I still laugh at this moment. A friend enjoys things like rocks and crystals, so I got her a geode. If you don’t know, it’s a round, hollow rock where beautiful crystals grow inside and is sliced in half to show the crystals. My friend, a roommate at the time, was a gift shaker, trying to guess what it was. By the time we opened presents, it was flat side down, so it looked for all the world like an ordinary rock. Her “um…thank you…?” Absolutely killed me😂😂😂 When she turned it over she loved it though.
My dad use to threaten me and my brother that he’d give us a stick with a red ribbon on it as a gift. For years he’d say that. Xmas 92 my 9 year old brother wrapped a stick with a red ribbon. And gave it to him. Decades later it’s my dads worse and favorite gift and he still laughs and jokes how his 9 year old out dad joked him
My grandma won’t stop giving me wolf things. Wolf shirts, wolf blankets, wolf puzzles. This year I got a wolf coffee tumbler. Originally I hated them all but they grew on me. Plus I got a huge 30oz tumbler I can fill with coffee or water and sip on whenever.
Not a Christmas gift, but a few years ago during COVID my family lived abroad in Argentina, but still had to order everything from the United States (idk why it’s just a government thing I guess?) but the mail lines were reeeeeallllly backed up, like it took a year and a half to get an order of socks. So my parents decided to draw pictures of the gifts I wanted, cut them out, and then stapled them to potatoes for me to unwrap. I just had a ton of wrapped potatoes in a basket, which was the biggest present. Was hilarious though, and luckily the mail lines cleared up a bit in a few months.
Hey, food for Christmas is awesome! As long as it's something you like. You don't have to wash it, dust it, or trot it out when the giver comes over so it looks like you love it. You just eat it, no clutter or junk to deal with if you have to move someday.
Don't agree at all. Food for presents is rubbish. You eat it and then it's gone, nothing but the memory of having it. I'd much rather have a Thing, even if it just sits on a shelf somewhere, it lasts forever, and it's the Thing that Someone gave you...
Okay this is going to sound weird but I was actually happy to get this gift. I’m a teacher who does a lot of prep work for my lessons like cutting things out. So after realizing I didn’t have a proper trashcan for my bedroom, Mom got me a trashcan as well as a table to prep things.
I used to collect the old Venetian clown figurines. I actually really like them! ... Grandma misunderstood the assignment and got me strange little hobo/circus clown figurines. She did not understand the difference...
I'm an artist (digital illustration and oil landscapes mostly), and people got me a ton of those adult coloring books. I hate them because the paper is usually shit and markers bleed, and I have a tremor in my hands so I can't color tiny things well and it's frustrating when you don't do well on those. The only ones I kept were a David Bowie one my mom got me (I love DB) and a Word of Honor one I bought for art ideas. Also every time people decide to get me art supplies without asking or checking out the tools I use and get the cheapest crap (pencils with garbage erasers that ruin drawings, water based markers when my whole supply is alcohol, Roseart ANYTHING, random bottles of clearance tempra paint, etc) and then when I say I appreciate the effort they get uppity. I'm not five. You can get me a $10 pack of pens if you ask me because I can show you where to get quality, inexpensive things! (This is why I really prefer money)
Not me, but one Christmas my grandmother got my mother the gift of one box of Poppycock popcorn. The kicker? She was to share it with my cousin. It stayed on the piano for two months before I ate it
When I was 6 or 7, my aunt gifted me a lawn chair cover for Christmas. Her kids and all of the other cousins got real gifts like toys or makeup or sports equipment. That aunt doesn't like my disabled mother, and took it out on me during my childhood. I hope she is now living the life she deserves.
Every Christmas since my ex and i broke up, my sister gives my younger son the most WTF presents - but they have to meet 2 sets of criteria: something he would love while also being something his mother would hate. This year he got a remote control poop car. He had a ball chasing people with it.
My mom had mentioned to my grandma that I like eating cheddar cheese. She didn’t have a gift for me so gave me a cheese wire that she hadn’t unpackaged in months as a gift…
One year my older brother gifted me junk from his garage. Another year he gave me a statue of 2 lovers in an embrace. I left it in the closet when I moved from my apartment to my house. And another year he gave me a leather jacket he had bought for our grandmother. She had died the previous June. And I'm male. Gave it to a coworker the next year. Haven't had to worry about him any more. He died in 2016
0:21. You can access other people's wishlists on Amazon? 6:52. I had a very similar situation with my brother's first set of in laws. I had just started university, and was well known in the family for being a bibliophile (I had about 800 books at the time, and needed more for my university courses) So what did they get me? Books or Book tokens? No. Chocolate. Paving slab sized bars of chocolate. All very nice, but where are they now? If they had bought me books, I would probably still have them, and it's not like I ever professed any great fondness for chocolate. I like it, but I like mashed potato as well. Still don't want it as a Christmas present... 10:00. "Cheap Chinese" ones? Like the really expensive, hand-made, organic ones would be better?
2:07 had an ex gf this happened to. She had a deepish voice (but still clearly female) and didn’t wear much makeup but didn’t come off lesbian to me. For some reason her parents were convinced of it all through high school until her first or second boyfriend, then finally they accepted she was straight.
I always used Windsong cologne. I retired 22 years ago and stopped using any cologne. My mother gave me a bottle of it every Christmas, among other things. She gave very good gifts. But now I have 6 unused bottles of Wingsong-- I finally told her that I no longer use it. RIP, mother.😢
This year for Christmas, my mother bought me a model kit for a 1969 Camaro. Like, a small plastic model kit that you would buy in a hobby store. I already own a '70s Camaro, plus I have a very busy job, a 2-year-old, and another baby on the way; even if I have the time, I haven't built a model of anything, let alone a car, in over 30 years. But in her words, the 1969 Camaro is your favorite car. I honestly have no idea what to do with this.
Love the dollar store gifts. I do the same thing with my sister. Each year I send her a box of dollar store grab bag gifts. I look for the most ridiculous things I can find at the dollar store. This year I think the winner was a lip scrubber.
Cat stuff. I have cats so everything I get is cat related. Kitty shirt, Kitty pin, kitty cup. My favorite animal since I was young is the horse. I miss getting horse shirts like when I was a kid.
My grandmother who is famous for giving WTF gifts topped her all time record this year by giving my 14 year old cousin 3 romance novellas that based on how yellowed the pages were, are definitely older than my cousin. None of us could figure out what her motivation for doing so was. But all of the books had my cousins name in the title so maybe she just grabbed 3 books with her name on them from goodwill and didn't think anything else of it. She's like 83 at this point so who knows what goes through her mind.
I once bought a very cool cow magnet on a visit to the Blue Bell Creamery in Brenham, Texas. I put it on my fridge and didn’t really think about it again. But my mother saw it and decided it meant I loved cows. So I received cow-themed gifts for years, from every single family member. There’s absolutely nothing about me that says “farm theme”. And I kept saying I didn’t like cows, I just liked ice cream, I had enough cows, I didn’t want cows, and to please stop giving me cows. I felt awful; everyone thought they were getting me something I’d love, and it was just making me crazy. I eventually opted out of Christmas and birthdays just to make it stop. And then the cows all mysteriously got lost in a move. 😬
"When I had my daughter my grandmother arbitrarily decided that I was going to collect nutcrackers." And now they accumulate, rank-upon-rank in the living-room and one day she fully expects them to ambush her in her sleep. Yep. This is what I came for. Even the girl IN The Nutcracker thinks her nutcracker is scarey-lookin' and has to be won over by his good behavior. The idea of someone else gifting an ornamental collection for something the receiver shows no preference for, piece by piece -- Ahahaha! I have a numerous cat figurine collection I accumulated myself, and even I feel absurd about it. How must she feel?!
My inlaws found out i like Reese's. Each member of my husband's family got me large bags of Reese's with the other gifts. I got 8 bags ranging from small cups to big oacks with 60 regular sizes cups, oh and i haven't celebrated with my family yet and they do gift me Reese's. My husband and i will be eating Reese's till we die from diabetes. 😂
This isn't Christmas, this was for my birthday when I was like.. Eight?? But I got a huge package in the mail from my grandpa, which was neat because I only met him like twice in my life. Inside this MASSIVE box was.. One of those clip on lights for a book, and a 5 dollar gift card to Home Depot HUGE box
My SIL got us a Disney snow globe. Was kind of nice. Another snow globe the next year, as well as the following year. We finally had to say no more snow globes.
Well this year, my sibling got me a box of rocks and I got them a single pair of socks. The rocks were just to add weight to the box because it also had a piece of paper with a screenshot of an Amazon page on it. They’re going to send the actual item to my apartment so I don’t have to fit it in my suitcase. The socks were free from career fair, but they’re mid-calf BP socks (yes like the gas station) and my sibling wanted “fun socks” this year. Both were items that we had asked the other to get.
I made the mistake one year of saying I liked those Chocolate Orange candies. The kind that looks like an orange that you have to whack before you unwrap it. Now I get inundated with a ridiculous amount of the things every single year.
The worst gift I got was a dvd of a black comedy series I don't like from my best friend from school. She had got that as a gift from another friend but she already had that dvd. It hurt because I got her a lava lamp and she loved it, I sold the dvd for like 2€ at second hand store. Another lousy gift was a big box of food that my friend had bought cheap because they were gonna expire. Some of the foods were already expired when I got to open the gift.
A box of Roasted Chicken Raman noodles as a gag gift. I was rather disappointed because I thought it was an Xbox 360. Got one for my birthday that year though.
As a kid in the 1970s, I always got the most god awful looking clothing as presents from my grandparents. If you know 1970s fashion that is really saying a lot.
Banana Case-about as useless as the donut case, advertised on World's Dumbest/Smartest Inventions. One of the worst Christmases I had was when I was 5 years old. I got some age-appropriate gifts, but I got a blue digital watch: a 5 year old in 1980 couldn't tell time, and a pencil sharpener in the shape of a cuckoo clock that was probably meant for the whole family to use. I got a blue toy piano, but didn't get to keep it for very long because I made too much noise with it and my parents were the nervous type, going through menopause. I don't remember who gave us those gifts, but if they didn't know what to get us, they should have just given us money. It's the right size, the right color, the right everything. Those people weren't hurting for money! The best gift I never got was just after my birthday in November of 2002 when I won a $1000 Target gift card. I took my family out Christmas shopping and avoided the crowds. Now I won't even shop there because they've gone "woke". I don't know if I got this for a Christmas or "just because" gift. I was about 10 years old and wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll. A 90-something-year-old lady from church gave me a doll, but it wasn't what I wanted, and I couldn't even play with it: it was a china doll that would break if played with. I wanted to cry right then and there, but my mother gave me that look that said, "Don't you dare!", and I knew to behave. I thanked her, but what I really wanted to say was, "Thanks for nothing!" Her daughter pulled the same stunt, but I was in my 20s when it happened. It was a plastic and rubber doll, and I gave it to the little girl my mom and I babysat for. I still have the china doll. That's why I try to be good to other people, especially the children. Several years ago, when my church had mission dinners (later community lunches) and Easter egg hunts, I would buy a bunch of marked-down, left over holiday candy and have it for Christmas and Easter. The kids really seemed to appreciate it and I remember what my sister and I got when we were kids: hard candy! Kids remember when you're good to them, and also remember when you're not! Nowadays, I don't do that because 1. The people at my church don't want to have the dinners anymore because too many other places are doing it and 2. Prices have gone up too much, even after the holidays. Now I put non-perishable food and sometimes clothes in the Little Pantry box in front of a community center in my neighborhood. I don't dare donate to Goodwill anymore because of what I've heard about them. I donate the books and dvds I don't need any more to the Tiny Library box nearest to me.
My ex MIL gifted my new born knitted socks and dresses one year for Christmas. She insisted on changing her into them. We live in Australia and it was 30+ in the shade. Not what to place on new borns.
Just this year, literally today as I'm typing this on xmas day '24... another variation of the same plain black waffle-stitch sweater my parents have given me one of every year since 2020. I got three of them. One has raglan sleeves. I do not wear raglan sleeves because a past abuser wore them, and every time I see raglan sleeves, it reminds me of that asshole. If anyone has any suggestions on how to un-raglan the sleeves it'd be appreciated
That was my mother! I would say "I would like a red sweater" and I would get beige. A damn beige sweater five years in a row. She never had the receipt so they could be exchanged. After I left the last two at her house when I went home, she got the message.
To be fair, that one OP's parents are awesome people for wanting to show their love and support to their daughter. Its just a shame she really wasn't a lesbian.
I still laugh at this moment.
A friend enjoys things like rocks and crystals, so I got her a geode. If you don’t know, it’s a round, hollow rock where beautiful crystals grow inside and is sliced in half to show the crystals.
My friend, a roommate at the time, was a gift shaker, trying to guess what it was. By the time we opened presents, it was flat side down, so it looked for all the world like an ordinary rock.
Her “um…thank you…?” Absolutely killed me😂😂😂
When she turned it over she loved it though.
My dad use to threaten me and my brother that he’d give us a stick with a red ribbon on it as a gift. For years he’d say that. Xmas 92 my 9 year old brother wrapped a stick with a red ribbon. And gave it to him. Decades later it’s my dads worse and favorite gift and he still laughs and jokes how his 9 year old out dad joked him
As a joke I welded a mailbox together for my dad, he still has it 10 years later
My grandma won’t stop giving me wolf things. Wolf shirts, wolf blankets, wolf puzzles. This year I got a wolf coffee tumbler. Originally I hated them all but they grew on me. Plus I got a huge 30oz tumbler I can fill with coffee or water and sip on whenever.
Had trouble saying no to your grandma as well didn’t you? 😂
Wolves are awesome.
Not a Christmas gift, but a few years ago during COVID my family lived abroad in Argentina, but still had to order everything from the United States (idk why it’s just a government thing I guess?) but the mail lines were reeeeeallllly backed up, like it took a year and a half to get an order of socks. So my parents decided to draw pictures of the gifts I wanted, cut them out, and then stapled them to potatoes for me to unwrap. I just had a ton of wrapped potatoes in a basket, which was the biggest present. Was hilarious though, and luckily the mail lines cleared up a bit in a few months.
Hey, food for Christmas is awesome! As long as it's something you like. You don't have to wash it, dust it, or trot it out when the giver comes over so it looks like you love it. You just eat it, no clutter or junk to deal with if you have to move someday.
Don't agree at all. Food for presents is rubbish. You eat it and then it's gone, nothing but the memory of having it. I'd much rather have a Thing, even if it just sits on a shelf somewhere, it lasts forever, and it's the Thing that Someone gave you...
Okay this is going to sound weird but I was actually happy to get this gift. I’m a teacher who does a lot of prep work for my lessons like cutting things out. So after realizing I didn’t have a proper trashcan for my bedroom, Mom got me a trashcan as well as a table to prep things.
Psycho sister gave me copies of the same book... four years in a row.
I used to collect the old Venetian clown figurines. I actually really like them! ... Grandma misunderstood the assignment and got me strange little hobo/circus clown figurines. She did not understand the difference...
I'm an artist (digital illustration and oil landscapes mostly), and people got me a ton of those adult coloring books. I hate them because the paper is usually shit and markers bleed, and I have a tremor in my hands so I can't color tiny things well and it's frustrating when you don't do well on those. The only ones I kept were a David Bowie one my mom got me (I love DB) and a Word of Honor one I bought for art ideas. Also every time people decide to get me art supplies without asking or checking out the tools I use and get the cheapest crap (pencils with garbage erasers that ruin drawings, water based markers when my whole supply is alcohol, Roseart ANYTHING, random bottles of clearance tempra paint, etc) and then when I say I appreciate the effort they get uppity. I'm not five. You can get me a $10 pack of pens if you ask me because I can show you where to get quality, inexpensive things! (This is why I really prefer money)
I work at a hospital. Last year I was given a pair of slightly expired Covid home testing kits.
Not me, but one Christmas my grandmother got my mother the gift of one box of Poppycock popcorn. The kicker? She was to share it with my cousin. It stayed on the piano for two months before I ate it
When I was 6 or 7, my aunt gifted me a lawn chair cover for Christmas. Her kids and all of the other cousins got real gifts like toys or makeup or sports equipment.
That aunt doesn't like my disabled mother, and took it out on me during my childhood.
I hope she is now living the life she deserves.
My parents were addicts. I got a Teddy bear for Christmas when I was 15. It still had the 99 cent price tag on it. I was so sad.
❤ It made me feel sad to read that.
Every Christmas since my ex and i broke up, my sister gives my younger son the most WTF presents - but they have to meet 2 sets of criteria: something he would love while also being something his mother would hate. This year he got a remote control poop car. He had a ball chasing people with it.
My mom had mentioned to my grandma that I like eating cheddar cheese. She didn’t have a gift for me so gave me a cheese wire that she hadn’t unpackaged in months as a gift…
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I RARELY comment on the kinds of videos.
But damn , that was a good pun .
One year my older brother gifted me junk from his garage. Another year he gave me a statue of 2 lovers in an embrace. I left it in the closet when I moved from my apartment to my house. And another year he gave me a leather jacket he had bought for our grandmother. She had died the previous June. And I'm male. Gave it to a coworker the next year. Haven't had to worry about him any more. He died in 2016
0:21. You can access other people's wishlists on Amazon?
6:52. I had a very similar situation with my brother's first set of in laws. I had just started university, and was well known in the family for being a bibliophile (I had about 800 books at the time, and needed more for my university courses) So what did they get me? Books or Book tokens? No. Chocolate. Paving slab sized bars of chocolate. All very nice, but where are they now? If they had bought me books, I would probably still have them, and it's not like I ever professed any great fondness for chocolate. I like it, but I like mashed potato as well. Still don't want it as a Christmas present...
10:00. "Cheap Chinese" ones? Like the really expensive, hand-made, organic ones would be better?
11:18 Sounds a lot like favoritism
For one Christmas I got a rock they said I could use it as a paper weight
And I thought Charlie Brown had it rough! 😂
2:07 had an ex gf this happened to. She had a deepish voice (but still clearly female) and didn’t wear much makeup but didn’t come off lesbian to me. For some reason her parents were convinced of it all through high school until her first or second boyfriend, then finally they accepted she was straight.
I always used Windsong cologne. I retired 22 years ago and stopped using any cologne. My mother gave me a bottle of it every Christmas, among other things. She gave very good gifts. But now I have 6 unused bottles of Wingsong-- I finally told her that I no longer use it. RIP, mother.😢
This year for Christmas, my mother bought me a model kit for a 1969 Camaro. Like, a small plastic model kit that you would buy in a hobby store. I already own a '70s Camaro, plus I have a very busy job, a 2-year-old, and another baby on the way; even if I have the time, I haven't built a model of anything, let alone a car, in over 30 years. But in her words, the 1969 Camaro is your favorite car. I honestly have no idea what to do with this.
i relate to 2:14. when i was younger my dad would buy us kids stuff for christmas we absolutely had no interest in, because they were really for him
Love the dollar store gifts. I do the same thing with my sister. Each year I send her a box of dollar store grab bag gifts. I look for the most ridiculous things I can find at the dollar store. This year I think the winner was a lip scrubber.
Cat stuff. I have cats so everything I get is cat related. Kitty shirt, Kitty pin, kitty cup. My favorite animal since I was young is the horse. I miss getting horse shirts like when I was a kid.
My grandmother who is famous for giving WTF gifts topped her all time record this year by giving my 14 year old cousin 3 romance novellas that based on how yellowed the pages were, are definitely older than my cousin. None of us could figure out what her motivation for doing so was. But all of the books had my cousins name in the title so maybe she just grabbed 3 books with her name on them from goodwill and didn't think anything else of it. She's like 83 at this point so who knows what goes through her mind.
I once bought a very cool cow magnet on a visit to the Blue Bell Creamery in Brenham, Texas. I put it on my fridge and didn’t really think about it again. But my mother saw it and decided it meant I loved cows. So I received cow-themed gifts for years, from every single family member. There’s absolutely nothing about me that says “farm theme”. And I kept saying I didn’t like cows, I just liked ice cream, I had enough cows, I didn’t want cows, and to please stop giving me cows. I felt awful; everyone thought they were getting me something I’d love, and it was just making me crazy. I eventually opted out of Christmas and birthdays just to make it stop. And then the cows all mysteriously got lost in a move. 😬
Ah, so glad Goodwill and thrift shops exist. If you don't like it, somebody else will. 😊
"When I had my daughter my grandmother arbitrarily decided that I was going to collect nutcrackers." And now they accumulate, rank-upon-rank in the living-room and one day she fully expects them to ambush her in her sleep. Yep. This is what I came for. Even the girl IN The Nutcracker thinks her nutcracker is scarey-lookin' and has to be won over by his good behavior. The idea of someone else gifting an ornamental collection for something the receiver shows no preference for, piece by piece -- Ahahaha! I have a numerous cat figurine collection I accumulated myself, and even I feel absurd about it. How must she feel?!
My inlaws found out i like Reese's. Each member of my husband's family got me large bags of Reese's with the other gifts. I got 8 bags ranging from small cups to big oacks with 60 regular sizes cups, oh and i haven't celebrated with my family yet and they do gift me Reese's. My husband and i will be eating Reese's till we die from diabetes. 😂
This isn't Christmas, this was for my birthday when I was like.. Eight?? But I got a huge package in the mail from my grandpa, which was neat because I only met him like twice in my life. Inside this MASSIVE box was.. One of those clip on lights for a book, and a 5 dollar gift card to Home Depot
HUGE box
the person who got clowns and kittens and cows um give them to me i love all of those
14 pound cured ham while living in barracks. You gotta soak it a braise it for hours.
My dad use to get gifts for himself then give them to other people and say if you don't want it I'll take it
My SIL got us a Disney snow globe. Was kind of nice. Another snow globe the next year, as well as the following year. We finally had to say no more snow globes.
Shout out to my mother-in-law who thought Beavis and Butthead and Rick and Morty were the same thing. She’s a good person but gets confused lol
My parents friends that were like family, the wife was an alcoholic and gave me acne cream! I was so insulted
I got a can of jack mackerel as a joke from my brother-in-law
Well this year, my sibling got me a box of rocks and I got them a single pair of socks.
The rocks were just to add weight to the box because it also had a piece of paper with a screenshot of an Amazon page on it. They’re going to send the actual item to my apartment so I don’t have to fit it in my suitcase.
The socks were free from career fair, but they’re mid-calf BP socks (yes like the gas station) and my sibling wanted “fun socks” this year.
Both were items that we had asked the other to get.
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Regardless, it’s nice that they were supportive, even if you weren’t actually a lesbian.
2:36 from an outside perspective this is hilarious.
I made the mistake one year of saying I liked those Chocolate Orange candies. The kind that looks like an orange that you have to whack before you unwrap it. Now I get inundated with a ridiculous amount of the things every single year.
I received nothing once. Got all my friends and family presents and nobody got me anything.
The worst gift I got was a dvd of a black comedy series I don't like from my best friend from school. She had got that as a gift from another friend but she already had that dvd. It hurt because I got her a lava lamp and she loved it, I sold the dvd for like 2€ at second hand store.
Another lousy gift was a big box of food that my friend had bought cheap because they were gonna expire. Some of the foods were already expired when I got to open the gift.
A box of Roasted Chicken Raman noodles as a gag gift. I was rather disappointed because I thought it was an Xbox 360. Got one for my birthday that year though.
A friend once gave me a Neti pot. It wasn’t a joke.
As a kid in the 1970s, I always got the most god awful looking clothing as presents from my grandparents. If you know 1970s fashion that is really saying a lot.
Banana Case-about as useless as the donut case, advertised on World's Dumbest/Smartest Inventions.
One of the worst Christmases I had was when I was 5 years old. I got some age-appropriate gifts, but I got a blue digital watch: a 5 year old in 1980 couldn't tell time, and a pencil sharpener in the shape of a cuckoo clock that was probably meant for the whole family to use. I got a blue toy piano, but didn't get to keep it for very long because I made too much noise with it and my parents were the nervous type, going through menopause. I don't remember who gave us those gifts, but if they didn't know what to get us, they should have just given us money. It's the right size, the right color, the right everything. Those people weren't hurting for money!
The best gift I never got was just after my birthday in November of 2002 when I won a $1000 Target gift card. I took my family out Christmas shopping and avoided the crowds. Now I won't even shop there because they've gone "woke".
I don't know if I got this for a Christmas or "just because" gift. I was about 10 years old and wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll. A 90-something-year-old lady from church gave me a doll, but it wasn't what I wanted, and I couldn't even play with it: it was a china doll that would break if played with. I wanted to cry right then and there, but my mother gave me that look that said, "Don't you dare!", and I knew to behave. I thanked her, but what I really wanted to say was, "Thanks for nothing!" Her daughter pulled the same stunt, but I was in my 20s when it happened. It was a plastic and rubber doll, and I gave it to the little girl my mom and I babysat for. I still have the china doll.
That's why I try to be good to other people, especially the children. Several years ago, when my church had mission dinners (later community lunches) and Easter egg hunts, I would buy a bunch of marked-down, left over holiday candy and have it for Christmas and Easter. The kids really seemed to appreciate it and I remember what my sister and I got when we were kids: hard candy! Kids remember when you're good to them, and also remember when you're not!
Nowadays, I don't do that because 1. The people at my church don't want to have the dinners anymore because too many other places are doing it and 2. Prices have gone up too much, even after the holidays. Now I put non-perishable food and sometimes clothes in the Little Pantry box in front of a community center in my neighborhood. I don't dare donate to Goodwill anymore because of what I've heard about them. I donate the books and dvds I don't need any more to the Tiny Library box nearest to me.
My ex MIL gifted my new born knitted socks and dresses one year for Christmas. She insisted on changing her into them. We live in Australia and it was 30+ in the shade. Not what to place on new borns.
I got a stuffed roadkill possum from my aunt. She said she got it as a gag gift...she is from Seattle
Just this year, literally today as I'm typing this on xmas day '24... another variation of the same plain black waffle-stitch sweater my parents have given me one of every year since 2020. I got three of them. One has raglan sleeves. I do not wear raglan sleeves because a past abuser wore them, and every time I see raglan sleeves, it reminds me of that asshole. If anyone has any suggestions on how to un-raglan the sleeves it'd be appreciated
That was my mother! I would say "I would like a red sweater" and I would get beige. A damn beige sweater five years in a row. She never had the receipt so they could be exchanged. After I left the last two at her house when I went home, she got the message.
My brother gifted me a book i let his ex-wife borrow. My name was in it and everything
the worst gift i ever got in my life was the power glove for the nes.
How many more times do you want to upload the same stories over ?
Robot voices are lame as hell.
First whoot whoot lmao🎉
Eww.
Hate this AI voice. 👎
To be fair, that one OP's parents are awesome people for wanting to show their love and support to their daughter. Its just a shame she really wasn't a lesbian.