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

When my friend was heavily pregnant with my child (biologically hers and my dh’s - straight surrogacy not an affair 😂) he came home with gifts for us.
She got a really pretty fancy set of glasses.
I got a stainless steel fish slice

I was FUMMING 😂

Anyway. Roll on 20 years and yes we still have the fish slice (and the DD) and she has been through many many sets of glasss

I’m sure there’s a moral in that story somewhere deep deep down

QOD

You should do an AMA!

(About the surrogacy, not the fish slice)

A packet of dried pineapple chunks, wrapped, for Christmas, from a boyfriend. He's now an ex. He lacked generosity in many, many ways. Wrapped pineapple chunks say a lot about the quality of that relationship.

Though compared to some things on here I feel like I should be grateful. I'm not allergic and they were a handy snack.

My MIL gave me a size 16-18 belt back when I was a size 8-10!

Another year she gave everyone else nice clothes from Debenhams and I got a pair of 36inch length brown checkered trousers from Primark. I am barely 5 foot with short legs! So much thought went into those gifts!

DC1 was born on the Tuesday after the Easter weekend by planned induction. The day after (Wed) was my birthday. DH knew it was my birthday then, because we had been wondering if DC1 would be born on my birthday.

So I was still in hospital (you stayed 5 days for a first birth back then) and DH arrived all "Happy birthday April. Here's your present, I got it cheap in the hospital shop, that's great isn't it?" It was an Easter egg!

PS My birthday is the same day every year.

One of those seasonal gift boxes of lush products from MIL.

What's wrong with this, you ask?

Well she ran a charity shop and it was given to the shop as a donation. She kept and regifted to me. The bath bombs inside was literally mouldy and turned green. They smelled foul. I went mad at DH and told him to tell her no more gifts! Everything comes from the charity shop and is either used and battered or fake tat she cant sell ( ive had a fake LV purse, fake uggs 2 sizes too big and a fake mulberry bag) shes a nightmare, thing is we tell her every year no gifts for us as she is always skint! Its not just me. She give dh 2nd hand clothes from the shop 3 sizes too big and ripped etc. we ALWAYS get her something really good as well.

A bar of fucking toblerone.

That's a great present.

Love these posts. Fabulous! I'm saving ideas for next Christmas!

I once left a job and was presented with some miniature decorative shoes. So not me. I'm not an ornament person, not a fancy shoe person, I cannot remember how I kept a straight face to thank my boss when she presented them. She was a cow and a bully and I was happy to be leaving - the ugly shoes went off to the charity shop.
Just checked on eBay and the stupid things thankfully have not become valuable in the past 20 years!

A toilet seat and a set of taps for my birthday one year. He made up for the shitty presents with a new car the following year

Should've said that was my DH who still remains my DH to this day!

Fire lighters
Litre of listerine

These are not a joke

A set of used stationary cards/notelets with watercolour paintings of lavender on the front of them. Presented in its torn and tattered box. Given for my 19th birthday by my grandma. She wasn't senile or anything, just not very good with female adult presents.

For my 40th my SIL got me clothes for my DS. My DS’s birthday was a month later so she could have waited until then. Pissed me off.

A pair of pink pillowcases in a very tatty box, from distant relations of my SIL, who I'd been obliged to invite to my wedding reception. My DM who apparently watched them closely all evening said they'd drunk their own weight in free booze.

Still makes me smile when I remember my mother's outrage.

Ooh mipmipmip I did not know that about Grease ! Although I remember they were going to show it ad our end of term film but then teachers watched it and decided it was inappropriate- perhaps they got the cling film reference

A piece of coal that was a "paperweight" from FIL.

Twat.

A milestone birthday so feeling a little hopeful. Parcel from Holland arrived in the post. MIL with me at the time. Commented that it may be some nice tulip bulbs.
DH gave me the box. No bulbs. He’d got me a butt plug

4 wine glasses, in a box, that was covered in dust from FIL.

Twat.

Thankfully it wasn’t opened in front of her.

A tyre pressure monitor

It was a wedding present

I mean shish people didn't have to buy from the moderately priced and very inclusive list (which did not include a tyre pressure monitor)

But still who wants their wedding day celebrations commemorated by a tyre pressure monitor

This was a present from a journalist btw. Finger on the pulse of his audience right there.

@DonutCone I am 50 and I would use a stamp with my name on it!

(Off to look it up...)

A “Dentist” game with no teeth 😡

Plastic naked second hand Barbie. I had begged for one aged 8. I was 12 that year.

Surprised looking wooden cat looking at its own bum. The dogs somehow managed to chew it. Who knows how??

Recurring theme from my mum: massive cheap plastic jewellery from whatever holiday she’s been on. I don’t wear jewellery bar a watch and my wedding ring.

Dh bought me a second hand stained Yoda backpack to make me easily identifiable on school trips. If my students missed me, they’d have to be blind, I’m ginger and nearly six feet!

Ex MIL once got me a packet of straws and a pair of used driving gloves that I had seen her wear before. I didn't even drive at the time.