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!

This thread has me chuckling.

Seriously though I will never understand people who give some of the really horrid stuff on here - obvious regifts, a single salad tomato etc. Just don't get a gift.

My boyfriend gave me a car jack and wheel wrench for my 21st. I did get a lovely bunch of roses too so I forgave him. Don’t think I ever used the jack and wrench.

We’re still married 23 years later. He still needs explicit instructions for presents.

A promotional address booklet from her bank, gifted to me by dh's granny. I'm guessing she thought it was practical and didn't want it to go to waste?

I unwrapped a beautiful lingerie-type gift box to find a hideous, brown velour lounge/track suit.

My OH got a sack of potatoes and how to cook potatoes cookbook from his mum for his 30th.

Told this before. My birthday, got in to huge pile of presents. This was the 80s and dh had bought a Sinclair spectrum a few months before. Anyway, first present, spectrum game. Ok. Next present. Ditto. And ditto and ditto. By now I was seriously pissed, but keeping it polite because he looked dead pleased. In the end pile of games. A record.(good) and a veggie cookbook. (No im not) I’m not pleased, then my mates came in and went “oh mate! But what have you actually got her?”
These days he knocks it out of the park.

First wedding anniversary from my XH - a mini hoover 'to help you clean the stairs'. How I didn't kill him there and then I have no idea. But it was an indication of the way he thought about me...

XP promised to pay for a pair of boots for our last Christmas together. I couldn't afford to pay for them and have him pay me back so he needed to come shopping with me. Needless to say, every time we were anywhere near any shoe shops he 'didn't have time' to look at boots. When Christmas Day came around, he bought me four boxes of Thorntons chocolates. I've still got two boxes (I don't eat that much chocolate) and no boots...

For our wedding, a group of friends thought it would be hilarious to all buy us the cheapest Argos, white plastic toasters they could get. It looked like we had a lovely set of presents to open the next day but it was just cheap toaster after cheap toaster. They did club together to get us a small amount of gift vouchers for I think Next but it was just so disappointing to think you had presents but you actually didn’t. Well that not true, we also received 4 metal egg cups and 2 beige hand towels. I know it sounds grabby but we’re really not and we did receive some vouchers and money too so it wasn’t all bad.

The friends thought we’d be able to return the vouchers and get a refund of a whole £5 for each toaster which according to them we could “add to their gift”. Unfortunately, you can’t return things to Argos without the receipt, which only 2 people included in the box, so we are left with 6 ugly, white, plastic toasters.

A distant relative once gave me a second hand jumper from a charity shop.

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

I'd quite like that! I think it sounds lovely

A piece of lace from my boyfriend who'd been to Belgium. What was wrong with a Belgian chocolates I mean come on!!!

Also the gift of a hoodie after a 3 week trip to America with the lads. I don't wear sports wear.

Padded hangers from the PIL, something from the Boots buy one, get one free offer also from PIL. I never get my hopes up with them.

In the mid 90's I lent my dad a fiver, and my birthday present weeks later, was nothing except a birthday card with a £5 note sellotaped inside that he owed me anyway!

A pair of knitted slippers and a shitty magic foam tree thing for our first, and only, Christmas. Oh, and a CD of a musician he thought I should "learn about". I'd spent fucking ages finding a present he'd love too.

For my 18th birthday my dm gave me 2 fairy ornaments. They were beautiful and intricate but soooo not me. I was a teenage goth and would have preferred an expensive eyeliner, pair of boots, earrings... basically anything else! I was hoping for driving lessons I think..

In typical nasty teenage style I made sure she knew I hated them and I remember how hurt she was.

I'm 37 now and I still have them. One is missing an arm 😂 they remind me to be grateful for things

I keep getting lingerie from random people. Its weird, I don't like it and I'm a tomboy.

My Nan got my vegan sister a taxidermy squirrel, complete with googly eyes and sewn onto a log.

Her face when she opened it is still the funniest thing I've ever seen.

No idea what my nan was thinking or where she got it.

Hold my coffee, I’ve got this. My Nan in law (she’s lovely btw) sent my mam in law to my house with a carrier bag FULL of herbs and spices in little jars ... dating back to 1997.

This was a few months back.

I forgot the half white-half black liqueur in a pretty bottle. I think it was coffee and cream flavoured, they were separated by glass in the middle of the bottle? Anyway, we took the cork out (eventually) but the liqueur was completely solid and stuck inside the bottle

A basket of fish paste and tinned fish soup. I must have made such grateful,pleased noises that they gave me the same the following year Bleurgh!!

An energy saving light bulb, from my dad one Christmas.

@Clevererthanyou Sheridans.

From DH - a car alarm. And assorted other car stuff. All gifts bought from a one stop shop at Halfords that year. I believe there were tears.

From DM - a jumper that looked like a cricketer's jumper, 2 sizes too big.

From DSis - (I threw this away not long after but have regretted it as it was so awful and people have asked to see it)... A clock/picture frame duo frame. It was not my taste. It was broken in one corner. It was also someone's 30 year gift for working at shelloil. It was engraved with his name.

An ex bought me a Harry Potter colouring in book and where's the wookie book for Christmas. After I'd spent the past 6 months supporting him through a nervous breakdown. I was gutted.

It's my birthday tomorrow so will let you know. Apparently the shops not being open is a great excuse