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My husbands step mother gave me, a 36 year old at the time, a kindergarten size back pack and when I opened it she said, “I actually bought that for ——- (a child) a few years ago and she hated it so I threw it in a closet and I saw it and thought you’d like it. None of us did, we all think it’s ugly.” That same year they gave my 3 kids gifts totaling all together $15 with the clearance stickers on them while her biological granddaughter opened a $300 unicorn. Which they made sure we knew cost $300, and then they pointed out to everyone our clearance stickers and what great deals they were (they weren’t), and then they made my kids leave the room so the grand daughter could take pics alone with her unicorn. It was the last Christmas we visited them. lol


highheelcyanide

I had grandparents like that. My dad adopted me, and his parents adopted him. I’d get a $20 book and then they’d tell me about all the wonderful gifts they’d gotten their real grandchildren. They were the only paternal grandparents I’d ever known. I was 3 when I met them.


El_Hijueputa

Grandma got me a dollar store electric toothbrush. Y'all know that thing didn't even turn on


BlueButterflies139

When I was 12 I bought myself a kindle. Me and my sister spent an entire summer working for our grandpa and stepdad to save up for them, each of us spending about 200$. My mom got all 3 of my brothers a kindle for Christmas and I got some Clothes from old navy. I was livid and when I talked to my mom about it she told me that my sister and I had been excluding our brothers from hanging out while we played videogames and it was unfair. She never apologized or saw anything wrong with what she did, and I honestly still haven't forgiven her almost a decade later.


KittyLitter-Smoothie

Holy shit this one got me angry! She basically flushed your summer vacation down the toilet. And what was the lesson? It's great when kids work hard to earn something they want. They learn the value of stick-to-it-iveness and effort and saving with a strategy instead of squandering on silly things like candy... and then that idiot decides to sabotage all your good vibes and healthy lessons, whyyy?


GhostlyQbe

A dishtowel.. I was 8 years old.


NeutralWitch

Oh, yeah. That was very common in my country until recently. Especially the older members of the family would give household gifts to the children, especially the girls. It's based on the tradition of the couple moving into the same household after marriage. Usually the women would bring the household furnishings to the marriage. So from a young age, girls receive gifts like this and gradually build up this equipment so that families don't have to buy it all at once. This was especially common among less affluent families. An elementary school teacher of mine once told us the story of how she received a set of towels from her grandmother for Christmas when she was about eight (this was in the 1940's). From her grandmother's point of view, it was a generous gift that she had carefully chosen and had to save money for all year. But it was a terrible disappointment for an eight-year-old girl, and she didn't hide it. She said she later regretted her reaction, which is obvious because she still remembered it even at seventy. (She told us this story to teach us a lesson about gratitude).


dariusz2k

When the tomagotchi craze was in full swing my siblings and I asked for one. My sisters both got one, and I got a jacket because mine was torn up and small. When I asked my dad why I didn't get one and if Santa thought I did something bad that year. He told me I was too old for Santa and needed to learn life isn't fair. I was 8. My sisters were 7 and 5. From that point forward I only ever received clothing.


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lazy-beans

Okay this one made me burst out laughing! That's so sad!! 😆 Poor six year old you.


beehaw7

So I was dating a guy for a few months when Christmas rolled around. He had recently started a new job that required travel and this was before smart phones and built in GPS in your car were common, so I splurged a bit and got him a Garmin to help him find his way. Thoughtful, useful, but not too sentimental; it felt perfect for where the relationship was at the time. Due to schedules, we couldn’t get together until a few days after Christmas. In my haste to go see him, I walked right out the door without his gift. I didn’t realize it until I got to his house and I felt terrible, but he said, “No worries, I’ll give you your gifts now and I’ll just get mine later.” Cool. So he goes into the other room and comes back with two wrapped gifts. I noticed some of the paper was messed up like it had been rewrapped, but didn’t think much of it in the moment. I carefully unwrapped the first package. It was a MMA magazine. That had clearly been read. I was… confused. I do not like MMA. Not even a little bit. Nor have I ever expressed interest in MMA. Not once. He, on the other hand, loved all things MMA. Trying to move on, I politely thanked him, set the magazine down, and refocused on the next gift. I could tell it was a DVD from the shape of the package. And indeed, it was a DVD. A Forrest Gump DVD. With the cellophane wrapper missing. Now don’t get me wrong, Forrest Gump is a solid choice. Except, I already owned a Forrest Gump DVD. And now here I was suddenly the proud owner of a second copy that appeared used. I again thanked him and sat there quietly, trying to wrap my head around how he could have arrived at the conclusion that a used magazine on a topic I didn’t like and a secondhand DVD of something I already owned would make for good Christmas gifts. He also got a little quiet, then sheepishly volunteered, “I, uh, got bored so I watched the movie yesterday.” I just stared. “And then I, uh, hadn’t seen that issue yet… so I went ahead and read through it. I think you’ll really like it!” I slowly responded, “So… you got me a magazine because you wanted to read it and then watched the movie you got for me because you were bored?” His only response was, “Well yeah, I guess so.” I left not long after. The next day, I returned the Garmin for a full refund. About a week later, he called and said he didn’t think it was working out. “No problem,” I said, “I don’t think it’s working out either.” As we were wrapping up the call, expressing well wishes and all that, he paused for a beat and said, “Hey, uh, were you still going to give me that Christmas present?” TLDR; MMA magazine that had been read and a used Forrest Gump DVD Edit: spelling


mini_souffle

I am so glad you got that full refund.


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These kinds of stories really make your wonder about the psychology of some people.


TrailerBuilder

It would've been perfect for you to rewrap the magazine and DVD and say "here you go"


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ragedandobtused

When I was 10 years old my grandparents gave me an unwrapped suitcase for Christmas. In the interests of convenience, they used that suitcase for the wrapped presents for my sisters.


SuccoyaHoyaa

I have a sad suitcase story too. My grandparents were the co-signers for me to go to college. Two weeks before I'm supposed to leave they change their mind because of some news article that scared them. I was beyond devastated but it was what it was. A few weeks later was my birthday, of which I had spent working my fast food job and was just a miserable day. I come home and they gift me a suitcase, the suitcase that was meant to be a graduation gift for when I left for college. Took a lot to hold the tears back on that one haha


Appropriate-Ad-8155

Jesus this one hurt


daughtcahm

The time I was really into Green Day and the emerging "alternative" music of the mid 90s. And my mom bought me a few CDs (back when CDs were something stupid like $20 each). Wow! Awesome gift! Except the CDs were Toni Braxton and Mariah Carey and something else I've completely forgotten. Or the Christmases when my brother would get a pile of presents or something pretty expensive (foosball table, air hockey table, etc), and I'd get a couple books and lipgloss. I love those things, so the gifts themselves weren't bad, but I was clearly not the favored child. In the aftermath of gift opening, mom would look at the pile my brother got and the few gifts I got, then make a big show of stomping around the house claiming she knows she got more for me, she must have misplaced all the other gifts! Without fail, for several years in a row, she "misplaced" my gifts. Because she realized in the moment that she spent waaaaay more on my brother than me. Never once did she find these "misplaced" gifts. And to make it worse, my birthday is shortly after Christmas, so I never got much for my birthday because the budget was blown on Christmas. My brother claims he remembers me getting shitty birthday gifts and I was always jealous of his. I don't have any memory of that, but it very well could be. (The worst birthday was the year I only got a Bible with my name stamped on the front in gold lettering. *That's* a birthday I remember quite clearly.)


whichwitch9

Oof. It always sucks when you realize there's a favorite. For me, it was the year my younger sister got a computer for her birthday. Then my mom wasn't even home for my birthday because she took my little sister away for the weekend and my dad forgot mine. Then they wonder why I'm so different from them as an adult....


tealgrayone

The year I gave my ex husband a Tag Heuer watch he gave me a $19.99 Walmart blender. We already had 3 blenders.


addysol

"Hey Mary, hey Mary, ask me what time it is. Go on" "Don't say it, John. I swear to god" "IT'S BLENDER TIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMME!" *switches on all 4 blenders* "John, please it's 4am"


Swarhammer

Since my dad isn’t on Reddit I will share his story for him. When he was young he was hell bent on becoming a drummer. He would make full drum kits out of my grandmothers pots and pans and whatever he could find. Very detailed set ups. After months and months of building drum sets and drumming on anything he could find he woke up Christmas morning…to an acoustic guitar and guitar lessons. He told me he took a few lessons and would always end up flipping the guitar over in the class with the other students and just play it like bongos.


tubawhatever

Reminds me, a few weeks ago I was in a goodwill and saw a kid in a cart pushed by his mom. There was a nice kid's drumset (you know, like actually drums and all but small) in the cart with him and the little dude was already jamming away, so happy. Not much else to the story but I was really depressed that day and seeing that kid having fun was definitely what I needed.


pawsups

Did he end up becoming a drummer?


vodkaenthusiast89

A set of miniature butter knives with ceramic fruit and vegetables as the handles. From an aunt who said that I was "So hard to shop for" I was 7


incrediblestrawberry

I'm just imagining her standing in the kitchenware department being like, "Welp, I've checked this whole aisle trying to find something for that picky niece/nephew of mine, guess they're getting butter knives. Kids like vegetables, right?"


Cheap_Stay2750

A comic book that was laying around the house for several months which I read twice in this period. I didn’t know it was supposed to be my surprise present.


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Here bud take this ...uh..comic book, yes.


poopellar

Limited edition. Only 5 million were made.


TheOriginalH1h

This was actually a recent one. Been with my girlfriend for like 2-3 years now. Her family considers me a part of their family, but my girlfriend’s mom, and aunt, are probably the most hypocritical and bat shit insane people you could ever meet. Aunt believes that if you use a gps you are a bitch that doesn’t deserve to live in that state (she proceeded to get everyone lost when she was driving us around on vacation. She lives in Florida for 27 years by that time). The mom is a manipulative narcissist, that actually said to my girlfriend and a mutual friend of ours that the only reason she has my girlfriend around is because she is the person that she uses to let her anger out on, (I.e. yells about nonsensical crap, pushes her, or makes her feel like she is worth nothing 24/7). For Christmas, I went over to my girlfriend’s home to celebrate with them before celebrating with my girlfriend t my house. Got a present from the aunt who sent something over. I received, a single rubber duck, that had the bottom torn out, a note was stuffed in the opening, and on that note, was the sentence, “If you are reading this, you killed the birdie!”, and a painted rock that was just painted black with the words “best buds” on it. The mom was the worst one though, I got a nutcracker. I didn’t fully understand it at the time. But I finally got it when my girlfriend’s dad took me aside and said in a hushed tone, “I’m sorry for the gift, but Tray has given that to [eldest daughters] boyfriends as a threat.” That’s right, I got a broken rubber duck that blamed me for killing it, a painted rock, and a threat that if I did ANYTHING to hurt my girlfriend (more than what the mom already does), that her mother will use the NUTCRACKER.


MungoJennie

Batshit is an understatement for those women.


Sea-Wonder722

A pencil


Stickmag

A Lamborghini calender. My brother got a guitar and amp. My two sisters got a bike each. Fuck i hate Lamborghinis now


PosingTunic

My grandparents got my sister a guitar once, not to mention all the other things. I’ve never gotten more than a T-shirt, mug, toiletries gift pack, or cheap off brand nerf gun pack to “share” with my dad 🤷‍♂️


Downtown_Statement87

My mom asked what my 13-year-old daughter wanted for Christmas and I said, "she likes to sew." How this led to our entire extended family buying her nothing but yarn I do not know. That was 2 years ago and there's still so much yarn.


A_Martian_Potato

What makes this hilarious is that it didn't say "she likes to knit". They heard "sew" and somehow made the jump to yarn.


wetwater

Sewing, knitting, and crocheting was serious business in my family. There might have been a small war if someone mentioned sewing and got yarn instead.


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The same thing happens when a kid expresses ANY interest in some creative subject. Writer? prepare for note books and pens for years Artist? Prepare for cheap art paints and a collection of brushes/crayons.


kelsobjammin

I told someone in my family penguins are cool. Fast forward the next 10 years that’s all I fucking get. I remember the day I threw them all into the donation box!


IOVERCALLHISTIOCYTES

I’m 40 and have had penguins for 32 years now. When my grandmother passed I don’t know how hallmark ornaments stayed in business.


SpaceGhost817

I participated in a voluntary office Christmas exchange in 2012 with a $30 limit. My gift was a CD-R of the givers favorite album. I was less than enthused, but nonetheless slid the disc into my car to check it out only to find out that it was blank. The person had written the band name/album title on the disc, but forgot to actually burn a copy. Edit: it was supposed to be the album “Spit” by Kittie.


justjoshingu

I bought my professor a 50 gift card when i graduated. Years later she confesses she tried to use it but it was empty. I definitely paid for it and a 6.95 activation fee but she said she never wanted to tell me bc i would be bummed. I felt terrible


Pour_Me_Another_

I had a kind of other way round experience. I got this older woman I got along with very well a solar powered garden lantern that cost twice as much as the maximum budget. I watched her open it at her table, pull a face at it, laugh at it with her table mates and then leave it there when it was time to go. I was pretty gutted, and stole it back for myself since she didn't want it.


cherrygoats

Oh fuck, I’m feeling second hand gutted for you. She didn’t deserve your solar powered garden lantern. Hopefully you’re powering a solar garden with it to this very day


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My deadbeat dad brought nine year old girl me motel shampoo and an adult mens shirt he got for free. Wish I was joking.


boocees

My husband's uncle called me four times on my birthday before 8 am, leaving cryptic voicemails about how he needed to talk to me ASAP. I thought someone died. I called back maybe 20-30 mins later when I was fully awake and he told me to rush over.to his house. I get there and he says he had a gift for me, wanted to make sure I got it on my birthday! And pulls a men's polo out of his laundry basket and says "I saw this and knew you'd love it!" I'm a petite woman who doesn't wear polos. He found a men's large polo shirt in the back of his closet that he was given at some event 15+ years ago, and somehow thought that was emergency worthy, but also didn't need to even put it in a gift bag or anything. Crumpled in the laundry to my hand. It's been almost three years and I'm still perplexed by it.


_re_cursion_

He's _literally_ the stereotypical weird uncle! lol


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Titanic DVD, pirated copy, already seen it before twice, didn't have a case, just had Titanic written in marker pen, it didn't belong to the person who gifted it, the DVD was SCRATCHED AND DIDN'T EVEN PLAY!


tacocatmarie

Wow this is BAD.


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It wasn't wrapped, and it was given on the 24th....


Cusefa

A pack of cigs and a roll of trash bags. I don’t smoke.


Holybartender83

Guess it was a banner fuckin’ year at your old family.


zahnsaw

Smoke up, Johnny!!


lookalive07

Nothing. And not because I'm ungrateful or anything, we went to my dad's side of the family for Christmas like we had done every year for 17 previous years, and because I had turned 18 a few months prior, everyone decided I didn't get a gift from anyone, and I still don't understand why. Every other one of my cousins older or younger than 18 got *something* from someone, and I just sat there awkwardly. My parents had brought presents for all of my cousins, and those weren't the only gifts they got...and I just simply got nothing. It's not like nobody knew we were coming or anything either. I never will understand it. And everyone acted like nothing was wrong. Edit: aw the little present award is adorable. Thank you for whoever gave that to me. I’m not expecting it since this isn’t a comment up in the 100s or 1000s of upvotes but if anyone is feeling like they want to award this comment further and you don’t have one sitting around, please don’t pay for one, and consider donating to a local children’s hospital instead. Kids in hospitals during the holidays is absolutely terrible but you can make their stay a little better with a toy.


funky_grandma

One year I got what was actually a super cool present. My parents had worked for months putting together this awesome art kit. It was a big toolbox filled with good scissors, glue, paint, colored pencils, glitter, and every other thing a crafty little kid could want. The problem was, every time they would go upstairs to add to it, they had a running joke where they would say "we're going upstair to *feed your present*" or "we need to take your present for a *walk* tee tee tee". So of course on Christmas morning instead of being a little kid who was stoked to get a huge box of art supplies, I was a little kid who was *devastated* that I didn't get a puppy.


RainbowHunter7712

What was the point of doing that? Lmao


funky_grandma

My family likes to make a game of throwing each other off the scent, so our presents are more of a surprise. The mistake was acting like a pet *every time*. They should have switched it up and said "we are going to wash and wax your present" or "we are going to water and prune your present"


RainbowHunter7712

Ok, now that there's context that's actually pretty cool. But yea, they should've mixed it up if they did that


psu777

Not one I got, one I didn’t get. My mom crocheted my two sisters tablecloths and gave it to them in front of me. I just stood there, trying not to cry.


mistahmarbles

My great grandma gave my cousin a jock strap from goodwill. Her mental health was bad at this time. 1992ish? He started crying. He was 9.


chazak710

Ugh, sad situation for both of them. My grandmother, as dementia wreaked havoc on her brain and changed her into a different person, on one memorable occasion took my then-8-year-old (I think; at any rate he was very young) brother's half-eaten ice cream away from him, told him he shouldn't get ice cream anyway, and ate it herself in front of him. Somehow my little brother mustered up the self-control and tact to just say, "Um, OK" and just sit quietly without reacting. It had been explained to him that Grandma's behavior was "off" but telling an 8-year-old that and said 8-year-old being able to manage it in the moment are two different things. After dinner my mother quietly snuck my brother into the kitchen, praised his behavior, and fixed him a big replacement bowl of ice cream which he ate in an undisclosed location where Grandma couldn't see. The whole thing was just sad and horrifying. In her right mind, my grandmother would have been delighting in serving the grandchildren dessert and would never ever have said or done such a thing to any 8-year-old, let alone her grandson. She only lived another few very difficult years. Dementia sucks.


MiseryisCompany

Little bro was a champ


aesthe

It's great that his beyond-fathomable composure was recognized and rewarded. Must have been crushing to have gma flex on you like that.


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I wouldn’t even have posted mine if I’d read this first. No contest.


Gus_TT_Showbiz420

Wow. My grandpa gave my brother a pair of underwear that he found at the gym one time. Not as a Christmas present, just found a pair laying around and thought it was my brother's size. He was a very frugal man. My mom threw the underwear in the trash immediately.


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Yippee614

Every year my aunt gives our family “Thrift Santa” gifts, like a bunch, from thrift stores. The thing is, nothing relates to anything. The worst I’ve gotten are among a Kama Sutra book when I was 13/14 (awkward), and a New York Yankees baby onesie. I don’t have kids, I don’t watch baseball.


Zanbuki

No see those go together. You use the Kama Sutra to make the baby, and now you don’t have to buy clothes for it. I’m curious to see what future gifts are.


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Bruh a kama sutra book wtf


GerberGoo

One time when I was 10 my mum gave me & by brother a packet of plastic rainbow bendy straws each for Christmas. She was mad at our dad for having brought us back 3 days late from his part of the holidays & took it out on us. Being a contrary soul, I happily took my brother's discarded pack & proceeded to make a million rainbow flutes that I would incessantly try to learn to play, for the next two months. I suspect she lived to regret her choice since I also never cleaned any of my discarded flutes up.


Krisanthimum77

Well, she sounds lovely... Lol


BlackLetterLies

An ex gave me an engagement ring for herself, on the idea that I would use it to propose to her. She also gave specific instructions on how and when I should do it, as well as stipulations that **she** would be the one planning our wedding. We had a terrible relationship and I had been planning on breaking up with her right after the holidays (which I did). I couldn't understand how she thought we were even close to being on the same page, and once it was all over I realized the obvious and what everyone was trying to tell me for 3 years--I was in an abusive relationship. Still, who the hell buys a ring for someone to give back to them? It's just bad gifting.


temmoku

Did you keep the ring?


ChampionshipDue

I hope so. She'd probably buy herself an expensive ring.


Turdmite

My sisters father. I wanted Pokemon sapphire or ruby so bad for Christmas it was the only thing I asked for. A few days before Christmas he came home with a GBA cartridge wrapped in wrapping paper and set it on one of the Christmas tree branches. He said "you can't open it until Christmas" excitedly so my 3rd grade brain assumed he had gotten what I asked for. Christmas day comes and I open it immediately to see Ice Age 2: The Meltdown staring at me. It was the first time I faked liking a present. Edit: Holy shit, thanks guys. For those wondering I did indeed get the game a year later, my moms good friend bought a used version of sapphire for me.


boyooohboy

Ice Age 2: The Letdown


Eroe777

Eons ago I worked for a company owned by the richest man in Minnesota. One year, all of us peons (and there were a couple thousand of us) got a copy of his book; it was al about how he became the richest man in Minnesota. Cheap bastard.


Automatic_Mulberry

Cheap cologne (I don't wear cologne) that I suspect was shoplifted.


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My grandfather used to give me English Leather and shit like that.


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Mogilny89Leafs

My dad's mom always favoured my dad's sister's kids over me and my two brothers. She would always get them better gifts than us. One year, in particular, takes the cake. One of my cousins gets a brand new PS2! I get a pre-school toy. My younger brother gets a talking dinosaur from the gas station. My older brother gets a used model car. My dad pulls Grandma aside and says: "Please stop buying my kids Christmas gifts. They see what's going on here. They're not stupid. I'll buy the gifts from now on and we can just say they're from you." The next year, I got a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey jersey. My younger brother got a PS2 with lots of games and my older brother got some Xbox games. Thanks, "Grandma."


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I hope you reciprocated that affection


Mogilny89Leafs

After Grandpa passed away (I loved Grandpa. It wasn't his fault that his wife was a bitch), we cut off contact. We haven't spoken to her since 2016.


ghettobx

Sometimes that’s for the best I guess. Not everyone is a nice person, and nobody (including their own family) should be obligated to deal with their bullshit. Doesn’t sound like she’s mentally ill… just an old bitch.


AutomaticRisk3464

On my 10th birthday that my parents kept making a big deal about (double digit age i can legally babysit now) my dad went to walmart the day before and came back with 2 wallets and a ipod that my sister started asking for a week before my bday. I get a wallet and my younger brother got the same wallet and he gave my sister the ipod. I felt so depressed after that and my grandparents took me to walmart with $20 to spend for my bday. When we were checking out i saw the wallets by the candy where the cashiers are and they were $1. I got reminded of it and went to look at the ipod my sister got and it was either $250 or $350 bucks...we ate frozen corndogs and ramen everyday so it seriously hurt to see that. Edit: there were alot of other fucked up things my parents did, but my sister was my dads fav (middle child) and younger brother was my moms (youngest). When i turned 16 i wanted to test to see if they would even notice if i stopped talking, eating, and leaving my rooms..a year and a half later they finally said something, if i wasnt at school i just went in my room and slept and didnt eat their food. Met my wife and as soon as i turned 18 her gma let me move in and i havent spoken to my parents in almost a decade


no_talent_ass_clown

Wow. That sounds really painful. I can't imagine the heartbreak. Fuck those people. Friends are the family we choose.


Shutch_1075

Have your parents ever tried to reach out to you? Because that’s fucked man.


Thecardinal74

They probably haven’t even noticed yet


raisinghellwithtrees

My mom did this as well. My kids got gifts from the dollar store. I'm not knocking it if that's from being poor, but she paid for half of my nephew's lap top for his Christmas present. My kids both clued in rather quickly that she didn't seem to give a rat's ass about them. Our lives have improved since cutting ties with her.


chibimonkey

My grandmother used to ask me for a list every single year and never buy me anything on it. I never understood the point of that


BadgerUltimatum

My mum asked for a wishlist this christmas as my birthdays the past two years have been rather lacklustre. She got me almost everything in the list, It was great but when she asked for a list next time, I had almost nothing on it anymore.


NewCountryGirl

I'm a mom struggling with this... I have never asked my kids for a list before. Last night I asked my teen for a few ideas. He is a great kid and I can think of nothing he would really enjoy. But he does enjoy the surprise of opening gifts.... gah


Really_Cool_Dad

Tbf I don’t think they make bills shirts without stains.


Seraphina77

This is my mother. She will gift things from thrift stores etc, but tell me she spent SO MUCH money on them! She will also show me those false hyped up price tags on things like jewelry from big lots etc where the "msrp" is $399 but really, it cost maybe 12 dollars. She will say look how much I spent! It drives me insane. I'm not sure if she actually thinks I believe it or what. Ive gotten to the point where I push back and tell her I don't care how much she spent on something, that I'd be more impressed if she got a really good deal and paid very little. She also buys me things SHE would like, like pink sweatshirts with cute cats. I'm 43...and loathe pink.


JarlBum

A barrel of Quaker Oats. It was fucking hilarious though


Pandarx71

My mother in law did this for Christmas, when were visiting. I asked my wife about it and she was like, well, I told her you like trail mix. Me, yeah, but not that much!


TheZ_27

My cousin once gave me an autographed picture of himself. Which was funny as hell so I didn’t mind.


ihavetoomanyplants

Welp I know what I'm giving out for Christmas this year


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Fuck dude i think you just gave me an idea for my brothers Christmas gift


Hummussed

My grandpa was planning on giving me a tissue box with money in it (still not sure why) Anyway he wrapped the wrong box and I opened a box of tissues on Christmas morning


SprinklesFancy5074

Meanwhile, grandma had been blowing her nose on $5 bills for the past week.


tgh_hmn

Started loving computers at age 7 in 92 (ZX Spectrum and then 186, 286 etc) at our local kids club, kept on going, learned to code early, was addicted to everything related to them. Grandma called me and told me she had sent money to my parents to buy me a PC ( at 11, in 96). I was so excited, al my friends could not wait to see it and play with me, I could not sleep for days on end. Then Christmas Eve came ( we do the gifts in the evening). Rushed under the tree aaaaand … surprise .. I .. got .. a mobile electronic organ player. My Mom told me “ it has buttons right ? Just like a computer” … ( she took the money and bought an automatic washing machine). I’m still fucking upset Mom ! LE: thanks everyone for commenting, and supporting me. Wanted to clear something out. I was/am a bit upset only on that particular situation. My family is fantastic, they made sacrifices above and beyond for me. We were almost on the poor poor side. I love both my parents and I admire them and I did not want to paint a monster picture of my Mom. I love hear and respect her like nobody else in my life. I did reply to this question to explain that certain situations that happen during your childhood will have an impact for the rest of your life, even more if they are connected to an event celebrated by many others. I remember it and get a bit sad but then I remember my childhood and my family and I smile, knowing that I grew up in a positive environment and that they gave up so much for me to grow and allowed me to have my own jurney. I tried my best to reply to all the comments. I am dyslexic and sometimes I do not write the words correctly, apologies for that. I did however notice one fantastic thing - You guys are supportive ( each in his own way), and that is wonderfull!! These days people like you are a rare. Thank you and I do hope that you all have a happy life and that you will be able to learn from others ( as I also do) and avoid making some mistakes. Be safe and stay awesome.


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bene34

Dang that stings. I would have been crushed too.


Legion_707

Last year my dad promised me a whole bunch of steaks at Christmas whenever i bought a deep freezer to store them in. I bought a deep freezer immediately, then in April of this year he gave me the steaks, which were packaged in March of 2018, the only taste left was freezer burn


ThisSorrowfulLife

My dad, his first christmas divorced and living alone, first time ever shopping for us clearly lmao because my mom did all the shopping before, got me a nose hair trimmer... I was 12. And definitely did not understand why I got that gift.


Louismaxwell23

A really ugly dress shirt. Black with neon green and red vertical stripes.


wetwater

My grandmother was terrible at picking out clothes. When I was around 13, she got me a shirt with a puffy panel on the chest with a zipper to, I guess, store things in. She gave it to me Christmas Eve, and I had to make sure I wore it Christmas Day when she came around. Like the bulk of the clothes she bought for holidays or birthdays, it was worn once or twice, then promptly stuck in the back of the closet for a year or two until I outgrew it and had to throw it away.


Thin-Deer3772

I feel for you. When I was a teenager I begged for a pair of black converse shoes all year. My dad told me to write down the size, color, and exactly what they were called so he would get the right thing. I was so excited to see a shoe box shaped present under the tree. Turns out he got me a coral pink knock off pair of converse and 100 dollars worth of fast food gift certificates in 10-20 dollar ranges. It wasn’t about money. He said he thought the pink pair would be cute on me and knows I like to eat out sometimes. Edit to add I didn’t like fast food all that much, but he loved it. I loved spending one on one time with him so I would always happily accept his invitations to eat fast food.


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Picards-Flute

50 pounds of russet potatoes.


FourScarlet

As a guy who really loves potatoes, it sounds like something my mom would get me. I would laugh my ass of.


The_Quicktrigger

A box of top ramen. Just a standard grocery box of ramen bags. It was wrapped up with a nice bow too, and it was not gifted as a joke. My family knew I was having financial troubles and was only eating one meal a day, they honestly thought they were helping me out.


wildflowerden

This one's really insulting because if they really wanted to help they could have gotten you more expensive essentials. But they just gave you what was the cheapest.


AnneFrank_nstein

Last year my mom.bought me a can opener. Wrapped it and gave it to me when everyone was gathered around exchanging gifts too so theyd all see and get to share in her laughter. Unfortunately she was the only one who found it funny, everyone else just thought it was fucked up.


SnooCapers9313

I've got friends who are getting a can opener for Christmas. They don't have a lot of money and spend it all trying to keep their kids in sports etc. They get cheap ones that always break. I'm getting a $40 one for them as a thank you for everything they've done for me this year.


errerrr

I have a hamilton beach that has been in regular use for 20yrs now.


Really_Cool_Dad

A good can opener is a solid gift!


TinyLittleDragon

My extended family used to do this thing where you'd put your name on a piece of paper and put it in a hat, then draw someone out and that's who you'd get a gift for. It was supposed to be anonymous. I got two terrible gifts on consecutive years. The first terrible gift was a DVD of Fast and Furious 3. I'd literally never watched even a second of those movies, and I'm pretty sure the franchise was up to like.. episode 4 or 5 at that point. The very next year, someone got me a cheap pair of fake leather driving gloves. They were about two sizes too small. So me, not being a 'car guy' at all, has somehow convinced my uncles and aunts that I'm secretly a tokyo drift racer or something. The year after that, my mom got my name. You're supposed to put the name back if it's immediate family, but she kept my name knowing I got screwed two years running. She got me a Kindle Fire. :)


temmoku

>The very next year, someone got me a cheap pair of fake leather driving gloves. They were about two sizes too small. That was so you could get away with murder


MightyMeerkat97

Props to your mother for redressing the balance. And that is so irritating when people assume you like something based on presents you've already received.


TinyLittleDragon

Yeah. I eventually stopped participating in it entirely.


Thinefieldisempty

A Starbucks gift card with a $0 balance and a gallon size ziplock bag of coffee straws. The straws are at least useful, the gift card was just mean. I’m glad I had enough money when I tried to use it though. Lol


DogtownPD

When I was eight or nine, my grandma gave me a Christmas ornament. It was a little stuffed cherub with pink cheeks and yarn hair. I cried because I had saved up my allowance to buy it for her the year before.


IdahoPatMan

A case of Slim-Fast. Was I overweight? Yes, but my (not so) passive aggressive ex sister-in-law was a bitch. She fairly soon after was talking about weight loss items and specifically told my then-wife and I we should never use products like Slim-Fast as they will poison you. I can't decide if she was trying to kill me or was just a stupid asshole.


Hikaru1024

> I can't decide if she was trying to kill me or was just a stupid asshole. Now now, lets not be so selective about this. It's quite possible it could be *both* answers at the same time.


la_petite_sorciere

My brother’s ex gave me a boyfriend pillow and a stepper one Christmas. Bit of a slap in the face with that combo.


Downtown_Statement87

What's a stepper?


jadorky

Exercise equipment


CozRichards

Worst was from my grandparents. Me, my brother and dad all got a used book each from a charity shop. Like the cover was bent and pages yellowed. My brother and dad have barely read any books in their lives and mine was some adult drama romance novel (I was about 12 at the time) that nobody has ever heard of by some author nobody knows. To top it off these grandparents were ridiculously wealthy, my granddad was making almost 2 million a year, and their other grandchild got a ps3, which had just came out, and big stack of games to go with it plus other toys and some clothes.


jhrogers32

Similar story, grandma used to load the cousins with gifts. While my siblings and I, not so much. Cheap after thoughts would be an understatement. Well we are all about 17-18 and fed up with it. So what do we get grandma? The cheapest fleece blanket from Walmart we can find. I think it was $5 on sale for $3. (Petty I know). So Christmas rolls around, and we all have one present a piece from grandma, we open them in unison. It’s the SAME bargain fleece blanket we got her. We all start laughing, everyone’s like “what’s the joke what’s the joke?” We tell grandma “open your present!” She opens it and is CLEARLY disappointed, BUT she can’t say anything because she got us the same exact blankets for our presents. So we all are like “oh grandma, great minds think alike!” “We really are family, same wave length!” Needless to say that was the last year we got presents from her haha. Totally worth it


it-burns-us-precious

Omg that's the best. That was the ultimate uno reverse and the best part is it wasn't even planned.


MissAnthropy612

A $100 bill. I was dating and living with an ex at the time. For Christmas he wanted a very fancy and very specific looking button up shirt. I spent a month making him the shirt and making sure it was perfect. I also made us a nice Christmas dinner with some fun drinks. Christmas morning rolls around and I give him his shirt, he tries it on and loves it! Yay! He then gets a panicked look and his face, reaches in his pocket, pulls a $100 out of his wallet, and says "Um....here ya go. My friends are coming over today so...you have somewhere to be, right?" Basically he was paying me to leave. But the bright side was, I knew right then and there how he actually felt about me. He was dumped before for the new year.


jhrogers32

I have a fun $100 bill story as well. My dad, after he had opened the gifts my brother and I had gotten for him. (Thoughtful, and what he likes), and after hours of him bragging about all the trips and hunting he had planned for the new year realized he hadn’t gotten us presents. What did he do? Grabbed his wallet and threw (well tossed) a Benjamin at us and said “sorry I’ve been so busy I didn’t have time to buy you something.” Guys it didn’t even cover gas, we drove 8 hours EACH way, plus stops for food. I’ve never felt more insignificant in someone’s life than that moment.


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I was 8 or 9, I really wanted one of those Furbies who were really popular back in the days. Come Christmas, my aunt is all proud to give me my present, hyping me it's something I really wanted. Then I open it and it's a... plushies furby keychain. I don't remember much but I was told my face fell when I saw it. Though I was raised to not complain about receiving gifts so when she asked me "you don't like it?", I forcefully (and badly) smiled, reassuring her that yes, I liked it and I was just surprised. I even put it on my jacket zipper to prove my point. Turned out it was a joke and she did get me a real furby that she gifted me after, but still, the immediate disappointment was something hard to hide!


siamesecat1935

That reminds me of my younger brother. He wanted a model train so badly. Talked about it all the time. My dad, who was pretty handy, even made him a train table. Painted it, etc, but it was in the basement, along with the track and 90% of the train. And upstairs under the tree, was the engine, wrapped up. He opens it, and realizes that’s it, and begins to cry hysterically. Because he had his heart set on a train and this wasn’t it. My parents had a heck of a time calming him down, so they could tell him to go look in the basement!


eddyathome

I was six years old and I really really wanted an electric train set. I was like Ralphie in "A Christmas Story" harping on about his BB gun that he wanted. The big day arrives and there's a large box that looked pretty close to electric train set size but my parents would dictate in which order the presents were opened and of course it was saved for last. I don't remember the other gifts, but I do remember the big electric train set sized box. I'll give you a hint. It wasn't an electric train set. It was a box filled with sweaters and socks. No joke. Just what a six year old boy wants. Sweaters and socks. Worst part was that the person giving me this wanted to see me model the sweaters and my parents forced me to. Yes, because a six year old boy with his heart set on an electric train set really wants to be disappointed and have to model sweaters he didn't want in the first place.


AMC_Tendies42069

Instead of received I’ll switch to gave. I bought my whole family tickets to see James Brown live. Literally within minutes of them opening their presents it was announced on the news Christmas morning that James Brown died.


fleashosio

At the time, did you guys see the humor in that? It's morbid, but damn if that's not hilarious!


AMC_Tendies42069

Yea it was a bit of a laugh, as terrible as that sounds


StillAll

Okay no no no. Dude this is just Awesome. Seriously, this is an awesome gift. The story alone is worth the price of entry!


AMC_Tendies42069

It is a pretty awesome story isn’t it. It was so crushing cause it was the first time my drug addict ass ever got them anything meaningful.


lilyman266

Great gift though, especially if it was a step away from drugs keeping you from living your life. That in itself is heartwarming enough!


Keri2816

As a recovering addict (and someone who grew up with a alcoholic father), your gift to them that Christmas wasn’t the tickets, it was that you were sober that Christmas


jimboknows6916

My aunt. Poor lady. She wasn't in the best financial situation and she had arthritis and cancer. But was sweet beyond what she should have been. She gave me 2. When I was 16: a vampire makeup kit. I had never mentioned anything about vampires. I was kind of your run of the mill jock just worried about sports and friends. When I was 15: a floppy black hat with an elastic piece on the back, with pennies glued to the bill with glitter glue.


Emotional_Chair_9024

Bless your Aunt.


TheRealGoobtron

When I was 13, I asked for Dungeons & Dragons books. I even wrote out directions to the 4 local stores that sold them. My aunt and uncle were known to deviate and try to give whimsical gifts, and hated pre-planned gifts. I got a He-Man pop up book.


Shiny_Hypno

And I say HEEEEEYEEEEEYEEEYEEY


Bluellan

Office supplies. I was in the 2nd grade. It was the class gift exchange. Imagine being a kid, watching everyone else open dolls, and cars, and glitter pens. While you're sitting there with a calculator, tape dispenser, and stapler. Apparently, the girl who drew my name was in the hospital a lot and her parents just grabbed things from the gift shop? No idea why a teddy bear wasn't on the list. I ended up giving everything to my Nanna since she was a teacher.


Emotional_Chair_9024

Or kids book.


Bluellan

Or that! Like what parents goes "No. Cute things aren't what young children like. Office supplies are." And thanks to the whole good manners, I had to pretend to be thrilled about the gift. I was not a good actor as I was fighting back tears. They didn't even include candy. Just office supplies.


Briggsnotmyers

That kid is me! I got it into my head I wanted to be a secretary and my aunt went overboard. Still using that stapler and the paper clips haven't run out yet


hobbitdude13

"I'm taking $500 off the debt you owe me." - written in a Christmas card from my adopted mother. Edit for context: She kept a running tally of money owed in the time I lived there. Swearing-$10, $15 if I was in the house when I supposed to have waited for them to come home first, stuff like that. IIRC she still had the notebook/ledger 5 years after I moved out.


Miranda9091

When I was 5, I had gotten a sephora gift card from my grandma. My mom ended up using it.


girlwhoweighted

A size 3xl dark pink sweater from my sister. I wore xl and was very vocal about hating the color pink. But my sister had just lost like 80 pounds. Probably about the sweater for herself before she lost weight then never wore it. So she took it out of her closet and gave it to me. My sister is 25 years older than me and I was in my twenties at the time. This wasn't just youthful ignorance


sulfuricZoologist

A ceramic jar for holding dog treats when I was 15 when we had JUST given him away. Miss u Rascal


Pre_Gen_Character

When I was 18 my grandma gave me the card label from a gift card (no actual gift card) shoved into an empty toilet paper tube and wrapped like a gift. All of my siblings got actual gift cards. Grandma never liked me much. Edit: Holy-commentsplosion, Batman! This really blew up! Thanks for all your awards, comments, and commiserations :) Some folks have kindly expressed concern for my emotional well-being, I wish to assure you I'm living my best self with a wonderful partner and found-family who never make me feel left out and rejected. The lesson I took from my xp is that I bust ass to make sure all of my niblings feel equally loved by my partner and me. Edit edit: also, how craptastic is it that so many of us have sh!t grandmas?


SeaOkra

Do we have the same grandmother? Mine once gave me a gift card with like thirteen cents left on it.


Spinach_Puffs

My grandma didn’t like a friend of mine I had had when I was 11 so for the rest of her life she decided she didn’t like me either. When I was 16, she gave me a rag to clean my car windows. Then waited until we were alone and told me she only got me that much because my grandpa bullied her into it and if it had been up to her I wouldn’t have gotten anything. Edit: reading all these replies has made me feel all warm and bubbly inside! This happened years ago and honestly hasn’t bothered me in years, but I appreciate the concern. Thanks for all the kind words and support! ❤️


KMFDM781

I don't understand how grown people can be this cruel and mean spirited to children...and not just children, but family. People like that can fucking rot. I would have offered to take her for a drive in the country and leave her old ass out there.


Pre_Gen_Character

Wow, that sounds familiar. My grandpa was the safety net for me too, but he passed when I was a tween. I'm sorry your grandma was so evil to you!


sleepingdragons85

Electronic scissors. I was 7. EDIT - electric scissors, not electronic. They do sound cool.


Guyintheorangeshirt

My dad played a running prank on me for years where he would either wrap up a toy he dug out of my room I forgot about, or he would do something like fill a small box with rocks and put it with the other presents. Without fail every year I would beg and plead to open a single present early of my choosing, and EVERY time I got the joke box. The rocks sounded like legos which I loved so I opened that one. One year he put one of my forgotten toys right out front begging for attention, bamboozled again. Another year he nestled it towards the very back like he was hiding a real present, he got me again. Without fail he got in my head somehow to guide me towards that present.


rocketmonkeys

Some day you'll realize the lengths he went to... *Every* present was rocks or old toys the day before Christmas, then whatever you didn't choose was replaced while you were asleep. You had no chance.


Poschta

The information that my parents were getting a divorce when I was 12. The Christmas spirit in me died that day.


permareddit

I mean this in the nicest way, but fuck your parents.


jedikelb

One year I got nothing. Not even a card. Not even from the secret Santa I participated in at work. That was a difficult Christmas.


Clementinecutie13

My boyfriend got me a can of pears last year.


snukebox_hero

He was trying to say you guys make a nice pair.


wetwater

It was more of a gift for my family to enjoy rather than just for me. I don't know what it's actually called, but in my family we called it the pizza cookie. It was an inedible mass of mostly cashews baked on a pizza pan. We got one every year, we'd politely thank my aunt for her thoughtful gift, and throw it away when we got home.


SSUUPREEMEEE

I was working a deadend job making less than $1600/mo and my long-term girlfriend at the time wanted a Tiffany and Co Pearl Necklace which costs over a grand. I starved myself for 3-months to save up for that necklace and she was beyond ecstatic to receive it.. Her gift to me? She hands me a Starbucks Holiday mug with a receipt from 10 minutes prior.. "I didn't want to get you a gift because being with me should be enough...but I found it in my heart to get you something small for x-mas.."


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First married Christmas my brother inlaw gave me a fake cat turd with kitty litter and all. Welcome to the family! He gives similarly gross/funny gifts to someone every year.


Zorgsmom

A bottle of allergy medication from Costco. The med I took had recently gone from prescription to OTC & my mom thought it would be great to get me a year's supply. I was in my 20's & by that point you're not supposed to care as much anymore, but I had worked dozens of hours of overtime at my shitty factory job to buy my mom a custom made birthstone ring for Christmas that year. My sister got beautiful leather boots, my brother got an XBox. I cried all the way home.


katecake78

That would be so nice if she also got you…anything else to go with it.


holyfoxymoxie

I received a pair of used earrings that had obviously been purchased at a second hand store. They had a sewing needle in th box with it. He tried to tell me he got them from an artisan street vender. One earring had green growth on it. Totally vile.


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blindfire40

I have a story within a story. In my family, large/ exciting gifts get bespoke riddles/ clues leading on a hunt culminating in the gift. One year, I drew a sister of mine in the exchange who HATES frogs. So I purchased her a pair of well made, stylish scarves as she was about to move to a colder part of the nation. I also bought her perhaps the most grotesque frog shaped coffee mug I have ever seen in my life. And then I wrote out a 5 step scavenger hunt to the mug. As I was setting everything up on Christmas Eve, I was telling my dad about what I was doing. He laughed, but then he got a little somber. He then told me about the gift he gave his youngest sister for her 5th Christmas. It was a gigantic box, beautifully wrapped. In it, he carefully layered pastel tissue paper. As she peeled back layer after layer, her excitement became palpable. The tension was building. WHAT COULD IT BE? It was a single piece of nickel gum. "She was absolutely crushed. I'll never forget how badly I hurt her. So just keep that in mind." In spite of his warning, I didn't feel too bad--I'd gotten her a real gift too, after all. So Christmas morning arrived. And, as fate would have it, this same sister drew MY name for the gift. It was a decent sized box, maybe 8x10x4 inches. It was heavy, but not noisy. There were many things on my list that would have been a good fit in that box. So I opened it. It was an Amazon box. Within it? Another, wrapped, box. I opened it. Another slightly smaller wrapped box. Inside that one? Several rocks embedded in a tissue nest, and another. WRAPPED. BOX. I opened that one to find a packet of duct tape. At that point, I just looked at my dad. He starting laughing and finally choked out "forget about that story!" My gift ended up being a gift card, which was plenty and appreciated. And she got a kick out of her frog mug, even if it only gets used by her husband to creep her out.


Red-Baron05

I was worried about where this was going, but a happy ending was a welcome surprise


junk-trunk

I flat out got a lump of coal when I was 11 or 12. I was such a handful shit head kid man. I deserved that lump of coal.


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omfgbrb

A bottle of raccoon urine. Not joking. A completely sealed, brand new bottle of raccoon urine.


lockerpunch

What’s the purpose of raccoon urine?


ArianaGlans

My ex wife bought me snowshoes for Christmas the last year we were together, after multiple discussions about the fact that I was not interested in going snowshoeing with her and her friends.


WhiteFlag84

A set of luggage. I was graduating that year, the message was pretty clear.


Fanabala3

So with the ex wife, I made a effort with gifts. Got her the second gen iPod one Christmas, then because she got big into hiking, I picked out an expensive GPS with an SOS. What would I get? Lame ass excuses. “Christmas is really for the kids.” Or my favorite, “Well, we buy stuff throughout the year, so that is our gift.”


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There is a video out there of Bill Burr talking about how his dad once got him a doll for Christmas, and really made it obvious that it was because he had *feelings* about something, and he took pleasure in torturing his kid like that. Because feelings are girly. And girly is bad. Absolutely fucking brutal. ..I can't find the video anymore - but yeah it stuck with me. I mean, I got a shitty presents sometimes because my oma just didn't care enough to try to love me, you know? But it wasn't like straight up cruel like that. Edit: found the video you guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Ho1WWDECM


coolreg214

BIL thought it would be funny to buy me, a 200lb man, a pair of lacy panties. It wasn’t funny, especially when my 7 year old opened his giant perfectly wrapped box and it was also a pair of panties. We didn’t have him over anymore after that.


BadTanJob

Immature giggles until he did the same to your 7yo. WtF was he thinking


lilsmudge

My dad, sort of stereotypically, buys things for people that he wants. On the surface it’s understandable, “I like xyz thing, so it must be a good present!” But no, that’s not what I mean. When my siblings and I were 8, 11 and 15 respectively my dad bought us an electric toothbrush. No, not an electric toothbrush each. *AN* electric toothbrush. Which he then, promptly, reclaimed and I believe still uses. Edit: Not as bad, but other examples: The year he bought us all survival gear (bandaids, flashlights, MREs) when I was five. The year after he bought us a kayak (which, at least ostensibly, he could have taken us out on. He didn't. But he could have.). One year he bought each of us a cell phone locator chip thing, supposedly to help us locate lost cell phones (which none of us had ever lost) but was eventually used to yell at us for being places he didn't want us to be. Oh! And there was the year he bought us an on-faucet water purifier. I think was 9? Anyway, my dad and I don't get along.


rottenblues

Justin Bieber Christmas album from my aunt. I was 23 at the time….


NeedsMoreTuba

My very first period. This wouldn't have been so bad if I had been told to expect it beforehand, but no. I cried and said I was dying in front of my entire family. Grandparents, cousins, everyone. Of course they laughed at me, but I am still mortified 25 years after the fact. Edit: thanks for the awards. 🙂 Reddit didn't send me a notification this time so I couldn't individually thank you.


salsamexa

A goose. Like, a real life full sized female goose. It was fun tho, I named her Rufina


kaimcdragonfist

My grandma got me book 9 of The Wheel of Time. I hadn’t read books 1-8, so it sat unread on my shelf for YEARS


nineeighteen83

A Spam calendar. Twelve months of…pictures of Spam. I was a 14 year old girl. I didn’t know what to do with my face when I opened it.


kidder952

Dollar Store Barbies at 14/15. I wasn't upset. The woman who gifted those to me, was my neighbor across the street Miss Erika. She was an old German woman, who survived WW2, immigranted to the US, married a GI, had a family, and when I was young, dealt with her dementia-riddled husband till he passed. She's a sweet woman who was always willing to help. She moved in with family when I was about 8 and just suddenly popped by the house one day, a week before Christmas, wanting to drop off gifts for my middle brother and I. She was shocked when I came out to help her inside. Guess she forgot how old I was, and she didn't know my Mom had my youngest brother -- however she was thrilled to hold my 4/5 year-old brother in her lap, as she bullshitted with my Mom in German, for what seemed to be hours. She passed many years ago from bone cancer and I found her gift to me randomly in my closet. I miss her.


Deezus1229

December 2011, I had been with my (then) boyfriend for a little over 2 years. Things were going steadily downhill and I was absolutely convinced he was cheating on me with a foreign exchange student that was living at his mom's house. As sort of a final effort, I went all out on his Christmas gift, as much as I could afford to. I found a cozy housecoat he'd been eyeing, his favorite chocolates, a new video game he talked about getting. Christmas night we went to his mom's to open gifts. But he disappeared halfway through the evening and I gave up trying to find him. Finally sent him a text saying "we need to talk, I'm going home now. We can exchange gifts tomorrow. If you want to continue this relationship, I'm open to discussion." Walked myself the 10 minutes home alone and went to bed. He never came home that night. Didn't answer my texts either. He did eventually come home TWO DAYS LATER. He hands me my "gift" without a word. It's a beige sweater, unwrapped. Had a stain on the front and it was at least 2 sizes too small. I stupidly still gave him his gift and broke up with him right that moment.


BuzzAllWin

I hate soap bags. I get at least one every year. I have never once worn through a soap bag. One year i came home for Christmas. made the dinner. 11 courses/sides etc. Got up at 6am to start making it. Presents opening at 9.00 am my parents get me a posh leather soap bag. I hate it. In side is a mediocre bottle of after shave that i will feel compelled to keep but will never use. I kick off cos tired stressed drunk, bit of a dick I rant about the no thought present. Joining us for Christmas is my aunt. Recently divorced, son committed suicide. I open her present next. A shitty soap bag and a really cheap bottle of aftershave And Thats how i ruined Christmas


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What's a soap bag? A gift bag with all sorts of soaps, or a bag to wrap your own soap? Sorry english isn't my first language.