Bad, Bizarre, or Baffling Gifts share your stories

[Anonymous]

Leftover Reagan for President pens and pencils my grandma dug up. Actualy kind of cool in a vintage way.

[Anonymous]

MIL gave me a set of dish towels for my birthday- only she kept one and gifted me the one she must have not wanted. Still had the tags saying it was a 2-pack.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 10 year old dd was opening a gift from her grandparents. She slowly took out a piece of pink princess fabric. (she is the original tomboy) As she slowly turns it over she says thank you. Grandma speaks up and says "its extra fabric! I made your cousin a dress and this is what was left!" DD was great she said " Wow grandma that was so nice of you. Do you have a picture of the dress you made?" I was incredibly proud of dd for acting nicely. We laugh about it every year. She is sixteen now and will always shake a gift and if it is quiet she will make some comment about hoping that it is extra fabric! She is getting a used car for Christmas this year and we plan to wrap the keys in a box of fabric. (Grandma will not be there when it is opened)

That's great! Make it lots of fabric scraps.

[Anonymous]

FIL gave me sweatpants for xmas last year. I think I have literally never work sweatpants in my life.
Gray (because who wears color)
Size L (I wear a 2, but he always comments about how big I am)
From Costco (He told me as I opened the box where they were from and how much they cost)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FIL gave me sweatpants for xmas last year. I think I have literally never work sweatpants in my life.
Gray (because who wears color)
Size L (I wear a 2, but he always comments about how big I am)
From Costco (He told me as I opened the box where they were from and how much they cost)

It's a thoughtless gift, but I love a pair of roomy, cozy sweatpants. Costco is kind of cool. I got my son a Spyder fleece there for $25- total steal. Anyway, yes, the gift wasn't chosen with your preferences in mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FIL gave me sweatpants for xmas last year. I think I have literally never work sweatpants in my life.
Gray (because who wears color)
Size L (I wear a 2, but he always comments about how big I am)
From Costco (He told me as I opened the box where they were from and how much they cost)

It's a thoughtless gift, but I love a pair of roomy, cozy sweatpants. Costco is kind of cool. I got my son a Spyder fleece there for $25- total steal. Anyway, yes, the gift wasn't chosen with your preferences in mind.

I love anything from Costco!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MIL gave me a set of dish towels for my birthday- only she kept one and gifted me the one she must have not wanted. Still had the tags saying it was a 2-pack.

Omg my SIL did something like that with a set of magnetic notepads that go on the refrigerator. She had a years worth, each one with a month listed at the top. I got August - just August! And I thought it was because that’s my birth month. But no - she used all the other ones but never needed August. Whyyyyy!

[Anonymous]

Can we abolish gifting? Please?

[Anonymous]

I gave my SIL a shirt that said "Santa's Favorite Ho".
She wore it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we abolish gifting? Please?

x100000

[Anonymous]

Ohhh! I have the worst one!

THE SEVEN CHINESE BROTHERS book. So we could "learn about our heritage" (half Asian).

Ughhhh...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FIL gave me sweatpants for xmas last year. I think I have literally never work sweatpants in my life.
Gray (because who wears color)
Size L (I wear a 2, but he always comments about how big I am)
From Costco (He told me as I opened the box where they were from and how much they cost)

It's a thoughtless gift, but I love a pair of roomy, cozy sweatpants. Costco is kind of cool. I got my son a Spyder fleece there for $25- total steal. Anyway, yes, the gift wasn't chosen with your preferences in mind.

Sweatpants-recipient here. Costco isn't the issue - I love Costco - it's him blurting out as I unwrap the paper "I only paid $9.98 for these at Costco" - and yes, they were wrapped in a random box that said "oranges" or something. Don't buy some random shit just because it was cheap. I wish he'd just save his money, I don't need or want any presents!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I gave my SIL a shirt that said "Santa's Favorite Ho".
She wore it.

lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FIL gave me sweatpants for xmas last year. I think I have literally never work sweatpants in my life.
Gray (because who wears color)
Size L (I wear a 2, but he always comments about how big I am)
From Costco (He told me as I opened the box where they were from and how much they cost)

It's a thoughtless gift, but I love a pair of roomy, cozy sweatpants. Costco is kind of cool. I got my son a Spyder fleece there for $25- total steal. Anyway, yes, the gift wasn't chosen with your preferences in mind.

Sweatpants-recipient here. Costco isn't the issue - I love Costco - it's him blurting out as I unwrap the paper "I only paid $9.98 for these at Costco" - and yes, they were wrapped in a random box that said "oranges" or something. Don't buy some random shit just because it was cheap. I wish he'd just save his money, I don't need or want any presents!

pp here- I get it-it was a cheap, inconsiderate gift. Sorry to derail with my love of fleecy, warm sweatpants. I'm having a love affair with Costco right now, so got a little hung up on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ohhh! I have the worst one!

THE SEVEN CHINESE BROTHERS book. So we could "learn about our heritage" (half Asian).

Ughhhh...

Look on the bright side, it could have been Tikki Tikki Tembo or Ping the Duck, which are equally awful.