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Lamest Gift Ever?
So apparently the Globe sent me a link to the Lamest Gift contest. I've had some pretty lame ones...nothing as lame as the Top Ten though.
Have you gotten any really lame gifts like these? Just being nosy, lol...
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08-05-2009 at 01:19 PM
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My grandma visited some of my relatives in Malaysia.
When she came back, she said my 6-year-old cousin bought me a gift.
It was one of those capsule toys that you can get from those $1 dispensers at supermarkets... I still have no idea what exactly it's supposed to do (at first I thought you shoot rubber bands with it, because there was a picture of a rubber band attached to it in the picture, but then I found out it doesn't actually shoot rubber bands...)
Also, it looked like he already opened the capsule before... He also wrapped it in lined paper along with a scrunchie... Yeah, a scrunchie... -__-
(EDIT: actually it's a hair tie. Apparently scrunchies are "different")
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08-05-2009 at 01:21 PM
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Haha those are pretty funny!
My boyfriend got me a pretty lame gift for my 20th birthday in February...it was a big bag of nothing nothing. lol. And for Valentine's day (3 days before my birthday) he got me... nothing again! oh wait...I paid for the $500 vacation we went on that weekend as well....happy freaking Valentine's day eh lol
And he's the one who had a job this year too...hmmmm....
AND! AND! for our 2 year anniversary (last November) he got me, you guessed it, NOTHING! not even a card or flowers, nothing! Well, he paid for dinner, but it's not like we didn't used to go out to dinner all the time before when we had money (before university lol). GEEZ! And I got him Coldplay tickets for his birthday in June.....with no salary.
Wow that turned into a rant...lol
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08-05-2009 at 01:43 PM
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For my 13th birthday my parents and brother gave me a bunch of pliers and nothing else. Not as awesome as you might think.
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08-05-2009 at 03:01 PM
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For Christmas a few years ago, a family friend bought me a tanning kit. It wasn't a joke present. I'm brown
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I think I've seen worse than all of those on the top ten.. except that aligator one... that's scary.
The worst one I can think of is one that my dad's ex-wife got my mom (that itself is awkward).. We have pet chickens so she thought this flower pot thing with chickens on it would be nice. It doesn't sound so bad except it is the ugliest thing ever! Inside, there are herbs but oh no they are not even real.. So, we've got this ugly chicken pot with fake herbs in it and it's funny because the herbs look wilted even.. an all around fail.
My mom: "Thank you?" hahahahah
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My friend's (senile) grandmother bought me one of those spring horses for little girls. S: Like this, but pink:
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08-05-2009 at 04:27 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KaylaMarie
Haha those are pretty funny!
My boyfriend got me a pretty lame gift for my 20th birthday in February...it was a big bag of nothing nothing. lol. And for Valentine's day (3 days before my birthday) he got me... nothing again! oh wait...I paid for the $500 vacation we went on that weekend as well....happy freaking Valentine's day eh lol
And he's the one who had a job this year too...hmmmm....
AND! AND! for our 2 year anniversary (last November) he got me, you guessed it, NOTHING! not even a card or flowers, nothing! Well, he paid for dinner, but it's not like we didn't used to go out to dinner all the time before when we had money (before university lol). GEEZ! And I got him Coldplay tickets for his birthday in June.....with no salary.
Wow that turned into a rant...lol
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I think your boyfriend may be a golddigger. Leave him.
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08-05-2009 at 04:41 PM
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My friend's (senile) grandmother bought me one of those spring horses for little girls. S: Like this, but pink [...] Did I mention I was 20 years old at the time?
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Bahaha. I want an adult-sized one. Seriously.
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I want an adult-sized Jolly-Jumper.  |
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08-05-2009 at 06:00 PM
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I don't think that would be so fun after ramming your head into the ceiling above your door frame a few times :p.
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My friends usually get me really thoughtful gifts that I quite enjoy. The lamest gift I ever got though was from a boyfriend I had when I was 16. For my 16th birthday he bought me a picture frame. That in itself is sort of blah but it gets better. It was a picture frame with pictures of himself in it. To top it all off he went on and on about how it was such a beautiful silver frame that cost $90 dollars. After he left I was checking out the frame and it was actually really thin plastic, it almost cracked. He probably got it at the dollar store and stole the pictures from his mom. Needless to say he was cheap, thoughtless and conceited. It didn't even have a picture of us together in it or anything.
Not really related to the lame gift but he also ended up flirting with my best friend at this party. I dumped him on the Monday at school.
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08-05-2009 at 06:35 PM
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I don't think that would be so fun after ramming your head into the ceiling above your door frame a few times :p.
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Or maybe it'd be more fun?  LOL
My lamest gift would probably have to be... I guess a red pocket with 50 cents it in for Chinese New Years? I don't even know who gave me it, i just found it in the pile...
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My friend's (senile) grandmother bought me one of those spring horses for little girls. S: Like this, but pink:
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I miss mine and want another one :(
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I don't think that would be so fun after ramming your head into the ceiling above your door frame a few times :p.
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Pff. One could hardly call that adult-sized.
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