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

A heavy industrial weight petrol strimmer - that I couldn’t even lift out of the box...

This is the funniest thread ever! Why oh why do people think these gifts are ok to give to someone?! I’d be mortified giving someone such a load of tat

@Horrordoeurvres Your story is hilarious! Bless her thinking she got herself a bargain!

Breville sandwich toaster, first birthday with DH. But you like toasties.......

For my birthday dbil gave me an outfit for my ds! Worst thing is dh was with him when he bought it and ok'ed the purchase! We've had words ready for Xmas

A colleague at work bought me a bottle of champagne when I was pregnant!

My granny got me a miniature wooden hammer (thumb sized) and a crochet pattern for a Doiley. I can’t crochet, no clue what the hammer was for.

My MIL got me a lovely birthday present this year, but my birthday card was a deepest sympathy. She read the poem on the front about always being there, and thought it was a lovely sentiment, but didn’t know what deepest sympathy means.

£10 in a card for my 30th birthday from my dm! She isn't hard up either. I would rather she'd spent that on some kind of nick nack even, than such a thoughtless thing for a sort of special birthday.

One of my grans likes to send me obscure amounts by cheque for my birthday. I’ve had things like £9.23 or £13.67 before. Don’t know why she doesn’t just round the figure down (she’s not hard up either)

I used to work in a bank and and I ended up befriending an old man.

Every Tuesday he would turn up and take me out to lunch. I felt guilty if I didn't go. He also kept our Tuesday lunches a secret from his wife.

One day it was my birthday and he hadn't realised until i commented. He fished out of his shopping some disposable razor blades and said "Happy Birthday".

I think I gave a bad gift
When I had been with my DH two years or so, we were at PILs in November and MIL kept going on and on and on about how much she'd always wanted a Le Creuset oven to table large dish. She said it multiple times, to me and DH. So I took this as a hint and bought her a lovely one for Christmas a month later - much more than we intended to spend.
Her face when she opened it! Like a bulldog sucking a lemon. She huffed and pushed it away. Then proceeded to keep saying how awful it is when people buy a woman items for the kitchen and those same people would not buy a man such a gift. (In their case she is a very keen cook and FIL does not cook).
I obviously misunderstood and personally like gifts like that. Ever since she's got me gifts such as grim clothing in obviously wrong sizes.

My OH has always told me how much his mum loved cath Kidston. She does have one of their handbags used regularly. He has always bought her Cath kidston for Christmas, purses, cardigans, bags. Last year, he got her a gorgeous bag, and she huffed and said to him ‘son, I just really don’t like Cath kidston please don’t buy it me anymore’

Gardening gloves and baking trays. I hate cooking and gardening but apparently I should be doing both so DH has somewhere nice to sit and ear nice food.

Same person has also given me the same poetry book three years in a row

Fuck all and plenty of it on my 40th birthday from DP

Horrordoeurvres Laughed so much at your rabbit slipper gift!

Another one I remembered, my nana who I wouldn’t of dared say the word ‘period’ in front of. Sent me 4 boxes of Tampax wrapped up for Christmas, apparently she got them cheap save ( anyone remember there) was too embarrassed to ask if I used them so wrapped them up

kwick save

MipMipMip I must have missed the memo about it being decorative. I hated it.

I feel sorry for my sister though. She got this from our grandma a few years ago as a birthday present. We really don't know why. My sister has never said she has liked owls, and she wasn't a child, it was her 27th birthday. I'm just glad my grandma forgets to buy me anything for Christmas and birthdays.

Clothes which were new born size for my 6 month old!

Growing up my aunt bought my cousin and I a rape alarm each for Christmas. I don't think we were more than 13 at the time! She also bought us a tapestry kit bag each and bought us nighties one Christmas which she thought were teenage sizes, she got me a 16 and my cousin an 18. We were both tiny at the time 😂 strange to think the same aunt has really good taste in her own home

My BIL has form for shopping on Christmas Eve and getting everyone random stuff. This has included:

A gaming chair for someone who doesn't own a games console or games
A can crusher
A metal detector
Pound land fudge
A welly boot remover for someone who doesn't own wellies

It's like a surreal generation game conveyor belt every year. We quite look forward to it.

I don't understand his logic. Sometimes he spends lots of money, so he's not being mean, but it's like he's never met us before.

Friend who thinks herself the epitome of good taste gave me a birthday present in a bag from a very fancy gift shop. She said ‘I just know you’ll love it’. I was quite excited.

On my birthday I unwrapped a plaster jewellery box in the shape of a crown. Very obviously made from one of those craft kits you used to give children on rainy days in the school holidays. To top it off, it was painted - very badly - pink and purple. Like someone had given a colourblind chimp drugs and a brush.

Fake rip off perfume from pil I didn't realise it was fake til I tried to wear it and had an allergic reaction. They admitted them that they had bought it at a boot sale for a £5 instead of the usual £50 it is. In fairness the box was sealed and it looked like the real thing. I knew it was too good to be true I usually get a bar of Lindt chocolate and some kind of household stuff (tea towels and dusters) Obviously my house isn't clean enough for MIL queen of the passive aggression that she is 😂

In the night garden colouring art set for Christmas off my uncle when I was 14 years old !

Like seriously WTAF?!

I actually thought it was a joke as did my mum!...but it actually wasn't!

A pack of 3 pink hen do whistles for my BIRTHDAY!......off OH!

He forgot it was my birthday and was waiting on new bank card to arrive, he had £2 left in his pocket so he decided to pop into the pound shop!

I received a kitchen swing bin for Christmas one year from an exbf. He said he didn't know what to get me and knew I needed a new bin (I didn't) . He didn't even wrap it up, just stuck a bow on the lid. Same ex got me a cactus for valentines day.!! What goes through people's minds when they are gift buying?? Oooh a swing bin, she will love that, what woman wouldn't??? Crazy lol