Worst X-mas Present?

[catnapper]

Kay, you are lucky to have people who actually put THOUGHT into gifts. Its a sad fact that most people DO NOT. I spend hours planning, thinking, searching for the perfect gifts for someone. I don't just walk into WalMart the day before and snatch something up and wrap it. Many of the gifts people are complaining about are often ones you pick up, and wrap in red for a girl, green for a boy, and just hand them out without knowing which boy or girl is receiving them. It hurts even more when its a loved one who should know you better. Most of the gifts mentioned are the type of gifts that people buy to do secret santa stuff in the office where you give $5 gifts every day til the final day. Socks? come on.... I love fun socks, but not as my main gift from grandma!

I remember the year I wanted a Cabbage Patch doll way back in 1982. Man, I wanted one so bad I could only think of Cabbage Patch dolls. I had overheard mom on the phone with my aunt saying she had gotten me one. So Christmas arrived, and I was soooo excited thinking about what my doll looked like. and Aunt Janet showed up with a small box for me. In it were gold earrings. What?!?!? I was devastated. I cried and hid in my room all night. My aunt had SOLD my Cabbage Patch doll for 3 times what she paid and bought me gold earrings instead. OMG, I didn't WANT gold, the ONLY thing in the world I wanted that year was a Cabbage Patch doll.

I understand my aunt's intentions NOW - she had thouht she got me a really great gift. But she was thinking about what SHE'D have wanted, not what a 10 year old would have wanted. Now, I'd LOVE to have someone give me gold earrings.

So now when I buy gifts, I try to think like the person I'm buying for. Sure, I might think a cactus is a great gift () but will my reciever? My brother constantly gives mom vaccuums and kitchen gadgets -- she HATES that stuff. She's rather he spent the $100 on a nice portrait of the babies for the livingroom. Most often when a gift is deemed lousy, it is because its either inappropriate for the receiver or wrong for the relationship between the giver and receiver.

[Kfamr]

That's why I said SOME replies here. Some of the gifts said in replies sound like nice gifts to me. The only one that I read (didn't read all of them) that I wouldn't like to recieve is the dead ants.