One Christmas I received a bubble wrap tie. It was actually a lot of fun until all the bubbles were popped. Now it’s a just a plastic wrap tie 
The Community Christmas Countdown | “Unforgettable” Gifts
My first year with my then girlfriend (now wife) we picked new sunglasses together as my Christmas present, I opened her present with my parents and siblings watching who were all eager to see what she’d given me. I said I knew what the gift was, but she’d replaced the glasses with a pair of novelty glasses to trick me!
Oh yes. I had a TRS-80 micro color computer before I graduated to the Commodore 64.
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Well out of the few gifts I received I think the one’s that weren’t all so great were a BIG baggy pair of pants that was no where near my size a family friend gifted me once. I received it when I was like 12 and I couldn’t even wear it without it falling off me. I’m not a fan of baggy pants either… So we just gave it to another family member who could fit in it. It was kinda awkward because the moment I opened the gift I knew this would not fit me lol. The family friend wasn’t very close and hasn’t seen my parents and me for a while so I think they just guessed and hoped for the best.
My brother and I got an Atari one year (I forget which model, though) and we had the infamously terrible “E.T” game.
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Hmmm, well I got a fake gift card to a “catch your own turkey dinner.” That was pretty unforgettable!
My grandma got me a lemon yellow jumper one year. I must have been around 9 or 10 years old. If you can picture the most hideous early 80’s nasty yellow…
Ughhh. Still gives me shivers today!
Definitely a bad one and memorable, for all the wrong reasons.
One of my Aunts used to alternate between giving pens and socks. The pens were always Parkers - not too bad but they always disappeared soon after taking them to school. The socks were excruciatingly bad. It’s hard enough to feign enjoyment over some socks, but one pair of really ugly lumpy socks are nearly impossible to get excited about!
I think I win the worst gift ever out if all the ones posted here. Materialistic things are just that, but getting evicted and losing ones place of stay takes the Cake and wins the worst gift ever.
With that said good luck everyone
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I once received fish net stocking
Last year was the first year they did a girl’s set.
I’ve known many girls over the years want to spray my lynx in the bathroom, when they’ve gone in to use the bog!
I remember one year, I had broken my wrist, and was in plaster.
I was living in a hostel in Wales at the time. It was Christmas morning, and the chef/cook decided he was too ill to do the dinner.
So I stepped in and cooked Christmas dinner for just over 40 people. Peeling the potatoes, hand making pigs in blankets, make the pork meat stuffing from scratch, peeling sprouts… Everything, cos the lazy git hadn’t done any prep the night before… He wasn’t ill just hungover FFS
So anyways, queen’s speech was over, so time to ring the bell for dinner.
Everyone seemed to enjoy it, plenty of left overs for later.
Then EVERYONE went to bugger off… OI NO. If you think I’ve slaved making this, and your going to leave me with the washing up, while you stuff chocolates … You got another thought coming!
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My mom always gets me presents that I am always grateful for.
My dad likes to give me things that used to be his like shirts and advice. But one year he gave me work boots that look like Timbs. The soles of those shoes deteriorated while I was at a religious service, there I was praying, as I pick up the pieces of my brittle boots.
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My worst and most embarrassing Christmas present was given to me at work. Someone actually gave me a adult toy for secret Santa, since then they stopped doing secret santa at my workplace.
My worst gift was receiving Ned the naughty pooping pig keychain during office secret Santa 
Dont have it with me anymore but This is how it looked
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When I was 8, I got the strangest gift from an estranged aunt. This:
Seriously, a back scrubber. And not one as good-looking as the one in the picture. Mine wasn’t the only, let’s say strange gift, in the family. My older brother, then 10, got a toy bow-and-arrow. Not bad, if it wasn’t one of those cheap plastic toys meant for three-year-olds. My younger brother, then 4, got a set of coasters figuring badly-drawn Paris scenes. My parents got a set of salt and pepper shakers that was so cheap it was already broken when they opened the package. And my little sister, then a 1-year-old baby got… nothing. Apparently the aunt simply forgot she existed.
It was clear from the start she simply went to a dollar store on the way to our home and grabbed whatever she touched, not even thinking which “gift” would go to whom. She said she was “doing the rounds” to deliver gifts to everyone in the family that day and couldn’t stay long. After the initial shock of receiving such strange gifts, we all laughed. My younger brother actually liked the bow-and-arrow meant for our older sibling - for the whole 20 minutes it lasted before breaking, at least. The coasters were used for a while before the images faded away. The back scrubber turned into a dog-bathing device, though the dog didn’t like it very much either.
This aunt was always source of fun encounters. She never remembered any of the names of my parent’s children, and never remembered what it was my parents did for a living, making a wild and wrong guess every time. And she only appeared at our home mid to late December. We saw her in other family parties from time to time, and she always seemed confused with everything. Today I wonder if she had any sort of condition.
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I will not be mad if you end up winning this one. I felt bad after reading you post/entry.
So Christmas 2016 I got a bowl as a gift from my brother & sister in law (who is known for really not caring about what she gives, and pretty much not spending money on others). I didn’t know how to react. They’re reason was “Yeah, we thought you’d like it since you like going to eat chinese food and sushi”. It would’ve been cool if they put a soup packet and chopsticks, but also I don’t even eat soup 
. So my other sister in law and I made a joke that maybe next year I’d get the matching cup. And fast forward to a year later, not a matching cup but a light up cup from the 99 cents store. I was just like “Ooooh, thanks, this is cool” with a forced awkward smile. I really was thinking “wth is this?” Lol. This year we’re doing White Elephant to avoid that awkwardness, and well they decided not to participate. Hmmm 
