What's the worst birthday present you've ever gotten?

A used candle....

One time my mother's ex-husband gave me this voucher he wrote that said he would change my oil for me, for only $20. 😆

Pack of open gum. Not so much the gift, but the fact that my father had given it to me after forgetting to wish me happy birthday. He did remember my sisters birthday though. (I’m a twin). 

My aunt gave me a scale. She said it was to help me stay healthy. I was 16.

Mouse traps. I was living with my parents then and we all got the same present that year. In the 30 years my parents have lived there, they’ve never had a mouse. The family member in question just worked there and got them for free. It was at least like 20 each.

Cigarettes and deodorant, from my grandfather's bizarre girlfriend. I was EIGHT. It gets better. I received an ancient box of sanitary napkins when I was 15. The old ones that needed a belt!! My sister received an old bottle of aspirin.

Nothing. I got nothing on my birthday and I'm always expected to give something on someone else's birthday. Oldest daughter problems.

Investigated for child p*** thanks to the pedophile I shared wifi with. Don't share your wifi. They don't care about a Mac address, they will come after everyone who was on that wifi.

For my 30th my Dad gave me a decorative napkin holder in the shape of a flip flop. It was so random and weird?

$20 to play the pokies then they asked if they could have it back. Was my girlfriend…. Was…..

A surprise non-surprise birthday party. I was 18 and my then GF invited me over to a friend’s house. I showed up and it was all dark. She said come through the gate around back. I could just make out some added tables and a tent with more chairs and tables. I thought, “Oh here it is.” Nope. Just her, which was great and all, but no one else. We sat there and hung out. Then she responded to a text and I got my hopes up again like they really planned this surprise out. I heard the gate open again and foot steps. Nope. It was her mom showing up. She had a covered plate and opens it at the table we were at under the tent. I saw a slice of cake. I thought that’s sweet, but her mom just started eating it. She had come from a party herself and brought it with her. Wasn’t for me. That’s all my 18th birthday was. All the tables and chairs and tent was from a previous party the friend’s parents had a couple nights previously.

Yelled at.

My ex-husband took himself out of the world. 19 years ago, today.

Toilet paper

I wanted a party for my 16th. My parents said they would do something BIGGER and instead would take me to NYC because I wanted to see a musical. They hyped it up for months and when I kept asking months after my birthday when we were going they said I was selfish and my mom straight up said she 'didn't feel like that kind of trip'. I'm not over it

Dinner with a golf pro. I've never played golf and never had any desire to. When I was 30something my parents invited me to a fancy expensive restaurant for my birthday dinner. Unbeknownst to me, they invited their golf buddies (a married couple) and a golf pro that was teaching them (I'd never met these three people ever) The ***entire*** dinner they talked golf. Their games, recent tournaments, etc. I am not exaggerating when I say there was no other topic of conversation. I just sat there eating my meal. I tried to engage, but never was able to. They just turned to each other again to talk golf. To top it off, the couple were some of the most blatantly racist people I've met before and since. I had/have an adopted African-American daughter and they kept making racist comments about other players, etc. (and some other bigoted bs). Finally shut them down... but ugh. Thing is, my parents ***knew*** I had no interest in golf whatsoever and am socially awkward (read: ASD), being around people I don't know in such situations is stressful. ESPECIALLY ones who disliked my family (also some vaguely homophobic stuff.. I am a man married to a man). My parents knew they were racist too (excused it later as "that's just the way the are") Yet they decided for my birthday dinner to take me to a very expensive restaurant with three racist and homophobic strangers talking about golf. That dinner will stick in my head forever as the anti-gift. (I love my parents, but damn...)

You’re gonna love this. I was married, two great kids and my wife treated me to dinner out for my birthday at arguably the nicest restaurant in town. About the time our drinks came she she to me “I’ve filed for a divorce.” That was about 20 years ago and I get to remember it every birthday. For what it’s worth I’m ten years in with a wonderful woman.

I like how you can tell who grew up in a relatively normal childhood and who grew up abused as f*** with this one simple question

Wasn’t Me, but on my friend’s 12 bday his parents decided on a bike, and chose which bike to get him. Then made him pay for it…. As a 12 year old. Bro didn’t even get to choose the bike…

A ‘gift’ that I had to help pay for, my friends surprised me before with a cake on my birthday but after that they said i need to contribute lol😭😭😭

My ex-husband ruined every single birthday I had starting six months after we married. The last straw was my 40th birthday when he came home with roses and accused me of cheating on him. I threw the flowers in the garbage and got a restraining order two months later.

A venereal disease.

Nothing, zilch, nada, zero, bupkiss.... I was raised in the cult of Jehovah's Witnesses so i didn't get any birthdays or birthday presents until I left. I had my first bday party thrown for me when I turned 40.

Not my birthday, but for Christmas I once got a gallon jar of pickled vegetables. I was 12

My biomom forgot my birthday one year because she was too busy getting drunk and high so she stopped by Walmart on the way home from her dealers place. She raided the clearance rack in the women's section (and maybe the kids section?) and grabbed me 8 different bras. All different (wrong) sizes, all different (wrong) styles. I literally couldn't use a single one of them. Side note: I was in 9th grade and had HUGEEEEE breasts, unfortunately. Nothing in the kids section would fit and the women's section didn't have a small enough waistband with a large enough cup. She also left the price tag on them so I saw they were, like, $2-$5 bras. And that's all she got me. 👍🏻 when I opened the bag, my face dropped because (duh) I couldn't wear them. My current bra was also 3 sizes too small so I was doubly disappointed. She flipped her shit. Yelling, cussing, calling me entitled and ungrateful, telling me that I had no idea how hard it was to raise me as a young mother (that mooched off of any man within her line of sight). It was awful.

From my then-husband, I got chocolate covered in ghost peppers and a CD holder from the thrift store, complete with a $2 price tag, covered in spiderwebs and dust. I love chocolate but not hot peppers, and I don't own any CDs. That was the last birthday I was married.

When I was 16, my father told me he was done fighting for me. That my stepmother would always be right from now on, even if it was blatantly obvious she was not. Then he said "OH, by the way, Happy Birthday." No gift, no celebrating.

Onn my 30th bday my mother gave me a can of funnel cake mix because “ you always loved funnel cakes “ ( I never had one in my life ) when I put the can on my island at home the overhead light caught the plastic lid at such an angle it highlighted the grooves a pen had made that said ‘Merry X-mas Rose’ guess my mom’s name .

Peanut butter

One year my entire family forgot my birthday. Everyone thought it was the 27th instead of the 25th. Was my 50th… From my mom I got a card that only said mom inside.

A pill bottle with chewed gum

Last year when my parents remembered my birthday three days after the fact.

Not my present, but my hippie grandma got my dad weed when I was like 12, and I remember we we're all sitting around the dinner table watching him open presents and then one of the gifts was just a pack of weed. My grandma then got mad at him over the phone and told him he shouldn't have opened it in front of the whole family. Like how was he meant to know? Anyways, I'm not sure if he ever smoked it...

my mum once gave me a coupon book. for a city i didn’t live in.

My uncle, who was on meth, got me a child's Black Panther mask from walmart for my 28th Birthday.

I was a carrier of strep throat as a kid and sometimes didn't know I had it until my dad or brother got it or it progressed to the skin peeling off my hands and feet. My dr was worried it would damage my heart when it got to the skin peeling stage, so on my birthday, 50+ yrs ago, I had to have 4 shots of penicillin in the butt. 2 on each hip. I will NEVER forget going over the speed bumps in the clinic parking lot on the way out. That was a lousy birthday.

A 'mystery box' of smoking supplies. I do smoke! But it was genuinely the most random useless stuff. A c**** joint roller that broke when I tried to use it. A roach clip. A rolling tray with Rick and Morty on it. And a one hitter- when I have 3 and a bong. The one thing in the box I was excited for, I gasped when I saw it, was a Carrie cigarette case. I LOVE horror. Classic slashers are on 24/7 at my house. It was holographic and painfully c***, I was so excited. However the gifter immediately stuck their hand into the box and snatched the Carrie case. Before I could say anything they said "oh whoops, that's my freebie with the website points. The rest is for you :)' OUT OF THE BOX I JUST OPENED!! Wrapped in gifting paper!!! I didn't say anything but that pissed me off. They should have taken it out first or just let me have it. Still bitter lowkey

Nothing at all.

My birthday is right after Christmas it’s when they wrap a Christmas present doffently

A plain basic vanilla cake from the supermarket. It was the worst because he asked me what I wanted and I said flowers and chocolate caramel cake, that's it. I also didn't get the flowers. No, we're no longer together.

A shotgun, at sixteen. Would have preferred books, albums.

I was born 31 December. As a kid, it felt like you got a held back Christmas gift. And everyone was talking about New Year’s. Parents would leave around 6 o’clock in the evening to go out to dinner and to a New Year’s Eve party, leaving me with a babysitter. It’s always felt like a shit day for a birthday, comparable to Christmas, I suppose.

Appendicitis

My uncle came to visit on my birthday weekend and somehow forgot it was my birthday weekend. Time comes for presents and he panics then runs out to his car saying he forgot my present in the car. He comes back and hands me an open and scratched WAM cd. This was like 1998. Thanks, Fred.

Dehydrator. I have never dehydrated anything before and don’t have any plans to.

for my 18th birthday i had a ""friend'" give me a framed picture of Their senior pic. With a bookmark that had her Name,class, year and graduation pic........this was 3 months after we had already graduated.

Two years ago, a week before my birthday, my sister said 'she was getting my present, but hadn't yet' I'm like okay... well... a month later she 'borrowed' $20 from me which happened to be $20, I had gotten from my mom for my bday... so my mom paided me back for the $20 that my sister 'borrowed'. She even wrote me a IOU. My mom has passed. I have that IOU, stashed with my keepsake papers. See my sister is unemployed. And ~~leeched~~ is a harsh word, every single cent out of my mom. We were counting out how much we had to keep her in hospice and what was left..after went for... that. I'm waiting. Patiently.

Hotel shampoo and conditioner packed in a feminine hygiene disposal bag. Thanks, mom.

A sticker for the lid of a toilet seat

An electric shaver in 8th grade. I was begging for a cellphone (2004, flip phone) We always saved the best for last. That was the last. Box, weight, only present left, I was 100% sure it was a cell phone. Aaaaand a shitty ol electric shaver. I asked them if this was a joke. I wasn’t close to having facial hair back then either. I still think my folks did it for their own amusement. I refuse to believe that never crossed their minds. My buddy’s mom laughed for years about that too, that helped actually. My folks gaslit me like I was the crazy one. Wasn’t even a nice electric shaver.

A snowglobe my mom grabbed off the dusty shelf in our living room.  She forgot my 15th birthday.

Life... hahaha, jk..

My best friend gave me a plastic toddler stacking toy when I was 13. Another friend gave me gigantic granny panties when I was 40 I think she was poor though and did her best.

My uncle married a very traditional Chinese woman. She sent us, for our birthdays and at Christmas, socks and underwear... In our family, the concept of giving a card to someone as a gift or as gratitude is completely foreign to us. No one in my entire lifetime that I am blood related to has ever bought a thank you card or a birthday card for someone else. So, when my uncle let us know that he and his wife would no longer be speaking to us or giving us gifts, it took literally years for my grandmother to find out from him that his wife was enraged and completely bonkers because we had not sent her a thank you card for the underwear and the socks, none of which fit us.

nothing. my ex had done nothing for every holiday and anniversary, i BEGGED him to just do something for my birthday. pick me some flowers, draw me a card. and it was nothing. again. my partner now goes all out for every holiday ❤️

Used makeup. Thanks, grandma!

Not the worst but after 19 losing family I haven't gotten anything except at 27 when I dated my boss she got me a silver bracelet it was actually the best thing I've gotten but recently someone slipped it off my wrist I didn't even notice until way after it kinda hurts so I'd say now that's the worst experience I suppose.

Bike helmet from a new boyfriend

I really didn’t think I cared about being remembered but every single one of my friends forgot my birthday last year. Even a few members of my family did too. Not gonna lie it was very humbling.

My dad's mild pain pills that he decided he better not take anymore. He was having seizures and one of the side effects was seizures.

A nice dinner out, with my soon the be ex husband who decided on the way there to give me the silent treatment. Then my birthday cake and champagne from friends thrown in the trash and dumped in the sink by him before I got to have any.

Nothing. Happened all thru childhood. My birthday is too close to Christmas. :(

On my birthday cake, for my seventh birthday, was a simple message, "You embarass us.".

Dead grandmother for my 16th She died a few days before so all attention was for making arrangements for the funeral, taking care of the house, etc. the funeral was the day after my birthday. A few days later, my mother came into my room and apologized for the family completely forgetting my birthday. Of course I said it was ok and completely understandable. Life and death happens. However, I’ve never cared for birthdays since. Except my wife threw me a large party with friends for my 50th

Getting slapped by the doctor

Divorce papers

A carton of cigarettes. Old man grabs me an says, 'ehh Smoke up Jonny!'

Guinness Book of World Records. My husband has never lived it down 🤣

A meat grinder

For my 21st birthday my mom showed me the clothes she had gotten me that she would now be returning, as I “had not earned their respect to be considered a mature adult.” This with my best friend standing next to me, jaw on the floor.

My mom's funeral. (Yes, I know that wasn't my present, but it was still my birthday the day of her funeral.)

My bf of five years got me a word search. I’ve never done one before nor shown interest. Felt a little last minute gas stationy

2 cans of dr pepper in a canon camera box

My Dad bought me an XL bath towel and put it in a shoebox. Like damn tricked me and told me I was fat.

Nothing. Not even a Happy Birthday.

Although I have received a few bad glfts I feel like instead sharing the worst birthday CARD: One year, I think I might have been in my late 30s, my dad gave me a card meant for a husband to give his wife, I don’t remember the exact words but it said “I’ve seen you naked” and showed the cartoon husband Tex Averying at his naked wife behind a curtain. I was horrified and my dad was like, “I thought it was funny because I saw you naked when you were a baby.” But I couldn’t see it that way. He sulked about it all day.

Covid

I keep fish. Without my consulting me, my parents gifted me several fish. They did this by putting them in my fish tank while i wasnt home. It was a 30g community tank and several of the fish were too large for it and several also attacked my fish and killed my shrimp. Not only did they kill my fish, I had to take them back to the pet store and explain what happened to take them back. Of course my parents were shocked that I wasn't more grateful (Sharks, a pleco, and red tetras if anyone is familiar with the hobby)

A surprise party….6 days after my dad died. Because I was so in the mood to play host to a bunch of people I barely knew (my brother only invited people from my school in my grade when all of my closest friends were several years older than me) a bunch of 18 and 19 year olds, none of whom knew what to say or how to act in that situation while my mom locked herself in her room and my brother ran around stocking the ice chest. Anything but having to talk to me, I guess. My dad was the only person in my family who even came close to being a normal semi-healthy individual.

An ex gave me nothing and threw a Super Bowl party ON my birthday without even acknowledging that it was my birthday. We’d been together for years at that point, that’s when I knew he really didn’t care.

My favorite question because I get to complain about my half-sisters again! I have always worked hands on jobs, so I’ve been restricted on what kind of jewelry I can wear. At most a watch and plain band rings. Most of the time not even that. So when I opened up the bracelet (not even a style I’d wear if I could), I just stared at it. My birthday is in May, three weeks away from anyone else in the family’s birthday. I was not even wondering why they gave me such a horrible gift, *I was wondering how I could have been given someone else’s gift for my birthday.* Until middle sis pipes in with “isn’t it pretty?” Anyway, the worst part of it all: they spent months “looking” for the receipt. It was allegedly $10 from the Hallmark store. $10 that could have bought me something I really wanted. It was never found. I ended up getting rid of it for 50¢ at a garage sale. It wasn’t until years later, when a whole Christmas worth of gifts was just as bad, that I figured out the reason. They were buying this stuff on clearance (only figured it out because of a Christmas EP they gave me that was released the year before). Even if there was a receipt and it was returnable, they’d probably have to own up to the fact they weren’t just oblivious to the fact I don’t wear jewelry, but in fact just buying c**** c*** and hoping I wouldn’t say anything. Things got so bad after that that I no longer even consider them family. Bad gifts are not the only reason (they stole tickets to Disney World that I had one and had no regard to anything I wanted to do when dumping the kids on me), but as a whole I have decided I don’t need narcissists in my life.

A carton of cigarettes..... Dad said , here Tony, smoke up, their greeaaatttt!! B******

Life

A reminder that I'm getting older.🙂

Nothing

Once, my uncle present contraceptives for my birthday. Not a bad gift, but they were the cheapest ones he could find and of course I've never used them.

I’m sorry but I just have to mention that this reminds me of the extreme cheapskates episode where the lady would steal her friends stuff and give it back to them on Christmas as a gift lmfao

4 copies of call of duty ghosts for ps3, I had an Xbox 360. Still have most of my copies though, I ended up giving one to a friend. Think what happened was my family members had asked my mom what I wanted for my bday, and she had told them that I liked call of duty, and she may have thought I had a ps3 and not an Xbox.

Sprained knee. Decided to go roller skating with my family for my 40th birthday. First time skating since college. Fortunately I was the only one hurt.

one time my white friend gave me (a mixed girl) shea moisture hair products…i had never mentioned liking those products or needing anything new for my hair

Yall get presents?

A lamp

Some bullshit card from corporate.

Major argument from my then-wife on my 50th.