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Holiday confessions

The worst gift I've ever received is_____________.
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Re: Holiday confessions

  • ...hand soap in a glass slipper dispenser from H's grandmother. Clearly a re-gift. It sat on my bathroom counter for six months before H finally chucked it.
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  • I got a "King of the Mountain" t-shirt with a huge buffalo on it from my grandpa, last year. The year before, from him, I got wrinkle cream. The year before that - a Halloween ghost tea-light candle holder. Serious.

    When we do Christmas with him and his wife, it's always quite entertaining. I know they don't have a lot of extra money, and she does the shopping (she's an odd character). The guys in the family always make out pretty well with a long sleeve shirt or something useful. The girls, on the other hand, always end up with wrinkle cream, shampoo samples in the little foil packets (no lie) and other garage-sale like oddities. We're always appreciative when they're there, but when they leave, we get a really good laugh.

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  • Our family used to do a secret Santa. One year I'd put a lot of effort and thought into a nice gift for my person. My cousin, in return, gave me a broken wizard knick-knack from the dollar store, presented in a greasy, rumpled McDonald's sack.  I was pretty much done with family secret Santa at that point. 
  • I just got a scarf that looks like roadkill. I have a hunch it's a regift because it smells like mothballs and has a hole in it. 
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  • A bag of socks. Which obviously doesn't sound horrible but they were too small AND they were the ones that went all the way up to your knees.
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  • imagetjlovesthepokes:

    I got a "King of the Mountain" t-shirt with a huge buffalo on it from my grandpa, last year. The year before, from him, I got wrinkle cream. The year before that - a Halloween ghost tea-light candle holder. Serious.

    This made me laugh so hard! 

    Not a gift for me, but my grandma bought my H a ball cap with a light in it one year for Christmas.  She told him she thought he could use it for work. 

  • My freshman year of high school my mother and father gave me an outfit by Spumoni (I think that is the name).  It was leggings, a sweat shirt, and it had puff painted kittens and flowers all over it.  Now, I understood the sentiment, I had always wanted one of those outfits and my parents could never afford them - but that does NOT mean you should buy your kid one when SHE IS IN HIGH SCHOOL.  I can remember trying to not cry, I needed clothes so badly and my mother was so excited.  God, it was awful. To this day, I am still an ungrateful b!tch because of that.  They never bought me clothes after that which "forced" me to get a job that summer.  That outfit was probably the best thing that ever happened to me, come to think of it.
  • Pink and black playboy bunny candles. Klassy.
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  • One time, when I was about 8 or so, I unwrapped what I first thought was a package of underpants. It turned out to be a package of those stretchy fabric loops that you put on a loom to make those hideous potholders (anyone remember these?). I still remember my horror when I thought I was going to have to show everyone that I'd received underpants. 
  • Dice when I was six.

    More recently, nothing has been totally horrible. The short bathrobe with Scottie dogs on it was... interesting... but that's the worst of it I think. 

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  • Dh and I received this last year as a joint gift.  I really don't know what to do with it:

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    Dh and I received this last year as a joint gift.  I really don't know what to do with it:

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    FAJITAS, buttercup! Yummmmm 

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  • imageBoyMom21:
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    Dh and I received this last year as a joint gift.  I really don't know what to do with it:

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    FAJITAS, buttercup! Yummmmm 

     

    I love fajitas and we cook them often.  However, I could not fit a flank steak on this to save my life.  We throw ours on the grill.  It's more of a serving plate for us.  I don't know how to actually cook with it. 

  • When we were 7 we got long johns. We still laugh about it. 
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