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 wickerwork chicken, with a label on the bum which was addressed TO the person giving it to me, FROM someone else.

5 blank tapes.

And from DH, FOUR almost identical lingerie sets (that didn't fit very well) on four consecutive years. I didn't wear the first set, why he thought i needed another 3 I cannot fathom.

Horrordoeurvres that's brilliant

Black g string panty liners.

From. mil.

I’d love to know what goes through people’s heads when buying these crappy gifts. Would they like to receive the same tat?

£10 in 2p’s in a used lunch box. I was only 10 and our neighbours had clearly forgotten and tried to rush something together last minute

My lovely DM is always buying me Makeup - massive bulk trays of makeup - the sort for teenagers? I haven't worn makeup in over10 years - & even when I did I wore very little. The school tombola does well out of me.

A double slow cooker for my 40th birthday. I hate slow cookers and even if I loved them I was sad that I was seen as the sort of person who would want such a staid, domestic gift for a milestone birthday.

Hahaha some of these are comedy gold!

The worst one my DP has ever given me was a beige coloured towel for Xmas 2 years ago. It was nice and soft but such a random gift (we already have lots of towels) and such a horrible colour too

A S&W semi-auto 9 MM.

I wanted a handbag not a handgun.

4 muddy potatoes in a brown paper bag when I was 12

from the same gran a year later - 2 mouldy (mildewy) porcelain dolls

I have a phobia of porcelain dolls...

A half used lipstick and a 1/4 bottle of nail varnish
A CD I gave someone returned to me
A jar of Robertson's jam

One Christmas I received a toilet seat and a personalized vibrator! embarrassingly I opened it in front of my family! Never lived that down

A half used bottle of the perfumed moisturiser you get in the perfume gift sets. From EXH's aunt. No idea why she bothered.

My nana who was in her late 80s at the time, got ex DH some socks. All very well and good until he looked properly and they said things like 'HOT STUFF' and 'SEXY BEAST' on them! Clearly her sight was failing (either that or her taste in men is questionable...) but I never had the heart to tell her.

There are some real crackers here.

My DBIL and DSIL faked a donation to charity when they themselves had suggested we do charity gifts. I know it was fake because I had spent ages picking out suitable tokens, in DSIL's case it was baby related (she was then pregnant with long awaited second child). When they met DH to exchange gifts they had nothing for me (this was several weeks after Christmas) and they said there had been a problem with the ordering. A couple of days later I received in the post the exact voucher I had given her. At the time we had no children and hadn't said anything to indicate we ever would.

A white, crocheted loo roll cover in the form of a poodle.

Frosty I got the same book off dm.
Nc now - straw /camel etc!
Off mil first Xmas, a necklace off ebay from China cost £2.75. Her pfb dgs got nowt.

Probably the free samples my sibling had taken from a hotel. She had a very well-paid job at the time, so wasn't skint.

When I was 25 she presented me, with a "very grown up" present. It was a cookbook. After all her fuss I was expecting an illustrated Kama Sutra at the very least. I liked cooking and already had lots of cookery books so it's not like it was her trying to teach me a new skill or anything.

Last Christmas she and my mother obviously went shopping together and bought lots of unicorn things as I like unicorns. I did, as a teenager, about 20 years ago. Most of them were given to children I know.

I got a cookie stamp with 'made by donut' on.... Either she hates me or she thinks I'm actually 7. I mean, seriously, what grown adult would ever use a cookie stamp with their own name on?!

@mistermagpie my mum got me a similar gift before when I was about 18. A pack of pants from New Look in jazzy colours but some of them had messages like “single and ready to mingle” on them. She was mortified when she realised haha

Night out to see West Side Story from my X, went by bus and had no time for food. Despite being really hungry I fell asleep until the gunshot. We divorced not long after this. He had a great night. For my last birthday my sister got me a spa day for one, what a waste of money. I hate being touched my people I don't know and I work from home all day - I don't need a day out on my own!!

A pen with my name spelled wrongly on it
A 4 pack of WKD-alike from Aldi for my 40th birthday (and don't and have never drunk it)
An umbrella with rusty spokes

All from FIL & his wife

DH has been given:

£1 shop car mats
£1 shop Allen key set that broke on first use
The sandwich toaster he used with his dad as a kid
A Val Doonican style jumper (in FIL's size)

FIL & his wife paid cash for their house and car and are rather well off. I'd say it was the thought that counts but there was no thought either.

@mistermagpie My mother put a book of limericks in my stocking one year. Which was fine, except that they were rather rude verses and she hadn't realised (and most certainly wouldn't have given them to me had she known!).

Thankfully, though, she gave them to me and not her friend's daughter (not that any of them would have minded, but Mum would have been mightily embarrassed!).

My grandma always used give me freebies from the readers digest.

I found out I was pregnant with her first great grandchild. He was due in July, I was only a few weeks gone when I told her just before Christmas.

My gift that Christmas was yet another freebie from readers digest - a size 26 thick velvet tracksuit. Cream with brown leaves on it.

Her idea was I could wear it in the later months of pregnancy for comfort. Lovely thought but I was a size 8 at the time and the baby was due in summer.... it and was awful....literally hideous in the only way I could describe it.

She's passed away now but I'll always remember the freebies she got me lol. The tracksuit was by far the worst/best one lol. Would of loved to have seen my face when I opened it.

Lovely yet funny memories though x

My husband (then boyfriend) bought me some tea towels for my birthday.

I haven't forgiven him.