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

my mother gave me HER old size 24 top saying 'I see you've lost weight. someone gave me this. its too big for me'. I have lost weight. I'm size 16.

She has form. on my 40th she gave me a size 32 top from Oxfam.
I've never been bigger than a size 18.

She is very good at judging size.

DH bought me not just one but two tea trolleys. I have no idea what possessed him. I have never shown the slightest interest in them. This was about six years ago not in the 1970s.

A teddy bear made out of moss (the type you get a garden center) because I said at age 11 I wanted a pet.

A child's microscope set from my SIL. I was 32. What was I going to study? Wood lice?

A bar of Imperial Leather (unwrapped) thickly studded with those ultra long dressmaker pins.

I think it was meant to be used as a pomander, but seriously it looked like my Auntie wanted me maimed or dead.

I largely wear plain tops in dark colours with a v neck because of my preposterously enormous bust. GMIL thought I needed colour in my life, so bought a high necked, narrow horizontal striped jumper in shades of lime green and peach.

I modelled it once for DH and he was speechless with laughter for some time.

She meant well.

My DSIL says every year not to buy for adults, so we don't. THEN she gives us gifts, she's a teacher and they are still addressed to Mrs SIL in kids hand writing

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.

When my grandfather died my aunt ran to his house and grabbed his old telly, completely ignoring the very rare antique (expensive) glass ornaments on his shelves. She thought she got the best thing in the house.

My ex-DIL was given an expensive collectors teddy for her daughter from my mother and thinking is was rubbish, she told me later threw it in the bin when she got home.

A packet of jaycloths from my MIL as a Christmas present!

We received a box of drinking glasses for a wedding present and when we opened the box the found a little card pushed through the lid that congratulated our gift givers on their wedding.

The woman my FIL married used to buy us a cheap box of chocolates every christmas that she had already opened and consumed her favorites. My BIL told us she did the same to them, but she must have like them more because she replaced their missing chocolates with pieces of broken cookies.

A second hand, grubby white dressing gown in an ancient carrier bag, from my DM for Christmas. Bless her.

A foot spa. I was 27.

My little sister gave me wrinkle cream for my 19th birthday, she was only 4 though, she'd won it at the school fair and the lady had explained it keeps older women looking young and beautiful

Mum once gave me and DH a joint present of a bottle of massage oil 'for firmer breasts' and half a bottle of lube, with a note saying "boobs aren't just for feeding babies." She didn't even warn us so my poor then teenage siblings were sat with us when we opened it, DH had only met them a few times so had no idea how to react and then the realisation that it was half a bottle hit us.

TheToldYouSoDance are foot spas for elderly people?

I bought one for my DD (16), she asked for it as a gift to ease her ballet tortured feet.

I was once given two bottles of home-made red wine from someone who came to my birthday party. We drank one (lovely) and put the other one on the wine rack in the under-stairs cupboard.

Time passed and one evening dh and I heard a random bang but didn't know where it came from. A couple of weeks later one of us went in the cupboard for something and found out The cork had exploded out of the bottle and wine had sprayed over literally everything in the cupboard. Everything was covered in the stickiest red mess you could imagine.

It took ages to clear up the mess, and next time we saw the friend we told them and they said "Oh yes, I've had them explode as well".

Cheers for that...

A set of Prestige saucepans the first Christmas of our married life. He added insult to injury when he burnt one very badly trying to cook a curry.

A China bird statue from my wedding that I think was from a charity shop as still had torn sticker residue on. Wouldn't mind but it was filthy dirty

A biro from my ex from the university shop (a uni we both attended). Still baffled by that one.

MiL ~ Oil of Olay, I was about 19 with a flawless skin, she said she used it every day....she had skin like an old crocodile skin handbag!
A necklace threaded up wrongly with bits missing, must have repaired a charity shop buy.

SiL ~ A box of decorated soaps, months later she asked to see them, she was aghast when I said they were used up, apparently she thought I would keep them as a treasure!
A houseplant with long lethal spikes on the leaves, that poked your eye out when you got near it, that didn't last long!

Ex ~ A hoover for leaves that was so huge and heavy I couldn't even pick it up, you were supposed to strap it to your back!
A huge tool box that I needed two hands to lift, years later when he left I gave it back to him for his own tools.

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

My Ex and I used to wonder if his mother did that. Memorable gifts from her included a plastic dome clock of such quality that the whole thing weighed considerably less than the AAA battery that went in it (she thought it would look nice on our mantelpiece - that's our non-existent mantepiece) and a set of 6 really naff place mats featuring Olde English scenes. There were only 5 place mats in the box and two of them had the same picture on.

That family had form for it. SIL1 gave us a half-bottle of port and some stilton in a gift set. They'd clearly wrapped it and kept it in their living room for weeks, as the stilton was nothing but a slab of congealed grease that stank to high heaven. SIL gave us a fleece blanket: it was just about big enough for a child-size bed and had a psychotic looking cartoon giraffe on it that I couldn't have dreamed up if I'd spent a week dropping acid.

My ex trumped all of that though. The last present he gave me was a folding walking stick!

My dad bought me a Fitbit and told me if I stepped up my game I could get slim " before SIL", who just had a baby...

Two nightdresses from my godmother. I was a size 6/8 and they were a size 18...

A rape alarm as a Christmas gift. Practical, yes, just not very festive!

At t shirt style nightie with a really naff cartoon cat on it in horrible cheap looking colours.
At the time I had only worn romantic/ feminine / dramatic clothes for years. Thanks mum.

@TheToldYouSoDance that's an awesome gift! I love foot spas!