What's the Worst Holiday Gift You've Ever Gotten?

I remember one year when I was younger my mom gave me a bottle of perfume which I thought smelled really bad. My little sister took it so that my mom wouldn't feel bad - at least someone could use it, right? When I was cleaning out the house my sister died in I found the bottle of perfume in her room, still unused but she had kept it all that time. I keep it in my bathroom drawer now, still unused but it is a reminder of better times and it makes me think of all that I took for granted back then.

One year for Christmas I told my then-husband I would really like a Kirby vacuum. When I unwrapped my present, it was my mother-in-laws old vacuum cleaner in the Kirby box!! SHE heard I wanted a Kirby so she wanted one too...the then-husband bought mommy one, but not me. No, that wasn't the reason for the divorce but it did help me to realize he was a definite mommas boy!!

My (now ex) mother in law gave me a half-used bottle of hand lotion off the kitchen counter, wrapped in a paper towel. This, after a lavish array of gifts for the REAL (her emphasis) family had been unwrapped, with nothing for me. Twenty years later, I win with a hot young fiancee who also happens to be the best person in the world, thank you very much!

A half empty can of air freshener.

better to give NO gift to someone, than to hand-off something that PROVES beyond a doubt you had no plans to give something to that person.

Just read all the posts. Thank you all for a very amusing way to kill and hour.

Worst gift i ever saw given, was when my freind's hubby of many years, hit her with divorce papers and the request to move his tramp into their home on christmas day...

This is a reaction to a gift that someone received...My mom bought a beautiful night gown for her step-daughter in law. After making a disgusted face, she proceeded to shove the box under her chair and then thinking that no one could see her, threw it in the trash pile!! We found the box and night gown as we were throwing the trash away...people can be so ungreatful! So my mom returned the gift and got something for herself...way to go Mom!

Some type of coupons printed off the internet. Next year I will print them off a free 30 day trial subscription for nexflix.

My mother-in-law gave me an apron... and suggested I serve her son dinner in it and wearing nothing else. Yes, she wants a grandchild.

One year at an office gift exchange I was given a goldfish in a plastic bag.

My mother-in-law who lives in West Virginia sent me a necklace made out of coal. It was a HUGE statement given how much she's always hated me.

I once got a fruitcake. I sent that fruitcake to another friend the following xmas. He has sent that fruit cake back to me for 21 years now and I send it back to him on New Years each year. Must have been pretty well preserved with Rum cause it never molds. I suspect we will be sending that fruit cake back and forth as long as we live.

The worst gift I eve got, My husband bought me a toilet seat. Very embarrasing

A cat litter box

Someone once gave me a used cassette tape of S Club 7 this was a few years ago. It was about 10 years old I think.

A used Christmas card, from my first boyfriend. he did an OK job of erasing names. what really gave it away was the front of the card said "from all of us". No gift, just a used card.

I once got a bright pink sweater with appliqué furry bears on it from my grandma. I was 12 at the time...and a boy.

I would much rather receive something I can (would) use than something that goes in the closet and forgotten. One year my husband gave me an electric hand mixer. I was so happy to get it, I cried. I know now days that doesn't seem like much, but back then all I had was a crank type egg beater.

One year my sister got me one of those daily tear-off calendars. The theme was creative ways to call off of work. It would have been v. funny -- except at that point I had been unemployed for nearly two years. I still don't know what possessed her to buy it for me.