Crappiest Christmas/ Hanukah Gifts...

[uhrisuh]

So Since it's the season of gift giving, maybe we'd all like to share the crappiest gifts we've gotten for Christmas OR Hanukah through out the years...

Personally I HATE getting crappy smelling lotion and bath sets. I get atleast 5 if not more a year. Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean i wanna smell like flowers and fruit.

[GhostOfAllie]

Amen to the lotion stuff!

The crappiest gift I ever got was....some educational crap for kids like a year behind me.

[uhrisuh]

I hate that people think that i want lotion and cheap make-up sets. Thats how you know they don't know you at all. It's not that im not thankful I'd just rather have a giftcard or money if you don't really know me. At the end of each christmas if i can't take back what i don't want i usually have a box full of stuff for goodwill.

[Alasdair]

so basically what you're saying is you smell bad

[uhrisuh]

sure...

[Alasdair]

well that's gross

personally the crappiest gift I ever got was a box of feces from my parents with a note telling me I had to move out

[uhrisuh]

atleast you got a gift and a note. I came home to my stuff on the lawn.

[Alasdair]

:(

Also once I got a "spy kit" from one of my aunts back in England once - it had like a watch recording device and other kiddy things.

I was 16 at the time :(

Come to think of it I got a lot of gifts from my aunts who obviously had no idea how old I was

[Scott]

well that's gross

personally the crappiest gift I ever got was a box of feces from my parents with a note telling me I had to move out


They should have burried you alive.

[Scott]

Anyone ever gotten an abusive stepfather for Christmas?

[uhrisuh]

^ for like 9 years ..

[BonOfTheDead]

hahaha hohoh hehehe.

personally, i dont have a worst gift, because im an optimist, but out of all the gifts i receive, id have to say clothes. i have clothes, i like clothes, but still. unless the clothes are killer.

[uhrisuh]

hahaha hohoh hehehe.

personally, i dont have a worst gift, because im an optimist, but out of all the gifts i receive, id have to say clothes. i have clothes, i like clothes, but still. unless the clothes are killer.

Yeah i'd like you hear you say that after you got 9 bottles of lotion all smelling like lavender and puke...

[Alasdair]

Whenever my family buys me clothes they always buy me XL (I'm 6 foot tall) :(

Unfortunately I'm also 130 lbs, so XL clothes make it look like I'm wearing a parachute

They never work out that I'm only a medium!

[BonOfTheDead]

Yeah i'd like you hear you say that after you got 9 bottles of lotion all smelling like lavender and puke...
last year i got shampoo, and then was told to take a shower.

[uhrisuh]

last year i got shampoo, and then was told to take a shower.


oh snap... that was the nice way of saying you smell

were you going through that smelly middle school stage?

[BonOfTheDead]

oh snap... that was the nice way of saying you smell

were you going through that smelly middle school stage?
nah, it was last year actually. it was in that 'i dont need a shower, i havent done anything' stage :D

[GhostOfAllie]

if i can't take back what i don't want i usually have a box full of stuff for goodwill.

Thats the worst part! You can really return lotions!

[uhrisuh]

^ i know right? .. I remember one year.. a long time ago i squirted them all out in a big bowl and mixed them. I wanted to see if if would smell better/ that i would have invented the next crazy awesome lotion scent. boy was i wrong ...

[BonOfTheDead]

hahaha hohoho hehehe

[3amigosproductions]

probably Socks, books, and foot cream

[hayden]

Yeah, I would say clothes.

[ericslovechild]

Last year my grandmother gave me a "My first encyclopedia- Ages 6-12." WTF? The year before that she gave me a statue of a pink bunny. One year my mom accidntaly put my name on a present for my older sister. It was a bra.

[motleyhead]

the worst and best i ever got was a giant bag of coal it was a joke but i kept the coal and made a fire.

[Flamingo With A Spoon Productions]

Anybody else here get dancing hamsters? *shudders*

[GhostOfAllie]

^ i know right? .. I remember one year.. a long time ago i squirted them all out in a big bowl and mixed them. I wanted to see if if would smell better/ that i would have invented the next crazy awesome lotion scent. boy was i wrong ...

I used to do that ALL the time in my bath tub!and like..have fights with it..

[Scott]

Somebody last year gave me this stupid fucking maze cube with $10 inside of it. I'm not into doing mazes, so I broke the bitch open and took out the money. I can't remember what I spent that $10 on though.

[Steve Nelson]

One year my mom accidntaly put my name on a present for my older sister. It was a bra.

Haha, that must've been an awkward moment.

[ericslovechild]

You have no idea. :ohsnoes:

[etentertainment]

Well the worst present ever, and it didn't even have to be for Christmas, was Pinnacle Studio.....

[New Spark Films]

Well the worst present ever, and it didn't even have to be for Christmas, was Pinnacle Studio.....

You can't expect us to believe that was the WORST. Anyway I'm always getting stuff from relatives who are obviously under the impression that I'm OBSESSED with hockey. I like football alright, but I don't think I've ever mentioned liking or playing hockey.

[daydreamer1]

The worst gift to get,to me,is socks.

[Captain SteveBeard]

A Sudoku book.

FUCK PUZZLES!

[Flamingo With A Spoon Productions]

I'm still emotionally scarred by all the dancing hamsters *curls into ball*. Cowboy ones, ninja ones, surfer ones...

[felix78]

Ghost of Allie, is that a Jigsaw figure u got?

[Crosius]

- Any book that could be described as a "self-help" title. Nothing says Christmas like telling a relative they suffer from some glaring personality fault.

- Religious materials of any sort. Bonus points if it's a religion other than the one you practice. Extra bonus points if its also a religion the giver does not practice. Triple bonus points if the person uses opening their gift as an opportunity to try and convert you. High score if it provokes an argument and ruins Christmas for everyone.

- Batteries. Seriously. Just Batteries. D-cells, no less.
Yay, I can finally power that ghetto-blaster in the attic for long enough to listen to "Slippery When Wet" twice.

- A card with a lottery ticket in it. No matter how good a story giving someone a winning ticket would be, it's not going to happen. Please Try Again, Aunt Millie.

[uhrisuh]

But what if you won? would you share with Aunt Millie?

[Crosius]

Well, see there's the other unpleasant half of that gift. If you win, the giver would naturally expect you to thank them with a chunk of the winnings. If it was $50, you'd be expected to take them to lunch or something.

If it was a jackpot, you just know they'd be upset with anything less than half the money. So it's not a gift for you - it's a gift you're obligated to share with them.

Gifts aren't supposed to come with conditions unless they're the kind of "gift" you get with a magazine subscription or a new bank account.

My other issue with the "lottery-ticket gift" is a personal one: I don't gamble. I'm not wired for it. I don't get any "thrill" from games of chance.

This is part of my personality that anyone who knows me (such as dear Auntie) should recall from conversations I've had with them.

Yet I still get at least one lottery ticket each Christmas, which I then have to write a polite thank-you note for, thereby assuring the arrival of another ticket the next year. It's a death-spiral of ignorant gift-giving and socially proscribed positive feedback. A ritual that sharply illuminates how little real communication occurs between my relative and me.

Of course, the unwelcome consumable Christmas gift is a whole subcategory. Everyone has to thank that one relative that sent their annual awful fruit-cake or bulk bag of stale mixed nuts or waxy knock-off chocolates, which gets them another identical item next year with a note about how the relative "remembers how much you liked this last year!" Eventually, the gift accumulates the inertia of a tradition and you'll never get anything else from that relative ever again.

I get a can of store-brand mixed nuts every year from one relative, and the label on the can is for a chain that hasn't been in business for a decade - she must have bought in bulk.

[Alasdair]

The lottery is just a tax on people bad at math

[next-tarantino]

One year, my grandma's "pen-pal" from Ireland sent me and my cousin cards and matching alligator staplers.

Yeah. Staplers. I think I was 16 or so at the time.

I was so pissed.

[ericslovechild]

One year, my grandma's "pen-pal" from Ireland sent me and my cousin cards and matching alligator staplers.

Yeah. Staplers. I think I was 16 or so at the time.

I was so pissed.

Why? If she was just your grandmother's "pen pal" then she didn't technically have to give you anything.

In this case it really WAS the thought that counted.

[next-tarantino]

Ok, I didn't really explain myself.

It wasn't the fact that she gave us a crappy gift. I would have been happy with just the card. I thought it was sweet. But I mean, come on, if you're going to send someone something... staplers? Really?

Like, the year before that she had sent us these nice scarves (I guess it gets really cold in Ireland). What made it crappy is that she went from "good" to "wtf?"

[17thletterfilms]

I think that Alligator Staplers sound cool! XD

[SyxxGage]

When I finally got the GameBoy Color, it was pink.

[Scott]

When I finally got the GameBoy Color, it was pink.


Mine is clear purple.



Thats right, I've still got mine.

[SyxxGage]

Mine is clear purple.



Thats right, I've still got mine.

My Dad tried to rationalize it by pointing out that it was called "Berry". I exchanged it for a blue one. it's one of only two gifts Ive ever exchanged

[LauraCroft'scowwithabfg]

i have this aunt and she thinks i grow a year younger every year like when i was 9 i got babby sized FOOTIE pjs. One year in the thank you note i sain i was 10 and that year she gave me an apropriate givt but the next year i was 4 again! im waiting to open the gift she sent me hoping is not for a 3 year old. she also dosent know im jewish so i cant open the crap til cristmas to see if its remotly good;(

[uhrisuh]

Guess who just got her first set of crappy lotion of this Christmas??

[Crosius]

Maybe you could use it for oozing slime/pus in a film effect.

[WesScog]

Mine is clear purple.



Thats right, I've still got mine.

Yea Boi! I had a clear purple one too!

I wish they'd release a DS in that color, it was the best color for a piece of hardware.

[ciwi286]

I wish they'd release a DS in that color

I pretty sure you can buy A ds lite skin in that colour...but you need a trywing screwdriver to open your ds.

[WesScog]

Yea, but you see, that takes work...

And I don't wanna void my warrenty. I just want to be able to exchange my ugly silver one for sweet sweet transparent purple.

[ciwi286]

Its a pretty sweet colour but your right..I wou;dnt risk my precious ds for a colour!

[Fromourankles]

i have a pink and 2 plain purple ones

i don't know why or how i got 3 game boy colours.. haha

[SyxxGage]

I have the DS Phat. It's from launch day. I was gonna sell it to get $$$ for a DS Lite, but now there's a rumor of another DS redesign. I'll hold off a little while longer I guess.

[felix78]

I Gaved my (at that time) 15 year old brother a toy car. And he gaved me Alot of chocolate and candy xD

I was like 8 or 9 yrs old at that time :P

[ciwi286]

Were did you hear this rumor for a ds redesign? I heard they specifically WEREN'T going to make a ds redesign but progress with new things....Well no matter what nintendo have clearly stated they will never become a software only company and continue to release new consoles.....I wonder why?:D

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[Junior365]

^^^ Wow... That's kinda (how could you put it?) odd?

[SyxxGage]

I read gaming news every mornign before I actually do any work. It's just industry rumors as of now because Nintendo has denied the redesign. But they do that with ALL redesigns. If they came out and announced a redesign too early, sales of the current unit would slip due to people holding off on their purchase.

[ciwi286]

Hmmm.... Interesting. Where do you read you gamer news...I used to constantly check up on Dsfanboy.com but I havent been there in a while.

[SyxxGage]

I just google Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft and then click news.

[NaziActionFigure]

Anyone ever gotten an abusive stepfather for Christmas?
Sure have.
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[felix78]

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