What is the worst gift you have ever received?

[Frosty6611]

This is meant to be lighthearted.

What is the worst gift you ever received from someone? Mine was definitely a book about bicarbonate of soda from my grandma for Xmas one year

Chlamydia

Couldn’t even get a voucher for the refund

Thermal leggings

Every year

From my Nan

3 sizes too big

I don't ski, go walking or do anything involving extreme temperatures

An iron.

A wonderbra (36dd)
A book about how to give really good massages - I detest giving massages but apparently this was a really good present because DH loves getting massages. Any idea who that was from ( not DH)

I once got a pack of high waisted Bridget Jones style pants in a size XXL from my grandma too (I was a size 12 at the time)

4 mugs from an ex's mum
A house plant from a different ex

Hence why they're both exes 😂

My mum has a habit of buying "experience" type gifts. There is literally no stopping her. I explicitly told her one year I have no time or money to travel to anything so please don't get me an experience gift. She still did - said it sounded like I could do with some relaxation time. After we had our first DC I told her me and DH get no time together and we're exhausted so if we get a babysitter we really just want to sit and chat not abseil down a day scraper. Still didn't stop her. (We pretended to go and actually went to have a pizza).

Oh Shirley

For me it was my 19th birthday and the father of my (at the time) newborn forgot my birthday so nipped our and for me a bag of pick n mix and some wooden sculpture of two hands making a heart gesture 🤢

I don’t know why.

He left a few months later for someone he worked with!

A size 22 cardigan! I was a size 14!!! thanks mil.

Friends of my parents were renowned for giving cheap gifts - I remember one year they gave some fairly nice looking Jam and we thought "wow they've changed". When we opened it it was 1/3 eaten (They'd smoothed over the surface to make it less obvious though!).

Haha hopping green I could have a guess

Mine was a mushroom growing kit from ex PIL. We were early 20's, lived in a flat and not remotely green fingered

A cardboard box of cheap teatime biscuits from Aldi, from my mother in-law. For my birthday. They were just on their sell by date. She used to bulk buy them to entertain friends.
She didn't like me the feeling was mutual.

Hair bobbles when I had short hair

For "Christmas" my EX bought me some bags of coal cos I always used to light a fire that he sat in fro the of!!!! Guess I was on Santa's naughty list that year

A bath back scratcher type thing from my Aunt.

You know those bristle brushes?

I was 9

My MIL gives tea towels every Christmas. They are always awful but I think the ones showing different farmyard animals with a target overlaid on them have been the most impressive so far. I am vegetarian. She is not a woman known for her subtlety.

A pair of stockings to share with my sister - we were about 12/14 at the time! Batty next door neighbour who was known for being at the front of the queue in any jumble sale!

Had many a present we had given her regifted back to us or other neighbours the year later!

Massage oil from my ex so I could give him better massages.

Just remembered another one - an ex got me a football shirt for the team he supported even though he knew I despised football and would never wear it. Such a waste of money!

Food processor for my 30th from my now ex. Don't get me wrong, a food processor is handy but it's not a birthday present. It's a household item. Ended up cutting my hand open on the blade a few months later and needing surgery - not the food processors fault.

Opened half used floral perfume that smelt like air freshener (from a bargain basement) and probably sitting in said person’s (MIL) cupboard for quite some time after.

Cheap perfume from mil that smelt like toilet duck

A selection of random second hand children’s dvds (I was 21)

A cheap pair of pyjama featuring reindeer that even Pablo Picasso wouldn't have admitted to drawing.

Set of Morrisons basics tea towels for Christmas from MIL. Or the £5 gardening voucher- I hate gardening - from MIL. Or the burgundy cord anorak which was 2 sizes too small which MIL had bought for herself, worn, decided she didn't like it and gave it to me for Christmas. And asked me to model it in front of her neighbours. Plus the hundreds of cat themed ornaments - all from MIL. Sense a theme here. She's loaded btw and SIL and her DH and all her ex bfs, and my DH all get generous cheques or even ipads. Sometimes she doesn't even get me anything.