Have you ever received a present so shity saying thank you made you cringe?

[BlueMoonAndRedNose]

I turn 50 at the beg of Sept. A friend asked to meet me for coffee yesterday and gave me a gift, she asked me not to open it there and then, but she didn't mean to wait for my birthday either.
This friend of mine turned 50 2 years ago and I gave her a stunning Becksondergaard scarf which she has worn a lot, I see her in photos wearing it all the time.
Got home, opened the present, it is a plain little milk jug. No tag on it, no label, looks unused but old, has a small chip on the handle.
I am not usually materialistic but I think that this is a thoughtless present and nothing, or a £5. bottle of wine would have been more appropriate.

I rarely see my dsis for Christmas as she and her family live in a different country, but our families spent Christmas together one year and we agreed to exchange presents.

I got dsis, bil, nieces all individual presents which cost a total of over £100, we received a boxed word game which we've never opened for the teenagers and primark pyjamas in XXL for me and hubby. I'm size 10/12 and hubby is not even a L let alone XXL

And we're the poor relatives, they have 2 homes and a new car each year.

We've spent Christmas together again since but I refused to get them anything at all.

My MIL gets me a particular brand of cheap bath products from Boots (like the kind you get in the gift boxes, but not like actually a nice one). I made the mistake once like 10 years ago remarking that it smelled nice (just trying to be polite!). Well, now I get a gift box every damn year for my birthday! A few years ago, it tipped out of the back of her boot in the drive and another family member just happened to be driving in at the same time and RAN IT OVER WITH HIS CAR! She still wrapped up the crumbled box with tyre marks on it and gave it to me. I can barely muster the enthusiasm to pretend I'm grateful anymore.

Always exchanged lovely gifts with a friend I don't see very often as she lives abroad. However, more recently she has given me clearly regifted items, one in particular I'm certain of as it was me who bought it for her in the first place!

Have decided that this will be the last year of present giving between us. Im going to suggest we call it a day due to how difficult it is to keep coming up with appropriate gifts and the cost of postage but really its because I don't want anymore of her unwanted presents.

Pretty much everything my mother sends me is awful. The last one was a necklace and bracelet set. Sounds ok doesn't it? Except it was plastic, even the 'chain', and looked more like something out of a young kids dress up set from the pound shop.

My close friend of 25+ years gave me a salt and pepper shaker for Christmas a few years ago...she usually finds really thoughtful gifts so I'm not entirely sure what happened that time!

Anne I'm thinking of shuttlecock in jelly like Gareth's stapler in The Office.

Possibly wrap it in cling film first so it doesn't get soggy!

@mindutopia It’s not Baylis & Harding, is it? I hate that stuff. Absolutely joyless. And I usually love a nice handwash

This thread has been amazing in a bizarre wtf kind of way. The supermarket magazine is a stand out. I really think that does deserve going NC!! 😱😱😱

@GreigLaidLawsBarofsoap I couldn't actually believe it.

Sat I her front room, everyone else taking it in turn to open these wonderful gifts and then my magazine.

I knew we didn't get on but bloody hell! I'd bought her her favourite hand cream set (not cheap) as she was running out and a voucher for the local theatre to share with her husband.

This year she'll just be getting a card.

Dhs aunt.
who is filthy rich btw not a poor pensioner!
Xmas gifts I have been given;

Paper earrings she made herself at a craft day. Heard her tell mil she had made a mess of them but "I thought they'd do for hooo"

The free gifts you get from boots no7 when you buy face cream...tiny little pots. I got one of those 3 years running!

Chipped crystal glass. From a car boot.

Leopard print shopping bag from lidl.

Hand knitted scarf. She can't knit....

My 40th b day was a good one....wrinkle cream!! (Used...)

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One of my oldest friends had a significant birthday. She likes beauty salons so I found out which one she preferred & bought a decent gift voucher so she could treat herself to a couple of treatments. For my significant birthday she sent me a text.

When I was about 15 from my bffs mum I got a tissue box holder.in the shape of a sofa

I win!!!

For my 21st my boyfriend at the time got me an Ikea cheese grater. I didn’t ask for it but thanked appropriately. I was thinking WTF?! The relationship didn’t last much longer but I still use that grater almost daily and I’m 36 in a few weeks

So I am very minimalist and able to afford to buy anything I want(which is very little).

Every year I say no gifts and still get piles of carp. I really don’t wAnt anything.

The best was my MIl. For the 1st : years of our marriage she bought my size 5 slippers. I have never worn a pair of slippers and my feet are size 7. My DH told her and she said, oh no Blooming could never have Size 7 feet as it is so vulgar!

3 years of size 5 slippers. To add she is a size 3 and her 3 daughters each a size 5.

Oh, I forgot another gift. For my 26th Birthday, a different boyfriend sat me down and said his gift was the gift of time (with a straight face) be it running a bath, fixing something, giving me a lift. He was not skint but I think he thought it was deeply romantic. The 26 year old me disagreed.

Not a present as such but one year mrformerbabe got me a birthday card...one of those jokey ones about women drinking wine and getting drunk....I'm virtually tee total.

I do a similar craft to my friends mum.

A couple of years back she made me a "hamper" of little cross stitch kits. I thought it was great.. until i opened it and realised her mum had just had a clear out cause at least 3/4 were already started or had bits missing. I did joke about it but she is ADAMANT they were never her mums and her "local garden centre" must be dodgey...

I have shared this on another thread and its deeply outing (because I have told everyone in real life), but I think I win the most rubbish present.

Xmas present from now ex bf. He bought me......wait for it.....cat litter!
He also got me 4, yes 4, Tesco finest croissants, which he then ate, all of them, the next morning.

You know when you get a really crappy present and you do the whole fake smile "this is lovely" thing. I didnt do that.

I got a sewing kit.. Muti colour threads one of those that looked like it was from a cracker from xmil. She said it's handy because she was disgusted I had binned a pair of trousers ds had torn through the knee.. The hole was huge

One christmas I went to stay with my mother, stepfather and two half siblings.
i was brought up with my siblings so not as if a totally different household. They got hundreds of pounds of expensive gifts including designer clothes, I got a cheap pottery plant pot.
I was so humiliated as it was given to me by my own mother.
Nobody stood up for me or said anything. I went home and just cried. Not long after I moved miles away.
I had always been treated as a poor relation and this was absolutely the last straw.

Dh bought me a toaster and a compact kettle to save energy.

Never again.
I have a wish list now.

Stamps.

No word of a lie.

Not the kind that will ever be worth anything and from an in-law

My top gift would have to be from the BIL and his GF, An ice scraper, luckily my DH got a matching one. We also recieved some Poundshop cheap pack of bauble, mine were gold and his were silver. Delightful

The chip would make me think regift