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

On more than one occasion, biscuits or chocolates containing nuts. I'm clear and upfront about my deadly allergy to nuts ...

I forgot - the same dh who got me the small plastic globe from Poundland exceeded himself a couple of christmases ago...

I had been dropping hints, not all that subtle ones, that I really would have liked some Coco Chanel Mademoiselle perfume. I'd been hoping for it for ages, just a little bottle would have done. Christmas Day arrived and I unwrapped a bottle of "Suddenly Madam Glamour" perfume - £4 from Lidl. Apparently "it is supposed to smell just like it." Reader, it does not.

I did get some other bits and bobs but I was quite disappointed that the one thing I had hoped for I got a knock-off imitation!

The worst one I received was from my parents on my 21st.

It was a giant sheer printed wall hanging thing commemorating Kurt Cobain with his birth and death years on. I liked Nirvana when I was 12. Nothing else, just that.

Coming in at a close second was a spot concealer set from a very glam and trendy friend when it was widely known that I never wore make up. She obviously thought it was time I did and I was most offended.

The worst gift I ever GAVE was when I was six. I was invited to our neighbour’s son’s 7th birthday party at the last minute and my mum wouldn’t go and buy a gift. So, in a panic, I scooped up all the little remnants of those cheap soaps with cartoon stickers on that my nan used to buy me from the sinks around the house, moulded them into one bar and wrapped it in newspaper. As I filed into the house with the other guests, I handed the “gift” to the mum with only a slight hint of embarrassment and merrily ran off to play.

A pair of fluffy slippers. Nothing wrong with that except they were about 4 sizes too small. They would have fitted a five year old but I was maybe 10 or 11. I suggested that they would fit my cousin 5 years younger than me and those slippers went back into the givers bag so quick it was like lightening (she was a lady that my mum knew)