This thread is to make Hope feel better

[hissy]

Come on gang, share your tackiest gift you ever received with all of us-

For me it was a $1.00 scratcher, not wrapped, but put in an envelope and dropped inside my mailbox (no stamp) It also wasn't a winner

 

[lilleah]

I once got a beer token to a bar (I dont drink very often, especially at bars) in a ring box.

 

[stormy]

A trial size Avon hand lotion that cost .99 cents, but the person who gave it to me sold Avon at the time, so got a discount on that 99 cents.

At least it was wrapped!

 

[marie-p]

I got a bag of cheap white socks from walmart

ok, at least that was kind of useful. but still

 

[valanhb]

Mine wouldn't have been a bad gift for someone else, but it was for me. Last year, my sister gave me a basket with little jars of various jellies and jams. Sounds OK, except that I don't like fruit and I don't eat jams or jellies (they have a consistency that I have issues with). And it was my sister, who at least should have darn well known that I have never eaten this stuff in my life! We grew up together for crying out loud!!! Since she really does not like chocolate at all, I thought about getting her a nice box of chocolates this year as payback.

But I didn't, I got her something nice and useful.

 

[rapunzel47]

A tin of cheap biscuits, with the discount store price tag still on.

 

[captiva]

When DH and I were dating we got matching shirts. More expensive than VO5, Hope, but it was very painful.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

Umm....a knock off Barbie (her heads, forearms, and shins were all that was plastic. The rest was bean stuffed cloth. Oh and I was 15 at the time. Then I also was given (at 16) a half porcelin half beanie stuffed Snow White doll, and one of her eyes had the eyelashes glued on upside down. Oh and the 'bust' of the doll was baggy, so I stuffed her with bubblewrap!

Mom once got a wallhanging thing made from plastic spoons! The spiraled out from a center and had a face on it. And the outside had a crochet lacy frilly thing that was a nasty shade of yellow. She used it the next year for a gag gift game.

 

[menagerie mama]

My aunt once got me a nail polish kit from the dollar store for my birthday, after I had asked for ice fishing supplies!...

 

[joecool]

Two years ago i got this stupid dancing hamster, he sings "today is yoiur birthday" in an annoying voice. I still have him. And the worst part, he is dressed for kung-fu fighting, with a black belt and numchucks! lol

 

[ricalynn]

Aw, but I love that dancin' hamster!!!

Hmmm, tackiest gift ever? The calendar chapstick from Avon I got EVERY year in grade school from my grandmother. She always bought three, one for each of the grandkids

 

[talon]

Stridex

 

[ricalynn]

Originally Posted by Talon

Stridex

mmm, nice

 

[talon]

Yep, ain't families grand?

 

[xocats]

A used coffee brewer that didn't work.

 

[vespacat]

From my mother, who I have a crappy relationship to begin with

... A cheap, scratchy, frilly, ugly grandma nighty with a huge floral print, up to my neck and down to my ankles... when I was 18 years old. ANY gift would have been better.

 

[gratefulbear629]

A Puss in Boots pop-up book from my Great Grandfather.

I was 13 or 14 at the time!!!! Not to mention he also gave my brother a pop-up book (but Hansel & Gretel) who was 2 or 3 at the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Atleast he knew I liked cats.

 

[laureen227]

i wish i had a tacky gift to post, simply to make Hope feel better, but i'm fortunate enough never to have received one...except in a gag gift exchange! my sympathies &

to those of you who have...

 

[pushylady]

One of our wedding gifts: a cheap purple plactic tray holding a dozen glasses that you got for free when from a gas station when you filled up. All nicely wrapped in clear cellophane.

 

[purr]

The tackiest gift I've ever gotten was nothing, from someone who made a point to get me nothing, but to get mutual friends something very nice.