# How many totally dud gifts did you receive for Christmas this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 28, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-totally-dud-gifts-did-you-receive-for-christmas-this-year/607619 "2011-12-28T13:16:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hilary\_Algar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilary_algar/32/4282_2.png) [@Hilary\_Algar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilary_Algar)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-totally-dud-gifts-did-you-receive-for-christmas-this-year/607619/1 "2011-12-28T13:16:50Z")
How many totally dud gifts did you receive for Christmas this year? ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-totally-dud-gifts-did-you-receive-for-christmas-this-year/607619/2 "2011-12-28T15:10:48Z")
I’m going with none. Although there’s a couple of iffy ones–if the question was aimed at gifts that were not complete successes, I’d have a different answer. (I got two handcrafted niddy-noddys, [like so](http://www.paraisoenterprises.com/Niddynoddies.php). Due to my craftsman’s inexperience with the object in question, I couldn’t remove my first skein the way I wanted to, and after the unwrapping frenzy was over, it was operated on. And, well, my parents gave me a gift certificate for a pair of hiking boots–not especially thrilling, but useful. And if we go hiking someplace interesting, I’ll call them a success as a gift). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-totally-dud-gifts-did-you-receive-for-christmas-this-year/607619/3 "2011-12-28T15:10:58Z")
Closed duplicate thread.