Top Ten WORST Christmas Gifts - #7

It's Christmas morning and you've been waiting all year to see what 'Santa' brings you.  For those of you who aren't a child, you still feel the excitement like a kid.  I wonder if I'll get what I really wanted this year?  I dropped enough hints and left as many clues as I could. Surely, nobody would miss the present I'd really like to get.  I can't wait to open it...and give honey the biggest hug and kiss.  I'm about to burst with anticipation.  I'm going to act so surprised and ask how he ever knew. 

Sounds like the perfect Christmas scenario.  Too bad it doesn't always happen that way.  Some people do an excellent job shopping, taking into careful consideration what each person on their list wants.  Others are totally in the dark as what to give someone else.  It looks it, too, when the gift gets unwrapped.  A smile disappears...a face falls.  I take it that's not what you wanted?  I take it you finally got something right, you dolt, because this choice wasn't the correct one to make.

There are good presents...then there are bad presents.  Then, there are the downright horrible ones.  I see your brain went on vacation for the holidays.  I can't believe this is what you got for me.  My heart be still...and my aim straight...as I toss this aside and hope I got something decent from someone, because this sure isn't cutting it.  How would you like it if I had gotten you the same thing?  You wouldn't do that, would you?  Why not?  You did!  Thanks, but no thanks.  Did you forget to take your shopping list with you...or did you really intended to give me what you got?  Make sure you know what a person wants and don't just run around grabbing whatever you can find.  It doesn't make too good of an impression knowing the person you're gifting to wasn't important enough to think of something that's just right for them.  As our list continues, here's yet another item most people really don't want as a Christmas present...

#7 - A framed photo of yourself and/or your family - I know what you look like already and you know I don't get along with your family.  Why would I want them sitting here staring at me from across the room?  It's a hideous picture and now I'm stuck with it out on display all the time...to cringe every time I walk past it.  Is it just me, or are their eyes following me around as I walk?  It's a nice gesture but rates right down there with Christmas cards with someone's children on the front.  We have half a dozen cameras around the house.  Don't you think, by now, if I had wanted a picture of your family, I would have taken one by now?  I love you honey, but I've got a picture of you from each of the past twenty years.  Not to mention, I sleep with you every night, so it's kind of hard forgetting what you look like when I wake up to that sight every day.  Even if it's just another relative or a friend, they really don't want a picture of you...or they'd already have one. This is a fun one to use...so I have something to ignore on that corner of the end table.  You shouldn't have.  No, I really mean it...you shouldn't have!

Think about what you'd like to get as a gift...and put yourself in the other person's shoes.  Would you be all hepped up over getting what you gave?  There's more to go so takes notes.  I know what's hot...and what's not...and I'm telling you to save your money on some of this stuff because it's really not wanted...by anyone!