Worst Christmas/Other Holiday Presents You've Ever Gotten — Page 3

ewwww!!!

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I once received a mug with a horoscope sign on it - only it wasn't my sign.

I have a friend that every year, we agree not to exchange for financial reasons, and every year around Dec 21, she announces that she got me something. The same holds true for a mutual friend. So this third friend (a guy) and I scramble last minute to get her something. So one year, after the usual routine, we exchange gifts. The guy friend got an I Love Lucy tape (this was quite a few years ago), which he liked...he's a Lucy fan. Then he pulled me aside to show me the box. On the back it said "Your free gift with your subscripion to TV Guide".

This thread just reminded me of 4th grade. Instead of doing a grab bag, like years before, we did the Secret Santa thing. Some boy in my class, who did not like me at all, got my name. He had no intention of getting me anything, and that was discovered the day of our class party. So, the teacher called his home, informing them of this, and I guess someone got something and brought it to the school during the day.

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Marianne-- My age-old nemesis, who has had an ongoing feud with me since the age of six and who has made it her business to humiliate me publicly as much as possible, drew my name for my chorus' Secret Santa exchange. Well, I was surprised. She got me a LOVELY present-- some delicious chocolates and my favourite kind of perfume. I was so surprised at her maturity. (Of course, later that day, I heard her complaining to her friends about how she got the WORST person for her Secret Santa, but I didn't care because I was eating chocolates.)

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My mother-in-law sends us boxes of gifts every Xmas. (See post above regarding half-eaten bag of cough drops.) They're filled with lots "stuff," so much, in fact, that I let a lot of it stay in the boxes and pull out a thing here and a thing there for the kids over time. (They're "little things," tchotchkes.)

Well, I was looking in the sole box that is left over from this past Xmas and found that she had sent two "travel toothbrushes." One in pink and one in blue, no doubt to match the gender of each child. Since we are getting ready to go on a vacation, I thought I'd take the toothbrushes out and give them to the kids to pack. I figured the kids would think they were cool (they're the type where the brush comes apart in the middle and fits in the bottom half, like a case.)

As I handed them to my children, I noticed that they had both been USED!

I'm sorry, but I think a USED TOOTHBRUSH is a horrible gift! I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but come on! I mean, write a note telling someone you love them. It costs nothing but a piece of paper, some ink and your time. But don't send someone a USED TOOTHBRUSH. That's just gross!

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SNAFU, that's hilarious! Your partner sounds like he was a lot of fun! I'm really sorry that you lost him.

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I got a tube of used lipstick and a $1 scratch off lottery ticket from a family friend when I was 10. I didn't even win any money on the ticket. That was the best gift she ever gave me. A close second was an American Girl catalog with dolls and accessories circled with a note that said that these would be great things to ask my parents to buy me. She was always an interesting one to get a gift from.

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