Worst Christmas Presents

Cologne.  I might put some on about once a year…if my wife is lucky.  Otherwise it will go to waste in a drawer.

Not receiving anything.

Really? That is hysterical!  

They were Fiskars with an off-set handle.  I do use them regularly, though!  

This is about a gift I gave when I was in high school and didn't know any better.  My mom, a petite size 4 at the time, wanted a new sweater.  So I went out and dutifully got what I thought was a nice pink turtleneck sweater for Xmas.

So Xmas morning comes, she opens the box, which reads "Lane Bryant" and takes out my gift.  She holds it up pretty much with her arms almost fully extended.  The neck alone could have fit me and my sister in there, comfortably.  I think it was a size 26 or something.

Oh well, live and learn.  She took it well.   

Well, I mentioned the sperm whale boxers in the "most embarassing moments" thread... That one is right up there. I never did wear them.

I once got a back-pack picnic set. Again, never got used.

I have an uncle who is up there in years, and every year he does these home crafts that he gives away for Christmas. I once got a very stiff leather wallet, too big to put in my purse, and it was laced with plastic string. The knots kept slipping and the wallet fell apart. In many ways it's one of the worst gift, but also one of the best. He's the sweetest man, and he gives these gifts like he's giving away a million dollars. 

Even though the wallet sucked, that description really makes me smile.  

Gotta love grandparents...Can you say Dollar Store?

Their heart was in the right place but these things didn't even get the paper off before they went in the garage sale/give away pile.

Since you have to be NICE this went on for YEARS...lol

Grandpa finally gets it and has changed his strategy.

Gave my wife an iron one year.  I think the only thing that could have been worse was to give an iron board too. 

when i was seventeen I received a cookbook...one by a fancy chef...so complicated and not what i had expected...still hate to cook to this day (exept deserts...that i'm good at and like the result)

about perfume(cologne) i feel like Ty...nothing can coverup chlorine so why bother!

 At the time I always thought my Grandma gave the worst presents. She always gave us socks and underwear. We always opened those last because we knew what was in the soft shapeless  packages. Now that she is gone, I can't walk past a Hane's display in Macy's without thinking fondly of Grandma! 

One of my best friends got a bag of trail mix from her father.  She was underwhelmed .  And they have a good relationship too, he's just a horrible gift giver.

She told me that story after I told her my dad had gotten me a bath towel for Christmas.  The thing was he was so cute about it.  He never knows what to get anyone, he's one of those poor men who wander around the mall on Christmas Eve and who the hell knows what he's going to come home with.  I remember opening it, looking at him in surprise, and he said hopefully, "It's a towel!  The best one at Macy's!  Even more expensive than Ralph Lauren!"  Of course, I told him it was wonderful.

I love my dad.  It really is a soft and nice towel though.  I guess even though it's nothing I would ever ask for, when I use it I think of my silly adorable, dear old dad.