SheWants to Win! “Worst Gift Contest”
What’s the worst gift you’ve ever received? By telling us what that awful gift was, you will be entered to win a great gift-the Summer Swag Package pictured above. Simply comment with the bad gift details in the space below this blog. We’ll be announcing the lucky winner on June 21st, the first day of summer.
THe Summer Swag Package includes: Sterling Silver and Rose Quartz Ring from SheWants.com. Pastel Floppy Hat and Woven Tote from the San Diego Hat Company. Travel Candles from Mountain Mama Candle Company. Giftcard from Blockbuster Video. Kona Coffee and SheWants Mugs and Water Bottle. (Estimated Value: $275 US)
Adriana and Marie founded SheWants.com because they heard so many stories about women not getting the gifts they wanted. Now, there’s a simple way to put an end to the bad gift! SheWants.com provides a free way to help you get the gifts you want.
May the worst gift win!
June 1st, 2010 at 9:50 am
The worst gift I ever rec’d was used baby clothes when my first child was born. They had stains on them!
June 1st, 2010 at 9:59 am
My worst gift was a mop bucket filled with cleaning supplies for my wedding gift from my soon to be SISTER -IN-LAW.
June 1st, 2010 at 5:06 pm
For two years in a row, I received two holiday sweaters that were two small.
June 1st, 2010 at 5:11 pm
OMG, for sure it was the bird house from my brother in law. I hate birds!
June 1st, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Christmas CD that didn’t arrive til 3 days after Christmas was the worst. I mean, I already took the tree down.
June 1st, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Daward got me this jank blenda dat fell of da back of some truck and den i take it home and i was like omigod are you messin wit me!? it dont even work! danggggggg any other bad gifts!?
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Fruitcake. Every Christmas. Like a heavy door stopper. I can’t stand fruitcake.
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:32 pm
New calendars each Christmas along with the same set of picture post cards of beautiful places in our state. Year after year. I’ve sent my aunt the She Wants web site link. Now I’ll look forward to her gift.
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:11 pm
Gift certificates to places I would never eat. Shame.
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Anything I have to dust! I always tell people not to give me something that needs dusting.
June 5th, 2010 at 6:14 am
Each summer when my sister & I were girls, we got to visit our grandmother in Illinois for 2 weeks. It was always so fun; shopping, eating at fun new places, and best of all two whole weeks to hint as to what we wanted for Christmas – my grandmother was the best gift giver! So one year after our obligatory time period of hints we received the biggest packages ever for Christmas & we were soooo excited to open them! My sister & I constantly shook the boxes, stared at them & dreamed about what might be inside. And, when Christmas morning finally arrived it was, of course, the first gift we opened…..only to find all the things that we had left behind from our summer trips to IL. inside (our own: barrettes, old underwear, used hair brushes, etc.)…..:( Now that’s just not right?!?!?
June 7th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
The worst gift for me was for my 40th birthday from my X. He didn’t buy me ANYTHING!
June 8th, 2010 at 11:45 am
The worst gift ever for me was the 6 ft cactus my husband gave me for Christmas when we were first married. I cried…
June 9th, 2010 at 11:05 am
My “Special Gift That I’ll Never Forget” happened several years ago. I was new in town and didn’t know a lot of people, so my husband invited over his parents, his sister and her husband, and a friend of ours. We ate, and then hubby started bringing out gifts from him to me. At the next-to-last one, our friend made the comment that I really did NOT want to open that particular gift. I looked at my hubby and he acted like everything was fine, so I thought our friend was kidding around. I opened it up and found:
A SET OF BATHROOM SCALES, PEOPLE!
After three days of my not speaking to him, he asked me what was the matter, and I totally went off on him!! He was horrified – he truly thought they were a neat-looking set of scales and that I’d like them. I replied, “Yeah, except that they were a BIRTHDAY PRESENT.”
I don’t remember anything else I got that year.
June 9th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
My worst gift? That’s hard when thinking of my X. I think it was our first Christmas. He gave me a hair dryer. I had four. Oh but another, when our son was born. In laws gave my X a very expensive watch. They gave me $25.00 to buy something for my son and myself!
June 9th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Just before we were married, I was on a serious diet and it was not working. I was doing every thing right and still just. not. losing. weight – at least not as much as I’d like. So I joined Weight Watchers. Valentine’s Day came along. What did I get? The biggest box of CANDY you’ve ever seen! We’ve been married 20 years now, and the gifts have not gotten any better, either!
June 9th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
My mother gave me essentially the same style white shirt for every gift-giving occasion for at least 4 years. I do NOT like wearing white, and have not worn it for years. I nicely requested after the fourth one that she stop, but they kept coming. THEN she started insisting, “NO! This is eggshell!” I am happy to report that did NOT give me a white shirt for Xmas 2009…her sister gave me one instead!
June 11th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
The ugliest set of ice skating snowmen oven mitts and a matching tea towel. Because it is SOOOOO not me, I actually thought it was a joke gift, but then realized my friend was serious when she wasn’t laughing with me. I then pretended that I thought they were “cute” and that they made me laugh….
June 12th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
The worst gift I ever received was re-gifted starbucks holiday mugs from a friend – little did she know I put into a Christmas white elephant gift exchange we both attended the year before. They were even in the same gift bag!!!
June 14th, 2010 at 9:07 am
The worst gift I ever received was a lamp. And not just any lamp it was the tackiest lamp I have ever seen in my life. It is almost difficult to describe how awful this lamp was. First it was made of resin…base & shade and everything was a creme color until you turned on the light. The base was 4 angels in various angelic poses holding a variety of musical instruments. Each angel was covered in “snow” or what could be described as dull white glitter. The shade was the best part of this tacky, tacky wonder. The shade had 6 or 7 panels and when you turned the lamp on scenes of angels doing more angelic things would glow in pink or lavender or baby blue or mint green on the shade panels. And if you flipped a tiny little switch at the bottom of the base you could enjoy all this beauty with a medley of angel carols playing sweetly as the shade turned slowly around the light bulb so that you would not miss one of the glorious angelic scenes. Needless to say as much as I was intrigued by this TACKY lamp I did not keep it instead I passed the joy on when I donated it to Goodwill.
June 17th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
I was newly married and my mother gave my new husband a horrible crewneck print sweater for Christmas. God bless him, he feighned delight and thanked his new mother-in-law profusely. Thankfully, at least it had tags so we returned to the appropriate store. The clerk (after a VERY long time) told us that they no longer had this sweater in their system and she would have to go into their archives to find out when it was purchased (This was 1993). Finally she let us know that the sweater was last sold in October of 1987– FIVE years before– and would we like our $2.50 in cash or a store credit?
Cash please.
June 20th, 2010 at 8:09 am
My husband gave me set of tires! I couldn’t believe it.He said it was to keep me safe-are you kidding me????
June 20th, 2010 at 8:12 am
All I wanted for my birthday was a shower cap-I was tired of wrapping a towel around my head (to save my blowout) when I shower. My husband got me a swimcap instead…it’s now holding lipsticks in my cosmetic drawer.