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

Tell me your worst!

A clutch cable for a car.

I mean, I did need one. It was the 'I've got you a present' text before I got home, and the resulting excitement that did it for me

The first Christmas with my then boyfriend (now DH) I had the biggest present under the tree, being totally childish at heart I was very excited about this. It was a vacuum cleaner. True I had said I needed a new one, but still.... We laugh about it now and he now is actually very good at buying thoughtful presents

My mum once bought me a set of bathroom scales for Christmas. I am ashamed to say I cried.

A skillet

Oh - DVDs. A colleague once bought me the Home Alone box set because I said I liked horror movies and she thought these were much more suitable viewing for me. I was 33 at the time.

Christmas pres from DH; a humane rabbit trap.

His excuse

"But I thought you wanted one".

My dh once bought me a present of a chip slicer so “I could make him homemade chips”

My grandmother outdid herself one birthday in particular, when she got me a call bell like the ones you ping at a hotel reception desk. And a four-foot saxophone made out of wire.

I was 7.

I gave a friend a room in my (came with work) flat. All bills etc, no rent paid. She paid half the telephone bill. Her boyfriend stayed most weekends and her sisters were there a lot.

She kept promising a wonderful gift to say thanks. Her family had a house in France which she talked about a lot so I sort of got it into my head I would be invited there to say thanks.

She built up the gift and kept saying how nice it was.

Admittedly, they were lovely. But the gift was a pair of mugs. Only one remains and my husband calls it my Mug mug.

MIL brought me back a normal salad tomato from her holiday in Portugal, it was all wrinkly and about to go off.

She did it to be a bitch but I just said thanks very much its just what I need and tried to avoid DH eye so we wouldnt both burst into a fit of giggles

Other gems she's gifted me is a multipack of 5 knickers with two missing, season 2 of a dvd (I hadn't seen season 1) with the wrap already off it - she borrowed it straight away and I haven't seen it since.

Shes very particular about receiving gifts you can only get her off a preapproved list and its always something expensive.

I got a macaron gift box that I thought was full of delicious macarons. It was a tea cup with pictures of macarons on it. I was with my in-laws (who gave it to me) when I opened it and dh says I was so visibly disappointed!

I was once given an absolutely beautiful blue-glass jar in the shape of an apple.

Full of apple sauce blanketed in luxuriant grey-green mould...

I never told the giver.

Worked in a glam advertising agency and secret santa came around... money wasn't short amongst the bigwigs, so people were opening Eve Lom gift sets and Nars palettes and champagne...

I got a Build Your Own Medieval Trebuchet kit (a catapult, for the uninformed) and SOME CLAY TO SCULPT SOME MINI ROCKS.

Needless to say, I was not happy, and to my shame, really didn't hide the fact. But I mean... COME ON!

A beautifully wrapped roll of black bags.

Nothing will ever top it

A tray cloth from my mil when I was dating my dh.
As I have a February birthday I often get regifted xmas leftovers like tins of sweets and biscuits

Mum bought me a push present which I really hadnt expected. I opened the wrapping to a stuart crystal box. Crikey I thought. Opened the box. Body shop toiletries. Nowt wrong with body shop but when your expectations have gone from zero to stuart crystal its a bit of a come down!

Mum is generally a bit rubbish at presents. She buys her 3 dds an identical present each year. One year it was james bond stockings in xl. Another year it was soap from where my sister had gone on an a level trip 20yrs previously.

Dad also had his bonkers moments. He bought me a how to microsoft excel book and one on napkin folding.

I got a Tom Tom Satnav with all the bells and whistles - shame I didn't have a driving licence really

I had recently moved into my first house and needed lots of stuff for the house and had very little money
My birthday was a month later and there was a long package from my parents. I was convinced it was going to be kitchen utensils.

It was a set of toiletries- perfume, shower gel, soap, body lotion and talc- it was they stuff my mum used, I had told her it was nice - I was being polite. It was not my taste at all.

I am ashamed to say I didn’t control my expression of dismay and my mum ran out of the room to compose herself as she was so upset

Not my finest hour.

Some of these gifts sound good to me.

I was recently given a set of silicone spatulas for my birthday. Maybe rubbish to some but I asked for them and bloody love them. 😂😂😂

For my 18th birthday
I had recently moved into a house with dd1.
My Sil bought me a ironing board. She even wrapped it up. At the time I didn't have a iron.

A Mrs Hinch activity book.

My MIL bought me size 6 pyjamas ‘to slim into’. I was a 10, I was never going to be that small and it was a sly dig.
My SIL thinks she’s amazing at presents. Everything she buys is awful. She got tee-total MIL a set of liqueurs one year. She’s bought us the same boots Christmas set 3 times.

A huge massage machine as a going-away present for an international move, a few nights before departure. Kind gesture not well thought out at all.

Someone at work regifted me something I had got them the previous Christmas!!!

a set of 3 chapsticks that my gran won in a raffle...still had the raffle number attached...for my 19th bday gift