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 crate of wine, from xh at 6 months pregnant. The year before he forgot to buy me anything, because I didn’t remind him it was Christmas (!)

In hospital after a near death ECS with DS. MIL rocks up with multiple gifts for new baby and a silk shirt and tie for DH.

Her gift to me was an opened bottle of shower gel, bunch of wilted Garage flowers and a card that read "Congratulations on the the birth of our Grandson"

One of those hampers full of pound shop crap from Facebook. I always thought they were an urban myth.

For the last two years, DH has failed to get me a birthday present altogether. However, having read this thread I am beginning to feel like one of the lucky ones

A 'Blue' (the pop band) CD from my lovely nain (grandmother) when I was a teenager, I was a metal head and don't think I hid my disgust very well.

Anti-Wrinkle cream. I'm 22...

Jigsaw with 10p fete sticker and a couple pieces missing. I wouldn't have minded as I like jigsaws and my grandparents weren't well off, except my three cousins all got lovely art sets I'd have loved, costing at least £20 each. Guess which of their two children stopped following the 'right' version of Christianity...

I don't think it's fair to call it a "bad" present because he meant well, but my uncle, for a long time, every year, would give me an assorted box of chocolates, despite the fact that I had a nut allergy. My parents were too polite to tell him and I would just eat other junk...

I bought a big tin of Roses to take to friends this weekend - but someone has opened them ( daughter ) and now someone else has pretty much finished them (me!) so I'm getting some great ideas off this thread of what not to take instead ! Might have to go back to Tesco and buy another tin !

~ Anti-wrinkle cream

~ Suitcase (okay it was a v expensive Tumi case but still - didn't need or want it. OH half uses it now & I seethe inside every time it gets wheeled out!)

~ Nothing

Needless to say not holding my breathe for this year!!

They are all from MIL
An ancient half used box of tampons from MIL. I thought she must have wrapped them by mistake but then she began to cry about the fact she didn't need them anymore and all she had was DS... This carried on for about half an hour.
A pair of gardening gloves, I had no garden.
A size 14 skirt that I know was one of her cast offs. I'm a size 8.

A ripped open pack of anemone bulbs from the owner of a garden centre!

An ex gave me a jewelry box with one of those tiny keys inside, the kinds used in lockable childhood diaries and stuff. It was a key to his heart, apparently. I found it naff, more than anything. (Luckily I'm not keen on jewelry, so hadn't got my hopes up.)

An aunt who didn't know me very well gave me a slinky, glittery black dress for Christmas when I was an awkward 13-year-old burying my body in layers of oversized 90's grunge style. It felt like a bit of a crap present at the time. However, I re-discovered the dress from the back of my closet at 19ish and wore the hell out of it on nights out.

A former boss of mine (a millionaire) gave me a box set of perfume and body lotion. The box was all beaten up and scratched and didn't have cellophane on it. When I opened it both had obviously been used, they were a bit gunky and not quite full.

I would have preferred nothing TBH!

Last year DH bought me one of those bristley outside doormats. I have no idea why. He also bought me a watch which sounds a nice idea except it was the same style from the same shop he'd bought only two years before (which was still working fine).

OMG the crab is hilarious!

A pen with "To a Dear Uncle" on it, from my sister.

I'm dh for my birthday got me a black board. Because I apparently wanted one . He also got me a massive battery pack for the same birthday to charge mobiles/iPads etc. Which he's had lots of use out of on trips etc and I've barely used!

Oh, these are hilarious and atrocious I'm equal measure!

My own was a wedding gift from ex MIL: the most ghastly set of nylon lingerie imaginabke and about three sizes too big.

What really made it horrible, though, was the card that came with it and said: "I got you these so that my son has something to play with in the bedroom".

Guess who really went off sex for a while?

I have always loved arts and crafts but I wasn't allowed to do an art foundation course or pursue an 'arty' career.

I sort of fell into working in technical cardiology and had a good career until I developed arthritis at 26.

I am now rarely able to do any crafts and painting / drawing is out of the question my hands are just too stiff. Over the last few years I have received:

Fimo
paints and paint brushes
a ukulele
a heavy ceramic cafetiere (I have a cafetiere, a filter coffee maker and a tassimo)

When I was 17 my mum forgot to buy me anything.

I'm teatotal. Last year BIL and SIL forgot it was my 40th. They turned up 5 days later with champagne for me 🤷🏻‍♀️. I'm keeping it for her 50th. No more picking out nice gifts for them.

A mug that said 'crazy cat lady'. I didn't even own a cat!

candlemaker ahh thats such a nasty gift for your colleague to be given i dont even know her and feel sad for her opening that.
Regardless of the dislike between them that was a really cruel thing to do
My first xmas card from my daughter (bought by her dad) said ‘you are like a mum to me’ i was so unimpressed considering he hadn’t helped me at all since she was born barely showed up to see her etc. Hes abit better at things now but i still get annoyed by it

There was one poster who got a present of a ball of yarn and knitting needles. To knit a scarf for her brother...