Who gave you the worst present yesterday?

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My DM wins the award from me. She always gets me awful things that I don't want. The problem is that she thinks she knows me, but she really doesn't any more. My tastes are nothing like hers. She loves ornaments and goes to the market every week and picks up second-hand tat that she thinks is a bargain. It isn't, because no one wants it!

Yesterday I received book I've already read, a hideous jug that's going straight to the charity shop, and a cheap, sugary version of the chocolate that she knows I like (but is too cheap to buy the real thing).

Honestly, I just wish she wouldn't bother. I have a wish list on Amazon if she wanted to get me a book and I'd have much rather had one book that I actually want to read than all the shit she gives me.

/ungrateful rant over

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I seem to remember some lucky mnetter getting a ball of string one year.

Mind you, a ball of string can come in handy so maybe the benchmark of "worse than a ball of string" isn't that high a bar.

No...not at all, you only have to comment on a toy or a board game someone might be playing in a pub or you see on the tv and she puts it in the amazon basket ready for xmas. I have to pretend to be excited and happy about the gifts. I keep bees and suddenly an entire dinner service and tea set arrived with a bee design..!!

My one and only present this year was an electric drill from my husband of 26 years. I don’t think I can get over this one and I do tend to forgive a lot.

Socks and foot cream and a hideous Christmas ornaments that are going straight to a charity shop.

I can beat that a 99p box of danish biscuits between four of us .

DH got me some awful stuff this year, 2 Eddie Stoddart collectable plates and a Maggie Thatcher biography!

But thats what we do, charity shop shit. A tenner to try and get the worst shit from a charity shop, I got him a Mrs Brown's boys DVD and a misogynistic adults annual from the 1980's.

Worst case scenario its £20 donated to charity, best outcome is us having a laugh and clearing some awful stuff out acgarity shop. Sometimes it get banned, but mostly gets donated back to a different charity shop

You're so mean to your poor Mum!

Ferrero Rocher have shot up in price so it's not a cheap gift anymore, can you save it till you are at your Ideal weight then have an occasional one as a treat?

The point is, if you are on a weight reduction drug you generally don't have the self control just to have one or two, it's totally inconsiderate of people to have bought you chocolate if they knew

Sometimes the present isnt something material, my worst present was a family members bad attitude.

Me too! I’ve not drunk alcohol for over 40 years due to reaction of severe migraine. All of my family and extended family know this. I still get bottles of wine - apparently wine “ should be ok for you”

I wonder if he thought the sizing referred to your age like it does with kids?! 😂

My worst present was a Cath Kidston bag from a friend which is new, but clearly regifted, as not only have all their shops shut (the Next ranges don’t do these specific items any more), but the pattern was from a range I know was from several years ago. I don’t mind at all as it’s still a nice bag, but I probably won’t use it as it’s not quite my style - I may pass it on to my mum instead.

I’ve managed over the last few years to massively reduce the likelihood of getting redundant presents at Christmas: every year I now tell MIL just to get me a token gift of some specific inexpensive chocolates that I like; my mum and dad generally do cash or ask us what we want; my sisters and I buy for each others’ kids and just swap token edible presents of fizz/wine/M&S biscuits for the adults, which we are all very happy with. I tacitly let DP know what I would like and he does the same for me and then we get a couple of little extras as a surprise (books/CDs/chocolate). Even for the kids’ presents my siblings and I normally check with each other what the kids would like so they aren’t disappointed.

This seems to have worked really well, and I much prefer just getting a few token things for myself that I like, to exchanging anything more elaborate. Then we all enjoy Christmas a lot more! I used to really hate ending up with presents that would go straight to the charity shop (MIL has very dubious taste, and bought me some real corkers before we came to our “Ferrero Rocher arrangement” — one specific year when I got a reusable shopping bag with a cartoon whale on it and some nylon car seat covers springs to mind 🤣)

My FIL bought me a tiny notepad, smaller than a mobile phone to write lists in🤷

My mil got me what I expect was a very expensive set from Molton Brown, in a fragrance I don't like and I'm allergic to the body crème. Dd2 has agreed she'll use it.

The ILs gave us a hamper of mostly expired Lidl food, all very random but the piece de resistance was the box of spicy fish risotto - we're vegetarians with IBS. They've been doing this for 10 years, at this point it's just amusing.

DH bought me a notebook that has
“all the things I was right about” on the front
😂 I love it .

My MIL, may she RIP, wrapped the free gift from responding to Readers Digest offers. Think set of 2 teeny blue towels. I know this is a thread of what you received this year but due to the sands of time, these unwarranted gifts will no longer be a feature once they have passed. And also my uncle, RIP, for the rape alarm!