This was me, except to make it worse, I’d wrapped my gag gift in a playstation 2 box for an extra layer of joke.

A book.  Not that a book is a bad gift, but this particular book that I gave to my nephew was the exact same book I gave to him the year before and had forgotten about it.

I gave the young daughter of a frenemy a battery-operated toy dog that, when pushed in the tummy area, played “Who Let the Dogs Out” repeatedly and incessantly.  Needless to say this was unsubtle payback for an untold number of slights.

The question was bad presents, not awesome presents though.

I was young and didn’t have money so... I gave my sister her own used nail polish that I had stolen out of her room.

If you gave me that I would marry you.

Well, the best laid plans...

Ahhh, yes. I read the first comment and didn’t realize.

My image focused, “Karen” of a sister stole one of my teenage son’s Christmas presents at my parents’ Christmas Eve gathering. He was in that awkward, angsty stage and this really bothered him. She thought it was super funny and refused to return it, even when I quietly took her aside and asked nicely. Nothing says…

Easy answer. A plastic donkey when you pushed a button, a cigarette came out of its butt.

ITT: people still talking about insulting gifts they’ve *received* in the pissing contest about insulting gifts they’ve given.

I was invited to a friend’s White Elephant party one year with a really big group. I thought it was for silly gag gifts but after people started opening them, I realized no, people were getting fairly nice stuff, like a small immersion blender, a set of tumblers with a bottle of wine, etc.

Oh, cripes! I just reread the article and realized this was supposed to be for rude gifts you’ve given, not received. Uh, well, I guess I have a few of those. I tend to panic around the holidays if I don’t have a gift in mind for someone, and if I’m panicked enough I’ll just buy the first thing I think of, so I’ve…

The giver was my father, not me, but this is still a great story.

My stepfather was an abusive brute, who loved to give “gifts” that would be “useful” rather than outright kind. Hence the wheelbarrow he gave me one year for Christmas.

My cousin’s toddler was the target of a failed kidnapping in a mall, mid 80s. That year I gave my sis-in-law a leash for her 3 yr. old daughter. In my defense, the child was the youngest of 3, with a knack for sudden disappearances. I meant no harm but Sis is still pissed, I had no kids yet and fully stepped on her…

My dad got revenge through gifts!

Not given by me but by a now-ex friend (“ex” for a myriad of reasons similar to this):

Her stepson was getting married on Christmas eve...she gave him a $1000 gift certificate to a divorce lawyer, “because we can all see that coming.”

Personally I thought the time frame they settled on was odd.  They could’ve gotten another season out of the original cast to get through the 60s, and then made the switch.  

Related to The Crown, and I’ll probably get flak for it, but I think the total cast change for most of the characters was a really bad idea. In particular *big gulp* I think Helena Bonham-Carter is really badly miscast here.