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What's the worst gift you e ever had?

148 replies

kwetu · 22/08/2023 09:41

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.

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Deadringer · 23/08/2023 00:18

I have been given some crap down through the years but the oddest gift was given not to me but to my boyfriend, one of the guests at his 21st party gave him one of those net bags for the washing machine. Bizzare.

mrsfollowill · 23/08/2023 00:20

Dh tried giving me household type stuff for the first year we were married- new ironing board for your birthday present anyone! he got very short shrift and has the words Champagne, perfume, chocolates (if you cannot be more imaginative) imprinted on him. So at the very least I get that. I got a tea towel and a used tube of handcream once - cheers MIL!

SmellsLikeTeenSpirits · 23/08/2023 00:24

A Tommy Tippee bib (the one with the shelf). From my (then) boyfriend. I was 25. I do have a tendency to wear my food but still 😆

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AdoraBell · 22/08/2023 23:56

Frilly knickers from MIL.

Lacy knickers from my god-father. I was eight. Yes there is a back story 🙁

Palindrone · 23/08/2023 00:28

A Bunty annual, from my Aunt Fanny (yes - her real name). I was 44 at the time.

ultraviolet4753 · 23/08/2023 00:30

My husband bought me a toilet seat for my birthday.

MaydinEssex · 23/08/2023 00:31

I got a mahogany coloured toilet seat as an anniversary present from my now ex husband, that was a bit disappointing.

MillicentTrilbyHiggins · 23/08/2023 00:32

My now ex MIL bought me the Paul Mckenna think yourself thin book for Christmas one year. I'd given birth to her Grandson 4 months earlier and had the audacity to only be a size 12. Stupid bitch.

MuffinCCHeeler · 23/08/2023 00:32

A very large box with a single helium balloon in it.

Horsingaround22 · 23/08/2023 00:34

This. Because I like horses and wine.

What's the worst gift you e ever had?
ShinyPikachu · 23/08/2023 00:35

A packet of biscuits from my ex for Valentine's Day (when we were still together).

He rushed out on the day and our tiny local shop didn't have any boxes of chocolates.

He gave a lot more thought to the gifts he bought for other women when we were together though.

SpaceRaiders · 23/08/2023 00:43

A few Christmas mornings ago I found under the tree a beautiful white Dior gift bag with something heavy and probably made of glass nestling in the matching watermarked tissue - bottle of budget TK Maxx chilli oil. Thanks, MIL!

I snorted 🤣🤣That was mean.

Thepossibility · 23/08/2023 00:47

Worst was extremely cheap swimmers from my nan that went completely see-through when wet (in public.) Age about 12 at the time.
Second was a dirty plate from SIL.

dunkery · 23/08/2023 00:51

An imitation wood coffee table from MIL - because we didn't have one and her other 3 children did. We had been married 15 years by then, if we had ever wanted a coffee table we would have bought one ourselves by then.
A teacher friend gave me a wrapped present with a note inside thanking her for being such a good teacher to little 'Amelia' !!

HPD76 · 23/08/2023 00:51

A regifted tub of body butter that they’d taken a fingers worth out of (you could see where they’d scooped it out with their finger) and a thick black hair resting on the top of the moisturiser. It went straight in the bin. Still makes me gag thinking about it and it’s probably 12 years ago now.

MrsPositivity1 · 23/08/2023 00:59

A mushroom growing kit from SIL

Forgottenmypasswordagain · 23/08/2023 01:05

I am not a materialistic person, but I would be hurt and unhappy to recieve a toilet brush for a 20th anniversary gift. That is a horrible gift.

TurqoiseJasper · 23/08/2023 01:06

From a bitch aunt, for Christmas one year, a tried on pair of tights. One leg was out of shape, she said they were too short for her and I'd 'love' them. Just a pair of 20 denier black tights!

Also a manky dirty broken tile she'd dug up in the garden, and tried to write off as Victorian

GrannyGoggins · 23/08/2023 01:07

A vibrating butt plug - after breaking up!

meatbaseddessert · 23/08/2023 01:14

The run over Burt's Bees gift box has me lolling.

MicrowaveRice · 23/08/2023 01:22

DH received a silver tankard from his parents' friend for his 21st birthday - all well and good, until you turned it round and it had 'British Airways' on the other side.

Timeforanewnam · 23/08/2023 01:33

Aged ten - A pack of floppy disks from an aunt and uncle ( millionaires but not the point )
didn’t have a computer, mum went mad (it wasn’t the first shocking gift , and my cousin their child)was always bought for )

turns out she’d swiped them from work 😆😆😆😆

Ketzele · 23/08/2023 01:54

Wobbles notelets. I was 15.

DiscoBeat · 23/08/2023 02:08

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.

Ugh.

DiscoBeat · 23/08/2023 02:10

A close friend was excitedly telling me in the run up to my birthday that I would love my present, that she couldn’t wait for me to have it etc. It was a plastic water can with like a pressurised tube and a brush attached. The idea being you can scrub off your muddy shoes or your dog before they get into the car. She said it was for my muddy pram wheels.

That sounds brilliant!