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.

Thermals.... bottoms in a size 18 and top in a size 10. Wtf what shape does she think I am??? I'm a size 12 at most. From the mil.

She also gave me a football scarf...i hate football, some free toiletries from a hotel and a sick bag from a plane

2 mr men books and 2 bras in different sizes (neither fitted) off an ex.

The sick bag from the plane made me laugh! Has she out the other things inside it?!

One green candle from Dh’s aunt. He got a sword!

Shampoo and conditioner from dh for my birthday, because I liked the hotel’s little bottles on a recent break away.
Shampoo is not a birthday present! Altho I was pleased he had remembered I liked it!

I was once given a second hand rape alarm for Valentines Day. I was about 21 and it was given to me by a man in his 50’s who worked in the shop opposite my office. He’d previously asked me to put lotion on his back and constantly tried to get me to go to his house. It was wrapped in wrapping paper with hearts on, so creepy!

My 18th, living away from home. Mum asked what I'd like and given I was setting up my own household pretty much anything would be well received. Predicted a cheque for a couple quid. Joked anything except a cuddly toy.

Get slip from sorting office as a parcel needed collecting. Had to take 2 hours off work and then pay bus fare to get home with this huge box - I was skint partly from paying mum's gas bill.

Turns out to be a very lovely, very expensive, large cuddly animal. Really lovely and totally useless and I had to pay mum's next gas bill too. And the guilt tripping meant I hung onto it for 20 years until some vital charity begged for quality donations to raffle. Actually, I might have lied about that.

MIL is bonkers with bargain presents but a lovely generous person. Her favourite trick is to put £20 in the pocket of a repulsive item from a charity shop 'as no-one else was going to buy it'. There's almost logic there...

My friend gave his girlfriend "the gift of not smoking"....just a bit of paper with that written on it.
They're not together now.

It was an empty sick bag from a plane she'd been on months before. She hadn't used it to store the free toiletries as they were given seperatly. All wrapped up individually with a mile of cellotape round each one..... seriously, Xmas that year took for ever. She even wrapped up the free sewing kit and matches!

snowbear66 Which was the smoker? Your friend? He was giving up for her?

A foot pump.
For Christmas.

Terry's chocolate orange, something he knows I detest, from OH for my 50th birthday.
As poverty stricken students, from the OH again, the Robert Carrier Cookery cards, I'd never even heard of half the ingredients.

A bath mat as a wedding present. 🤨

A cellulite massage mit

A dustbin,gift wrapped with posh turkey flavoured food for the cats inside.This was my first Christmas present from exh.When I asked why a dustbin he said because I didn't have one.with a few exceptions he never really got the hang of not buying practical presents.

My EXMIL once gave me one of the free calendars you get from a Chinese take away along with some oven gloves and a couple of tea towels. They were so odd at the time I found this quite normal!!!!

This sounds like something my mother would give me or my SIL

She is a WW2 baby and hates any waste, loves recycling and regifting.
But tbf she also wouldn't care one jot if she was given a similarly 'shit' present. DM feels uncomfortable if anything over around £20 is spent on her and sees no use for expensive perfume, flowers, lingerie,make up, accessories, etc. She would genuinely be thrilled if you regifted something to her, or have her something you had received free as a sample or in a hotel. So long as she felt you had put some thought in to it, that the item was something she could use or would like. And the fact it had cost little would also please her as she dislikes consumerism and unnecessary spending.

A 'Dance with the Teletubbies' video from my Stepsister. I was 27.

Not the worst gift ever, but the most recently puzzling ones from my MIL.

She just sent my daughter 14 freebie calendars in her birthday box. The kind you get from a charity. Some were the same calendar. No explanation.

Then this week she sent a care package for all of us to cheer us up after a few weeks from hell. It included mostly chocolates - and in particular, the box of $40 chocolates my daughter and I had picked out super carefully for my father in law at a local market in our city, and each one in the box was varied coffee flavours because they are his favourites. I was a bit offended at this as we put a lot of thought into that gift and it was expensive as part of his coffee and Father Ted themed xmas hamper. So I asked them why they didn't want them - was he on a diet? They claimed these were a totally different box of chocolates they ordered for us. I went along with it, but how strange that they were able to order from a non online retailer in our city 6 hours away and happened to pick just the same 4 flavours we had :D

Can't complain though, they were delicious, and next day they rang my husband to apologise for regifting our chocs back to us.

Mine was from my mother, quite a few years ago for my 30th. It was a really cheap imitation impulse body spray, but she spoiled it further by pulling 2 more from her bag announcing 'they were only 59p for 3' . Thanks mum!!

@shadow and I would be so happy with a pen. My son bought me a lovely pen one Christmas and I got so giddy!

a lilac ‘leather’ fur trimmed jacket from ex-mil. i have never worn pastel colours in my life and the ‘fur’ trim was ginormous.

One Christmas, my SIL gave me a handbag and a cookbook. The handbag was stained and torn, with used tissues in it. Many of the pages of the cookbook were stuck together or couldn't be read due to food/oil/crud stains.

I politely thanked her, and she then proceeded to tell me that she had seen an old man putting things out by the footpath, had stopped and talked to him, and ended up getting a few things for me from the pile. His wife had died, he was throwing everything of hers out because they hated each other.

I once got a Mr men tickle book from a date.... was the first time id met him or talked to.

It was kind of funny and if it wasn't for the fact he sucked my face of when we kissed id have given him another shot.

The free gift my MIL got from buying some Clinique things for herself. But she had taken the best bits out. Unwrapped and kind of chucked near me.

A huge brown plastic desk organiser with gilt accents from Iran.

My two worst gifts are pretty similar.

One year from my secret Santa I got a little wooden sign with some trite message about me liking pink. It had a terrible scrap of chintzy material tided to the mettle hook. My husband had to throw it out as all Christmas every time I saw it I go annoyed someone had spent £10 on it.

Second was another sign from my mil, before she gave it to me she prefaced it by saying she hoped I wasn't offended. It said 'sorry the house is a mess, we are to busy having a life'

I wouldn't ordinarily find this to offensive but just weeks before she was telling me how she had been round her friends DD house and you wouldn't know they had kids as the house is so tidy and of course her DD flat is spotless (no kids and her DH is s clean freak) and finished off by saying 'and then you come here....' had this look on her face, shrugged her shoulders and gestured around. I had been offended at the time but when she gave me that bloody tin sign I was furious 😡

1001 uses for vinegar book from mil- no I haven't read it!

Secret Santa at work with a £5 budget. I got some plastic jewelry from poundland. I don't even wear jewelry. I opened it, threw it straight in the bin and carried on working. I know who got it for me and we don't like eachother. I think I'll skip ss this year.