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

Oh, and ex Mil gave me some earrings she'd won in a raffle, that had clearly been worn 🤢

Significant wedding anniversary, DH and I have a bit of an in joke about frogs. My present was a large statue of a frog in a yoga lotus position. I can't begin to describe the level of tackiness. I burst out laughing assuming it was a joke and waited for my real present - that was it!

Fogment maybe it was a regional thing? They do go in phases and more so pre social media.

Toothpick

A smoke alarm as a Christmas present, we have three perfect working ones installed by the fire brigade) by my in laws.

When we were in our early twenties, my cousin confided in me that she had her clitoris pierced. Somehow I ended up telling my mum about it.
My mum, thinking it was such a funny thing to have had done, gave this cousin a single earring for her Christmas present. Cousin opened her gift in front of her DPs and wider family who were all intrigued why aunty had only sent her one earring.
Cousin totally knew why but was too embarrassed to tell! 😝

@QOD that is my favourite post!

@warpdrive sorry I got distracted by WHO PIERCES THAT?!

My ex’s sister came round on Christmas Eve to give him a 20p yellow sticker reduced ‘Christmas pie’. It wasn’t a joke present and they were such an incredibly tight family that he didn’t even find it weird. If she was skint she could’ve just given him a card but they were all well off. It made the annual yardleys lavender smelly sets I received as a child from my nan seem pale into insignificance in the ‘crap presents’ stakes.

Ah I remember one - my mum gave my then 14/15 year old sister membership to weightwatchers :(

Black fishnet stockings from my Great Aunt and Great Uncle. If that wasn't bad enough on its own, I was about 12 or 13 at the time.

The solitary present my exhusband ever gave me in our about four years together was a blender. Gee, thanks.

Also, my very well off mother gave me the cheapest possible digital alarm clock (like a 5€ thing from one of those bazaar-type shops) which never worked properly, and she actually took it back wice for "repair" (they no doubt just pulled another one out of the box from China). I never understood her in that respect. She also gave my sister, who has always, always been a dog person, all kinds of cat-related tat. I don't think she ever knew her daughters.

Oops, sorry, that wasn't very light-hearted!

My second husband is a genius for presents, happily.

I received a Richard & Judy Autobiography one Christmas from my sister-in-law.... I've NEVER expressed an interest in them to her, I've NEVER spoken about them to her, you get the idea.... No clue as to how she saw that in the shop and thought of me lol

SIL gave me a bar of soap and a cheap nylon thong in a bauble for Christmas years ago. Boyfriend (now husband) was mortified, me and my sister laughed like drains at it. She hates me just as much now!

A water purifier from my mum. Which would normally be a lovely gift but it was my 21st

Spent a birthday in a&e and was then admitted overnight. As if being diagnosed with a heart condition wasn't bad enough the next day dh handed me my present which was a bottle of gin.

I rarely drink and gin is not my tipple of choice. I might have made an exception for an "artisan" gin but not for bog standard off the shelf at the supermarket gin!!

Candy edible pants. From my boyfriend at the times mum. When I was 17. I wanted the ground to swallow me up opening them in front of his family. She thought it was hilarious!! Weirdo!

Used clogs. VERY used clogs.

5 bottles of flavoured vodka in one of those packs that you find at Christmas. I’m teatotal!

A snowboarding calendar from my brother.

I’m a skier!

I am extremely fussy about perfume as I find a lot of perfumes irritate my nose so I only wear one - and it is not marketed, Spellbound by Estée Lauder.

MIL keeps buying me those cheap crappy perfumes that I would never use. She probably won it in a raffle and I shove them back into work raffles!

A little plastic box intended for storing those slices of burger cheese.

A wire mesh thing for hanging your dishcloth to dry.

A single packet of tissues.

Perfume... from a man I was dating.... same type his mother wore. Needless to say we did date after that.

Rosemary Connellys Flat Stomach Work Out book.....for Valentines Day!!

A safe from my dad when i was about 17. Like a proper one you screw into the floor. I opened it expecting something fabulous inside and found instructions for how to use the safe. I actually kept it and put it to use about 20 years later.

My first boyfriend bought me a £5 Boots voucher for my 16th birthday.

More recently, my MIL sent me a swimming costume in the post in a Jiffy bag for no reason. It was brown with gold spots and a size 20 (I’m a 12).

One Christmas she bought me one of those fabric tubes with a hole in the end for storing carrier bags.

Cable ties! Myself and DD1 each got a packet. DH was given really nice booze and DD" expensive makeup. We are still trying to work it out!