We couldn’t host a Gift Fest without giving away one of our own! Our customers’ favorite necklace was picked to represent Esculon Jewelry – Twiggy, a $115 value.
Twiggy’s organic, free-flowing form, gold shimmer and hint of warm, vibrant color makes an original and striking statement. It’s part of a new wave of jewelry, designed to give women a feeling of simple sophistication. Twisted gold-filled wire is perfectly shaped for the fall season and adorned with a glowing Chalcedony gemstone. The necklace is held together by a single strand of gold-filled chain and measures 17″. It ties in perfectly with a great outfit!
How to win it:
1. In the comments section, tell me about the worst gift you ever received! I want the dirt on the most embarassing, ugly or tacky gift someone ever picked out for you. This should be fun! =)
2. Subscribe to the blog. Afterall, you wouldn’t want to miss all the future giveaways!
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The worst gifts I ever received came the same Christmas from my husband. They were a mood ring and a sweeper!!! He has never lived it down!
Ahh…the absolute worst gift was also from my husband and for my birthday (keep in mind, we’d been together 6 years at this point).
It was a pair of the most hideous, red, vinyl, stiletto (stripper) shoes. Seriously, they were awful. Best part? They weren’t even my size.
Good times, good times.
The worst gift I ever got? Came this year from my mother-in-law….at my son’s baby shower….she gave me EXPIRED baby food! I think she went through the cupboard and put it in a bag! My son was due in June….the food expired in MAY!!!! I was mad!!
Terri and Melissa: I still can’t figure out why it’s so hard for a man to know what a woman wants! The red stripper shoes can’t even be re-gifted. lol
Maria: HA! That’s horrible! Who gives baby food as a gift anyway??
My husband never could get it right with clothes. He bought me back a two piece Mexican muu muu. The top made me look like I was carrying sextuplets! This was about year two into our marriage.
He did get the point though. He’s never bought me another piece of clothing.
My worst christmas gift would have to be a do it yourself manicure kit–I mean, is someone subliminally trying to tell me that I need a manicure? Worst part is, that I was asked if I ever got around to using it. How rude!
My worst Christmas gift came from my ex-husband while we were still dating: a bundle of cooking utensils. Note — I don’t cook. I don’t like to cook, I don’t want to cook, I don’t try to cook. I guess that should have been a sign that I was dating my future ex-husband!!
I received a pair of socks when I was ten years old from my aunt. My sister received the exact same pair of socks. Who gives a ten year old socks for Christmas?!
The worst Christmas gift I ever received was a mason jar filled with a string of cheap Christmas lights! I guess it was supposed to be used as a Christmas decoration but it was beyond tacky!
My aunt gave me this ugly laundry basket thing -I don’t know what she was thinking
Sounds like a lot of us have aunts with absolutely no gift-giving abilities! I’m in the same boat…lol…my aunt has given me nothing but the ugliest shirts year after year!
My dad gave me a broken dvd player for my graduation present that he had taken from his work. Thing never did work.
He never offered to fix it and was the last gift I can remember getting from him. He’s passed now but he was the worst gift giver in history.
The worst gift I have ever received was from my uncle – socks!
well my husband gave me a breast pump he found at a garage sale and was not clean..he was excited becuase we needed one…but if he had brought it home and handed it to me I would of cleaned it up and got new parts but instead I threw it at him and made a nice hole in the wall…
another one mil owned a shop and gave me a half used sample bottle of cheap lotion and had put an expensive tag on it telling everyone it was so expensive- I have it in the same wrapper and she will be getting it back when it separates..yes its old already- like 5 years now but it needs more time to ripen then I will be the worst gift giver haha
haha…you’re my new idol Mrs.Mommy!! I’ve always wanted to give back horrible gifts but I’ve never had the guts to do it. I’d love to see the look on her face when she opens that up. That is awesome!
my mother-in-law gave me hideous slippers as a Christmas Gift for five or six years running…..it’s like she set out to choose the worst color imaginable……always ugly terrycloth….and to make it evem worse, she always gave me a size medium, when she knew that I wear a small……it was so hard to be grateful each time……
I was 17 years old, out of high school, working in a bank – quite a mature young lady. An uncle whom I had not seen in many, many years apparently thought time had stopped and sent me the most “adorable” towel set with little hand puppet wash mitts imprinted with my name and decorated with little giraffes.
my friend gave me ankle weights for christmas
The worst gift I ever received was a hideous 1980s from my godmother, back when I was a teenager. She was always trying to change my style and get me to wear what she considered to be the most trendy. That year, she bought me an outfit that conisted of a black turtleneck with snaps around the crotch to make it really tight-looking — kind of like an infant’s onesie, but tighter so it “digs” in a bit. Then, a plaid miniskirt which puffed out sort of like a skirt from the 1950s.
I was thin enough for the look, but was a skinny girl who was extremely flat-chested. The tight turtleneck showed just how non-curvy I was. The skirt was just bizarre and perhaps could lead to a Britney Spears type moment if I wasn’t careful (although I would of course be wearing underwear).
Thanks for the opportunity. The necklace is gorgeous and reminds me of the art that a friend of mine creates using natural objects like tree branches. Love it.
The worst gift was receiving a check from my husband (out of our joint account, no less). It would have been much nicer had he spent a few minutes actually buying a present instead. Needless to say, he also is no longer my husband.
My grandmother gave me a hideous pair of red panties when I was about 13. They were supposed to be sexy, but really were just garish and embarrassing. Later I spoke with my aunt, and grandma had given her the same gift, but she had refused the panties. I just put them in the back of the drawer and tried to forget the whole incident, until now.
For my wedding, someone gave us a plastic aquarium looking thing that was broken and cracked.
Hmmm… the worst gift – that would have to be the USED bamboo cutting board my husband and I got for our wedding. Nice.
Wow, what an opportunity! My mother is the worst offender; she loves to re-gift. She gave me an old pulley-style exerciser from the 70’s, still in the original packaging. I even remember it from when I was a child and she gave it to me after being married and having children to “help me get back in shape.” She also gave my husband Avon cologne in a car shaped bottle that was AT LEAST 20 years old. Another year, she gave him a bunch of hangers; I am not kidding. My mother-in-law used to routinely buy three of the same items of clothing – one for each of her daughters and one for me. (And actually, one for herself) I always felt she was trying to make me a clone of them and my style was VERY different than theirs. She never seemed to even try to get to know my tastes and preferences.
But to end on a positive note, two of the best gifts I ever got were from my husband and both complete surprises. One year, he learned to play one of my favorite songs on the piano and on Christmas, I got the sheet music with the invitation to sing along as he played — he then played me the song. That gift took thought, imagination and planning and time to learn the piece he knew I loved.
Another time, for our 7th anniversary, he came home with a canary in a small cage. He knew that as a child, I had really wanted one and my mom (aforementioned bad gifter) and I had looked for one for a year. For reasons I no longer remember, canaries were banned from the US for about 10 years, so I never got one. Until my wonderful husband gave me Amarillo, who lived for 9 years.
The worst gift I ever got was a ceramic cow head ! This was a housewarming gift from my ( now ex) hubby’s aunt and he insisted we hang it in the kitchen so she wouldn’t be insulted when she came to visit. It was CREEPY as well as TACKY – the cow’s eyes seemed to follow me around the room! Fortunately, after about a month, it fell off the wall and broke!!
The worst gift I ever got was a Salad Shooter for Christmas from my hubby. How unromantic and cheesy!
I guess I’ve been pretty lucky in the gift department. I know I’ve gotten bad gifts but they’ve been so long ago, I have forgotten them. So I’ll share someone else’s bad gift.
At a former job, my work team used to have a holiday party, complete with a White Elephant gift exchange. One year, one of the gifts given was a clear round vase, maybe a foot tall and a few inches in diameter. It was filled with some sort of potpourri and had little white Christmas lights twined around inside the potpourri. I don’t remember exactly how the cord came out of the vase, but you could plug this thing in and have it light up. My words here really don’t convey how hilarious this thing was. It was one of the funniest items I have ever seen and was a great item at the gift exchange.
What made this item even more memorable was the fact that the person who got this item at the first party brought it back as their White Elephant gift the next year. It was even funnier to the people who now knew the history of the gift when we saw it the second time around.
P.S. to Zoe – Your cow head story is great!
Well, my boyfriend once bought me a blender for our 3 year anniversary. Honestly, I actually didn’t really mind it, but everyone else made fun of him like crazy for it. He had good intentions and all. He thought it would be good to make frozens alcoholic beverages, which it was (seeing as we were in college and all)! haha. Though, I can’t help but think of the scene from “Father of the Bride” everytime I tell the story. “I mean, what is this? 1958? Give the little wife a blender? ” lol
The worst gift I ever got was from my ex sister-in-law. She bought my husband (her brother) a very nice, expensive shirt. However, she gave me a few items from the gift with purchase from Estee Lauder – the items she didn’t want ( small jar of eye cream, lip liner, eye liner). I got the message!Th
My father mailed my eighth birthday present. I opened the box in anticipation only to recieve the disappointment of my eight year-old-life — a pair of boy’s roller skates two sizes too big. My mean ole daddy always wanted a boy. I eventually got my roller skates. Twenty four years later, my father is still working hard on getting my forgiveness for this and other boy’s presents.
The worst present I ever got was a giant pair of panties (a gag gift) from a friend at my lingerie shower.
The worst Xmas gift I ever got was some cheap, gaudy jewelry from my hubby. A man he worked with was selling the “junk”. I cannot believe he thought I would actually like it. He is clueless when it comes to buying gifts!
The worst gift EVER for Christmas was when I was 8 months pregnant my inlaws gave me a granny Clampet night gown 100% cotton Ruffels and all. Absolutely NO stretch and size extra small-They totally pulled it out of their trick bag because it was not a treat it was trash!!
The worst gift was a box of candy from an almost-forgotten-but-I -still-get- crazy-thinking-of-this… suitor that handed the box to me, with a piece missing because, he said, his mother had tasted a piece. Well, I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, if they BOTH thought that was ok….goodbye apple, go back to your tree….
Hope I win this gorgeous necklace, it would make me balanced again and I’d forget the rotten apple experience…
My husband gave me a Puma track suit for our very first Valentine’s day! I could not understand what his thought process was — for V-day? Really? I was so shocked and upset that I almost cried when I opened that box. The worst part was that he was so proud of himself that he kept building it up the whole week–I was expecting something really cool and my face just crumbled when I saw a track suit. Needless to say, he learned his lesson and doesn’t buy me any kinds of clothes. I told him that jewelry is always good :0)
When I was 13 years old I had gained a few lbs. but was by no means fat ( I was 5′2 and 130lbs). My ex stepmonster got me an exercise video for X-mas! It was an awkward time in my life and she certainly made things worse by humiliating me in front of all my relatives!
My worst gift was a dish rag from my MIL. The same year that very person also gave me a bar of soap and a hand held cheses slicer. ( Amongst other goodies…. Lucky me… ) She gave my husband pistachios and a watch.
Hi! Happy Holidays! I was wondering who won the gorgeous necklace?
Yes! I didn’t see it posted. Who did win? Or is it still open?