Adults Are Sharing The Most "WTF" Presents They’ve Ever Received, And I’m Honestly Cackling At Some Of These Very Confusing Gifting Choices

I emotion gift-giving, truthful the holidays are my clip to shine. I cognize I’m bragging, but I instrumentality a batch of pridefulness successful giving precise thoughtful gifts. But acquisition giving isn't successful everyone's bones. Some families don't adjacent springiness gifts, truthful it was ne'er a musculus they had to workout — which is wholly okay. So, it's inevitable to person a acquisition astatine immoderate constituent successful your beingness that makes you rise an eyebrow and think, "What were they adjacent thinking?"

And folks implicit on Reddit tin genuinely testify. They're sharing the astir WTF presents they've ever received, and I'm honestly trying to clasp successful my laughter astatine immoderate of these — let’s telephone them interesting — gifting choices. So, without further ado…

1. "An ex gave maine an engagement ring...for herself. She wanted maine to usage it to suggest to her. It besides included circumstantial instructions connected erstwhile and however I should propose, arsenic good arsenic the stipulation that she would program our wedding alone. We had a unspeakable relationship, and I had been readying connected breaking up with her close aft the holidays — which I did."

—BlackLetterLies

2. "My grandparents gave maine a suitcase for Christmas — and for convenience, they utilized it to transport the piles of wrapped gifts that were each for my sister. I was ten."

—ragedandobtused

3. "A agelong clip ago, I worked for a institution owned by the richest antheral successful Minnesota. One year, each of his thousands of employees got the aforesaid Christmas bonus: a transcript of his book, which was each astir however helium became the richest antheral successful Minnesota. Cheap bastard."

—Eroe777

4. "My relative erstwhile gave maine an autographed representation of himself. Which was comic arsenic hell, truthful I didn’t mind."

—TheZ_27

5. "One year, I got what was really a ace chill present. My parents had worked for months putting unneurotic this awesome creation kit. It was a large toolbox filled with bully scissors, glue, paint, colored pencils, glitter, and each different happening a crafty small kid could want. The occupation was, each clip they went upstairs to adhd to the box, they had a moving joke: 'We're going upstairs to feed your present,' oregon 'we request to instrumentality your contiguous for a walk tehehe.' So, of course, connected Christmas morning, alternatively of being a small kid who was stoked to get a immense container of creation supplies, I was a small kid who was devastated that I didn't get a puppy."

—funky_grandma

6. "I was dating a feline for a fewer months erstwhile Christmas rolled around. Things were getting serious, truthful I got him an costly GPS for his caller occupation that had him travelling a lot. This was earlier smartphones, truthful it was a beauteous large deal. He got maine 2 things. One was an MMA mag — thing I person zero involvement successful — and it looked used. The different was a DVD of Forrest Gump with the integrative wrapper off. When I asked him astir them, helium said helium truly wanted to ticker Forrest Gump, and got bored the time earlier and decided to unfastened the DVD and ticker it. He besides said helium flipped done the magazine. So I asked, 'So you conscionable got maine things you wanted and utilized them first?' He said, 'Well, I conjecture so.' I returned the GPS for a afloat refund the adjacent day, and we broke up soon after."

—beehaw7

7. "My grandpa was readying connected giving maine wealth successful a tiny box. He decided to usage a insubstantial container to wrapper it. He accidentally wrapped the incorrect box, truthful I opened a container of tissues connected Christmas morning."

—Hummussed

8. "My member would get a heap of presents for Christmas — and beauteous costly things too, similar an aerial hockey table. I'd usually get a mates of books and articulator gloss. I was intelligibly not the favourite child. In the aftermath of acquisition opening, my ma would look astatine the heap my member got and the fewer gifts I got, and would intelligibly interest astir however evident it was. So she'd past marque a large amusement of stomping astir the house, claiming she knew she'd gotten much for maine and that she indispensable person misplaced each the different gifts! Years of misplaced gifts, and ne'er once did she find them."

—daughtcahm

9. "Mine would beryllium the twelvemonth that I gave my ex-husband a Tag Heuer watch, and helium gave maine a $19.99 Walmart blender. We already had 3 blenders."

—tealgrayone

10. "I've been with my woman for 3 years now. Her parent and aunt are very hard to handle. So I went to their household location for Christmas, and the aunt talented maine a rubber duck with the bottommost torn out. Inside was a enactment that read, 'If you're speechmaking this, you killed my bird.' She besides gave maine a stone painted achromatic with the connection 'best buds' connected it. My girlfriend's ma gave maine a nutcracker. I was confused astatine first. Then she told maine that it was a informing that if I wounded her daughter, she'd usage the nutcracker connected me. My girlfriend's dada apologized to maine later. But yeah, 3 years in, and I got a breached rubber duck that blamed maine for sidesplitting a bird, a painted rock, and a nutcracker arsenic a threat. It's harmless to say, my woman has a precise analyzable narration with her ain mother."

—TheOriginalH1h

11. "I participated successful a voluntary bureau Christmas speech successful 2012 with a $30 limit. My acquisition was a burnt CD of the giver's favourite album. I was little than enthused, but I nevertheless slid the disc into my car to cheque it out, lone to find it was blank. The idiosyncratic had written the set sanction and medium rubric connected the disc, but forgot to really pain the songs onto the disk."

—SpaceGhost817

12. "When my dada was young, helium was hellhole bent connected becoming a drummer. He would marque afloat drum kits retired of my grandmother's pots and pans and immoderate helium could find. After months and months of gathering drum sets and drumming connected thing helium could find, helium woke up Christmas morning…to an acoustic guitar and guitar lessons. He told maine helium took a fewer lessons and would ever extremity up flipping the guitar implicit successful class, and conscionable play it similar bongos."

—Swarhammer

13. "I got a acceptable of miniature food knives with ceramic effect and vegetables arsenic the handles. This was from an aunt who said that I was 'so hard to store for.' I was seven."

—vodkaenthusiast89

"I'm conscionable imagining her lasting successful the kitchenware section being like, 'Welp, I've checked this full aisle trying to find thing for that picky niece of mine. Guess they're getting food knives. Kids similar vegetables, right?'" 

—incrediblestrawberry

14. "My member got a guitar and an amp. Both of my sisters got their ain bikes. And I got...a Lamborghini calendar. I present hatred Lamborghinis."

—Stickmag

"There is simply a metallic lining to this. Many radical go obsessed with owning a Lamborghini to the constituent of overworking, gambling, and prioritizing wealth implicit each else. On the agleam side, you volition ne'er autumn into this trap." 

—Ship_Rekt

15. "When I was 12, I worked for my gramps for an full summertime to prevention up for a Kindle. Kindles were $400 astatine the time, and astatine my age, that was beauteous overmuch each my money. When Christmas came around, my ma talented each 3 of my brothers their ain Kindles. And me? I got a fewer sweaters from Old Navy. I was livid. When I asked my ma astir it, she said I kept excluding my brothers erstwhile I utilized my Kindle, truthful she was making definite nary of them were near out. She ne'er apologized oregon thought she had done thing wrong. I honestly inactive haven't forgiven her astir a decennary later."

—BlueButterflies139

16. "My ma asked what my 13-year-old girl wanted for Christmas. I said that she loves to sew. How this led to our full extended household buying my girl thing but yarn, I bash not know. Especially origin yarn is for knitting, not sewing. That was 2 years ago, and there's inactive truthful overmuch yarn."

—Downtown_Statement87

17. "My ma ever got the gifts successful our house. So the archetypal Christmas aft my parents divorced, my dada talented maine a chemoreceptor hairsbreadth trimmer. I was 12, and I decidedly didn't recognize wherefore I got that gift."

—ThisSorrowfulLife

18. "I erstwhile got a battalion of cigarettes and a rotation of trash bags. I don’t smoke."

—Cusefa

19. "My worst acquisition was a comic publication that was lying astir the location for respective months, which I work doubly during that period. I didn’t cognize it was expected to beryllium my astonishment present."

—Cheap_Stay2750

20. "My ma crocheted tablecloths for my 2 sisters and gave them to them successful beforehand of me. I conscionable stood there, trying not to cry."

—psu777

21. And finally: "Once I got a dishtowel. I was 8 years old."

—GhostlyQbe

Now it's your crook — what’s the worst acquisition you've ever received? It doesn't person to beryllium from Christmas. For me, it was decidedly a Furby. They were each the rage, and I'm definite my parents thought I'd emotion it. But arsenic a kid, it genuinely freaked maine out. During sleepovers with my cousins, they'd secretly crook it connected portion I wasn't looking, and it would commencement talking successful the mediate of the night. I was afloat convinced it was alive, and it terrified maine to nary end.

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