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[–] rumba 17 points 1 day ago

I asked my Aunt for R.E.M. at the height of their popularity. She gave me an old REO speedwagon album that had none of their hits on them. All in all, that's the worst, so i've done very well.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

My sister gifted me the third book of a fantasy trilogy series once.
I never read or got the first two books.

Also, when I was little, my grandma (who hated me with passion) bought me a pink bike just to piss me off, because she thought a boy wouldn't ever like that color. I rode that bike until I was too tall to use it and every time she saw me enjoying that thing she was furious. :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Why did she hate you with such passion ?

And why didnt she think about spray paint ?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The propensity for you and your grandma to both act out of spite for one another is impressively high. Its good to have proof you're related

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Oh, you're mistaken. I enjoyed that bike because it was a good bike. It just wasn't "boy-colored", but I didn't mind.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

We had an optional secret santa in 5th grade, meaning no kid was forced to participate if they didn't want to. It ran the month of December, you were supposed to give 1 gift a week. The first week I got nothing. The second week I got a single marble. The 3rd week I got a single pencil. The 4th and final week I got a tin of Royal Dansk Danish butter cookies. As a 5th grader, it was the biggest fucking letdown, especially when all the other kids were getting candy, toys, etc, every week.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Pizza baking sheets. They didn't fit in my oven.

A paella pan. I don't like paella.

A coffee grinder. It just doesn't grind coffee beans to the right size.

A random Italian cookbook. I have a chefs degree. I'm well down with basic Italian cooking.

See, I cook every day. Twice. And on occasion I love to cook for friends but that also means I'm over poor quality cooking stuff. I'll buy my own gear. Most people think they do me a favour but I just have useless stuff piling up over the years. I'm grateful to get gifts but last year I just told people right a way that if they want to give me cooking related gifts I would be equally happy with some special sort of salt of some fun ingredients to cook with. Those things don't last as long but it would make for a much better gift for a food enthousiast.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

same. Don't buy me electronics. I'm too much of a snob to use what you bought. Either stick to the Christmas wish list we all agreed on, or keep the receipt.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

All the computer mice, headphones, and keyboards...

The connector cable it comes with will spend 10,000x as much time in my hand than the item you intended to give me.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This isnt technically a present, but my girlfriend stored a christmas present in the loft of the garage over my car. She accidentally dropped it while getting it down to give it to me and put a ski through my windshield.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

aww, kinda cute

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A fruit roll up. Some time a few months before christmas, my sister and I were fighting over the last fruit roll up in the box. She got it initially, but I got it in the end. She put it in several boxes Matryoshka style, added weight making it seem heavier, wrapped it, and put it under the tree. Imagine my surprise, after going through several layers to find that fruit roll up. Worst. Christmas. Ever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

At least it was thoughtful.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

When I was younger and foolish, I agreed to help my boss feel a staffing void for a month and a half, which involved at least 20 hours of extra work. I was on salary, so of course it was unpaid overtime. My boss gave me a bonus of $50. That alone is kind of messed up, but my boss should have given me a raise, because it was the end of the year and that's when raises ought to be given, and instead of giving me a raise they gave me that $50 bonus.

I took the money, but I immediately lost all respect for my boss and stopped caring about that job. It was a good lesson, though. Don't work unpaid overtime, and expect your boss to shaft you, because they can take home the money that ought to be going into your wallet, if you let them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Got the same crappy t-shirt several years apart from the same person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How? Did you give it back or end up with multiple of the same shirt?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Multiple of the same shirt. Let me see if I can find it online.. I cannot. It was a massive thick print of a sumo wrestler on a surf board with a massive hang loose written on it. Besides being a terrible design, the thickness of the print alone caused excessive sweating and irritation.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Too small clothes so I'd be excited to go on a diet and lose weight... as an already very sick underweight teen with an eating disorder who wasn't a wize zero "but you'll get there"

Paulo Cohelo's garbage books to "help me with my constant depression that keeps bringing everyone down and you like books, no?"

Stuffed animal toy thay was first intended for a baby shower but the mom didn't want it so "why should it go to waste if you can have it as a birthday present"

Plastic surgery offering as a sweet sixteen present "so you can feel beautiful"

Professional acne treatment (Accutane) as a birthday present because "Oh you poor thing need it"

A used and stained old yellow blouse "because it will make you look happier" I hate yellow.

And the list goes on lol. That was growing up and it is one of the many reasons why I am no contact with all of those people.

Now as an independent adult in a stable loving relaionship surrounded by nice genuine friends, I actually get very thoughtful and beautiful gifts. Some expensive, some with no monetary cost.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interesting glimpses into a fucked up childhood via presents. Good for you that these times are over.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

My mom's boyfriend got me this huge present that just fit under the tree, the gift was pretty heavy. I racked my brain trying to figure out what it was, had no idea. Got to be honest i was a little hyped up to open this thing, even though my opinion of the boyfriend was average

Christmas day I finally get to find out what it is. open the box and it was a Microwave; a second hand microwave. He had replaced his, wasn't even a good microwave (5 minutes to boil a cup of water) Mom already had a microwave and i was 14 years old.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

About 20 years ago

I went to my family Christmas with my then-partner. I got a Grinch onesie from my family

We then attended my partner's family Christmas where basically the entire living room was stuffed with presents for the kids (my partner and their siblings). My then-partner complained about how the siblings all got more $$ worth of presents. I pointed out that I got a pair of pjs for Christmas. The reply: "it's not about the dollar amount, it's just they got more than me" (paraphrased)

I hated that present. A fucking onesie? It was such a disappointing present, and for a long time I used it as an example for questions just like this

I kept it and wore it. Eventually I lost the bitterness and started to cherish it even. Which is why I still wear it regularly this time of year! It's quite warm.. plus, it has pockets!

Grinch tax:

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gift certificate to a tanning salon when I was a Goth kid.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

that's legit funny

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

One of those fake electric smores fireplaces…. I have a real hearth

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not me, but my wife.

She receives an envelope from her grandmother, oh cool, money!
She opened it and it was empty. Okay, no fuss she probably forgot to fill one when making all of them for the family. A week later, she told her grandma it was empty. Her grandma replied "No! There's no way it was empty, your mistaken." This is par for the course. She ignores my wife all the time and talks down to her.

So an empty envelope is the worst I've seen.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 2 days ago (20 children)

People keep giving me steak house gift cards.

I'm a vegetarian. I can only eat a roll there.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I received a framed picture of my parents, from my parents. They said it was because I didn't have a picture of them hung up in my house.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Older brother wrapped up his old dirty shoes for me for Christmas.

He thought it was hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 days ago (3 children)

At the call center I worked at, our Christmas bonus was a dress shirt with the company logo on it.

My wife wears it when she dyes her hair.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Oh fuck i have a long history of this...

My parents got me a cheap set of tools, pliers, screw drivers, level and a wood burner with no wood to burn at 10. My brother got a gameboy SP and PokΓ©mon.

Two years later I got an electric shaver and Cologne. I didn't start growing facial hair until 17 and didn't have enough to need more than one pass with a razor until 26. Still have the Cologne, it's not awful but it's also not a smell that works for me.

14 I got a store made cake and $20. I can't eat the cake, the frosting makes my face hurt and that's been a problem since I was 5 so they know I can't eat the cake.

Basically, I didn't get a present for me until I met my wife at 30.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Store bought pudding, no clue what I was supposed to do with that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Eat. That's what you usually do with pudding. /j

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