QOTD #45: What is your least favorite Christmas gift?

What gift were you truly ungrateful for?

This year someone gave my girls some Easter bunnies. Odd enough. But these stuffed bunnies reek overwhelmingly of dog poop. So very not wanted.

 

That's pretty awful.

On the one hand, I don't really want Christmas gifts. I keep trying to get people to donate to charity instead. One of these days it's going to catch on, I swear. So I suppose in a sense you could say every gift is an unwanted gift. But the trouble with that is that it sounds horrifically ungrateful and I don't really want to be that way, so I participate in the whole thing even though I'm not terribly comfortable with it. I just feel like I've already had so much good fortune in my life, and it feels... I don't know, greedy? Like, I'd rather see that money being used to help people who truly need it instead of dorky old me with my house and car and middle class lifestyle, y'know?

It's a point of contention.

That said and my hangups aside, I can't think of any truly awful gifts I've been given. This year I got pans and socks and slippers and an emergency kit for my car, so I feel like I made out pretty well. Twelve year old me would be crushed if he knew what he would one day become.

 

Oh, yeah, clothes that aren't my style. Mom got me a cardigan this year. @baraka_guru may rock cardigans but I'm more of a jeans and a t-shirt kind of guy.

V's mom got me a hoodie one year. I do not wear hoodies, and it's far too big for me even if I did. V ended up claiming it because it's warm, so she wears it around the house.

Those aren't really bad gifts, though. The intent was good. Just a little off the mark.

 

Someone with very good intentions got me a gas card in appreciation of something I did for them. It's for a gas chain that is not on any of my regular travels, so I'd have to drive 15-20 minutes out of my way just to make use of it.


I have a company car and all of my fuel is paid for by my company, even personal miles. I keep forgetting to bring the gas card with me any time I'm on my motorcycle (which obviously my company doesn't pay fuel for), so a year later it's still unused.

 

this year: chocolate bacon carmel popcorn

I don't remember bad gifts from the past years.

 

Any kind of clothing, with few exceptions.

I have large breasts. Anything with buttons down the front is a no go. I also have narrow shoulders. These two things in concert mean that it's sometimes difficult for me to find fancy, tailored tops.

Thankfully, the person who used to try to buy me these things has stopped, and they now just gift me cash.

 

I got a makeup kit, which is pretty much useless to me. I don't wear makeup, except for occasionally lipstick. I'll probably give it away or donate it.

Also, a misunderstanding on jeans. I said I would like a pair of brown denim jeans, boys size 14 or 16 that I'd seen at Walmart which fit me perfectly and are even the right length, but ended up with women's 14 khakis, which fit me like a circus tent, but fortunately came with the receipt in the box.

I got a couple of Underarmor half-zip shirts from a sister. I've never had any underarmor before, and I just love them.