The best gift you've ever gotten vs the worst

[LittleMissKnight]

Now that we can focus on the real reason for the season- commercialism- I'm wondering: What's the worst gift you've ever received for the holidays and what is the one that sticks out in your memory as the best?

(and none of this sentimental "my newborn baby" crap unless they were born ON the specific holiday)

 

[chemmie]

I haven't cared about Christmas gifts since I was 13.

 

[HuffyCane]

Worst: She knew nothing about American sports or culture and she bought me a Florida Gators snuggle.

Best: What she did for the next several hours immediately after that when she tried to make up for it.

However in terms of lasting enjoyment when I was three my Dad got me a Tonka crane. I constructed the crap out of the sandbox for five or six years with that thing until it finally rusted away.

 

[cnsaguy]

My family loves to try and out-do each other with ridiculous, useless gifts. Nothing expensive but more thought goes into these each year trying to one-up the year before. A couple years ago my mom won Christmas with holographic Jesus/Bible scenes placemats. Thank god for the flea market.

 

[LittleMissKnight]

Best: When we first started dating, Dingy got me year passes to IoA/Universal for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter area that just opened up and he caught up on all the books and movies for me, it was a pretty fantastic gift.

Worst: After almost three years with my ex, we were spending the holidays with his family in Green Bay (I hate the cold) and one of his gifts was chocolate almond butter because he knew I "liked sandwiches and chocolate". I'm deathly allergic to almonds.

 

[LittleMissKnight]

My family loves to try and out-do each other with ridiculous, useless gifts. Nothing expensive but more thought goes into these each year trying to one-up the year before. A couple years ago my mom won Christmas with holographic Jesus/Bible scenes placemats. Thank god for the flea market.

That sounds absolutely amazing. Clearly we need pictures.

 

[crambone]

Worst: She knew nothing about American sports or culture and she bought me a Florida Gators snuggle.

Best: What she did for the next several hours immediately after that when she tried to make up for it.

However in terms of lasting enjoyment when I was three my Dad got me a Tonka crane. I constructed the crap out of the sandbox for five or six years with that thing until it finally rusted away.

I loved my old Tonka toys. The ones made out of sheet metal and constantly got my fingers pinched and bleeding. Good times.

 

[UCF11and1]

Best: When we first started dating, Dingy got me year passes to IoA/Universal for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter area that just opened up and he caught up on all the books and movies for me, it was a pretty fantastic gift.

Worst: After almost three years with my ex, we were spending the holidays with his family in Green Bay (I hate the cold) and one of his gifts was chocolate almond butter because he knew I "liked sandwiches and chocolate". I'm deathly allergic to almonds.

1. That's what you get when you don't marry a real man. He would have given you a blender, white of course
2. You should have eaten the butter to teach them a lesson, they would still remember all the emergency vehicles and the coroner van in front of the house on Christmas.

 

[fabknight]

I loved my old Tonka toys. The ones made out of sheet metal and constantly got my fingers pinched and bleeding. Good times.

Those things were awesome. I loved them as a toddler but I never pinched my fingers with them though. Are you physically disabled or something?

 

[crambone]

Dude, the dump truck was the worst. Many small bruises from that one. Then again, mine were all really old and dinged up.

 

[UCFKnight85]

My personal favorite gift is getting to watch people who detest religious people, spending the season joining in with said religious people they detest, to celebrate a holiday that exists to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

 

[EweSeaEff]

Worst: After almost three years with my ex, we were spending the holidays with his family in Green Bay (I hate the cold) and one of his gifts was chocolate almond butter because he knew I "liked sandwiches and chocolate". I'm deathly allergic to almonds.

Whoa! @Bob the Knight is your ex?! Sounds like something he'd do. We should have a Real Housewives of Da Cooler.

 

[Bob the Citronaut]

Nah, I would have given a gift card. I'm the king of gift cards.

 

[UCF-icenhl-06]

My personal favorite gift is getting to watch people who detest religious people, spending the season joining in with said religious people they detest, to celebrate a holiday that exists to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

You forgot "at a time of the year that wasn't even his birthday"

 

[UCFKnight85]

You forgot "at a time of the year that wasn't even his birthday"

Oh, I get it! Because it was like a Pagan holiday and stuff first!

Yep, I love that line. Fine- stop celebrating Christmas then. Put on a hippie festival where you pray for the winter gods or whatever for a healthy spring harvest, as those pagans supposedly did. You know, since that's the "real" reason that non-religious people supposedly go around giving gifts, putting up trees, and singing......Christmas songs.

 

[UCFWayne]

I forget how old I was, probably 6 or 7, but I got a go cart. There was an wooded lot next door. My dad helped clear out some of bush and make a kick ass track to race on. It was a blast.

 

[UCF-icenhl-06]

Oh, I get it! Because it was like a Pagan holiday and stuff first!

Yep, I love that line. Fine- stop celebrating Christmas then. Put on a hippie festival where you pray for the winter gods or whatever for a healthy spring harvest, as those pagans supposedly did. You know, since that's the "real" reason that non-religious people supposedly go around giving gifts, putting up trees, and singing......Christmas songs.

man. so touchy even around the holidays. I'm Jewish so all good on not celebrating the Christmas thing. Neat lights though.