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

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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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Thank you for the link plague

MIL is a lovely person, but despite asking, every year she buys me some clothing, ranging from bright yellow sweater I would bnever wear outside, an 80s style silver top which would make Alexis Carrington envious, some other dress in XXXL size (Ok, I'm size 16, but not 26), a pyjama that's too small, a jumper in the most unflattering shade of blue, I don;t know where she finds that stuff, I would literally struggle to find things this ugly and unfitting.

@GloriaSmud If I were you I would repay the gift card favour!

Mil just buys stuff she likes but won't use/fit herself and then gives them to me. Last year I got size 16 cat pyjamas (I'm size 10 and she knows I can't stand cats). I regifted them to a women's refuge immediately.

We have also been given partially used drinks but customers who clearly panicked and grabbed something out of the cupboard. We didn't expect anything!

DH got me a diet book once believe it or not we're still married!! It was a gut health one rather than weight loss but caused lots of raised eyebrows around the family when I opened it

My DHs grandfather was one of the most unpleasant people I've ever met. Misogynistic, racist, and generally unpleasant. Him and his wife had been very disparaging of my FiLs relationship with my MiL as they clearly didn't think she was good enough for him. Poor MiL had been suffering this for 40+ years by this time, but one of the few Christmases I was around before he passd away I had the pleasure of experiencing him first hand at a family Christmas gathering.

MiL was given a 2 pack of those oval plastic suckered soap holders. That was her entire xmas present. Wrapped in the standard used and unclean plastic bread wrapper.

Even better was when he had an 'extra' present for 'all the girls' (again, wrapped in a hard, unclean bread wrapper) which was a plastic reversing magnifyer to put on the rear window of the car...

There was also the year (pre me meeting DH) that DH was given a catering sized tin of baked beans that were 15years out of date.

Don't believe you gremlins

Every spotty pubescent 14 yo boy longs for Lynx AFRICA!

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This year DH and I got an (ostensibly) "his-and-hers" matching pen set bought from a charity shop. Both pens are engraved with the name "Julie". Neither of us are named Julie.

I'm middle aged and without fail since I've turned 40, I get a teen makeup set from my DM, it's gratifying she still sees as me young, and I smile and say thank you for the boots special eyeshadow every colour box of makeup / I've felt the large box under the tree this year / yep 😂 bless her.

Mind you when I was in my teens, I got completely age inappropriate perfume, think Poison or eu de lavender, I'm obviously regressing 🤣

DD has today received clothes from two different family members who, despite a) knowing her / having eyes to see roughly her size and b) texting me to check her size, and me texting info back, decided to buy her items not one, but 2 sizes too small (size 10 DD / size 6 clothes)

Now have a very sad DD as she loves the clothes and wanted to wear them tomorrow 😠
Why ask the size if you are just going to ignore the reply?!!