What's the worst gift you e ever had?

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I've got a couple of examples, for our 20th wedding anniversary my husband bought me a toilet brush (admittedly it was one that I'd been seeking for a while, but really!).
Many years ago I was in hospital (gallstones) and my get well gift was a massive book of 1001 recipe ideas, I tried not to take offence but once again....really?
Would love to hear of anyone else's gift fails.
Lighthearted.

About to date myself here, but who cares. It was a Jane Fonda exercise video from DH. My weight has been a sensitive issue for much of my adult life.

I didn't say anything, but I just stored it and never used it. It was a misguided attempt to support and help me. Nothing more.

To be fair, in 30 years of marriage it is the only bad gift he has ever bought me.

A moustache trimmer. I don't have a moustache.

The smurfs album

A pair of giant novelty Christmas elf slippers with bells on the ends and everything. In July.

They were super comfy to be fair.

A car vacuum cleaner.

I didn’t drive or own a car.

A bottle of wine that was already half drunk. It was a gift for hosting these people in our home for 8 days. They commented that giving us wine was like taking coals to Newcastle and so d thought they could open it themselves.

An opened bashed box with a silver platter serving dish dodah as a wedding present I mean I say Silver 😂 it was from relatives of my stepdad.

One of dh's friends have us a hooka pipe for a wedding gift. 🙄Neither of us smokes anything.

MIL used to (until dh told her to please, please stop) used to get me a Burt's Bees gift set from Boots ever birthday and Christmas. I must have made the right noises about it the first time and then it stuck. One year, she went out and bought the infamous Burt's Bees gift set and while she was unpacking the car from the shopping trip, it rolled out of the boot and dh's uncle (who lives next door) ran it over with his mobility scooter and crushed it. So that year - it may have even been the last Burt's Bees year, because even dh was a bit 😫- I got a crushed box of Burt's Bees. It literally still had the tire prints across it.

A training bra from my great Nan. I had breasts at the time. Admittedly not big ones but I was too big for a child’s training bra

Paper napkins from my sil last christmas.

Well these are all making me feel a little less disappointed!

Oh I just thought of another one!! When I went abroad in my uni holidays the 50 year old male neighbour of my pareNuts gave me a box of tampons in case they did not have them where I was going. (France) he was a total creep anyway.

Parents autocorrected to pare nuts in my post. Totally apropos I think!!

Now that is just weird!!

For my 50th, from a colleague, 2 cans of lager - not even a 4 pack. Why even bother?

My MIL once bought me a candle snuffer for Christmas. Anyone would think we lived in a massive place with dozens of candles (we don't, obviously)

From my then stbx who was trying very hard to get back into my good books...

For Christmas a kitchen paper towel holder. And a salt and pepper set that I reckon belonged in a doll house they were so small.

For a very momentous birthday I got a tumble drier. Not even on the day, about a week before and was told that was my present. Nothing to open on the day. When I pulled him up on it I was told I was ungrateful and that I had been 'harping on' about getting a drier for ages... You couldn't make it up.

Other bizarre gifts include an egg slicer for Christmas, a set of those rubber jar opening things (I don't have issues opening jars). And copious amount of cheap body cream, even though I can't use any of it due to severe eczema.

My (our) dd got a used duvet set.

Baylis and Harding giftset. I mean, what's the point?

Another one - from a "friend", a 1/2lb box of Milk Tray chocolates. I'd got her a lovely pen set.

A 3 pack of gigantic pants from my exMIL (who was actually very generous and as well as a full stocking gave me a wad of cash), I mean HUGE, size L or XL, for a quite slim, short and young me age 22. Had to open stockings in front of an assembled crowd too 🤦🏻‍♀️

It definitely wasn't a joke and I tried to be suitably grateful 😂

I was very shy and quiet in those days so I wouldn't have dared question it to her face!!

Handkerchief pack from an aunt. I was 5!!!

Mine also was a pack of pants! It was from an ex-bf's Nan. There were three pairs and they were pink nylon with lots of frills and really scratchy. They were a Christmas present and I had to open them in front of the family. Mortified!

A picture of a dog for my 30th birthday. Looked like one you'd have at a wake. Thanks mum.

Anything my mother bought me

I'm the eldest of 4 and the only girl

My brothers would get lovely,well thought out and expensive gifts

I'd get whatever she could get in the car boot supermarket sweep

One brother got a motorbike-i got a blanket with sleeves (complete with food stains)

Another brother got a mountain bike-i got snowball shaped candles

Next brother got a unicycle (he's a bit odd)

I got a eye gel set-that was so old,the product had evaporated

She also bought me a knock off of a Katie price perfume,second hand socks what hadn't been washed,a vanity case (the hinges had snapped,slippers that where so worn,they had holes where the shoe meets the sole and a broken child's watch

It was never about the price tag-it was the lack of thought,I would have been over the moon with a cheap cross stitch kit

Dp once bought me toothpicks for some random reason-i never did get to the bottom of that one!

Boyfriend now hubby, brought me a box of 3 glass vases, even sil asked would smudge really like those for xmas! tbf they were with other gifts in the pile, but I thought it was an odd gift!