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 colorful woollen cardigan in the 90s that suited the 70s. It was scratchy (and I typically love wool ), 2 sizes too big, and all sorts of colors. No further comment.

A small pink furry shoulder bag
Huge butterfly necklace
Butterfly scarf

From my dad on my 27th birthday. I was pregnant with my first and vouchers or something would have been really appreciated but he didn’t want to “just” get me vouchers, instead the above cheap pile of crap that broke pretty much as soon as it was unwrapped and went in the bin. I honestly tried to be nice about it but I don’t know what the hell he was thinking.

SIL gave DH a large paperweight with a goats skull encased (mini replica) ....it's bloody awful, demonic thing. Looked like a curse. Straight down to the charity shop.

A waste paper bin. From my mum.
Apparently I needed a new one. I probably did, just not for Christmas.
A set of tiny lip glosses, most of them hideous colours. Still with the Boots 3 for 2 sticker on. I don't use lip gloss, never have. It was patently obviously an "Oh shit, I forgot to get Cigars a gift, what have I got left over?" type of gift.
Suffice to say, the friendship petered out after that, though it had clearly been dying for some time. It was embarrassing because there were several of us exchanging gifts together and everyone else had relatively expensive and personal gifts.

When I started going out with my now DH he bought me a multi pack of period pants from marks and Spencer’s!!!!

A pair of socks with "worst gift ever" written on them. (Actually doesn't really count - I saw them in a shop, and I asked for them, so I could have a sad-faced photo holding them!)

A kitchen chalk board. And a battery pack.
I returned the chalk board. And he uses the battery pack!

She bought a present for my husband and our 2 sons - a nose hair trimmer BETWEEN them.

BRILLIANT

Pass I know!!! My mum would say things like "You look like twiggy!" when wonderbras were everywhere! Funny looking back on it but ever so painful at the time. Bloody gel bra was bloody cold too, as I couldn't fill it enough to warm up the gel making my boobs even smaller!!

An electric handwhisk from DS's father. Twat.

A dot to dot book version of the Karma Sutra from an ex. Thank goodness I didn’t open it in front of my parents! Lucky for him he also bought me a bottle of Charlie perfume, last of the big spenders that one!

A bar of fucking toblerone.

The worse has to be a birthday present from my ex a week after my first child was born. It was a book. A book about a child being abducted. :/

The other one was actually very sweet. My grandad bought me some really awful bath stuff for Chtistmas but I told him how much I liked it. Apparently he searched high and low for the same thing the next year and when he found it stocked up. I got the same bath set every birthday and every Christmas from then on. He died early this year and I missed my horrible bath products on my birthday.

@TooTrueToBeGood yep, another old gimmer here who recalls music centres

At least you got something you could play records on, though. When young and poor my ex and I wanted one, so were truly excited to see my (notoriously mean) parents carrying a big package with a wood-look base and plastic lid sticking out the end

It was a cheap and flimsy seed propagator

@chrysalis7 & @FadedRed

I could get to be 100 years old and still be cry laughing at the memory of the rabbit slipper, nobody told her the truth for months to spare her some embarrassment until she visited and seen my younger sister running about the house with it on her foot hahah.

For Christmas last year, my mother gave me a reusable fold up shopping bag.
For a Christmas when I was about 12, I couldn't work out what the cylindrical, weighs nothing present with my name on was (I'd already poked and prodded and figured out the videos and CDs). It was the first thing I opened..... It was a tub that she'd obviously got empty somewhere (probably a jumble sale) and she'd filled it with cotton wool

When my bestie was horrified at the shopping bag last year, I told her it wasn't the worst and explained the cotton wool.

Last years other present was a pack of trainer socks. Socks are always a winner with me. I love them. I like them loud and ridiculous. These were plain white, from Asda.

One year she gave DH some enormous Hugo Boss headphones (clearly a free gift with the aftershave), but not the actual Hugo Boss. Again, they would have been a jumble/boot sale buy.

WellTidy God they’re so insensitive aren’t they!?! I used to try on the push-up wonderbras but they didn’t work because I had nothing to push up. My insecurities were not helped by DM and her comments. My DM and her sisters were all very full in that department so they liked to comment how mine weren’t. If I ever have a daughter I know what not to say because of them lol.

Oh and I had an air bra it was so uncomfortable and I felt like what boobs I had were going to take off!

A weight watchers magazine from my aunt for my 13th birthday. I was at a bit of an awkward stage but I wasn't particularly fat!

Car mats.

"Please excuse the mess, my children are making memories."🤮

From a relative that has only ever been to my house when it's been spotless 😳

Paper cupcake cases.

Not so terrible in themselves, but the way they were packaged: the bottom was uppermost, there were two stacks, in see-through plastic - the cardboard behind decorated with a woman's top half...so that the cases themselves were quite obviously her boobs!

What were they thinking?!

@TheFormidableMrsC I'm so desperately sorry ... how utterly thoughtless

Just remembered - a used hole punch and staple remover for my 7th birthday.

TBF I was delighted with the hole punch and no peice of paper was safe from me for weeks.

The staple remover confused me however, not having a stapler to go with it, so I made it into a dragon head and selotaped the little paper circles that had been left in the hole punch onto it like scales.

Maybe it wasn't such a rubbish present afterall.

As a teen I was once given the world's most horrible pair of shoes as my main Christmas present out of spite. They really were truly disgusting.

They were so bad they were actually not better than nothing, and if I'm honest I have always had a grudging respect for the sheer level of PA it took to choose them and give them with a feigned smile.