worst gifts ever

[cerealnmuffin]

This is an offshoot of the best and worst gift this year thread. What is a gift (christmas, birthday, whenever) you got that you would equate as the worst? Maybe the person completely missed the mark of what you like or little thought went into it. Though it may seem ungrateful to qualify a gift as the worst, but there is always that one gift that makes you wonder if the person even knows you in the least.

My worst gift was 5 years ago on Christmas. I happen to be mtf trans and transitioned when I was fairly young to female. After living as myself for a couple years my parents sent me a ton of guy clothes. Mind you they have known for a couple years. I didn't even look like a guy any longer from the hormones and I already had an entire new warddrobe. It was as if they assumed that I must have transitioned to a girl because it was laundry day and I didn't have any clean guy clothes so I wore a dress o____O. It was a horrible christmas as there were no gift receipts and it was a show of their complete refusal to accept me as me (if the disowning wasn't a sign enough)

 

[BadPublicity]

My mum got given a diary... that was dated two years a go.... and had been written in.

 

[the spud]

I have a very odd uncle who would always give me the strangest gifts. One year it was a rock (not a cool rock, mind you, just one he found in the driveway) and the next he gave me a pack of smarties that were wrapped in Christmas paper.

Also, this year, my parents got me Sea Monkeys.

 

[Dunkerloop]

A boot to the head. No, literally, my older brother decided that it would be funny to give me a note for Christmas saying "I bequeath thee a boot to the head" followed by actually kicking me in the head while wearing a boot. Funnily enough, my parents replaced all of his presents that year with rocks, saying that he'd get the presents they were going to give to him this year, next year.

 

[Phlakes]

I guess it depends on the person, but this year I got a gift card for a Segway tour of Austin. I didn't even know those existed.

Since twenty minutes after that, it's been in the possession of one of my friends, as I play Deus Ex HR, one of my good presents.

 

[Lilani]

I think animals like puppies are some of the worst gifts you can give someone, especially if they weren't really expecting it. It's like "Here you go! Here's a decade and a half of responsibility, hassle, and expense! Merry Christmas!"

 

[cerealnmuffin]

I guess it depends on the person, but this year I got a gift card for a Segway tour of Austin. I didn't even know those existed.

Since twenty minutes after that, it's been in the possession of one of my friends, as I play Deus Ex HR, one of my good presents.

That sounds like such an extremely awkward experience. If it is only an hour long then you might make it a couple blocks before the tour is up while old ladies walk faster. =0 You must go on it.

 

[Phlakes]

I guess it depends on the person, but this year I got a gift card for a Segway tour of Austin. I didn't even know those existed.

Since twenty minutes after that, it's been in the possession of one of my friends, as I play Deus Ex HR, one of my good presents.

That sounds like such an extremely awkward experience. If it is only an hour long then you might make it a couple blocks before the tour is up while old ladies walk faster. =0 You must go on it.

It's two and a half hours. I refuse to wheel around the Capitol building on a Segway in the middle of the day for 2.5 hours. I would feel such a massive amount of shame every time I passed by someone. If I were seen by anyone I know, I would have to commit suicide to preserve my honor.

 

[Last Hugh Alive]

Did I ever tell you about the time my relatives, just a couple of years ago (I am 20), bought me a 200 piece King Kong jigsaw puzzle?

Or last year, when the same relatives got a board game that was missing the instructions, many pieces and physically broken with an almost completely faded box? I'm just speculating here, but I get the impression that this "gift" may have resided in a closet for the past couple of decades.

Or another gift (well, this one's from my last birthday but its from the same relatives so I figure its worth mentioning). The time I got a $50 gift voucher for an electronics store... Of which $30 had already been spend. That's just fucking awesome.

Not that I'm particularly greedy or anything, but these particular relatives of mine are just incredible. I don't expect much from anyone, but when it becomes gift time I can't help but be eager to see what I get from these two particular people. This year was the best gift I'd ever received from them, a $20 iTunes gift card, even though I've never used the iTunes store in my life. I think that speaks for itself.

 

[Sectan]

Not to sound ungrateful, but this year for Christmas at my grandparent's place we all got food and plastic plates/bowls/cups for our Christmas presents, while my family was stuck getting people the things they actually wanted. Ugh there's a history of this happening, but it's annoying to tell it.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Several years ago for my birthday I got a plant, this stringy vine-y thing that refuses to die, not that I was trying to kill it but it had a few close calls.

All it does is just sit there, doing nothing, great present mom and dad.

 

[Tonz of Fun]

I got a self-help book about eating disorders from my fat cousin. It was a sucky gift but I laughed at the irony. Still sucked though.

 

[Sacman]

I usually don't get much, if anything at all, so I'm happy with anything that I get...

 

[Sarah Frazier]

I hardly get anything, but clothes tend to be the worst.

Too big or too small is okay since sizing can be awkward, but sometimes the gift giver thinks I'd like sparkly girly things even though the only others like that are... Old Christmas gifts I only bring out for emergencies.

 

[manic_depressive13]

Honestly? I got one of those touch-screen smart phones this Christmas, but I'm not interested in that stuff. At least if it were a shitty cheap present I could disregard it and we could all move on. Now I'm guilted into using a phone I don't really want to justify my dad's purchase, with fiddly texting and loads of features that I'm never going to use because, call me old fashioned, I really only want to use my phone for calls and the occasional text message. I feel like an ungrateful ass for being mildly frustrated at this because I know he was trying to be nice, but I don't know why he felt the need to spend money on this crap when I would have been more happy with his old black and white phone that he was initially going to give me.

I blame my step-mother for this. I preferred it when no one gave a crap about Christmas and the only "gifts" we got were things we needed and were going to buy anyway, like a new toothbrush or something.

 

[cgaWolf]

I got one of those touch-screen smart phones this Christmas,

Don't worry about it too much. They still phone & text, make good music players, and it's nice to have the option to go online in case of emergencies, or having a GPS & google maps on you. It's not like you have to become one of those people who glue their phones to their forehead & hook up their e-mail via IV.

 

[Mister Swift]

Generation 3 ponies. *twitch*