Worst Gifts Received From Significant Others: #YouGotMeThis?

Stressing out about what to get your significant other -- or about what he or she will get YOU? Relax, whatever you pick can't possibly be as bad as the poor gift/life decisions below ... or can it?

Take a look at the worst gifts the HuffPost editorial staff has received from significant others (past or present) and share your own stories by tweeting @HuffPostWomen with hashttag "#yougotmethis?".

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[trainer3]

06:50 PM on 12/24/2011

I got engaged today. I hired a limo, met her at the beach, walked along the strand and all the words I had mentally written...came out nicely. And I know she loves her daughter so I said, " Samantha, mother of Jennifer...would you marry me?" and she said yes. I pulled out the ring. She was enamored. I hugged her. She said, "Well aren't you going to put the ring on my finger?" And I said, "Oh. Sorry. I wasn't sure what I should do at this point, and I'm...".and she hugged me, she was crying. I put the ring on. She cried more. People on the beach were cheering...couples. It was beautiful. I have never married before. But I am 56 and ready. I was going to marry her 20 years ago. I wasn't ready. She married the other guy. Thus the daughter, and they broke up, and...well. I just got engaged. She lives downstate, I am home now

I need a drink, a small puff, and Ralphie on TBS all night. I think I am in shock.

[signgrrl]

10:04 PM on 12/25/2011

congratulations !!

[ciaracie]

06:34 PM on 12/23/2011

Nothing...not even a card. We are divorced now, but it still hurts.

[Harold Saxon]

04:32 PM on 12/23/2011

The first Christmas I spent with my new mother-in-law, she gave me ointment for cold sores.

I don't have cold sores. :(

[Beltane73]

08:51 AM on 12/22/2011

Twilight Band-Aids. It's become a family joke. I do all my own shopping now. . .

[angeb]

10:18 AM on 12/21/2011

How unappreciative can one be? It’s the thought that counts! Makes me sick to think people would even think they could receive a “worst gift” there are children, adults and elderly that don’t get gifts. Here’s a thought if your gift is so horrible donate it, someone will appreciate it.

[ciaracie]

06:35 PM on 12/23/2011

Obviously you didn't read my post. Mine was "nothing"...not even a card. How do I donate that?

[trainer3]

06:53 PM on 12/24/2011

it's the exclamation points that count with you. Truly. They made me stop reading.

[angeb]

10:03 PM on 12/24/2011

I'm glad something counts in your eyes. I was only trying to make a point. It's not a gift that shows love or appreciation. It's the person and what they mean to you. Obviously you don't see that way.

[BlueBird55]

07:00 PM on 12/20/2011

This is easy.

One year my husband was in a drawing at his place of employment for a free trip to Florida (he was a salesman and had exceeded all his quotas, only about 10 guys were in the drawing). I got up Christmas morning and went to the Christmas tree. There on the branches was an envelope the exact size for airline tickets! I got SOOOO excited, couldn't wait to open it! But when I did....there was a gift certificate to the plus-size clothing store in our town.

So beat that, if you can.

[oldandweird]

09:27 PM on 12/19/2011

My husband gave me a new toilet seat for the bathroom we were re-doing for our children. I took it as a 'message'. We've been divorced nearly 20 years now...

[Mrsbean54]

10:52 AM on 12/19/2011

My first boyfriend gave me a bar of soap. In his defense, we were 15 and didn't have an income, and he wrote a nice note on the paper package. His rationale was that it was the soap he used, and he thought the scent would make me think of him.

Don't give a girl soap.

[Brianna Cole]

06:43 AM on 12/19/2011

My boyfriend gave me a painstakingly made "key to my heart" necklace in silver. He gave this to me as he sat on my couch to tell me he was moving from NY to NM and I would never see him again. I didn't.

[MagicalPossibilities]

12:31 AM on 12/19/2011

These gifts all sound pretty crappy, but any of them are better than herpes.

[mrb113]

10:51 AM on 12/18/2011

My boyfriend of over a year got me two wedges of cheddar cheese (one of which was apple pie flavored) for my birthday. I don't even particularly care for cheddar cheese...

[SgtMom]

09:00 AM on 12/18/2011

Christmas 1974, he gave me a shiny brand new chrome plated over the door....chin up bar.

I cried.

Years afterward he always gave me size xxsmall clothes I was always forced to return because I was a far cry from xxsmall. I was flattered he thought I might be so tiny and put off buying larger clothes thinking someday I really might be xxsmall....

I overheard him and his friends discussing how they always gave their wives xtra small clothes on purpose because they would return them rather than exchange them. They got credit for buying a present, but ended up not spending a penny.

No. I have not divorced him. I now enjoy gifts like a new Mercedes Benz or a trip to Hawaii.

He knows I know.

[signgrrl]

09:26 AM on 12/18/2011

wow. just, wow. that reeks. i'm so sorry.

[Absolute]

07:51 AM on 12/18/2011

A dust buster, my husband and I laugh about it all the time.

[RealistBC]

05:27 AM on 12/18/2011

If you asked my wife, she would say it was the toe sox I bought her one year - the kind which covers each toe individually. She hated them, and disposed of them. I didn't know this until our grown daughter was wearing some one day. I told her that her mother had some I gave her, and only then was told they didn't last the week I gave them to her.

[Cascadienne]

07:23 PM on 12/17/2011

I remember one Xmas, years ago when we were kids, my father got my mom a set of mixing bowls. Not even the nice, ceramic, decorative kinds, but the melamine kinds as one of her had broken a while back. The painful silence as he opened his cornucopia of well-thought-out presents was enough for him to resort to art, jewelry, heartfelt cards and the like for every Xmas since. Before the haters start judging, she gave up her career and education to raise his 4 kids and something OTHER than a present for her 'job', ie. personalized, is what she was hoping for.

My hubby's only 'bombs' were an electric kettle one year, and a carseat warmer another (admittedly the warmer was a blessing in disguise as I left to go to work in a very cold place for a few years...love him!)