Our worst presents we ever got

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My grandmother gave me tea towels last Christmas but they were hand crocheted around the edges by her. It was the work she put into them that made it a nice present. And I use them.

My aunt got me a tank top from America but the screen printing on it got all stuck/fused together when the shirt was folded up in the wrapping. The printing was ruined, top unwearable.

1. Lee Press-on nails
2. corduroy sleeping bag
3. a TV
4. RC car that I played with for less than 1 minute before my dad made something fall right on top of it and got replaced with one that had no steering
5. Wallets and watches (almost every Christmas)

My best presents:

1. blank cassette tapes and a recorder
2. Guitars (I've gotten 4 from various times)
3. Team Murray 'Track Certified' BMX bike
4. albums (The Police - Zenyatta Mondata, Devo - Freedom Of Choice, Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair, The Beatles - Anthology)
5. Model kits that are sadly no longer with us

@ Uprising I'm sorry man, you'd think they could have at least chipped in for the baby oil to make the complete set. But seriously, who thinks self-gratification apparatus makes the perfect gift?

its a tie between completely forgetting my birthday (or ignoring it, im not sure which yet) and a cheap razor.

2 books that were not only from genres i abhor, but were sexist to the max. i thought everybody knew i was a scifi fantasy nerd and a feminist. apparently not.
dresses from relatives who should know i hate them
pink things by people who should know better
high heels from my parents. this was especially bad because my parents and i would argue at the time about my footwear and they would say derogatory/threatening things to get me to wear heels to events and then they get me heels for christmas. i was so angry and disappointed. it was bad too because at that point i was still excited about opening mysterious packages from under the tree in the morning.
one birthday i got a really cheap yearly diary that came with no pages and screamed "i forgot about your birthday and rushed to the post office to get you something before i gave it to somebody else to give to you".

i hate recieving gifts now. just don't want them.

My gran learned that I occasionally bake a chocolate cake for my brothers birthday, so she got me a wooden spoon for my birthday. She also has got me many hideous items of clothing with creepy pictures of anthropomorphised kittens on them.

In my adolescence/early teens a relative who was visiting was told by my mother that I was a bit of a goth girl, so she got me the most plasticy, girlyest baby blue spiked collar she possibly could
it had a love heart pendant dangling of it. I dare not Ask where someone could buy such a thing.

Other than that, All those many times I have had to throw away bath stuff and body creams because I don't use them, if people want to get me a cheap gift get me a pack of pencils! They will be much more used and appreciated.

I think some of the crummy gifts you guys got were a result of the givers not considering, understanding/knowing or factoring your personality into it or they thought they were being practical & giving you something they thought you might occasionally use. I've had lots of nice dressy shirts given to me in my life for that very reason. I never wore them but people like my parents thought I might occasionally need them for things; that's what they told me when I demanded they return it. They gripped about me not wearing them sometimes when we'd go out to eat or some place where looking nice is good but not required; they'd bring up how they spent money buying me cloths that I should of worn because they were nicer than what I was wearing. I don't like dressy shirts because the collars & having buttons annoys me with my sensory issues & it takes me a while to button them because of my bad fine motor-skills. The last time i wore a shirt like that was when I went to a wedding in October.

My extended family doesn't really exchange gifts anymore; what I mean by that is we don't buy our aunts/uncles, cousins, & their kids things & they don't buy us things & we told our grandparents not to buy us things either. Me & my parents sometimes exchange gifts amongst each other but it's not much & my mom bakes things for my grandparents. We don't know what to get others & it's a lot easier not to have to shop for others. I'm very practical & I don't need a lot of stuff; most everything I'd want I'd have to buy myself & I don't have much money to spend on others. It's alot easier not to worry about gifts

1. Diet pills
2. Bibles, so many Bibles
3. Other convert-the-bad-jew-atheist themed books

My parents used to get my clothing Id never wear for several years(right now they just let me buy whatever I want after seeing that it doesnt get used). We had a conflict when it came to clothing since they expected me to dress like them since I was born and after several years of issues with others because of it I just gave up and found something more suitable.

Duplicates
Clothes that didn't fit me
James Bond movie that was defective
CD that came with the wrong CD inside the case
Clothes I didn't like
Make up
Getting something that hangs in my locker and some planner

Some of you probably already know that I'm a gifted artist and have posted several photos of my artwork on WP. So the worst present I ever got was a paint by number kit. A real insult to someone who is gifted.

-children's toys when I was a teenager
-clothes that I don't like which is usually the case as I'm extremely picky about what I wear, I'd rather get a clothing store gift card
-one Christmas I got a black makeup case from my aunt and that was it, it wasn't anything fancy or pretty, I don't mean to sound rude and spoiled but if you were there...ya I mean you could have probably found nicer things to get me at the dollar store.
-an 80's style jean vest from my aunt, did not like that lol I had to pretend I did especially since she said it was special to her as a teen

When I was a teenager my mom got me a series of Sweet Valley High books. I Hated them, they almost ruined my love of books altogether and I was a lot less interested in fiction anyway. Another time my brother sent me a Harry Potter Jigsaw puzzle, and I hate all jigsaw puzzles no matter what's on them. I think it's still in my parent's basement with some pieces missing. When I got a Sony Playstation years ago one of the first games my mother got me was Rascal, which was for sale at a grocery store. The camera and controls in it were terrible! But I've given out my own share of lame presents. One year for Christmas I got my brother an Archie shirt because I'd seen other kids including boys wearing them but he hated it. My mother ended up wearing it. And there have been a couple of Father's Days where I spent most of my allowance mostly on myself and only got Dad a card and some candy. Mom was pretty mad, funny but I always seemed to really treat her on Mother's day. But I'm sorry to say I've always been a lot closer to my mom.

The worst present I ever had was a comforter. A Dora the Explorer comforter from my dad. I was 13 at the time, not 3! :facepalm: