bad bad gift.
Grandmas, Old Aunties, Mother-in Laws, Step-Moms, and grown ass men have earned their bad rap. As a whole they’re an EPIC FAIL at the art of gift giving. The fug ideas that some people come up with are truly like WTH… are you smoking grass?
But people aren’t perfect; they just go asshat with some subjects; like GT does with algebra. I guess, in the spectrum of things receiving or giving a bad gift is not the most God awful thing in the world. Howeva…nothing says “I almost forgot to get you a present but then I saw this unthoughtful and unimaginative specimen while waiting in line at Costco” better than one of those mass produced gift baskets. For your neigbor? Yes. For your girlfriend? Perish the thought.
When smart people make stupid gift choices:
- World’s Best Mom/Dad/Cousin/Grandma/or Best Friend anything…Remember this?
- Cheap socks with fruit, veggie or garanamal themes.
- Giving a gift you want for yourself to someone else…how backhanded is that?
- All things Fingerhut and Avon…can we try something new?
- Neon anything.
- Shoving money in somebody’s hands is just tack. Get a Card.
- Unrecognizable gifts…Is is a hat?
- Wanna show old school detestment? Buy a vacuum cleaner and/or a bathroom scale.
- Surprising someone with a puppy. In theory…it sound like “Awwwwwww”, but in reality its more like”Awwww Hell.” Pet Gifts are tricky and they’re a lot of work. The require a change in lifestyle and they come with major responsibility like food and vet bills. Now if the person tells you they want a pet…make a date out of it. Go the the local shelter together and let “them” pick out a pet.
Posted by gt on December 10, 2008
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Tatum — December 10, 2008 @ 8:56 pm
That’s difficult. It seems that the no gift variety runs a tie across the board: folks you really expected “something” from who came up with air. In that case, my father would reign king of worst gift giving. Background is too complicated to give…but I’m sure you can imagine.
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Simone — December 10, 2008 @ 9:26 pm
I’ve never received a gift that I hated (at least that I can recall). However, both my aunts bought me the same sweater once which was pretty embarrassing.
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GT — December 10, 2008 @ 11:06 pm
The worst gift I’ve ever received was a Rotweiler mug for my 21st birthday and at the time I detested dogs. My meat head ex-boyfriend on the other hand wanted a dog so bad he could taste it.
Bummer.
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Naturally Alise — December 10, 2008 @ 11:33 pm
wet and wild gift set… which would have been cool @ age 11, but this was last year, age 28. booooo.
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TJ — December 10, 2008 @ 11:47 pm
The worst gift I ever received was one I asked for. Cash. It was a nice amount but it just was not what I thought it would be. It wasn’t anyone’s fault because I asked for it. I was young. Very young.
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Harlem Chic — December 11, 2008 @ 1:53 pm
Dang GT…you wrong for that Chili/TLC link…what was she thinking? LMAO….
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Harlem Chic — December 11, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
And you’re so right about the pets…my boyfriend’s friend actually bought him a kitten for his birthday…but that kitten sure was fug….it’s like “you could’ve given him a tie?
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mama's got moxie — December 11, 2008 @ 5:12 pm
awwwww… the chilli link was so sad. hahaha… i remember those and yeah, it wasn’t the greatest of greatest ideas. anyhoo, i’ve got a whole bunch of stupid gift ideas on my blog. (posting one a day even!) come check ‘em out if you get bored.
and hey, i’m kinda diggin’ that green couch.
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Bohemian Bookworm — December 12, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
The worst gifts I get are like bath-shower-lotion sets. Dude, that is really personal for you to be picking out random scents like that. Just don’t get me anything if you’re resorting to Bath and Body Works/Victoria’s Secret every year. They always get the most corny scents imaginable too…leave the beauty stuff to me unless I specifically ask, kthnxbye.
Gawd, Chilli still is shilling those bags too. I just don’t get it. They are so tacky. I read an interview with her where she said she was tired of people asking to see pictures of her kid and she would have to pull beat-up pics out of a wallet so she decided to just put him on her bag…yeah. Terrible, terrible failure.
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shayne — December 12, 2008 @ 10:29 pm
I really hate to say it because it is one of the most expensive gits ever gotten but not for me. it was a Serger. Maybe some of you would love to have one but I am not a person who sews. it was all because I asked my Mother if she had one so I could try it on something for a friend I was trying to help get a buisness going with and I get a $2000 Serger. OPPPPPPS I really want a great camera to take pictures of, um well, food.
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