Win One of Three HP Vivienne Tam Wireless Optical Mice
Posted on 15 February 2009, at 12:05 am, by Judie Lipsett
Update 02/23: And the winners are – KLS, Debbie and Linda. Thank you for entering, and keep your eye out for the next Gear Diary giveaway! 
Did you totally mess up and not buy your spouse something she really wanted on Valentines Day? Or did you want something special for Valentines Day, and your partner didn’t come through?
It’s okay, Gear Diary can help…
We’ve been sent three HP Wireless Mice, covered in the gorgeous Vivienne Tam peony design, to give away to three lucky readers. These mice are not available in the United States, and they have an MSRP of ~$50.
To enter, just leave a comment telling us what the worst gift you’ve ever received was. Bear in mind that it doesn’t have to have just been for Valentines Day. 
This giveaway will end Saturday, February 21, at midnight CST. We’ll announce three winners shortly thereafter.
Check the Small print:
√One entry per person
√US only
√Comment must be submitted by midnight CST, February 21
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February 15th, 2009 at 5:15 am
I am still annoyed that my husband got me Crocs for Christmas… the same style and color I had worn throughout my pregnancy. I guess he knew I liked them.
February 15th, 2009 at 6:46 am
I once got a can opener for Valentine's day- and not an even an electric one!
February 15th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
A friend of mine gave me "Soap on a Rope" at my 10th birthday party. The gift itself wasn't bad, but when I opened it in front of my other party guests, I received a lot of jokes at my expense about needing to use the gift. Kids can be so brutal sometimes.
February 15th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
I once received an ice cube wrapped in tin foil.
February 15th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I got a plastic geranium plant. How random is that. I guess he thought it would last me more than just one day. ANd it was ugly to boot.
February 15th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
My mother in law sent me a Christmas nightgown one year (which was tacky in its own right) but it was a one size fits all….I'm tall and slender and this thing was huge!! It was more like a mumu.
February 15th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Too girly-girly for me!!
February 15th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
A "empty" perfume bottle.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:51 am
It would have to be the day my cat fluffy proudly showed up on the door with a present for me in her mouth, my escaped parakeet. Who suffered some critical shipping damage.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:54 am
A pair of toe socks!
February 16th, 2009 at 1:45 am
A plain looking belt from my uncle with the tag still left on it (valued at $5).
February 16th, 2009 at 2:16 am
Macadamia nuts – several jars of nuts. I never did eat them all, just took them to work to share.
February 16th, 2009 at 6:15 am
I got Chinese Checkers (I'm Chinese) and a fake turtle neck (I think it was called a dickey)… Just wanna win the mouse, I just wanted to purge the memories.
February 16th, 2009 at 6:15 am
I got Chinese Checkers (I'm Chinese) and a fake turtle neck (I think it was called a dickey)… Don’t wanna win the mouse, I just wanted to purge the memories.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
It would have to be this royal blue sweater with glitter woven into it. It was just about the ugliest thing I had ever seen, and it was like 2 sizes too big. Thank goodness for gift receipts and returns.
February 16th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I got silk boxers, which while good in theory, not good in practical application.
February 17th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
(I'm entering for my now-fully mobile-PC wife) A cracked fireplace bench. It was aluminum painted to look like brass, and the giver swore up and down to me it was a genuine antique. Right down to the small gold "Made in China" sticker on the underside. Apparently those stickers have been around since the 1920?
February 17th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
I got a box…it was empty. A little cardboard box the size of a box for jewelery. I was only about 11 or 12 but I thought there would be SOMETHING in it. He said it was to put things in.
February 17th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I got a three-hole-puncher. For my 18th birthday. From my boyfriend at the time. His reason? "Because you like to write." If you're wondering what one thing has to do with the other, don't ask me – I still don't know.
(I hope people still know what a three-hole-puncher is, or else this entry sounds pretty weird! To clarify, since that was 11 years ago, it belongs in the office supply category – it punched holes along the side of paper.)
February 18th, 2009 at 2:23 am
Grandma once sent me cookies for Christmas. They were packed in mothballs. Mmmm, mothball cookies.
February 18th, 2009 at 3:41 am
Although I would not necessarily want this, my wife would LOVE it! What a great present it would make! I would be a hero! (And I see the deadline for entry is Feb 21… that just happens to be my birthday! Coincidence… I think not)
And my worst gift… I'm ashamed to admit it but I actually gave my wife a vacuum cleaner once… I know, I know… I've learned… this would make up for it!
February 18th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
My Roomate gave me star searching software for my old PDA, then forget to actually give me the software..
February 19th, 2009 at 5:11 am
Finding out I could not use a gift card I received for my Birthday because it had expired, as I was checking out with some great looking clothes. .
February 19th, 2009 at 5:45 am
The proverbial x-mas sweater, like Bill Cosby had a garage sale.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:00 am
A jar of used shea butter!
February 20th, 2009 at 10:35 am
About 3 Valentine's Day's ago, I purchased a brand new outfit for my husband that he'd been wanting. Also some new shoes, cologne and some tickets to a basketball game. I was 6 months pregnant and expected something fantastic…..When he got home, I saw him with his hands behind his back. He reached forward and gave me an EMPTY,BLANK white card (no handwriting or print) with a picture of him in it!!! Just a side note….we are now divorced. This mouse is my destiny…I MUST have it to match my HP Mini Vivienne Tam Edition!!! MUST!!!
February 20th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
well my hubby just surpassed the worst give mark with this past valentines day. he bought me a neon teal looking hoodie that was two sizes to small and the arms were way too long. i looked like a blue orangutan! good grief! lol!
February 21st, 2009 at 2:21 am
Last Christmas I got this ridiculously gaudy, multi-stranded, yellow glass, beaded necklace with a huge glittery glass leaf pendant. It would look good on… let me think… NO ONE! Then I got ANOTHER one made of green glass with, you guessed it, a large glittery glass pendant. This one was a birthday gift, which is 2 days after Christmas! Yikes!
A lovely red mouse with pretty peony flowers to go with my HP Mini VT edition that is coming in the near future would help erase the painful memory of those gifts. That, and never seeing those necklaces again!
February 21st, 2009 at 3:05 pm
My cat left me a present once. While I had left for the day, he had managed to dig all the dirt out of a potted plant that normally resided high up on a bookshelf. He shaped all the dirt into a perfectly brushed square, then pooped on top.
It was awful to come home to, but still makes me laugh to this day!
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:56 am
My brother gave me my birthday present three years late. By the time I got it I didn't want or need it. It was a video giving advice about finding the right guy. By then I was married to my husband.