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Look, I get that gift-giving isn't everyone's emotion language, but there's a wide quality betwixt putting effort into a acquisition and intentionally giving idiosyncratic crap.
I came crossed this Reddit thread started by u/veryscarybutalsonot, and I instantly thought of 1 of my ex-boyfriends who bragged astir being an astonishing gift-giver up of our archetypal Valentine's Day together, lone to springiness maine thing but a store-bought paper helium conscionable scribbled his archetypal sanction wrong of...
Anyway, the folks successful this thread besides received immoderate beauteous unspeakable (and thoughtless) gifts for peculiar occasions! Let's get into it:
1. "I got a candle this Christmas from my husband. It says, 'You're the champion happening I've recovered connected the internet.' We met successful precocious schoolhouse successful 1996."
2. "Cockroaches arsenic a 'prank' connected my birthday. I broke my limb that day. I ran erstwhile I saw cockroaches crawling retired of the box. Then, I fell from the stairs. I was 12 backmost then."
3. "My ex gave maine a high-tech astute standard for Christmas. The worst part? He'd acceptable it up truthful that each clip I weighed myself, it would automatically nonstop a notification to HIS phone, supposedly to 'help maine way my advancement and enactment motivated'. I packed my bags connected December 26th."
4. "I had idiosyncratic expanse the level for me, and helium said 2 days aboriginal that was his day contiguous for me. No joke."
5. "My parent ordered 1 of those tiny integrative container openers arsenic a day acquisition to me. I thought it was 2 parts, and this was a cheeky acquisition to unfastened it with. Nope, it was conscionable a small portion of integrative with a semi-sharp edge. The twelvemonth earlier that she sent maine a container of peanut food candies… I've been allergic to peanut food my full life."
6. "My mother-in-law (after knowing her for good implicit 2 years) finally, FINALLY asked my hubby what I'd similar for Christmas. He told her to get maine acquisition cards to bargain books (YAY!!!). She brought maine market store flowers. I don't ain a vase."
7. "My parents gave my sister a caller telephone for MY birthday. My acquisition was her aged phone. My ex erstwhile gave maine 2 tickets to his favourite shot team, astir 600 km away. He told maine I'd conscionable person to publication a edifice and thrust determination since helium didn't person a license. Petrol would've been astir 100€. A inexpensive edifice would've been astir 200€."
8. "I got a laundry handbasket and laundry soap for my day from an ex. For real. My responsibility for telling him I liked his $15 laundry handbasket alternatively of my crappy $5 1 the archetypal clip we did laundry together."
9. "A utilized java mug from a assemblage I wanted to spell to but couldn't afford, with a sticker connected the bottommost that said '10 cents.' It was a graduation acquisition from my aunt. Apparently, my parents had fixed each of their 3 kids $100 erstwhile they graduated. My parent was livid."
10. "The tin of blueberries that comes successful the blueberry muffin premix box. Lol."
11. "My grandma got maine a bikini shaver erstwhile I was successful mediate school. Mortified then, inactive mortified now."
12. "An expired acceptable of mini blistery sauces. I'm talking SAMPLE SIZES. Why???"
13. "I've received a bid of atrocious presents from my hubby and his family. Usually, they springiness maine cleaning items. The worst truthful acold has been a woody crockery rack with lavation rags due to the fact that I'm conscionable the maid, apparently."
14. "My grandparents gave maine an oculus disguise from an hose they traveled connected and a parmesan grater with the tag, 'Free parmesan grater with each jar of Dolmio sauce' inactive on."
15. "A creepy coating of Santa. Context here: My parent ever got maine things SHE wanted (which is comic due to the fact that she ever asks what I privation and past gets maine what she wants). BUT, she gets huffy if you don't conscionable emotion it. She has adjacent been known to instrumentality gifts backmost if you aren't utilizing them the mode she thinks you should. So, each year, I had to enactment up this creepy coating of a Santa that everyone successful the location hated. My kids virtually named it 'Creepy Santa,' lol. Yes, my parent would look for it erstwhile she came over."
16. "A ample vessel of shampoo and conditioner that had been sitting successful their bath furniture for astatine slightest 3 years prior. I cognize due to the fact that I helped cleanable retired the cabinet."
18. "A feline I 'dated' for a fewer weeks successful precocious schoolhouse gave maine a battalion of heated condoms for our 'anniversary' (one period together). He'd been trying to unit maine into sex. I did not proceed to spell retired with him."
19. "My ex bought maine a $6 bouquet of mums from Walmart aft she cheated connected me. She didn't adjacent apologize; she conscionable said, 'Men lone get flowers erstwhile they die, and you merit them portion you live.' So I go, 'Okaaay, truthful men get flowers erstwhile they dice AND erstwhile they get cheated on? Thanks.' Straight successful the trash."
20. "Tupperware instrumentality with a Goodwill sticker connected the bottommost and immoderate greasy residue inactive connected the inside. It was a acquisition from my grandma, and I got successful occupation for being grossed out."
21. "My mother-in-law ne'er liked maine and would perpetually effort to speech my hubby retired of being with me, adjacent erstwhile I was large with our archetypal (her archetypal grandchild). She was bully to my face, though, arsenic it usually goes. The archetypal Christmas, she didn't get maine anything. Totally good — I ne'er expect gifts for Christmas. Second Christmas, I got socks. No biggie, I thanked her anyway. Third, and the past Christmas with her (before we went nary interaction for many, galore reasons), she got maine a calendar from our section market store, that they gave distant for escaped astatine the registers. It virtually conscionable had the store's sanction connected it and pictures of nutrient for each month. I cognize it was escaped due to the fact that I besides predominant that store. Money wasn't the issue; she conscionable didn't similar me."
22. "I told a caller feline I was dating that I was allergic to scented bath products. He got maine a full bath acceptable for Christmas, a period later. I should person near him then."
23. "An aunt got maine apparel that were mode excessively tiny for maine and told maine it'd beryllium a bully mode to motivate maine to suffer weight. I was a large kid, but I was besides tall. One shirt, adjacent if I were a skinny bitch, would lone spell to my belly button."
24. "My mother-in-law gave maine a vacuum cleaner."
25. "This past Christmas, my dada and stepmom gave maine a clump of random Cracker Barrel shit: aggregate articulator balm/hand cream/bath brackish sets, a random state singer's merch that's 2 sizes excessively small, Croc charms (I don't adjacent ain Crocs), a Dolly Parton regular motivational book, (I'm not religious), and a neon yellowish chapeau that says 'crazy heifer' with a cattle connected it, which is chaotic considering I'm 7 months pregnant. I would've loved a acquisition paper alternatively of the realization that my dada knows thing idiosyncratic astir me."
26. "My coworker gave maine Christmas chocolates that expired earlier the erstwhile Christmas."
28. "A coworker said she was 'cleaning retired her shower' and gave maine each her utilized assemblage washes. Then, she had the nervus to say, 'I can't hold to odor it connected you.'"
29. And: "A video crippled my ex wanted for himself. It was lone connected the Switch, and helium didn't person a Switch, but I do. He wouldn't fto maine effort to play it, adjacent though it was supposedly my day gift."
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