Worst Christmas present

I asked my mum for some new slippers. Bare in mind, I'm 39 years old. Christmas day I open these horrendous fluffy slippers, with a characters face from a Disney cartoon. A character I've NEVER mentioned to my mum, from a film I'm CERTAIN neither of us have ever seen. The type of jokey slippers you'd give to your 12yo. And they were 2 sizes too small.
My feet are just a tiny bit smaller than mums (something we've discussed many times). Mine are a small size 5/big size 4. Surely, I thought she'd work out that when it comes to something like slippers, we'd be fine with basically the same size as each other. But the slippers are a size 3-4 and just don't fit.
I'm going to try and stretch them out a bit, but honestly, I'm annoyed she'd chose a pair that are just wrong in every way.

I have been with my partner for 26 years and we don't buy 'surprise' gifts. We just get things for the house that we want. I don't wear jewellery. I like to choose my own clothes. I hate crap cluttering up the place. I don't understand what people think their long term partners should get them, unless you specify? You said you did specify books so yeah he should have got you those I guess.

I worked for a charity and part of the job was sorting through Christmas donations which would be given as presents . We had to unwrap gifts to check them . Some of the worst presents were a partly used femfresh , an ancient ,grubby , knitted doll loo roll cover and colouring books which were scribbled all over .

Yes, return it. I used to by my wife clothes for Xmas, she never wore them and they just ended up being a waste of money. I'd rather she said she was taking them back and getting sonething she was actually going to wear.

Oh please I’ve just wet myself nearly reading the latest posts 😂😂😂😂 thank you so much for the laugh of the year!!!! I am sorry op.

Oh, please don't do that! You could start a yearly blog about what your DH gets you for presents. I mean, it will be hard to top a periscope, but perhaps a wire chicken could be in your future, or a life-sized nutcracker. You could even get really lucky and receive a latex dog mask.

I'm already looking forward to your birthday!

That is hilarious!!! 😂

I was given a white bubble coat that I looked like the Michelin man in. I wore once and sister in law claimed it as suited her better. Husband wasn't bothered

I thought that was only used for women in the queue in the Marks & Spencer café who look totally shocked when asked to pay, and suddenly start rooting for the exact amount in coins the purse that's in the bag that's in the larger bag...

My mum got me a voucher for Aldi. Not the worst present by any means, but I really think a present is something that the person wouldn’t necessarily buy themselves. A voucher for a budget supermarket is hard to get excited by.

I did get car mats and a toaster from an ex once.

I haven't heard 'old biddy' in years! Oldiewonks seems to be de rigueur at the moment ☹️

Old women
Not a nice way to put it I know

"Old biddy"?

SIL gave me a box of Typoo tea bags.

I probably wouldn't drink those......

My mil got me old biddy slippers and pyjamas which were three sizes too big.
She can't get out to shops so sil will have done shopping for her and shes and never been nice. I just put straight in bin 😆😆😆
Ironic thing is mil a lot bigger than me.
Mil lives up sil's ass and vice versa so good luck to them both in their little lives.
Mil can't do anything without sil it's really cringe 😂😂😬😬

Absolutely, I have a 4yr old Daughter now and she would laugh her head off at it...however my 35 Yr old self did not enjoy it...I do wish I'd have saved it now for my LG! Xx

This year I got from MIL 160 Decaff Yorkshire teabags.
I don't drink normal tea.
LY it was Twinings Lemon and Ginger which I like.
One year she gave nylon check overall which women wore for cleaning to both SIL and me. One nay and one brown.

Could you ask for the receipt and exchange it?

My DIL bought that twerking llama for her DN (my DGD) when DN was about 4. She loved it on the day (as DiL rightly knew she would) and it added to a fabulous family day.
Not a gift for an adult tho!

Grim. I suppose at least it wasn't his poo towel...

Yes, he took the towel back. I was quite relieved about that as it wasn't clean. He's a plumber and I imagine it was the nearest thing to hand!

Nooooooo - the 12 Days of Christmas beautiful table decoration has finally sold?!?!?!

If this is true, a tiny little part of MN has now died

Unless it was a MNer who bought it and is intending to run a contest on here - with the loser 'winning' it

It’s like I said earlier in the thread, I swear they do it on purpose to see people’s reactions and to upset them, they’re not telling us they’re that daft they don’t know what gift buying entails. They will have been bought presents all their life from being a child. Just completely lazy and thoughtless

It does indeed sound like some horrific interrogation technique, but I think it just means sending your pet to stay in kennels whilst you're away.

I'm also a little confused as to whether her DH is wanting to check them both (human) as residents into a kennels facility and to see how long it is before they're rumbled as not being canine!