Who got the worst gift?

This was last year but a Boots gift set in a battered box so old it had the old 90's Boots logo on and the moisturising cream had evaporated to a quarter an inch at the bottom of the pot

6 New Zealand wool dryer balls from my mum. 1) We don’t have a tumble dryer and 2) dryer balls for Christmas??!

Omg!

I got a toaster of hubby to be. The wedding is soon. We will see ….

Every year my MIL gets me pyjamas which is a lovely thought. But the ones she buys are unwearable. They are fleecy (not terrible in itself but you couldnt sleep in them) and they are always cutesy designs, with puppies and love hearts. I cannot put into words how much they are not my thing, and i thought she would know this about me by now. I crossed my fingers this year theyd be different but she got me literally the same ones. No receipt but this year I will try to exchange them for some nice cotton plain ones. Previous years they went to charity shop. Anyway, its a nice thought. But she is a person you could absolutely not say it to without her getting the hump.i sound so ungrateful - sorry. Im not really. I got very few presents and im totally OK with that. Very happy with what I did get!

Is it at least a SnapOn fancy screwdriver? I thought all screwdrivers were the same, until DS bought DH a SnapOn screwdriver for Christmas last year. It’s bloody awesome; feels lovely to hold, good weight, good quality changeable bits, and the shaft can be turned by hand as well as the handle. I am officially a screwdriver fangirl.

As it's MIL and they were expensive, are you close enough that you could explain and see if you could return them for an exchange/ could DH have that conversation if you can't?

Every year our family does a white elephant with a different theme. This year the theme was "something you have in your house that you don't want/need" aka The Wrapped Tat Exchange. We played our game passing around our parcels and then opened them together. There was a fair number of scented candles, plant pots etc but the winning gifts were an old box of Laterfal Flow tests and a mystery tin from my son's food cupboard - he had taken the label off before wrapping. My daughter who has sized 3 feet ended up with a pair of inner soles sized 7 - 12.

I'd probably wear that 🤣

I made a mistake this year - grabbed a very 'in' fantasy book as a stocking filler for my son after a recommendation from a friend, without really researching it as she said her teens thought it was great . He came siding over to ask - did I mean to give him this? Reading the back apparently it's a much more explicit romantasy than I had expected , and he likes his imaginative worlds and Sci fit undiluted with any annoying stuff about emotions, relationships or sexual tension. 😂
Now I need to ask my friend if she's read it...

@MumoftwoNC Could you get DH to ask her for the receipt? Would she be offended ? Seems such a shame as I know how expensive they are . Even without the hole phobia thing I would hate a pattern I just didn't like .

Im just remembering a time where i was asked what i wanted as a gift and asked for a specific salt and pepper mill set that id been admiring for a couple of years. Ok then….. much excitement for me to open the gift from the giver…. It was a pepper mill from a different brand. Chosen because it was even better. Not sure why but it somehow put me off ever buying the salt and pepper mills for myself anyway so now I have a pain to use pepper mill in a style that I wouldn’t choose and no salt mill years on!

I got a stick of chub rub/anti chafe gel from dh…luckily I also got an ember mug which I asked for and was over the moon about but lots of my gifts were things I’d never want or use. I’d take aftershave and a handbag all day long

So nice and pleasant to hear of someone actually appreciating what they got! Especially as that age group get so much shit for being "ungrateful".

Lol I've literally considered this! Dh says "we just won't use them very often" which I think is a compromise but yes it's just such a shame because she'd have really wanted to get something I like.

I do wish we had the "laugh" button . . . .I would definitely have used it for this PP!!!!😂

Keep it as long as poss and then send it to auction to be sold.

Men’s deodorant from FIL (I am a woman).

Oh my goodness, I don't suppose you could drop the whole box on a hard floor?
It's such a shame because it's a generous gift, given with good intentions.

I asked for pyjamas - the only thing I specifically asked for. I received very lovely pyjama bottoms - but no top. Partner didn't realise you had to order that separately ('in the photo she was wearing both' 🙄). Top now sold out.

You win. Well done for turfing him out.

Just to add - I specifically asked this family member to buy me "one or two plates or bowls from a charity shop as I love vintage mismatched plates" - honestly I would have been beyond delighted with that, £10 on a couple of ye olde style English plates/bowls.

Instead I've had £150 worth of a set of 16 very ugly Modern speckled things and I'll have to use them because I can't bear to offend her! It's my MIL and she's so lovely...and she's coming to babysit in the new year and will notice if they're not in use!!

Edit - gosh there's 16 not 8!!

Despite putting the name of the book I wanted TWICE on our Whats App char my brother and his partner got me real granny grey slippers and a grey dressing gown. I already own 4 dressing gowns, I don't need another and thankfully the slippers don't fit - and happily my sister got me some lovely new slippers anyway.
Also got a scarf from my friend but I don't suit scarves so that may end up being regifted. She bought me a big bar of chcolate as well so she is forgiven, lol

What a shame, that genuinely sounds awful, and not something people can generally understand.

Ha ha we got each other that book too. We’ve got each other the same gift about 50% of our 20 christmas’s together!