One year, my moth­erin­law gave us a wall hang­ing that was cov­ered with orange and blue beads and feath­ers. We did not know which end you were sup­posed to hang it from. It was hideous.

My hubby’s grand­mother likes to give presents. One year I got this pair of fuzzy black mit­tens. Like, FUZZY. It could’ve been a dog. It wouldn’t be so bad, except that it also shed. Oh, and don’t forge t the fuzzy hat! The orange fuzzy hat. Which goes with my skin tone like acid on paper. =) Thank good­ness for fam­ily, eh?

Wall hang­ings? Fuzzy gloves? Yikes. And I thought my olive tray was pretty bad. :joker:

I have a good runner-up present too — I once got a man’s man­i­cure set for Christ­mas. That was another time when I really hoped it was an umbrella instead.

Why can’t peo­ple just give gift cards or bet­ter yet cash for Crim­mus? Either one of those would be infi­nitely more use­ful than some of the stuff you guys have men­tioned — and some of the stuff I’ve received over the years. :rolleyes:

Oh my gosh, I LOVE olives.
I would have eaten that whole damn jar in like three sec­onds.
YUM.
You know, I really don’t think I’ve ever got­ten a bad Christ­mas gift. I like pretty much every­thing.
I think the worst was when I KNEW what I was get­ting. I was really happy, but the sur­prise was ruined.

Fun con­test. :joe­cool: My worst gift: circa early 90s, I received a hideous macrame thing that I sup­pose was to be a dec­o­ra­tive gift? I was not impressed.

The worst gift I got…your going to laugh about this but its the truth…is an M&M’s jar. Don’t get me wrong, I am opened minded and the jar was a nice glass jar and fes­tive look­ing. But the prob­lem was, there were col­ored candy crumbs at the bot­tom of the jar but no candy. My aunt or uncle had eaten the candy. LOL Now I don’t know about you but I’m think­ing it’s pretty sad when you can­not just go to the store and buy some more M&M’s to fill the jar back up. Oh well.

Mother-in-laws really don’t give the best gifts, do they? Mine gave me a sweat suit with a cutesy say­ing on it prob­a­bly the sec­ond Christ­mas that my hus­band and I had. I was only twenty at the time and even now, I haven’t resigned myself to cutesy sweat suits. LOL and no offense to those who wear them.

Dei­dre

Hmm… the worst present I’ve ever received was a gag gift: a box of Den­ture cleaner! One of the best was prob­a­bly the year I only had one present under the tree: a huge box. Come Christ­mas morn­ing I dis­cov­ered that it was filled to the top with tons of indi­vid­u­ally wrapped gifts! One of my other favorites was when my then boyfriend got me a medium sized box that had pack­ing peanuts inside, then another box sur­rounded with tis­sue paper, and another with Christ­mas tin­sel, and another with gravel and the final box con­tained a small choker.

:mma­chine: (I just had to use the Mys­tery Machine from Scooby Doo!) This con­test is so awe­some!! All of the prizes are great! And these sto­ries are pretty awe­some too. Just think peo­ple, those crappy gifts were so crappy that they made blog­gers all over the world laugh out loud.

I’ve got­ten some won­der­ful gifts over the years — for my 16th birth­day I was sur­prised with a car that had a huge rib­bon on top (I paid half and it took me three years but that made me take bet­ter care of it. My par­ents were smart.), I got engaged on Christ­mas Eve and the best was when my first son was born on Dec. 22nd and we came home on the 24th.

The bad ones were funny but not hor­ri­ble. Most of them were for our wed­ding. We got a funky, metal­lic, star­burst clock that had no num­bers and you couldn’t even really guess what time it was. I’m sad to say we regifted it to a col­lege friend who’s wed­ding we didn’t even go to. (I didn’t take the plas­tic wrap off though so it wasn’t used. Prob­a­bly still hasn’t been.) We did get a lit­tle blue trench coat that my grandma handed down to our small kids. It had never been cute but it was very sweet of her to give a gift to the kids. We took some funny pho­tos with all the kids and then we mailed it to my broth­ers home for his kids. We only explained where it came from once and it was never talked about again because the game was on! They also took some good pho­tos and then returned it to us, in the bot­tom of our clothes ham­per the next time they vis­ited. We returned it to the back of my nephew’s closet on a hanger, they returned it in the bot­tom of a bag of hand me down clothes, back to them under the bed, back to us inside the fold out couch, to them in with the pool toys, etc. until my youngest brother had kids. We had to include him in the fun but he just didn’t get it the way we did. It’s never come back. That I know of. Hmmm…

Sorry I bab­bled but this was fun. I had for­got­ten about some of this stuff. Thanks for your con­test and your great books and happy hol­i­days every­one! :joe­cool: (I love Joe Cool too.)

My worst gift received was a hol­i­day themed sweat­shirt. While I guess it was tech­ni­cally cute in a hol­i­day themed over dec­o­rated way. It was 2 sizes too big and a style I never wear. That much glit­ter just does noth­ing but get on my skin and make me itch.

:ww: worse gift hmmm…I’d have to say it would be a sweater with a christ­mas theme..sounds nice in theory..but it was hideous..glittered snowflakes and tex­tured fab­ric lay­ered in the front. If i was a kid i would have looked adorable…but being a grown women wear­ing that ..a big no lol

my step-mother gave me that gift..

One year the inlaws gave me a 3 foot tall resin goose meant to be dis­played on your porch. The kicker was it had an out­fit for every month to dress it in.

All of you with those ugly Christ­mas sweaters — they’re the new hip­ster thing, ya know! Peo­ple have ugly hol­i­day sweater par­ties! Usu­ally there are cook­ies, which makes it better.

I don’t think I’ve ever had any really bad Christ­mas gifts — at least not on the level you describe.

My best Christ­mas presents have prob­a­bly all been books. I sup­pose par­tic­u­lar favorites that stand out have been the first three DARWIN AWARDS books.

Its actu­ally the present that keeps on happening–each year my mom’s father and step­mother send me a gift­card to Sephora, the make up com­pany. Except I don’t wear make-up (why wreck what nat­ural beauty I have?). I send a let­ter each year thank­ing them kindly for the gift, but that I have no use for it. Its been 5 years now XD
I keep hop­ing each year I’ll get the book cer­tifi­cate instead, but sadly…well there is always this year right?

Happy Hol­i­days! In Decem­ber of 1985, my boyfriend brought me an adorable white bear. It was two weeks before Christ­mas! I had been dat­ing him for 3 years.
The bear was adorable. He finally had to tell me to look closer at the red rib­bon around the bear’s neck. On the back of the rib­bon hung my engage­ment ring from him! That is the best gift I have ever received. We were mar­ried the fol­low­ing May and cel­e­brated 22 years of mar­riage! Thanks, Cindi

one year when i was lit­tle i got a set of cars! and i hate cars and i wanted a bar­bie instead =(

:snoopy: :woodstock:

:joe­cool: My worst Xmas gift was from my hus­band (now EX hus­band!). He gave me brakes for my car– all wrapped up in christ­mas paper– the ACTUAL brakes! I cried all day I was so mad!