O.k. Now that the christmas season is pretty much over, (as well as this year), people are returning items.

Soooooo...... What was the worst christmas gift you recieved? I'm refering to this year of course but if you are one of those rare people that got all the cool stuff you wanted, you could post one from a previous year. A tacky neck tie, a gaudy table centerpiece, .... come on fess up.


On a flip side I'll start one for the best gift if it hasn't already been started.

A 10 pack of kitchen towels - useful of course, but I wanted a square roaster

This year my husband received a napkin and silverware caddy from my Aunt at our family gift exchange.

I was so mad. He's like a big kid at Christmas and that was sure a disappointment, especially since that was his only gift from the extended family (since it was an exchange).

Me, I got great gifts, but that has just irritated me for the last week.

Bath gel stuff from the person I gave it to last year. The very gift set. On the upside, it's stuff I like, hee hee.

One year, hubby's family (every single one of them mind you) gave me something I ALREADY OWNED!!! Shortly after that I called a family meeting and asked that instead of giving each other a bunch of useless gifts could we just pool the $$ and give to a charity of choice... That got shot down in a hurry!!

Not a single thing. No, I don't mean that I got everything I wanted. I didn't get a single, solitary gift. Not even a card. Blah.

Rachel

Thank you! It's okay - Christmas is for the kids, well the gift part is. I enjoyed the Christmas music I played for a month. My favorite is Manneheim Steamroller's Veni Veni Emmanuel. SO PRETTY!

Rachel

I got a coffee mug you plug into the lighter in the car fron DH I think he was being funny because the next gift was a beautiful diamond necklace

I got a few choice gifts from the children in my class at school (I teach 10 year olds). I think the worst one was from a child who is incredibnly hard work, very badly behaved etc. His mum had bought for him to give to me a quarter bottle of wine - yes, a QUARTER bottle of wine!! It's just about enough for one glass. So after all that greif and time I spend with her son I'm worth not even one £3.00 bottle of wine. I think it's worse than not buying anything. The best presents from the children are things like a homemade card, a handmade friendship bracelet or string of beads, one child made me some rice crispie cakes. Bless

We tried the donating to charity thing this year. I liked it a lot but have already received an email from an in-law that we should go back to giving gifts. Guess she's not in the spirit of giving...she'd rather receive! Happy New Year to all!

I got from inlaws a nightgown, perfume that I will never use (I have like 5 bottles of perfume that I do like, what am I gonna do with perfume that I don't like?), a candle, and a knife set. The knife set would be fine if I didn't have 3 other sets of the same knifes. Hubs got me a 2007 cat calender and a red tea kettle. The tea kettle is fine since I had asked for one. The good gifts from him are coming cause he told me to order it since he doesn't understand cake talk so I ordered some net nails, the Hampshire Plastic Heart Kit, cake jacks, a magnet liquid mesurement conversion chart, a magnet dry measurement conversion conversion chart, and the mini educated cake pan (it's the one with the cubes and you can make numbers and letters with it).

My mom got me a wooden wall clock. i know, doesn't sound so bad...but what am I going to do with it. I don't have room to hand it and I'm just not into that type of thing. Last year she got me a quilt rack...great idea, except that I make quilts, I don't collect them!!!

-Bethany

Well I got ( from the MIL of course) A tacky dollar store foam photo album with drama queen written on it!! Hubby got girly black socks. (LOL)Not knocking the dollar store, I mean I could think of twenty other things from there that would have been much more thoughtful.

My husband bought me an NFL football jersey. We went to a game this year and I mentioned that I didn't have any team clothes to wear. So, he went and bought me fancy jersey of a player I like but what am I going to do with it? I would only wear it to games and we only go like once a year. Otherwise it will just hang in my closet and those jerseys are expensive! It seems like a waste to me and I've been thinking of returning it but he seems to really want me to have it. So...I still have it.


Happy New Year Ya'll!

The worse thing I got was one of those cheap makeup kits. You know the ones with the bright orange lipsticks and lime green eye shadows. I get one almost every year from my mom. She tries so hard I don't even say anything, just smile and think how much fun Halloween will be.

My best gift was from my Hubby. I got a Roomba. The robotic vaccumes. He totaly surprised me because 3 weeks ago our vaccuume died. I have 2 kids a dog and a cat, we can't go more than a day without a vaccume so he told me to go get the cheapest one I could find because our budget was too tight for anything else. Didn't see it then but obviously he'd already bought my present.

My worst gift was from my MIL. She gave me a fleece blanket with her company's name on it. She's had these things for a long while I'm sure b/c she told me she found and purged alot of things two months ago. I know the blanket was some of the things she found that was stored away.

Okay, Actually this year I didn't get a worse gift. I guess I was fortunate. I loved all my gifts. Although I did get a duplicate item that I don't know what to do with. I asked for an airbrush and ended up with 2 really good ones. One from my husband and one from my brother in law. The unfortunate part is I can only take it back and get store credit for the other one. Well the store doesn't have much else in way of cake decorating supplies so I guess I'm forgoing it to my husband for his model train stuff.

My dad got us a rotisserie. Right. We have no space for it, so it will sit in our closet.


And one time my dad got me a left-handed hockey stick. I don't play hockey. And I'm a righty.

Well lets see....The worst gift was not getting a gift at all---MIL came to my home with gifts for everyone including the cats and dog and nothing for me (LIFETIME Movie network drama I call it!)

Also I received plenty of Asian things from her--Being Asian she thought I would like them!

This year I got ROOMBA!! (from my HUBBY yay--Only problem....Someone had used it and returned it full of hair and who knows what else!

So I called to see if they had another and they did not. They called me to say that they would split the cost of the upgrade for the next model up--$70.00 on us. Well I returned it last Tuesday and told them that it was used yada yada. They call me Wednesday to say that they had one. I called them to ask how and they said well someone returned one. Of course it was the one I returned and YES they put it back ion the floor. The clerk says"You returned one here last night on the second floor at this mall?"" YES I DID!! So gross!!!

So anyway not a bad Christmas if it will cut my vacuuming a bit!!

Hmmm....I wouldn't call this a "worst gift" because I actually like it. But, it's weird enough to get mention.

I got an icecream maker that is inside of a ball kinda like a hamster ball. You know, one of those plastic balls that you put a hamster in so they can run around a room, but can be easily caught. The ice cream maker is inside a plastic ball about that size and you kick it around until the ice cream is done.

it's hillarious!

I got a "Barbie Briefcase" from my MIL. .. It's suppose to be a business card holder with a calculator, but let's face it, it's a Barbie Briefcase. Of course, if I showed up to ANYthing with this thing, my agent would kick my ets.. I would have prefered the check she usually gives us or at least a return receipt but we didn't get either one of those. She also gave us a golf picture frame and golf clock which would be great, IF WE GOLFED, but in the past 3 years, I've gotten to golf ONE time (nearly broke the club over my head I got so PO'd), and DH barely gets out to do 9, 2x per. As if that wasn't helping to load the garage sale pile, she got us a celestial angel. I collect angels, but a VERY specific kind and type, this TOTALLY does not fit with the collection. Then she gave us a wall cross, but the problem is it's a T-A-C-K-Y looking one that I would NEVER EVER consider putting up. We have some beautiful wall crosses we got for our wedding that haven't gotten put up yet because we've been talking about moving for a LONG time and we just don't have the places to put them up.

I'm insisting that next year we do a Christmas list for the family because we know she spent loads on this stuff, that NONE of us are ever going to use. At least in previous years she got the cheapy tool set for the car or wherever.

I guess I'm very lucky because I did get tons of gifts (to many really) and not one of them did I hate. But I would say the one I disliked the most was a game Deal or No Deal. Now I think it's a fun game to watch once in awhile and would be gret thing to get on. But to play it.........without the real money involved is very dull.

Other then that one I really liked all my other gifts.

Hmmm, the worst gift I got.... A calendar from my sister. Now usually I don't mind receiving calendars (they're useful I suppose) but my sister gets me one EVERY year! I just wish she would put more thought into what she gets....