Worst Christmas Present Ever Contest!

Bearmom I  would think that they now lie under the recently added flower bed in the back yard. Shhhhh!

This didn't happen to me, but to a good friend of mine.

When Em and her sister were still little enough to believe in Santa, they got in trouble Christmas Eve. They did nothing horrendous, they were just two little kids over excited by Santa's pending arrival. The next morning they went to the tree and found nothing under it except two bundles of switches tied up with a red ribbon and note from Santa explaining that they had been too naughty for gifts.

Awww! That's just wrong! :-(

Let's see, when I was 7 all I wanted was an easy bake oven. I got that oven and I was so excited. I wanted to stop opening presents and start making all of the goodies contained in the box. I had to wait till later, my mom didn't want to deal with helping me.

After asking most of the morning for help she kept saying no, so I decided to go and play outside for a while and kill time. I went to a friends house down the way. Just to take a look at what she got. I was gone for a few hours.

I made my way back home and could detect a slight chocolate odor in the air. I walked into the dining room, to my horror I saw all of my mixes had been opened. They were used, gone, and eaten. I was furious and knew surely I'd get justice when my mom found out.

Then I discovered that not only had my brother of one year older than me used all of my mixes and ate them, my mother helped him and they did it together, include eating them together. ON CHRISTMAS! I didn't even have the thing for 12 hours and it was all gone!

I never got refills for it and I wasn't allowed to come up with my own things to cook in it. It was put up in the storage closet. Worst. Present. Ever.

I don't even care if I win. This was just good to get out. I don't see my therapist for two weeks.

That made me sad. I think my easy bake is still in my attic, and I was too stingy to use my mixes. If you come to WA, I'll bake with you. Never mind that they will be inedibly stale. I even had extra ones we ordered, and you can bake them ALL. We will take pictures of us eating entire cakes in one bite, and make Christmas cards for your mom and brother with them.

I didn't care if I win this either, you just can't help some memories popping up when you see the initial post. At least I can laugh about mine now, but I'm newly sad about yours. 

It's a date!  I live in WA, I'm just way south of you.  :)  Don't be too sad.  I have two girls and my oldest wanted one when she was 6.  We got her one and she got to make everything herself, she even let her little sister help.  I also bought them refill packs when we'd think of it.  The good thing to come out of crap from childhood is that you can learn from it and promise not to repeat it.

You know, kids often have VERY different takes on what their parents do, than the parents realize.  Something that the parents don't even recall happening, or was no big deal turns out to have been A HUGE ******G DEAL to the kids, and sometimes they don't even know it.

I found out a couple of years ago that my adult (but immature) son was harboring an ENORMOUS resentment that had been smoldering for 10+ years over what was a small white lie (to me) about a personal matter that was none of his business when he was a young teen - but he knew I was lying to him, and he had taken it as some ginormous betrayal and I STILL don't think he's over it.

Having said that - I wanna go ***** slap you mother over that one!!  HOW DARE SHE??

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Reading some of the product reviews was like opening the psyches of today's moms ... funny and scary at the same time.

Thanks Diana :)

You are very right about kids taking things differently.  Have two myself, I often feel like a moron for doing something that I didn't think was a big deal, but was very much a big deal to them.

As far as my mom and that particular brother, it was just a pattern of favorites that still gets played out today while we're our 30's.  Meh.  I try to take away positive from the crap.  I know that I don't want to put my children through the things I went through.  I try my hardest to learn and live better than the example that was shown to me.  I don't always succeed, but I try.

I bought my oldest an Easy Bake when she was 6 and I made sure she was in charge of it.  She even let her little sister help.  I also bought refills and let her make up her own recipes.  So there eventually was some closure and a happy ending. :)

Heidi hugs! Btw....your family sucks! ;-)

I feel your pain. My little sister was a devil and was always getting into my Barbies while I was at school. She liked cutting hair and chewing the toes to a splayed out pulp so the shoes wouldn't fit again. Meanwhile, my Barbie cases were well organized with the matching shoes in the correct little drawer underneath. Drove me to fury just to have someone mess up the case.

Years later I discovered that when my mother was hanging by her last thread with my sister, she would TELL her to go play with my Barbies.

Granted this was the same kid who "hugged" my turtle Speedy Josephine to death and who my mother once took to the doctor's and announced that one of them was leaving there with a prescription and she didn't care which. I still twitch recollecting.

But, I work things through. Just a couple of years ago, I made the following piece of art for my sister for Christmas. That photo on the wall that looks like an evil, little troll is actually my sister dressed as the Jolly Green Giant for Halloween. Hard to see, but the toes are splayed--took a long time to chew them just right--and notice the bottle of champagne next to Barbie's feet and the empty one under her chair.

I'm sure you could find an Easy Bake oven at a flea market you could gift to your brother.