Worst Christmas present you've received?

One of those small bottles of Old Spice aftershave from my brother.

The most recent one was from my mom. I felt really bad, but she got me a jogging pedometer from Brookstone. I doubt that thing would be accurate and I figure my mileage by pace or measuring before or after if I needed. She always gets me a lot of nice stuff and that was sort of a stocking stuffer. She meant well, but I took it and traded it for an alarm clock that my wife needed.

I'd gotten to the age where I wanted to have a guitar ...which may not have been a cheap request. My parents bought me a Mickey Mouse guitar...a plastic thing with plastic strings that didn't even have any kind of tuning at all. I don't remember what happened to it after the first day. I never did get a guitar, but later in life I played the flute, which was easier to travel with.

Camoo wrote:

I never did get a guitar, but later in life I played the flute, which was easier to travel with.

Also easier to pull out at parties and campfire and impress girls with.

sharky wrote:

The most recent one was from my mom. I felt really bad, but she got me a jogging pedometer from Brookstone. I doubt that thing would be accurate and I figure my mileage by pace or measuring before or after if I needed. She always gets me a lot of nice stuff and that was sort of a stocking stuffer. She meant well, but I took it and traded it for an alarm clock that my wife needed.

Not too materialistic are you?

The thought your Mom had behind buying this should have made you treasure it. But I'm sure the alarm clock will have lots of meaning.

A John Davidson album.

This was in @1968 or so... and that was my big present from Santa (AND it was used!)

My grandmother has a habit of Christmas shopping in her basement, so we've received a lot of junk over the years.

The best was a couple years ago when she wrapped up an old pillow she bought in Afghanistan 30 years earlier. It had been sitting in her living room displayed on the floor ever since I can remember... never thought I'd get it for Christmas. It was covered in dust and was promptly wrapped in a trash bag and thrown out after we got back to my parents' house.

Another time she gave my sister an old t-shirt and some postal packaging with some German writing on it (my sister was 13 and taking German in middle school). That was all she got from my grandma that year.

Unfortunately we've become very adept at acting surprised and pleased with the presents... I'd like to that the Academy.

I was 10 years old when an aunt got me a pair of Romper Stompers!!!!

Amazingly, I just found out these things are still available.

http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/product/1611

You know, as an adult, I've been to a few parties where you are basically SUPPOSED to pass on gifts you'd received to other people. I did get rid of Michael Bolton CD that way.

The skin flute...zinnnng!

my grandparents gave me a rock polisher when i was about 10. what the hell was i supposed to do with that?

my dad gave me a cooking pan once. I was 13. Asshole

My best friend's wife once got used panties that her mother-in-law picked up at a garage sale.

I've never received a gift that can compare to that.

Subscription to Runners World.

I got a used syringe from the hotel room trash can. The maid said Lance Armstrong stayed the night before.

Used Syringe wrote:

I got a used syringe from the hotel room trash can. The maid said Lance Armstrong stayed the night before.

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idiot

Turned 40, just lost job. Played Mr. Mom for a while. Wife somehow saw fit to get me a Betty Crocker Cookbook for a combination Christmas / birthday present. Thanks, babe, no wonder you're frigid.

Can honestly say without shame that I engaged in the supreme sacrilege of book-burning -- torched that sucker in the driveway and pissed on the ashes.

akds wrote:

Not too materialistic are you?

The thought your Mom had behind buying this should have made you treasure it. But I'm sure the alarm clock will have lots of meaning.

u can treasure the thought without a gift

as an aside, if your poor you all trade. when every penny counts its shameful to waste if there is something u dont need.

rippy cripple wrote:

I was 10 years old when an aunt got me a pair of Romper Stompers!!!!

Amazingly, I just found out these things are still available.

http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/product/1611

What the hell do those do? Do you just walk with them?