What was the shittest present you ever received?

[BrightonOrLancaster]

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

Nothing.

One year at Christmas I had to watch all my in laws open presents while I sat there with nothing awkwardly. I wouldn't of minded but I had been part of the family for 8 years at that point and had spent a lot of my own wages on them and had just cooked them Christmas dinner!
I don't really bother with gifts for them anymore though so worked out well.

First year I was with my bf his parents gave me a red Lacy thong folded up with a £20 note inside… it made me laugh so much but was also a little 🤨

A pair of bicycle lights so my then partner would not have to pick me up from work if I was working late (was young and learning to drive at the time) no other present. The following year he had a go at me for not buying myself a present from him as it made him look bad in front of his parents 😮

Not a shitty present but still so uncomfortable and awkward.

MIL doesn't buy any presents ever. She just can't be arsed. I mean we have very different tastes so I should probably be thankful that she doesn't buy gifts.

She turns up with FIL on Christmas Day/Boxing Day (we alternate with my parents each year) and hands me, DH, and DD's a teeny tiny brown envelope and we have to open them in front of her and exclaim joy and happiness at the two tenners she has put in each one. I swear it's so cringey! And also so impersonal. I've been with her son for 14 years and given her 2 GC's. You would think she would have tried to even guess what I would like by this point?

For my 40th my sister in law got me a photoframe that must have been sitting around in her bedroom.It was still in its package which was all dusty and sort of a yellowish colour.

I’ve had a fair few presents which have made me raise my eyebrow. One elderly family friend has always bought me things like coat hangers, scented drawer lines, pot pourri etc but it is just a gesture and the thought that counts

We have one family member well known for buying the oddest presents every year so we all wait eagerly to see what she’s given people 😂. Nose hair trimmers shaped like potatoes, random ornaments for the garden (when the recipient lived in a flat so didn’t even have a garden!) and for my DDs first birthday, clothes aged 4-5 that I could apparently keep until they fitted her. She’s so proud to give what she does but just always misses the mark

My ex h never bought me anything. 10 years together and not a single Christmas or birthday gift, bar one year where my birthday gift was an engagement ring. To this day I’m sure he only proposed to have a gift for me. He always had excuses why there was no gift, or promises of a dinner or trip in lieu which never materialised. I’m not sure why I stayed with him as long as I did

I’m not a good gift giver myself though so I cut people slack! I remember one year when I was living in the US as a teen I came home and brought my mum a gift of measuring cups. Not Christmas or birthday, just a gift. In my head they were a good gift - this was pre internet days and she was into baking and had been commenting on how she never understood the American measurements in some of her recipe books as cups weren’t known here at the time. So I thought this set would be ideal for her to bake her cakes and try recipes from her books she’d not been able to before. She hated them. Shouted at 19 year old me that after all she’s done for me over the years THAT was what I gave her? And threw them across the room.

Ever since, gift giving has caused me so much anxiety. I hate Christmas and birthday shopping now because I know I never get it right. And she’s not even a good gift giver herself - I can flat out tell her not to buy me something and why I don’t want it and she was go out and buy it 🤷🏼‍♀️

@RoastedParnsip I feel your pain!

MIL likes gardening. Well, she likes hoarding her garden with shit, and because she’s a narc she assumes everyone is the same. She’s always dropping hints that I should be into gardening and plant this and that.

So one Xmas she bought me a set of gardening tools. Whatever, I’ll just give to charity shop. The next Xmas it was gardening centre vouchers and so on. It’s getting quite annoying and she doesn’t respond to polite requests to stop.

The kicker is, I live in a rented house, so if I bothered sprucing up the garden, the place could get sold at any minute anyway. What am I going to do, dig it all up and take it with me? Plus the kids play football in the garden and anything would get wrecked anyway.

thetaleunfolds sounds like my M and my life

Everything I've ever had from the work Secret Santa. Stopped partaking after 3 years... why I left it that long I don't know

On one of my parent's frequent separations my dad got my brother an Airfix model kit, my sister a doll and me a brown briefcase that a middle aged tax inspector would have loved. I was about 12. Go figure.

I bought my dd's bf a nice set of pyjamas from what was Tammy Girl. In return dd received - from the well off parents of her bf - a turbi towel from Bodycare priced 99p. That was me told and we knew our place in the pecking order!

Not mine, my DNeice.
Last year, got her DP the newest Playstation, games and aftershave.
He got her.............a lighter. Not a zippo or anything flashy.

For Xmas this year DNeice has got herself the present of getting rid of her DP

Oh and I forgot an Aunt and Uncle bought me some horrible red and black nylon thongs that looked pornographic. I was only 11 but they bought them from the long since gone Elbeo factory shop. As if that was an excuse.

@Bagelsandbrie

My mil (who we now don’t speak to for various reasons, nothing to do with the upcoming shit present mentioned) once got me a set of silver western style spurs and little cowboy hats to fit on jacket potatoes so they look like little cowboys.

I need to see these!

An ex got me this absolutely hideous fascinator. I wasn’t planning on going to any fancy events requiring something like that either, and I was 20. Baffling.

The worst was my mother buying my 3 brothers kindles whilst I, the English literature university student, received a stuffed poodle doorstop. Really.

MIL brought me white belly warmer knickers in size 18 (I was a 10) from M&S. it was only the second time I’d met her.
BIL/SIL bought me this underwear set, a stretchy basque and thong. They didn’t even fit even slightly. The thong reached up above my chest it was so massive. The top was incredibly tight. So weird and personal and again only second time id met them.

@Bagelsandbrie

My mil (who we now don’t speak to for various reasons, nothing to do with the upcoming shit present mentioned) once got me a set of silver western style spurs and little cowboy hats to fit on jacket potatoes so they look like little cowboys.

This is hilarious. I almost want them. Please tell me you still have them!

@sixswans

When I was 18 my Dad bought me a doll, made entirely of dishcloths.

Where the heck did he buy it?

A mirror with a handmade plaster frame covered in glitter that friend proudly confessed he found at a charity shop. I didn’t even give a thought at what I was going to do with it… it went in the wheelie bin as soon as he left… along with any intention to ever buy a gift for him in the future.

When I was 6, my gran gave me a children's pink toothbrush at her Christmas Day party. I said loudly "But I've got a toothbrush at home!" My mum said later that in the other room was a little bicycle for one of her other grandchildren!

PILs - a loo brush and bathroom bin!

@30062015 I hope you are in a better place now, what a horrid thing to do to a child your meant to be caring for

One year now DH was working overseas for seven weeks in the run up to Christmas, on Xmas eve he decided he hadn’t bought me enough (he’d got me some lovely gifts) so he wrapped the free chocolates the hotel had given him and the amenity kit from the plane. 😂 it was kinda sweet, I think he panicked as I’d had a rough time while he was away and had been in hospital, the chocs were terrible though.

My ex father in law on my first Christmas married with them, gave me a "novelty" soap which was a large, bright blue penis shape!!.

No idea why he thought that was appropriate, even as a joke.

A friend had from her MIL, who also had questionable taste in gifts, a used roll on girdle which she had bought in a charity shop. It was grey in colour so had obviously been worn a fair bit.