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

Ok, so I never actually received it but MIL texted me to ask me months in advance if I wanted a zip up dog poo pouch - one that you can attach to your belt - for my 40th birthday. WTF???!! (I guess I should be v thankful I had the opportunity to politely decline the offer.)

My Nan went on holiday and brought me back a secret diary with a key suitable for eleven year olds. I was in my late twenties at the time. It was the start of her confusion and it still makes me smile when I think of it.

For my fiftieth birthday two friends spent a fortune on buying upmarket scented candles. I hate scented candles but felt churlish and ungrateful thinking what a waste of good money they had been. I took one back and swapped it for a Radley handbag.

Does anyone actually spend £70 on a candle for themselves and burn it?

A basket filled with toiletries with a used ear bud in the bottom

A passive aggressive notebook.

It said “Everyone is entitled to my opinion” in big letters on the front. I was going through a real low patch and I’d lost a lot of confidence so I found it very hurtful.

I wouldn’t, Teacher, which is why I’d love one as a present! Maybe that was the thinking?

I took one back and swapped it for a Radley handbag.

Id prefer a candle. Although if someone gave me a Radley handbag I’d burn that too tbh.

So glad I'm not the only one to receive clothes from MILs!

My MIL gave me a big bag of her old clothes that she "thought I'd look nice in."

I'm a size 6 and early 20s, she is a size 18 and late 60s with the most horrific dress sense.

My DH bought me a spit for my birthday last year (so I could learn to make kebabs 🤔😂). He is usually very romantic so not sure where this came from...!

What's with everyone's DMs buying clothes several sizes to big? Mine does that too. I'm an 8-10 and she always gets me a 14. I don't know if she thinks I'm still into the grunge look I sported when I was 16 or she just thinks I look much bigger than I really am. So strange.

One lonely bra strap from my eccentric millionaire aunt for Christmas 😂

My grandmother often buys me items of clothing for Christmas and birthdays. These items have ranged from a size 16 to a size 24 over the years... during which time I've never been over a size 10 🤦🏻‍♀️
My DM is more subtle but no matter how many times I say I'm a 10 with size 6 feet, she always buys size 12-14 and size 7 shoes. Bizarre.

My DH mistook my prompt to visit Ann Summers this Xmas and instead treated to a giant 18inch monster from god knows where, the indignity!!

My ex got me two bottles of Lucozade for Xmas.

A spice girls t shirt for Christmas from my grandparents. I was very into heavy metal music - my mum forced me to wear it on a few occasions so they could "see I'd gotten the use out of it"!

Lidl size 20-22 running leggings. I'm a 14 and haven't run since an injury a few years ago. What were they trying to tell me?!?!?!

A tea towel from MIL for my 40th. We were living overseas so I get that the price of postage was an issue, but really...

Over the years I've had a few. I also got the massive Bridget Jones pants from my Mum. When I was a teenager my elderly piano teacher (female) gave me a skimpy baby doll nightie! My elderly great aunt gave me a pair of black fishnet tights with a red embroidered seam down the back! My DH gave me a chip pan for Christmas .

I also received a food processor kirinm from my now ex husband..... On Christmas eve, so I could make coleslaw for a party that night for his mates. I sent him out again for a different present!

My DGM has the bicarbonate of soda book... she spent a long long time incessantly going on about it .

When I was a 15 year old goth my Uncle bought me a pink Minnie Mouse nightgown aged 12-13 years.

My gran is the same with clothes. The other day she said 'you're the same size as me 16-18...'
No, I'm 8-10 on top and 10-12 on bottom! I know I've got a bit of baby weight to shed but still 😂

A horrible tartan shopping bag with rigid slim handles which cut into your hands if it carried any weight - it rapidly found its way to the bin from MIL. DH was cross as she bought his brother and his wife a pair of boots each.

My DH has on more than one occasion given me an envelope containing information printed off the internet about some event or other. This represents a promise to take me to that event, though it’s usually something I have little interest in so I don’t bother to organise it and we therefore don’t go.

Ok. So confession here. I am guilty of having once given DH a gift of a box of maltesers ......of which a few were missing, perhaps mice got in there?

On valentines on year, I forgot the bloody card! Had a root around in a drawer and dug an old one I'd given him the previous year.....fresh envelope, he's got short term memory loss - bingo! He did look at that card for a good while through narrowed eyes. I did get rumbled.
On some levels I am a crappy wife.

staffies I think you win, actually. That's about as shit as it gets.