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Slow week, non-sports: Worst Christmas Gift you ever received.

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Hopefully DS won't mind, but we just had the discussion in the office and I thought it'd be interesting.

A few years ago, my mother-in-law (who is the world's worst gift giver to begin with), gave me a black silk robe. She thought she was giving me a simple black silk robe, but it was branded some porn company and such.
 
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Hopefully DS won't mind, but we just had the discussion in the office and I thought it'd be interesting.

A few years ago, my mother-in-law (who is the world's worst gift giver to begin with), gave me a black silk robe. She thought she was giving me a simple black silk robe, but it was branded some porn company and such.
 
615dawg

615dawg

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Hopefully DS won't mind, but we just had the discussion in the office and I thought it'd be interesting.

A few years ago, my mother-in-law (who is the world's worst gift giver to begin with), gave me a black silk robe. She thought she was giving me a simple black silk robe, but it was branded some porn company and such.
 
615dawg

615dawg

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Hopefully DS won't mind, but we just had the discussion in the office and I thought it'd be interesting.

A few years ago, my mother-in-law (who is the world's worst gift giver to begin with), gave me a black silk robe. She thought she was giving me a simple black silk robe, but it was branded some porn company and such.
 
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farley662

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The fist year my wife and I were married one of her uncles got me a set of 4 miniature garden gnomes. The next year I got a bag of peppermints. Year after that it was a flashlight that didn't work. Year after that, a plain purple cap with nothing on it. Last year, a book about Da Vinci from the Dollar Tree. Their present has become the highlight of the Xmas season to see if they can top the year before.
 
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Later i found out it was a re-gift. Came from my wife's brother and his wife. His wife handled the re-gifting. I think the brother was pretty embarrassed.
 
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cowbell88

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I don't know WTF my mom was thinking when she got me Taz socks that year. Could you see a mid twenty year old male wearing Taz socks, I couldn't either.
 
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Every year, it goes into the basement/attic to gather dust.

The worst part, they would be otherwise okay gifts.

One year, it was a camouflage Mississippi State wallet. The next, it was a Mississippi State baseball logo cap, in solid camouflage.

I guess I should be happy they're trying to incorporate something I do care about into something that they (and in their opinion, any straight male) should be into.

If you're interested in either item, please PM me.

Edit: Dumbassspelling of camouflage.
 
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My in-laws ran a lumber company. They gave me a saber saw one year. The next year they gave me exactly the same thing. When they found out it was the same thing they gave me the year before, they told me to leave it with them, and they would swap it out for a different tool. When they handed me my present the next year, I jokingly thought, "Wow, another saber saw." When I opened the present, it was not only a saber saw, but it was the same saber saw from last year. I had put the card that came with it inside the box. They just wrapped it again and gave it to me.
 
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that they sell in the malls. Well one year my aunt gave me a tshirt with my name airbrushed on it. Did i mention I was 18 at the time.
 
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Two years ago I got one of the expandable croom style M-State garbage cans and in Croom style the M-State on the side of it was upside down! I got this from my Dad no less too! It has become the joke gift of the year now...</p>
 
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Last year my grandmother who normally gives a pile of great gifts to me and everyone else got me a man purse... Or sachel. I wondered what went thru her damn mind, because in my 28 years together she has never seen me where any kind of stuff like that. Granted it was a nice khaki colored levis man purse but come on. Hey Beck ill take that camo off of you but I'm not paying for it.
 
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My worst gift would have to be the traditional grandmother gifts. One gave me a 3-pack of t-shirts and a 2-pack of black socks. Every year.

Another gave me aftershave -- but she would alternate between Old Spice and English Leather, so technically it was a different gift every year. I could go a whole year smelling like Pine Sol, then alternate with a year smelling like an old couch. The chicks dug it.
 
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rem101

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It was Kavu and still somewhere in my closet I think. Came from an aunt and uncle who usually hand about $100.
 
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615dawg

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that bought everyone a Magic Bullet one year, the infomercial blender that is buy one get one free, and falls apart upon first use. Normally she gives awesome gifts, but that year she struck out.
 
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that year for Christmas, my present was a white sweatshirt with three wolves on it that said Alaska in vertical type down the side. Someone in there 20's now might wear it ironically but I wanted nothing to do with it when I was 15.
 
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When I was in my 20's, my mother decided that the perfect gift for me was a blue velour jogging suit. "It'll keep you warm around the house." It looked like something some retired New Yorker would wear around the condo in Boca Raton with a gigantic gold medallion around his neck. Horrible doesn't begin to describe it. It was so ugly, it was hilarious. So I told her it didn't fit, took it back, told her they didn't have my size and got a wallet instead. The funny part is she gave my wife a matching one! She did the same thing.

Flash forward 25 years. My son,a freshman at MSU opens his Christmas gift from his grandmother. You got it, blue velour jogging suit. "It'll keep you warm sitting around the dorm room, Hon." I nearly lose it. He's trying to keep a straight face. "Thank you MeMaw". Takes it back and swaps it for a wallet. Two years later, his younger brother is the proud recipientof yetanother blue velour jogging suit, and 2 days later, another wallet.

So last week, my mother says to me, "Come see what I got the baby", my 18 mo. old granddaughter, oldest son's child. Yep, once again, the velour jogging suit rears it's ugly head! Only this time it's pink! I called him and told him that Mary Elizabeth has officially become a member of the family! She's got her jogging suit. Only I don't know what the hell she'll do with it because she sure as hell doesn't need a wallet!
 
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I was 17 years old at the time. My psychotic grandmother, who had in the last 5 years bought my older brother a Pontiac Firebird (yes, I know it's a piece of ****, but when you're 17 you just see a hot car) and taken him and his girlfriend of 3 months on a trip to Paris, bought me a purple, plastic alarm clock with strange little "arms" coming out of the sides that moved up and down like a see-saw. Here's a rough idea of what it looked like...


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farley662

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The rest of the family gets some good stuff. The family can be a little weird at times, so I think they just don't like outsiders very much. If I ever get something that costs over $5, I know I'm officially part of the family.
 
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UnfortunatelyI found out a week later that there was a 20 dollar bill in it. I never even checked. It got tossed with the wrapping paper. A double kick inthenuts.
 
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About 5 years after I switched to boxer briefs. Sadly, this was after I graduated from State and moved out of the house.
 
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At work, up until 3 years ago, we get a Christmas bonus that was an extra weeks salary. 3 years ago each employee received a framed motivational poster. It didn't help motivation.

No I did not steal this from Christmas Vacation.
 
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