The worst gift you were ever given?

[Kenn]

I remember another shitty gift I received from a mate for my birthday.A T shirt with a coffee stain on it and half a bottle of bourbon...thats right half a bottle ..WTF?:wtf:

[geonagual]

I got a radio once for christmas, it was an 8 track am/fm..this is when they were going out and cassettes were coming in...my mom took it back 2 days later..and told me they would get me something later..they never did..so I got nada for christmas..a big fat goose egg...I think I was around 10 or so.

[Ant171717]

3 years ago, Athlete's World was having a "buy something n get a free sweater" sale. My parents got my brother a pair of girls ecko boots and gave me the free sweater, when he went to return the boots a couple weeks later (we went away the day after christmas) they asked for the sweater back in order for the exchange to go through. He got a sick pair of jordans but they kept my fucking sweater n i got nothing for christmas.

[Kenn]

I got a radio once for christmas, it was an 8 track am/fm..this is when they were going out and cassettes were coming in...my mom took it back 2 days later..and told me they would get me something later..they never did..so I got nada for christmas..a big fat goose egg...I think I was around 10 or so.

Man thats a sad situation for a ten Y O , fark man no wonder u dont like Xmas much Geo. Man i feel like postin u my radio now..

[youngturk3389]

Savings bonds. I've gotten some useless stuff as presents, but never anything as dumb as a savings bond. I used to get them all the time when I was a kid, I always thought it was a check for my parents.... Now I'm 18 and can actually use them, but it seems they disappeared off the face of the earth. And I'm sure there was about $200 or more of those things, too.

[silkyblue]

a bottle of beer shampoo

a cabbage patch doll -I was 30 something!

[GreenLadyOfDankDowns]

I was a major tomboy as a kid, and every year I would ask for GI Joes, or He-Man figures and always got Barbies instead. I still hate Barbie. There is a veritable cemetery of mutilated Barbies in my parents' back yard.

[cobracommander1079]

a bottle of beer shampoo

a cabbage patch doll -I was 30 something!

I just had a flashback after reading about the beer shampoo. Years ago, after doing the Christmas thing at my parents house, I went back to my appartment where my friends and roomates were partying. (note at this point I was a little drunk) My roomate gave me some beer shampoo as a present, however he claimed it was real beer. So I took a swig of that soapy goodness, and damn near threw up. I can't believe I forgot about this untill now.

[LuckyG]

Last year I didn't even get anything for my birthday.

Before that the worst was getting Bill Haley's Greatest Hits on CD because I'd liked him as a small child. Of course, I like to listen to it stoned now, classic stuff. :thumbsup: I also got an acoustic guitar one year that I've never played, since I'd stopped taking guitar lessons two years before that.

[birdgirl73]

When I was turning 15, my grandmother made me this bright red Chinese tunic/smock sort of blouse, only it also had lots of ornate gold brocade on it, for my birthday present and wanted me to wear it. It was the most appalling looking top for a kid, not even remotely something an awkward, self-conscious, attempting-to-be-cool teenager would want to be seen dead in, and she was insisting that I wear it to my first day of school that fall and wanted us to send her a picture. I was in horror that I'd have to march into the first day of 11th grade looking like I was in a bad Halloween costume, at least from the waist up, and never ever able to show my face in school again.

My mom, fortunately, recognized a Fashion Don't when she saw one. She had me put on the top, pick up my school books, pose for a picture with my sisters, and then let me change into a normal blouse before I headed out the door. I need to thank her again for that.

There were some doozies, too, among our wedding presents, but fortunately those were easy to return or re-gift. The red Chinese top still trumped those.