Worst presents (lighthearted)

[TheMonkeyMummy]

Up until recently, I thought the worst gift my kids had ever received was a (beautifully decorated) recorder.

Until DD received this electric drum set a few weeks ago.

The mum who gifted it isn't exactly my biggest fan (well played!) but our daughters are besties at school, so I can't really moan or make jokes about it IRL.

But it's just so bloody annoying! And noisy! And the kids (esp the 3 year old) love it!

What's the best gift your kids have ever received that you have hated?

I've got one that sounds dodgy to anyone else but I was really quite pleased with.
For christmas one year, DH gave me a meat cleaver. All wrapped up and in my stocking! I love cooking and had been dithering about buying one so he surprised me.
But the reaction he got while he was buying it was funny... he'd mentioned it was for a gift for his wife and the sales lad looked at him like 'what does she want a meat cleaver for?'

DH - To cleave meat...?

I know someone who got grapes for Christmas once. Her brother got sprouts.

My Aunt bought a robot dog thing for my DD. It has the loudest, most annoying tune which is constant til you switch it off. Thanks!!!!

My DH once bought me a Pepto Bismol pink Playboy handbag complete with diamanté rabbit fastening. Went with absolutely nothing I own or ever have owned.

A toiletries set in a scent designed to appeal to the more mature lady (I was a teenager), with the tombola ticket still stuck on 🤦‍♀️

If it was wrapped in tin foil (Smithy style) that would be the best gift ever!

Sadly no, just normal Christmas paper. Bless him. He genuinely thought it was a good present.

My grandma bought my boys a peppa Pig 2014 journal for Christmas (2017) and when we opened it, it has already been filled out by a little girl named Sophie.
Took it back to the shop and they didn't even sell them - she had purchased an old book that another child must have taken shopping with them and lost

My brother once bought me two lightbulbs, each one stuck in one end of a tube from a toilet roll. He says it was because I had move down into a new home and I might need them which was quite logical.

Another one that made me go WTF was a huge ass bow & arrow thing for DD. She was 5....it was clearly lethal 🙈

My mum, who was desperate to become a grandmother, bought me a maternity dress one Christmas. She claims it was an accident but who knows!

Not a gift, but the worst ‘thing’ ever received was for DS’s first birthday, from my cousin.

Context: cousin has 4 young adult children aged 18-22, who I have diligently bought birthday and Christmas presents for every year since birth. One of them now has 2 children herself, for which I have attended baby showers and birthday parties also.

So- cousin didn’t RSVP, turned up with his entire family. They ignored DH, DS and I, and gave DS a pink ‘old lady’ card which said “hope it’s the best birthday yet!” on the front. It was his FIRST birthday. He had nothing to compare it to.

I really would’ve rather had no card at all than such a thoughtless, ‘back of the card drawer’ crap. There was a card shop opposite the party venue so they have no excuse. They didn’t acknowledge him at Christmas either.

Worst actual present that DS loves is a farm animal puzzle that makes sinister animal noises throughout the night for no reason, and doesn’t have an off switch 😂

When my kids were young they each received a Christmas gift from my sil - for the very first time since they were born - ds (9) got a scratched, and obviously very well played with, matchbox car. DD (6) received a cupcake cookery book, which contained writing on the inside cover, "Happy Birthday Laura. Love from Fran". Laura is dh's nieces name. Sister in law doesn't have a son so no idea where the car came from .....charity shop maybe 🤷‍♀️

My dm bought me an aluminium ladder when I was 6 months pregnant.
The most infamous one (I think Ive said before) was in the 80s. We Dh had got a Sinclair spectrum. I got up to a big pile of gifts. Whoo hoo! First one-computer game. I'm not a gamer, but one-ok.Second third and fourth too. ☹️ Then a record that I wanted. Good. Last one. Vegetarian cook book. We weren't veggie. He took a long time to live that down.

For my 40th my Mum gave me some Olay lotion specifically for ageing skin and a pack of 5 lacy thongs in a size 12. If I had sewn them all together they might just have made one ordinary size pair of knickers

My then 4 year old was given Mike The Mower: a burping, farting toy lawnmower with a New York accent. We didn't have s garden.

My grandma made me a Dusty Bin out of fuzzy felt when I was 12. (No-one under 45 will know what this is I realise).

A distant ex once bought me a miniature of cognac that he’d had a swig out of and a dictionary so he could do the crossword when he visited...

New mil bought me a necklace for Christmas that cost £2.75 off a tat site in ebay.
Same year I had ds and she got him a rocking horse off free cycle that had mange and alopecia.
To the tip it went.
I felt such guilt - to the poor horse.

I was gifted used make up by a grandparents once.

Ds was gifted a very old toy bus, probably purchased at a car boot sale.

Presents for me; I've had quite a few of those enormous wine glasses with glitter, a "humourous" phrase, or my age written on them. I bloody hate them. Too big to use, don't fit in cupboards and are just tacky as hell. Waste of money. Just give me wine of you can't think of anything else.

Quack quack ducks, drove me nuts - but then I have bought my share of gifts with no off switch the worst ones though are the shed loads of make up I get - I don't wear make up, and always feel bad about donating them to the various tombola school fundraisers (they are beautiful sets). They always smack a little bit of we haven't got a clue what to buy you!

I don't wear a watch, haven't in decades, so inevitably ever year I always get a watch of at least one member of family - my guilt is the stash of watches in my drawer - never worn .

Not a kids present but DH and I once got given a joint present of a charity donation to Christian Aid, we’re both atheists.

My DD was given a used toy from a well known tv show as a present. I wouldn’t have minded but it was broken and the sharp plastic was a choking hazard (she was 18 months at the time)

My grandma made me a Dusty Bin out of fuzzy felt when I was 12. (No-one under 45 will know what this is I realise).

I know what it is and I'm under 45. Admittedly I'm 44...

@Goinglopsy I'll take your Quavk Quack Ducks off your hands...this is my severely disabled DS favourite toy!!!

Half eaten sweets from MIL one Christmas. She’d been given a gift set of glass jars filled with sweets by a work supplier, had opened them in the office for staff to help themselves over the festive period. When near Christmas they hadn’t been finished & she couldn’t give them away she put the kids on & re boxed them to gift to me. How do I know all this, she told me her plan when I’d dropped her Christmas do outfit off at her work & she’d offered me some sweets. She didn’t bat an eyelid when I opened them either!