Christmas. For many, it’s the best time of the year. We get a month off of school to spend time with our families, deck out our house in holiday gear, listen to our favorite Christmas music, dress in ugly, cozy sweaters, and eat all of the cookies and sweets we want.
Christmas for many also means gift-giving – both giving and receiving. As much as we love gift-giving, there are times when it has not gone as planned. It may not have been funny at the time, but these are the kind of moments we can look back on and laugh at later on.
Next time you feel bad about a present you receive, think about these 15 stories of Christmas gifts gone totally wrong:
1. This guy who spent an hour and 40 minutes unwrapping this gift:
via Twitter (@LewisChant)
2. This guy who didn’t appreciate his markers:
My grandparents got me a previously-used, incomplete set of ‘101 Dalmations’ markers. I was 22 at the time.
via Reddit (Freethought923)
3. This person who got a really anticlimactic gift:
via Twitter (@HannahNuhh)
4. This girl who savagely played her aunt:
Expired chocolate, on Christmas, from an aunt who was a chronic re-gifter, yet always expected expensive, top notch gifts for her children on Christmas and their birthdays.
Not only was the chocolate expired, but it was also evident that it had melted completely and re-solidified. When I noticed, I went up to her with, “OMG, this chocolate is soooo good, you have to try it!” In front of the whole family. I watched her unwrap a piece of chocolate and when she noticed how it looked, she was hesitant to eat it. When she looked at me, I just had a smile on my face. “It’s the best chocolate ever!” And then I watched her slowly bring it to her mouth and try to eat it. She quickly walked to the kitchen immediately afterwards.
I think I’ve only seen her once since that moment almost 9 years ago.
via Reddit (SquatChick315)
5. This girl who got “Beets” by Dre:
via Twitter (@aotanota)
6. This guy who got a pair of strikingly familiar pajamas:
This year I got a pair of pajamas that were identical to the pair I was wearing when I unwrapped them. Thanks again mom!
via Reddit (whiteboyday)
7. This guy who didn’t quite get an X-Box One:
via Twitter (@NoelMilli)
8. This girl who literally just got a rock:
A few years ago my aunt gave me a rock. She gave presents to me and my two older cousins and said, “It’s time for the big girls to open their gifts!” She made my cousins go first and they got scarves, and I opened my present and pulled a rock out of the package. I looked up waiting for her to laugh and she said, “Isn’t it wonderful?” So I had to be like, “Yeah, I loooove it!”
She then told me that she had dug it out of her garden the previous summer and she knew that I would think it is so cool.
The following year she gave me acorn tops because “some people know how to use them to whistle and I don’t know how to show you or explain, but I’m sure you can figure it out.” She is a tad eccentric. Both were pretty terrible presents.
via Reddit (gennieb7)
9. These siblings whose parents believe in practicing really safe sex:
via Twitter (@megankayf)
10. This girl who got a “gift card holder”:
It was from my Grandmother. I unwrapped it and it was a little tin box. I opened the box and there was a fake gift card there, like an indication of this is where you put the gift card. And I just looked at her like… what is it or what’s going on? And she goes “It’s a gift card holder. You can put all your gift cards in there.” And I just started laughing saying, “Noooo, you are supposed to put a gift card in here to give to someone!” It was really cute, though. Bless her heart.
via Reddit (ShekhMaShierakiAnni)
11. This guy who thought he was getting an iPhone:
via Twitter (@RyanWalmsley8)
12. This guy who didn’t seem amused by his punny gift:
A Ziploc bag filled with cotton balls with the words “ghost poos” written on the bag in sharpie.
via Reddit (Thewrongbakedpotato)
13. This guy who got screenshots of him cheating for Christmas:
via Instagram (@genuineguy)
14. This guy who thought he was getting something cool and didn’t:
Brother got a pocket knife in a small cylinder package (old toilet paper roll) wrapped like candy. Excited, I started unwrapping mine that looked similar.
Underwear. All of it underwear.
And once a bathroom faucet. That is when I knew Childhood was over.
via Reddit (MizSanguine)
15. And lastly, this girl whose grandma is very proactive about her granddaughter’s fertility:
When I was 12, my grandma gave me a statue of a fertility elephant so that I would be ‘fertile for the future.’
via Buzzfeed (erinw4)
What is the worst Christmas present you have ever received or given?