And the Worst Gifts you ever received?

[rareboy]

And we all have them...whether it was socks as a kid or some kitchen gadget in our 20's.

I think of all the presents that my mother hit out of the park when my partner and I were newly together....and then the ones she hilariously missed.

What was the one from a family member or friend that made you say out loud "You Really Shouldn't Have'?

 

[Alistair]

A jazz CD that my sister gave me. It had wolves howling on it. Just because I had a wolf poster when I moved into my first apartment.

This was it

 

[NotHardUp1]

I've never liked craft fairs. They always seemed like hen houses with too much that was overpriced, pseudo-clever, bits of junk. After my worst gift, they do even more so.

A couple my age from church and I socialized a lot, mostly through church activities, but sometimes with his parents' gatherings. The wife my age was at some craft fair and saw a platter that had "primitive" drawings on a salt-glazed tan oval platter. The figures were literally drawn on the greenware with a magic marker and were crude outlines of people like maybe a 2nd grader might draw.

When they brought it to me and were proud of it, I was agog. It was so horrible, I remember posting pics of it on JUB. After a short time, I broke it into pieces so not to have to ever see it again.

 

[PalacePaul]

In my early 20's my dad gave me bottles of cologne on different occasions. Maybe he thought I could atract hot girls

 

[TickTockMan]

A light up necktie and a pride necktie. I am very forward about being picky about the things I collect. People that know me should know to ask what I am interested in.

 

[NotHardUp1]

In my early 20's my dad gave me bottles of cologne on different occasions. Maybe he thought I could atract hot girls

Don't go dissin' Hai Karate and Aqua Velva.

 

[Peloso]

I don't partake so no gifts for me.

Actually, no. My friend Bob sends me something every year. This year is was one of those glass saint candles but with John Waters on it. If you don't know who that is, kindly return your gay card on the way out.

What I hate are those thoughtless robo-sent Christmas cards from places like banks and retailers. So insincere and offensive. I usually don't mind getting them from the vet's office, because they're hand signed so you know at some point another human being was involved in sending them, but this year my card said "Wishing you and Aniki a happy season!"

Aniki died two years ago. They know that. Or they should.

 

[rareboy]

Bob sounds like a friend I would want.

Thank God our vet's office doesn't do it.

We no longer get the usual raft of stupid promo gifts and greetings from as many as we used to...most companies and clients seem to have finally wised up.

 

[gsdx]

Is this still a thing?

 

[metta]

Gifts that I gave to my best friend and I ended up with them back because he passed away. It wasn't that the gifts were bad. It is just that life is cruel sometimes.

 

[bankside]

My once-father gave me the cheapest set of Canadian Tire dishes because in a week he was kicking me out of the house. I don't miss him at all.

 

[Kahaih]

Bob sounds like a friend I would want.

Thank God our vet's office doesn't do it.

We no longer get the usual raft of stupid promo gifts and greetings from as many as we used to...most companies and clients seem to have finally wised up.

Thanks a lot,

I had nothing to bitch about until you reminded me of the desk clocks, and assorted pewter and silver trinketry spoilt with tacky engravings of corporate logos. I'd be embarrassed to send them to the scrap yard.

 

[LilBit]

Thanks a lot,

I had nothing to bitch about until you reminded me of the desk clocks, and assorted pewter and silver trinketry spoilt with tacky engravings of corporate logos. I'd be embarrassed to send them to the scrap yard.

At their first promotion, all faculty at my university are given an engraved desk clock, presented at an elaborate awards ceremony by a white-gloved assistant to the president. Mine stopped working before I even got to my seat.

 

[Vannie]

I received a bag from the neighbors kids with kinda all the stuff maybe they didn't want from several other gift sets.

There was some kind of small opened tube of aftershave balm from China. A two wick candle coffee mug from Walmart that smelled like citronella and said 99 cents. And a rather smashed marshmallow Santa.

 

[gsdx]

But it's the thought that counts, right?

Right?

 

[gaysian85]

An aunt (I think it was my paternal great aunt) gave me this set of these shaped hard board books made for toddlers and babies with Disney animated characters when I was eight. That was really really weird for me to open up. Luckily she wasn’t in the house when I opened up the gift and I didn’t need to thank her. I think I just looked at them once or twice out of curiosity about what they said and then they just sat on the bookshelf for a few years. Another terrible gift I had gotten was one of those cheap animated knockoff movies of the Nutcracker and I watched like three minutes of it before I had discovered it was just as bad as I thought it’d be. I later taped over it with some tv shows. Then there were the clothes and the socks that started my extreme hatred of those stupid ugly uncomfortable ankle socks that manufacturers are basically forcing you to buy now since the longer and more comfortable ones that go mid calf are now really hard to find if they aren’t dress socks or the ones with patterns or character images on them.