It's After Christmas And AskReddit Users Are Sharing What They Now Regret Gifting (25 Responses)

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Dec 27, 2018 2:30 PM EST

Christmas is a merry time for everyone. Kids love getting presents, and parents love seeing their children filled with joy when they get awesome presents. But what about after Christmas, when the Christmas tree is just a burden that needs to be taken down, and the said presents are now annoying and loud? Anyone with children or younger siblings will understand this. We got the best stories from Reddit about the regrets after Christmas, and this thread is too hilarious to miss.  


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  • 01
    Text Puppy We added a pet with open eyes and a plan. But not sleeping through the night and cleaning up multiple puppy-messes in the last 24 hours still hurts. Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 02
    Text A Tonka police car. Multiple sirens and lights flashing. If I still smoked I would have PTSD thinking the man is breaking down my door. Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 03
    Text We got them too much. Last year, we felt we didn't get them enough, and this year we went overboard. So many presents including a Switch. Kids are 3 and 6. Little one wanted to stop kept talking about how Santa went all out. Overwhelming. They opening and just play. Older one were well behaved though! Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 04
    Text A new guitar for our 14yr old son. He has a headset that plugs into his amp, but won't use it because "then all my friends can't hear me" as he calls each and every person he has ever met since birth to personally seranade them the 4songs he knows how to play
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  • 05
    Text Noise canceling gamer head phones. Now I have to walk to him and make eye contact to talk. I forgot he likes being upstairs when I am always downstairs, I can yell all day but he can't hear me. So frustrating but liking the workout Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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    Text I didn't get it but my in-laws are regretting purchasing a "tumble train" for my toddler. The thing moves erratically and makes a crapload of noise and my kiddo is terrified of it. He starts screaming if you even show it to him Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 07
    Text My mom mother put a kazoo in my (26) stocking. I turned to her and said "why would you do this to yourself?" She also gave my sister a harmonica, which she immediately handed to me Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 08
    Text a tarantula and a big terrarium. woke up and the terrarium was empty D: Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 09
    Text My 16yo sister got my 7&9yo sister's these things called yellies. They move when you yell at them. They doing it for like half an hour yesterday and I'm so were glad I don't have to live there listening to those Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 10
    Text Gave my 6 y/o nieces snake in a cans. They spent the whole day shooting them at people. I don't regret it. though I think my sister regrets me Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 11
    Text A Lego set for my 5yr brother He threw every piece in the toilet causing it to get clogged Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 12
    Text A set of build-your-own dinosaurs, with mix and match parts. I've been stepping on lego dino pieces every 20 minutes or so for eighteen hours now. Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 13
    Text A bucket of slime. I knew better. I now have a bucket of slime all to myself. Anyone know how to remove slime from a couch? Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 14
    Text Got one gifted last year. It's really fun but unfortunately it *had no sensors on top, like, you know, for ceilings and lamps (Spoiler: It wasn't loud very long) Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 15
    Text This floating ball thing that flies on it's own and senses where your hands are. It looked cool on the box! And it is cool! They just didn't say on the box that it sounds like a symphony of 100 dental drills while it flies around the house Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 16
    Text Not a parent myself but a friend of the family got their son a toy chainsaw that he refused to let off the trigger that makes the noise. So, two hours of a constant chainsaw noise was so much fun. Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 17
    Text My 2 year old nephew is obsessed with Jeeps and I bought him a toy Jeep for Christmas. I told my sister to open it last as that is all he will want to play with. She didn't listen and opened it first. That is all he wanted to play with and would scream if it was taken away. She had to open his remaining gifts while he played with the Jeep. I kinda felt bad, but found it hilarious. Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 18
    Text I regret my in-laws getting my daughter one of those echo microphones. Dear god. She just wants to scream into it. Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 19
    Text I bought my nephew a drum kit. You're welcome sarah, I love you. Reply Share Report Save Give Award CaptDeathCap 1.8k points Thanks, Satan 16 hours ago Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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    Text I bought my nephew a drum kit. You're welcome sarah, I love you. Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 21
    Text Poopsie Surprise Unicorn. Thing has had an EGD and a colonoscopy and still doesn't work Unicorn now has a bowel obstruction and glitter aspiration pneumonia. Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 22
    Text 4 Two daughters ages 2 'LOL Dolls' - fun for 5 minutes, then the pieces all go into the bins with the rest of the itty bitty doll accessories, never to be touched again. So. Much. Wasted. Money. Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 23
    Text My in laws got my son a peekaboo Elmo that I will kill before New Year's, I'm sure. Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 24
    Text ( Got a call from my kids to pick them up because their new electric skateboards ran out of power. Find my friends says they're 9 miles away from home Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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  • 25
    Text My folks got my son magnetic fidget balls. He wound up actually swallowing some after forming a necklace with them and forgetting they were magnets. Spent Christmas in the ER, then traveling by ambulance to a pediatric gastroenterologist 2 hours away to have them removed. Fun times! Reply Share Report Save Give Award
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