What’s the Worst Gift You Ever Got For the Holidays?

From the Holiday Ale Fest at Pioneer Courthouse Square.

By Sam Gehrke

(Left) "Clothing that's three sizes too big." (Right) "Scented hangers."

"I'm actually not sure I can think of one. I'm generally pretty happy and appreciative of whatever I get during the holidays."

(Left) "One time my mom played a joke on me and just gave me a box of rocks and sticks for Christmas." (Right) "Definitely a fishing set when I was a kid. I hate fishing."

(Left) "A lump of coal in my stocking." (Right) "One of those remote control cars that only turns going backward, instead of the ones with the actual remote controls."

"Socks, for sure."

(Left) "I thought I was getting a Barbie for Christmas once, but I was utterly disappointed when my mom got me a knockoff Belle doll from Beauty and the Beast instead." (Right) "My worst Christmas gift was a children's Bible."

(Left) "A roadside assistance kit." (Right) A yo-yo."

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Sam Gehrke

Sam Gehrke

Sam Gehrke is a photographer born in Milwaukee, WI in 1990 and raised in Eugene, OR. He moved to Portland in 2016 to pursue photography, quitting his full time job and diving head first into an independent career. His work has since appeared in Vice Magazine, OPB, The Fader, Vortex Music Magazine and Premier Guitar Magazine.

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