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.

So I was told. 🥴

I got that for my mum as a joke present, but to be fair she hated cats!

Just tried to edit on the app on my phone, seems to have worked.

A huge bourbon biscuit that was broken in pieces. Not sure if it broke during transit or elsewhere.

Now that's a winner 🥇

My example is cute and unsettling at the same time. My ex MIL bought me a baking tin, kitchen towel and oven mitt for the first Xmas in the family. She is an Oxford academic and one of the early feminists which made it a very interesting choice of gifts. My ex got some lovely expensive books.... go figure

Got that from one of my colleagues as a birthday present too. Also got a SAD light from my friend's husband who said "you seem like the kind of person for whom this would be appropriate"... he only met me once before.

A pack of 4 velvet hangers from Husband's Nan. She was such a sweet woman, I miss her a lot!

Is this meant to be wobbles or wombles?

A bird feeder, for my 21st, from DH. I nearly hit him with it. I had other bits too.

His defence was "when we were at the garden centre the other day you said you'd like a bird feeder in the garden" YES BUT NOT FOR MY 21st BIRTHDAY. Good job I love him, he's got much better at giving gifts 😂

Dove shower gel for secret Santa.
Another secret Santa I was given body paint... then someone awkwardly came up and said it was meant for her and I had been forgotten so I got a generic bottle of wine.
Also once my parents bought me a pair of pink slippers that said sexy on them. That was a dark day.

I got a trolley jack fir my 21st, from my Aunt and Uncle. Uncle helped me change the tyre on my car the week before. I guess it was practical.

Oh and as a teenager I was gifted a pet log. Literally a pice of sawn off twig with googly eyes stuck on it, in a perspex presentation box. That was a new low.

My MIL got handmade trinkets and jewellery for everyone else in the family one Christmas, then presented me with a parcel containing a pack of tea towels. For my last birthday she gave me a present, then informed me that she'd started 'buying things for other people that I like.' I could tell, the gift was very much her style and not mine!

For my birthday when I was 8 months pregnant, my now ExH bought me Titantic on DVD and wrapped it in paper with whales on it. I always wonder if he was trying to tell me something about my body when I was pregnant.

My MiL makes me a stocking every Xmas and one of the things she puts in it every Xmas is a pack of 5 knickers 3 sizes too small. I thank her politely and give them to my sister.

Anti-wrinkle cream and support tights! From an adult student of mine...

From a sibling for my 21st, a keyring with a plastic football boot. I don’t like football and it was clearly a couple of quid from the petrol station. They’re much better at presents now!

A pair of slippers last Xmas. I wanted eyore ones and granted he got me the exact ones I wanted over the moon until I realised they were 2 sizes to small. Several days later in all fairness he tried to swap but they were no longer in stock then he got a genius idea cut the fronts off and make them open toe slippers...As he walked into the living room with these now chopped up slippers saying at least I could wear them well let's say my throw was poor :(

All Christmas gifts. A box of PG Tips tea bags from my SIL. She gave my ten year dd a boxed pair of French cami knickers one year. We no longer exchange gifts, it’s better that way.
Had some weird and wonderful gifts from late PILS’: They loved going round markets, both here and abroad, they liked these cheap boxes of chocolates from some Eastern European country, each flavour tasted the same with a hing of engine oil thrown in. One year I was given a stained second hand cardigan three sizes too big. This was the only gift I returned to them. The following week they came back with a replacement gift. Two boxes of the aforementioned chocolates
I miss their crap gifts, they were never malicious, they just didn’t like spending money…re-used wrapping paper and gift tags made from cut up Christmas cards.

My gran bought me a wallet once that had had someone else's guilded initials scratched off - you could clearly see the scratching along withe the silhouette of initials that were not mine!

Omg I'd love a candle snuffer!

A passport cover ad luggage label , gold with frayed edges. Had seen it in the £ shop and my daughter and I had laughed about it the previous summer. From a ‘friend’!

My last Christmas before ditching the do-do; he came home with a bag of Christmas present shopping for the DC's. Tipped it on the bed for me to see. Amongst the toys was a video set of Anne of Green Gables, obviously for me as I still have all the books and read them to the DC's. I thought, mistakenly, that he'd actually really thought what to give me for once. I usually got clothes in his mother's style and size which he then would give to MIL as no good for me. He goes away to work over Christmas, having wrapped all the gifts. Come Christmas morning I ask oldest DD if she had anything for me. No, nothing. So, as we are having second Christmas with in-laws when he gets home I assume he's saved my present for then. January comes, we go to in-laws. They bring pile of Christmas presents out. Youngest asks "which one's mine". MIL tells her none, all for them and him. I feel that sinking sadness that I always get when DC's see in-laws, that they can be so mean, especially as the presents they gave my DC'S to open on Christmas Day were what anyone would consider Christmas Tree gifts, so naturally I assumed (we all know that assumption leads to disappointment) they had kept DC'S presents for 2nd Christmas. Anyway, nothing for me either. In-laws make a huge show of presenting gifts to him and opening theirs from "us". MIL picks up gift, suspiciously video set shaped, opens it and says "what's this?". My heart sank to the bottom of my feet as he explains it's Anne of Green Gables etc. I asked MIL if I could borrow videos when she'd watched them, don't know why, because I knew the answer before I had got the words out; no, they were her videos. Did I get a Christmas present? Nothing at all. The Christmas present that never was.
The story has a happy ending. I am now married to a wonderful man who loves me as dearly as I love him.