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Readers share their best - but mostly worst - Christmas gifts

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: The holidays are a time to give and show our loved ones how much we care...but there are also a whole whack of presents exchanged, and let's be honest, some of them are doozies. Our readers shared their best and worst Christmas presents ever. (Fotolia)

: "The worst gift I ever received was from my husband. You know that free gift you get if you sign up for a credit card from Zellers or the Bay etc.? It was a cheap plastic desk organizer for pens and paperclip. The next year it was stove top burner covers."
- Santa's Elf
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: "One year my husband gave me a pool cue and brush for his pool table. I opened it up, gave him a look of disapproval, he ripped it out of my hands and went off and played pool with it. I felt like wrapping it around his head. The table is now gone but I kept the cue to remind him what an ass he was."
- Denise
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: "One year for a stocking stuffer, my brother gave me a spray can of F.D.S. (feminine deodorant spray)- thinking it was a popular perfume."
- Reader
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: "The worst gift I got was a bathroom set, complete with seat cover and mats. You might ask, 'What's wrong with that?' Nothing, but I was nine-years-old and I never had an en suite in my room."
- Gino
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: "Worst gift I received was a car care kit with Armor All, Windex, a cloth - oh and one of bottles had leaked so it was a soggy mess."
- @tini_33
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: "Grade 6 Kris Kringle, I received a book from our school library."
- Reader
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: "I used to collect little angels. My ex decided to get me the biggest angel he could find... It was a lawn ornament. I guess the thought was there, but I was so embarrassed to have that sitting in the living room."
- Girly girl
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: "When my cousin was 48-years-old her husband gave her a cemetery plot."
- Reader
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: "My office did a gift exchange at a fancy restaurant and people were getting nice chocolates and bottles of wine. I got a box of condoms."
- Reader
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: "Worst gift ever was an empty ring box with a card that read 'maybe next time'"
- Pencilmom
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: "A mushroom log from my mother-in-law. Seriously. A log that was supposed to have mushroom spores in it."
- Barbara
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: "My brother and his wife sent my mother a new nightgown. She has an eye sight problem so thought it was ripped until my sister pointed out it was a 'nursing' gown with openings for breast feeding. At the time my mother was 80 years old so pretty sure those days were long gone."
- Reader
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: "My mother had a cracked toilet seat in her powder room. One year, my father decided to give her a new toilet seat for Christmas. I kid you not, that's the stuff that goes into tales of family folklore."
- Reader
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: "Best Christmas present: Plane ticket home for Christmas one year. Worst: Matching sweaters for me and my mom (bought by mom!)"
- @SJRBoomz
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: "A then-boyfriend gave me a bottle of perfume after he had spotted me looking at it at a beauty counter several months earlier."
- QMI Agency editor
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: "The best gift was the Christmas after I finished college. The last thing hanging on the tree was a little metal box. It contained a piece of paper listing all the money I had borrowed off my Mom while I was attending college. At the bottom of this list was a note. WE LOVE YOU MIKE, MERRY CHRISTMAS. PAID IN FULL.......I carried that little box with me for years after till I finally lost it. But I will never forget it. Thanks Mom."
- Ptbcdn
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: "One year my boyfriend got me a GPS navigation system for Christmas. I could have killed him. But now I use it all the time."
- QMI Agency editor
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: "Instead of exchanging presents, my boyfriend and I spent a night at a luxe hotel and turned our cell phones off."
- QMI Agency editor
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