Staying with a holiday theme: what is the worst, most impractical, tacky, most odd, hilariously bad or unappreciated gift you have ever received, or what is the worst gift you COULD receive? What's the typical "White Elephant Gift" in your family? The annual Chia Pet? A Snuggie? Sea Monkeys? Religious material from that cult-member cousin? Sports memorabilia from your uncle, who insists you support *his* favorite team? We've all gotten that gift where we've smiled and said, "Gee...thanks," and then quickly donated/dumped/passed it on to some other unfortunate soul. SO...what is the worst gift you've ever gotten, or the gift you hope you *never* receive? Unload it here. Standard av rules apply. 200 x 200 pixels max, 1 MB max, and please keep it worksafe. The poll will go up Monday, the 17th. Here's mine: my mother-in-law, after handing out gifts to all the relatives, picked up a piece of used wrapping paper off the floor, wrote "I O U a present" and handed it to me. Feel the love....
I haven’t got a picture so I cannot go into the contest of it but once my sister-in-law bought me a really cheap plastic toothpick dispenser. I would not have minded it if it had been a novelty toothpick dispenser or a pretty one but this was just a red rectangle with a button.
While this is a reproduction, this was an actual gift I got. And just to be clear, Hiking Trip meant driving up into the nearby mountains and go hiking for two hours. And I hate hiking.
It doesn't have to be a pic of the actual item. Maybe you could find a picture online of something similar?
My mother is a dear sweet lady, but she just doesn't understand my taste. She keeps buying me gift clothes that a pimp wouldn't be caught dead wearing. (Not an actual shirt my mom gave me, but close enough.)
My step sister gave me a framed picture of HER family. She’s a VP level pharma exec at J&J...and she gave me a picture, that I wasn’t in, from a photo shoot that happened a year ago. No picture, because I tossed that fucker. This is pretty much what it looked like.
For my 40th birthday my mother kept telling me she had a VERY special present for me. I was going to love it.. as in, I had better love it. It was this book: Spoiler: A BEEEEEAUUUUTIFUL GIFT Oh and btw it is an extremely New Age tome and it is 768 pages long!!!! It's all about how anything bad that happens to you is your fault. Happy Birthday teacake.
Once I got a book on phrenology, when I was a preteen on a science kick. No, that’s the opposite of science!
One year my ex gave me a t-shirt for his favorite football team. I hate football, I want nothing to do with it. And he bought me a men's style shirt. And he bought me a medium, back then I wore small.
A lottery ticket. As comedian Norm MacDonald described it early in his stand-up career: (Link for those who can't see embedded Youtube links: youtube.com/watch?v=nooJwieH5ko)
I was at a white elephant gift exchange and I got a really cute Santa sort of sort statue. ( I swiped it from someone, like you get to do) Then I ended up with some ugly "country Christmas" tree ornament, that looked like a rusty bell.