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<p><a href="https://www.someecards.com/memes/valentines-day/">Valentine&#39;s Day</a> has become an obligatory holiday for everyone. If you&#39;re single, you&#39;re supposed to celebrate how miserable you are. If you&#39;re in a relationship, you must celebrate your love&mdash;which does not always go to plan. People forget the holiday, misread the situation, are thoughtless, or simply do not want to be dating their partner. As culled from <a href="http://​ Reddit, what's the worst possible gift for your significant other on Valentines Day? from AskReddit ​" target="_blank">various</a> <a href="http://​ Reddit, what's the WORST Valentine's Day you've had? from AskReddit ​" target="_blank">Reddit</a> <a href="http://​ Worst valentines gift you’ve ever received? from AskReddit ​" target="_blank">threads</a>, here are 12 terrible gifts that people got for <a href="https://www.someecards.com/memes/valentines-day/">Valentine&#39;s Day</a>. Yes, in most cases, these couples failed to last.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><div><div class="video-correcting-container" style="left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 0px;position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/3o752k5H19mo1pnpkc" width="480" height="320" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen style="top: 0px;left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 100%;position: absolute;"></iframe></div></div></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/ddos04n/" target="_blank">samohkt</a>&#39;s girlfriend had the right intention.</h2><form action="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/#" id="form-t1_ddos04nzuw" onsubmit="return post_form(this, 'editusertext')"> <blockquote> <p>My girlfriend gave me a pack of cigarettes because I was trying to quit smoking, and she thought it would help me relax.</p> </blockquote> </form><h2>2. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/ddorbrg/" target="_blank">wacht</a> tried.</h2><blockquote> <p>Once I ordered my girlfriend flowers that didn&#39;t arrive (or were stolen from the porch), so I gave her the delivery confirmation instead.</p> <p>It was not as funny as I thought it would be.</p> </blockquote><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><div><div class="video-correcting-container" style="left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 0px;position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/3oEduIOpXCpGxagbQY" width="480" height="286" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen style="top: 0px;left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 100%;position: absolute;"></iframe></div></div></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2v2w94/worst_valentines_gift_youve_ever_received/codz7ne/" target="_blank">bowyer-betty</a>&#39;s gift didn&#39;t make him feel special.</h2><form action="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2v2w94/worst_valentines_gift_youve_ever_received/#" id="form-t1_codz7nev3q" onsubmit="return post_form(this, 'editusertext')"> <blockquote> <p>A stuffed dog and a sweet, heartfelt declaration of undying love...that was written for the guy that she just broke up with to be with me. She just figured fuck it, it&#39;s already written and sealed. She even scratched his name off the envelope and wrote mine. We didn&#39;t last long.</p> </blockquote> </form><h2>4. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/croncakes">croncakes</a>&#39;s acquaintances were perfectly unthoughtful.</h2><blockquote> <p>I knew a couple freshman year in college who were just an absolute mess. I&#39;d estimate 99% of the time they spent together was either drunk or high and neither of them seemed to particularly like the other one. It essentially devolved into a game of chicken who would dump the other first, with neither of them actually wanting to do it. So valentines day rolls around and the guy, clearly forgot he should probably get his girlfriend a gift until we reminded him that morning. He proceeds to get high instead of running to the store. She comes over and he has absolutely nothing to give her. So he looks around his room and just hands her a clock on his desk that he previously got as a graduation gift. However this wasn&#39;t just any clock, it was a fucking stripper clock. <a href="http://image.dhgate.com/albu_355574362_00/1.0x0.jpg">This isn&#39;t exactly it, but close enough.</a></p> <p>Turns out that it was probably a good move to put so little effort into it, as she then proceeds to rummage around her in purse and pulled out a half eaten jar of Nutella as his gift. Which I am 90% sure he ended up eating at some point while high. No word on if the stripper clock was ever used.</p> <p>Truly a match made in heaven.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><div><div class="video-correcting-container" style="left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 0px;position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/3oEduIOpXCpGxagbQY" width="480" height="286" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen style="top: 0px;left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 100%;position: absolute;"></iframe></div></div></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/ddoragn/" target="_blank">AMontyPython</a> had different ideas about the relationship.</h2><blockquote> <form action="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/#" id="form-t1_ddoragnpar" onsubmit="return post_form(this, 'editusertext')"> <p>I bought an ex gf one of every Valentine&#39;s Day gift; bear, candy, lingerie, wine, balloons, all of it. She got me a turtle that sings &quot;Can&#39;t Hurry Love&quot;. Took me a while to get that hint.</p> </form> </blockquote><h2>6. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/ddowaea/" target="_blank">pr0foak</a>&#39;s friend&#39;s gift was wrong in multiple ways.</h2><blockquote> <p>This wasn&#39;t a valentines day gift but it&#39;s a pretty great example of a gift gone wrong:</p> <p>A friend of mine had been in a relationship with this girl for a few months when she went to work a summer job in British Columbia (we live in Ontario so this is the other side of the continent). He is a pretty messy guy and doesn&#39;t always think things through. His girlfriend is really into fresh produce so he thought it would be nice to send her some as a little surprise. So he went to the farmers market and got a few different types of fresh organic vegetables which he proceeded to send by mail. While he was putting the package together he found a pair of panties in his room behind his bed and thought he might as well return his girlfriend her underwear since he was already sending a package. So off the package goes. By regular post.</p> <p>So a full two weeks later the package arrives and his girlfriend opens it. Inside she finds an assortment of rotting vegetables and a pair of panties that do not belong to her. Turns out my friend hadn&#39;t cleaned his room (or at least behind his bed) since he was seeing another woman. His girlfriend has no idea how to take this - is it some sort of message? They cleared things up in the end but I still like to bring this story up for a laugh now and then.</p> <p>TLDR: Guy sent his girlfriend rotting vegetables and another woman&#39;s panties</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><div><div class="video-correcting-container" style="left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 0px;position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/NdEM2Oeep7UoU" width="500" height="301" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen style="top: 0px;left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 100%;position: absolute;"></iframe></div></div></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/ddovrl5/" target="_blank">raffagapro</a> needs to clean out the closet more.</h2><form action="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/#" id="form-t1_ddovrl56m1" onsubmit="return post_form(this, 'editusertext')"> <blockquote> <p>Last Valentines, MY gf found a sweater that my ex left a long time ago in my closet. I didn&acute;t have the heart to tell her it was from my ex, so I said I had bought it for her for Valentines. She was so suprised and happy, and she absolutly loves the sweater, she wears it all the time...</p> </blockquote> </form><h2>8. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/ddoqfie/" target="_blank">Shlong_Roy</a>&#39;s girlfriend failed the delivery portion.</h2><blockquote> <p>Girl I started dating a couple of months before Valentine&#39;s Day just got out of a long term relationship with her high school sweetheart. I didn&#39;t know she was still in contact with him when we were dating. She handed me a cute little bag with candy and a card. As I opened the card and read her pouring out her soul to her ex boyfriend about how much she still thinks about him and loves him. Evidently she made two gift bags. One for me and one for the ex and mixed them up.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><div><div class="video-correcting-container" style="left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 0px;position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/iaRxbSsPQV2IU" width="322" height="200" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen style="top: 0px;left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 100%;position: absolute;"></iframe></div></div></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. To be fair, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/ddor49j/" target="_blank">gfjq23</a>&#39;s dad was listening.</h2><blockquote> <p>My dad bought my mom a pencil sharpener one year for Valentine&#39;s Day. It was the only gift he ever bought her on that day.</p> <p>My sister and I pestered him relentlessly saying it was weird he had never bought her a Valentine&#39;s Day gift, so he listened for what she wanted. She had been complaining that their pencil sharpener was junk, so he went out and bought this really nice electric one (this was in the late 80s, so actually a pricey gift). My mom was SO mad and so he never bought her another Valentine&#39;s Day gift again.</p> <p>EDIT: I just wanted to say my mom isn&#39;t a jerk at all. She did apologize later. After 18 years and two kids he for the first time ever got her something on Valentine&#39;s Day. She was expecting some romantic gesture and instead got a pencil sharpener. We all think it is hilarious now, but at the time she was confused and a bit let down. She didn&#39;t handle it well, but such is life.</p> <p>This year is their 45th anniversary, so it wasn&#39;t that big a deal. It&#39;s just a running family joke. Every year on their anniversary my dad gets my mom a rose for each year they have been married, so he&#39;s not totally unromantic. Though it costs him about $200+ these days for her massive rose bouquet.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/ddooo1u/" target="_blank">RealAnthonyCamp</a> missed the mark on the big first V-day gift.</h2><blockquote> <p>I bought my wife a microwave for our first Valentine&#39;s day back in 2005...she had just moved into her new place and needed a microwave...not sure why everyone didn&#39;t see how thoughtful I was being</p> </blockquote><h2>11. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2v2w94/worst_valentines_gift_youve_ever_received/coe2ucy/" target="_blank">Swarleymon</a>&#39;s gift could&#39;ve been nice.</h2><form action="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2v2w94/worst_valentines_gift_youve_ever_received/coe2ucy/#" id="form-t1_coe2ucy6at" onsubmit="return post_form(this, 'editusertext')"> <blockquote> <p>A decorative crystal carriage, first ever gift, sounds cute right, no it was completely shattered. I ended up getting it late and found the exact &quot;gift&quot; at Walgreens in a cart marked &quot;clearence 75% off&quot; it ended up making it like $2. The suckiest part was I got his dream car in model form since he loved to put together model cars, I really searched for that damn car. And this was pre-ebay days, all that hard work to get something in pieces that he didn&#39;t even attempt to return or replace.</p> </blockquote> </form><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><div><div class="video-correcting-container" style="left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 0px;position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/dt414CznrRX8Y" width="245" height="240" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen style="top: 0px;left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 100%;position: absolute;"></iframe></div></div></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/ddopxuc/" target="_blank">W00dzy87</a> made a serious attempt at romance.</h2><blockquote> <p>I saved a patatoe in the freezer that was the perfect shape of a heart. I put it in there in June for February. When I got it out and proudly gave it to my wife it literally turned black and started leaking juices in front of her. In theory it was cute in practice it was like a death threat.</p> </blockquote><h2>13. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/ddot63r/" target="_blank">Dannzzor</a> did not like this gift whatsoever.</h2><form action="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/#" id="form-t1_ddot63r8yr" onsubmit="return post_form(this, 'editusertext')"> <blockquote> <p>One year a girl I had been dating for a few years gave me a plaster cast of her foot. I&#39;m not even a foot guy. I tried my best to appreciate it, but it mostly just weirded me out. She painted it this dull gray color. It looked like a dead zombie foot, and it was way way larger than I thought her feet really were. I think she got the idea from Cosmo. I&#39;d say, in general, try to go with a gift from the heart, not something out of Cosmo!</p> </blockquote> </form><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><div><div class="video-correcting-container" style="left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 0px;position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/cSozWbWHEfUis" width="500" height="305" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen style="top: 0px;left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 100%;position: absolute;"></iframe></div></div></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5tsjph/reddit_whats_the_worst_possible_gift_for_your/ddoq9si/" target="_blank">AJM5K6</a> gives evidence that gag gifts are not good gifts.</h2><blockquote> <p>In college there was a butcher on campus, near the ag department. It sold all sorts of meat at wholesale.</p> <p>I bought my girlfriend Bacon for Valentines day. I loved her. I loved Bacon.</p> <p>Skip to the end we broke up the following March.</p> <p>Edit: Not going to answer as to which college it was.</p> <p>Second Edit: I didn&#39;t add this before because what I did was dumb. She didn&#39;t like bacon. Apparently we had many conversations about it. She explained several times apparently, but I never remembered. I bought bacon as a gag gift because I had to move back home and I thought it would be funny. I was dumb. She was a great girlfriend and is still one of my closest friends.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

14 terrible gifts people actually got for Valentine's Day that'll make you glad you're single.

Julianne Adams

Valentine&#39;s Day has become an obligatory holiday for everyone. If you&#39;re single, you&#39;re supposed to celebrate how miserable you are. If you&#39;re in a relationship, you must celebrate your love&mdash;which does not always go to plan. People forget the holiday, misread the situation, are thoughtless, or simply do not want to be dating their partner. As culled from various Reddit threads, here are 12 terrible gifts that people got for Valentine&#39;s Day. Yes, in most cases, these couples failed to last.1. samohkt&#39;s girlfriend had the right intention.  My girlfriend gave me a pack of cigarettes because I was trying to quit smoking, and she thought it would help me relax.  2. wacht tried. Once I ordered my girlfriend flowers that didn&#39;t arrive (or were stolen from the porch), so I gave her the delivery confirmation instead. It was not as funny as I thought it would be. 3. bowyer-betty&#39;s gift didn&#39;t make him feel special.  A stuffed dog and a sweet, heartfelt declaration of undying love...that was written for the guy that she just broke up with to be with me. She just figured fuck it, it&#39;s already written and sealed. She even scratched his name off the envelope and wrote mine. We didn&#39;t last long.  4. croncakes&#39;s acquaintances were perfectly unthoughtful. I knew a couple freshman year in college who were just an absolute mess. I&#39;d estimate 99% of the time they spent together was either drunk or high and neither of them seemed to particularly like the other one. It essentially devolved into a game of chicken who would dump the other first, with neither of them actually wanting to do it. So valentines day rolls around and the guy, clearly forgot he should probably get his girlfriend a gift until we reminded him that morning. He proceeds to get high instead of running to the store. She comes over and he has absolutely nothing to give her. So he looks around his room and just hands her a clock on his desk that he previously got as a graduation gift. However this wasn&#39;t just any clock, it was a fucking stripper clock. This isn&#39;t exactly it, but close enough. Turns out that it was probably a good move to put so little effort into it, as she then proceeds to rummage around her in purse and pulled out a half eaten jar of Nutella as his gift. Which I am 90% sure he ended up eating at some point while high. No word on if the stripper clock was ever used. Truly a match made in heaven. 5. AMontyPython had different ideas about the relationship.  I bought an ex gf one of every Valentine&#39;s Day gift; bear, candy, lingerie, wine, balloons, all of it. She got me a turtle that sings &quot;Can&#39;t Hurry Love&quot;. Took me a while to get that hint.  6. pr0foak&#39;s friend&#39;s gift was wrong in multiple ways. This wasn&#39;t a valentines day gift but it&#39;s a pretty great example of a gift gone wrong: A friend of mine had been in a relationship with this girl for a few months when she went to work a summer job in British Columbia (we live in Ontario so this is the other side of the continent). He is a pretty messy guy and doesn&#39;t always think things through. His girlfriend is really into fresh produce so he thought it would be nice to send her some as a little surprise. So he went to the farmers market and got a few different types of fresh organic vegetables which he proceeded to send by mail. While he was putting the package together he found a pair of panties in his room behind his bed and thought he might as well return his girlfriend her underwear since he was already sending a package. So off the package goes. By regular post. So a full two weeks later the package arrives and his girlfriend opens it. Inside she finds an assortment of rotting vegetables and a pair of panties that do not belong to her. Turns out my friend hadn&#39;t cleaned his room (or at least behind his bed) since he was seeing another woman. His girlfriend has no idea how to take this - is it some sort of message? They cleared things up in the end but I still like to bring this story up for a laugh now and then. TLDR: Guy sent his girlfriend rotting vegetables and another woman&#39;s panties 7. raffagapro needs to clean out the closet more.  Last Valentines, MY gf found a sweater that my ex left a long time ago in my closet. I didn&acute;t have the heart to tell her it was from my ex, so I said I had bought it for her for Valentines. She was so suprised and happy, and she absolutly loves the sweater, she wears it all the time...  8. Shlong_Roy&#39;s girlfriend failed the delivery portion. Girl I started dating a couple of months before Valentine&#39;s Day just got out of a long term relationship with her high school sweetheart. I didn&#39;t know she was still in contact with him when we were dating. She handed me a cute little bag with candy and a card. As I opened the card and read her pouring out her soul to her ex boyfriend about how much she still thinks about him and loves him. Evidently she made two gift bags. One for me and one for the ex and mixed them up. 9. To be fair, gfjq23&#39;s dad was listening. My dad bought my mom a pencil sharpener one year for Valentine&#39;s Day. It was the only gift he ever bought her on that day. My sister and I pestered him relentlessly saying it was weird he had never bought her a Valentine&#39;s Day gift, so he listened for what she wanted. She had been complaining that their pencil sharpener was junk, so he went out and bought this really nice electric one (this was in the late 80s, so actually a pricey gift). My mom was SO mad and so he never bought her another Valentine&#39;s Day gift again. EDIT: I just wanted to say my mom isn&#39;t a jerk at all. She did apologize later. After 18 years and two kids he for the first time ever got her something on Valentine&#39;s Day. She was expecting some romantic gesture and instead got a pencil sharpener. We all think it is hilarious now, but at the time she was confused and a bit let down. She didn&#39;t handle it well, but such is life. This year is their 45th anniversary, so it wasn&#39;t that big a deal. It&#39;s just a running family joke. Every year on their anniversary my dad gets my mom a rose for each year they have been married, so he&#39;s not totally unromantic. Though it costs him about $200+ these days for her massive rose bouquet. 10. RealAnthonyCamp missed the mark on the big first V-day gift. I bought my wife a microwave for our first Valentine&#39;s day back in 2005...she had just moved into her new place and needed a microwave...not sure why everyone didn&#39;t see how thoughtful I was being 11. Swarleymon&#39;s gift could&#39;ve been nice.  A decorative crystal carriage, first ever gift, sounds cute right, no it was completely shattered. I ended up getting it late and found the exact &quot;gift&quot; at Walgreens in a cart marked &quot;clearence 75% off&quot; it ended up making it like $2. The suckiest part was I got his dream car in model form since he loved to put together model cars, I really searched for that damn car. And this was pre-ebay days, all that hard work to get something in pieces that he didn&#39;t even attempt to return or replace.  12. W00dzy87 made a serious attempt at romance. I saved a patatoe in the freezer that was the perfect shape of a heart. I put it in there in June for February. When I got it out and proudly gave it to my wife it literally turned black and started leaking juices in front of her. In theory it was cute in practice it was like a death threat. 13. Dannzzor did not like this gift whatsoever.  One year a girl I had been dating for a few years gave me a plaster cast of her foot. I&#39;m not even a foot guy. I tried my best to appreciate it, but it mostly just weirded me out. She painted it this dull gray color. It looked like a dead zombie foot, and it was way way larger than I thought her feet really were. I think she got the idea from Cosmo. I&#39;d say, in general, try to go with a gift from the heart, not something out of Cosmo!  14. AJM5K6 gives evidence that gag gifts are not good gifts. In college there was a butcher on campus, near the ag department. It sold all sorts of meat at wholesale. I bought my girlfriend Bacon for Valentines day. I loved her. I loved Bacon. Skip to the end we broke up the following March. Edit: Not going to answer as to which college it was. Second Edit: I didn&#39;t add this before because what I did was dumb. She didn&#39;t like bacon. Apparently we had many conversations about it. She explained several times apparently, but I never remembered. I bought bacon as a gag gift because I had to move back home and I thought it would be funny. I was dumb. She was a great girlfriend and is still one of my closest friends. 