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!

Socks for Christmas. I was about 10. DBs opened their presents from Auntie and Uncle - really cool tin can alley type toys with little guns. I got fucking socks

An ex who told me he'd bought me loads of amazing stuff and spent a fortune. I got a Sex in the City bath set. A Morgan bath set (didnt even know Morgan still existed) and a cheap fake silver bangle that was totally unlike anything I'd ever worn. Not only did the bath sets smell rank, I'm allergic to most stuff so generally only use Simple.

A book that had come free with a magazine (it said so on the back) from my now NC sibling. ExH had a shirt that didn't fit and when he took it back he was told it cost £4. I'd spent nearly £200 on her, her H and kids from their Santa wish lists.

I have a great one. Years ago my ex company gave us each £50 for our secret Santa, to get something really special for our recipient. I spent ages picking something I knew my boss would love, and was really excited for them to open it.

On the day, I watched everyone open their thoughtful gifts - eg a wetsuit for an avid surfer - and eventually got to mine. Which I opened to find - a tin of elderly bath salts clearly rescued from the 80s, a diary designed for people in therapy (when my MH issues were pretty bad) and a card which told me a donation in my name had been given to Syria. That’s it. And my gift-giver looked genuinely perplexed at why I wasn’t beaming as this was his pet cause.

Just to add, he’d asked my good friends at work what to get me and they gave him loads of suggestions, which he promptly ignored. And I’m really easy to buy for so it wouldn’t have been a stretch. He was very happy with his thoughtful gift btw. Not a bad colleague at all! Just clueless!

Not me but my then boyfriend (now dh) received a laundry net bag from one of our friends. For his 21st birthday!

Not me,but my Dd. About 5 or 6 years ago at Christmas,her MIL gave her a Ronan Keating autobiography. DD has never shown the slightest interest whatsoever in Ronan Keating.

Just remembered another one. My dm was given a tin of biscuits for christmas, but when she opened it there was no biscuits, just lots of old receipts and bits of paper. Presumably she was given it by accident but she was too embarressed to say anything.

My MIL once got me a hip flask as a Christmas present. Maybe she thinks I’m a closet alcoholic?

A mirror.... With a £1.99 price on it.

Wouldnt of cared but the mirror was awful and i was sofa surfing at the time....

My mum got me a load of encyclopaedias when I was 9 for Xmas. I was hoping for more exciting presents.

I would have been about 12 when, for reasons I've never been able to fathom, I was given a headboard for my bed one Christmas
Until that point I had no idea I was even in need of a headboard, and suspect I made poor work of appearing gushingly grateful.

A bag of chocolate limes of the mother in law for my birthday. She hates me 🙃

My friend who is a teacher once got a filthy/dusty wooden clock with scary goblin type people around it. Tickles me to this day.

Iv had some shocking presents of my father's mother....

For like a couple of quid, literally, about £3 Funniest thing is she would request a certain expensive perfume (£40) and a certain expensive jumper for her husband from m&s for about £30 atleast....

Shes not a nice woman, very judgemental and racist

@Igotta I literally laughed out loud 🤣

My dh bought me some xmas eve pjs.
😂they where a summer pjs shorts and t-T-shirt set.

The top was a size 18 and the shorts where a 10 I said have you seen this there both diff sizes (someone must have swapped them) His reply was well you can still where the top with your current pj bottoms. I’m a 12 I was livid and I thought are you really that thick. 🤣🤣

It was my birthday yesterday and I got an egg boiler, a steamer and a whisk. Yes I'll use them but.... I'd rather have had perfume or a pamper day!!

Necklaces. 3 of them.

The first was a rolled gold Albert chain and fob from my granny. My aunt had chosen it because they were "all the rage" at the time. I was never an "all the rage" kinda girl.

The second was a heavy gold chain and bracelet from my (at the time fiance) for christmas. My sister saw my face and kindly rushed me out of the room to "help me put it on".

The third was a Tiffany necklace that my ExH bought me from our DC. We had recently split up. It looked like a dog collar. I was so excited when I got the box. I was so disappointed when I opened it. I was that fucked off that I actually considered writing to Tiffany to complain about them getting my hopes up with the box, only to have them dashed by the shit it contained.

I gave it back a week later. Said it was an inappropriate gift for an Ex and suggested he give it to his DD who would appreciate it more.

Car mats and aftershave one Christmas...
To be fair, he’d tried, bless him! The car mats were from the Ford garage, embroidered with my make of car... Looked gorgeous and I was dead chuffed - but the embroidery was where you put your feet... ruined within months. And the aftershave? It was one of the brands that did a male & female version... the sales assistant pounced on him in Debenhams and talked over him... so I opened the ‘pour homme’ on Christmas morning😆
And he bought me an electric car polisher when we were courting...😳

My Ex-SIL gave me a Christmas present of a used and dirty handbag that still had the previous owners used tissues and food shopping receipts inside. She then told me an old man in the next street was throwing his garbage out, and she grabbed it for me....

My (very well off) brother gives me interesting birthday presents - the most memorable was a set of very cheap and flimsy plastic utensils that had melted together in the bottom of the container.

My DD recently received a portable changing mat... for her 1st birthday...in lockdown. Bit late to the party with that one 😂

My xh bought me a tartan shopping trolley for my 21st birthday. Lovely.

My PIL give me a broken old watch one birthday. They said they’d found it in a box of crap in someone’s garage. It broke further after an afternoon of wearing it and PIL were really upset about it. I told PIL we could find another one and he said, “yes but not of that quality.” I had a look on eBay and they were only 5 quid new!

They never liked me and I feel they did things like this on purpose to make me feel bad.

A fancy ratchet screwdriver with loads of different heads but to be honest it's been really useful over the years.

A potato cookbook because I had once talked about potatoes.

Some adult colouring books.

A teapot in the shape of a cat, I had known this person for over 20 years at this point and she knew that I cannot stand tea.

These are all from the same person.

Here is how someone I knew got their comeuppance for being highly critical of presents: she’d often put pictures of presents she’d received on social media with comments, good and bad. Her friends told her they’d got her a wonderful present: they blindfolded her and led her to it, and took photos of her holding it. It was a gift box, containing a pair of socks which said “worst gift ever”.

They did give her something nicer after she’d raged for a few minutes! 🎁

A watch... the exact same type of watch that the same person had bought me 2 years earlier. I didn't like the first one and never wore it.

Said person asks what everyone else would like as gifts but clearly thinks they know me well enough not to ask. They don't.