Society & Culture What is the worst present you have given/received?

[Quivorir]

I also once got my mum a bithday card, usually they cost about a buck. This one cost 6 bucks, so I told her thats 6 years worth of card. Did not get her squat for the following 5 years.

 

[NSWCROW]

Isn't The Celestine Prophecy a shit book? I'm hippie enough to give it a go and it bored me to tears. I'd like to meet your sister though, anyone who thinks that giving a new age book to a wrestling fan is a good idea man, is someone worth knowing, if only for her well developed sense of humour.

lasted about 3 chapters

 

[Flawed Genius]

The legend goes that once a mate got involved in a Kris Kringle. Somehow he ended up with a guy nobody really liked, so he bought a tin of wafer sticks, emptied the wafer sticks out (ate them all himself) and scooped up old white dog turds and put them in the tin. Wrapped it up, gave it to this bloke as the present.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

I had multiple holographic Charizards.

Back in primary school a mate was moving to the eastern states to live. I autographed the Charizard (across the picture) and gave it to him.

Top bloke, right here.

 

[getthefooty]

In year 5 or 6 I got a Guy Sebastian single from my KK, took it home then immediately stomped it into a million little pieces. Bloke said it was his favourite artist... if you want to torture yourself like that then fine but FFS don't inflict it on others.

Received "Prince Caspian" which is the sequel to The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe one Christmas from an aunt, which was fine, but then got exactly the same book from her next year. When she gave it to me she said 'hope you haven't read this one already!', barely restrained myself from informing her I'd read it just after last Christmas.

 

[carn tigez]

Got given Mario Tennis on N64 when I was about 8. Open it up, the game isn't in the box

Also my recently exed girlfriend gave me a poker set after being with me for a year. Somehow she didn't realise that I already had not one, but 2 poker sets that had been gifted to me already.

My grandma once accidentally mixed up my present with one of my older relative's. 14yo me was very disappointed to open a box only to see a salt and pepper shaker. Luckily she saw my reaction and realised her mistake.

 

[monty1104]

Worst Xmas pressie I got was a manual milk frother. What made it worse was that my older cousins all got bottles of booze. I guess my grandma forgot I had turned 18.... Three years previously.

 

[Doss]

KK in Year 6.

Drew the short straw and got a real bitch of a girl in my class. Now, I don't call many femmes that, but she was a genuinely nasty one. More sour than a rancid grapefruit, she was. Not in a depressive way, either; in that "I'm so good I can't even bare to be around these mere mortals" way.

So anyway, the night before present day, I haven't got her anything. Then I spied a packet of highlighters on my desk, ones I'd had for a couple years and used occasionally.

What did the evil 12 year old me do? Not only did I decide to gift them to her, I also pricked a little hole in the top of each pen with my mother's sewing pins, draining all the ink out to ensure they wouldn't work.

I'm sorry, but she really wasn't a nice girl. Still isn't, from all reports.

 

[HG Pennypacker]

My Aunt is a notorious tightwad but on my Dad's 50th she outdid herself. She works at a biscuit factory and so has access to cheap bicuits, in fact i am sure thats why she got the job, to pick up 1 kg bags of tic tocs for 50 cents to feed to my fat cousin. Anyway, she basically picked up a selection of crackers for about a dollar for the cheeseboard, then proceeded to inform her my old man that she didn't get him a card or present as she took care of the biscuits for the day. On her brother's 50th.

Such a miserable woman.

 

[stmookeyj]

RECEIVED: A $10 schoolbag from Woolworths (Christmas). Thankfully hidden amongst a couple of decent gifts.

GIVEN: I gave my 11 year old (at the time) sister half a dozen Mr.Men books, then followed up last year with a donut maker.

 

[Quivorir]

in fact i am sure thats why she got the job, to pick up 1 kg bags of tic tocs for 50 cents

Wouldnt you?

 

[frantelle]

Wouldnt you?

Take a hit in the salary column...but the long term savings!

 

[half_back_flank]

The worst gift i've heard of anyone receiving is a racehorse.

Basically, a mate who had no interest in racing was given a share in a horse by a distant relative, he suspects because this relative was broke and needed to get rid of it.

For those unaware, a racehorse cost about 25-30k a year in training and vet fees, making a 10% share 100 odd dollars a week.

Horse raced once and was done, thankfully he got out of it without paying a cent, although i'm not sure the relative will be forgiven any time soon.

 

[Handsuper47]

The worst gift I have ever been given is a gift card.. and boy do I have quite a number of them. Money for selected stores with an expiry date. Eventually they stopped giving me them but if I ever get another one I'll just return it right to them.

 

[Quokka]

Got a pineapple once when trick or treating, not horrible just odd.

 

[half_back_flank]

Sounds like the best gift ever to me.

 

[Hendersloane]

Worst presents I've received would have all been from my aunt and uncle. I think they turned up to Christmas lunch with presents for us 3 times when I was a kid: an ex-rental video each when my aunt worked at a video store ages ago. Mine was the original little mermaid where she kills herself at the end.
The next year we each got a $1 calendar from McDonalds.
A few years after that was a bag of almost-expired food.

 

[Igloo]

I just realised I only said the worst I ever gave.

The worst present I ever received was when I was about 5, and my brother was 8. My aunt and uncle gave us a plastic fireman helmet to share.

Other than that, I hate gift cards too. Why not just give money? That can be used anywhere.

 

[SugarShane]

Other than that, I hate gift cards too. Why not just give money? That can be used anywhere.

Here's some money that can only be used in one place.

 

[Varcoe2Chapman]

Thread had potential and delivered.

When i was a kid one of my relatives kept giving me pointless crap year after year. One year was a toothbrush. What 12 yo boy wants a toothbrush? Was it dropping a hint?

Best present i ever got someone was just last week when one of our colleagues moved to vancouver. Got her Canucks vs Blackhawks tickets just prior to playoffs. Game is close to sell out. Will be hottest ticket in town come April.

I like to give mates joke presents. For example, a few months ago a mate was moving to UK. SO i got him 500 party pies as a parting gift. The kicker is that his family isvegetarian. Not sure how they will offload them.

 

[Neese]

I got a Thighmaster one Christmas from the guy I was seeing at the time. Was not impressed

 

[TassieEagle]

My Grandmother was always the one to get me the worst gifts. I think her heart was always in the right place and I was always 'happy' (Mum and Dad would have slapped me into next week if I said what I really thought)

One year, when I was about 12, I received a scented candle in a little metal tin. I was like "WTF" on the inside, but acted appreciative. Turns out she passed away about a week later and I have always kept the little tin the candle was in and means a whole lot more to me now than it did back then.

 

[Shell]

I like to give mates joke presents. For example, a few months ago a mate was moving to UK. SO i got him 500 party pies as a parting gift. The kicker is that his family isvegetarian. Not sure how they will offload them.

Haha, I remember and old manager of mine- fanatical Collingwood supporter.

His mates chipped in and got him an Essendon membership.

 

[Shell]

My Grandmother was always the one to get me the worst gifts. I think her heart was always in the right place and I was always 'happy' (Mum and Dad would have slapped me into next week if I said what I really thought)
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See that what I like about being (half) Greek. Yia-yia gives me cash- us wogs like da money.

(But that is a nice story in the end tho)

 

[Tarkyn_24]

I had multiple holographic Charizards.

Back in primary school a mate was moving to the eastern states to live. I autographed the Charizard (across the picture) and gave it to him.

This thread was made for us, and the multiple re-giftings of the Psychic Energy card.