[sar1]

Let's hear about the weirdest or worst gift you ever got from a holiday gift exchange. My offices always did the exchange where you pick a wrapped gift or get to steal someone else's. Somehow I've brought home a lot of boring travel mugs over the years. Hmmm, why has no one ever "stolen" my travel mug? One year in an exchange w/friends I got the gift bag that was clearly full of regifted crap. I thought it was a gag gift but it wasn't meant to be. It was a "I cleaned out the back of my closet and here ya go" gift. I'm sure there are some good stories on this board - let's hear them!

[tinahas2kid]

We played the Wrapped gift game . It was a white elephant exchange and we ended up with drum roll please..............an urn... a dead person put the ashes in urn!!!!! It was wrapped beautifully!!!

[kimmyann123]

ewwwwwwww! i once got a vacuum cleaner cover that looked like a amish person... but nothing for me beats the shovel from my dh on mothers day to shovel poo...how thoughful huh....;p;

[BlueMoon187]

It was an office exchange, and she bought it just for me. A fake-gold-encrusted angel do-dad, with fake jewels glued on. The card said "I thought this would look good in your house." The house she was referring to is mountain, rustic, mostly antiques. What made it worse is that everyone else was getting gift cards to their favorite restaurants and such.

But it's the thought that counts, right? I took it back to the store (saw some there like it) and got the money. It was wa-a-a-y on sale.

[myboysmomintexas]

my husband had to take a gift to work today for a white elephant- they said bring something you already own, or if you have to buy, don't spend more than $10. He wrapped up a vintage Poison album. I wonder how that is going to go over...

[monkeydawn]

My husbands office does the white elephant thing. About seven years ago someone decided that he would give the gift that had been re-gifted for years (an old spice gift set) but he hid a (nice sized) gift card to a store in it. Each year after that, if someone brought an obvious re-gift they added a gift card. Oftem those are the *most stolen* gifts now!

[jojogrub]

What is white elephant?

[rachellynn]

AT our party this year, someone brought a "Mr. Poo" plush toy. He is apparently from South park and looks like a huge turd.
He sings too.

Thankfully I didn't get that!

[sar1]

Originally Posted by jojogrub

What is white elephant?

White elephant gift exchange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[jojogrub]

Oh, ok, we call it dirty santa!

[cathyw]

A VERY old bottle of cheap cologne.

[bumperchic]

Last yr (2009) at a work Christmas party I got a mug that said 'Happy Holidays 2008"

[susanstrad]

A dvd of the O.J. Simpson trial.

[2006jcox]

Hmmm....don't think I can top some of these but my husbands family is always the worse at buying gifts. One year his aunt actually gave us a Mason Jar.

[sar1]

Wow, some of these are truly awful. I think the ashes in an urn are probably the most tasteless! Was it a relative or meant to be sentimental or just weird?

[blumoose]

thats funny i collect blue mason jars i have tons of them i would have liked that gift in fact i have given them as gifts but i always fill them with m+ms

[randomequine]

Originally Posted by kimmyann123

t nothing for me beats the shovel from my dh on mothers day to shovel poo...how thoughful huh....;p;

You laugh....but I asked for one of those last year!!! It was one of my favorite gifts!!! But....I work in a barn.....


Worst gift? A yodeling pickle shaped like a certain part of the male anatomy. There are no words.

[Jewels13]

I would have loved that gift. I was glued to the tv when that trial was going on.

Originally Posted by susanstrad

A dvd of the O.J. Simpson trial.

[baracuda]

This years white elephant party, for me, yielded a bottle of EVOO (extra virgin olive oil). It was NOT a bottle of alcohol like it was wrapped to look like

[Robbo]

I have received an already created Build A Bear. With the little birth certificate or whatever it is that comes with it. "This would be nice for your kids" was what the card says. Um. I thought half the fun was building?!?

[sar1]

Originally Posted by Robbo

I have received an already created Build A Bear. With the little birth certificate or whatever it is that comes with it. "This would be nice for your kids" was what the card says. Um. I thought half the fun was building?!?

My sister w/out kids gave those to each of her nieces last year. I thought the same thing - the fun of a Build A Bear is in the building! May as well just buy a regular stuffed animal a lot cheaper.

[byktrash]

Originally Posted by myboysmomintexas

my husband had to take a gift to work today for a white elephant- they said bring something you already own, or if you have to buy, don't spend more than $10. He wrapped up a vintage Poison album. I wonder how that is going to go over...

awesome!!

[Robbo]

Originally Posted by sar1

My sister w/out kids gave those to each of her nieces last year. I thought the same thing - the fun of a Build A Bear is in the building! May as well just buy a regular stuffed animal a lot cheaper.

This cracks me up... Thinking of a grown woman hanging out all day at the Build a Bear Workshop making these things. You're right, just a regular bear would be lots cheaper, and a Build A Bear bear isn't really any different from one you can find at the store (at least not the one I got).

[danielephant]

a rice cooker...

[arupe001]

A male and female deer having...ummm....relations with one another. It was a Christmas ornament that floated around our house until DD was born. It's actually quite funny, but very crude.