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What was the shittest present you ever received?

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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

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EggshellSpreadsheet · 14/12/2021 01:54

Also, a clock mounted inside a pink pearlescent plastic shell (to look like a pearl in an oyster perhaps?) on gold plastic legs from my distant eastern European relatives whom I have never met.

GreenEyeOfTheLittleYellowGod · 14/12/2021 01:59

@EggshellSpreadsheet

The Bunty Annual. Every single year from my Great Aunty Fanny until she passed when I was in my 30s.
Oh my god I still have all my old Bunty annuals passed down from my aunties. I love them 🥰
Miisty · 14/12/2021 03:42

From my sister in law draw lining paper wonder is she bought a mega load as she gave some to my late mother who was so upset Still in wrapper may give it back next year

thegreatporkchop · 14/12/2021 05:32

A Scotchbrite scrubbing pad and a stale scone.

VK456 · 14/12/2021 06:26

I so, so wish I could respond to this, but my daughter is on here and it would ‘out’ me, even under a different name. Not that they were from her!

Stirling2701 · 14/12/2021 07:53

A friend gave me a contraption for going for a wee if one is caught short in the car. I told her that once we had gone on a long journey and I was dying for the toilet, and this was her response. I have never used it.

girafferafferaffe · 14/12/2021 08:14

@WestendVBroadway

My late DM was notoriously rubbish at buying gifts. One Christmas I received a 'delightful ' plastic make up organiser. It was too big to fit into dressing table drawer and there was no way I was having that crap on show, so I never used it. Mind you I would rather have my Mum and her crap gifts back in my life.
I've got this 🤣
ginger21 · 14/12/2021 08:15

My MIL gave my D (then aged 7) a pair of my H's old desert boots from when he was that age that she'd kept. At the time she worked for the World Bank.

ginger21 · 14/12/2021 08:17

love that you detail that the scone was stale

Ellen888 · 14/12/2021 08:28

@Stirling2701

A friend gave me a contraption for going for a wee if one is caught short in the car. I told her that once we had gone on a long journey and I was dying for the toilet, and this was her response. I have never used it.
Ah-ha - you mean a "She-wee". They're very useful on long country walks etc

Why not re-gift it to someone who likes hiking ? (unused, of course Wink )

www.shewee.com/

Mmmmdanone · 14/12/2021 08:31

A couple of years ago my husband bought me some boots. They were hideous. Real leather but horribly stiff and heavy. I could hardly walk in them. When I put them on he joked about me looking like a cowboy.They looked horrible. He has a habit of going into tk max on Christmas eve and just buying whatever shit is left. We are in the process of splitting up so hopefully he's got me nothing this year 😅

MummyDolly · 14/12/2021 08:41

I got a lump of wood from the in-laws and they added a wooden tea light holder to it saying "they saw it and thought I'd like it as it's modern"

NotTheOriginalFeargalSharkey · 14/12/2021 08:43

I got mumps. When I was 6. Never did find out who gave them to me.
Dd followed this tradition. She got chicken pox at 6. No idea who gave her them! All the other kids she was at school or clubs with had them 3 years before her.
As an actual gift, my ex mil always gave me nightie. Old lady frilly nightie. Super shiny polyester. I think the last time I wore a nightie, I was 4.
Some of the others sound awful.

Glitterblue · 14/12/2021 08:58

Mil gave me a garden fork and a trowel. I hate gardening and she knows it! We are NC now, for many reasons, not that present 😂

GreenEyeOfTheLittleYellowGod · 14/12/2021 09:13

My dad walking out. I was six. Seemed shitty at the time but he probably did me a favour!

JakeyRolling · 14/12/2021 09:31

Oh god. I've just unwrapped my birthday present from DH. It's an Adele cd. Not terrible in and of itself, but considering my taste is centred around Ac/Dc/ Led Zeppelin/Queen/ Pink Floyd kinda area it's a bit weird.

I think I mentioned one of her songs was "not bad"

starrynight87 · 14/12/2021 09:42

@MummyDolly

I got a lump of wood from the in-laws and they added a wooden tea light holder to it saying "they saw it and thought I'd like it as it's modern"
Haha, a tea light!
KAT0779 · 14/12/2021 10:00

Some of these are truly awful, but 30062015 I cried when I read yours.
Its bad enough treating a child like that but whilst treating others differently and so much better than they treated you is just pure evil. As others have said I really hope your life got much better x

Mothership4two · 14/12/2021 10:10

@MummyDolly

You kept it though Smile

HoseMeDownWithHolyWater · 14/12/2021 10:16

My horrible ex told me what he'd planned for my 18th birthday present.

To cut my hair off in my sleep.

(He didn't actually do it but the threat was enough)

Taranta · 14/12/2021 10:37

My late autistic DF had form for shit presents.

  • A biro for my 17th
  • A woodworking plane for my 21st (no interest at all in woodworking)
  • a small triangular piece of cardboard onto which he had glued 9 postage stamps in triangular formation.

He was the king of random Confused

user1496166508 · 14/12/2021 10:55

Where do I start lol.

My sister once wrapped a book up I had in my bedroom and gave me it. I knew it was mine because she'd left a gap in the bookshelf where it should have been.

A famly friend once gave me chocolates which wouldn't have been so bad, but they weren't even in a box and were going white on top, she'd clearly had them and decided to give me the ones she didn't like. They were wrapped up in a tissue!

Another family friend had a birthday and we bought her a lovely (well we thought it was) age-appropriate photo album with butterflies and flowers on it (she'd just had a new grandchild and was into her garden so we thought it was a thoughtful present). 2 years later for Christmas I got the exact same photo album back! She'd obviously just put it in the "re-gift" cupboard without making note of who she had got it from in the first place. My Mum didn't fair any better, she got a "free gift" from a company if you placed an order, but there was an item missing from the gardening bag lol.

Interrobanger · 14/12/2021 10:57

Shower gel that gave me a terrible rash that took two weeks to disappear.

ExConstance · 14/12/2021 11:13

A book on Danish interiors from a former lover who just strolled into his local bookshop and picked books at random.

Stath · 14/12/2021 11:53

@MummyDolly at first glance I thought it was a cross section taxidermy model of a ginger cat that had been run over by a hgv.
With a tea light in.