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?

We were piss poor and generally didnt really get anything,,maybe a bar of chocolate or similar?

My favourite Christmas present my husband and I had from DSiL was a pine pencil pot (it said it on the box) between us. The following year we suggested that we only have presents to the children. 😁

My only Christmas parents one year from my parents was a mattress protector. I was 18 years old and already had one.

Aged 12 I got perfume from them. I had no interest in perfume. My mum said she bought it so she could use it but thought she could make it into a present for me so that she wouldn't have to get me something else.

We are NC.

A three pack of old lady knickers about 4 sizes too big when I was 12.

Bloody hell, some of these are awful.

I've racked my brains and the worst thing I can think of was a flannel / soap box / toothbrush set from my much loved godmother.

However, it was new and unused. Maybe she was trying to tell me something.

Not mine but a friends .. made me howl when she told me..

A grey balaclavas.. from her fiancé. Knitted by his mother .. is the fact he and mum were Australian relevant ? Aussies can you cast any light ? Is it a cultural thing ?

The marriage didn't happen unsurprisingly.

I had an aunt (married to my dads brother) who had a daughter 6 weeks older than me ( my cousin) This Aunt had a rough start in life and tried to give her children everything she didn't have as a child ( brought up in an industrial school) She always saw me as competition with her child. Every year we used to visit my Granny on Xmas eve and drop off all out presents for that side of the family. We would collect our presents and bring them home to put under the treat. Every year me, my brother and sister used to prod and poke and smell my present to try and guess what she had gotten me. They would get something half decent but she could never find it within herself to get something remotely nice for me. It would always be the cheapest nastiest gift set or toy possible. We used to build up the excitement before finally opening it and exclaiming how fabulous it was and was just the thing I always wanted. I look back at those days fondly.

An electric toothbrush.

Christmas aged 11, my older sister got a beautiful new pink and purple Raleigh bike with sparkly bits (we'd only ever had 2nd hand bikes before that and mine was a brown shopper style bike). I got an electric toothbrush.

I remember trying really hard to be enthusiastic and grateful but it felt like the worst present anyone had ever been given. Very ungrateful, I know!

As a child I was a bookworm 2 jigsaws puzzles for my 11th birthday they never got taken out of the box, when I was 21 a sil gave flip flops, bogof I never wore them, I’ve had some crap stuff from family when I was a teenager and young adult.

A 3ft China doll which according to the box shared my name. Thanks Granny. It was the stuff of nightmares.

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

We’re they those awful bath cubes that left a gritty residue in the bottom of the bath for you to sit on?

I got a Twinkle annual when I was about 14? It’s meant for 5 year olds.

School uniform 🤨

When I was 16 I loved baking bread so my mum gave me....... a bread baking machine.
You just added the ingredients and it did the rest I hated it.

A table lamp. I was 7

Purple nylon pyjamas. They gave me thrush.

I'm sure I've had a few duds but can't think of them right now.

My sister bought S1 a snowboard for Christmas. I think she looks on us as rather more outdoorsy than we are - and remembers the more rural northern hilly parts of our semi-rural northern county of which we inhabit the most suburban part.

She also bought several of her niblings a hammock one Christmas. Which neither of mine have ever used (unlike sister, we don't have any trees in our garden). The worst part was that the following year she gave S2 an identical hammock (obviously forgot he'd been part of it).

Same sister once thought it amusing to wrap a silk blouse or something (a perfectly decent present when one is a student on a tight budget) in a cardboard cylinder to make it look like a bottle of whisky. Unfortunately it also looked like the Oxfam Peters Map jigsaw which had been the first thing on my request/suggestion list

Oh! probably the worst was when my group of five friends at university agreed to buy for one person each. I put a lot of thought into what I bought and made sure it was something she could enjoy for some time (not that I can remember what I bought, or for whom). I got a tube of whisky-flavoured toothpaste. I still have no idea why anyone would think that a good present.

The biggest let down ever was the year an elderly neighbour gave me an old cup and saucer when I was 7. Wrapped up it looked really intriguing so I had my hopes that it was something amazing. A cup and saucer - an old one as well, with a pattern of fruit on it. Funnily enough, I used it for years once I got over the disappointment and now always look for a similar one in junk shops or car boot sales. It was probably the start of my love of old stuff, actually. But at the time I think I cried!

A Basildon Bond writing pad on my 16th birthday from my Mum.
She must have forgotten it was my birthday. I came downstairs full of expectation and there was nothing .She clearly dug around for something to give me. It wasn’t even wrapped.
I’ve never forgotten and harboured resentment since the 1970’s

Backgammon from Santa at a Grotto! 😳

Earrings when I never ever wear them. From 2 different relatives. Both times I couldn't lie and said straight away that I never wore them. I have my ears pierced but haven't worn earrings since I was 16, I'm 44, and it hurts a little bit as it feels like they haven't really taken notice of you.

A stapler and hole punch set from my DGP at 14 years old.

DM had a school art painting I'd dashed off in twenty minutes with a expression as I did so very expensively framed.

She was beside herself over it and I thought it was going to be the present to end all presents. It remains in the loft...

From my mum, the first Spice Girls album a few months after it came out. I was 12, my bedroom was wall to wall posters of AC/DC .

My Auntie and Uncle always bought me really boring gifts when compared to my DBs. They'd get little "tin can alley" shooting sets which shot those sticky darts, or other toy items. I got socks

I was unreasonably pleased when they divorced because my uncle bought me much better presents once he was single.