• Worst gifts you've ever gotten.
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An aunt of mine, who was the nicest woman on Earth, decided to get everyone in the family a Furby without even understanding what they were and didn't ask if anyone wanted them. We all warned each other ahead of time that we were gonna get them, so we pretended to act all surprised upon opening them to not hurt her feelings. The most arrogant uncle in the family got everyone a gift for their birthday except me. All I got was a weird Mickey Mouse card that said "A special birthday, for a special nephew." and that was it. I got this... [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/JumpStart_Advanced_3rd_Grade.jpg[/img] ...When I was in the 6th grade at the time. My horrible parents forced me to play it and watched me the whole time. The game made me cringe so hard that I started sweating. Your turn.
Anything else than socks I love socks
It's pretty much guaranteed to not be a good gift when the person says "I want to surprise you". These people also say "You're so hard to buy gifts for".
I recently got a pack of 6 "Made in china" brand LED color changing pens I'm 23 2 of them didn't work... this a gift someone else rejected? Candles, plain clothing that fits, quality flashlights, and money are the only gifts I like. Mostly because I have a particular list of things I want and other people don't actually KNOW what I want.
I'm pretty sure about fifteen or so years ago when I was a wee lad, my aunt got me a toothbrush for my birthday (or may have been Christmas). I'd consider that to be more of an insult than as a generous gift.
I wonder if anyone here owns X device and got a gift that was a weaker version EX: You opening own a gtx1080... someone gifts you a gtx1050 and then bitches because you "COMPLAIN" nothing is worse than people who don't know computers/hardware/cars/bikes but buy you a really shitty one I don't feel like disliking a gift is wrong because the pressure of accepting free gifts is so high that it's impossible to live by that standard. Like gift that doesn't work just doesn't work. its even worse when you are given dollar store tat. [editline]4th January 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=BF;51621307]I'm pretty sure about fifteen or so years ago when I was a wee lad, my aunt got me a toothbrush for my birthday (or may have been Christmas). I'd consider that to be more of an insult than as a generous gift.[/QUOTE] Better than getting cologne/soap and tons of candy AKA the "your fat, go shower" gift
I got sea monkeys.
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Something about calling something a 'bad gift' makes me feel like a shithead, but I guess the worst gifts I've ever gotten were; - Revenge of the Sith on XBOX as a kid, for christmas. That would have been fine except I already had it so we had to awkwardly return it together the same day :v: - A pair of men's khakis from my parents. I'm a transgirl, so men's clothing isn't exactly something I want more of. - A belt buckle from my great grandma. Don't begrudge her for that one at all though cause she had no idea of my interests and essentially had to go off 'I'm from the south' :v:
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;51621323]Something about calling something a 'bad gift' makes me feel like a shithead, but I guess the worst gifts I've ever gotten were; - Revenge of the Sith on XBOX as a kid, for christmas. That would have been fine except I already had it so we had to awkwardly return it together the same day :v: - A pair of men's khakis from my parents. I'm a transgirl, so men's clothing isn't exactly something I want more of. - A belt buckle from my great grandma. Don't begrudge her for that one at all though cause she had no idea of my interests and essentially had to go off 'I'm from the south' :v:[/QUOTE] those aren't so much bad gifts as maybe gifts they couldn't have known about some gifts are just purely incompetent. Like... buying someone a wii game when they only have a PC and have stated it. Or any band shirt of any band you haven't actively been praising. or god for fucking bid you get a Chinese knock-off product unironically... those are ok if you put them in 50 boxes and 20 pounds of wrap as a joke however. Suspense, disappointment, funny experience :v:
Was given a single fucking sock.
My dad once got me a football despite me saying over and over that I deeply hated football. No effort went into wrapping it, you could clearly make out the shape of the ball. Again, I had to do the "woooah, noo waaayy thanks =D" act.
i once got this seen it sports edition game from someone, i think one of my dad's old ass friends passed it from him to me it still has the plastic on it to this day
A friend of mine was given the new DOOM game on Xbox One for Christmas. ...He's a retro gamer and has a SNES. :v:
[QUOTE=Demo-the-man;51621350]Was given a single fucking sock.[/QUOTE] I'm envious
[QUOTE=Demo-the-man;51621350]Was given a single fucking sock.[/QUOTE] cock sock
My "lovely" grandparents gave me a glass mug that said '18th' on it for my birthday. I was turning 19.
My grandma gave me some lovely harry potter pajamas-- for the opposite gender. It was pretty hard to tell and they fit pretty well so I wore them anyway, my grandparents are pretty good with gifts.
Back in 2005, I really wanted Half-life 2. My parent's close friend bought it for me for Christmas as a surprise, and even took the liberty of opening the game for me. Well here's the thing, they bought the Xbox version. I don't have a Xbox. Because they generously opened the game for me, nobody can even return it. $60 was a lot of money for all of us back then. To this date, I don't think I've played the game even once. The whole thing was an emotional roller coaster for me going from super excited straight to super disappointed in less than 3 seconds.
I got given a Christian kindergarten music CD when I was around 9 or 10. Pretty sure I used it as a Frisbee.
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This Christmas my grandma (who for some reason believe the entire family is christian even though it just her) gave a cross necklace, and I hate religion. Straight up told her I didn't want it so she returned it and gave me money for new shoes instead
I got one of those cheap calculators you can buy for two dollars on any website with a name printed on them, and the same christmas my grandmother got my brother a noisy plastic toy with strobe-lights made for three years old kids. We were like, 16.
not me, but this christmas, my boyfriend literally got a bag of sand [I]sand[/I]
[QUOTE=DarklytheGreat;51621608]not me, but this christmas, my boyfriend literally got a bag of sand [I]sand[/I][/QUOTE] Sand has its uses. You can super heat it and make glass from it Do you know how expensive glass is?
[QUOTE=xZippy;51621364]My dad once got me a football despite me saying over and over that I deeply hated football. No effort went into wrapping it, you could clearly make out the shape of the ball. Again, I had to do the "woooah, noo waaayy thanks =D" act.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;u1XZfVkXGCw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1XZfVkXGCw[/video]
My mom's bf at the time got me a book about medieval weapons, except it was this kind of large, thick kids book with stuff you can open, pull out, etc. I must've been like 13-14 at the time, I was already way past that. My mom once got me some cheap looking alarm clock in the shape of a monitor. She hyped it up so much beforehand though and misled me into thinking it would be something for my PC. And I already had a nicer alarm clock anyway.
a gift card with no money on it.
Not me, but when my dad was a kid and doing Trick or Treating, he was given a business card.
call of duty on the wii
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