"I got a used Victoria secret tee shirt that said SINGLE JINGLES."
"I got a check from my elderly aunt for $5. It bounced and cost me $10 fee from the bank."
"Not a gift to me, but I still don’t understand what we did so wrong to the person that they gave my 5 year old daughter a karaoke machine"
"My boss gave me a pack of expired coupons for fast food joints. It was like getting a slap in the face… with a stale burger"
"When I was six, my paternal grandparents gave me a… Potato. They said “It looks like a cat or a doggie! You can play with it, and you should be proud – we grew it ourselves!”"
"A note saying that she was combining my birthday gift and Father’s Day gift together. The combined gift was telling me that she wanted a divorce."
"A goldfish. I was 18, 31 now, he is still going strong. I HATE him. Omfg do I hate that fish. Unfortunately as he is my responsibility I feel obligated to give him the best life possible. I’m going to be so happy when he finally dies. Until then that f@#ker will keep living the life of luxury."
"I got a straw once. It was extra special because it was a combined party for family members with birthdays near each other and my cousin got a cd player from the same person."
"Cigarettes and deodorant, from my gross grandfather’s drunken girlfriend. When I opened it, she winked and said she knew I smoked. I was EIGHT."
"My mom gave me a book that I made when I was 8 so she could laugh at me for how terrible it was. I drew the illustrations and wrote the story. It looked like sh#t because again, I was eight. She loved to humiliate me and then get mad at me for “having no sense of humor”."
"I’ll never forget the birthday when all I got were school supplies"
"One year, my parents had the audacity to give birth to me… all downhill since there."
"My aunt sent my sister and I gifts one year. She wasn’t in our lives all that much and fell behind on how old we were. At the time I 13 playing PlayStation and skateboarding and my sister was 17 going out sneaking smokes, parting and listening to Afroman. For our birthday she sent us gifts together and it was Pocahontas and Aladdin children’s books with the little buttons on the sides that you press when you get to a certain character or part in the book. We were giggling for days."
"That time my boyfriend was too much of a coward so he got someone else to tell me I was dumped. Yeah that was pretty much the worst gift."
"Box of cereal from the main “family” I had left.
Receipt showing they used a coupon the get it to $3 still attached."
"It wasn’t so much a gift, but…
When I was going through my divorce, my future ex wife offered to take me out to dinner on my birthday. The last one we’d celebrate as husband and wife.
It seemed like a nice gesture. A final act of civility on the eve of an ugly process.
So we were sitting there over the appetizers at this restaurant, and I asked “so, how did you find this place?”
“Oh, this is me and (guy she was leaving me for)’s favorite restaurant!”
Worst birthday ever."
"This year I got precisely nothing – so that’s probably be the worst.
But I once got my fiancée a pair of Tiffany earrings for her birthday – and got a balloon for mine."
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My parents and I run a small restaurant and last Christmas she asked us to host her Christmas family dinner we said sure dinner and drinks for 12 people doing all the prep decorating and clean up on one of our 2 holidays we have per year so she felt generous and we each got a 10€ tip.
Husband's remaining grandparents would send him a $100 check every Christmas. After a while he stopped cashing them, and the last check he is keeping because it still has his grandmother's name, and she passed away last year.