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Title: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 12, 2007, 08:46:15 AM: Last night I received a stupid coffee mug that says "Call your mother, she worries!", a Green Bay Packers beer bottle opener :confused: , and a bottle of Corona :yuck:
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: jeffy on December 12, 2007, 09:08:50 AM: Here's what I did with the last bottle of Corona I received (not as an xmas gift).

I was at our family's yearly fishing trip and one of the guys left a Corona in my cooler. Not liking Corona, I decided to save it until the next year and give it back to him (perhaps just slipping it into his cooler). Unfortunately, he wasn't there. I kept it.

That was 7 years ago.

So if you come over to my place and beg for free beer, be careful. You may get a 7 year old Corona.
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: michigancat on December 12, 2007, 09:09:44 AM: Company party?

My mother in law always sends horrible gifts. Like, a Wal-Mart version of an Under-Armour material sleeveless T-shirt. Because I like basketball

She always gets my wife jackets or cream scarf/hat sets. She lives in Phoenix, and I think she views Kansas City as the Arctic or something.
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 12, 2007, 09:15:14 AM: Quote from: Rusty on December 12, 2007, 09:09:44 AM
Company party?

My mother in law always sends horrible gifts. Like, a Wal-Mart version of an Under-Armour material sleeveless T-shirt. Because I like basketball

She always gets my wife jackets or cream scarf/hat sets. She lives in Phoenix, and I think she views Kansas City as the Arctic or something.
Channukah.

I can pretty much guarantee all my gifts from my aunt come off the Wal-Mart clearance aisle, usually bought 3 years in advance. I don't mind though because my uncle will always give me a good amount of cash to compensate for the crappy gifts.
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: slucat on December 12, 2007, 10:05:43 AM: ahh you go with the C rather than the H
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: michigancat on December 12, 2007, 10:09:44 AM: Quote from: Saulbadguy on December 12, 2007, 09:15:14 AM
Quote from: Rusty on December 12, 2007, 09:09:44 AM
Company party?

My mother in law always sends horrible gifts. Like, a Wal-Mart version of an Under-Armour material sleeveless T-shirt. Because I like basketball

She always gets my wife jackets or cream scarf/hat sets. She lives in Phoenix, and I think she views Kansas City as the Arctic or something.
Channukah.

Isn't that like a pretty minor holiday for Jews? It's just to make Jewish kids not feel left out at Christmas?
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 12, 2007, 11:07:25 AM: Quote from: Rusty on December 12, 2007, 10:09:44 AM
Quote from: Saulbadguy on December 12, 2007, 09:15:14 AM
Quote from: Rusty on December 12, 2007, 09:09:44 AM
Company party?

My mother in law always sends horrible gifts. Like, a Wal-Mart version of an Under-Armour material sleeveless T-shirt. Because I like basketball

She always gets my wife jackets or cream scarf/hat sets. She lives in Phoenix, and I think she views Kansas City as the Arctic or something.
Channukah.

Isn't that like a pretty minor holiday for Jews? It's just to make Jewish kids not feel left out at Christmas?
Yep. Not a very big deal in the whole "scheme" of things. Passover, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah are the biggest.
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: steve dave on December 12, 2007, 11:08:30 AM: Quote from: Saulbadguy on December 12, 2007, 11:07:25 AM
Quote from: Rusty on December 12, 2007, 10:09:44 AM
Quote from: Saulbadguy on December 12, 2007, 09:15:14 AM
Quote from: Rusty on December 12, 2007, 09:09:44 AM
Company party?

My mother in law always sends horrible gifts. Like, a Wal-Mart version of an Under-Armour material sleeveless T-shirt. Because I like basketball

She always gets my wife jackets or cream scarf/hat sets. She lives in Phoenix, and I think she views Kansas City as the Arctic or something.
Channukah.

Isn't that like a pretty minor holiday for Jews? It's just to make Jewish kids not feel left out at Christmas?
Yep. Not a very big deal in the whole "scheme" of things. Passover, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah are the biggest.

Please comment on the "getting presents" situation with those other holidays. TIA
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 12, 2007, 11:20:31 AM: Quote from: steve dave on December 12, 2007, 11:08:30 AM
Quote from: Saulbadguy on December 12, 2007, 11:07:25 AM
Quote from: Rusty on December 12, 2007, 10:09:44 AM
Quote from: Saulbadguy on December 12, 2007, 09:15:14 AM
Quote from: Rusty on December 12, 2007, 09:09:44 AM
Company party?

My mother in law always sends horrible gifts. Like, a Wal-Mart version of an Under-Armour material sleeveless T-shirt. Because I like basketball

She always gets my wife jackets or cream scarf/hat sets. She lives in Phoenix, and I think she views Kansas City as the Arctic or something.
Channukah.

Isn't that like a pretty minor holiday for Jews? It's just to make Jewish kids not feel left out at Christmas?
Yep. Not a very big deal in the whole "scheme" of things. Passover, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah are the biggest.

Please comment on the "getting presents" situation with those other holidays. TIA
We don't get/give presents for those holidays.
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: steve dave on December 12, 2007, 11:49:40 AM: Quote from: Saulbadguy on December 12, 2007, 11:20:31 AM
Quote from: steve dave on December 12, 2007, 11:08:30 AM
Quote from: Saulbadguy on December 12, 2007, 11:07:25 AM
Quote from: Rusty on December 12, 2007, 10:09:44 AM
Quote from: Saulbadguy on December 12, 2007, 09:15:14 AM
Quote from: Rusty on December 12, 2007, 09:09:44 AM
Company party?

My mother in law always sends horrible gifts. Like, a Wal-Mart version of an Under-Armour material sleeveless T-shirt. Because I like basketball

She always gets my wife jackets or cream scarf/hat sets. She lives in Phoenix, and I think she views Kansas City as the Arctic or something.
Channukah.

Isn't that like a pretty minor holiday for Jews? It's just to make Jewish kids not feel left out at Christmas?
Yep. Not a very big deal in the whole "scheme" of things. Passover, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah are the biggest.

Please comment on the "getting presents" situation with those other holidays. TIA
We don't get/give presents for those holidays.

:'(
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: cyclist on December 12, 2007, 11:57:25 AM: Worst gifts would include:

socks

underwear

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: jeffy on December 12, 2007, 01:15:06 PM: Quote from: cyclist on December 12, 2007, 11:57:25 AM
Worst gifts would include:

socks

underwear

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

What about neckties?
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: cireksu on December 12, 2007, 04:53:25 PM: A "Lost" board game, bc I like the TV show Lost.

It got returned.
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: steve dave on December 12, 2007, 05:16:44 PM: One Christmas my Great-Grandmother (<pretty senile at the time) up and gave me a check for $1,000. I was about 8 at the time and pretty jacked to say the least. Parents made sure I never saw a dime of it. Every time I saw her after that she would ask me what I spent the money on and I would :curse: :angry:
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: ECN on December 12, 2007, 05:19:36 PM: Quote from: jeffy on December 12, 2007, 01:15:06 PM
Quote from: cyclist on December 12, 2007, 11:57:25 AM
Worst gifts would include:

socks

underwear

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

What about neckties?

thank god you put neck in front of ties. i would have been stumped otherwise.
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: Shout it out loud on December 12, 2007, 09:20:38 PM: Quote from: steve dave on December 12, 2007, 05:16:44 PM
One Christmas my Great-Grandmother (<pretty senile at the time) up and give me a check for $1,000. I was about 8 at the time and pretty jacked to say the least. Parents made sure I never saw a dime of it. Every time I saw her after that she would ask me what I spent the money on and I would :curse: :angry:
Man, your parents SUCK!
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: cas on December 12, 2007, 09:45:51 PM: I got like a 85 year old man sweater. It has been returned, it was like $60. It went straight to the video game department.
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: jeffy on December 12, 2007, 10:16:11 PM: My grandmother always loved to find one gift that she could give to everyone in the family, meaning all her kids and grandkids. One year it was a gray USA shirt. Of course she wanted everyone to put it on so we could get a family picture. The absolute best gift of all of these was a roll of duck tape. All the aunts, uncles, cousins, kids... a roll of duck tape.

Maybe that was a good gift, because it was definitely usable. And I still talk about it, so it's memorable. Hmmmm....
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: ew2x4 on December 14, 2007, 11:09:54 AM: My aunt got all of the cousins red sweaters with a huge snowman on it. Seriously, wtf?
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: Saulbadguy on December 14, 2007, 11:12:54 AM: One time I attempted to counter the crappy gift giving, with a crappy gift of my own. I gave her a home made yogurt maker. It was like $10 on the Clearance aisle at wal-mart. She then used it once to make yogurt at one of our family dinners. Needless to say, the plan backfired.
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: KSt8er on December 14, 2007, 11:33:15 AM: My grandmother, may she rest in peace, used to give gifts from the free stuffs she'd get for opening a new checking account and the like. One year I got a setting of silverware, as in one fork, one spoon, one knife, of the cheapest set you could find from a dollar store. Another year, a keyboard vacuum that never did work. Another, a little radio that only worked with batteries. Another, a second silverware setting.
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: Fledermaus on December 14, 2007, 01:51:04 PM: Saulbadguy--

Did the Packers bottle opener have play-by-play audio when you open a beer?
I have that one!!
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: ChiefCatchacold on December 14, 2007, 02:46:25 PM: I've got dozens of never-used Kat items, but I'll go with this one:

(http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/5/12/14/f_Img0368m_1e6420e.png)
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: ChiefCatchacold on December 14, 2007, 02:48:41 PM: I keep them in original packaging to preserve the high value.
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: opcat on December 14, 2007, 02:53:45 PM: fruitcake.
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on December 19, 2007, 02:28:39 PM: A ch-ch-ch-chia ben michael
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: PCR on December 19, 2007, 03:58:08 PM: WE just had a white elephant gift exchange here at work. I'm not kidding when I say I got the craptiest gift ever. It's a pink candy dish shaped like 2 hearts. :love: :violin:
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on December 19, 2007, 07:35:51 PM: Quote from: PCR on December 19, 2007, 03:58:08 PM
WE just had a white elephant gift exchange here at work. I'm not kidding when I say I got the craptiest gift ever. It's a pink candy dish shaped like 2 hearts. :love: :violin:

Was in one of those last Christmas and picked 3rd of 60-some. I got a hand knit scarf. Keep in mind that these are supposed to be generic gifts somewhat related to an outdoors hobby kind of like orienteering using GPS. WTF am I going to do with a scarf. No one would trade for that crap. Fortunately someone I was there with traded me half her gift for mine..gladly.

Fast forward to this year and I'm in another one. Not outdoors related this time, just generic stuff. I drew 3rd of 30 this time. Got a stupid ceramic snowman sculpture with angel wings. Somehow someone grabbed it from me, so I drew again and got a bear head shaped coffee mug with tea and cocoa and snowman decorations. Amazingly I got lucky a second time and had it taken from me. Then I got some small storage jars, which I may actually be able to use. Meanwhile, the gift I brought (popcorn tin) got stolen 7 or 8 times.
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: Fox on December 19, 2007, 08:10:15 PM: Quote from: ChiefCatchacold on December 14, 2007, 02:46:25 PM
I've got dozens of never-used Kat items, but I'll go with this one:

(http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/5/12/14/f_Img0368m_1e6420e.png)
I've gone through six of those....
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: PCR on December 19, 2007, 08:18:15 PM: LOL the popcorn tin got stolen 5 times I think among 11 people. I was the first person to open it.
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: KSUTOMMY on December 20, 2007, 12:51:19 PM: this was a two-fer for me:

My wife (girl freind at the time) and I had a draw-the-name-out-of-the-hat gift swap thing. Only stipulation - $10 or under. My wife was running late, so we stopped and bought a $5 lottery scratcher and stuck it in an envelope. The people that we swapped with gave us a damned ugly snowman ceramic thing with glitter all over it and a freaking music box in the bottom. The other couple got the scratcher, scratched it off and (you guessed it) won $100! I was FURIOUS!

FF to this year, (we opened the presents last night as we will be travelling) my mom sent out a group gift for the family that she got from the Disney Store; a onesie for the baby, matching tinkerbell tee shirts for my wife and our 2 girls and a FCKING Capt Hook shirt for your's truly!!! The next time I see my mom, I am going to piss on her shoes.

(http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/stylinonline_1981_35864424)
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: RonLongshaft on December 20, 2007, 08:07:32 PM: i dont know if this counts or not but ill give it a shot.

my moms side of the family does the white elephant give exchange deal and i drew #1, opened a present and got a set of hand towels and a long 5 wicked candle that just so happened to match my aunts bathroom, so i thought to myself, ok she'll take it back cause obviously she wanted this and i'll get another shot at it. well as it turns out something pop up that she wanted more than her GD hand towels and candle and i went home at the age of 18 with hand towels and a candle :banghead:
Title: Re: What are some of the worst gifts you have received?
Post by: McGrowlTowelZac on December 20, 2007, 08:59:00 PM: The in-laws have always been my nemesis. Gifts include, my first year in Pittsburgh, a whole wardrobe of Pittsburgh Steeler and Penguins gear, :nono:, the steelers are only 2nd to my hatred of ku. Two years ago they bought me a Gameboy, a original gameboy, where they found it, I have no idea. Rollerblades, still unopened in box.

Last year, we did the chinese gift exchange, I of course open the gift with the ugly steeler hat :banghead:, nobody took it, because it was ugly and everybody knew i hated the steelers.