Worst present you received as a child

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Hopefully this doesn't offend anyone!

Was just thinking about my birthday when I was about 7. My auntie gave me a present and it was a cross stitch of a spider going up a drainpipe after it had rained
At that age i was TERRIFIED of spiders. I was visibly shaking as I threw it to the floor. It put me off opening any other presents.

So what was the worst present you received as a child?

One pair of tights from a pack of two. It was still in the packaging so it was clear one set was missing. I was about 7 and was

Thermals. Bought by a caring relative who wanted to keep me warm, but not what a teenager can get excited about receiving 😬

Aged 14, whenever my grandparents would visit they'd bring little gifts/trinkets. I received a tube of acnecide to help 'those horrific spots and to finally sort your skin out'... I didn't realise I had awful skin literally maybe 2 minor pimples.
The weird thing is my grandma was super nice and lovely and was genuinely doing this from a place of love so it really freaked me out that I must look awful and hadn't even noticed myself.

Two pairs of pants from an aunt.

One year all I got for Christmas (from my parents) was school uniform items- PE sweatshirt and scarf, I think- and an album of St Winifred's school choir.

On christmas when I was 18 my siblings and I were sat down opening the present we each got from our parents. My brother got a ticket to see Dire Straits live, my sister got tickets to see Rhianna, and i got a dressing gown. I was absolutely gutted, i'd never been to a live concert and my parents knew how much I would have loved to go.

I don't know about 'worst' exactly but do remember my mum being pleased with a big doll she bought me which talked if you wound up a lever in the doll's middle. I had desperately wanted a little train set and woke up in the morning with my mum sitting next to my bed, holding the doll which was making scratchy voice noises. I smiled but it was disappointing. I hated dolls! I never played with it but remember it had black hair and a white dress.

Another thing was my dolls' pram which was quite an elaborate affair. I found it excruciatingly embarrassing to have to go out with it. Once I let go of it and didn't know the brake wasn't on so it travelled out into the road and upturned, stopping traffic. People thought it was a real pram with a real baby! I got told off but I was only little and didn't know, I hadn't done it on purpose, was in a world of my own. Anyway I never had to take it out again. I remember my mum saying, "I wanted to put my shopping in it". Typical. She could have bought one for herself!

When I was three my dad bought me a pair of Indian Clubs, the big wooden ones you swing round your head. The next year he bought me a pair of boxing gloves & punchball on a stand, my birthday was a train set.
Somehow got the vague idea he had wanted a boy.

Mine was one of the presents in my stocking when I was about 12/13. It was a little Russian doll pin cushion. I remember thinking what on earth is this and why has it got pins in it. Mum must of seen my baffled face and said ‘it’s a pin cushion, it goes with the colours in your bedroom’.

I absolutely don’t want to sound ungrateful as I know many children go without for many reasons but I just remember that so clearly. I didn’t even do sewing

A foot spa. I'd kill for one now

Any clothes item when I was hoping for a toy.

Peach bath products every birthday and Christmas from an Auntie throughout the 1980’s. It used to smell like vomit.

A reproduction China doll from my Grannie. It was horrid. It had a nylon wig and it's face had a blueish cast. I never played with it.

A little metal child's sewing machine, I was 10 and hated sewing. My sister got a typewriter, I was so jealous.
On my 18th my dm gave me a bracelet that she had bought for my cousins 21st a month earlier. Apparently my aunty had already bought my cousin a bracelet so dm got cousin a different gift.
I've never worn the bracelet as it's too big and hideous.

My childless aunt gave me a school reading book for Xmas when I was 5. She gave my 3yo sister a tea set.

I threw the book at her and said I wanted a tea set instead, so I got a smack too.

I never did like her much.

My granny's best friend buys the weirdest gifts and the whole family looks forward to seeing what she has bought us each Christmas.

When my brother was about 8 she bought him a set of basic white eggcups. A whole set! She gave my dad an alarm clock every Christmas for about five years. A couple of years ago she knitted my auntie the ugliest brown waistcoat

Obviously we thank her graciously for the gifts but it has become a bit of a game between us.

A brown felt waistcoat with satin tulips wonkily sewn on the boobs from a friend of my parents! I was about 15. We assumed she must have mixed up some presents when she was wrapping but we never mentioned it.

A girls world I hated dolls and you could pull the hair to make it longer gave me the creeps I ended up cutting her hair

@Mintjulia

My childless aunt gave me a school reading book for Xmas when I was 5. She gave my 3yo sister a tea set.

I threw the book at her and said I wanted a tea set instead, so I got a smack too.

I never did like her much.

Oh, this reminds me of the Christmas 1998 Towel Debacle.

On Christmas morning my brother and I had matching squishy parcels from our great auntie. He opened his and it was a matching Pokemon bath towel and facecloth.

I excitedly ripped mine open and it was Winnie the fucking Pooh. I've never liked Winnie the Pooh but I was 8yo and OBSESSED with Pokemon. My brother was 2yo and barely knew what his nose was, never mind Pikachu

I threw a shit fit and tried to swap them but my parents were having none of it. I'm still salty about it, to be honest

I remember my aunt gave me pants and bathcubes when I was12 maybe 13 the pants not even my size !

It's not worst, but most unusual present I got from my parents(there were many, non typical presents) was proper craft knife when I was not even in school, maybe when i was 3 or 4. How could my parents trusted me enough to handle that safely is beyond my comprehension. But I turned out ok, no missing fingers because of it.

To reverse it. The worse present I’ve probably ever given anyone was a scarf I knitted for my uncle. It was only about as long and wide as worm.

I always received bathcubes or a box of handkerchiefs.

My auntie used to buy me a nylon nightie with a character on the front every year. Every time you moved in it when sitting on my (also man made fibre carpet) I would get sparks and neatly set myself on fire!

Very many years ago at Christmas when I was about six my parents bought me a girls cycle. As a male I was most upset and I was made a bit of a fool by my friends. I could not wait until I was a bit older and got a 21in gents bike!

A powder puff when I was 10. A body one with a massive sponge/brush thing to apply it with.

It was from my dad's cousin I think.
Bizarre