What was the shittest present you ever received?

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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

Omg and my best one-

When we’d been together about 6/7 years I was absolute dying for my (now) husband to propose. He’s hinted he had got me something really special that year so I was very hopeful. I opened a little bag from him and in it was a tiny beautiful box, and in it was…. A fucking FOSSIL.

@Mara263
Hahaha oh jesus christ! What the hell! 🤣👏

A slimming world cookbook from my mum.

I was not doing slimming world. I wasn't even on a diet.

It was a hint.

The year after she bought me a "pilates for weight loss" set

My mother would often buy me something she wanted herself, wrap it, and then after I'd opened it take it back saying that it was 'too good' for me.

As we only got one present and a few sweets and orange/walnut, this was a bit of a blow.

But what teenager really needs a carriage clock for their mantlepiece?

@SpindlesAdventWhirl

My mother would often buy me something she wanted herself, wrap it, and then after I'd opened it take it back saying that it was 'too good' for me.

As we only got one present and a few sweets and orange/walnut, this was a bit of a blow.

But what teenager really needs a carriage clock for their mantlepiece?

Well she sounds pretty fucking evil. Sorry Spindles.

No spindles! That's so awful

A sewing basket and a gallon of car shampoo. I locked him out for an hour after his parents left and their dogs had piddled in the carpet in several places so I ended up getting the carpet shampooer out. Things have got better since then...

@SpindlesAdventWhirl
Such a cruel thing to do

I've still still got my main present from when I was 5 years old. It's an adult Bible.

She's written in it with the date. I've kept it so she can't gaslight me over it.

Ach well, some parents are just crackers aren't they?

Pizza cutter and a single oven glove.

MIL buys DH a box of Pringles every year. At 34 he asked her to stop this year as he actually doesn't like Pringles

From my DH grandmother....a second hand bra.
We were visiting his parents on my birthday and she pulled it out of her bag like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat in front of everyone, threw it across to me and said loudly ' it's about your size '
My then 23 year old self nearly died on the spot.
Everyone else was like 😲

Tube of Pringles?! Does she vary the flavour?

I got a roll of cling film in a dispenser one year. Tbf I do still use it.

Pork scratchings from a close family member a few years ago. 🤔

Last year husband bought me real tacky crotchless underwear, caused huge row! 😡

Not birthday or Christmas related, but a bf I was with for two years when I was 19 or 20 came back from town looking quite excited and said he'd got me a present. It was a beef & tomato Pot Noodle that had been reduced for quick sale. I had never expressed an interest in beef & tomato Pot Noodles. He seem baffled that I wasn't delighted. He was 26 so old enough to know better!

An out of date box of chocolates and a bottle of perfume my best mate of 10 plus years knew would smell like cat pee on me.

6 months late.

Paper Cupcake liners 😂

When I was a tiny size 8-10 teenager, my mum bought me a twin set in size 18-20 and the said it looked like it would fit me

A box of handkerchiefs that were mouldy.

My now husband (in the very early days of our relationship) gave me a size 22 dressing gown. I was a size 8. My aunt nearly wet herself laughing.

We wondered whether he thought it was like children's sizes, where you buy by age??

He said there were only 20,22,24 on the rail. He thought it was a whole new sizing system that he hadn't come across before and just went for the middle one.

It didn't really feel like a shitty present. I think there was something else too, I don't remember. The size 22 dressing gown was much more memorable.

Can I just say I’m really enjoying this thread 😂

@irregularegular
Theres something really cute about that :)

Not shit as such, but so not me. My DF would get very random presents. One birthday in the late 80s he told my DB he'd got me the Bros album. He was very proud of himself because he knew teenage girls liked Bros. Except that this teenage girl very much didn't, I liked Bon Jovi, Poison and Guns n Roses! Luckily DB persuaded him to take it back and exchange it for a record token.

When I was 14 My stepmother who we lived with decided my father should shop for my brother and stepbrother and she would shop for me.
Christmas morning the boys had a pile of all new action man stuff and action man dressing up outfit and accessories. All the rage at the time. They were well pleased. I unwrapped my one present. A very old fashioned knitted dress with the Oxfam shop label still attatched so she could exchange it if it did not fit.