worst x-mas present ever recieved

[Ambrey]

[QUOTE=DressageGeek “Ribbon Ho”;3723868]

I’m just waiting for the opportunity to regift it back to him. Heck, maybe I should just get him a Dover or Horseloverz or SmartPak gift card?[/QUOTE]

Then politely offer to trade!

I have a lifetime of really off-base presents to remember. Like when I was 8 and had the BIGGEST present under the tree, and was so excited, and it was a SUITCASE- for an 8 year old!. My practical depression era grandparents- so funny that that is a fond memory now!

Or the time my hubby got me weightlifting gloves for my birthday. Like WTF? Is that a hint? I don’t life weights!

Nothing horse related- now that we have horses we can’t afford presents

[Ambrey]

Someone needs this one as a friend to the one they have already. And what a bargain!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Large-Handcrafted-Leather-Horse-Figurine-19-T-x-20-L_W0QQitemZ380087015072QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_Defau ltDomain_0?hash=item380087015072&_trksid=p3286.c0. m14&_trkparms=66:4|65:1|39:1|240:1318

Sadly, these things don’t seem to go for much on e-bay. The really old ones might for for $20. Bummer!

[Kristen]

Hahaha these are great! The year I went away to college my best friend’s dad gave me a thing of mace for Christmas and insisted that I keep it on me “at all times, just in case.” I was like uhh…thanks? It WAS an odd gift, and I (thankfully!) haven’t had to use it, but I thought it was kind of sweet that he cared that much about my safety.

My mom does most of the shopping for us, meaning she will also tell the relatives what to get based off the lists, or will pick out jewelry or something and say it was “from them.” Luckily she has good taste and sticks to the lists! She’ll also throw in her own personal touches as well, but they are usually nice and thoughtful. She also doesn’t care if we return stuff! Generally she only buys the horse stuff that I specifically said I wanted, except one year she bought me a new GPA as a surprise and didn’t know my size. So, she did the most logical thing - she bought the one that fit HER head, and when she gave it to me said, “Well, I figured since I’m your mother, we must have similarly sized heads!” It turned out the helmet DID fit, lol, but I think that was more pure luck than logic.

[Reynard_Ridge]

My MIL just sent me my Christmas book. She knows I am a humor writer, so she thinks books are a good gift, with funny books being the best kind. I agree with the general principle; that funny books are a good gift for me.

She sent me “Reader’s Digest Humor in Uniform: Funny True Stories About Life in the Military.”

No. Freaking. Kidding.

Can we have a rousing group WTF?

I will say, though, that the best gift I ever got in my life was meeting her son, so at the end of the day, a few odd-ball books on the bookshelf are pretty inconsequential. :sadsmile:

[TikiSoo]

I have a great neighbor with a Springer Spaniel that I dog sit often. We exchange little token gifts and I’m sure she doesn’t love all the Springer doo dads I’ve given her throughout the years. I usually love the “horsey” ornaments, fly swatters, coasters and such she finds for me. But last year she gave me a 2 ft long table top rocking horse like this:
http://i9.ebayimg.com/06/i/001/0b/97/5b02_1.JPG
I can’t GIVE it to anyone, they’ll know it’s a tacky regift. I can’t sell it at a yard sale or she’d see it. It’s up in the attic.

[Vesper_Sparrow]

An old childhood friend and I have a “worst gift” contest every Christmas where we try to outdo each other with the most tasteless, tackiest gifts. The tradition started when we were 10 or 11. She had gotten a plastic Buddha that squeaked for her birthday, and the next Christmas, she regifted it to me (this was long before the term regifting had been invented) and it became a standing joke between us.

Over the years, she has given me a Buddha candle, one of those VCR tapes with the perpetual burning log in the fireplace and a stuffed dog that barked Christmas carols. I have given her a tongue in cheek travel guide to a mythical country and a harmonica in the shape of a lobster and this year I’m giving her reindeer antlers and a red nose to put on her car.

It’s really a great tradition.

This thread will give me lots of great ideas for next year!

One of the funniest, shake your head, gifts was the year when my mother (who was in her 80s and was starting to get dementia) gave both my sister and I really sexy underwear. I’m talking purple and black lacy thongs. I was married at the time but I don’t think my sister was.

[Rev]

Heh. This thread rocks. SO keeps reading over shoulder to see why I’m giggling.

I’ll preface by stating that on the whole I’ve always been blessed with thoughtful and generous gifting from family and friends. And now–I shall snark!

One might think our families have their own sooper-sekret forum to share wacky gifting ideas. I think they may discuss timing for best impact, too.

I too received the “I Do Not Need Another Horse” sweatshirt to squeals of laughter and delight from the family. It had been a tough year horse-wise and I still recall internally chanting, “Just keep smiling-smilesmilesmilegdammit!smile”…

I do think though that the “year of the double-whammy” gets top honors though not HR. Holiday break-up of a LTR, miserable year at work and in general…but, hey! A family Christmas surrounded by love, support and a cool gift or two… Just the thing. HA!
Ooo! Sister’s gift is a new book! I love books. Wow! Its…er. Um…
Dr. Laura “10 Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives”. Ahem. Thanks, I guess? “Welll, because I just thought you could maybe really get a lot out of it, yanno?” Ohh-kay. Alrighty then.
Flash to opening my “Santa” gift. Turned out Santa had gotten a bit confused that year. He gave my sister the food processor she’d asked for…and gotten me the cookware set that…my sister had asked for. :)P

Ah. Memories.

OTOH, SO has an uncle who sends him a random box of crap every year on purpose. I’ve totally come to anticipate that box: Amputee green army men, coupons for stores that don’t exist here, wine corks, pretty rocks, tattoo stickers, a chipped china saucer…I think that quite a lot of thought goes into the contents.

[hedmbl]

[QUOTE=Ambrey;3723996]
Someone needs this one as a friend to the one they have already. And what a bargain!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Large-Handcrafted-Leather-Horse-Figurine-19-T-x-20-L_W0QQitemZ380087015072QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_Defau ltDomain_0?hash=item380087015072&_trksid=p3286.c0. m14&_trkparms=66:4|65:1|39:1|240:1318

Sadly, these things don’t seem to go for much on e-bay. The really old ones might for for $20. Bummer![/QUOTE]

Hah! Maybe I’ll get it for my roomate as an xmas present so she too can suffer at night with one of those in her room!

[grayarabpony]

Dressagegeek, that is very sad that you live 1000 miles from a Dunkin Doughnuts.

[DressageGeek_Ribbon]

@grayarabpony;3724417

Dressagegeek, that is very sad that you live 1000 miles from a Dunkin Doughnuts.

Well, I think you don’t miss what you never had…

Although my dad used to kill for their cherrycake donuts. I don’t think they make them anymore.

[tikihorse2]

[QUOTE=TikiSoo;3724243]
I have a great neighbor with a Springer Spaniel that I dog sit often. We exchange little token gifts and I’m sure she doesn’t love all the Springer doo dads I’ve given her throughout the years. I usually love the “horsey” ornaments, fly swatters, coasters and such she finds for me. But last year she gave me a 2 ft long table top rocking horse like this:
http://i9.ebayimg.com/06/i/001/0b/97/5b02_1.JPG
I can’t GIVE it to anyone, they’ll know it’s a tacky regift. I can’t sell it at a yard sale or she’d see it. It’s up in the attic.[/QUOTE]

Oh. My. God. THAT is atrocious! It’s semi-OK till you get to the rope tail! What in the name of heaven possessed the maker to put on that ghastly, hideous, HEMP ROPE TAIL??

I laughed so loud I frightened the cats.

Kim

[tikihorse2]

[QUOTE=grayarabpony;3724417]
Dressagegeek, that is very sad that you live 1000 miles from a Dunkin Doughnuts.[/QUOTE]

Yeah. We don’t have them around here any more–or at least, so you can find them easily–and I miss them. They’re fantastic. Yum! (Though I DO live about two minutes away from a Krispy Kreme, and I find their maple-frosted doughnuts a fine treat once in a while. ;))

Kim

[cloudyandcallie]

Has anyone suggested?

OK I haven’t read the whole thread, but has anyone suggested that all of y’all list what you got that you don’t like, and then swap with anyone on this thread who might want that item?
And agree NOT to out a person who loves the tacky gift that you got and hated?:lol::lol::lol:
I’ve been at parties where we just switched gifts when we liked something that someone else had, and that person wanted our gifts.

It’s a way to get rid of your gift and get one you would like better…or hate less…

Oh and for those of you who got leather animals that look frightening…that’s what they make labs for, to play with, and tear up, stuffed animals.

[Sithly]

[QUOTE=cloudyandcallie;3724533]
Oh and for those of you who got leather animals that look frightening…that’s what they make labs for, to play with, and tear up, stuffed animals.[/QUOTE]

Oh, I don’t think you’d want to let your dog eat one of those. I read on one of the “making of” pages that the models are made of bits of wire and wood pressed into a mold. :no:

[twofatponies]

This is definitely the best thread ever. I’m so enjoying it!

One of the unappreciated gifts I would have to put up for trade would by my MIL’s sweet attempt (once!) to get me something horse related. It’s one of those nylon garden flags people (well, no one I know!) put in front of their house, with a cutesy picture of a pony on it. Really, really, really not my style, at all. Though I would consider putting it out sometime just to freak out the snooty neighbors!

The in laws pretty much stick with food now, which usually works - jam, chocolate, etc. Though one Christmas was pretty funny, as we got all the brothers in law gift baskets with nuts, jellies, cheeses, bbq sauce, etc. etc. and what did we get from them: exactly the same thing! At least we’d figured each other out!! We had a good laugh about it.

[BlueEyedSorrel]

@Kristen;3724017

Hahaha these are great! The year I went away to college my best friend’s dad gave me a thing of mace for Christmas and insisted that I keep it on me “at all times, just in case.” I was like uhh…thanks? It WAS an odd gift, and I (thankfully!) haven’t had to use it, but I thought it was kind of sweet that he cared that much about my safety.

My sophomore year of college, my dad gave me a camera and pepper spray for my birthday (only 5 days after xmas). He wrapped the pepper spray, wrapped the camera and then put both in another box and wrapped it too. I opened the camera first, expected the second thing would be film but no…it was pepper spray. So I can knock out my hypothetical assailant and then take pictures of him for the police, right?

I had that pepper spray thing on my key chain for YEARS because if I didn’t, I got to hear “Where’s your pepper spray? Why aren’t you carrying it?” everytime I went home.

The camera, of course, was used mostly for taking pictures of Missy and Pixie:D

BES

[LookinSouth]

wow some of these are hysterical:lol:

I really can’t say I recieved ANY useless gifts until I married my husband. My own family members know full well that I am fairly picky and always shop from a list or buy me giftcards to my favorites stores. My husband is pretty much the same way…always buys things I actually want or need. Now my husbands family …uh that’s a whole nother story. I recieved alot of random stinky candles,ugly jewelry, giftcards to restuarants I don’t like and a menagerie of things from Christmas tree shops:lol:. Fortunately the inlaws finally caught on that I never wear the tacky jewelry so they stopped buying that and have bought very nice gifts and giftcards the last few years. I think hubby finally spoke up and said “you can get her this…or she needs one of these…”

His grandmother on the other hand? Not so much…

[pk1027]

[QUOTE=Ambrey;3723996]
Someone needs this one as a friend to the one they have already. And what a bargain!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Large-Handcrafted-Leather-Horse-Figurine-19-T-x-20-L_W0QQitemZ380087015072QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_Defau ltDomain_0?hash=item380087015072&_trksid=p3286.c0. m14&_trkparms=66:4|65:1|39:1|240:1318

Sadly, these things don’t seem to go for much on e-bay. The really old ones might for for $20. Bummer![/QUOTE]

I got one of these once!

[DressageGeek_Ribbon]

Well, one year the lab did give me Pat Boone’s “In a Metal Mood” CD. But that was actually very good, because when we wanted to PO our colleagues next door, we’d leave the door open and play it LOUD. Nothing as disconcerting as “Smoke on the Water” played crooning lounge style.

Then, when one of the kids would play a hard metal type song, we’d say: “Yes, but Pat Boone does the quintessential version.”

[chai]

These are too funny! Mine would have to be a shotgun. Followed closely by a plastic fish mounted on plywood that sings "Rockin Around The Christmas Tree’ while thrashing around. I regifted it to my sister as a joke the next year and it occasionally reappears at Christmas.