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

Have been given museum vouchers to Kendal Pencil Museum and a demonstration of Slate splitting in North Wales. Mmmmm...zzzzzzzzz!

My auntie split a box of celebrations in half for Christmas for me and my sister.

The following year we got an X factor annual to share...

My auntie is loaded and everyone else got extravagant gifts aside from us, still not sure why!

A signed copy of Jason Donovan’s autobiography one Christmas. I was about 25yo and had never ever given any indication that I was a particular fan of his and it was years since he had been in Neighbours/the charts.

My sister had queued up especially to get it signed.

I gave a close friend some expensive soaps one Christmas. The year after that she gave them to me!

My MIL recieved a notebook and pen set from a neighbour that had the neighbours name engraved on the pen. Hilarious.

I was 13 and my auntie got me a doll. My sister who is one year older got make up. To this day that is the worst gift didn’t say anything and said thanks

My worst present didn't happen!
Omn my birthday I woke up and my husband told me he'd got me a present, but I couldn't open it before work. I thought he'd probably forgotten, but it was a good excuse so I was looking forward to it when I got home. He forgot.

And my Birthday is Valentines day so had lots of reminders!

His birthday is 2 weeks later, guess what he got that year? I've teased him about it ever since,

Another recipient of a loo seat here. From my husband for my fiftieth birthday. I was quite upset as I truly hated turning fifty, and almost seven years later I still can’t laugh about it. As an added bonus he likes wooden seats and I don’t. It’s wooden.

Just remembered that DM gave me some plastic vegetables for Xmas when I was about 14. It was only one of many gifts, but I still can't figure out what I was supposed to do with some fake garlic.

A dung buddy. A sculpted animal ornament made of manure which was supposed to be left in a flowerbed to dissolve in the rain.

My mum had some absolute corkers.

In my early teens CDs had just come out, a relative phoned my mum to say they were considering getting me a CD storage case. I had no CDs but my mum told them to buy it, then told me so that I wouldn't look disappointed when I received it.

When I was 17 my brother was living away from home and would not be home for Xmas, she spent a lot of time getting things for him, so much that she forgot to buy anything for me. I got a puzzle and a hair slide.

I wasn't allowed to go to college for an art course as a teen. Since then I have arthritis so that I can't draw/paint any more.

In the last few years before she died she gave me a set of paints and some sketch books.

She once paid for my dad and a friend of mine to go to the theatre as my birthday present, I still have not worked that one out.

My brother is almost as bad, fimo and a ukulele.

I bought my mum a zip file when I was little because she used them for work lol actually she said it was the best gift she ever got 😂

I got given a sari from my bosses mum. Clearly had been in her attic for years as it stank of moth balls. I have two beautiful saris already from an Indian wedding I attended so I didn't need it.

Outing self but if my SIL sees this she will laugh - know she's on here occasionally. My dad is very "special" and a bit of a womble who picks stuff up off the beach / side of road. When her and my brother had their baby - first grandchild, big thing for all family, my dad got them a blanket, still sandy despite being in the wash, fairly worn, and with the name "Matthew" on it with great ceremony. At this point, my nephew had been named for a good 6 or 8 weeks and the name is quite definitely not Matthew, lovely traditional Scottish name though, nothing out there. When my brave SIL said "why does it say Matthew?" he apparently just styled it out and said "Maybe you might like to call him Matthew"
I was given a framed sketch of a random catholic church in Belfast for my birthday, stinks of fags. I am a non smoking atheist!

My MIL gave me an old skirt of hers (which was vile) because of the weight of put on having a baby. I was a size 8 before and after. The skirt was a 14 and petite. I'm 5'7.
She also gave me an opened and ancient box of tampons because she didn't need them anymore. And she was really angry at me for her menopause!!!

She was even more angry when I threw them away.

This will seriously out me but when I was 8 months pregnant my dad got me a karaoke machine for Christmas!

A ceramic Pink Panther soap dish from an ex. He had found it amongst some discarded stuff in the loft of his shared house. I know, because I was there when he found it. Still didn’t stop him trying to palm it off as a deeply personal and well thought through gift though. Tight arse that he was.

DM gave me, my sister and our 4 DDs matching umbrellas and headscarves. The old fashioned sort.
The girls were aged between 10 and 18. None of us had ever worn a headscarf.

She once paid for my dad and a friend of mine to go to the theatre as my birthday present

You mean you had to pay for yourself?

A meat thermometer

A £2 gift voucher for B&Q, from my rich great grandfather to my three year old.

Erm this may be outing....a dolls house. When I was 21. From my parents. Because I had loved my childhood one. best bit was that it was massive and would require be to build it.

@DickTERFin - don't spose you still have that soap dish knocking around anywhere do you?! Sounds awesome!! 😄

A 'pearl necklace'

These are all from PIL to either myself or DH

A soap on a rope ( only very very slightly used)

A bag of pasta ( regular, quills from Safeway in their savers range)

A box of out of date M&S shortbread. The date had been scratched off the tin. We knew they were out of date as a) they were soft and b) we had dear nephew staying with us when we opened the two weeks after receiving them. He recognised them as having given them to PIL three years prior.......

A cookerybook. Used. Containing a phone bill from my BIL . MIL had bought it from a charity shop for BIL birthday 5 years previous. She had simplygone to their house, whipped it off the shelf without asking or to his knowledge and wrapped it for me.

A lovely nail care kit in a china bowl. We had given it to her for mother’s day three years before.

A Christmas ornament with the year 2002 painted on it. She gave it to me for Christmas 2011.

Baby clothes from a charity shop that were all bobbly and a teeny bit stinky. They were binned. ( BIL son got £3000 so it’s all in the same ball park. Sort of)

A book of hypnosis on how to loose weight. It was newthough!

I’m sure there’s more.
I think the soap on the rope (first present ever fromthem ) should have given me a clue!