Worst Christmas Gift

Posted by: Nikki   
December 4th,
2006

I’ve gotten some great Christmas presents over the years. Like the Sit ‘n Spin I got at age 5, the lime green Huffy 10-speed bike I received at age 12, the Nintendo NES system at age 15 (remember blowing on the game cartridge to clean it whenever the game wouldn’t boot up?), the Honda Elite scooter at age 17 and my first Fender Stratacoustic guitar at age 21. Ahhhhhhhhh, good times.

I’ve also received some bad gifts as well, like Fruit of the Loom every year since age 19 from one of my older cousins and her husband and a hideous sweater from someone I considered a good friend at the time. Trust me it was one ugly ass sweater. Needless to say, the sweater broke up the friendship.

But by far the worst Christmas gift I’ve ever received was in the 2nd grade when my homeroom class was forced to pull names for Christmas and a girl named Michelle pulled my name. This heffa had the nerve to buy me some loose leaf notebook paper as a present, when my mother bought a tea set for me to give to her in exchange.

Shiiiiiiiiiit, you can best believe I didn’t give her the tea set. Ain’t no way I was going to give up a tea set for some damn notebook paper! I brought my tea set back home. *shudders at the bad memories* My Mom confronted me about it when I walked through the door of our house with the tea set still in hand, but after hearing the whole story, she fully understood.

So tell me fellow bloggers, what was the worst gift you’ve ever received for Christmas?

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14 Responses for "Worst Christmas Gift"

princessdominique
December 4th, 2006 at 10:42 am   

Costume jewelry. Anybody who knows me knows I don’t wear “much” jewelry and then especially NOT costume.

Amadeo
December 4th, 2006 at 10:58 am   

I remember certain people would have a system for getting the game to work and wouldn’t share it.

The worst present: socks…easily.

My aunt used to give the best though she would just a bring a big trash big for you with a whole bunch of stuff in it. Those bags had some cool things in them.

Tiki
December 4th, 2006 at 12:25 pm   

When my daughter was in the 3rd grade, I bought her a Barbie doll to give as a gift for school. The girl came home HAWWWT with some freakin’ toys from a Happy Meal.

As for me? Black socks and some Enjoli… compliments of Dad…. back in the days of him and Mom battling. I swear I wanted to spray it in his mouth while he slept.

Luke Cage
December 4th, 2006 at 12:27 pm   

Nikkster…did you really end a friendship over a sweater? You know, knowing you, that must have been one helluva messed up sweater! -lol-

Damn that Amadeo.. foiled by those meddling kids! -lol- I too was going to say socks! The funny thing is, I’m not really a receiving gifts kind of guy. And if someone wants to get me a gift, I make it very very simple for them. DVDs, McFarlane statuettes, & any accessories for my airbrush..

Most of that ranges below $50! But socks are the worse. To me it’s like they are saying, I couldn’t find you anything so I decided on this instead! Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas..whatever.. What the fucc??? -lol

tremaine
December 4th, 2006 at 1:10 pm   

worst gift ever came from my mom last year… this is a woman who knows my style and knows not to buy something all willy nilly for me.. this chick had the nerve to get me a huge “poster size” segment picture frame. there are about 8 different frame sizes in which to display pictures. i looked at her after opening and thanked her blankly. i couldn’t believe it. i ended up leaving the frame there at her house and went back home claiming i’d forgotten to take it with me.

Cheryl
December 4th, 2006 at 1:40 pm   

Hi Nikki!
The worst gift I ever got was a big white purse from my aunt. 1. I don’t wear WHITE purses. 2. I don’t wear BIG purses that look like grandma’s bags. and 3. Knowing my Aunt she was either given the purse as a gift and she passed it on to me, or she bought it and didn’t like it and gave it to me. Either way I was pretty mad at her for awhile. It took me forever to get rid of that ugly az purse. Finally I think I donated it to Goodwill. Hopefully we will both get better gifts in the future from these people who “know” us!

Rissa
December 4th, 2006 at 1:56 pm   

My manager gave me a cheese ball for
X-mas one year. I am lactose intolerant. Thanks B*&%!

Hostess
December 4th, 2006 at 3:20 pm   

My mother always thought I needed a new robe–every eyar!!!

Schatzi
December 4th, 2006 at 4:54 pm   

The worst gift I’ve received was this REALLY frilly animal print shirt from my step-fathers parents. Anyone who knows me (really) knows that I’m not a “frilly” person. Wasn’t even something you’d wear ANYWHERE!

Honest
December 4th, 2006 at 9:29 pm   

I can’t remember the last time I got a shitty Christmas gift but I do remember in 4th grade getting a gift and having it stolen piece by piece by some student. She kept going into the classroom closet where my gift was. I didn’t see her take it but I know it was her. I can’t remember her name now but I hope she rots and gets snot for Christmas.

TDJ
December 5th, 2006 at 10:36 am   

@ Rissa - *lol* at the cheese ball

Unfortunately, my in-law family isn’t the greatest. They make this huge show of Christmas, even though none of them can afford it. About 6 years ago, I actually received wrapped cans of dollar store chicken noodle soup from my sister in law. ?!@#$#!$# Even my husband was embarrased and since then, we’ve asked them each year to please not buy us anything as we’re saving money and not buying gifts. I still get them each a little something, but I don’t tell them that in advance.

Nonsense. If you can’t afford it, don’t do it. The holiday shouldn’t be about just the gifts. So buying a pile of crap just to say that you bought it is ridiculous.

Sangindiva
December 6th, 2006 at 1:08 pm   

Hmmm…my worst christmas gift?  You know how you go to old people’s houses and see all those precious moment “like” figures?  Well think of the UGLY 99¢ version… not so precious.

And I got a couple, from the office gift exchange one year, bad move.  I went to the car and wrapped a bottled water.
Fair exchange… no robbery!

Sherri
December 7th, 2006 at 11:50 am   

Similar to your story, we had the gift exchange in the 5th grade and this broad named Karenita gave me a swap meet version of the Thriller jacket!!! Worst part, this was a good 4 years AFTER Thriller came out!

Karenita got a vicious silent treatment from me and my girls for the rest of the school year.

D
December 9th, 2006 at 11:23 pm   

I received a cd player from my grandmother. It was from fisher price and it played plastic cd’s. I was 15. Really Grandma, What’s good? I was astonished. The messed up part is I had to act like I really liked it.

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