Tell us the Worst Christmas Gift You’ve Received & Win NCAA Grill Topper Set
Remember how much it used to suck getting clothes every year for Christmas when you were a kid? Well some of us guys still have to deal with that disappointment as grownups. How many ties, watches and jelly-of-the-month subscriptions do we really need? This Christmas, The Man Registry is letting you take matters into your own hands. If your friends and family won’t buy you cool gifts, then win one for yourself!
Enter: The Grill Topper. This genius invention allows you to sear your favorite NCAA team’s logo into steak, burgers, chicken or whatever other crazy concoction you’re grilling up. We’re giving away a set of Grill Toppers featuring the team of your choice. All you have to do is tell us the worst Christmas gift you’ve ever received. Be descriptive (and photos help)! You can enter by leaving a comment below, tweeting us or posting to our Facebook page. On Friday, December 11th, we’ll select our favorite!
….or if you don’t wanna wait, you can buy one yourself by clicking the images below
The 550 Grill Topper sears a solo team logo onto the meat of your choice.
Turn your hot dog or brat into a fan-dog with the Hot Dog Grill Topper.
Grill for the entire party with the 1311 Family Size Grill Topper
Winner will receive (1) 550 NCAA Single Grill Topper, (1) Hot Dog Grill Topper & (1) Family Size Grill Topper. If preferred team is not available in all three models, we will substitute with a duplicate of available models. Available teams are: Alabama, Arizona St., Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Florida St., Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Iowa St., Kansas, Kansas St., Kentucky, Louisville, LSU, Miami, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, NC St., Nebraska, Ohio St., Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Oregon, Purdue, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, UCLA, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Tags: Christmas Contest, NCAA Grill Toppers, The Man Registry Contest, Wedding Blog Contest, Worst Christmas Gifts Ever
December 2nd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
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December 3rd, 2009 at 8:52 pm
It was a necklace. Given by an “ex”. Godawful ugly. Had to wear it tho to make “ex” happy. 30 seconds after the breakup, it was in the trash!!!
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:59 pm
The worst christmas gift i’ve gotten would be a label maker from my mom. I guess she thought i’d start to be more organized but instead its just taking up room in a drawer. These grilling tools look awesome, go Huskers!!
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:06 pm
One year I got nothing! I’m 1 of 10 kids and somehow I was forgotten on Christmas but everyone else had a gift under the tree so to make up for it my mother wrapped up one of her oven mitts (and acted like she had it in her room the whole time)because she thought I liked to help her cook… Needless to say I have never forgotten my kids on Christmas!
December 4th, 2009 at 6:22 am
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December 4th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Oy….where to begin. Pretty much anything from my mother. This year she gave me a calendar about shoes. Shoes! Well, I guess it goes with all those socks she gave me over the years.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:22 am
(it says at the top that its for guys- but i was tweeted that we could tell a story and win it for our significant others… hope thats okay)
Last year for Christmas, my husband gave me a cheese and meat gift basket. Like REALLY?!? It’s almost like when he was buying it he said to himself, “Hmm, she will really love this and by she… I really mean me.” What man really thinks his wife would like something like this? When Christmas morning arrived, the whole family was sitting around the tree and exchanged presents. I gave him my gift, which was some tool that he had been drooling over for that past six months and he gave me his. The picture below isn’t the exact one because believe me, I did NOT want any pictures of the worst gift in history, but you get the idea (the picture is posted to your facebook wall). There was sausage and salami and different cheeses. When I opened the gift, I am sure my mouth dropped to the floor because I was in such disbelief. I love the guy, but what in the world was he thinking?!? Needless to say he received two gifts that Christmas, the tool set from me and then the gift he intended for me but ultimately gave himself.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:50 am
My mother in Law got me this ugly flannel robe. I donated it To the Goodwill!
December 4th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
I wish I still associated with the person who gave me my worst gift… So I could point her in the direction of this blog and let her walk down memory lane with me.
My worst EVER gift was almost 10 years ago. It was a dark and stormy night… Okay, it wasn’t dark or stomry but it sure seemed that way.
I went with a friend to his families house for Christmas. I brought his mother a pretty necklace with a charm for each child and grandchild. Nothing fancy, but nice.
Well, after I gave it to her, she seemed appreciative and somewhat surprised. She put on her necklace and went off into her room for a little bit. When she came out, she passed out gift bags to everyone… Including me. (Now I’m shocked).
I open my bag and what did I find… A snowglobe… from the Bahamas. Umm… What the???
Well little did she know, I knew she went to the Bahamas the year before. How much do you want to bet that she bought it back then and stuck it in the bag AFTER she felt kind of bad that I got her something THOUGHTFUL and she got me nothing?!?
At the time, all I kept thinking was, it doesn’t ever snow in the Bahamas. So why a snow globe?
Wait it gets better. At some point during the evening I noticed my “gift” vanished. Don’t worry, on a trip back to her house a few weeks later, I peeked into her room and it was placed safely on her dresser hutch.
*raised eyebrow*
(@ten23designs)
December 4th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
The worst Christmas Gift that I ever received was a Power saw from my husband, I wonder who he was really buying it for?
December 5th, 2009 at 1:33 am
The worst gift ever was received in a Christmas gift exchange at work. We played a game where the first person took a wrapped gift from the pile in the middle. The gift was unwrapped and shown to all. Then the next person either took a fresh gift or snatched the first person’s who would then go get a new gift from the center. You get the idea. The only glitch was that if you had a gift taken from you it was gone for good. You could not ever snatch it back.
The gifts ranged from holiday decorative items, small electrical novelties, stationary, popular novels, and then thre was this ugly bowl. Not merely an ugy bowl. It was an abomination of a bowl. Lumpy in texture, too shallow and irregular in shape to actually hold anything and be of use, and having a color palette that could only be obtained by someone serially vomiting on it in muddy pastel pigments. It had a fancy potter’s seal on the bottom so this had to have been done on purpose, professionally. It looked like the kind of thing that someone had inherited from an elderly relative, couldn’t bear to throw it in the trash, so instead found this novel way to remove it permanently from their home but in a morally acceptable way. I don’t know what was worse, unwrapping this atrocity, or kowning that nobody would ever want to relieve me of it’s ultimate ownership. Which they didn’t, of course. Hilarity ensued.
You’d think the story ends there. It does not. I took the thing home. My husband was revolted. We let it sit on the coffee table for weeks, afraid to touch it lest it impart some disease. And then, with the fascination of commuters who slow down to gawk at a 6 car pile-up, unable to tear our eyes from the wreckage, we stared at that bowl. We moved it from room to room. We took it with us when we moved, and now 20 years later, we still have it, stuck in a dark corner. We even named it: the “Ugly Bowl”. Guests comment on it cautiously, politely, and yet we keep it and it’s still hideous. Maybe one day there will be another Christmas gift exchange and then I can get the chance to wrap it up and make someone else so lucky.
December 5th, 2009 at 10:24 am
I got an open box of teas…AND the good ones were gone. Thanks for the chance.
mogrill@comcast.net
December 5th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
potatoe skewer set—–we are a family of 3. It would make 1 potato at a time in 45 minutes and had at least 20 parts to wash. We could microwave the potatoes on a plate for 10 minutes. It had a clearance price on it for $1.oo, Would have preferred to give them a dollar
December 7th, 2009 at 12:48 am
OMG! The worst Christmas gift I ever received was from my MIL. I was pregnant and our 1st daughter was due AT THE BEGINNING of April. I had just gotten married and we became pregnant on our honeymoon – needless to say I was in the best shape ever. I was 5′1 and in a size 4 – when I got married, by this time I had gained maybe 10 pounds!
So, I opened up a pair of EXTRA – LARGE, white maternity shorts. I was like, really? Then, there were numerous other clothing items for summer – we live in Michigan! Anyway, my MIL informed me that she saw these and figured I’d need them in June – since I wouldn’t be able to lose the baby fat! OMG!
I could totally tell she scrapped off the clearance tag and had asked for the receipt to return it. Hmmm….she lost it! I decided to take the shorts back to where she had gotten them and they were on clearance for like .98 cents – I think the grand total of most of that stuff was like 5 bucks. NICE! My b-day follows AFTER the new year and to this day she always gets me a clearance Christmas ornament & calendar! UGH!
December 7th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
The worst Christmas gift I ever got was 2 lbs of way salty smoked fish. I like smoked fish, but it was done very poorly and was just a little to intense
jason(at)allworldautomotive(dot)com
December 7th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
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December 8th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Several years ago an aunt of mine (who flaunts money) gave my husband and me a gift that was in a large black velvet box.
We were curious as to what she could have possibly gotten us. Very carefully I removed the large Oriental horse from the box. It was the ugliest, useless thing I have ever seen. I don’t even want to think about where she may have bought it. Perhaps a 3rd or 4th hand store. Needless to say, it did not make it home with us.
December 8th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Ok, my mom used to get mad because we’d shake boxes and stuff, so she put the wrong names on the boxes. On Christmas day she couldn’t remember whose was whose!!! So the first box I opened was a cute pair of pink slippers, and as the only boy, my sisters thought it was hilarious.
December 9th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
A notice for a paternity test! It was not, to say the least, a pleasant Christmas – even though the notice turned out to be a hoax.
December 10th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
These are awesome…thanks for the giveaway guys….I think my worst gift would have to be the chair I got when I was in 6th grade….one of my dad’s work friends who I had never even met before got one for me and my brother, who was 8 at the time….it wasn’t even a cool piece of furniture either….I mean what 13-year-old wants a faded blue armchair that smells like burnt bubble wrap and doesn’t even have a recliner?….haha.
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I would love to win the Oregon grilltopper set….Dad would have a cow…. =]
December 10th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Ok, I know most guys would love the worst gift I have ever gotten, but I am a chick for God’s sake! For the last 3 years, I have gotten a gun for Christmas. Yes, I like to hunt (note I said like, not love) so I got a rifle one year. Mind you, there are already enough rifles in the house that I could have easily used any of them. Got a shotgun one year for killing snakes. If I see a snake, I am screaming my head off and someone else can kill the damn thing. Got a pistol for protection. That is what freaking 911 is for!!!! My dad asked my SO if he had ever seen me blow my temper…he thinks the boy is just asking for it!!!
December 11th, 2009 at 12:03 am
My grandmother got me a dirty cowbell for Christmas. It was pretty big. I have no idea why she gave it to me, at the time I was 17 year old high school girl..why would I need a cowbell? I didn’t live on a farm..
December 11th, 2009 at 11:21 am
My grandparents bought me a Dido CD when I asked for a Dio CD, BIG DIFFERERNCE! It was hilarious though, thanks!
December 11th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
the worst give me be a box of coal wrapped up.and thats all they got me.lol.thanks
December 11th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
A few years ago I gave my fiance a lot of jewelery a bunch of stuff of from Bath & Body works etc, basically EVERYTHING on our list, I went all out. She gave me in return a 6 month subscription to the hot sauce of the month club. I felt like Clark from Christmas Vacation. I sat there on Christmas morning and watched her open gift after gift and I sat there with my box that contained the info about the subscription. Don’t get me wrong I love hot sauce but really??? The worst part was she forgot to take the receipt out of the box she put the letter in and I saw how much it cost. Let’s just say this wasn’t exactly quality hot sauce, I ended up not really using any of it. To add another kick to the groin I didn’t even receive the last bottle as it apparently was lost during shipping.
December 11th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Had to think about this one. There’s always the ones you hated to get, like socks and underwear. But I think the one that really got me was when I was about 17 I had really badly wanted to upgrade the stereo speakers in my car. So, after dropping the hint (ranging from somewhat secretively to outright blatantly), I was pretty excited when I saw a box that appeared about the right size under the tree. However, what I opened was used three-way 6×9s, that were my dad’s throwaways, that didn’t fit my car, and hence, never actually got installed. Actually, I don;t even know what the hell happened to those things! So much for the show stopper that year! Thanks!
December 11th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
A wooden dish holder for my dog. This was a gift to me….
December 11th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
I recieved a party-lite candle. Now a candle is really lame to a guy but when I opened the box, the candle had been used. I kept this fact to myself as to not embarase the bbbiiitch who gave it to me, in front of everybody. Now every year I have to outdo myself with a new prank gift for her. AHHH the real gift that lasts!
December 11th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
My worst gift was finding out that my fiancee (at the time) was a big ol slut!
It all started when during the Christmas night dinner at our house that my roomate & I were having for our friends. As we were all sitting around, my roommates then 7 year old kid came in the room by all of us and asked his Dad while everyone was listening, except a few of the girls who were making up some drinks, including my then fiancee, “Dad, what’s a rimjob?” Everyone in the room thought it was hilarious and we all laughed like crazy, even me. When my roommate Pat asked why he wanted to know that, he said, “Missy(my ex) gave me some coloring books and this piece of paper has all these names and different words on them and stars but the one with the smily face is next to rimjob, so whats that?”
Well….now Pat wanted to see what he was talking about. So he reads it and calls me into another room. Seems good ol Missy had a sheet with all the guys she had slept with since she moved to our town from a little town she previously lived in. Mind you…I was only with her for about a year and she only lived here for 3 months longer than that. Not only that, she wrote down everything she did to them that they liked and also what they did and what she liked as well. The list had over 20 names!
Now….back to the rimjob. The smily face happened to be next to my roommates brothers name and she had a nice quote that said something like “use LOTS of flavored lube for his prostate massage”. DAMN……..Merry Christmas to me huh?
December 11th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
My mother in law came to visit one summer wearing this horrible perfume. It was an expensive perfume and a well-known brand. But my husband and I both just about gagged everytime we smelled it! A conversation came up at one point about our favorite perfumes and she asked how I liked her perfume. I said it was nice. Big mistake! Guess what I got for the following Christmas? A bottle of Red “Dog” (as we nicknamed it) perfume. It was quickly regifted. Luckily, my mother in law lives far enough away that she never had to know I didn’t wear this vile stuff!
December 11th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
I got a toaster yipee.
mightynaynay(at)cs.com
December 12th, 2009 at 12:48 am
A re-egifted ugly sweater full of pompoms with someone elses name on it.
December 12th, 2009 at 1:35 am
an apron!
December 14th, 2009 at 9:41 am
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December 17th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
My ex’s parents didn’t like me…at ALL! For Christmas they gave me a smore maker and a smore ornament. I was horrified that my future in laws could think of NOTHING better to give me. I would love to give this grill to my fiance, he would be in heaven
December 18th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
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December 22nd, 2009 at 10:51 am
one year my sister gave me a pencil for christmas and every one got nice things and i thought since i am her twin sister she would of got me something better but no i got a freaking pencil.. i mean now that the years have passed its not about the presents people your all sitting hear ranking on the worst gift but thats not what christmas is all about its about spending time with you family and the ones that you love.. thoughts presents cold be a lot worst like you not being with your family on christmas or someone thats very important to you passing away i mean that would be the worst present ever.. BE grateful you even got something at all…its the thought that counts not what you have some people don’t have a family to spend christmas with!!!!
December 30th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
My mother gave me a box of four 8ox. packages of mail order coffee. They were in the shipping box, which had been opened.
She put them in a Christmas gift bag which I had used to put her gift in the year before. The tag which says to Mom was still on it. That bag she placed inside another Christmas gift bag, which I had used to wrap her boyfriend’s gift in the year before. The bag or bags also contained an expired coupon for 20% off shoes at Sears and a bill for the coffee for $42.50. Expensive coffee huh?
March 24th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
The worst gift I ever received was from someone who was supposed to be one of my best friends. We got talking one day about things we did not like, well before Christmas. When Christmas arrived she gave me the very thing I did not like: a powder called “Desert Flower”). (It smelled like chalk baptised in lemon juice to me.) But that wasn’t all – what really took the cake was that she wrapped it in USED Reynolds wrap that was wrinkled and taped around it and insisted in putting directly into my hands, and not under the Christmas tree – I’m sure to get my reaction. She need not have bothered; I was just as sweet and pleasant in my thanks to her as I had ever been – but she finally moved away, and I don’t miss her a bit.
March 24th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
See my comment above. I thought I was on the right place.