28 Disgruntled People Share The Sh*ttiest Gifts They've Ever Received

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mattstaff
Jan 26, 2019 4:00 PM EST

These people need to seriously rework their gift-giving approach. You have to try hard to be THIS BAD at gifts. 

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  • 01
    Text - Azzizzi 4h My wife used to give me things that were intended for herself. This was a win-win for her and a lose-lose for me. She could give me something, then get mad at me for being unappreciative. One time, she gave me a frilly picture frame, thinking I would never use it. Ithanked her and took it to work.
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  • 02
    Text - jacksonflora 3h My mother in law gave me a blanket I had just donated 2 weeks before to Goodwill. She went there, bought it, and gave it to me like a new gift. Never realizing it had been in my home. Now I have to drive about an hour to donate anything for fear it will come back to my house.
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  • 03
    Text - drunktacos 4h My older sister got me a Veggie Tales coloring book for my 19th birthday, and it wasn't meant to be a joke gift
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  • 04
    Text - jonbush404 3h One year for Christmas I go to open an unusually large present from my grandma. Inside there was a slightly smaller but also large wrapped present and after about 10 more unwrapped presents later I get down to hopefully the last one which is the size of a shoebox. Unwrap it and yep it's a shoebox but what's inside I wonder? It's got to be something good right?.. It was one woman's shoe. I looked at her confused and then looked down at her feet, she was wearing the other matc
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  • 05
    Text - Lardwagon1 3h Before I went to college, my dad gave me this shirt with his face on it to remember him by and said it would help me meet some ladies. It did not.
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  • 06
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  • 07
    Text - new_acct_who_dis 3h When I was twelve my grandmother gave me a one-foot tall statue of a frog playing the flute for Christmas. She gave my brother bananas and a granola bar.
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  • 08
    Text - trifacel 4h A friend gave me a toilet roll with "Emergency Toilet Paper" written on it We laughed about it though so I guess it wasn't shitty
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  • 09
    Text - HueyLewisAndTheShoes 3h We did secret santa at work on year and the guy that got me was a close friend within the company We had a pretty jokey relationship and my present was a football. I hate sports... it was a bit funny, but watching everyone else in the room getting really thoughtful gifts really stung. Iknow it's really petty, but for some reason remember feeling so super sad that day.
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  • 10
    Text - FourEyesWhitePerson 3h My grandma went to a paint and sip thing in which she got shmacked and painted the world's worst flower. She then found a framed stitching of a bird in her closet. She wrapped both of these things and gave them to my sister and I, while she and my parents were pretending that she was losing her mind. My sister and I sat there pretending how great the gifts were and how talented a painter she was. She may suck at painting, but she's a pretty decent actor. We had a da
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  • 11
    Text - JohnMeowkovich 3h My parents gave me obviously re-gifted dollar store schlock last year. That's why this year I'm done putting thought into family gifts, I always go overboard anyway. I'd get them gift cards but they constantly lose those too!!
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  • 12
    Text - eDgAR- 2h On Christmas when I was 5 years old. I got a belt, a comb, a frisbee, and a piggy bank as presents from my relatives.
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  • 13
    Text - firstname_m_lastname 3h I got a Game Boy. The original. The year it came out. I was, as you could imagine, thrilled, especially as it came from my older brother, who wasn't always particularly nice to me. I was absolutely horrified and instantly hysterical when I opened the sealed box and it was filled with D batteries, thinking it was another "prank." Turns out someone had bought it, stolen it, re- wrapped it, and returned it to Walmart for someone else to buy. Fortunately, they replaced
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  • 14
    Text - fysicks 3h I love books, and got a copy of The Hobbit for Christmas when I was in middle school. It didn't bother me that my Uncle had bought it used. T read the whole thing... well up until the last fifteen pages which were torn out.
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  • 15
    Text - banezman 2h My girlfriend cheated on me 10 days before Christmas... before she went on a 7 day cruise with her family while I watched the animals at home because I couldn't afford to go. And she didn't get me a present other than a candle from Jamaica that year.
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  • 16
    Text - mutantmother3h Not really received per se, but the shittiest gift regardless. For the last five years my crazy wealthy great aunt has gotten "group" gifts for all the ladies in the family. For the last five years I've been the only lady not to receive one of the group gifts. My mom, my daughter, my cousins and cousin in laws all get the gift. But not me. She's never said why she leaves me out. No ones asked her wtf her issue is. My daughter finally was old enough to say something last yea
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  • 17
    Text - timmybridge 3h Once got a painted pine cone from my grandfather. Not well painted either, dude clearly dipped a brush in a few different colors stabbed at the pine cone a few times with the brush and declared it done. I was very confused. Grandpa was a drunk
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  • 18
    Text - tradingten 4h A cheese knife, everybody that knows me also knows I hate cheese with a passion
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  • 19
    Text - FurTheGigs 3h Saw someone receive the lid to a sauce pan once in an office white elephant. Just the lid. She thought she was hilarious.
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  • 20
    Text - vektorog 2h a bottle of gatorade for my 11th birthday. while my mom dragged me to the store and went ALL out for my cousin in front of me, who was born the next day
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  • 21
    Text - JordyVerrill 4h A box of Hillshire Farms sausages from my wife's grandparents. I'm a vegetarian, they had known me for 10 years at this point. Iregifted it to my dad.
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  • 22
    Text - Brunrand 3h I got a spray that you use against foot-odour by my Sister last christmas, she had packed in a box for a power tool I wanted so I went from excited to dissapointed. She got a quite expensive set of fancy soaps and body products + a gift card from me. Apparently she gave the power tool to some friend and gave me the box.
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  • 23
    Text - TabascohFiascoh 3h My buddy wrapped up his junk drawer one time for a white elephant party. I got tons of random papers, pens, rubber bands, old keys, sticky notes, markers, 50mb flash drives, and just straight up junk. A shitty gift to most people, but wow a gift has never given me so much joy and laughter. I was crying from laughing so hard.
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  • 24
    Text - jbenz 3h In my family, we have a competition to see who gets the fewest presents. That person gets to whine and complain all day about how no one likes them. Usually this is my dad, but one year it was my brother. He got almost nothing. Except a garden hose. After all the unwrapping my Dad looks right at him and says "Well, you really got hosed this year."
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  • 25
    Text - daibz 3h I don't wear jewellery so if their infinite wisdom they got me a monstrous watch that was just to big to be practical never wore it and it broke after 6 month. Lol I still got it as a reminder of how stupid that person is
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  • 26
    Text - Omega_Maru 3h After buying a very expensive watch in front of my ex as his Christmas present, he gives me a pack of stickers and a book on making crude origami as my gift
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  • 27
    Text - Mmsenrab 3h Imet my wife in january of 2010. For her birthday in July I bought her a crockpot. She was....appreciative, but later had told me she was upset. Her sister told her to break up with me cause what kind of guy buys his new girlfriend kitchen appliances. About 2 months later she finds a recipe she wants to try and busts out the crockpot. Inside it she finds a smaller gift. It was a brand new ipod touch She was pissed.
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  • 28
    Text - jacksonflora 3h My mother gave me a book for Christmas that I gave to her for her birthday a year before. She acted as though she purchased it for me. I wrote a note it it to her, so I know it was the copy I gave to her. Also, my mother in law gave me a box of plastic forks for Christmas last year. I'm chalking that one up to dementia.
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  • 29
    Text - Istoh 3h Nothing. One year my very well off (we're talking millionaires) aunt and uncle got everyone in the family a gift except for me because suddenly since I was 20, I was "too old" for gifts. But all the other aunts and uncles got gifts, so it wasn't just me being singled out among the many cousins, but among EVERYONE. If they were not absolutely loaded and they had also not given anything to the other 18+ people o might have understood. But they didn't. As an already very stressed ou
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