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NPR had a segment with "Ask Amy" who is kind of an Ann Landers for the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Anyway she had done a column on "What was the worst Christmas present you ever got" and it was pretty funny. Lots of responses mentioned the gift was from their spouse or make that their Ex spouse! And lots of the responses were for re-gifts, the ones that are used and passed on.
Here are some of the best ones:
"Dear Amy, In 2004 my husband gave me a cemetery plot."
"Here's an email we have from Mandy in Lansing. One Christmas, I received a smoothie maker from my mother. Not only was it used and not in working condition, the previous owner had left it sticky with an old smoothie. I also received a box of Band-Aids as a birthday gift. Mom refuses to take suggestions."
"Dear Amy, one year, my father gave me a used electric carving knife that had blood on it, you know, why people don't even wash these things out."
"This woman's brother had given her - it's like he had cleaned out his medicine cabinet and had given her several little boxes of floss, dental floss, half gone."
"One year, my grandparents who are notoriously cheap decided they didn't need to send - need a Christmas tree so they gave us ornaments off the tree with - along with hotel shampoo and conditioner they had swiped over the years from their snowbird travels. That year we also got 8x10 photos of them as our present. The photo now hangs in my bathroom, which I feel is fitting."
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