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Worst Christmas gift ever!

by kellys on December 27th, 2006

Ok, fess up! Who got a horrible Christmas gift this year that they hated? A mama’s rant has a winner of a worst gift, a set of 10 year old, used nail clippers.  I can honestly say that I didn’t get anything this year that I didn’t love. But that is for another time. You always hear about the awful gifts that are returned this time of the year. You know what I mean. The soup bowl for the one who hates soup or the tie of flying pigs for the vegetarian.

Well, I can remember a certain recurring gift that I got every year from someone whom I don’t want to hurt their feelings. So that is all you get for the “who”. I have unusually small feet for anyone. At 32 yrs old, I wear a children’s size 2.5 shoe. You would have thought that that would be memorable. Everyone else that I know always makes fun of my small feet. Well, growing up, a dear one would always give me socks for Christmas. They were always cute but they were always too big. And that was the only gift I got from them. How hard would it have been to remember that I have freakishly small feet and get me socks that fit? I finally got the bright idea to regift them to my friends in high school since they had regular feet and the socks would fit them. Otherwise I would have had a drawer full of “big girl” socks that I would never be able to wear.

So how about it? Did you get anything this year that HAD to go back? I won’t tell.

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