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 SIL gave me laundry bags last Xmas. I was "Eh? Why?"

Omg this made me laugh ….. sorry

A 4 pack of double A batteries from my db’s mil.
A bath set by Baylis and Harding from my cousin which must have been a few years old because there wasn’t the slightest whiff of the original perfume left!

Last year, a friend sent a gift box with the tag 'you can't ever open this gift...it's filled with love.'

So, an empty box then. Cheers.

I also got sellotape for Christmas when I was 5 - difference was I'd asked for it. It was from my lovely aunt who decided it wasn't enough by itself and also sent me a couple of sheets of colour in paper dolls with the clothes you cut out and hung off them from little tabs.

lilmishap I hope you are well shot of that wonderful man!

@WhoaBettyWhite

Many many years ago, my great aunt got me a pair of black tights, when I opened the packet (with the whole room watching) there was a disgusting smell, my great aunt had brought me a pair of USED dirty black tights from her local charity shop..!!! Now whenever I see a wrapped item the same shape and size, my stomach lurches and I get flashbacks

My grandparents bought me a pair of adult size, nude tights for Christmas. I was six. I then overheard my grandmother justifying it to my dad, saying that was all they could afford after buying my cousin a massive scalextric track! We were the only grandchildren and I’ve never forgotten.

Right, I've definitely won the 'worst ever present' competition...

My MIL will buy quite random gifts - she's a very nice person, but not a great gift-buyer. One year she surpassed herself and bought me a bikini trimmer. I went a bit red when I opened it in front of the whole family, then to make it worse she announced 'I'm sure that you've already got a minge-trimmer but you can never have too many of these things, can you!'

I'm still not sure to this day whether she just bought it 'cos it was on special offer, or whether she thought that I was a really hairy-mary and needed not one but two trimmers to keep the bush pruned!

A carrier bag of bootleg porn dvds bought from 'a man in the pub' 😑

A pair of gel knee protectors for DIY from a now ex. He was such a romantic soul!!

As children, we used to go to an annual Christmas event where we would be given a small present from Father Christmas.
I didn't realise that each child's parents bought the gift for their child.
One year I unwrapped mine to find a notebook, pencil and travel bottle of Vosene.
I was so disappointed, as all the other girls were being given brightly coloured pretty little fripperies that probably cost pennies from Woolworths. Mine were so dull.
I think I managed to hide how upset I was.

Secret Santa at work got me knickers for a six year old girl with WB characters on them. Tweety Pie, Sylvester the cat and the Roadrunner.

I didn't have any children. I was really weirded out.

Too many to mention from MIL. One of those clips for a car seat belt last year, the ones which you use when you're short to stop the seatbelt digging into your face or neck ( I’m 5ft 7 ), and I also got a pink lampshade (but no lampstand to hang it on)both wrapped in that see through Xmas paper you used to get years ago. She must have stock piled it. The year before a size 32 bra (I’m 36), but she had sewed some elastic at the back to the fasteners to make it bigger. I think the bra might even have been second hand. I used to think it funny, but now it just pisses me off, and I even refused to call her to thank her last year.

My first husband, noting I was into fibre crafts, got me a cross stitch sampler... that his mum had already completed. It was an animal and it had creepy, beady eyes that would follow you around the room.

My second husband got me a Pokémon pin badge.

Can't be bothered with husbands any more, tbh.

A pair of age 6 pants from the grandmother. I was 12

Shit quality pyjamas with red cartoon reindeer that even Pablo Picasso wouldn't have admitted to drawing from my mother's mother.

Not totally shit in and of themselves but I was about 13/14 and that same year my sister and next youngest cousin both got rope lights (which were a cool mid-90s thing)

That woman had a lot of grandkids and not a lot of money but I always got the worst presents as I was very much the least favourite - I was born just a couple of months after another of my cousins with a severe life-limiting condition. I've never resented him for that as he's been seriously ill for most of his life, but it did mean I was very much overshadowed by him (and he WAS the favourite, even without his condition)

my grandmother

A lump of disgusting Lush soap , It was beautifully wrapped and I thought it was my favourite scent.
My ex husband was a horrible mean person.
Also a size 22 jumper with a zip neck from a mil .

When I was 14, a v.short satin chemise from my dad/his new girlfriend. Not only age inappropriate but it smelt of her perfume... she'd clearly tried it on and decided to gift it instead. God I hated her!

My maternal Grandma would always buy me animal print accessories. Ive never worn animal print and she didn't either. Everyone else got much more staid presents. I try not to think about how I'm the only black woman in an otherwise white family, but

Ex mil got me a child's game when I was 22 because I liked the character. I appreciate the thought but when exh and family are all opening lovely gifts and I got that I felt a bit down.

Then there was the year I got a black patent bag with yellow chains on it. I don't use bags and I still don't. Exh that year opened a gift bag the same size as mine and he got lots of lovely clothes etc.

My parents would always get him lovely gifts.

Now dh hasn't got me a bad present yet.

A portable fan heater for my car from my DH. His gift giving has improved I am glad to say!

@lilstarr99 was your cousin your Grans Daughters child?

Why do women think they can treat DDs children better than DSs.

Several items of clothing in really garish bright colours and patterns because my mother thought I wore too much black and looked like a goth. I was 13 I think

@mindutopia

My Mum gave me slippers, fine, except she bought the rest of the family amazing gifts. For example my brother received a piece of furniture, a Welsh dresser I think and another brother's girlfriend some beautiful leather boots. When I told her how upset I was, she explained she thought my husband and I could afford to buy nice things for ourselves.