'A used sweater with spaghetti stains': 25+ Bad gifts that were unforgettably weird

Getting a really bad present can throw you for a loop. On your birthday, you probably expect the usual gifts: books, some candles, or maybe a nice tee shirt. The people in your life who know you best will sometimes get you some excellent gifts, like tickets to see your favorite band live in concert, or an expensive video game that you've been wanting for ages.

After receiving all of these good and amazing presents, it takes you by surprise when you get a really awful gift. The people below told r/AskReddit all about it in response to u/flashholdergirl's question. Some are just completely inexcusable. Like it's one thing to panic-buy someone a random candle if you forgot their birthday. It's a whole other story when you're buying them a mascara that's already been used! One person shared that that happened to them… Not only was the mascara pre-used, but as a ginger, they couldn't even use that color of mascara because it looked bad on them. What a disaster of a gift!

Other people had family members who weren't exactly thoughtful about their gift-giving. One person shared that they received the same broken candle on two separate occasions, because the gift-giver had clearly bought them as a set. The array of "what were they thinking?" types of gifts here is just wild. Check out all of these great anecdotes below.

Up next, check out these cool things that will look great until spiders start making webs on them, because they're basically impossible to clean.

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