to think this is a crap present?

[GildedWingsOfGrace]

Now I don't want to come across as ungrateful. My daughter had her 21st birthday a few months ago, my sister sent her a card and then asked how old she was - didn't realise that it was a special birthday.

Anyway today she gave her a present for that birthday - a padded coat hanger.

Just what every 21 year old wants.

Aibu to think that this a pretty crap present?

Send it back to your DSIS next year.
That'll learn her.
Really, though. that rubbish

Send it back to your DSIS next year.

Yes! Or give it to her for Christmas.

Yes you must regift it back to her for her Christmas present.

Yanbu.

Padded coat hangers are usually sold in pairs too, is she saving the other one for someone else's birthday?

I agree, regift it to her for christmas!

I got wrinkle cream for my 28th birthday from my dh. We are still together, I am in my late 30's now.

Y.N.B.U Unreasonable. What type of present is that.

Sorry but I'm almost L.M.F.A.O. I can just imagine your D.D's face on opening the present thinking W.T.F is that.

Okay we all know the old classic it's the thought that counts and yes of course no argument, but a coat hanger,(padded or not) come on what was she thinking of. xxx

I would have been quite grateful for a bumper book of Sudoku. Provided nobody had already done the puzzles, of course.

I was already to say YABU...but a padded coat hanger is indeed a shit present.

I was given one once...it's right up there with glass chopping board on my list of shit presents.

I got a game of carcasonne from dh a few years ago and I was . Never heard of it before, not into games, no idea why he bought it for me.

Turns out I was reading a magazine in our bathroom and had put it down, open, so I could finish it later. I'd obviously turned it over as I put it down and there was an article about carcasonne being a great game on the page that was left facing upwards. Dh thought I'd left it as a hint; I hadnt even registered the article let alone read it.

Bless him, he was so pleased that he'd managed to get this game I'd wanted as a surprise and then very disappointed when I opened it and had no clue what it was (I'd just assumed it was a game he wanted!) instead of being really thrilled that he'd been so clever and picked up my 'hint'

So many crap gifts!

One Christmas when I was 13 or 14 my aunt (dad's sister) gave me a pair of 'sexy' knickers, suspender belt and stockings. Think red, lacy borderline crotchless . Of course this being Christmas all gifts were opened in front of the family, mortified doesn't even cover how I felt. Poor dad looked horrified!

Aww, some people like them. My friend received a padded coathanger for her 21st birthday and gave me a dress to sell that was randomly hanging on it. She made a special point of asking for the hanger back

My dad, in approximately 1983, gave my mum a bathroom cabinet for Christmas.

She remains married to him. But has she let him forget it? No.

OH got a wardrobe from his parents for how 18th. Since then he also received wood stain and protective gloves, and another year he got paint rollers, dust mask and paint brushes. All useful stuff and it would have been used, except it was value range so we had loose bristles in the paint work....

My ex sil ( a mean bitch) gave my 14 year old dd a candle, not a scented candle. Just a plain ivory candle for Christmas. Probably from Poundland ir similar. I don't stoop so low and continue to give my niece and nephews decent presents.
My sil is a nutcase though.

Sparkling do you think your aunt goes commando on a Thursday?

My DD looked after her friend's 3 guinea pigs for a month, this meant feeding them fresh veg every night. They were put out every day onto our lawn and then put away in a hutch inside a shed each night for their safety. For all this trouble she got a pink (A colour she doesn't wear) t shirt/nightie, I thought this was a bit mean especially as her friend was on a cruise around America, not a cheap holiday. I would like to know what other people think.

I would look on this an opportunity to start returning the sentiment with useful gifts.
A bicycle pump
A bottle of Blue Nun
A picture of a stuffed cat perhaps

My ex gave me a kettle & a pair of novelty pig slippers for christmas one year.

Nob.

Don't think any one can beat mine. Had DS 10 days after my 22 DG hadn't seen me since before my birthday so turned up at the house 3 days after he was born. No problem so far but as she came in took the ds off me and handed me a carrier bag and said there's your birthday present. I am thinking to myself will be something cool as DG was still young ie under 60 but no I open the bag to find an unwrapped spool of fishing line. To make matters worse no one in the family boddy fish so god knows were she found it .

And I thought the loo seat I got from my husband for my 50th was a crap gift...

You actually got a loo seat for your 50th!

Oh come on! You have the beginning of a brilliant family tradition. Every birthday - padded hanger. Wedding day? Padded hanger. Birth of first child? Can you guess? All beautifully wrapped.

Jilly Cooper fans... Didn't Perdita receive padded coathangers one Christmas from a relative who didn't like her? In contrast to lovely presents bought for everyone else? It was a pointed insult.

DH's brother gave him a massive ceramic horse's head for his fortieth. We live in. Small 3 bed semi. This thing would look at home on the gatepost of a mansion.