What was the most disappointing present you've ever received? Lighthearted!

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My boyfriend made a big song and dance about having bought me an amazing present one year, I was so excited until I opened it and it was a spice rack

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I was in the first flush of romance and my then boyfriend went on holiday. He came home and presented me with a beautifully wrapped gift... it was a cheese grater . As it turns out the cheese grater outlasted the relationship and is still going strong. He turned out to be a complete tightwad so I assume it was on offer in the airport.

A proper 'boy toy' juicer, that was complicated to clean. When I'd seen one for £20 in a discount shop. Three times I'd taken him into the Guess shop and looked at three handbags. I got a Ipod (which i wouldn't use) and a toning belt as well. We always sepent around £200 on each other and I, in effect, got nothing.

Everything my Sister buys people is a waste. We've stopped doing presents with her.

When I was a child (primary age) an adult bought me a backscratcher for my birthday.

My sister who hates me anyway blatantly regifts shit to me, the worst of which was a child's watch.

An adult colouring book. I was in hospital for a few weeks a few years ago, and everyone who visited me brought me a colouring book. I was very grateful that they thought of me, don't get me wrong, but I couldn't even lift a pencil because I was so weak, so I couldn't use them.

Then, about a month after I was discharged, it was my birthday. A friend and I swapped gifts (it was her birthday the day after I was admitted, but we decided to just swap gifts in one go). I opened it... it was a bloody colouring book.

When we were very hard up, my DH secretly saved £100 and presented it to me in an envelope with a quote to have the rust treated on the bonnet of our car.

I had hinted (very heavily, links were supplied) for a Kindle. I received a hedgehog shaped door stop. I can laugh now.

My husband once got me some jumpers from ox fam ! Worst part was He hadn't even washed them so they smelt of ox fam

My dad who’s in and out of my life once brought home an acorn...

Four bottles of Lidl knock off Smirnoff Ice type thing from FIL & his wife for my 40th birthday. I have never drunk the stuff. I'd been with DH ten years at that point so it's not like they didn't know me.

They also got me one of those £1 shop pens with your name on. The wrong name. Nobody in the family with that name so it's not like they mixed up the presents.

They gave DH and old toastie maker, one of FIL's old Val Doonican jumpers several sizes too small, a set of car mats and some Allen keys from the £1 shop that snapped first use.

They bought their bungalow and car in cash and were boasting at Xmas about having 'at least' £100k in the bank.

I got a small, heart-shaped box one Christmas. Inside, nestled on fabric was... a piece of meteorite.

My parents in law gave us an umbrella as a we’ present. They’d not put anything towards the wedding, in fact we paid for their hotel.

A bean stringer was a Christmas present one year.

A plastic weather station that would indicate how much rain had fallen that day.

A mop. From PIL. According to DH I shouldn't read too much into it..

I was heavily pregnant with our first child, less than a year after getting married, and for my birthday from my husband I got...a body shop gift collection. His logic was that we were going on a mini break. I pointedly paid for the hotel (the main expense). I cried for ages.

A diary and set of pens. Absolutely fine on the face of it, except the diary was for the year before and the pens had no ink in them 😂

A clock that made bird noises on each hour
A kettle that moo’ed when boiled
A filing cabinet

I once got a secret Santa which was a (toy) germ blown to x1,000,000. So yeah. A germ. Wrapped up.

An ex got me a star once. One of those elaborate gift wrapped scrolls to say I'd had a star named after me 🙄

He'd hyped it up so much but I was so disappointed!

A few years ago DH presented me with 8 individually wrapped presents for my birthday, all lined up on the bed. They were all DVD shaped boxes so I got quite excited as there were a few films/computer games I’d mentioned that I’d like.

I picked one up from the middle and opened it - it was a DVD of series 4 of Two and a Half Men. I thought it was a bit odd to just get me one random series but said thank you. DH then said “you were supposed to open them in the order they were laid out”.

Then it dawned on me that he’d bought me 8 series of Two and a Half Men and wrapped them all up individually for me. I had to open the other 7 presents up knowing exactly what was in each one.

To be fair I did like the show at the time and we enjoyed watching it all together. But having to open each present individually knowing exactly what was in it already was disappointing

Oh god, some of these are tragic!

My lovely dad (bless him) bought me an umbrella a few years back! I mean, it was a nice one, but was far too big to be practical enough to carry around. I have no idea why he bought it, and I was secretly a little bit gutted as the box looked so interesting! He means well ...

For I think it was my 10th birthday, several people got me earrings. I didn't have my ears pierced and my parents wouldn't let me get them done.

As an adult (pre DC) - a set of Disney princess DVDs. From a friend who is obsessed with Disney, but I'm not!

A lily Allan cd

From my now ex husband

My MIL is a bit hit and miss with presents. The last few years I have been given a bottle of wine for Xmas, but I don't drink alcohol (due to migraines), she knows this.

The present that was the funniest was a "dip dye" jumper going from burgundy to white. It was size 10, I am size 18. We were staying over at MILs when I opened it. When I got to our bedroom I put it on (just being silly), the white bit made my boobs look even more ginormous and DP laughed out loud. I then found I was stuck in it and had to kneel on the floor while DP yanked it off me. All the while we were trying not to laugh out loud.