What's Your Least Favorite/most Reviled Kid Gift? (JFF)

When I was a little girl, my parents bought me a Pretty Penny Chatterbox for Christmas. Penny would share one of her catch phrases after you pulled her long, blond hair (no joke). Her favorite sentences included, "Tell me about it," and "Hi my name is pretty penny chatterbox," said in an high pitched and enthusiastic voice. I loved Penny and took her *everywhere*. I loved snuggling with her and dressing her, but mostly I enjoyed making her talk...non stop.

One day, Pretty Penny's Chatterbox stopped working. My sister and I thought we had pulled poor Penny's hair one time too many. In fact, and I only found this out in the past few months, my Mom and Dad had disabled her voice.

I can't say I blame them.

BIL got my 5 yr old son a Recorder!

Thank You Dan!

I was ready to chuck that thing out a window by day 2...

* I can not wait till he has kids...I see a drum set in his future :)

my grandma bought my daughter this toy that is supposed to teach her her letters, which she knows pretty well, and the dumb thing doesnt recognize the letters very well, even when I'm doing it, and so it drives her and me nuts, because she knows she's doing the right letter, and it's telling her "good try, lets try again!" sheesh.

Santa brought Cuponk. Oh Joy. The sound of 8 ping pong balls bouncing all over the floors. Yay.

When my DD was 1, my mother insisted on getting her Baby Einstein's My First Story Reader - it holds a book and "reads" whatever page it is on, plus has buttons to push to answer questions. I guess she just expected DD to turn the pages in order and listen all the way through, but of course DD did not. She would flip the pages back and forth and repeatedly push the buttons so I just kept hearing the start of the same phrase over and over: "My First Stor...My Fir...My First Story Read...My First Story Reader reads...My,My First Story Rea...My First...My, My, My, My First Sto..." AAAARRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!

When my stepsons were little, they had a Bop-It toy and THAT was annoying to no end. I don't even know if it was a Christmas gift one time or what, I just know it was at their house with Mom and then somehow one weekend ended up at ours and stayed. I swear, I suspect their mom sent it over with them on purpose. I wanted to just chuck it out the window.

The worst gift my daughter ever received was the sit and spin. She's 2 and never wants to sit for anything. She would stand and spin. We tried working with her and teaching her the correct way but she wasn't interested. So one busted lip later we trashed it.

This electronic book my 2 year old got, it sings a very annoying version of "ring around the rosey" the words are not the same, it says something about a dog kissing a cat. lol., my 2 year old loves the real version of this song, so she will play this thing over and over again and get confused by the change of lyrics. The present i hated the most was these dollar store socks i got from my sister in law,( we got her a really nice coffeemaker)

I have turned 'electrician from hail' and permanently damaged MANY a toy in my day.

Too many to mention.

My dad got my 3 year old "Little Miss Sunshine"!! She lights up and says "Hi! I"m little miss sunshine! (in music now...) When the sunshine is showing, my whole world starts glowing, I'm happy so happy today!" That thing ended up in the immediate goodwill pile only to have my DD find it in there and pull it back out...

My son got like 7 or 8 Nerf guns from various family members... that was his most wanted Christmas present, and when anyone asked, that's what he told them, and they all came through... ugh.

Seems like almost all of them take different darts, and at any given moment, I have hundreds of darts all over my house. And could be pelted with one at any moment. Fun.

Ferbie!!!! I need say no more.

Actually that welding set sounds awesome lol!

My son's just a baby, but he did get a couple toys that make the most annoying sounds. The stuff I really hate though is the clothes! My MIL bought him this hat that looks like a dog, and socks with these super cutesy designs. I NEVER have my son in this sort of thing. I hate looking at the really cutesy baby stuff, so I don't ever buy it for him. She's never seen this baby in any cutsey baby clothes ever, so I'm not sure why she insists on buying it for him!

Minor complaint though, mostly he made out really well :)

Any toy that comes with a million parts, one of which is certain to get lost within the first 10 minutes, and forever after the toy doesn't work right or is incomplete because of that lost part (ie: those horrible Lego u-build-it cars, trucks, tanks, etc).

Most annoying (my fault for buying it) toy for this year is the "Tea Cup Piggy" Toy. For one it sounds like a too happy freakzoid 11 year old girl. For two it doesnt shut the hell up! Its super sensitive and repeats the most annoying lines constantly. I should have chucked that in the trash, I was disappointed in it. My DD doesnt even play with it but refuses to part with it. I think she finds it annoying as well. lol

All of the annoying toys...have...magically...vanished..........