Santa dosen't leave coal no-more.
gimpod
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Seriously what's worse present you've ever gotten for Christmas or the thing you hate to get the most that you always seem to get ?
For me the worst was a cheap plastic wall hanging thingy that was obviously a re-gift. (It was all dusty like it had been sitting in a closet for years)
What I hate getting the most and always seem to get is clothes and linen.
For me the worst was a cheap plastic wall hanging thingy that was obviously a re-gift. (It was all dusty like it had been sitting in a closet for years)
What I hate getting the most and always seem to get is clothes and linen.
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” ~ Mark Twain
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Seriously what's worse present you've ever gotten for Christmas or the thing you hate to get the most that you always seem to get ?
For me the worst was a cheap plastic wall hanging thingy that was obviously a re-gift. (It was all dusty like it had been sitting in a closet for years)
What I hate getting the most and always seem to get is clothes and linen.
As a kid...it was always clothes...you know...socks....or a wool cap of some sort.
Shhh...don't tell anyone but while in Santa Fe we went into a candy shop that sold a bag of candy labeled "Coal" which has caramel chews in it. I'm putting that into my kid's stocking and hiding the other presents.....ain't I a stinker? :biggrin:
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thuffman03 wrote: »Would love to see their faces Saturday morning!
They are old enough (teenagers) to know dad played a prank on them and will figure out a way to get even, I'm sure. :biggrin:
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Teenagers, Yep your going to end up paying for that one. May I suggest you start sleeping with one eye open for the next couple months.
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100% WORST GIFT EVER GIVEN TO A CHILD:
I wanted a remote control car really bad, i was so excited when i opened it up and ripped it out of the box only to find it was one of those crappy ones that have a tethered wire from the controller to the car and to make matters worse, only turns in reverse and only goes straight, ah the pain is still fresh 28 years later . . . -
I received a box of Tide laundry detergent in a White Elephant gift exchange a couple of years ago....NOBODY wanted to steal that from me~TNRabbit
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I received a box of Tide laundry detergent in a White Elephant gift exchange a couple of years ago....NOBODY wanted to steal that from me~
Something similar happened to me but it was a "Hello Kitty" blanket.
Laundry detergent. That's worse than socks or tighty whities...in the wrong size.
Oh, I burned the blanket.Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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I got a shoe shine kit once.JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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Mrs. Santa Clause messed up one year and I was given a camisole and a bra. My sister ended up with a pair of mens gloves and thermal underwear that same year. We still tease her about it.
Another year, Santa messed up and I ended up getting nothing but a pair of socks. I quietly waited for something else and it never came. A couple of hours went by and my dad asked me how I liked my big gift. I said, "all I got was a pair of socks". Now my Dad rarely cursed but he immediately said, "$h!t, we forgot to bring out the other gift!".
It was my first 10 car train set. Turned out that Christmas wasn't that bad after all.~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
george daniel wrote: »I got a shoe shine kit once.
I've gotten 3 shoe shine kits at 3 different times in the past. I don't even own shoes that can be polished.
I've also gotten stuck with lame sweaters with junk hanging off of them.
I usually end up with lame stuff from The Sharper Image too like "emergency radio/flashlight/siren tool" or an "emergency car window hammer" or "pocket screwdriver set" or "combination lint brush/pet hair remover/shoe horn" and other stupid stuff. Who uses that crap anyway? I'll tell you who, NO ONE because it's all unbelievably cheap and completely useless. You want to have a smaller carbon/environmental footprint? You can reduce by 50% at least by NOT BUYING THAT CRAP!
Why do people waste the money? Just take the cash you would spend on the lame gift and just give it to me in a card. Doesn't even have to be a real card. Steal some paper from work and a dry erase marker. Doesn't even have to be red or green! Mark it blue or purple or BROWN even! You don't even have to write "Merry Christmas". Write like "Happy Arbor Day, Numbnuts" or something. It'd certainly be less insulting than the "I don't think enough of you to put any thought or effort in to this so I just grabbed any old thing so go suck an egg, loser" gifts that I get.
The people get mad at me when they ask "What do you want for Christmas?" and I tell them "Don't bother."Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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It was my first 10 car train set. Turned out that Christmas wasn't that bad after all.
My parents did that to me too. I ended up with a stocking full of fruit, a couple matchbox cars for my collection and a woolly hat and gloves. That was it. Everyone else in my family is sitting in the middle of a pile of loot and I was like WTF? I was rather dejected but just sucked it up as another Christmas full of BS gifts and second thoughts.
Then my mom said "Where's your gift?" I was like "Huh? This is it. Fruit, gloves, a hat and Matchbox cars." Then she flipped out on my dad asking where the hell did he put it. He said "Oh! I forgot!" He ran in to the garage and came out with a pretty big, long box. I opened it up and there was the rifle I had asked for. A .22 caliber Marlin semi-automatic target shooting rifle with a scope so I could compete next summer in BSA target shooting program thingy. Handles magnum rounds and .22 bird shot too! Not to start a gun conversation, just that was the gift I got and since it was a $600 rifle, it was a pretty big deal.Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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My parents did that to me too. I ended up with a stocking full of fruit, a couple matchbox cars for my collection and a woolly hat and gloves. That was it. Everyone else in my family is sitting in the middle of a pile of loot and I was like WTF? I was rather dejected but just sucked it up as another Christmas full of BS gifts and second thoughts.
Then my mom said "Where's your gift?" I was like "Huh? This is it. Fruit, gloves, a hat and Matchbox cars." Then she flipped out on my dad asking where the hell did he put it. He said "Oh! I forgot!" He ran in to the garage and came out with a pretty big, long box. I opened it up and there was the rifle I had asked for. A .22 caliber Marlin semi-automatic target shooting rifle with a scope so I could compete next summer in BSA target shooting program thingy. Handles magnum rounds and .22 bird shot too! Not to start a gun conversation, just that was the gift I got and since it was a $600 rifle, it was a pretty big deal.
As long as you didn't shoot your eye out!
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You know, the year after Mrs. Santa Clause gave me the gift that was supposed to go to my sister, I got her back. Hehe. I had bought her a really nice necklace and wrapped it up in a small box. Then I wrapped it up in another box. Then I wrapped it up in another box. Then I wrapped it up in another box.......you get the picture. I think there were ten or eleven boxes altogether with Christmas cards about every third or fourth box stating that this was the last box.
The family was rolling on that one! Her reaction each time she opened it was priceless. :biggrin:~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
I got chapstick for a grab in 2nd grade. I remember buying (well, my mother buying) one of the best GI Joe guys out for the grab, and in return I got chapstick. Seriously, chapstick.
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My first BMX bike was a neon pink BMX bike. I know it was the '80's, but come on.
I also received some sort of radio mount to put on the handle bar. Large, gaudy and could only play AM radio. It also made some sort of high-pitched buzzing sound that I suppose was meant to mimic a horn, but really only served to make all the neighborhood dogs bark.I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore -
You know, the year after Mrs. Santa Clause gave me the gift that was supposed to go to my sister, I got her back. Hehe. I had bought her a really nice necklace and wrapped it up in a small box. Then I wrapped it up in another box. Then I wrapped it up in another box. Then I wrapped it up in another box.......you get the picture. I think there were ten or eleven boxes altogether with Christmas cards about every third or fourth box stating that this was the last box.
The family was rolling on that one! Her reaction each time she opened it was priceless. :biggrin:
Well, one year, I wanted a head unit for my truck. It was quite expensive (About $480) and I knew no one was going to get it for me. So I asked for cash from everyone so I could pool it together and and have enough to get the head unit. My mom was insistent that I get at least one gift because cash was lame. She wouldn't stop pestering me about it and I ended up blowing up at her and yelled "Soap! I wants lots and lots of soap! And a Ferrari!" So I had one box on Christmas day with a card taped to it. In my stocking was some fruit, a couple Butterfinger bars and a Hot Wheels Ferrari. When I opened the card, it just said Merry Christmas. I opened the box and there were 3 bulk packs of Zest soap from BJ's. I was like "Sonofa...what the hell am I going to do with all of this?" So I closed the box back up rather pissed off that my mom wasted time and money like that. The she called me scrooge and told me to take the soap out of the box so she could put it away. So I did and taped to the bottom of the box, under the soap, was another envelope with $300 cash in it.
So the next year, she wanted something small. I forget exactly what it was. It wasn't jewelery. I think it was a digital voice recorder. She worked at the church as the parish book keeper and did work for the Diocese as well. She would record the meetings and use the recordings to make the minutes. She was using an ancient tape recorder and it broke. We couldn't fix it so I got her the voice recorder and the biggest media card I could find at the time. I took the small box, triple wrapped it with the first layer being completely covered in tape. Then I went and took a box I had from a Kirkey racing seat I ordered, it was HUGE. I filled it with peanuts and stuffed the recorder down in the middle in a plastic bag that I put in another plastic bag and I taped that bag to the bottom of the inside of the box. The I taped the bag shut. I closed the box and taped it up at every seam with tamper proof tape, double thick and then I triple wrapped that too.
It took her almost 45 minutes to open it.Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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he,he,, I still have my emergency flashlight too,,always a surprise when I turn it on,lol.JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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zombie boy 2000 wrote: »My first BMX bike was a neon pink BMX bike. I know it was the '80's, but come on.
I also received some sort of radio mount to put on the handle bar. Large, gaudy and could only play AM radio. It also made some sort of high-pitched buzzing sound that I suppose was meant to mimic a horn, but really only served to make all the neighborhood dogs bark.
Sweet.
And don't feel bad. I had a friend who was bragging and bragging about getting a "brand new Dyno Comp!!!!" for Chanukkah and a new snowboard (he never set foot on a mountain let alone a ski slope) and a radio controlled car.
Well, he got his Dyno Comp but it was a "signature series" of one of the factory team freestyle guys. the bike was painted neon pink and powder blue with white handle grips, sprocket, pedals, tires, wheels and seat. The seat had metal flake sparkles on it.
The snowboard was lavender with neon green "shredded" accent stickers that all peeled off the first time he used it. He also came back with a cast on his left arm because he broke his wrist snowboarding. The doctor at the ski resort infirmary only had "hot pink" left when he wrapped the cast.
The radio controlled car wasn't so bad. But he was bragging about how fast it was and he wanted me to race him with my RC car. I had my own paddock of 7 cars at the time because I was actively racing. He told me to bring my fastest one which he thought was my Tyco Bandit. But I brought my fastest one, a Losi Junior T running Losi's factory "mod motor" the "Losi Super Insane". He comes out with a Nikko Dune Buggy Two. At least it was the cool red and black color.
At least we stopped hearing about how cool his Chanukkah gifts were.Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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At least we stopped hearing about how cool his Chanukkah gifts were.
Yeah, but I bet his dradle could kick your dradles arse !
Worse gift ? Got a bike one year, back in the day when bananna bikes were new and cool. Oh, I didn't get a bananna bike: no, it was a Western Flyer (from Western Auto ?) that was kind of a cross between a mountain bike and a Polish tank.
The only thing that bike didn't come with was a sign that said "Knock Me off My Bike". Learned how to peddle real fast, though.
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Erik Tracy wrote: »As a kid...it was always clothes...you know...socks....or a wool cap of some sort.
Shhh...don't tell anyone but while in Santa Fe we went into a candy shop that sold a bag of candy labeled "Coal" which has caramel chews in it. I'm putting that into my kid's stocking and hiding the other presents.....ain't I a stinker? :biggrin:
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george daniel wrote: »he,he,, I still have my emergency flashlight too,,always a surprise when I turn it on,lol.
Hahaha, I got one for Christmas last year where you had to shake the flashlight to charge it up. -
hearingimpared wrote: »Hahaha, I got one for Christmas last year where you had to shake the flashlight to charge it up.
See, that one is useful! Throw it in the door pocket of the truck and never worry about batteries dying or leaking at the worst time!Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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I once got a string of 25 Christmas lights with little aluminum stars around each light. WOW, just wow.If...
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Guess you could call it a bad gift. I collect guitars...and a "friend" of mine as a joke sent me a hot pink Hello Kitty guitar one year. I seen the box and thought he had gifted me one of his vintage Kramers I had been trying to buy from him. I was dissapointed and laughing at the same time really.
A neighbor up the road from me gives me a 12 pack of Natural Light ever year to. :eek:--Gary--
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A neighbor up the road from me gives me a 12 pack of Natural Light ever year to. :eek:
Hey man, free beer is the best beer even if it is natty light.Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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