to start a random/unsuitable/shit xmas present thread

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Please share your absolute shockers here!

A very bizarre ornament. Not sure what it is or what it represents. Usually this gift giver is amazing at picking things. Not so much this year. Looks a bit like a caterpillar on a mushroom.....

Two cans of Carling in a carrier bag from MIL. Still laughing about it now. She also gave the priceless gifts of rudeness, racism and homophobia interspersed with allusions to The Queen's ailing health.
So glad her front tooth dropped out on Christmas Eve... MIL not Her Maj.

My ex aunt gave me a fur collar that I assumed you put on when you felt your collar of your top was not furry enough.

I put it on mostly for a laugh and it give me a rash.

That's they only downside of my uncle divorcing her - the loss of the hilarious gifts.

And no I don't care if I come across as rude - they were all shit gifts chosen with no thought.

Benefit copy make up from eBay via china
A bottle of hair shine spray that has been opened and used and is a brand I've never heard of

I got 24 pegs from my mum, sister got bottle of conditioner.

DVD box set of Game of Thrones when I don't have a DVD player, and hate violence (gifter knows this!), gelatine filled sweets (am a veggie), and a necklace with a silver 'K' on- don't have a 'K' in my name! Oh, and randomly a travel guide to Romania- a well-read edition from 2002! Erm, thanks??!

Pyjamas from next which are usually nice. These had a huge plastic fox on the front that smelt strongly of plastic and rustled when worn. Leggings bottom half made for a twiglet dwarf. Bought by DH and even he said they were truly horrendous. How Next has fallen.

Hideous ornament of faceless figures doing some kind of weird high fiving which my grandkids practised emulating whilst laughing at the present giver. Cruel.

Yes, ungrateful and unkind.

2 lovely size 12 tops from mil, I'm a 16 - she doesn't like to buy me things in a 16 in case it offends me

Wtf???? Thats so funny.

How very unkind about the baby memory box

My notoriously bad present buying auntie got me and my husband an outdoor railway style clock and thermometer for our newly landscaped garden....I don't think that'll be getting hung!

A hideous blouse from Evans (I have never shopped there in my life), bought in the sale as the price was still on and to top it all it was a size 22 and I'm a size 16

I have only got good ones so far... This might change once we go see DPs family. It is usually combo of straight to bin/charity shop and really lovely gifts.

Where do I start..

A vase from dh to go with the other 3 hes bought - but he never buys me flowers
A harry potter colouring book from my dd
Wine glasses from mil - I'm tee totel
A sunset photo that my mum's friend took on her phone and my mum has printed it out and framed it ( in one of those 10 x 8 clip frame things)

I was once given a set of plastic kitchen utensils from my cousin. I had seen them months before in the stuff they had been saving up before moving home. I was quite offended that they thought I'd like them.

faux diamond and silver crucifix from ex MIL with the £3:50 charity shop tag still on

Only one person buys me a gift, we have a set budget. He asked what I wanted, I asked for eggs (not really eggs but way too identifiable if I say what I asked for). I got one small egg, a mug and a tea cosy (again, identities changed to protect the innocent 😂).

I spent yesterday sulking like a five year old, I WANTED EGGS!!!!!!!

My ds got a "where's Santa? Book (knockoff where's wally), lovely book but problem is he's only 2.5yrs old.

Pheebs

I once got given a doorstop in the form of a fairy , but it looked more like a gremlin . . Horrible.

Only bad present I got was from my own body... a bloody ranging water infection

My nan got dd (3) a paw patrol look out tower. Fabulous!!!

But apparently that wasn't enough so had to buy her a plastic play kitchen too.

That cheap that it falls apart every time you look at it...

I got a watch from my inlaws which can't be made small enough for my tiny wrist. It came with earrings and I can't return it because DD ripped the seal on the packet they came in. I'm not bothered about the watch as such as it wasn't to my taste anyway but seems like such a waste of money.

I got a voucher for a shop I have never shopped in and DH knows I hate and it wouldn't even pay for 1/8th of anything in there! Think I was more disappointed as DH went on and on about the amazing present he got me when actually it was a thoughtless voucher and proves he doesn't actually know me or give a tiny little rats arae about my feeling- rant over!

My FIL has form for baffling presents. Dh once got a book on the Toilets of Cornwall and, aged about 9, ds3 received a book of funny cat cartoons, called Cornish Cats, a book on Cornish cheeses, and a third book - the History of the Cornish Pasty. Just what every 9-year-old wants.

This year dh got a lovely poster of a vintage travel poster, and I got a set of Paddington Bear finger puppets, with two back drops and stickers to stick on - in a tiny box (stocking filler size). When we rang dh's brother to wish him and his gf and family a happy Christmas, we asked if they'd had any odd gifts - and it turns out BIL's gf had been given exactly the same Paddington Bear finger puppets. He was trying to be wacky!

Usually FIL's lady friend helps him choose presents (she is very good at it, and I get lovely Celtic earrings), but this year he went out unsupervised, and went hilariously off-piste.

If anyone has a small child who would appreciate some Paddington Bear finger puppets, I will pop them in the post.

I got two dressings gowns.

From the same person :o

DP and DD2 went shopping together and apparently it took them HOURS to choose the right dressing gown and then they chose PJ's for me as well. Unfortunately the PJ's were in fact another dressing gown.

I am delighted. They are both a bit mortified but honestly, it really doesn't matter.

Here's ds aged 17 next to me, 50, wearing our matching fleece and gilet combo. Dh has been given the same fleece in green.

All from MIL.
Dh works outside so his is useful, ds and I will only wear ours for comedy value.

I got 150 off my parents this year and told to treat myself to a spa day. Was shocked and delighted, happy days right???

On the phone to my mum this morning and she is banging on about how broke she is and is there any chance i can give her loan till the new year? The amount 150 pound. Oh and not to tell my dad.

She has form for "borrowing" till a date which never materalises. There was 1 year she owed my 350 quid (which she had borrowed for an emergency out of my just about to have a baby savings). Her birthday rolled around and she decided to buy herself a new phone as her present from me instead of paying me back the money she owed me.

Typing that out just now made me realise i should have expect the "loan" request ffs.