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

Should read DD2 not DD"

Wire Coat hangers, because they are so useful.

My 21st, 15 ash trays that all ended up in the charity shop.

My mother sent a message out that I was a secret smoker and was in denial about my "habit"

I denied smoking because I didn't smoke, I have never smoked ever.

A packet of fudge from my MILs honeymoon that had been lying in a draw for 30 years.

Various bottles of booze. I am tea total.

Leather Driving gloves {again many years old that had been lying around in a drawer} I am vegetarian and don't wear animal products. Plus I don't wear driving gloves.

Anything from my mother. I knew it was either for show and would be returned to the store or given to anyone she felt sorry for

I now ask for nothing on my birthday I have real issues around presents

No present- just a card with a cow on it!

And after that I married him!! 😂

Presents got better but his memory got worse - regularly forgets birthday and anniversary and has to rush out to cover himself!

I am only on the first page and thinking ...."oh I remember getting of of those from x,y,z".... I need better friends.....
Please do not think I am materialistic...esp when referring to my gifts... I am not. I just can't abide mean people. I have gifts that cost nothing or pennies and I treasure them esp if said person is a little person or skint and gone out of their way to get me something (although I would rather money was spent on themselves)
Some of my gifts include.... a bar of soap ...twice! I promise I shower twice a day... first time my ex came to visit me in hospital after a massive car accident and brought me a bar of old lady rose scented soap (I was 23) turns out him mum gave him 20 quid to buy me something nice so he nicked a bar of her soap and spent the 20quid in the pub.... and demanded his travel expenses off me for visiting.... same ex at Christmas a few months later had a mate open her shop on Xmas day to find a small tin of chocolate drops as my one and only xmas gift (after I blew a large proportion of my wages on him to make him feel special) ...he wonders why we split up and I came out as gay after him
The other soap came from my then multimillionaire employer (who bought her kids ponies each for Easter and got a 70k car as a birthday gift to go with the others) I was in her house daily, I house, grounds and animal sat for her free of charge to my own inconvenience and she lavishly wrapped a bar of soap that was part of a free gift from a perfume set....
I have had a bottle of pound shop shampoo as my only Xmas gift from an ex mother in law who lives a rather extravagant lifestyle and loves telling everyone about a bust in her house that was Elton johns and how much items are worth etc like I was Cinderella's less fortunate sister....
Another rather fabulous present was a packet of custard creams wrapped up as a gift and placed elaborately under the tree from my son's ex foster carers who I briefly kept in touch with after his adoption placement with me... she LOVED telling me how much she earned, her husband's six figure salary, how much her fostering brought in, how she was far superior to me in every conceivable way as both a person and parent (she didnt want to give my son up but refused to adopt him as he was a drugs and alcohol emergancy placement so earning over £1k a week from him, she would lose that under adoption ruling(another story...)) and insisted we did Xmas at hers (I protested so often and gave up) I bought everyone in the household nice, thoughtful (and not cheap) gifts. Come Xmas day he had loads of "gifts" under her tree for everyone to see but he was presented with a cheap plastic toy and not given the other gifts and I was given a packet of custard creams (turns out she used to buy her family gifts for them to unwrap then they chose one and she returned the others for some blizzard reason )...
bsbabas I also had a friend who had clearly rewrapped her old gift as it was also a hairbobble gift set for then my short spiked hair.
Oh I also got a jar of supercheap supermarket brand of instant coffee from a friend as she knew "I love my fancy coffee" it wasn't even ironic.... think I will stop before I depress myself haha

Just had my second child, suffering depression, dp at the time was ramping up the abuse, DD was 2.....

So he bought me, on valentine's (which we both hated and I hate more so now)...

A vibrator, as our sex life "wasn't good enough for him nor were we doing it enough"

I wanted to beat him to a pulp with it.

Secret Santa at work - small office was all ladies, about 7 of us, we were all good friends (or so I thought). We set a £10 budget each and all put a lot of thought into the gifts, think favourite wine, favourite chocs, things we knew the other person was into.

I opened a make up bag on Christmas morning. One that I knew for a fact was an Avon freebie cos I had seen it in the catalogue on the offer!!

A bath Bomb off my mum for Christmas who’d helped me rip out my bath and watch a plumber fit a walk in shower cubicle in the November prior..... I wrapped it back up and gave it too her for her birthday the following January

Ok - my MIL is the best ‘worst present’ giver in the world. Ok, in no particular order - fairy liquid x2, mint sauce, out of date scooby doo Halloween cake mix pack for Easter present -‘if you make them quick, they might be alright !), 12 beach mats (the shop was closing down & that's as many as I could carry’ (10p each), a cardigan I already owned ‘I know you like it, so I got another - half price in the sale’! One year everyone got flannels, money boxes and mugs with John(swap this for each name)-o-Saurus,’as the shop was closing down’ (what does a 42 year old with 2 () Laura-o-Saurus money boxes ??)
I love her masses and wouldn’t swap her for the world. She is now a present giving legend amongst family & friends.

A male stripper.

A lava lamp! From fil.

ExMIL gave me one of her own dresses one birthday. It looked like this one but pale blue:

Ps Please excuse typos, I only realised after posting. Pps just to clarify... I didn't make my son drugs and alcohol dependant he unfortunately came with problems as I adopted him but kept in touch with ex foster parents

My poor DH has bought me some horrendous jewellery over the years, think '80s-style "Dynasty" necklaces and earrings that I wouldn't be seen dead in.

I think the shop assistants see him wandering about looking lost and get out the stuff that won't sell...

I have to be v.v. specific to get a gift I actually want, like sending him a link to the exact product.

I received a folding snow shovel one year for a wedding anniversary...one in a series of 'practical' gifts I received for several years, thankfully ex h left with one of my 'friends' so she has the benefit of his gifts now....

I think the worst gifts are no gifts. Had plenty of Xmas mornings being the only person in the room with nowt to unwrap. My inner childish side silently sulks but outwardly I’m smiling! 😂

A tongue scraper

A packet of stainless steel cleaning wipes for Christmas from my MIL.

A frilly, broiderie anglaise apron from my MIL. ( After a few strange presents like embroidered handle holders for kettles/witches cauldrons, I realised she was buying these things at craft tables at coffee mornings, then dragging them out of the cupboard when birthdays came around. We intercepted some terrifying knitted dolls intended for our DDs)

A book in German about love
Except that neither my DH nor me speak German.
From our Austrian friends on our wedding day. It sits in our loo now in case any of the visitors do read German 🤣

The promise of a spa day, and the "generous" offer to take my friend too.

1. I don't like spa days
2. This was from my DP. We pool our money and were skint at the time
3. He hadn't actually looked up any spa days.

So basically an instruction to spend my time and my own money researching and then doing something I can't afford and don't want to do.

Unsurprisingly, it never happened.

Possibly outing but it’s a nice one:

A porcelain doll which was actually a fox faced doll complete with fur, floral dress and snazzy apron which stored make up brushes..... for my 21st from DH’s gran who had spent weeks saying how wonderful my present was and how I’d not get anything like it.

DH was quite perplexed and is to this day. Oh, and I have a bit of a doll phobia as well.

To be fair I didn’t get anything like it and I did use the make up brushes.....

She was an utterly bonkers tiny little matriarch, legendary for serving up gone off drink DH and BIL knew never to accept ingredients for home ec class from her due to the likelihood of moths strolling out of the box.

I really miss her - she made it to 90 and was a legend - thanks for this thread, me and DH have just had a really good reminisce about her and some of her finest moments.

A 101 Dalmatian crop top and knickers that I opened in front of uncles, aunties and cousins at 13 years old. From my grandparents.

From my DH’s family (over various Christmas’s and birthdays):

• a pair of stained and holey socks still with the shop security tag on
• a packet of chopsticks
• a broken photo frame which was made upside down so couldn’t be put up anyway

Then I’ve had years where they buy DH presents but not me. Perhaps that’s a blessing...

My (new to the UK) ex husband worked as a therapist in a spa type environment, where reps would often come and leave a variety of freebies for the team - posh face masks, luxury moisturiser samples, salon hair treatment sachets etc. He proudly brought home for me the last 2 items left in the luxury box after everyone else had had their go - moustache removal cream and a very small packet containing two non applicator tampons. Apparently there was also a small miniature whisky but I was informed he drank it on the way home.

Some red santa style rubber gloves with white feathers on (I'm a vegan) also with scrubber printed on them. They were too small as well. Thanks mil x

A nose trimmer from DH ! On another occasion a dressing gown with cheesy teddy design on the back.