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

A washing up sponge - one of the few gifts i ever received from my MIL. Not a glorious multipack of sponges in assorted pretty colours... no, no, just the one crappy yellow sponge. Wasn't even non-scratch. Rubbish. )

A cheap Christmas gift basket of food and random bits and pieces in it with a lovely ribbon and big pre-labelled note on it reading "congratulations on your new baby".
It was given to me for my birthday in January.
I am infertile.
We had just stopped doing all IVF treatments after five years of failure.
This was from my Mother.

She is.....special.

A site 10 polo neck jumper which was deep red at the top facing to light pink at the bottom. I am size 18, I never wear pink. Thanks MIL.

For my 21st birthday from my oh....
A Toilet!
He knew we needed a new one.
Hobestly thought I'd be delighted. Even got the plumber to put a bow on it.

Last year my parents came to my house, ate cake and left. So they took from me, rather than giving anything. Does that count?

My mil and grandmother put more thought into things than exdh (and you will see why he is ex) i really would have to think back to think of a decent present I received in all our married years.

As birthday gifts through the years:

Set of pots
tumble drier
Kitchen roll holder
need i go on.....

I thought things were going too well one year I got some make up, and decent face cream.

Two days before Xmas day I found out about his affair, he still did buy me a Xmas present, which was a salt and pepper set.

So things are hotting up a bit with a new someone I have met, he is off abroad and he asked me what perfume I liked. So i rattled off my list of those i do like which unfortunately are a bit on the pricy side, Chanel etc. But I learned my lesson. If someone really wants to buy you something, let them know what it is you would like. If he isn't able to to get that, so be it. Otherwise you get no end of crap that is just for the sake of giving. I honestly and truly would have nothing that something just bought for the sake of opening something.

A fucking halogen oven. If it wasn't so heavy I would have threw it at him (dp)

Not forgetting the year I got a lime green frying pan...

Felt the same about my tumble drier Zoflora.

And he then tries to make it seem wonderful by saying, 'but its a condensing one, the water that comes out is distilled'. The fuck? I am surprised I didn't get a bottle of water for my car too.

I really felt so very sorry for my ds. For his 18th birthday, he bought him one of those Xmas sets of a razor and travel size shaving cream. When anyone had asked him prior what he would like for his 18th he did ask if he could rather have money as he was saving for a new xbox and was a little short. And it is not that his dad is short of cash. Just tight.

Last Christmas my mum gave DH a tube of whitening toothpaste and a bottle of weed killer.

A girl I met at uni gave me a ruler for my birthday. It was 10cm long and neatly wrapped.
She was very nice. She was from a very different culture though and did do a few very strange things.
I couldn't work out if the ruler was a joke or whether that's just what she considered a good gift.

For my last birthday, DH bought me a Hot Wheels racetrack and cars, because I seem to have so much fun playing with my car-obsessed 3 year old and he thought I’d enjoy it.

DS remains delighted with it, and has taken to helpfully suggesting other toys for mummy’s next birthday.

Pale

WTF

Can anyone remember the worst gift they bought for anyone lol? Mine would be a Kylie Minougue video I got for my mum for her birthday when I was 5. My dad took me to Asda to choose a gift for her - I was obsessed with kylie in neighbours and then her singing career and she had just brought out a video with her music videos/interviews etc....I wanted it so much and convinced my dad that mum loved kylie as much as me.....she was thrilled when she opened it

I got shampoo for Christmas for blonde hair, mine is brown 😂

A Ryan Air voucher! 😳

Ivy I've only read the first and last pages of this thread but I can't imagine there's anything worse than that, how awful.

I'm the youngest of my siblings, with a big gap between me and the others my brothers, in particular, have always struggled with the notion that I'm not a nine-year-old girl any more. We don't make a massive fuss about birthdays so gifts didn't really make an impact but I do remember when I was about 19 my brother gave me a pair of dangly earrings shaped like rabbits. They were an awful green colour and were meant to change colour, like those mood rings you used to get. They were awful, and aimed at much younger children, but I remember them particularly as he felt he'd bought me a really grown-up gift because JEWELRY.

I'm 43 now and thankfully we don't really do presents any more.

DH bought me a radio alarm clock one Christmas - which he placed on his side of the bed and tuned to 5 Live. I like silence first thing and I hate sport and talk-in shows.

I need to tell you about the BEST gift I ever received from ExMil.

It was a recipe book... for sandwiches. And not even fancy sandwiches. It contained instructions such as "butter the bread, layer ham and lettuce". If I remember correctly, the sandwiches were graded in terms of "difficulty" too, with more challenging sandwiches towards the end of the book.

Yeah, that was the best present. All the others were more shit than that.

@murphys - yes that was the reaction of my family and friends who were all there when I opened it. I actually thought it was a joke stand in for a real present at first (we’d been talking about me starting driving lessons - I thought maybe he’d arranged them for me). It wasn’t.

One oven glove from my husbands grandparents. Definitely done on purpose. They gave his sister the other.

I got an expensive fitness watch thing from DH. Sounds great. Except we’d been in the store several weeks earlier and he asked me what I thought of them. I told him they were ugly and naff.

I’m a classic watch person, never ever liked any sort of digital watch, and have a beautiful watch he gave me many years ago that I wear every day. I have no idea what he was thinking with the fitness watch. It got returned the next day.

Herpes.

A partly used packet of draw liners.

A musical toilet roll holder

I got a copy of Rosemary Conley's 'Hip and Thigh Diet' for my 20th birthday.
Had never expressed an interest in doing it, or felt I needed it.