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Christmastime is here, and that means it's time to exchange gifts.  Unfortunately, some of our friends and relatives aren't too good at that whole gift thing. Let's use this thread to laugh about the crappy gifts that we've received.My contribution: I'm a professional illustrator. My grandma wanted to get me some art supplies... so she bought me a cheap "art kit" from Walmart.  Not the first time I've gotten something like that. I'm sure others in this thread will have better stories, though!
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Dec 25, 2015 18:03
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My aunt once gave me a toilet roll holder. I think I was 8 at the time
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Dec 26, 2015 12:06
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Actually the same aunt also gave me a framed passage from the bible and a second hand book that still had the $2 price tag on it
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Dec 26, 2015 12:08
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my mormon grandma gave me the twilight series back when they were new when she asked later i had to pretend i liked them, and she was like "oh, i didnt think they were very good. i liked harry potter more" and i had even more regret
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Dec 26, 2015 13:14
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my least fav xmas gift is ingratitude
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Dec 26, 2015 13:32
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For years, my brother has been lording the fact that he makes more money than I do over me and constantly says, even in front of my art-school graduate father, how worthless my degree will be. It’s as if the concept of me not caring how much money I make so long as I’m doing what I love is completely alien to him. I’ve been really trying to mend bridges with him for the past year and I decided I would go out and splurge a little bit on the christmas presents. I’ve never had much money so I made my family artwork this christmas, but in addition to that, I got my brother a nice and warm $80 jacket that he needed as well as the swiss army knife that he’s been dropping hints at for months. He gave me a stained fleece that he wrote “fag” in bleach on and a key chain that he got free from work. After the present opening, his girlfriend comes up to me and says that I shouldn’t use the key chain as a key chain. Apparently the one he gave her months before shattered after she tried to put some keys on it and cut her hand.
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Dec 26, 2015 13:58
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Your brother sounds like a horrible person and/or sociopath, maybe next year you can give yourself the gift of severing.
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Dec 27, 2015 09:33
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That gets posted in every "Bad Present" thread.gentle pete posted:For years, my brother has been lording the fact that he makes more money than I do over me and constantly says, even in front of my art-school graduate father, how worthless my degree will be. It’s as if the concept of me not caring how much money I make so long as I’m doing what I love is completely alien to him. I think it started with ClemenSalad here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3521167 Iamyourking has a new favorite as of 12:06 on Dec 27, 2015 |
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Dec 27, 2015 11:54
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I got another loving oversized jar of boiled lollies this year. Every Christmas some relative will give me one. They taste like how air fresheners smell 
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Dec 27, 2015 12:44
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The Saddest Rhino posted:my least fav xmas gift is ingratitude Lol yeah not liking something or being given something passive-aggressively immediately puts everyone on par with that WWE2k15 kid, good job buddy.  I have family members who will intentionally give me too small clothing to "encourage me to lose weight." I'm slightly overweight but still in standard sizing so I'm not like a hambeast or anything and struggled with eating disorders when I was in high school and college.
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Dec 27, 2015 15:52
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Calendars. Old people have it drilled into their heads that they're a good default gift because it's the end of the year and everybody needs a new calendars. What is a 13 year old supposed to do with 5 calendars?13Pandora13 posted:I have family members who will intentionally give me too small clothing to "encourage me to lose weight." Intentionally give them insultingly cheap presents to "encourage them to budget wisely."
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Dec 27, 2015 16:31
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Payday 2. I don't want to buy access to online and a loving headset just to play this game...
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Dec 27, 2015 20:30
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I can't even remember what I was given, but when I was about 11 and about to be dropped by my friends who were bullying me, they gave me something used and crappy (I think a used notebook with the written-on pages torn out) and then basically couldn't contain their laughter in front of me when I gave them decent presents. It was more about the deliberate disrespect than anything. One Christmas my well-meaning Aunt gave me a hideous sweater-cardigan thing. This aunt has bad taste in general, but she used to be really close with me, so I usually make a point of wearing or using her gifts in front of her a couple of times before tossing them. The thing was completely nonsensical though, it was impossible to tell which side was the front or back, if it was inside out or not, and how the weird cords on it should be tied. So of course I did it wrong and had to sit through her fussing with it the couple of times i was around her with it. 13Pandora13 posted:Lol yeah not liking something or being given something passive-aggressively immediately puts everyone on par with that WWE2k15 kid, good job buddy. There's no need to take it personally. For a story about someone showing ingratitude, I gave my mother Chanel No.5 one year, along with a purse. She later told me that she prefers J'adore by Dior, so she sold it on eBay for 60 quid (about 80% of what I paid for it). I mean, it's her right to do that, but I wish she hadn't told me as I just kept wishing I had the money back.
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Dec 27, 2015 20:40
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gentle pete posted:My contribution: I'm a professional illustrator. My grandma wanted to get me some art supplies... so she bought me a cheap "art kit" from Walmart. Somewhat similar: I'm also an illustrator. One time, a well-meaning distant relative gave me a book of royalty-free "Anime-style" clip art. 
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Dec 28, 2015 03:29
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Not a christmas present, but I got given one of those poseable mannequins that artists use for my birthday. Except he was a couple inches tall and one of his legs had broken inside the packaging. I'm studying to be an animator right now but thanks for the gift well meaning mom and dad.
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Dec 28, 2015 03:54
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Last year my sister gave me a little globe that, according to the packaging, "revolves with no apparent means" - which would have been fine if it were accurate, because I do like novelty things like that. Unfortunately the thing actually has an unreasonably loud motor, so it's pretty obvious how it's moving, and even without the mystery element it's too annoying to leave running.Someone Awful! posted:my mormon grandma gave me the twilight series back when they were new
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Dec 29, 2015 09:52
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I am just so glad we have Amazon wish lists now. Makes it a lot easier. For me, some years ago my brother gave me a rubber chicken. As in, a $2 one from the K-Mart he worked at. It was maybe four inches long and half deflated of its beads (it was a stress ball rubber chicken.). He said I could use it in my clown act. And yes, at the time I was a balloon twister. Not a clown. And when I did do clown work, it was mostly balloon twisting, a little facepaint, and a tiny magic show. Nothing with a loving chicken that was leaking the beads out. For my birthday, recently, he gave me a fish tank and stand. That was cool. Save for the fact it was one he was getting rid of for his new 100 gallon tank and told me the only reason he gave it to me was because he didn't want to bother selling it on craigslist. When my mom asked him, later in that year, what he was getting me for Xmas, he replied he had already given me a fish tank, so that had to count for the whole year, right? I tend to give him T-shirts and movies because we are essentially strangers at this point. Gift cards work too.
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