What is the worst present you have ever got?

[SteveAs]

Of all time

I once got a kinder bueno , which had melted by the time I opened it.

A pebble. Just an ordinary, pebble-shaped brownish pebble. From a school friend who had been on holiday, and said brightly “it looked really pretty in the sea!” We were eighteen, not eight.

A Christmas turkey, not only did I have to prepare and cook it I then had to share it with 11 other people. Thanks Mil :).

Who gives a present to share with 11 people I ask?

Beats electric heater from the year before, that we had no need or want for. "Just incase it comes in handy", she said (again Mil). it didn't and it hasn't in 10 years.

A pen...for my 30th. I don’t work in an office or anything, I’m a stay at home mum so hardly ever write. Lost it straight away like every other pen in this house!!

a pair of ceramic ashtrays in a very second hand box, bad enough, but helping out on a stall at a charity event a couple of months before and i saw her buy these and heard her say to her friend those will do for someone

A yellow budgie (and cage)

Some coffee filters from ex MIL. I didn't own a perculator, she knew that.

A sample bottle of a shit perfume that was being given out for free as part of a promotion in Boots from current MIL.

I have never been a loved DIL

A budgie!

A giant pewter vase shaped like a squid( I kid you not) following year a plastic squid ( from DH) because I like HP lovecraft 😕

From a secret santa, a 'Build Your Own Medieval Trebuchet' kit, complete with clay to make pretend rocks.

When all around me were getting Eve Lom lip balms and little bags from MAC, the not so secret santa was bemused as to why I wasn't thrilled.

fenniegan i would have actually loved that. I Think it's really sweet that she was admiring a simple beautifull sight and thought if you to five it to.

I would have been thrilled with a build-your-own-trebuchet to be fair....

Knitted leg warmers were my worst from MIL a couple of years ago- and she normally gets pretty good presents.

I also kind i6f want the fake bread with random stuff on... It's the gift that keeps on giving.

A sack of wool in all the colours under the sun and a box full of Clover crochet hooks in all sizes ... no wait, that would be a shit hot present
Shadow can I have your pen if you find it?

Anti snoring mouth guard thing, looked like some medieval torture device that keeps your mouth open from My DP. Was not happy.

MIL asked DH what he thought I would like and he told her the exact thing... she bought SIL the exact thing I wanted, gave me the men's version of it and said if I didn't like it I could give it to DH .

But the weirdest has to be perfume, again from MIL. She bought me and her identical bottles "so we could smell the same" .

My ex bought me two soft toy dogs which barked if you shook them. I was 38 🙄 His kids adopted them. The dogs themselves were quite cute but the lack of thought...

He followed it up the following year with a DustBuster and an electric screwdriver set. We didn’t make it to my fortieth

A pair of MILs worn sandals and they were a size too small

From Grandparents. One of those bubble egg timers where the coloured oil drips through the water. I think I was 10.
My sister got a ridiculous present off them a few years ago. A plastic key ring in the shape of an owl. I have no clue why as she doesn't have a thing for owls and she's in her late 20's not a child.

A water colour paint set and some sort of upmarket painting-by-numbers book from DH. I failed O Level Art, I have never shown any interest in painting and it sort of reinforced the fact that we were going through a bad patch and he wasn't really giving a fuck. Things have dramatically improved since - that was years ago - but that bloody painting set still feels a bit like a giant "I don't give a toss" sign.

A waste paper basket from my first MIL for my first married Christmas because "you're a bit messy, dear". I was divorced before the next Christmas, oddly enough.

A charity donation of a goat sent to poor people in Africa.

I have no objection at all to the needy receiving a goat, but with this present the smug implication was 'we've given to charity on your behalf because you don't give to charity yourselves'.

(We do, we just don't advertise the fact)

From my aunt and uncle- A birthday book, so I could write down everyone’s birthdays and send cards on time in future....I lived abroad in a country that didn’t really have much of a tradition of birthday cards let alone a reliable postal service, not that there were shops and post offices near me and my only day off was a Sunday...

Am going to google Build Your Own Mediaeval Trebuchet' kit, I think DP might like it....

Cheap (from the sales), too small, Primark PJ's.

Hassled Don't tell me you've still got it? Get rid!