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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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longtompot · 14/12/2021 11:58

@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"
It looks like roadkill!
Thelnebriati · 14/12/2021 12:19

It looks highly flammable!

NeverDropYourMoonCup · 14/12/2021 12:26

@JakeyRolling

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"

My CD present from my brother c. 1990 was terrible in itself.

Simply Red, A New Flame.

I took it to Smiths, looked all sad and cute at the 18 year old lad behind the counter (I was 17 so it wasn't that creepy) and came out with a special edition of Dark Side of the Moon. And a phone number.

MummyDolly · 14/12/2021 12:33

[quote Stath]@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.[/quote]
That would've probably been a better gift 😂

MummyDolly · 14/12/2021 12:35

@Thelnebriati

It looks highly flammable!
They supposedly spent hours varnishing it just for me so I didn't have to 🤦🏻‍♀️ I had to keep it for at least one of their visits to see it "being used" xx
Frlrlrubert · 14/12/2021 14:29

At university the mother of my then boyfriend bought me two hideous mugs, to keep at his house, that they bought him, which I didn't live in, because they were renting the other rooms out at a rate I couldn't afford. She also commented that she wasn't worried about him because she knew I'd 'keep the place clean'.

She was actually nice, but tone deaf about the class difference.

HAVELOCK · 14/12/2021 14:36

About 16ish and received a “necklace” from an youngish aunt. The chain was like bathroom plug chain and it had 3 polystyrene balls on it of about ping pong ball size and they were covered in silver and glitter. My mum and I just looked at each other in shocked wonder 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

mam0918 · 14/12/2021 14:50

@FangsForTheMemory

A very old, very dear friend of mine is second to none in the crap gift stakes. She's very thrifty, borderline tight, and my birthday is nine days after hers so for many years I would get her birthday reject gifts. Ornamental Pierrot dolls. Packs of leftover paper napkins. A DVD of a film I've seen and don't particularly like anyway. I've tried shaming her into nicer gifts by spending quite a lot of money on hers. Nope. I actually said 'let's not bother, the postage is so expensive' but we've both just had a big birthday for which I sent her a huge and expensive bouquet of flowers. In return I got a four-pack of 10 gram tins of fancy teas (rum flavoured, vanilla flavoured, plain, and spice I think). I've given up.
maybe she views things the same way back though.

Id be baffled at being sent flowers, they just die and are a chore to look after as they do it, I know some places charge a lot but honestly they're all the same so £3 or £300 they are all worth £3 to me.

That said a tin of rum flavoured tea sound quirky, fun and interesting and I don't even drink tea, but I would try it and likely keep the tin to store stuff in lol.

mam0918 · 14/12/2021 14:56

@EggshellSpreadsheet

The Bunty Annual. Every single year from my Great Aunty Fanny until she passed when I was in my 30s.
I got some Buntys passed down when I was a kid and I LOVED them... I wonder what happened to them, I haven't seen them since we moved when I was a teen so I'm guessing one of my parents either threw them away or they got put into the 'storage locker' my parents always talk about but have never been to in the last 20 years.
CantStartaFireWithoutaSpark · 14/12/2021 14:59

An electronic back massager cushion thing from my boyfriend of 3 years.
We broke up indefinitely 2 weeks later.

HunterHearstHelmsley · 14/12/2021 15:48

@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"
It looked like a dinosaur from the thumbnail and I wanted one 🤣
Caoilinsmum1 · 14/12/2021 15:49

When I was about 13/14 my gran gave me a “babydoll” outfit, for anyone that doesn’t know what it is it’s a very skimpy lacy night gown with fur! Very inappropriate for a 13 year old but I guess thats what they did in their day lol also one year she got me a lamp shaped like a boot (it was Lacey and frilly) my cousin got the matching bodice 😂

mam0918 · 14/12/2021 16:03

@CoffeeWithMyOxygen

I think your sister may also be upset if she realised how little you care for her children !!

Oh give over. Nobody except the grandparents wants a calendar of other people’s children!

Exactly.

Cats/Dogs are universally cute, I have had many calenders of assorted random cute animals but I have never even wanted a calendar of my own children (calendars are stupid as the last 12 months and you recycle them to the paper plant, better to just hang a photo but even then I only want ones of MY kids) let alone someone else's.

I mean no offense to anyone but frankly I care about your kids no more than I care about any other random aquantance.

Even say my best friend, I love my best friend and her kids a perfectly nice people that I will chat to when at my friends but they are just part of the package of being friends with my friend. I don't LOVE the kids, they aren't my personal friends and wouldn't even know them if not for their mother so it would be bizarre to act like their my world and hang photos of them like some kind of shrine.

furbabymama87 · 14/12/2021 16:05

A necklace and clip on earrings when I was 18 from an aunt. It was like something an 80 year old woman would wear and who didn't have very good taste. I also had pierced ears.

BimbleBamble · 14/12/2021 16:11

Every year without fail a random relative of DH sends me a Tesco set festive paper napkins.

winnieanddaisy · 14/12/2021 16:25

@CoffeeWithMyOxygen I'm I grandmother and I wouldn't even want a calendar of my grandchildren every year Grin

Jabbawasarollingstone · 14/12/2021 16:26

A wooden key tidy thing that you hang your keys on, but decorated with the bust of a big Native American man, and our names burnt into it. I don't know what the sender was thinking.

TheCreamCaker · 14/12/2021 16:43

Years ago, a friend I'd known for many years once gave me a wrapped box of Milk Tray chocolates. I'd got him a pair of leather driving gloves....

TheMarmaladeYears · 14/12/2021 17:46

[quote winnieanddaisy]@CoffeeWithMyOxygen I'm I grandmother and I wouldn't even want a calendar of my grandchildren every year Grin[/quote]
I second that!

librarian55 · 14/12/2021 17:49

Not the worst present, but when I was 7 months pregnant, EVERYBODY bought me the same thing, a toiletry bag with shampoo, soap, etc. I hate when people are ungrateful for a present but by the time I opened the 6th one, I was ready to cry.

Holothane · 14/12/2021 18:02

I had that the year I was 20 at Christmas I was pissed off it was just cheap tat as well.

needacorset · 14/12/2021 18:43

The worst present I ever got was 'nothing'. Very upset about it. My brother turned up for our family Christmas, he bought everyone a present apart from me "didn't know what to get you sis".

stormysort · 14/12/2021 19:05

One year my MIL gifted me a half-used bottle of essential oil. The year after that it was a "buy one get one half off" coupon...

Bettyboopsboop · 14/12/2021 19:07

My DH bought me a disposable camera one year Confused

Ireolu · 14/12/2021 19:30

Ear phones from DH when he was still a DBF. Now I picked my presents myself.