46 Gifts That Were More Insult Than Present

To find out how this conversation started in the first place, we got in touch with the Reddit user who invited others to share the worst Christmas presents they've ever received, Xjuggernaughtx.

"Waiting for a report to run at work, I was day-dreaming," the author told Bored Panda. "I was thinking back to a present that I received once when I was briefly living with a family that my mom was going to marry into (she didn't go through with it). It was so mind-bogglingly terrible that it stuck out in my mind. It got me wondering how many other people had such distinct memories of similar gifts. I figured that there would be some good stories in those responses."

So what was the terrible present that the author still remembers many years later? "The gift that I received was a brightly colored African-style T-shirt," they shared. "At the time, I was an angsty sixteen-year-old metalhead who pretty much only wore black band shirts and black jeans. I really didn't like the family that I was living with, and they didn't like me, so it was absolutely a gift that was meant to [upset me]. And that's fine, I guess. It's not like I was being cool to them either, so it's whatever."

Next, we asked Xjuggernaughtx what they thought of the replies to their post. "To be honest, I thought that the responses would be funnier," they revealed. "I was prepared to read through them while chuckling. However, I found most of them to be pretty sad. They really displayed a lot more callousness, or possibly mental illness, than I expected."

"I feel bad for the many people that responded that received a can of chicken soup for their birthday or whatever it was for them," the author continued. "It really says something about the human condition when multiple people received scratchers that had already been used with the explanation that the gifter was going to keep them if they had been winning tickets. So without winning, the giftee just received garbage."

"It takes a really [messed up] person to give a gift like that, and there were a LOT of responses in the 'I basically received this person's garbage' category," the author added. "By the end, I was regretting having asked that question because I found the responses so depressing."