What's the worst gift you have ever gotten?

[Hillaryin08]

This year my ex gave me a carbon monoxide detector. I gave him a fruitcake. Aint divorce love grand?

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[Sanity Claws]

1. Cuisinart

The ass hole of a boyfriend must have expected me to cook gourmet meals for him.

[Hillaryin08]

2. One year I got an ironing board

Guess he didnt like wrinkled shirts. The bitch.

[Sanity Claws]

4. Same guy?

An ironing board is really the pits. He's thinking about what you can do for him, as opposed to what kind of a gift would make you happy.

[Hillaryin08]

7. Was his name John?

He got me a crock pot the next year. Clueless.

[Sanity Claws]

12. I guess there's more than one clueless guy

My clueless ex was Tom.
I'm in my forties and date men in the same age group (that is when I find them). I feel that if a guy hasn't got a clue by this stage, he never will.

[Hillaryin08]

14. ^Mine was a psycho but he was so charming

Scorpios get me everytime.

[Archae]

3. Underwear.

From a clueless aunt, (now deceased,) back when I was under 10.

And they were 2 sizes too big also.

[Hillaryin08]

9. I once got a victorias secret panty 2 sizes too small

Guess that was a comment on my huge ass.

[gollygee]

23. I got undies with matching socks

from a great aunt when I was about 14.

They had some plaid thing going on.

No 14-year-old wants underwear for Christmas.

[Mabus]

5. 8' of formica top and two 2-drawer metal filing cabinets

all of which my then boyfriend (this was about 20 years ago) made his computer desk out of. I had got him Ultima (not sure which version) but we set up his computer on my "presents" and played the day away. He took the pieces when we split up about six years later and still has them.*

Oh yeah, I also got a lovely set of dishes from Wal-Mart from him which he also still has.*



*For the record, when we split, he could have taken everything (which he came close to doing) just as long as he would leave. I just wanted to unload him.

[Sanity Claws]

15. We may have a winner here

That is awful.
As for your feeling when you wanted to split, I felt that way about Tom. I would have paid to have him go away. When he was gone, it felt like this huge weight came off my shoulders and back. Jerks like that can really weigh you down.

[Mabus]

19. talk about a weight off my shoulders

I still refer to it as the time I lost 315 pounds of useless fat. He was about 180 lbs. when we moved in together. To his credit, he loved my cooking. Unfortunately he never seemed to want to find a job to help pay for it.

[Hillaryin08]

20. I have the habit of making guys fat too

I cook like a short order cook. I am southern and everything is fried. But it sure does taste good.

[Mabus]

22. Glad to know I'm not the only one

I can't help it. :shrug: I like to cook. :crazy:

I'm from Oklahoma where we had some southern cultural influences but I've finally realized that I don't need to pour gravy over everything. Gravy on hashbrowns was one of our favorites. I also finally realized that I didn't need to make fry bread everyday. One of my old boyfriend's favorite snacks was fry bread and syrup. His other was chicken nachos. I think these three things accounted for a lot of his weight gain.

[Mabus]

27. Actually,

I think the award goes to a friend of mine. She got an air compressor for Christmas from her ex-husband several years ago. She's a receptionist at a local business, she's the custodial parent for their daughter and her hobbies are surfing the internet and reading true crime stories. During her spare time she volunteers for several groups. Oh yeah, she lives in a two bedroom apartment on the third floor. She had absolutely no use for the air compressor and it sat in her closet for a couple of years before she sold it at a garage sale.

The only thing we can figure out is that he's trying to buy her "expensive" (over $100) presents but doesn't want to get her anything that might be construed as personal. Over the years his gifts have ranged from the aforementioned air compressor to a four poster brass bed for a non-existent pet (which she can't have because their daughter is allegeric to pets and she can't have them at her apartment).

I haven't heard what she got this year. We've had company off and on for several weeks now and I haven't been able to call her.

[Gothic Sponge]

6. A Chia Pet

[Hillaryin08]

13. I got one for my mother in law once

it was the herb garden one though. she was impossible to buy for so i didnt try.

[mcscajun]

8. A #2 ball from billiards.

to this Day I still have no idea why...or what it meant. We were in High School, but hell...he DID have a functioning brain.

[Hillaryin08]

10. Do you still have the ball?

[mcscajun]

17. Somewhere...buried in ancient memorabilia.

Haven't looked at it in 15 years...but I know it's upstairs.

[HEyHEY]

11. Hmm better make sure it works - he may be up to something

[Hillaryin08]

16. Hell I hadnt thought of that

he is pissed i got the house. maybe it was a subtle suggestion that i should worry about my homes flamability

[pansypoo53219]

18. gas

but it did get me out of a ticket. fucking lookin for a mobil and had to pee!

[Hillaryin08]

21. someone bought you gas?

or you farted? LOL

[Beaverhausen]

24. I just lost 21 pounds and 2 people got me XL shirts

HELLO!!! I'm not XL anymore...I'm not even L.

and one was my sister!!! thanks!:eyes:

[mvd]

25. A shower radio

Got practically no stations, and I can't even listen to it since I wear ear plugs in the shower!

[Catchawave]

26. I think I win.....

The year I expected an engagement ring for Christmas, I got a huge red,yellow and black stadium wool cape.

[Nevernose]

28. We traded cofee mugs

Of course, that's what we gave each other when we were married, too, so I guess it isn't all that different.

[fortyfeetunder]

29. a book that smelled like a loo

My mother in law, for some reason has it in for me...

The first thing she gave me that made me wonder about her true feelings for me was this book. This hag had the nerve to sign it, to make it personal. But as I opened the book in a warm room, the smell of her bathroom (after someone used it) permeated my space.

Subsequent Xmas presents were molded linens (not used but stored in her bathroom)...and raggedy used books from someone's trash barrel.

I mean this is shit I wouldn't even give to my worst enemy...Oh, that explains it -- maybe I am her worst enemy for taking her baby away from her!!

[cally]

30. Someone gave me a fake bird's nest for my wedding

I never quite understood why. We used it a Christmas ornament for awhile but finally gave it away.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

31. My mother and grandmother used to have pitched battles over my

hairstyle. I have naturally straight, fine hair, and my mother and grandmother had their hearts set on my having curls, which required perms, which I hated.

For my thirteenth birthday, they gave me a home permanent kit and laughed triumphantly. Literally.

[steely]

32. a juice carbonator

from my MIL

I'd actually prefer sox or underwear

[HEyHEY]

33. One year subscription to Wat Tyler magazine