What's your worst?
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This weekend we got a Pass the Poop game... like hot potato but with a poop emoji, if it flushes you lose. DS actually loves it so not so bad.
One year we got a "portable toilet", basically a 5 Gallon plastic bucket with a seat lid on it.
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A literal brick. There was a $5 limit, and in previous years there had been $5 scotch-taped to a brick, which was well received by the group. This person was new to the swap, had only heard half of the story, and just... missed the mark. Didn't help that he was kind of a dick about it when it wasn't well received.
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A scratched off scratcher that won $5, I highly suspect the person that bought it, scratched all of them and kept the highest winner and "gifted" the rest.
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Mine was a Joel Osteen book.
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The first year we did this as a family my grandparents supplied all the gifts from crap they found in their basement. I can’t even remember what we all got but it was hilarious and very random junk, lol
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Someone brought one unwrapped pregnancy test (obviously from a box of them because it had no labeling). The giver thought it hilarious but the bachelor who received it was not impressed.
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I don’t know if this qualifies, but it pisses me off, so here goes.
We left our car in my in-laws’ driveway for a few days while we used a friend’s van to help us move. My DH left them a key in case they needed to park it differently. When we came back for it, there was nothing in our car—everything was gone, except a cardboard box with some miscellaneous toys and pieces of mail that said, “Found in car.”
When my DH politely asked my FIL about it, he cheerfully replied, “Cleaning our your car is my Christmas present to you this year.”
Oh, sorry, I didn’t realize that snooping through someone’s personal belongings, throwing away things that were important to them, and crossing personal boundaries qualified as a gift.
The kicker is that I cleaned out the car myself a week prior, so while it wasn’t spotless, it was already pretty clean when we left it there.
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Growing up one year my dad brought home a planner from his work’s exchange. Except it was for the year that just ended so basically useless. My dad didn’t really care, but my mom was so upset. Probably because she was the one who bought the present my dad contributed.
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One year, someone wrapped a framed postcard of the local high school—the older generation had mostly gone there, but none of the younger generation had, so to 2/3 of the room it was just a picture of s random high school, lol.
I don’t care about crappy gifts, I just like the game, but I remember the person who received it was a bit miffed.
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Here’s s funny one (well, to me)—when I was in college, I wanted to spice up the extended family gathering white elephant exchange, so after everyone arrived, I went around the room and snagged a random Christmas cardigan that someone had taken off, and someone’s purse, and I wrapped them up in a box with a note that said, “just kidding! Draw again”—-but when one aunt opened the cardigan she was legitimately pumped and put it on immediately. Then another aunt was like “oh hey, I have one that’s similar”. And I was like, I don’t think it’s similar, I think it’s the exact same sweater!” But no one got it, so I had to explain that it wasn’t a real gift.
The purse one was hilarious though.
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