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

My mum bought me something once, but before she gave it to me she told me how amazing and special it was and would only give it to me after I reassured her I was worthy of it. She kept asking if I'd be grateful, whether I deserved it, whether I could be trusted with it. She said she gave the same to my brother because she knows 'he'll appreciate it', 'he will look after it', 'he deserves it'. But wasn't sure if I was worthy so wanted time to decide (🤷)

After her lengthy interview she finally decided I was worthy and gave it to me (value of said present is less than £15 by the way! It's a nice item I might have chosen for myself if out shopping and spotted it)

Now I have it I can't even look at the bloody thing! as it reminds me how little she thinks of me in comparison to my sibling. I hate the flippin thing, so I guess her fears that it would be wasted on me came true!! all her holes in making!

@tiredisnottheword

A Second hand jewellery box...with no jewellery in it. I thought for a second he was going to propose. So embarrassed as I opened it in front of his family and it was written all over my face. Weirdly I found said box in the attic today. Yea we’re still together

My ex once bought me a jewellery box. I really, really wanted a new jewellery box. But I had been very specific that I wanted a musical one, where you wind it up and it plays when you open it. The reason I asked for one like that is because the music mechanism in the one my grandma gave me when I was a child had broken a few years before.

I opened a big, boring, plain, non-musical hideous and dull box. Yes, it was functional, but it was so fucking ugly.
He stated that he'd deliberately mocked my choice to the jeweller and they joined together to choose me a "sensible" and "grown-up" box.
I still have it and it still angers me.

"He stated that he'd deliberately mocked my choice to the jeweller and they joined together to choose me a "sensible" and "grown-up" box.
I still have it and it still angers me."

@AMerryNickelChristmas I'm so glad to hear he's an ex!!! Burn the damn thing (or ebay it) and get yourself a music box! BTW I'm 32 and I think old fashioned musical jewellery boxes are a delight.

@NameChangeCity123

A denim Victorian (?) style coat with tails at the back which was two sizes two big and had a missing button

I think I'm the only person on the planet, but I would have loved this - but then I do tell everyone that I like weird fashion and that I love slightly broken things that I can fix!

I kid you not, but an ex once fashioned a silk scarf for me from an old pair of silk boxers that he'd grown out of. I am not lying.

@ClintBartonsWife

My Great Aunt was very generous and liked to give all the kids in the family Christmas gifts. She also left us all an extraordinary amount in her will.

But one memorable year she did buy me checked golf trousers. I was 13. I did not like golf.

One year, around about October time, I mentioned to DH that I quite fancied a toasted sandwich. On Christmas day he proudly presented me with a toasted sandwich maker. I'm a bit more careful with what I say to him now in the lead up to Christmas

See I love these types of stories - the gifts may not have been to your taste but they were given in love! Rather than just pure lack of thought or care like some of these. Laughing to think of your DH all proud of himself 🤣

My Aunt once gave me a leather knitted waistcoat. It was hideous enough on its own but the leather was poorly cured and the whole thing smelled rank. We tried to give it away to all of our visitors over the holidays but they kept accidentally leaving it behind.

Nothing.

Deep fat fryer from my husband, it went back on Boxing Day.
A huge flowery pair of M&S full briefs from my MIL, two sizes too large. And I am not a tiny person...

Last year, socks in a wine bottle bag from MIL! the sheer disappointment of not finding wine in a wine bag.

My dad's broken my heart with shit gifts more times than I'd care to say. As an adult I can see that some of them were just stuff he was given that he was recycling, but I hardly ever saw him and a gift that said he knew who I was, or cared, would have meant a lot.

Also my ex-MIL. Cheap fake pearls from Claire's one year, a nasty cheap pink terry toweling dressing gown another year. I was kind of chic & goth at the time.

A subscription to a fitness magazine so I could "get in shape"... didn't realise I was actually "out of shape"... but I guess my boyfriend thought otherwise so there you go.

A vacuum cleaner from my boyfriend for our first Christmas . His present choices have improved over the past 30 years!

I went away on a PGL school trip for a week, returning the day after my 14th birthday. During that time my parents had redecorated my bedroom complete with new wallpaper, lightshade and bed set, all matchy matchy. It was my joint birthday and Xmas present. It was a lovely effort but I was absolutely gutted, I had had no input in it and didn't even want my room redecorated, nor had they offered. It was quite the surprise.

For my 22nd Xmas my aunt gave me a cuddly orangutan with long arms and velcro on the end so it could hang around your shoulders. Well, maybe it would if you were a 10 year old. I was a large 22 year old front row rugby player. It didn't fit round my neck.

A learn-to-read book from my Godmother when I was 15, and a pair of extra-large (riesen gross) brown adult tights from a German penfriend when I was a size 6 (not boasting about size - am now much larger - but merely pointing out the size was inappropriate).

Mini pack remover wipes ( from M&S)

Wind up torch in the shape of a penguin when I was 30.. now I have kids they love it, as I kept it.

Phone screen cleaner??

A VHS instruction tape on how to use a waxing machine (but no waxing machine)…only the tape! Same person has given me expired pack of biscuits and an expired cake (dated as expired) and a cardboard ‘air freshener’ tree for my car that smelled so vile it couldn’t even be used to freshen the bin! Looking back I think some people feel the need to reciprocate gifts and think any old rubbish is better than nothing…I disagree…would rather get nothing tbh. Also the oversized clothes from MIL’s is something a lot of us seem to experience 🤣

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My DS gave me a pube trimmer about 3 years ago….

Both from the same friend actually; second hand earrings for Christmas absolutely full of gunk out of someone’s ears. Also Warren James earrings in a Pandora box for my 40th birthday.

Husband’s granny gave me a flan dish. It still had flan stuck in the fluted bits!

One of these Etsy shop gifts which probably cost the sender a tenner but contained two teabags and two of those Border biscuits.

Items of clothing 2 sizes two big (in the sender's size with no tags - they were obviously not their style so thought they would pass them on as an Xmas gift). Was pretty disappointing as this person has known me my whole life, and I've been the same adult size for 15+ years.