One year my boyfriend at the time gave me a pressure cooker. I was only 21 years old. I was like... ??? what am I going to do with this? So I sold it at my next yard sale, to this date, I still haven't needed one, 12 years later.

For my 18th birthday, I got canned air. That's right. My father gave me canned air for my 18th birthday. It wasn't the only gift, but still -- canned air? To this day, I have no idea why. At least it makes a good story, even if I never used it.

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My sister got me a long pyjama shirt for Christmas one year. It was about a size or two too small, red-and-yellow striped, long-sleeved, with a white collar. I looked like a giant Gryffindor-striped egg. I gave it to Goodwill a year later.

It looked like a down-to-the-knees, long-sleeved version of this: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uWLeXfLso5s/Spcj6ZhS73I/AAAAAAAABRk/oYerDDh37Do/s400/POLO+RALPH+LAUREN+Yellow+stripe+T-shirt.jpg

My bestfriends mom gave us her rice cooker out of nowhere. we accepted the nice offer and brought it home, when we opened it it was filled i with green mold filled rice. it was disgusting and we threw it away. we have no idea why she did it, but the next day she acted like nothing ever happened.

My sister once gave me a bright red T-shirt with mirrors and embroidery all over the front. I liked the red T-shirt OK but couldn't get over the gaudy trim. I figured I could just wear it for a nightshirt, but couldn't even bring myself to wear it around the house. I kept it a long time because it was a gift but finally gave it to goodwill.

ianseru, I feel so badly for you. Your moldy rice gift was worse than mine, but I will go ahead and list mine anyway.

A family friend gave us some goody food bags for our kids at a party. I was looking at the food, because I have been to her kids birthday parties before, and been told by her she buys everything on sale, and had this very same problem before! I have no problem with sale items. I do however have a problem when she gave it to my kids, and the items were expired (yes I looked for the expiration date after I tasted the crackers...eeew they were rancid). Food that is old can kill you. Certain foods like pancake mix or any type of mix that uses leavening, if it's past it's expiration grows toxic mold (and yes people have died from old food). Enough said, it was the worst gift given to anyone in my family. I'm just glad it wasn't green with mold. I didn't look to hard at it, though. The problem wasn't the gift, it was the fact that our family friend KNEW what she was doing, and was too cheap to purchase good food for the children coming to her party. It made me quite angry, because it happened repeatedly at her other parties.

As young and extremely excited children, every Christmas eve we were allowed to open one present. The catch was Mom always picked it, and it was always the same thing. Pajamas. After about three years, we told her "no thanks mom, we'll open our pajama tomorrow with the rest of our gifts. I'm sure she wanted us to have our nice new pajamas on for Christmas morning pictures. Pajamas? Wow, just what every kid wants.