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To Ask About The Most Hilariously Awful Xmas Gifts You've Received

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Absofuckinglutely · 18/12/2018 18:10

Lighthearted thread. The SIL's awful gift thread on here today made me wonder what the worst Xmas presents you've ever received are.

My stepmum - dad's third wife (who clearly doesn't like me and promotes her daughters and grandchildren over my child - whom she blatantly doesn't care two hoots about), gives the worst presents of all time.

There have been a few - monogrammed animal print dressing gowns for myself and my ex DH (we were still married at the time, she's not THAT bad). Cheapest, most flammable and flimsy material ever, Ex DH's barely skimmed his bum, and funniest of all, bore my married initial, when she knew perfectly well I had kept my maiden name.

The worst / best though was a bottle of vodka. Not too bad you're thinking......however, it had been opened and almost a third was missing. I shit you not. She'd clearly just gone into her cupboard and pulled out any old bottle that was lurking about and popped it in a gift bag - job done.

I'd also like to mention that they are incredibly wealthy people.

I now shake my head, laugh and wait for the next hilarious instalment of awful present giving.

Do regale me with your tales of crap present giving....

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BlueJava · 18/12/2018 18:13

My MIL (who I get on with and I am not knocking she's just a bit ditzy) once gave me a size 10 polo next jumper. I am size 18. After me and DP had gone to our room I tried it on - and I couldn't get it off and he had to help. We couldn't stop laughing because I was basically stuck in a jumper kneeling on the floor with him tugging upwards. The next morning there were lots of comments "what were you laughing at last night?" but we couldn't say!

frami · 18/12/2018 18:14

Cable ties. Myself and DD1 each recieved a packet last year. DD2 got expensive make-up, DH nice booze. Still trying to figure out why we were deemed worthy of the cable ties.

MidnightAura · 18/12/2018 18:14

We got a carbon monoxide detector from the in-laws.

scalleywag · 18/12/2018 18:14

I was given a polyester 'silk' nightie from MIL. I was a size 8 at the time. The nightie was a size 14.

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Absofuckinglutely · 18/12/2018 18:17

Frami- Fifty Shades?! Grin

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MsVestibule · 18/12/2018 18:19

My (thankfully ex) boyfriend bought me a pair of flamingo slippers. They were so big, walking down the stairs in them was a major trip hazard and the neck curled half way up my shins. Utterly hideous.

It was his only present to me too, so not even the excuse of 'ha ha, aren't these an additional hilARious present' type thing.

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Absofuckinglutely · 18/12/2018 18:19

Seems like in laws or step parents are the likely culprits here!!

So funny about the size 10 polo. Grin

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Armchairanarchist · 18/12/2018 18:20

I post the beast each time I see a post like this. MIL last Christmas bought me...

To Ask About The Most Hilariously Awful Xmas Gifts You've Received
Ted27 · 18/12/2018 18:21

My brother and his girlfirend gave me a single brandy glass with dried flowers in it. My great auntie Mildred would have loved it, I was about 30. I never even drunk brandy

Merrychristmasyoufilthyanimals · 18/12/2018 18:22

a video about ghosts on VHS......2 years ago

colorao · 18/12/2018 18:23

Was pregnant with DTwins one Christmas and MIL bought me some size 22 "maternity" wear. I'm a size 10/12 so we queried it, apparently she was expecting me to get A LOT bigger with the twins. They were from Evans so couldn't even exchange them. She got in a huff when we asked for the receipt and lobbed some money at DH.

Great Aunt on DH's side bought me a ring holder in the shape of a very sparkly stiletto that was monogrammed. Weren't my initials though, they were hers! A regifting fail.

DH bought me a machine a bit like a toastie maker that made fairy cakes and another that made cake pops in the same way. He bought them the same year he got me a KitchenAid as I love baking and decorating cakes. The machines were just weird as he knows I'm perfectly able to make that stuff with an oven and mixer.

Once asked for a specific Topshop cardigan from my parents and on Christmas Day I opened a M&S cardigan from them. Different style and colour but Dad said it was better made!

Burlea · 18/12/2018 18:23

Hubbie was given a childs backpack from my mum.

Shitonthebloodything · 18/12/2018 18:23

A 4 inch screen, black and white TV I think it was bought from the local garage on Xmas Eve (it was 2006) along with an Ann summers cat dress up costume with ears and a tail. They came gift wrapped in a bin bag.

derekthe1adyhamster · 18/12/2018 18:24

I got espresso mugs for my coffee machine. I don't drink espressos ( they do) and I already had some for guests ( which they've drink out of)
Even my ds commented.
Oh and another year I got a book on the history of ice cream. The thing is they are lovely people Smile

sheldonstwin · 18/12/2018 18:24

OMG @armchairanarchist that is truly vile.

frami · 18/12/2018 18:25

Absofuckinglutly should add they were posh cable ties, from John Lewis none of your £ shop rubbish. Smile

VickyEadie · 18/12/2018 18:26

A close friend, whose MiL hates her and doesn't hide it, gave her for Xmas a beaded purse (the kind you had as a child and, if you were me, systemitcally bit the beads off) and inside was an opened tube of Trebor mints.

colorao · 18/12/2018 18:26

ArmchairAnarchist - It's so bad that I kind of love it! Grin

VickyEadie · 18/12/2018 18:27

Feck! Systematically

RitaMills · 18/12/2018 18:28

One of those glittery wine glasses and glittery cheap rosé wine bottles that you always see on the Facebook selling tat threads, I didn’t even regift it just went in the bin. I had to laugh though because I thought no one bought that shit, I was wrong.

OneFootintheRave · 18/12/2018 18:30

I received a plastic pet food dish and a 4 pack of batteries as a secret Santa pressie one year at the office party. Didn't have a pet.

GinIsIn · 18/12/2018 18:31

Used primark bath mat

KC225 · 18/12/2018 18:32

An odd girl at work took a shine to me after I helped her out and bought me a Christmas gift. It was a rubber mat for a car (I don't drive and don't have a car) with the scariest looking cat stenciled on it. She had heard I had a cat. The cat's eyes were printed onto one of the raised rubber grooves which made it look as if they were following you around the room. It was the stuff of horror films. Another friend with a car said she would take it off my hands, a few weeks later getting into her car, I asked her where it was. She has to wear a uniform for work and said 'I had to get rid if it, it felt as if that cat was looking up my skirt whilst I was driving. This was in the late 90s and sometimes we still laugh about the haunted cat mat.

EatSleepRantRepeat · 18/12/2018 18:33

My dead aunt's hat and some body lotion that had gone rancid with age. But surprisingly well-wrapped.

PlumbingQuandry · 18/12/2018 18:33

Fuck me Armchair you win hands down, that is truly hideous!!! One of my best awful presents was a 2nd hand very beaten walking stick from MIL - I was 32 & fit as a fiddle at the time. It was nothing fancy, just one of those wooden ones with a crooked handle.. Hmm Not Christmas, but my wedding, my aunt decided to go off-piste & gave us a market-stall worthy lemon yellow/blue patterned 1980s polyester duvet cover that was so obscenely ugly it went straight to charity - ditto some Del Boy gold rimmed not-even-argos-quality water glasses.