that one story starting off with "a few years ago my grandma had her legs amputated" got me worried at first. legit thought someone was gonna get grandma's years-old amputated legs under the tree
One year for Christmas, I got entirely Justin Bieber themed EVERYTHING (socks, dolls, makeup, etc). The worst part? I didn't even know who Justin Bieber was at the time.
@@hye2354 I take it you weren't a prepubescent girl in the late 2000s. Almost every girl had a crush on him. Sorry if that sounds rude but I'm not lying and I like being blunt sometimes.
I mean not at the age of 14, but I’d confusedly accept it and make a soup with it, then share some with them. I don’t exactly know how I’d feel if I got that at 14.
As a kid I wanted nothing more but to get into graphic design and digital art. I begged and begged for a cheap laptop for years and then one christmas I opened the wrapping on a present and it was a laptop box! I was so freaking excited I immediately opened it up and it turned out it was just an empty box and they took a marker and drew a screen and keyboard inside the box so it looked like a cardboard laptop. At first I thought it was a joke and they had just removed the laptop before wrapping it to get my reaction but nope, they literally went to the store and asked if they had an empty laptop box so they could prank me. Never asked for anything specific again.
I barely got any presents as a kid and, THEY WEREN'T EVEN WRAPPED SO I KNEW WHAT IT WAS. MY OTHER CHRISTMAS GIFTS BACK THEN WERE RETURNED SINCE MY DAD SAID IT WAS TOO HARD FOR YOU.
... I got my father a wooden stick and the letter E as a joke gift. Waiting for the reaction in a couple days. Its wrapped a good 100 times like how he does it lol
Agreed, that would be incredibly hilarious. Though like someone else pointed out in a comment, it really depends on who you're giving the gift to! Some people might love it and find it funny, but others may not.
Or someone who is'nt Irish at all but always end up doing Iralend-relatesd stuff Like how I'm Italian but always end up doing Georgian stuff to run away from Susan Wainwright.
One year, my grandmother-- worst person i've ever known, but when i was little i didn't realize it, but oh well-- put together this HUGE sack of things for me. She kept teasing what it was, saying it was all themed around the same thing. I got SUPER excited, cause my special interest at the time and first fandom was The Icredibles. So I thought, somehow, her and Papa had found a bunch of merch i'd never seen before. Christmas day rolls around, camera's rolling directly on me-- and i have to force a smile through an entire sack full of Hanna Montana merchandise.
I would be literally ecstatic because when I was in elementary school, my first fandom was Hannah Montana and I still love that show to this day and I think I always will ❤
I’ll preface this by saying my family really likes “practical gifts” and toiletries are a staple of our Christmas trees. But one year between my mom and my nana, I got three sticks of deodorant. By #3 I was like “okay okay I get the message!”
@@latias6745 The same happens with me with aftershave. Everyone knows I wear Joop, so every christmas I end up getting at least one big bottle which lasts me basically all year. Can't remember the last time I had to buy any for myself! Ha!
Okay but can we just appreciate the cat that left not one, not two, but FIFTEEN birds under the tree? That is some dedication right there, either that cat was saving up beforehand or it is an amazing hunter.
7 staplers, I had just gotten a new desk and I liked writing and stuff, so my parents got the idea to ask for desk supplies. I actually wanted some so I was happy when I got the first stapler, but here’s a hint, when planning Christmas don’t send the same list to every single person in a 20 person family that are all coming over, especially when the list consists of entirely “desk supplies” and that’s it. I never even opened the 7th stapler, I got to the 6th, started crying and ran to my room and didn’t leave for the rest of the Christmas until the family left 3 days later. Ironically since I had so many staplers I never paid attention to where we put them, and now all 7 are lost and I need a stapler.
god bless my mother for spending the birthday and holidays for my brother and i coordinating the gifts of every single family member to date. even my aunt, her sister, couldnt escape my mother making sure everyone got different things that we would like. sometimes she even buys gifts for other people to give to us.
These are pretty horrible, but as a college student who basically lives off pasta and loves Italian food, I’d appreciate the gift of 7 kilos of pasta. Guess it’s knowing the person you’re buying gifts for that’s the important part of giving gifts, lol!
A few years ago when I was 12 or 13, I stopped believing in Santa on my own. I asked my mom to stop pretending he was real for me because I knew he wasn't. She got so mad about this that she threw all of my gifts out, and made sure my little sister's didn't get anything from Santa. When Christmas morning came, they started crying and my mom kept pushing down on me, telling me it was my fault for not believing in Santa. That I ruined Christmas for my little sisters forever and that Santa would never come again, which made my little sisters cry more. I fucking hate my mom.
Nah dint hit abusive prople. The best way to hurt them is to cut them off, tell them they will never hear from you again and then never so much as pick up the phone again. Abusive people cant stand having no power over you.
I don't remember this myself, but when I was just a year old I got a Santa toy that could walk, wave a bell around and play music. When I opened the present, I was overjoyed with it. Then my grandmother turned it on. Thing is, I was sensitive to loud noises and that thing was LOUD. I was absolutely terrified of the thing for years afterwards. My parents would put it under the Christmas tree every year so I wouldn't go snooping near the presents.
@@amoral_minority @Xeno Best X I'm back guys. Quandale Dingle here. I threw a ball in my garbage can. Exploded it all over my bedroom sink. My dad broke into my house came home to take a TNT. He put in my neighbor Pingie Mc Dingie's house.
2:33 thats actually a really sweet and intelligent cat. Cats bring their owners dead birds if they love them. So it loved them enough to give them 15 AND was smart enough to figure out everyone was putting them under the tree
@@PirateCat822 no it isn't ? Lionesses hunt because they need to to survive, domestic cats hunt for fun. Domestic cats have food at home, and cats destroying the ecosystem is one of the main reasons people keeps indoor cats.
I can remember my worst Christmas present, absolutely nothing, yet I had given my immediate family all a gift each, and they wonder why I'm bitter and bitchy towards them.
One year I saved up to get my brother for his birthday Mario kart 8, then for his birthday I got him the new Pokémon game, come my birthday, I got nothing
Got a shirt that was along the lines of “I don’t act my age” Now it would be funny if my mother hadn’t constanly berated me to “grow up” and “stop being so immature” while she’s all like “but I don’t act like I’m 50-something” The hypocrisy, gaslighting, manipulation, and blatant narcissistic behavior is probably why I’m gonna cut ties once I get my own place (I want out but I can’t afford anywhere to live)
Only books. I was a reading kid, but as said by the adults “we didn’t coordinate” and “I thought everyone ELSE was getting her toys!” Needless to say the only useful thing I got was the skill to stop myself from crying in front of people
that cat is so smart, like actually, realizing that important things go under the tree, it brought it's own important gifts. 15 birds, not a good gift but a good one for a cat
A few Christmases ago my mom gave me shaving cream in my stocking. I tried to seem grateful, but I still asked her why, and she said “because… you like shaving?” I had not shaved my legs for months because it was WINTER. 100% believe it was a passive-aggressive message.
Reminds me of my mom gifting me a book on "how to survive puberty" with all kinds of stuff like "your first period" and stuff, when I was 16,,, as if I wasn't already nearing the end of puberty
The worst gift I've ever received? The half used, OPENED bottle of bubble bath that was (very clearly) swiftly wrapped, as if I wouldn't notice the bloody difference. That's probably the worst.
Getting pranked on Christmas every year. It started out normal with just opening the package and seeing a pack of socks or similar things. Then hiding those things in boxes that were originally for toys or whatnot and not getting that toy. Being autistic, I hated having so much attention on me, and having my family all staring at me and laughing at me every time I was disappointed left me hating opening presents in front of anyone. I stopped being excited and opening presents really fast like children do and instead kept a poker face and slowly opened each one, politely said thank you, and moved on. I would have high hopes each year only for them to get crushed. Plus, my sister always got really cool things that I really liked and expressed many times interest in them, but never got any. Once, I grabbed a present that I thought had my name on it and opened it up to see a thing that I really really liked and was really happy and showed it. It was something they normally got my sister, so I assumed they finally decided to trust me and get me one. Nope. My mom took it from my hand and said it was for my sister and gave it to her. I was very upset. As an adult now, I generally don't get wrapped presents anymore. We just discuss what we want or need. Usually me and my mom. So, my mom will give me money for the thing I want/need, or she'll let me know she's buying it then will give it to me. I do the same thing with her though we still sometimes surprise we each other with things we actually know the other person wants/needs. In the rare event I do get a wrapped present, I thank the person and tell them I'll open it later. I wait until I get home and open it so no one is staring at me and breathing down my neck. I don't have to fake being happy and trying to please the person. If I'm disappointed, I don't have to worry about being laughed at.
Oh no.... I also have autism so I REALLY felt sad for you. I'm trying not to word this wrong! I almost cried. Shoot, this comment is bad, I'm pressing cancel
one time, my grandma gifted me a boxed bar of irish soap in one of those thick envelopes amazon ships things in. in reality, the gift was a $20 steam gift card and my grandma just added the soap to give it some weight to mislead me. but damn, was i confused before realizing that lol
I feel that "reverse psychology" one. My parents always thought me way smarter than I was so they would constantly buy me candies and gifts I specifically said not to give me when I was like 5. Looking back it's fckin hilarious that they thought they were outsmarting a 5 year old playing advanced mind games on them
Same way for me. Candies (and really anything sweet aside from fruits) always made me feel ill, but my father would always buy all the kids some random candy whenever he went to the grocery store. When I was six, I told him I didn't want anything, so he thought I was trying to reverse psychology him (they didn't know candy made me feel ill). Luckily, I decided to go with him and we instead got some apples (along with candy for my older siblings), which later became the traditional "sweet" for me. We still laugh at my parents thinking I was so much smarter than I really was when I just couldn't eat candy.
Oh my god that happened so much when I was younger. I had interests in computers, cars, gardening and baking. I has NO interests in Helicopters, guns or the military. So for Christmas I got about 7 nerf gun sets 2 remote control UK army helicopters (one broken) and... Just because my dad always went the extra mile, the magazine for the L85 Machine gun, with a full 30 rounds of deactivated 5.56 NATO.
My nana (dad’s mom) is notorious for doing this, though I don’t think it’s intentional in her case. My dad asked her a long time ago not to buy him any red shirts, and ever since then, she exclusively bought him red shirts.
I once told my younger sister I would get her an egg for Christmas, she was thinking about those plastic eggs with the toy inside. Nope, I straight up gave her a chicken egg
When I was a kid, my parents gave me the 4th Harry Potter book. When I told them that it was the 4th one in the series, they said that I could read that one and read the other ones later, apparently not understanding how stories work. When I told them that I wanted to play an instrument like the drums, they gave me drum sticks and said I could hit whatever things and that would be just the same as playing the drums. Keep in mind, my younger brother had multiple, actual instruments at that point.
My stepmother gave me a bag of stolen hotel soaps for Christmas. It was the only Christmas present she ever gave me. I think I prefer the many years where I received nothing.
My grandparents did this once sorta, they got me Luigi's Mansion 3 instead of Hello Neighbor (Of which I asked for). To this day LM3 is one of my top 10s while Hello Neighbor sucks
I got a single slice of cheese once. I'm Jewish and this was at a friends place so I'm 99% sure it was a joke, but nothing in life can prepare you for someone walking over to you, putting a single slice of cheddar in your hand, and saying a very earnest "Merry Christmas"
In the "He a little confused, but he got the spirit" category, I've been doing acrylic paintings for a few years, and expanded out to oil paintings this year - as well as charcoal life-drawings... So I was given a "How To Draw" book targeted at, I'm guessing, 10-year-olds. I mean, its the thought that counts, and I accepted it gracefully... after giving her a 3 month 8x12 oil painting of her dog.
@@missdragon5892 Hey, I can anime now ;) Honestly, the books not *_bad_* - it does show legit techniques and stuff, instead of anime and the like - but reading through it, it's definitely aimed at about that age. But she wouldn't have known how to tell, and it's the thought that counts.
@@Steelexxe Y'know, I thought charcoal would be hard, with how messy it can be and all - but I think my best non-painting pieces were all done with vine charcoal.
I have a pretty iffy relationship with my dad. Two years ago, about a month after Christmas, we finally see each other and open the presents he gave me. A couple of them were “Daddy’s Surprise Boxes” or something- small scraps of cardboard wrapped in wrapping paper like a normal present, inside each of them was a single cheap plastic dinosaur. Each time I opened them I remember saying “oh wow, another little dinosaur..”
My grandfather asked my sister what I would like as a christmas present and, since she was mad at me at the time for some reason, she said I would love a "Grinch doll." I was terrified of the live-action Grinch. As soon as I opened the present I cried in fear and hid that thing at the bottom of my toy bin so I would never have to see it again. My sister occasionally dug through the toy bin to pull it out.
I have never liked wearing dresses, and I asked if I could get a book instead. Mum said yes. Following week, I open a soft package, quite small, and I thought it was a book because Mum likes to double-wrap things in case they break. It was a pink fucking dress with magenta swirls on it. Turfed it out the next day while she wasn't looking and she hasn't questioned its disappearance since. She probably knows I threw it out by now, but I still fucking hate wearing dresses.
I am known amongst relatives as “the artsy one” which means that almost every gift I’ve gotten from the age of like 9 has been art related. When I was 13-14 I got a “Little Painters First Art Set” type thing with the recommended age being 3
In 8th grade, we had a white elephant party. I started out excited to be eventually getting my hands on a present, but my expectations were set too high. And I didn’t even know what white elephant was. I came home from school that day with a tiny toy chair, a tiny toy table, and utter disappointment 🙃
Ironically someone in the comments i saw was on that party before too and they had the same expressions because someones dad dressed as santa gave him *socks* because he was "mature unlike other kids" while everyone other got toys
white elephant is essentially gift gambling, I participated in one back in elementary school, came home with an unopened copy of Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii. I'd say I got pretty lucky
My parents don’t give BAD gifts, but they take all the fun out of giving gifts. Everything has to be from an itemized list, in both directions. I get not wanting to “get it wrong” but it really just screams “we don’t want to put any thought into this whatsoever.”
My mum got me a anime drawing book. It was a guide to how to draw in the style in anime. I love the book but when my mum announced what it was... "Here look. I got you a book about those Hentais you watch." I actually died inside. Thank god I was the only one who actually knew what that meant.
My mom gave me the same Plusle plush for like four years straight. I had been looking for a standing Plusle to go with my standing Minun, and she kept giving me the laying Plusle, eventually turning it into a tradition for a while. I finally found a standing Plusle at a convention, but ended up getting the Minun it came with too because I felt bad about separating them lol My grandma gave my sis a Sarah Huckabee book for christmas, not realizing she's the only person in the family AND friendgroup who likes Huckabee, so we couldn't even regift it lol Edit: New stories These, of course, were not bad presents. One year, my biggest sister and brother got each other the same book by sheer coincidence. Both came to me and middle sis talking about how they grew up with the old Nintendo Power Link to the Past comics, and both spent months searching for the omnibus. We had to wait a whole three days to watch them open the presents at the exact same time. Last year, I bought a Soundwave helmet for shits and giggles as part of a Gamestop sale in like. Summer. By sheer coincidence, my brother bought my sis and I a Megatron helmet "to watch us fight over it," without realizing I _literally had the matching Soundwave to go with it._
I remember asking for a video camera every year - then finally when I open a parcel up and get really excited when I see the word 'Panasonic' and it turned out to be an electric shaver. Since my excitement had already started, I just had to go with it. Not the worst gift, but definitely the most disappointing.
Every relative would always give me body lotion at one point, I guess they didn't know what to give a teen girl. I would use body lotion once in a blue moon, so I ended up with piles and piles of just lotion sitting in my drawers. (I moved out and I still have them. I aspire to use up all that lotion one day.)
I used to get body lotion too and I loved it but the bad part is that I'm allergic to perfume and it's in a lot of that kind of stuff :( I can't even use most soaps. I would say the worst gift I got was when I knew I was allergic and someone got me bath and body works lotion. I know they didn't know but it made me sad :(((
Same, got to a point where I as a 13 year old had to say "ok look bath and bodyworks stuff smells nice but I rarely use it and now I just have a drawer full of gross old lotion that gives my mom allergies whenever I use it." It did eventually come in handy though. I took all the soaps to college with me so that I could save money. I had enough bottles to last me two years!
As someone who used to have piles of lotion, that stuff breaks down after a while. Check your stock to see how much is still usable vs. what's runny and separating.
I got a single almond chocolate from a friend I had known for like 10 years. I don’t eat chocolate and had braces and it would _definitely_ get stuck in my teeth. Worst part? It was unwrapped and I gave a big set of color pencils and some watercolors (she was into art)
My "worst" Christmas present as a kid was either a balloon animal making kit, an egg beater, or an officially licensed Spider-Man toy shaving kit. (Yes, it even came with a plastic, bladeless "pretend razor.") While typing this comment, I found out that it turns out they still make that last item. EDIT: I just remembered a fourth one: when I was 19 or so, my friend from New Jersey got me a pair of the most hideous, Corporate Memphis color palette-type socks imaginable. It turns out my mom gave a very vague description on what she wanted him to get me and he just got what he thought she meant.
UPDATE: Just remembered another one. My uncle once got me two Chick-Fil-A gift cards that totaled two meals. Turns out he just really wanted me to take him out for lunch…
My mother had a story from when she was young, were her uncle gave her a bag of rocks for Christmas. A. Bag. Of. Rocks. What she didn't realize at the time was that her uncle was geologist and those rocks (to him) were a really meaningful gift. I think those rocks were some pretty rare ones too.
It’s been so long since this happened but I’m still salty about it so here ya go. When I was like 6 or 7 I was obsessed with calico critters and every Christmas I would ask for them well come that christmas my sister who was like 3 or 4 got a bunch of calico critter stuff she had never once expressed any interest in calico critters, and all I got were socks.
My worst gift? My daughter (first kid) was 2 months old, and had to go through open heart surgery just before Christmas (She's fine now, 10 years later, this was the girl that the doctors told my wife to abort, repeatedly, due to UN and hospital policies), and my dad died on Christmas. Same year.
One Christmas, my 5 year old self decided to put all of the mints that had been hanging out in the pantry into tiny gift boxes...and proceeded to address every single one to my mom. She woke up on Christmas to at least 7 tiny gift boxes with a single mint inside each of them all addressed to her.
My aunt gives me purses. EVERY YEAR. I hate purses and I don't even use them. I give them away after Christmas without fail. Telling her what I actually want is fruitless since she just gets whatever's on sale after Christmas at Khol's, therefore: Purses.
Just don't accept the gift as "I'm still using the purses you gave me every other year" Would definitely make the encounter awkward, which means she might stop if she has to give you ANOTHER purse infront of people the next year, knowing you will just decline it
Even if you did like purses, a new purse every year is just frivolous. A good quality purse, designer or not, is supposed to last you at least 10 years.
i find that super weird yea, maybe she just gets them so she doesn't actually have to put in effort and figure out what you actually want/like. i find that most family members are like that, they just get whatever they see and it counts as effort. even if the person doesn't want or use it at all
not realy worst gift, but gift with the worst consequences. 7 year old. dad gives me a dummy handgrenade they use to train airport staff to detect bombs. no clue what to do with it so i bring it to school. :)
There's been a few, but the worst was probably a porcelain doll antique. I'm terrified of dolls. I still have no idea why my own mother would give that to me
@@carcinoGetenicist Well you are just being toxic because of the very mention of a character from it it just reminded me of Asgore, and i was asking is it as good as a joke he would make.
For 5 years in a row, I've gotten everything animal themed from my grandma for Christmas ...even though I've told them multiple times that I didn't want anything animal themed anymore
I once got given a bootleg copy of Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory (an album I already owned) except it was just the cover and inside was a CD of some guy wailing in Chinese.
My best Christmas experience is after mother’s dog passed away, I got her a relatively sentimental frame with a selection of pictures of the dog. I knew she loved it, and I knew she’d appreciate it. Genuinely put a lot of care and consideration into memorialising the dog for her because she loved it and wanted to do it justice. She did love it, cried over it, and still has it to this day. That same year, she got me a rubber turd
one time I was out doing a bit of shopping, night before christmas. dude in front of me had about 20 something hams. once he finished checking out, he turned to me, gave me a ham, and told me "merry christmas!" I do not celebrate christmas nor do I eat meat. I strive to be as iconic as him though
I've been that person before. I really do try to give sentimental gifts, I'm just usually the last to hear about family news. So I gave my sister a Moomins plant pot to match her kitchen decor and I gave her fiance some cool pasta (I promise you it was cool pasta) for Christmas without knowing that they had very recently lost their house and now did not have a stove, or a kitchen.
In 2015 my service dog died and I was completely devastated. One of my cousins didn't get the memo, because he gave me a dog collar for Christmas. I had this huge grief explosion and sobbed out of control for 45 minutes. I couldn't stop! Fortunately the rest of the family was very understanding.
I couldn’t think of the worst one I’ve received until now - Two DS games. One, which was a game that taught 4th grade math, and another game based off of Santa Claus is Coming to Town
When I was like ten or eleven, I got a stuffed cat from my aunt. It wasn't a normal stuffed cat, it had a freaky, realistic face, and it was "pregnant". You could legit stick your hand up into it and pull out little kittens that looked just as creepy as their mother. I never played with it.
Was it a Kitty Surprise? I had one, but mine was actually really cute instead of being creepy and over realistic. They've released different versions of the toy over the years, so I'm assuming we didn't have the same one lol (mine was the 2005 version that didn't have the plastic face, I agree the plastic face ones are kinda creepy though). I used to pretend mine was part kangaroo or something and have the kittens hide in her pouch like a baby kangaroo would.
after the beard in the ziploc I just instantly assumed that at 1:42 she was gonna say that she received her grandma leg in a ziploc. I wouldn't have thought of it if it wasn't because of the beard one, I would never think it would be okay to receive a leg in a ziploc. Or idk, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have come to that conclusion on my own
One year in high school during a gift exchange a friend of mine gave me some of her own hand me downs that I had *seen* her wearing to school, even recently. That might have been understandable save for the fact that she was 4’ 5” and I was 5’ 7” and nearly double her weight. Sorry Hannah.
My 5yo cousin gave me a a handful of the best sticks and rocks in the whole yard randomly. To be fair, they were excellent sticks and rocks. The sticks were about the right length, but still easy to carry, with hardly any parts that stuck out that needed snapping off. And the rocks? Oh, those rocks were just jagged enough, but also smooth, and just the best shapes.
Um, if it was big enough to be a spoon, it *probably* cane from something a little larger than a hamster 😂 hamster legs are like 2cm long, their bones are tinsy
Super cute present though (although kinda weird since it's not you hamster and you've never shown any interest in hones before). I have so many eggs and skulls and things knocking around that I wish I could do more with than just surrender to a terrarium or stick on a wall to terrify houseguests...
"he" refers to my dad. he consistently gets me the worst gifts ive gotten: a tent?? because i camped with my grandma for 2 days over the summer. apparently that means i love camping and need a tent. friendship bracelet kit. i was 18. hipoint 9mm gun, which is a bizarre gift to give anyone who isnt a gun enthusiast anyways. the icing on the cake is that hipoints are really shitty guns that are known for jamming. i dont have any of the paperwork for this gun, my concealed carry or a gun permit so im pretty sure he got me felony weapon possession for christmas. a blanket i had already received from my grandmother the year before. he then proceeded to take both of them. a pair of heeled boots. i had asked my mom for a pair of biker boots and my mom initially said no because they were expensive. understandable. he bought me a pair of $30 boots that "are more fashionable". this was not an attempt to appease me. this was him trying to one up my mom. a pony when i was 8. this sounds like every childs dream but i did not want a pony, *and* he (the pony) was an asshole. he would break saddle straps and he threw me off multiple times. my dad changed his name to jack, short for jackass. oh, and one year he got my sister a wii and then gave me all the wii games so that wed be forced to share. when my sister moved out when she was 16, she took the wii and left me with all the games. this was the year before the Nintendo switch came out, so its almost impossible to find wiis now. as a result, i just own several wii games i cant play. she broke the Wii btw. EDIT: i also remembered he got me a sled one year. we live in southern missouri, technically both the midwest and the south, meaning it does snow, but only once every few years. the sled hasnt been used since the christmas he bought it and i dont believe it will be used again.
Wii’s shouldn’t be that hard to find. It’s probably not that hard to order one over the internet. Also, they most definitely could be found at your local retro games store, although locality probably varies from 2 miles to 60 depending on where you live. If you really get desperate, I guarantee a local retirement home has one. Not sure what you can do about retirement homes having Wii’s, but you could always steal it.
@@juliakoinaisk2673 hes not been a great parent. this isnt a therapy sesh so im not gonna detail it, but know it gets worse than his mediocre-at-best gifts
I'll never forget the year my grandma gave me the book "Nowhere but Up - The Story of Justin Beiber's Mom". The amount of effort it took not to laugh at that was absolutely titanic. Ditto for everyone else in the room.
Oh man, I hope my relatives aren't worried about upsetting me like that when I'm old. My family sometimes purposely gets each other gifts we don't want because it's funny. I got a very specific Harry Potter-themed mug this Christmas, and the only benefit it gave me was a symphony of laughter. Also a year or two ago, I ran out of ideas and saw a porcelain(-looking) pineapple decoration in the clearance section of Wal-Mart. Bought it for my mom because I thought it was stupid, then it turned out to be one of her favorite gifts. She likes decorating.
@@1993Southparkfan i love how it isn't even his mom's name and who she is a mom to, just "justin bieber's mom", not even giving her her own personality or thing
@@Spritzkrieg yeah, a friend of mine and I got a tradition to give each other stupid gifts. I love it. A beef heart, a hammer, a sink, a lady's handbag, bike parts (we don't have bikes) and so on... No more being worried if they would like the gift or not - they sure won't, but we will have some laughs.
Santa apparently said to me and my sister in a letter that we didn't do well that year and he was going to give us responsibility. My and my sister were both kids then so of course we cried about it. Our parents weren't home when we read the letter and when the got back. They took a box out and opened it in front of us and there was a dog inside! Apparently when santa meant responsibility, he thought about a dog and it is the best Christmas gift ever! He is still alive and young because this was only like 3 - 4 years ago and I love him a lot! Edit: Holy shit, thanks for all the likes!
This isn’t really the worst, quite the opposite really, but I’m currently studying and practicing Japanese and my parents got me a whole textbook for practicing kana. They said that I’m probably the only person who’s excited to be getting a work book.
For my eighteenth birthday my grandparents told me to make a list of stuff I'd really like for it, because they wanted to make my birthday extra special. Worth noting that my grandparents are very wealthy, as I will mention this again. My list was rather inexpensive, just some books and games I really wanted. Instead of literally anything, they got arguably hundreds of dollars worth of towel sets for my dorm. Not only were they the wrong colors to match my theme, which they knew, but they arguably spent more money on the towels than everything on my list. Again, my grandparents weren't hurting for cash or anything that might make such a move understandable, they just decided that they didn't like what I wanted and got me a shit ton of towels instead. They didn't even give me the gift receipt so I could only return them for store credit as well.
the worst xmas gift i ever got: from my parents, a perfume from bath & body works. normally that's not a bad thing but they had gotten me the same exact perfume for my birthday four months prior. when i jokingly brought this up (literally completely in jest, because i thought it was pretty funny), they yelled at me for being "ungrateful" in front of my whole family, then took the perfume from me and gave it to my sister.
a "praying rock" from my grandma, a christian .first things first im not christian, and seconf of all it said "put me on the floor next to your bed to remind you to pray" I WAS 8💀
“HOW AN ORGAN WORKS!” My dumb ass fully thinking it was a book about the organs in your body…possibly just one specific organ!… Two seconds later: “I DON’T PLAY THE ORGAN!”… Me: “OH! OK! 🤡”
Never really gotten a “bad” Christmas gift, but my, grandma, who is hard on seeing, got me a shirt that said, “I ❤️ Moms” she thought it said, “I ❤️ M&Ms”. I’m not even a fan of M&Ms
one year when i was like 6 my mom took me to a white elephant christmas party and after all the joke gifts were given all the kids were given actual gifts by a dad in a santa suit all the other kids got cool new toys and plushies and stuff i got a 12 pack of socks because i was "more mature than the other kids". i cried.
@@secretelydepresso8625 same, the “i didn’t get to have any cool toys when i was little so i’m buying them NOW” behavior!! as a kid i was always given informational books about subjects i didn’t like, socks, wallets, other stuff like that because i was the “smart and quiet” one meanwhile my friends and cousins got actual fun things. but like, jokes on you mom and dad cuz now i am in college and literally all my disposable income goes to the display cabinet of expensive figures lol
@@stinky59 I'm the same. As a kid, I wasn't allowed to watch anime because it "came from a godless country." The first thing I did when I moved out was watch Death Note. To this day, I've watch 283 different anime series to completion. Take that, DAD!
My worst gift was dad getting a tape with Soviet cartoons... I was a little kid but at that time I was already watching normal, Western toons, and I didn't need HIS childhood fulfilled. Also, I wanted a toy and was too little to appreciate owning media. I cried my eyes out... It wasn't that bad of a gift just bad experience and surprised parents.
The seven kilos of pasta doesn't even sound like a bad gift to be honest. Once when my dad worked at a factory he took a crap ton of parmesan cheese home and I was so hyped. Idk, something about a lot of food makes me really excited, especially when it's useful staple food like pasta, bread, cheese etc.
My house back in 2013 when my mortgage provider had been bought out and froze incoming payments, and also post pandemic has been one of these houses with a rice packs in the sock drawer and jars or tins of food hidden everywhere. Back in 2013, I feared I might waste the money I was building up on a car upgrade or something, so I went and bought TROLLEYS full of stuff to use up money WISELY. almost 2 trolleys of detergent alone and I STILL HAVE 3 bottles to go thru. Finished the soap and toilet paper 3 years ago but those early days were crazy. Boxes of tinned fish and shampoo. Under my bed was entirely bottles of fruit juice. Gallon upon gallon of it. Right now I am sitting on huge amounts of bacon flavor mayonnaise and jars of marinated artichokes from Spain. With tons of rice and pasta sitting around.
Not Christmas, but for my birtday one year, my parents both thought the other once had gotten the gift for me. They made it up to me by buying me an awesome giant spider from Spirit Halloween. It was months later, but they knew I loved Halloween better than my birthday.
TWO YEARS IN A ROW I got a Mickey and Minnie Mouse Christmas themed puzzle from a relative of mine who LOVES Disney. The puzzles had like, 300-500 pieces. I was about 6-7 years old at the time so it was pretty boring. Not to mention that one of them was MISSING A PIECE.
