What's the worst gift you've ever received?

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For me, I remember when I was just young enough to understand the value of a present for a birthday, versus the cost of the actual present. My auntie, who is really bad for presents, got me and my brother coloured paper and stencils. To share. I wasn't really disappointed, I mean we did use them.. but it was an odd present.

Same aunt got us these woodwork aeroplanes/3D jigsaw things, which would've been cool if we were 12, but we were in our 20s then. It was just like a supplement gift, in addition to money and chocolate or something. At least we got a laugh out of it though.

So what are yours?
 
I think the worst is probably this horrible scented candle from my grandmother. I think the only reason she picked it out was because the name of the scent was her name? Regardless it smelled like ass and was not what my teenage self wanted.
 
When I think of bad gifts that one story from some birthday of mine always comes to mind... in the end, the gift itself was not terrible at all, I ended up liking it enough, but my first reaction (as soon as I got out of the gifter's line of sight) was "eww no".

So there was a family friend who knew I liked Yu-Gi-Oh a lot and wanted to buy me a GBA game for it, but she got the franchises mixed up and got me "Duel Monsters: Kaijudo Showdown" :p

So when I first got the gift and she told me it was YGO related I was like "oh, thanks so much", then I opened it up, noticed that something was wrong with it... how can it be YGO if it doesn't have the logo anywhere? Meh, I'm probably just missing something, she bought it, she should know better... I still looked happy around her anyway etc. Fast forward to later in the night, party was over, I looked at it more closely and figured out what has happened :O I was quite disappointed but my mom said I should give a try even if it's not YGO... and I liked it enough after all :) It was thanks to that experience that I ended up watching the Kaijudo cartoon later on and got myself interested in another franchise... but I've decided I'm not gonna bother with the actual old Duel Monsters anime.
 
The worst gift I got was makeup from my step-dads mother (who hated my guts, so it wouldn't suprise me if she gave it to me on purpose). To most girls this probably doesn't sound so bad, but as a tomboy that doesn't were makeup at all, it was the worst thing ever. To make matters worse it was very girly looking, with frilly pink packaging and stuff. I said thank you and pretended to like it, because I didn't want to upset her, even though I hated her. I think I ended up giving it to my mother or a friend. Can't remember.

I've also got dolls from a few people, which I disliked because I hate, hate, hate dolls. I remember getting a present from one of my mother's friends and I was so excited to open it, but when I did I was greeted with a princess Barbie doll. 5 year-old me was so disappointed.
 
I'm not very picky when it comes to gifts. I feel honoured just by getting them, in some way.

Once I got a pair of glittering pants from my aunt, though. They were... pretty and all, but very much not my style. I kept them, but I didn't really use them.
 
Loose convenient store chocolates from a secret Santa back in middle school. Funny enough, it turned out we were each other's secret Santas and I gave her some jewerly from Claires, while she gave me something clearly less than the $10 limit. Unless that's the most she could've done, I really don't know.
 
Same year I got my first iPod is when someone also gifted me a CD player lol. To be fair it was a nice CD player aha
 
Clothes. I'd get 'em every year as a kid from my grandparents and aunts, but the clothes always just sat in my closet because I was too embarrassed to admit I didn't like them.

Thank god I'm older now and either get money or practical gifts I don't have to spend my own money on. : ' )
 
So I got a gift this year that tops all others on the terrible factor. I got some pet mice a while ago so my Dad bought me mouse traps. I know my Dad meant it to be funny in his own weird way but I don't find it funny in the least.
 
Call me petty but I hate getting giftcards. This year I got three Amazon giftcards for Christmas. Most would go "great I can get anything I want!", no doubt. But for me it really feels like they put no thought into their gifts to me.

And I'm the kind of person to go out of my way to get gifts from stores they like at least.
 
My mom's ex-husband's mother got me a Tokyo Bratz doll one christmas. I had not played with dolls for years. I hated and still hate bratz dolls. I was like 16.

I'm pretty sure she was like "oh that kid that belongs to my least favorite son's wife is a girl." and picked out the first thing she saw in the barbie type doll aisle.

She got my brother and equally crappy gift but I can't even remember what it was. Needless to say the woman didn't care for my family at all. She was a giant she-dog.
 
I had received a pencil box as a birthday gift from one of my friends when I was a kid. But the box didn't opened/closed properly. It used to get stuck. And it was also a little small because of which my pencils didn't fit into it. So I guess that would be the worst gift I'd received.
 
Dolce said:
Call me petty but I hate getting giftcards.
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+1 for me. Honestly, if someone wants to give me gift cards, I'd much rather receive cash that's in a nice card or red envelope. I know that isn't much thought but to me, at least I get to choose. With gift cards, I feel that I have to spend extra money to get the full value of the gift card at place I wouldn't otherwise shop. One of my relatives is notorious at giving me gift cards that I would not even bother to shop.

I think one of the worst gifts given to me was a sweater that was so thin for me that it wasn't even worth using. The point of that sweater I guess was meant to be an extra layer for cold mornings and then you can remove once it get warms. However, the insulation on that jacket was completely useless for it's purpose and I still have to carry that jacket around. As a result, that sweater is just now used as a cleaning rag after the first attempted use.
 
Ugh, back in the 90s my ex-boyfriend decided to get all the crap that was mentioned in the Ren and Stimpy song "The Twelve Days of Yaksmas" and give it to me as a gift.

Did I mention that I hated Ren and Stimpy? Because I did. I still do.

He thought it was funny. I didn't. It still upsets me years later because I told him exactly what I wanted and instead he bought me what amounted to a gag gift. Yeah, I see how much he actually cared.
 
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