What gifts that you received for Christmas this year are already in the trash?

My sister gave us some diapers for our newborn. Already pooped her way through them.

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Bottle of scotch. It is in the trash because I have finished it.

there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke,

My kids got two or three items each that promptly broke. Into the garbage they go.

I hate the dollar store so much. It's a waste of money and an environmental train wreck.

Christian devotional book from my aunt, I’ve straight told her I don’t read or want them but she keeps doing it

I mentioned to a family member how much I like my garlic press. I then received a garlic press for Christmas and will certainly be regifting it.

My parents gave me one of those 2023 Guinness World Record book. I appreciate the gesture, but it screams "we didn't know what to get you, and there were a pallet of 'em at Costco". I can see the book's appeal for a child or teenager but I'M 37.

I'll be re-gifting it to my father in-law 😎 I'm 100% sure he'll love it.

At the other end of the spectrum: My wife and I made a minimal gifts pact. We each got each other minor crap we needed for around the house. It was perfect. No waste. No extravagance. Just stuff we were going to get anyway.

Not trash, just returned to the shop. HP Smart Tank 580 printer.

My neighbour gave me a TV. To be precise, he rushed it to me unannounced at the exact moment I was leaving to go to a party. I accepted as quickly as I could in an effort to still make my train.

It turns out it's about 15 years old and I have no use for it. He's a lovely man but I intend to post it as free to a good home then drop it at an e-recycling station if nobody is interested.

The slinky my middle child got didn't even survive the day.

Has anyone had a slinky that survived more than a week?

My grandmother got me some uranium because she knows I'm into reactors. I didn't have the heart to tell her she got scammed & it was all depleted.

We have an old bamboo cutting board that my wife bought and it’s been through Hell. It also bears no known emotional or sentimental value (which we’ll get to). Now, it’s all scarred up and soaked in all the odors and stains from years of abuse and neglect. It was also too small, and I always wished it was bigger.

I received a new, XL bamboo cutting board, which was at the top of my wishlist. It was perfect! I bought a fancy oil for it and everything. Then, I tried to lay down some ground rules with the wife for proper use and care of the board to prolong its usefulness by years.

My wife took it as a personal attack that everything she does is wrong. The replacement of the old board was emotionally taken as a replacement of some part of her. Then, she cried. The matter remains unresolved and the board will eventually make its way to either the trash or a new home because it’s now associated with some level of perceived scorn. All I wanted was something nice and to keep it nice. Fuck me, right?

Now, I want to cry.

Alcohol bottles (were full, now empty and in recycling, not trash)

I rarely throw gifts away, if I don't like them, I try to donate them to an organization or individual.

However, many years ago, someone got me "snow paint" which was, I'm pretty sure, literally just food coloring. You were supposed to use it to color in snow sculptures but I'm pretty sure that one found its way to the trash.

Candy wrappers because I ate the candy.

I think I accidentally threw away a Starbucks gift card someone gave me, because I've been unable to locate it since Christmas :(

EDIT: LMFAO the mods removed my reply to the Scrooge below me because I said "I hope you get coal next year" XD

My partner and I got scratch ticket packs for eachother for $38 total. I lost every ticket she won 20 dollar so we are starting the year 18 dollars short.

Can confirm. That sparkly styrofoam stuff became a huge mess approximately 5min after opening.

Kudos to your foresight, and congratulations for the free time you saved by not cleaning up this pink and purple bullshit

I'm actually just about to celebrate Christmas in the next hour or so. My dad's health went downhill over the holidays and he needed to be moved to assisted living, so we had to delay Christmas for a bit.

I asked my family to get me gift cards because I don't like receiving a bunch of trinkets/cheap toys. And the non-cheap "toys" I want are too expensive for my family to afford. So I'd rather they contribute cash toward something I really want.

The baked goods a lady from my dad's church gave me. I don't even know what they were; it tasted and looked like it was just a bunch of dallops of cake frosting sprinkled with almond dust. I don't really eat sweets, and these offended my taste buds when I ate one. Nobody else wanted to take them off my hands so into the trash they went.

À bottle of wine, but it's now empty.

My 2.5 toddler got a little collectible car. It somehow exploded into all its tiny parts on the first trip to the ground, which of course was shortly after opening.

Not in the trash, but I regifted something a friend sent me the week before Christmas. Wrapped it in fresh paper and gave it to another friend on Christmas Eve. No-one need know...

My sister bought me a nice glass rig, then got drunk and stumbled into it, shattering it on the ground

All the chocolate is already down the toilet, or on my waistline.

I did not receive any Christmas presents this year

My mom got me a sweater, where they accidentally sewed the neck/zipper/ tag part inside out. I’m guessing she bought it online and never looked at it.

I haven't opened any Christmas presents yet. We're having a late Christmas due to crazy schedules for everyone involved.

The first opened coffee bag. It has been deposited into the trash and or toilet

The in-laws know I love to cook and got me a (to me, they're familiar with the author through some TV show) random cookbook. It's aimed at people who don't know how to cook and lack confidence trying. Also who cook with things like Velveeta and cream of mushroom soup.

I mostly eat from-scratch Asian food.

Had the original floam as a kid. Smelled terrible and didn't stretch at all like in the commercials. Definitely went into the trash and I can only imagine how much worse the kind you had was. Slime or playdoh would have been better or easy to make.

I'm not much for receiving gifts but I appreciate fancy candies and food items I wouldn't buy for myself, and I turned most of them in to poop already.

My mom bought me a xlarge sweater. She must think I'm fat because I'm large at best.

Finished off a thing of oreo caramel with a creamy filling.

The lady and I started just buying our own gifts and profusely thanking each other for them a few years back. So. Nothing.

It's nice because there are still gifts under the tree, without the angst of shopping and the likelihood of disappointment.

Dumb cheap acrylic pyramids with silly decorations laid into the base.

Whirley-Pop.

Opend it up, realized it was a cheap piece of garbage. Went to return it to Amazon, and apparently it can't be returnd.

I love some homemade stovetop popcorn, but it is way easier to make and clean up using a regular stainless pot than that POS.

My husband's mom bought our cats a chirping kicky toy that I guess is supposed to look kind of like a ferret. It was really shrill and annoying and they wouldn't leave it alone because the noises made them so curious. It mysteriously vanished later on christmas day lmao.

I didn't so much as to throw it out. But I convinced my relatives it "Just looks better in my old room".

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