What's the worse present you've ever received?

[MessyMummy15]

Was reading another thread and got me thinking about the time my mums (then) boyfriend brought her a frying pan for Christmas then asked if she could take it out the box now so she could make him a "proper breakfast"
have vague memories of it flying towards his head...
weird they didn't stay together...

What is the worst present you've ever got?

One year my parents bought me a bottle of Southern Comfort. I can't stand the stuff. It stayed in the kitchen, untouched and gathering dust, until the following Christmas when they presented me with another bottle because "We know you love it because there's always a bottle in your kitchen".

Hahahahaha!! Actually laughed out loud at that one.
Any type of Alcohol is usually welcomed in this house because it's so easy to regift. 😂

the worst one ever was from my ex MIl , during the summer i was helping out at a community sale fair type event, with stalls, i saw her buy this blue small case from the stall next door, ( very second hand) and heard her say that will do for someone, come christmas day i opened my present from her and yes it was the same blue case from the summer, it contained two around 1960s very used small ash trays, the case was battered , i couldnt believe that she had given me a christmas present that A wasnt even new, and B had paid so little (£1 she paid for it)

My ex bought me a sponge once. My only birthday gift. Oooooh the years of arguments that caused. Even when I tried to find it funny. Apparently it's not funny, it was an expensive (£5) sponge.

DP had left getting my birthday present until the last minute, and ran into a Forever Living Aloe Vera woman. So I got a basket containing a huge bottle of vile gunky aloe Vera juice which was supposedly for weight loss, and some sachets of aloe Vera wrinkle cream. I was 22 and a size 6! DP ended up drinking the juice so it didn't go to waste, vile stuff.

My brother bought me a surprise experience for my birthday. A wine tasting. It sounds good right? He asked me to drive (both him and his gf drive) so I couldn't actually drink....

My gran gave me 14 pennies for my 14th birthday, which was weird.

My mother also once gave me Weight Watchers recipe books and a scale for Xmas - the message was received loud and clear!!

A straw. Seriously. A straw.

Earrings from my aunt for my 18th bday. Except I don't have pierced ears.

DF bought me an XXL sports shirt of my favourite team. I was a size 8.

I've told this one before but where I used to work, group of 6 women and we used to do a secret Santa maximum £10.

In previous years everyone had put a lot of thought into the gifts, think along the lines of microwaveable hand and feet warmers for the woman who was always cold, leather driving gloves, beautiful scarves etc. The gifts were so lovely we used to take them home and save the unwrapping for Christmas Day.

Well this one year I opened my secret Santa and it was a naff patent washbag from Avon. And I had the same catalogue and knew it was part of a gift set that cost £10 and should have had skincare in it. So secret Santa had bought herself the skincare set and given me the shit old bag it came in.

I actually GAVE a really bad gift once.

We were given a same day invite to go to my cousins house as it was her birthday but I hadn't got anything so I wrapped up a lovely notebook/ diary that I had received the week before for my own birthday.

She seemed to like it and all was well until I went round again a few months ago and saw the notebook on the side. Picked it up to see if she'd used it and saw a massive "HAPPY BIRTHDAY MESSMUMMY FROM YOUR LOVING NEIGHBOUR!" And a big long message Sprawled across the whole front inside page...

I then tried to spin it into a big thing about how I must of mixed my one up with the one I brought her...

I don't think she believed me.
Lesson learned!!

ThePurpleOneIsOverrated...
a straw??? You must explain more!! 😂😂

A few years back I got some second hand & used skin care products in our teams Secret Santa!

Matching salt and pepper shakers from one of my closest friends To be fair, it was a one off, she usually has great ideas!

Lacy underwear from MIL a couple of sizes too small. It was just massively awkward, especially as my Dad was with us for Christmas too and I had to open it in front of him also she'd got it abroad so no opportunity to return/exchange

Oh yes I once got a wooden spoon with my name on it from a friend.

Held it up and looked puzzled before I realised that it was just a wooden spoon with my name on it. Totally random. Then felt awful as she tried to explain why she had bought it...

I think it's funnier if I don't, Messy but ok.....

It was from my uncle and it was one of those crazy straws. It had a swing with Winnie the Pooh on it. My sister blew the surprise the night before, because she found it so hilarious. Probably because I was about 13 with little to no interest in Winnie the Pooh.

Secret Santa one year was a box of chocolates, not too bad, apart from the fact instead of wrapping them and using the gift tag given to them, they wrote my name in black marker, both sides and spelt incorrectly.

Not me but DP once got a set of screwdrivers and a paintbrush from his parents. Try said they thought they'd come in handy and hadn't known what to get him. Firstly, the week before, his mum asked what he wanted and he wrote down a couple of things for her (inexpensive and easy to source) and secondly, he had already received a set of screwdrivers the year before from them as we moved into our house

He was a little gutted but received them gracefully, bless him.

When i was 13 my grandma bought me a plastic princess jewellery and tiara set, luckily sent in the post so she didn't see my face.

A size 14 pj set.Im a 10

Pyjamas two sizes too big here as well! I tried not to be insulted, but I really was.

I gave birth to my daughter in the November and for xmas my ex gave me a set of electronic scales. He joked it was to help lose the baby weight... but he didn't find it quite so funny when they were launched at his head

An ex bought me lipo suction. Well a voucher for it. I was 7 and half stone at the time. Apparently i had watched some programme week before on cosmetic surgery other week and said how clever it was. that was about as much interest as id ever shown