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12/26/2005 1:49:41 AM

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"tiffany's tablemanners for teenagers book when i was 12"

dude if you get shit like that, you should just get 'em a dieting book the next year if they are fat, or something else to call attention to whatever shortcomings they have.

12/26/2005 1:59:18 AM

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"My great Aunt gives me and my brother the worst gifts ever every year This year we got a subscription to Readers Digest"

RD is fucking awesome. wtf is wrong with you

my aunt miranda gives some really shitty gifts. one year she gave me a bunch of her kids' happy meal toys. at least she cleaned them before giving them to me.

12/26/2005 9:43:48 AM

how do the givers of these gifts justify them when you open it? it be would one thing to mail it, but to actually sit there while the recipient opens a used happy meal toy? that takes either a lot of balls or a lot of stupidity

12/26/2005 1:17:33 PM

my grandfather is a little eccentric and i havent really gotten to know him over the years for various reasons

anyway, when i was like 6 or 7 he gave me this Exploaratorium (or something to that effect) book that has all kinds of scientific experiments and stupid shit fit for a 6th grade science fair

i got the same freaking book on my 18th birthday

i thought it was a joke at first, but reality sank in when i didn't get anything else

last year he gave me a first aid kit and a flashlight for christmas

the worst part of all is that he and his new wife have plenty of money, they go skiing in the alps every christmas and to the bahamas



[Edited on December 26, 2005 at 1:44 PM. Reason : asdf]

12/26/2005 1:33:50 PM

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"how do the givers of these gifts justify them when you open it? it be would one thing to mail it, but to actually sit there while the recipient opens a used happy meal toy? that takes either a lot of balls or a lot of stupidity "

that made me laugh....A LOT...hahahahaha

12/26/2005 1:38:18 PM

this whole thread made me giggle

12/26/2005 1:42:09 PM

please tell me you actually didn't read through it all.

12/26/2005 1:42:51 PM

God, this is all so hysterical. I've had my share of crappy gifts. Those items sold exclusively as gift items at department stores and discounters often suck. I got a roadside emergency kit once from my uncle with stuff like a gas siphon and jumper cables, despite the fact that I have a premium AAA membership so that I don't have to do all that shit.

But elementary school secret santa is the worst. Remember those Lifesavers Candy Books, with the 8 rolls of Lifesavers? Well, I didn't get that exactly, but rather an offbrand knockoff that had half the rolls missing. What the fuck was Chad thinking, giving me a fucking half-eaten box of candy? I hope he's in hell right now.

12/26/2005 9:45:26 PM

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"Remember those Lifesavers Candy Books"

Man those things rocked except for the Pastel and Butterscotch rolls Cherry Hollla

12/26/2005 11:11:56 PM

the clap

and a diamond shaped paperweight with VALENTINES DAY HEARTS in it

12/26/2005 11:40:36 PM

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"please tell me you actually didn't read through it all."

yessir i did

waiting for the damned doctor

12/27/2005 12:53:08 AM

I got tumble time tigger. And a MIG welder. Both rocked even though I already have tumble time tigger and the welder was the wrong one

12/27/2005 1:11:02 AM

less than a minute to respond to joie, under joie, in a lounge thread...

12/27/2005 7:54:50 AM

One of my mom's friends gave me a set of three overweight ballerina christmas ornaments. I've gotten video games and money from her in the past so I'm not sure what happened that year. I think she got divorced.

12/27/2005 9:57:55 AM

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"tumble time tigger"

I'm actually jealous

12/27/2005 10:44:56 AM

^^ you're lucky he didn't take away your license.

12/27/2005 10:59:14 AM

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"I got a roadside emergency kit once from my uncle with stuff like a gas siphon and jumper cables, despite the fact that I have a premium AAA membership so that I don't have to do all that shit."

dude, there are FAR worse gifts you could've gotten. at least it's practical, even if you never use it

12/27/2005 11:36:23 AM

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"how do the givers of these gifts justify them when you open it? it be would one thing to mail it, but to actually sit there while the recipient opens a used happy meal toy? that takes either a lot of balls or a lot of stupidity"

we're hoping once she's back in the workforce and not a stay-at-home mom anymore, she'll get back her common sense.
in the meantime, we just let her do her thing, and don't say anything, for the most part.

12/27/2005 12:17:19 PM

Every year I get a Chick-Fil-A calendar, you know, the one with all the coupons for free sandwiches and nuggets?

Well, every year the coupons get cheaper and cheaper, and this year takes the cake. Every single coupon except one is for a free drink w/ purchase of large fries and a sandwich, and the one exception is a free sandwich w/ purchase of ANOTHER CALENDAR. THESE GUYS MAKE MORE AND MORE MONEY EVERY YEAR AND CANT AFFORD DECENT COUPONS. FUCKERS.

12/27/2005 12:20:02 PM

my relatives do a pretty bang up job on bad gifts

aunt #1:
- professional photography book (I was ~9 and had no camera)
- car tire gauge (I was 14 and obviously had no car)
- portable car tire pump (I was 15 and was still nowhere near having a car)
- small plastic skeleton puzzle clearly from a dollar store (I was 21)

aunt #2:
- 12 ounce water bottle
- free hat from where she worked
- check for $5.00

actually, my family just sucks at presents, in fact i only received a total of one gift from my entire family this year and it was a small check from my parents (enough for me to break even on their gifts)



[Edited on December 27, 2005 at 12:37 PM. Reason : these people have money, they just don't bother to buy more than 30mins before the event]

12/27/2005 12:34:49 PM

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"Every single coupon except one is for a free drink w/ purchase of large fries and a sandwich, and the one exception is a free sandwich w/ purchase of ANOTHER CALENDAR."

WTF? I used to love those calandars. That sucks.

12/27/2005 12:47:17 PM

this thread was cracking me up this morning. i had to stop reading at one point.

my worst was my grandmother bought me, my brother and sister colored sweatsuits.
i got a purple one, a bright pink one for my brother, and my sister got a blue one
we are seperated by 6 years, but all three suits were the same size and too small for even my brother to wear (he's the youngest)

12/27/2005 12:51:41 PM

haha every year from like age 5 to age 18, my grandma gave me a sweatshirt. most of them were the same color - turqioise and they were always like 3 sizes too big. every year my dad got a red one. and then my cousin always got a purple one. but she always made up for it and gave me something nice.

12/27/2005 1:44:02 PM

I can top the McDonald's gift certificate. My grandfather got all five of us COUPON BOOKS from Mickey D's.

Worst gift #2 = A vacuum cleaner from my uncle (I was 13)

12/27/2005 1:44:56 PM

My sister gets a UNC shirt every year from this lady my mom knows. She graduated from UNC-C and explains that to her every year, but she continues to pump tarhole shit into her wardrobe

12/27/2005 2:04:05 PM

We just had a Dollar General Christmas ...

I didn't go "home" for Christmas this year, so they sent the presents to me. I drove about 45 minutes one-way to pick it all up. Here are some of the best:

- Some body lotions that would make me smell like a stale sugar cookie

- a 4 batteries ... no, not a 4-pack, but an 8-pack that had half the batteries missing

- the creepiest damned baby doll EVER ... It has this permanent facial expression like "What you lookin at biatch?" ... my daughter was kinda scared to pick it up so we hid it in the corner behind the chair

The best part? At least half these gifts still had the price stickers on the packages. I love my family, but wtf were they thinking?

1/1/2006 9:33:12 PM

I am here DYING. Lol

1/1/2006 9:47:32 PM

i used to get a ziplock bag full of old cereal box toys from my grandparents

1/1/2006 9:55:30 PM

i'm glad none of my relatives are this damn crazy

1/1/2006 10:09:49 PM

My aunt Diana this year gave me $40, which is nice. I'm not complaining at all. But for some reason she put it inside of a wallet that she probably got out of a garbage can. Weird.

1/1/2006 10:11:13 PM

not a bad gift, but still a bit disheartening

my step grandparents always give me and my sister 50 bucks and a small gift, their real grandchildren get 25 bucks and lots of gifts. the older grandchild gets 200 bucks and a gift.

one year they gave ALL their real grandchildren (yes they are fucking rich, they have their name on a plaque in the fucking dean dome for donating money) $15k savings bonds, and me and my sis, fifty bucks and a sweatshirt (mine was the SAME nc state hooded sweatshirt they gave me the year before)

i can't be too upset because they aren't my real grandparents, but they could have done that not in front of me, who just had to drop out of school because she didn't have enough money (i had to pay my own way)

1/1/2006 10:26:30 PM

i got a fucking christmas tie THIS YEAR.


my 21st Christmas on this rock and i got a christmas tie.



[Edited on January 2, 2006 at 1:08 AM. Reason : not in the picture - theres a button you press and it plays music.]

1/2/2006 12:59:52 AM

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"Every year I get a Chick-Fil-A calendar, you know, the one with all the coupons for free sandwiches and nuggets?"

good thing about those coupons... they NEVER expire. you dont have to use the january coupon in january, february one in feb, etc.

the "free sandwich w/the purchase of a med. waffle fry and drink" coupon essentially halves the price of the meal. on top of that, you can buy a discontinued calendar for $1 (gotta ask em about those, unless they're overstocked and trying to make room for shipments they won't even mention it) and still use all the coupons - I think down the line you save somewhere around $30 for buying a $1 calendar, snipping out the coupons, then throwing the calendar away.

[Edited on January 2, 2006 at 1:04 AM. Reason : I worked there, take my word on this.]

[Edited on January 2, 2006 at 1:27 AM. Reason : =]

1/2/2006 1:03:51 AM

I got some safety goggles from my crazy aunt when I was 15

1/2/2006 1:27:18 AM

My sister gave me a Vote For Pedro shirt.

1/2/2006 10:18:13 AM

damn, that would piss me off. I hate that fucking movie.

1/2/2006 10:23:34 AM

Some of these are pretty bad gifts, but I usually excuse the aunts/uncles/grandparents because they're not in my day-to-day life. My favorite "bad" gift from Grandma was a pair of Christmas theme thick yarn slipper socks, with leather soles and a jingle bell on the back of the ankle. The worst part is, she spent $12 on these at Bloomingdales!

Worst from an immediate family member: A thick, chunky knit itchy hoodie sweater from my stepsister. I have never ever worn chunky sweaters, nor would I wear this one that shows the pilling on it, which she clearly bought at Goodwill. Pissed me off, since she's got a double-income household and I'd bought her a 14" skillet from Williams-Sonoma that year, whereas she spent less than $2.

1/2/2006 11:47:40 AM

for some reason i've never gotten a lousy gift

1/2/2006 12:10:39 PM

A subscription to Beckett magazine - if you're unfamilliar, its a listing of the approximate values of every baseball card produced in the past 15 years. The list is updated and sent out as a magazine every quarter.

I was 13 and had never owned a single baseball card.

1/2/2006 12:23:11 PM

This wasn't a holiday, but a guy I was dating told me he had a present for me. When I went to his room he had made a model of a car I liked out of legos. I was pretty excited, because Legos are pretty cool. And then he told me I couldn't have the legos, he just wanted to show me the car he made.
That's not a present.

1/2/2006 2:41:10 PM

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"good thing about those coupons... they NEVER expire. you dont have to use the january coupon in january, february one in feb, etc. the "free sandwich w/the purchase of a med. waffle fry and drink" coupon essentially halves the price of the meal. on top of that, you can buy a discontinued calendar for $1 (gotta ask em about those, unless they're overstocked and trying to make room for shipments they won't even mention it) and still use all the coupons - I think down the line you save somewhere around $30 for buying a $1 calendar, snipping out the coupons, then throwing the calendar away. "

this year, theyre all for a free medium or large drink, so it takes the price down to around 4 dollars. the coupons are getting worse and worse.

1/2/2006 2:53:44 PM

^^ same thing happened to my gf and i. i told her to come up and see her present. when she got there i was naked and she sighed, "that's not a present."

[Edited on January 2, 2006 at 3:00 PM. Reason : .]

1/2/2006 3:00:04 PM

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"Worst from an immediate family member: A thick, chunky knit itchy hoodie sweater from my stepsister. I have never ever worn chunky sweaters, nor would I wear this one that shows the pilling on it, which she clearly bought at Goodwill. Pissed me off, since she's got a double-income household and I'd bought her a 14" skillet from Williams-Sonoma that year, whereas she spent less than $2."

gotta have limits. why you gonna spend $50 on a damn skillet from W-S if you don't have to?

regift that shit and give it to her next year. maybe include a Tiffany's Table Manners for Teens Book
or Dieting for Fatties.

that'll learn her.

1/2/2006 3:27:46 PM

One of my cousins got gift cards that had already been mostly spent. (The had $25 printed on the card but the balance was something like $4.23)

1/2/2006 3:46:33 PM

my grandma, bless her heart, always used to get me those cheap ass little fake video game things that had like one button, and the the sound effects consisted of an annoying beep sound. One of them had like 12 variations of tetris, and some other block related games due to the screen only having about 20 pixels.

I also got legos last year from my aunt. I used to LOVE legos when i was a kid, but I was 20, and she game me the shitty legos that have like 5 pieces in a set. I think she bought them because she misses the days when I would get all excited about toys for Christmas so I thought it was pretty funny. Nonetheless a shitty gift.

1/2/2006 3:47:17 PM

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"My uncle Mike gave me a keychain last year, the kind with an LED light on it. "

I just got one similar to those (microlight photon II). It's FANTASTIC. I use that shit all the time AND it's brighter than a maglight for certain applications. Of course you would have to be gadget friendly and spend more than $10-20 on it.

[Edited on January 2, 2006 at 4:03 PM. Reason : eh]

1/2/2006 4:02:59 PM

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"this year, theyre all for a free medium or large drink, so it takes the price down to around 4 dollars. the coupons are getting worse and worse."

damn, didn't even know that. i hadn't seen the 06 calendars.

1/2/2006 4:17:15 PM

hah

the older i get the less relatives remember that i'm alive


thats my gift

1/3/2006 2:58:03 AM

My mom gave me and my husband a kickass gift: $400.

Then my dumbass husband went out and gave me a shitty gift: he got swindled out of a good chunk of it by some grifter that came into the store he works at and told him "hey man, I'm a manager at Circuit City in Durham and for $80 I'll bring a 25" flatpanel TV right down here for you to look at--and if you want it it'll only cost you $175."

Yeah, Happy Yule to you too motherfucker.

1/3/2006 5:29:23 AM