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

I used to work in a busy office and secret santas were organised every Christmas. There was a nice but rather introverted man in his late 40s early 50s who lived with his elderly mother. His secret santa got him an inflatable sex sheep complete with orrifices and rather explicit instructions. Fast forward to a few days after xmas and he comes out of his house to be just about lynched by his next door neighbour who was shouting at him calling him a pervert, a pedo and how if he came anywhere near his family he was a dead man. Turns out he'd left the sex sheep lying around in the house and his mother, using that mix of naivety and incomprehensible logic so popular with the elderly, wrapped it up and handed in to the neighbours as an xmas present for their young son.

Pink fluffy slippers which said SE on one and XY on the other. They were half price - £4 reduced to £2 (receipt accidentally included) and presented in the gift bag I had given the giver her present in the week before. That wasn't my parents' best year for gifts!

ExH made me a stocking up one Christmas. Filled it with little wrapped presents. When I opened them, they were all cleaning products. Bathroom cleaner, cloths, bleach, washing up liquid etc etc. He was so thrilled and thought I would be too. Hence he’s now EX!!

woosy that is pretty special! I assume he's your ex because you killed him?

An XXL purple bikini with tassels on it. I'm a size 14. And was relocating to a cold climate at the time

One Christmas an exciting largish box arrived from my Godmother, she usually sent a chocolate selection box, so expectations were high.
Careful unwrapping revealed......... a large shiny red humming top.

I was 14 at the time!

In my early 20’s, an old boyfriend once just randomly bought me a microwave.

(Thankfully my current partner has good taste in gifts!)

I found out about it before he’d given it to me though because my brother found out and told me, whilst laughing.

When bf came to mine he popped this box in the hall and spent 20 minutes pacing around my flat giving a long explanation about why he’d chosen the present he’d bought me (he still hadn’t given me the gift at his point). He finally presented me with this large box, which he hadn’t even wrapped with any paper.

I obviously already knew what it was and had to do my best “oh I’m so surprised” face. He seemed super chuffed at his choice of gift.

To be fair though that microwave lasted me over 15 years. I only replaced it last year. So I guess it was a good gift afterall!

A tacky as hell Minnie Mouse t-shirt with red, white and sparkling gold horizontal striped from DH. At the time I was very weight concious and wore predominantly black, plus it was 2 sizes too small. Found out later SIL had ordered it for herself, definitely more her style, and it didn't fit so talked my DH into paying for it and pretending he ordered it for me.

Mum once bought me slippers. I have never liked, worn or asked for slippers. These ones were both two left feet! 😁

Oh I forgot the birthday I got nothing AGAIN from DH. I was getting tired of receiving sod all, so asked where my present was. DH replied that I could have it later as it was a surprise. Yep, you've probably guessed.......sex. Funnily enough I had a headache that night.

A silver pen from my DH. It's from my favourite jewellery store; he literally could have bought anything else and I would have loved it. The lack of thought felt like a slap when I opened the box.
He even had it engraved so it can't be exchanged. It's sat in my dresser and probably always will be, which makes me really sad.

When I first got with my ex was still living with his ex ( another thread) id said I was in agony with period pain, next day through the post came a parcel her handwriting and frsnked at her work was a herbal rub for period pain. Not to be ungrateful, I was disgusted that he’d had a conversation about my periods and gave her my address! Apparently she paid for it as well

My dm put tampons in my Christmas present when I was 16. She did same to my dsis and she outright said this is ridiculous.

Not me but my FIL once (in his 50s at this point) got a book about how to play the recorder and some finger puppets from another family member 😂😂

A "memory box" as a wedding present that was a weird size and you couldn't fit anything worth remembering into it 😂

A shovel. I had no animals, no garden as I lived in a flat... I have yet to figure out if he was helping me dig my own grave or thought I was feeling homicidal.

Half a handmade scarf from my then MIL.
She ran out of polyester wool halfway through knitting it, but still decided to give it to me.
I received the other half a few month later so I could sew the two pieces together although I had already thrown away the other half by then.

A set of very cheap, crappy towels.
On my 21st birthday.
From my mother.

You can tell why I'm NC with her, right?

At Xmas a few years ago, DM had wrapped up some ugly old jewellery that a distant cousin had given me for my confirmation when I was 16. I got a bit excited seeing a gift wrapped jewellery box until I opened it and saw that familiar old stuff in there. Not sure how that qualified as a gift, as it wasn't from her and already belonged to me.

My SIL went to Korea, bought DS1 and DS2 clothes, DH some gadgets for his phone and i got "not for sale" face masks.....

DH and I received matching toiletry bags that had been used and still had lots of short black hairs in.

A meat thermometer & I still married him. Clearly I needed an intervention 🙄🙄

TWO identical hideous sets of serving dishes as wedding presents from two different couples who are friends of my parents. They obviously saw them going cheap at Costco or Poundstretcher or somewhere. They got “lost” when we moved house.

By hideous I mean bright yellow with pictures of olives that looked drawn on with a sharpie by a six year old.