Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

What was the shittest present you ever received?

850 replies

BrightonOrLancaster · 11/12/2021 22:52

Christmas I was 13, got a lacy training bra from an aunt I wasnt close to. WTF? I had to open it in front of family, was fucking mortified.

Birthday present from ex: dumbbells with flashing colour changing lights from ALDI. Lol. No comment

OP posts:
Thread gallery
5
Thegreencup · 11/12/2021 22:52

Honestly, anything from my PIL. Hmm

Mara263 · 11/12/2021 22:54

When I was 11 my granny gave me a handkerchief and some new school uniform. I wasn’t impressed hahaha

XenoBitch · 11/12/2021 22:57

A pack of generic M&S knickers... from my boyfriend's mum.

Logicked · 11/12/2021 22:58

When I was about 11-12, it was my birthday and my uncle and his wife gave me tape. I mean, why? I would have rather had a tiny bar of chocolate or you know, nothing.

TurnUpTurnip · 11/12/2021 22:59

Sister bought me a vibrator for my 18th birthday, found that very odd!

Nude colour leggings from my mum! 🤢

Notimeforaname · 11/12/2021 22:59

What kind of tape?😂

Logicked · 11/12/2021 23:00

@Notimeforaname

What kind of tape?😂
Regular tape, not even scotch! Ffs, at least buy me high quality tape, you tight gits.
Notimeforaname · 11/12/2021 23:03

For my 21st birthday. A ticket to a random acrobatic show where I was seated in a restricted viewing seat with a pillar right in front of me. Had to rest my legs on each side of it and lean to the side the entire 2 hours. Not joking.

Person who bought the ticket for me sat in the next seat with full view Hmm

Takeoutyourhen · 11/12/2021 23:04

Bookshelves, not the Cinderella star castle I was expecting!

Notimeforaname · 11/12/2021 23:05

Regular tape, not even scotch! Ffs, at least buy me high quality tape, you tight gits

I'm genuinely laughing at this. Sorry Logicked 🤣🤣🤣

Logicked · 11/12/2021 23:05

@Notimeforaname

For my 21st birthday. A ticket to a random acrobatic show where I was seated in a restricted viewing seat with a pillar right in front of me. Had to rest my legs on each side of it and lean to the side the entire 2 hours. Not joking.

Person who bought the ticket for me sat in the next seat with full view Hmm

Haha, lovely!
Original poster
BrightonOrLancaster · 11/12/2021 23:06

Tape is definitely a new low 😵

OP posts:
Logicked · 11/12/2021 23:07

@Notimeforaname

Regular tape, not even scotch! Ffs, at least buy me high quality tape, you tight gits

I'm genuinely laughing at this. Sorry Logicked 🤣🤣🤣

My mum and I just looked at each other like what the fuck is this about?! Hey, at least I had a mum, nan and uncle on the other side of the family that always got me lovely things!
mindutopia · 11/12/2021 23:07

For years, my MIL used to get me the Burts Bees gift set from Boots. I frankly hate Burts Bees, but I was gracious about it.

Then one year she was unloading the shopping from the car just as the neighbour drove past. My Burts Bees fell out the boot and neighbour RAN IT OVER with his car. She still wrapped the whole mangled box up and gave it to me though. Hmm Thankfully, Dh is on the case now and she mostly just buys me alcohol. Wine

PickledCherry · 11/12/2021 23:07

A pen.

lilmishap · 11/12/2021 23:08

A line of cocaine from my partner of 8 years (at the time) he'd staggered in at 9am on christmas morning after shagging someone else.

That was a shit one. He bought some other woman an actual present (not the woman he was shagging either)

Same boyfriend got me a book I'd mentioned, gave it to me on boxing day, he'd ripped the first page out and I found it in the bin....with a message to the woman he'd actually bought it for.

Yeah I'm not sure who the bigger dickhead was either.

Soyouthought · 11/12/2021 23:08

Thought I was getting a lovely bespoke coffee table that I had hinted at and as DH said my present had to be delivered to PIL so I couldn’t see it I thought h had bought it. It was an ironing board. They thought it was hilarious. He can’t remember but I still curl up a bit inside when I remember.

Notimeforaname · 11/12/2021 23:10

PickledCherry was it a really good pen?🤣

Mara263 · 11/12/2021 23:12

One year my husband got me a DVD and when we opened it to watch there was no DVD in the case 😂😂😂😂

Original poster
BrightonOrLancaster · 11/12/2021 23:12

@mindutopia
That scene has really amused me 😁

While @lilmishap and @Soyouthought your stories are very touching. Presents are never really just about the presents are they

OP posts:
CaroleFuckingBaskin · 11/12/2021 23:14

Loving this thread Grin

Notimeforaname · 11/12/2021 23:14

I'm howling laughing at some of these. 🤣
Shocked by others.

cakeforthewin · 11/12/2021 23:16

A box of 'slim pasta'. I thought pasta was generally a strange choice but 'slim pasta'? It's not that I was on a diet either. Maybe it was a hint!

OnlyHereForTheClothes · 11/12/2021 23:16

I once got a vest top from my MIL that was a full two sizes too big for me. She said she'd guessed I was that size 🤣.

Dh once got me nothing for my bday the year we moved into our house and we were extremely busy. It wasn't a money thing. He could have got me some pants or a bottle of wine or something, but he didn't. I was really upset actually. He bought me panic flowers in the end!

hopelessbusiness · 11/12/2021 23:17

I got an unsolicited copy of Rosemary Conley's hip and thigh diet from boyfriend of the time. Had never expressed an interest in it and thought my normal 21 year old body was not too shabby. Obviously he didn't!!