The Worst Christmas Presents People Received

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Eric Lund
Nov 12, 2021 10:00 PM EST

There's so much pomp and circumstance leading up to Christmas that the holiday is primed for disappointment. As kids, it was easy to get our hopes up about a new bike, only to see those same hopes plummet when we unwrapped a used copy of Ben Hur on VHS. Was there even a lesson here? Maybe "don't expect too much from your Aunt Carol." Either way, bad gifts are at least worth seeing how your loved ones will panic and compromise on giving a golf trophy to a 9 year old.

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    Font - TrinixDMorrison · 16h A 1000 piece Nightmare Before Christmas puzzle Now at first glance that sounds pretty sweet, but the completed picture was that of the final scene of the movie where Jack and Sally hold each other's hands on Spiral Hill. Still sounds nice? Yea, well do you know how much of that shot is just black background??? I must've spent 3 weeks putting together that puzzle which was 80% colorless and featureless black pieces before ultimately giving up on it.
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    Font - AMC_Tendies42069 · 14h 8 F & 13 More Instead of received I'll switch to gave. I bought my whole family tickets to see James Brown live. Literally within minutes of them opening their presents it was announced on the news Christmas morning that James Brown died.
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    Smile - Cheap_Stay2750 · 16h A comic book that was laying around the house for several months which I read twice in this period. I didn't know it was supposed to be my surprise present.
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    Font - MagicJasoni - 17h My aunt is very eccentric and would always ask for a Christmas list from me, so, for a few years, I would send her a list, only to realize that she would give me something from the Dollar Store, wrapped in re-used wrapping paper from the previous Christmas. I once got cologne from the Dollar Store when I was 8 or 9. And she wasn't poor; quite the opposite. She had a lovely house and a pretty high-income job. She was just a little messed up mentally. So, one year, when I
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    Font - Cusefa · 16h O A pack of cigs and a roll of trash bags. I don't smoke.
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    Smile - TheZ_27 · 15h 3 2 My cousin once gave me an autographed picture of himself. Which was funny as hell so I didn't mind.
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    Font - SpaceGhost817 - 15h · edited 11h 3 2 I participated in a voluntary office Christmas exchange in 2012 with a $30 limit. My gift was a CD-R of the givers favorite album. I was less than enthused, but nonetheless slid the disc into my car to check it out only to find out that it was blank. The person had written the band name/album title on the disc, but forgot to actually burn a copy. Edit: it was supposed to be the album "Spit" by Kittie.
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    Font - tgh_hmn - 16h · edited 16h 3 3 Started loving computers at age 7 in 92 (ZX Spectrum and then 186, 286 etc) at our local kids club, kept on going, learned to code early, was addicted to everything related to them. Grandma called me and told me she had sent money to my parents to buy me a PC ( at 11, in 96). I was so excited, al my friends could not wait to see it and play with me, I could not sleep for days on end. Then Christmas Eve came ( we do the gifts in the evening). Rushed under the
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    Font - funky_grandma · 15h One year I got what was actually a super cool present. My parents had worked for months putting together this awesome art kit. It was a big toolbox filled with good scissors, glue, paint, colored pencils, glitter, and every other thing a crafty little kid could want. The problem was, every time they would go upstairs to add to it, they had a running joke where they would say "we're going upstair to feed your present" or "we need to take your present for a walk tee tee
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    Organism - Downtown_Statement87 - 14h O My mom asked what my 13-year-old daughter wanted for Christmas and I said, "she likes to sew." How this led to our entire extended family buying her nothing but yarn I do not know. That was 2 years ago and there's still so much yarn.
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    Organism - Pre_Gen_Character · 16h - edited 3h 2 When I was 18 my grandma gave me the card label from a gift card (no actual gift card) shoved into an empty toilet paper tube and wrapped like a gift. All of my siblings got actual gift cards. Grandma never liked me much.
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    Smile - mistahmarbles 16h e2 3 4 My great grandma gave my cousin a jock strap from goodwilI. Her mental health was bad at this time. 1992ish? He started crying. He was 9.
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    Eye - GhostlyQbe · 14h 2 34 A dishtowel.. I was 8 years old.
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    Eye - Stickmag - 14h @2 3 A Lamborghini calender. My brother got a guitar and amp. My two sisters got a bike each. Fuuk i hate Lamborghinis now
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    Handwriting - vodkaenthusiast89 · 14h 94 32 A set of miniature butter knives with ceramic fruit and vegetables as the handles. From an aunt who said that I was "So hard to shop for" I was 7
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    Font - toKenblaKKman - 16h Titanic DVD, pirated copy, already seen it before twice, didn't have a case, just had Titanic written in marker pen, it didn't belong to the person who gifted it, the DVD was SCRATCHED AND DIDN'T EVEN PLAY!
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    Font - Yippee614 - 15h 2 Every year my aunt gives our family "Thrift Santa" gifts, like a bunch, from thrift stores. The thing is, nothing relates to anything. The worst I've gotten are among a Kama Sutra book when I was 13/14 (awkward), and a New York Yankees baby onesie. I don't have kids, I don't watch baseball.
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    Organism - AnneFrank_nstein - 16h 2 Last year my mom.bought me a can opener. Wrapped it and gave it to me when everyone was gathered around exchanging gifts too so theyd all see and get to share in her laughter. Unfortunately she was the only one who found it funny, everyone else just thought it was f.ked up.
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    Font - GerberGoo · 16h One time when I was 10 my mum gave me & by brother a packet of plastic rainbow bendy straws each for Christmas. She was mad at our dad for having brought us back 3 days late from his part of the holidays & took it out on us. Being a contrary soul, I happily took my brother's discarded pack & proceeded to make a million rainbow flutes that I would incessantly try to learn to play, for the next two months. I suspect she lived to regret her choice since I also never cleaned a
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    Font - Automatic_Mulberry · 17h 3 Cheap cologne (I don't wear cologne) that I suspect was shoplifted.
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    Font - BlackLetterLies - 15h 3 An ex gave me an engagement ring for herself, on the idea that I would use it to propose to her. She also gave specific instructions on how and when I should do it, as well as stipulations that she would be the one planning our wedding. We had a terrible relationship andI had been planning on breaking up with her right after the holidays (which I did). I couldn't understand how she thought we were even close to being on the same page, and once it was all over I rea
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    Smile - Nik_Tesla - 15h O e2 3 Looking back, it wasn't a bad present, but when I got a pair of pants for Christmas when I was 6, I started crying and screamed out "You're supposed to get me these anyways!"
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    Font - Bluellan - 15h Office supplies. I was in the 2nd grade. It was the class gift exchange. Imagine being a kid, watching everyone else open dolls, and cars, and glitter pens. While you're sitting there with a calculator, tape dispenser, and stapler. Apparently, the girl who drew my name was in the hospital a lot and her parents just grabbed things from the gift shop? No idea why a teddy bear wasn't on the list. I ended up giving everything to my Nanna since she was a teacher.
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    Human body - tealgrayone - 15h The year I gave my ex husband a Tag Heuer watch he gave me a $19.99 Walmart blender. We already had 3 blenders.
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    Rectangle - ragedandobtused - 14h O When I was 10 years old my grandparents gave me an unwrapped suitcase for Christmas. In the interests of convenience, they used that suitcase for the wrapped presents for my sisters.
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    Human body - sulfuricZoologist - 16h A ceramic jar for holding dog treats when I was 15 when we had JUST given him away. Miss u Rascal
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    Font - Picards-Flute· 16h 50 pounds of russet potatoes.
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    Font - The_Quicktrigger · 14h A box of top ramen. Just a standard grocery box of ramen bags. It was wrapped up with a nice bow too, and it was not gifted as a joke. My family knew I was having financial troubles and was only eating one meal a day, they honestly thought they were helping me out.
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    Font - Swarhammer 14h 2 Since my dad isn't on Reddit I will share his story for him. When he was young he was hell bent on becoming a drummer. He would make full drum kits out of my grandmothers pots and pans and whatever he could find. Very detailed set ups. After months and months of building drum sets and drumming on anything he could find he woke up Christmas morning...to an acoustic guitar and guitar lessons. He told me he took a few lessons and would always end up flipping the guitar over
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    Human body - hobbitdude13 · 15h · edited 13h 3 "I'm taking $500 off the debt you owe me." - written in a Christmas card from my adopted mother.
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    Font - Hummussed - 13h S My grandpa was planning on giving me a tissue box with money in it (still not sure why) Anyway he wrapped the wrong box and I opened a box of tissues on Christmas morning
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    Human body - El_Hijueputa 16h Grandma got me a dollar store electric toothbrush. Y'all know that thing didn't even turn on
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    Font - Boring_username_419 - 17h - edited 7h 100 piece Tupperware set. I was 19 and living in a dorm.
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