Doug & Wolf have both been victims of “Bad-Gift-Itus”. It’s a rare disease that’s spread around the holiday season.
Below is a list of the top-10 worst gifts that our listeners have received around the holiday season.
Watch out, it’s contagious.
| Josh | The worst Christmas present that I received was from my four-year-old girl three years ago when she got me a pink curling iron.She thought it would help Daddy do his hair.The worst part is my wife let her still give it to me. |
| Laura | My birthday is Dec. 22 and I was turning eight. My family would use this as a, “your birthday and Christmas are so close so here this is a combine gift,” blah blah blah.Well, Grandma had enough money to get us kids something little, but this year, the year that had just turned eight, she went all out.I got AVON roll-on deodorant and chap stick. What more could a girl ask for?
Since then I just smile and say thank you, Grandma. |
| Dan | At my work party last weekend, in the white elephant gift exchange, I received Brokeback Mountain and KY jelly!How inappropriate is that? |
| Ruth | I’ve been married for 43 years and we just didn’t have much money, but my husband told me there was an “H” in my future for Christmas.The present turned out to be a “HOOVER” vacuum. I still kid him about it. |
| Anonymous | I was thinking about this all morning. When I was 17, I got my own apartment. I wanted to be proud and held Christmas at my new place. My mom came in with her gift - a German Sheppard puppy. She placed the puppy on the ground, but when I called for it, it ran the other way.”Oh,” my mother said, “He is deaf - it might need some training.”Two months later, I left the apartment door open and the dog was gone. How do you call for a deaf dog? |
| Jim | I am 5′ 11″ and weigh 165 LBS.Sure, I have a small, little gut at 45 years old, but my wife bought me a year’s supply of nutra systems diet food.It was expensive and the gift sucked!
My wife is 5′ 7″ and weighs 115 and works out five days a week - that hurt my feelings. |
| Jym | At a gift exchange I participated in, a notorious gift changed hands every year.Forget the nose hair clippers. No, the ’sucker’ in the draw ended up stuck with a bumper stickered toilet seat.Though the stickers had a certain eclectic charm, all you could do with this topper de camode was throw it in your closet and hope you remembered to offload it the following year. |
| Anonymous | My father-in-law once got me a framed photo of himself with my wife and kids and Clue the board game.To this day, I haven’t made the connection. |
| Derek | When I was 14, for my one large Christmas gift, my mom and sister decided it would be awesome to get me a “My Buddy Doll”. It was a 3-foot-tall doll with a baseball cap and mitt.My mother said that I could walk around the house with it on my hip and put in on my bed every day as I made it before going to school.What 14-year-old boy wants a doll, I ask you? I feel emasculated to this day. My dad didn’t know about it until I opened it and all he could do was shake his head and ask my mother, “What are you getting him a damn doll for?” |
| Jacob | I heard you guys talking about this earlier, but I couldn’t send an email until I got to work, so I hope it’s not too late to be entered into consideration.Anyway, the Christmas in question was 1990 when I was 6 years old.I told my mother I wanted a hamster for Christmas, but she said I wasn’t ready for a pet so I told her if she got me a hamster she would not have to get me anything else. So, my mother, being the saint she is, went to the pet store and got me a hamster, a cage and a wheel.
However, my mother forgot to get any wood shavings for the cage, so early in the morning she ran to the shed and she filled his cage with some small wood chippings she normally used for gardening, then wrapped him and his cage in wrapping paper. However, when I awoke a few hours later and ran down stairs to get him, I peeled off the paper to find my little bundle of joy dead as a door nail. The wood chippings she used were treated with some kind of chemical and the hamster died from exposure. So, there I was, sitting with a dead hamster and no other Christmas presents other than some socks and underwear. The worst and most traumatic Christmas of all time. It took me a few days to understand why my mother would give me a dead hamster for Christmas, but finally she explained what happened and we got another one. I’d say the damage was already done. |
So, tell us: What was your worst-ever Christmas gift?
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I was dating this older guy a while & since we broke up I haven’t really spoken to him. All of a sudden he contacts me, because he had a gift for me. He put it in my car & the next morning I woke up to see a coin sorter machine. I thought ‘ oh well, I guess I could use it’. The next day found out he originally bought it for his wife & she hated it. What a jerk!
Nice list! I used to get brown silk socks every year from my Aunt. Not the kind of thing a teenager wants.
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