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?

A body/bath set regifted to me by my sister in law. Id give her it the year before. Thats not the best bit. She had used the face cloth and put it back in the box full of foundation.
You can probably tell she doesnt like me 🤣

Scarlet fishnet stockings. From my great aunt. When I was 6.

Dryer balls. From MIL, obvs.

A t shirt in the wrong size, which was yellow (appalling colour on me) and had cats heads on the front and a rear view of them with their tails up on the back... MIL is responsible for most of my top 10 worst presents tbh, though exSIL made a good effort with the bottle of dip (and only that between me and DH) one christmas. A single bottle of dip would have been bad enough, but it was clearly marked as containing something she knew I was allergic to

First Christmas I knew mil. I had a ds a few months previously-who incidentally got naff all - I got a silver plated snake necklace that eBay told me was £2.75!!

When I was 15 my bf at the time bought me a brown candle which was chcolate scented - it didn't look very appealing at all

From SIL on behalf of her, my DB and two teenage DC: a solitary pair of socks. And another year...stationery products, actual plastic desk tidy things and drawers. She must know by now all I desire is smellies.

A friend of mine got stamps from her mum once.

When I was younger my aunt knitted me a jumper and it looked like someone had covered me in glue and covered me in millions.

The other was my ex husband he bought me an electric toothbrush

A box of Cadbury dairy milk chocolates.
They had that white stuff on them and were well past their date.
A pack of mini lip glosses. I don't use lip gloss and these were cheap and nasty and still had the Boots 3 for 2 sticker on them. They were almost certainly the freebie. What made it worse was that the giver had been the one to insist we meet for Christmas prezzie swap, was regularly harping on about how much her other half earned and I'd put a lot more effort into picking a gift.
I took the hint and let the friendship slide.

My MIL bought me PJs in a medium and then said 'I think you'll need a large but you can't buy your DIL a large can you'

Colleague, secret Santa, bought a pack of four spicy cook-in sauces. She was a witch!

My MIL bought me some size 6 PJs to ‘slim into’. DH then agreed with her, after physically threatening him, I pointed out the surgery to reduce my chest and hips wouldn’t be worth the effort.
She also got me size 18-20 knickers.
I was a 10-12.

All from my MIL

Dishcloths, beautifully wrapped with a bow on

A plastic rabbit that was meant to be some sort of garden ornament

A massive pottery chicken. Not for storing eggs in or anything like that, purely ornamental. How lovely.

Best of all had to be the puppy training pads because we had mentioned in passing perhaps getting a dog when we retired. I was 35 at the time.

MIL once bought DH a book arguing for Brexit. That was an interesting festive chat.

My MIL is very influenced by brands, so often gets gifts from from charity shops (I say this with no judgement, I’m a huge fan of second-hand stuff) or car boot sales but that has attracted her simply because it’s a good brand/make.

So DS got a worn Lamaze toy for tiny babies when he was about 3. We’ve had an Alessi kitchen timer that turned out not to work properly. DH has had shirts and ties in lurid colours or a dated style because they were Ted Baker, not because they suited him or he needed them. It’s frustrating because these end up back in the charity shop or the bin, she’d be better sticking a few quid on a gift card.

A clothes folder.

Probably a coat that was too tight for me with no receipt to exchange and an incredulous “well, it was fine on me when I tried it on” and also, from someone else, some wooden clothes pegs and a tea towel (not fancy ones either!)

Bless her but my DG has dementia and last year bought me a pair of jeans in size 2-3 child size.
I've also given a shit gift tho in school a girl was going on and on about getting me a present all day and handed me this bottle of perfume (from the £1 shop). I was quite weirded out as one we wasn't even friends, and two all I had in my bag that I just had bought was a tube of smarties

Probably some giant silver coloured napkin rings. We only used them at Christmas and the napkins we had were far too small.

Now it' not something I wanted or as bothered about but it was something 'D'H thought we should have

Another one with a wooden spoon gift. Sadly it didn’t even have my name on it like a PP’s. It was my 30th and was from my then MIL.
My other wtf presents have all been from my MIL . She is a huge fan of TK Maxx (as am I) but she always seemed to get the most bonkers things. A glazed porcelain fruit bowl with clay generic African women with babies on their backs all around the perimeter was one of my favourites I love that when she saw it she thought that Hoof would love that as she doesn’t have currently store her fruit in a receptacle made out of of badly painted cultural appropriation . She was also very fond of shopping channels. We would get the most unsuitable stuff which couldn’t even be returned as it was years out of date. Last year my DS 9 was given a pair of robots in a plain unmarked cardboard box. After spending 20 quid on batteries we discovered they moved towards each other, whilst emitting a phrase. The red one (or was it the blue one) said something like distinctly sounded like “I am a Nazi” . now I’m pretty sure my MIL didn’t buy me robotic SS men but once we heard it we could only hear that alone, iykwim. I still don’t know what it was supposed to be saying and as they were unbranded, google has not been helpful.

One of our ds’s has just received fairly long novel from my brother for Christmas....it’s entirely in French....we do not speak French...DS has never learned French and never will...brother is well aware of this! 🤔😂🙈

Personally...well too many to list but DH buying me “Toddler taming” for Mother’s Day was pretty “special” 🙈🤦🏼‍♀️ That was a a long time ago now...he knows better now 😀

DH’s worst gift ever was from his Aunt - he was a very good footballer and she gifted him shin pads....the rigid type...but saves on paper by bending them in half! 😂😂😂 Oh and their was the time she gave him travel hangers...he was 14

Three years ago, someone bought me a pot-plant for my birthday. It made me feel so middle-aged (I mean, I am middle-aged, but you don't want to be made to feel it ... ). This year, she bought me another of the very same plants. It wouldn't be so bad, but I live in three places and I'm never in the same place for more than a month. I can't have pets or plants. What did she think - that I was going to put the plant in the car and drive it from place to place?

I bet anything that won't be the last pot plant.

A new number plate and a set of spark plugs from my then boyfriend

Everything else on this thread is awful, but what was wrong with this one? I'd be thrilled if someone got me a new number plate - I need one at the moment.

A ten pound note in a card off my mum for my 30th. She's not hard up, or pushed for time. I would have preferred anything that had required any effort at all.

A gimp doll from my FIL.