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[ SECRET POST #6571 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6571 ⌋

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Inspired by the last secret.

Starbucks gift cards get straight tossed.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Neither my husband nor I are Harry Potter fans and I don't think we have ever even given the suggestion to my brother-in-law that we were Harry Potter fans. (He did better with the other book gift, though.)

Re: The Most Disappointing Gift You Have Ever Received

(Anonymous) - 2025-01-02 00:50 (UTC) - Expand

Re: The Most Disappointing Gift You Have Ever Received

(Anonymous) - 2025-01-02 03:12 (UTC) - Expand

IDK if there's an American equivalent of Cards2Cash, but if you ever get any more gift cards - there's sites that can exchange unwanted gift cards to cash or for a store you'll actually spend money in.

Seems super wasteful.

Re: The Most Disappointing Gift You Have Ever Received

(Anonymous) - 2025-01-02 10:28 (UTC) - Expand

Really? I mean, I don't drink coffee and don't like Starbucks, but plenty of people do. I'd at least try to pass it on if I couldn't sell it.

Life.

I didn't ask for it. It sucks. Yet somehow I'm stuck with it and can't give it up. It is like being given an addiction you never asked for. Oxygen addiction.

My Mom got me a couple of boxes of store-brand cereal for Christmas one year after making me get presents for my Dad and siblings on her behalf, because she didn't know what to get them and left me with the fun task of figuring out four sets of presents to get everyone.
Honestly the context behind the gift is what made it disappointing.

Damn.

I'm trying to wrap my brain around how anyone could think cereal is a good present unless it's some kind of inside joke or gag gift.

Re: The Most Disappointing Gift You Have Ever Received

(Anonymous) - 2025-01-02 11:36 (UTC) - Expand

I have had my share of "I'm sorry, do you even know me??" gifts but this year I got three bottles of whiskey moments before telling my parents I'm trying to get sober. And lottery tickets. Nothing says I don't love you like lottery tickets.

When I was about 10, my aunt gave all the kids in the family animal slippers. Every single kid got dogs, except me. I got pigs.

Ouch. Was she always that passive aggressive towards children?

Damn, I would've spent the rest of my childhood saving up for a raw pig's head to wrap up and "gift" to her.

One year, I did Secret Santa at work and put the title of the book I wanted. My Secret Santa got me a totally different book (one of those Barnes and Noble classics, when the one I wanted was a paperback romcom) and a gift card with seven dollars and twenty cents on it.

omg did they think they had to match a limit? like, the Secret Santa rule was to spend less than $20 so they bought a book that was 12.80 and made up the rest on a gift card??

Re: The Most Disappointing Gift You Have Ever Received

(Anonymous) - 2025-01-02 01:45 (UTC) - Expand

My ex mother in law once gave me a pizza stone for Christmas....

I was working a dead end job at Pizza Hut at the time.

Re: The Most Disappointing Gift You Have Ever Received

(Anonymous) - 2025-01-02 03:17 (UTC) - Expand

Not me, but my wife. One christmas her dad gave her a pen; it was in a box and wrapped in paper like it was an actual gift. We looked it up. It was $1.75 from walmart.

The pink clothes from my grandmother that were usually 2 sizes too big. Because she thought I wasn't feminine enough and needed to lose weight.

A tossup between the XL tank from a family member who knew that I was at most an M (like, we saw each other everyday, it was not a mystery) with a "cute" message about me being antisocial (hilarious, considering they were the one who gossips and sabotages others' lives), the bribe gift from same person to get me to join *their* club after they repeatedly shit all over my interests that were similar in nature, or maybe the gym trial membership that (yet again) the same person provided after repeatedly telling me how out of shape I was (when you consider they had like over 50 pounds on me, and none of it was muscular, you know how messed up that is... especially when I never said a word about their weight).

A decade NC this year, btw. No regrets.

Every year from ages 11-18, clothes in my desired colours and style two sizes too small from my mother, to give me "incentive" to diet and fit into them. She only stopped when I moved overseas and she didn't know what size I was anymore.

Re: The Most Disappointing Gift You Have Ever Received

(Anonymous) - 2025-01-05 19:01 (UTC) - Expand

This was more a holiday surprise package exchange than a Secret Santa situation, but similar... I'd put that I liked most books: mystery, horror, fantasy, thriller, anything but chick-lit. And stationary, and candy. I forget what else I said, but what I got was a small box with a few cheap envelopes and writing paper (not sets, but individual sheets of note paper) that absolutely reeked of smoke, some crap that looks like someone emptied their junk drawer, and a pink, super girly cover paperback about a women who liked shopping and fell in love with a vampire.

Kitchenware (utensils, wash towels etc) from my brother and sister-in-law when I was supposed to move out that year. I never ended up moving out before that and getting that as a gift for Christmas was THE most upsetting thing.

Amazingly I forget pretty quickly bad gifs.
But for some reason one stayed with me. I was an avid reader as a child. I loved books, I was living breathing books. My relative gave me... grammar book. Bitch, please. I had fucking school for that.

Also my friend gave me her drawing with a sign calling me nickname that I HATED. She was being cute I guess. I actually ended up throwing out this drawing in the end.

M&S supersoft jumper - the disappointment didn't come from getting a jumper, because I loved their supersoft jumpers, but from realising that M&S had changed the production template that year. They're now too short in the sleeves and too short in the body, so it looks like it shrunk in the wash from the day you bought it. So, so disappointing.

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