Share your shit Christmas presents

[SophieSellerman]

I give you a tin of tuna and a set of paper napkins. Thanks, Granny.

I was 13 ish (1980) and was desperate for a digital watch. I was in a swimming club and we had a fundraising Christmas catalogue (full of tat). DF ordered a kaftan (think Demis Rousos) for a mystery giftee. Yeh, you're wayyy ahead of me!

C’mon, S0uper. Everyone wanted a kaftan n the early 80s. But you have reminded me that I had to save up for what felt like 1,000 years to buy a digital watch in Argos because Father Christmas did not do the business.

The builder currently working at my house said he once bought his XW an oven thermometer for Christmas. He wondered if it contributed to their divorce.

One of my siblings kept buying me earrings. I had to say in the end look Suzanne, no piercy earry. She was

Twat (adorable really, she's a mad professor type #fluxcapacitor ).

I've already posted a photo on another thread tonight but MIL gave me a huge orange and black glass mutant crab last year. It's still in the box.

I'm thinking of actually getting my ears pierced for Xmas to accommodate all the earrings I have in gift bags.

At 21 I got anti wrinkle cream
At 19 I got a curtain pole (no I hadn't moved out or brought a house)
At 23 I got a book on how to make rugs from old tshirts

My sister is as mad as a box of frogs

My mum got me 6 tea towels last Christmas... My DS informed me she bought them from Lidl in the summer. I was gobsmacked 😶

half a ton of custard powder

Excellent typo.

A single, small Tupperware-type container from Tesco, (clearly had been part of a set at some stage in its life), in proper Christmas wrapping paper, from my mother a couple of years ago. I'm still 🤔

Anything I’ve ever gotten from SIL, who likes to give a passive-aggressive gift. They go straight to the charity shop without being unwrapped now.

A Lilliput lane pink porcelain cottage. It looked like a knob with windows in it.
Was given to the local charity shop

I love Lilliput lane cottages! 😳

Not a Christmas present but when my daughter was born my ex-pil gave us a gift-wrapped used baby-gro with a sick stain on it. I was furious at the time but now I can only laugh when I think of it.

A jar of anti-ageing wrinkle cream, tube of eye gel, anti-ageing body lotion and shower gel - thanks to my godfather - I was 12

I gave a really awful gift once. I ordered one of those canvas pictures for someone, a close up picture of the couple. Only I didn't take much notice of the size and it ended up being really huge and it was a very close up picture. It was awful but I had to give it to them anyway, they never put it up

Not really awful but SIL has bought us the same Boots cooking gift set 3 times. We didn’t even want it once.
They of course always rang up earlier in the year and asked for cash as they were saving up for ‘something’.

We once got an Animal Hospital/Rescue (l forget which) annual from my brother and sister in law. We were both in our thirties at the time.

It was a nice set I suppose but it was a hand wash and hand cream set. I still lived with my parents and siblings at the time! Think I was 17 when I received the gift. Oh well I suppose it was handy for everyone who used the bathroom

Bundles of tea towels, dish cloths and scourers from grandma every Christmas after I left to go to uni. Not what an 18 year old wants but I suppose useful!

Most things from my family members since I left home nearly 20 years ago. They have no idea of my taste since then and continue to buy me stuff I would have liked as a teenager. It’s really weird, I’m actually very easy to buy for but they get me random crap that goes straight to the charity shop.

I once received an enormous pair of cheap polyester pink and blue striped socks from DF. Made me look like a Fimble.

Got a scrubbing brush one year from my parents.

Posh French spot gel and a six month subscription to Slimming World, neither requested. Thanks Mum.

The following year I was diagnosed with PCOS so it feels a bit less personal in hindsight. My mum is the queen of ‘I looked at your wish list and it was all boring books and games so I didn’t bother’.

An XXL pair of men’s pants. From my auntie. I was 13, skinny and female. My mum used them as a duster.

A fake lady millions perfume set. From MIL

1. I don’t like that type of perfume anyway. I prefer the fruity types. But I was happy to accept it with a smile.

However when it was proven to be a fake (the perfume smelled of dishwater), MIL was very shocked. “But Frank from the pub sold me it and told me it was genuine!!”

Yes MIL.... a £50 perfume set sold to you at the pub for £10 was real