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As per title, what's the best worst present I could buy for under 100 dollars?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Donate the money to a charity in their name.

Like an honest Good Charity whose cause they believe in.

That way, you'll have done a nice thing in their name but they'll be a piece of shit for feeling bad about it when they find out what you did instead of giving them the money directly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Genius.

Does anyone know who gets the tax receipt?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's a gift so of course you let them have the tax receipt. That way sometime next year they'll end up getting 17% back of that as a refund on the taxes they had already paid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's why I donate to The Human Fund with its motto "Money for People".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

How old are they? As that will completely change what presents fit your criteria.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Glittery slime for their child. It's the cruelest thing you can buy someone and probably costs closer to $10.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Why be a dick?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pennies. Individually wrapped.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Funny story, my uncle did something similar once as a gag gift for me and my siblings. He gave us each a wad of industrial shrink wrap (the kind used to wrap heavy machinery like boats for storage) with like $100 in coins inside. He had actually heat-gunned it to stick it all together. We had to spend the next day pulling it apart to get all the loonies and toonies out

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

What kind of a “friend” are you to ask this question??

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Live insects. A quick amazon search indicates that you could buy 2,000 live crickets or 27,000 live ladybugs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I start jumping off walls if I see a single roach. If I got a thousand roaches flying in my face I'd surely burn myself alive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

"This is fine."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

A sync for lemmy lifetime subscription

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Convert it all to pennies and give it to your friend that way.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

superglue the money to birthday card

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A glitterbomb and a donation to something they really don’t like. A stripper of the gender they’re not interested in. If they’re italian, throw in a square-shaped pineapple pizza, too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

An office chair. For that price it will be terrible and too big to do anything with it besides gifting it or throwing it out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A glitter bomb?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

5x $20 lottery tickets. Most lottery tickets have a 1:3 - 1:5 win rate, so if you're lucky enough he might win literally nothing. Nothing else on this list gives the friend hope. Hope unfulfilled is the definition of cruelty.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd go one further. Scratch off the verification code of each of the lottery tickets scan it. And remove any winning tickets. You don't have to hide this. We're trying to give a crappy gift so if they look and see that you've already scratched them. Your gift then becomes here's $100 of losing lottery tickets. It's beautiful

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is dumb because even if there are winners in the pile, now you can't even cash them in yourself because the codes been scratched. So the joke will be on you when it turns out one was actually worth a million

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

He was going to spend $100 on a gift without getting anything in return in the first place, whether the gift was lotto tickets or 1000 pairs of used socks. Also, many (most?) states don't have prohibitions on revealing the validation code, and unless you have some information not presented in this post, you don't know what state OP is in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

a friend of mine once gifted me some lottery tickets and one fake one. fake one said I had won like 30K but when you read the back to see how to collect there were things like redeemable at yo mamas house etc.

that was probably 20-25 years ago, I still can't fully forgive him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A picture of the money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What did they do to you??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

a case of Jeppson's Malört

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the friend is Chinese or East Asian, buy a black picture frame with a black and white picture of them already mounted. Or buy them a set of knives. Or give them money in a white envelope.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Knifes are actually kinda good...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Could buy a bunch of cheap gas station knives then put sand in the pivots. Ideal loosing them up first then tighting them after. Maybe wash them to remove oils and let them rust some.

That might be over board. Especially if the dude is a knife guy. Not sure if messing up a new $100 knife would be worse though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A dildo. So that he/she can go f**k himself/herself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A goldfish. Just the fish. Ask them to name it on the spot so they have to keep it. Now they need to rearrange their home to make space, and buy a tank and such for it.

Plus, it's cheap, so not much of a refund going on if they decide to just give it back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a video of you burning that money

burning money gif

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A video of Danny Devito burning that money would be even better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Assuming you are just a horrible person: Buy them gympie gympie leaves, toss them in a gift bag, and don't tell them what they are but that their present is in the leaves.

The present is incredible pain btw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A picture of yourself or a mirror?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There was a company once specilized in delivering boxes full of the shit (meaning feces) of your choice to your chosen special person, it was called something like "shitexpress"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A pile of shit... (literally)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What if they're a gardener?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago