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Post by Captain Hygiene on Dec 16, 2009 10:17:22 GMT -5
The worst gift I can think of was a coloring book. Coloring books aren't bad, per se, but I was a teenager at the time, and it was a serious gift from older relatives. Every now and then, I stop what I'm doing and stare off into the distance with a mildly befuddled look on my face. People worry about me, but I'm just trying to figure out that present.
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Dec 17, 2009 14:31:13 GMT -5
"Best Christmas Present: It was a couple of weeks before Christmas but I still consider my marriage to my wife the best Christmas present I ever got."
Awww, Dr. Z...
I don't really have a best present in mind, because most of the ones I've recieved are pretty nice or at least well meaning. But as for the worst...
My darling and beleagured husband bought for me, last year, a dieting manual and cookbook set. Now, before anyone gets off on a "disgusting sexist pig" rampage, keep in mind that I complain about my weight all the time, to anyone who'll listen, and as the poor sod lives with me, he hears a LOT of complaining. So the gift was actually his way of showing he listened to me. Tone-deaf and mildly hurtful, but he tried.
What actually made it the worst was that the books turned out to be a vegan diet plan. I and he are not vegans and have no intention of becoming so. Luckily, he saved the reciept.
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Post by solgroupie on Dec 17, 2009 16:15:37 GMT -5
i wish i had thought of this present when i started this thread. but i guess i was thinking of what christmas was like when i was a kid.
many years ago, my grandmother showed me an old box of valentine's day cards she'd had since she was a very young girl. they were beautiful - the detail and care that went into these professionally made cards puts the ones you see today to shame. i fell in love with all of them.
about four or five years ago i started thinking about them. my grandmother died back in '98, so i asked my dad if he knew what happened to the old box of valentines. he said they were probably packed away and the next time i was visiting, we'd try to find them.
that was the last i heard of it until the following christmas. i opened a box from my parents and there it was - that old wooden box, filled with not only the valentine's day cards, but a pair of eyeglasses my dad found that once belonged to my great-great grandmother. it was unbelievably overwhelming.
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Post by angilasman on Dec 18, 2009 13:17:51 GMT -5
I always was very specific about what I wanted for Christmas - Still am as a matter of fact! This means I always get things I want but also that I've typically lacked the feeling of suprise of getting an unexpected well-thought-out gift from a loved one. Not that I'm complaining about what I know I'm getting this year: Akira Kurosawa movies; Rifftrax, Cinematic Titanic, and MST3K DVDs; Leonard Cohen CDs; all of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing comics, and a few others do-dads!
Also looking foward to giving gifts! I think I like that more than even getting gifts. I try to put a lot of thought into them and (as I'm a pretty good artist by the way) I make homemade Christmas cards.
-So I'm at a loss for thinking of a best gift. Considering I love movies and music and books a "best gift" may be something I was appreciative of getting but didn't really enjoy untill some time later when I watched/listened too/read it - a transformative album or a brilliant book.
I can think of a worst gift: in 1997 I was 9 years old and obsessed with Star Wars. My most looked forward to present was this big Millennium Falcon toy that you could open up and put your Star Wars figures in and had lights and sounds and shot little projectiles and so forth. When I got it I was so excited, but as I played with it I found out that the thing was constructed like a house of cards and fell apart and had to be put back together whenever you did anything with it. A few days later we traded it in at Toys 'R Us for another to see if it had the same problems. It did. It was just a shoddily made toy. Traded it in again, and by this time I hated the thing, so I got something else at the store.
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Post by reaperg on Dec 20, 2009 12:42:27 GMT -5
Q-Tips. Seriously. And in a gift trading game in college, I got stuck with a used Chia Pet.
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Post by solgroupie on Dec 20, 2009 22:57:25 GMT -5
okay. now tell us your worst gift.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Dec 21, 2009 11:35:52 GMT -5
you know, after I posted this and went home, I remembered that I was conceived on Christmas night. Life was a pretty cool gift.
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