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

@PopGoesTheWeaz Funniest part about it was my dad still getting me to phone her and thank her for the wonderful rabbit hahaha. In her defence they were very teddy-like in their appearance, I think I still have it somewhere

Matching tribal print outfits for me and my SIL. We were in our late 20s. Thanks mum!

FeralBeryl

A plain covered unbranded box with Christmas themed covered chocolates inside for my birthday.... in April from my SIL!

My SIL claimed it was a mistake when my husband asked her about it although we suspect that it was an unwanted freebie box given to either her or a member of a family that she had then recycled as a birthday gift to me! When I checked the website on the inside box cover, the company was a supplier of hospitality boxes.

Another gift ( Xmas) from the same SIL was an unattractive plant pot with the price tag still plainly in view! 😏

A smelly, used shower puff from my MIL.
Everyone else in the family had nice presents, all beautifully wrapped but this shower puff, she'd 'wrapped' so that it was undone at one end so that I could see what it was as she handed it over. I still thanked her for it (she wasn't expecting me to do that and it completely floored her!) as I wasn't going let her get satisfaction from seeing me upset about it.

Well the worst gift I ever got from someone for my DAUGHTER, was a second hand dress that her daughter had grown out of, that stunk of cigarette smoke, and had a weird stain on it, (that I hope to God was beer. ) No label on it, or receipt (obviously.)

Needless to say, it went in the bin. Then I disinfected my hands!

Worst one I have ever received. A blank cassette tape from a cousin, for Christmas.

Over the years, various extended family members have given me (and my kids and DH) some real shit gifts........ From items that are obviously free gifts from magazines and newspapers, (like the Daily Mail free DVD's,) to second hand clothes they have obviously worn, to re-gifted boxes of chocs that still have the label addressed to them from someone else on it.

@Horrordoervres

Not the worst but definitely the funniest - My great grandmother once gifted me a single bunny rabbit shaped slipper as a young teen, was super confused until I met my cousin at the family Christmas dinner and was informed she had received the other slipper.. - long story short my Great G got confused thinking they were teddies and she'd gotten a great bargain 2 for 1 deal in the store, got her eyes tested after that one.

That's fukin' brilliant! Bless her little heart!

A bread baking machine that produced loaves like bloody canon balls!

My mum always gets my brother and I souvenirs from her holidays - magnets, t-shirts, assorted baseball caps with the mascot of whatever town they bought in on the front. This past Christmas I got a plastic ruler and a yellow pastel cap with a lighthouse on it.

I love her but she buys us gifts like she never met us in her life 

horrordoervres 😂😂 at the rabbit slippers story.

Decorative jug for wedding present, with handle very obviously the wrong way up
Wool blanket wedding present from ex's aged aunt - it was used and stank
Selection of home made jams from ex MIL - all rotten as she never washed jars
Surprisingly expensive perfume from colleague - later discovered she'd nicked it

Ribena coloured petticoats for my sixteenth birthday in a size 16 ( which aged 16 seemed huge...) from my gran.

Last Christmas I got a lovely set of size 8 from my Gran.

I was 8 months pregnant with twins and had gone from my previous size 14 to an 18.

Spent the day feeling like a fat turkey and couldn't even get drunk.

Only people of a certain age will understand this. Many, many years ago when I was a young 'un and music centres were just coming in, I'd been bugging my parents for one but was getting nowhere. Anyway, my gran overheard one of my many pleading sessions and told me not to worry, she'd sort me out on my birthday.

So the day duly approaches and I ran home from school full pelt to see if she had been true to her word. She had, bless her socks. Except my gran wasn't exactly up on current technology. There, taking up most of my bedroom, was what I later discovered was actually called a radiogram. A hideous piece of teak furniture the size of a sideboard that incorporated a record player and a radio. The record player only played 78s and the radio operated on some prewar frequency that could only pick up the World Service and a couple of unidentifiable european stations.

I had to suffer that monstrosity in my room for years because I couldn't upset her by letting on it was worse than useless.

House plants from mil. I know I sound ungrateful but I have 3dc, 2 cats and 2 rabbits to keep alive, plants are just going to die in my hands so then mil realises and keeps bloody replacing them as apparently I'll get the hang of plants one day

ALSO........ Don't know if this counts, but I got a BIRTHDAY card exactly like this last year from a well meaning neighbour.

She knew teal is my fave colour, and loved the little ribbon on it.

Bless.

A lace cover for a box of tissues. Because those Kleenex bows are so offensive 😂😂😂

an o NEIL ladies wetsuit for surfing. I hate cold water. I hate getting wet. Not remotely interested in any of it.

Its a toss up between the bright red pillow cases my mother gave me (I had asked for bordeaux red ) they didnt suit anything horrid things At the time we had Scandinavian type pillows making it harder to get cases for them..
The dye in them was running for years after.. Lots of pink sheets when in contact with them..

AND

Jesus on a piece of wood my sister had made (Sister was in her 40s when said gift was made) This was meant to be a decoration to hang up

Hmmm I think Jesus was the worst at least I could use the pillowcases despite my having red cheeks for ages after

My parents give weird gifts. One year when I was 19/20 they gave me a Garfield video for Christmas. A few years ago DM presented me with wrapped up cling film - it was one of the fancy dispenser ones that cost about a fiver, but still ! DH got a nice work shirt. A couple of weeks after christmas DM asked if I was enjoying using my cling film .

From MIL- a cheap, 10 pages long baking 'book' with;

'dear MIL
Have a wonderful Christmas
Love Sandra x '

A 'silver' frame, that I was told multiple times it wad 'real sterling you know!' With a £3.99 price sticker on the back.

A key ring with the silhouette of a lady in heels posing provocatively, it was also holographic, so her hips would swing if you moved it.

One of those egg timers you put in to boil with the egg - I have a severe allergy to eggs.

A garden centre voucher, that never arrived in the mail.

Lots of general tat over the years, DH does just as badly. I'd rather she didn't bother, as there is just absolutely no thought there whatsoever.

An oven glove.
An electric screwdriver.
Both from an ex partner!

Last Christmas I received from PIL, an absolutely fucking hideous blown glass owl (that she bought off a cruise and it cost her a fortune) and a cauldron shaped candle holder with 3 used candles in it!

Didn’t even take them out of the gift bag properly, just hoyed them in the bin when I got home.

Yes, I am an ungrateful fucker.

A giant gold squirrel statuette (next). It was about 50cm tall.

I have never expressed any interest in shiny, gold woodland creatures.

Sister wrapped up my bridesmaids dress as an Xmas surprise. The dress 'theme' was called 'Country Mouse'. Needless to say after the event it all went in the bin including the photos.

My late MIL got me a candle snuffer....as if we've got hundreds of the bloody things. She bought a present for my husband and our 2 sons - a nose hair trimmer BETWEEN them.