;)
 

POINTER94

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Right on Ladyfish. It was the perfect expression of themselves: Generic.
 

wikelam

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Re: What was your worst Xmas gift ?

I am never good enough, so Santa never brings me anything. :( <br /><br />Just kidding, I have recieved some gifts that i wondered why i got them, some that people made themselves that maybe they should not have, some that i would never use, but never have i received a bad gift. I was not raised that way. If someone took the time and effort in giving you a gift, then that shows they care about you. you should be thankful that you have people that will give you gifts. I have gotten some presents that i would never use, so I always give them to a charity shelter. this way the gift is received by someone who needs or will use it. so you see, the gift others might see as a bad gift, i see it as an opportunity to help others, making this a great! gift. <br /><br /> I never want gifts, thats why when my parents and wife ask for my list, I say"if you think i need it then get it for me", i never expect any gifts, just the love and caring from them.<br /><br />As i get older(only 29), i have realized that your family and friends are what is important, not the gifts. You never know when you will spend your last christmas, any holiday, or just any amount of time with them. I enjoy the holidays. it is a time for me to see a lot of freinds and family that i do not get to see during the year. I do not worry about the gifts, just the time spent.<br /><br />i am not bashing those who want the gifts. I gladly accept them, but do not ask for them. I am just speaking my 2cents on gifts. I will always give gifts to the ones i love, but never expect anything in return, just that they know how important that they are to me.
 

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Re: What was your worst Xmas gift ?

2 Tickets to the ballet, Great one for my wife, but watching men in tights is not my cup of tea. Mother-in-law gave this one, she made her daughter very happy and her son-in-law very uncomfortable. I think thats what she was trying to achieve :D BTW, why are women ballet dancers so flat chested :(
 

bay5884

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Re: What was your worst Xmas gift ?

Great post wikelam. :) At the ripe old age of 25 :p I have come to realize that my love for the holidays is the time spent with family also, not the gifts.<br /><br />Although, I never did like getting socks :D <br /><br />Having just endoured the ballbuster...er..Nutcracker :eek: here in Syracuse last weekend with my girlfriend AND my parents and her parents....we left with one outstanding question...<br /><br />We know women ballet dancers are called balerinas, but what are the men in tights called?<br /><br />My thinking is that there is a new name, like stewardess to "flight attendant". :confused:
 

jimchere

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My cousin sent me a gift from TX once, in a nicely wrapped box, about 2' cube. Had it under the tree until xmas day.<br />Opened the box, start going through the packaging paper, and make it to the bottom where the gift was ceremoniously wrapped in a last piece of paper................a 1' diameter "cow-patty."
 

BrianFD

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Mom never comes here, so I should be safe.<br />Worst present I ever got (still don't know what to do with it) was a leather-encased wine bottle & stopper from South America... No wine, just the bottle. I opened it, looked at Mom and just gave her my best blank stare.
 

bay5884

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OH!...almost forgot about this one. Not a gift that I received though. I grew up on a dairy farm and one year my father went out to the horse barn, gathered some turds, rolled them in confectionary sugar, put them in a doughnut box and gave them to one of the hired hands for Christmas! :D Looked just like doughnut holes! :cool:
 

rwise

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Re: What was your worst Xmas gift ?

right on wikelam! <br /><br />my family is a bunch of joksters, so we kinda watch out when opening stuf. my least favorite gift was a complete electric shaver set, for a man who has worn a full beard since old enuf (enough) to grow it, and always will! I just regifted it to someone who needed and used it!<br />Richard
 

gaugeguy

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Re: What was your worst Xmas gift ?

I've got some crappy one's, but I have given the ultimate, check this out...<br /><br />A friend and I were re-doing his father's retaining wall, it was old, kids had graffitti'd it up pretty good. So we smashed it out with sledge hammers and removed it. Well one piece broke out in a perfect pyramid shape. So me being the thoughtful brother-in-law that I am, picked it up, put it in a box and gave it to my B-I-L and told him it was a piece of the Berlin Wall that had fallen the previous year. It's still on display in his house!!! :D :D :D
 

roscoe

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Re: What was your worst Xmas gift ?

My dad gave me one of those little sunshades you attach to the car window to shade your baby, and a baby on board sign.<br /><br />I'm not married, have no kids, and won't be having any.<br /><br />??????????????
 

gaugeguy

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Roscoe, was your dad calling you a baby? I would have had the old blank stare look at that one.
 

pjc

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Re: What was your worst Xmas gift ?

For St Nicks, and sometimes Valentines Day, my lovely gives me those huge 7oz Hershey Kisses. I always am thankfull and give a big 'ol kiss (sometimes more). Then the HK gets packed into my lunch bag.<br /><br />I'm looking at three of them right now! :)
 

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bay5884,guageguy your killin me! ...."time to make the donuts" he,he!
 

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At 10 years old, my Aunt gave me a corduroy Stetson cowboy hat that was about 3 sizes too small.<br /><br />Socks would have been better.<br /><br />Ain't too many cowboy's here in Indiana.<br /><br />Man, that gift still haunts me............really, it does.
 

LadyFish

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Coming from a family of 5 kids, we knew better than to ask for much. But one year I wanted something more than anything else in the world. A pair of white gogo boots. You know, like the ones Nancy Sinatra wore when she sang "These Boots are made for Walking". (What was I thinking?). Anyway, they finally bought them for me two years later. They weren't even in style anymore. The worst part is they made me wear them everywhere even to church. Those boots lasted forever. I tried to scuff them up and ruin them every way I could, wearing them to ride my bike and skidding the toes of them on the sidewalk, they just wouldn't die. As you might have guessed they were eventually handed down to the next sister in line. We still laugh about it. :D
 

gonfishn

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I thinkn here that it would have to be my ex. I could throw the fruit cake away with less loss on the money side..
 

andrewkafp

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Ladyfish "These boots are made for walkin'"<br />You are really showing your age :D :D <br /><br />Well, I think that if someone thinks enough of you to give you any sort of gift.. then you should appreciate it.<br />Years ago, my young Step-son got me a woolly steering wheel cover (And I hate any sort of steering wheel covers).<br />When it wasn't fitted.. over the next few days.. he asked me why :( So... On it went.. and On it stayed.. until it wore out..<br />Some things you gotta Do... :D
 
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