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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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Alfixn · 11/12/2021 23:54

Hmm, my husband got me a hoover that HE had previously been talking about wanting for months
He's normally a great gift giver, so I was all excited about this mysterious giant box under the tree...

Cryalot2 · 11/12/2021 23:54

A cheap necklace with a big scratch across it. I couldn't even donate to the charity shop.
Dh got shaving stuff. He has a beard !

After reading we have done ok compared to many .

lilmishap · 11/12/2021 23:58

@OhGiveUp

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 😲
You just woke my kids up by making me roar. That's brilliant
lilmishap · 12/12/2021 00:00

@eatsleeplaugh

A box of handkerchiefs that were mouldy.
so many questions!
MrsBush · 12/12/2021 00:00

A box of potpourri. It still had the gift tag on addressed to the gift giver from someone else.

HaggisBurger · 12/12/2021 00:04

@Mara263

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.

You win Mumset 2021 for me … glad you forgave him enough to marry him when he finally read the room a little better
WhoaBettyWhite · 12/12/2021 00:05

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 Sad

fourandnomore · 12/12/2021 00:06

I thought it was a hugely magnifying mirror from MIL that she described as I opened it ‘you can see every pore really closely and all your lines and it’s horrifying’ but to be honest I’ve used it loads for doing eyeliner so it wasn’t as bad as I thought - and reading some of these I’m going to count myself very fortunate.

Mara263 · 12/12/2021 00:07

@HaggisBurger I’m still convinced he did it on purpose to wind me up (although he Mai rains he didn’t)

He proposed six months later and when he got the box out of his pocket I said “this better not be another bloody fossil” it’s become a bit of a family joke now

Mara263 · 12/12/2021 00:08

*he maintains

I’ve got the weirdest autocorrect ever I swear

fourandnomore · 12/12/2021 00:08

Oh I’ve remembered another one. My friend regifted back to me the present I’d given her 6 months earlier, except only part of the gift. It was the ‘extra’ little something i had added to the main gift. We were only about 16 but I did feel a bit hurt.

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BrightonOrLancaster · 12/12/2021 00:09

@fourandnomore
Was this recently? I heard about some kind of super zoom mirror thats recently been launched, apparently its 50/50 whether you love or hate it!

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HaggisBurger · 12/12/2021 00:12

[quote Mara263]@HaggisBurger I’m still convinced he did it on purpose to wind me up (although he Mai rains he didn’t)

He proposed six months later and when he got the box out of his pocket I said “this better not be another bloody fossil” it’s become a bit of a family joke now[/quote]
Awww that’s good!!! At least it wasn’t another 6 years 😊😊

BelindaBumcrack · 12/12/2021 00:14

After DH and I had got engaged, my paternal grandmother gifted me a plastic spoon rest and a tea towel - for my bottom drawer.

She wasn't a very nice person. My DF was terrified of her. She had zero maternal instincts. She was never like a grandmother at all. Just an unpleasant old lady I was related to.

littlebilliie · 12/12/2021 00:17

Red tights - worn

6 spoons

Separate birthdays

Blueblossombush · 12/12/2021 00:18

My brother-nipple tassels and a ‘blow up husband’
Another brother-crotchless knickers 3 sizes too small
My mother-too many to remember but classics include the same skirts as she wore-in her size (she was a size 30 and I was a 14) teenage me was not impressed
A mouldy housecoat
Snowball shaped candles
A bottle of knock off katie price perfume
A granny dressing gown
A pack of tampons
A dinner plate

It’s like she had this huge blind spot when it came to me

lilmishap · 12/12/2021 00:24

@Blueblossombush Holy shit. I hope someone in your life does now buy you better presents?

Thats horrific

Blueblossombush · 12/12/2021 00:26

[quote lilmishap]@Blueblossombush Holy shit. I hope someone in your life does now buy you better presents?

Thats horrific[/quote]
Yes-my dp
He buys what I ask him to (he pays and then I order it)
He only got it wrong once-he bought me plastic toothpicks
I to,d him that wasn’t the best idea to do ever again so I choose my own now

TheFormidableMrsC · 12/12/2021 00:31

A book about somebody in the public eye dying from cancer. My mum had died from cancer a few weeks earlier

SleepingStandingUp · 12/12/2021 00:33

Coat hangers

Dancingonmoonlight · 12/12/2021 00:35

Cling film and post-its (the bog standard yellow square ones) - from the same person.

A whistle - from somebody else. Not a tinwhistle or anything remotely musical. An actual small whistle that a child would blow just to make noise. It was all wrapped up with one of those shiny cheap stick on bows. I opened it and said thanks, just what I needed. I didn't know what else to say.

fourandnomore · 12/12/2021 00:36

BrightonorLancaster probably about 5 years ago apparently from John Lewis, I think she said it’s 10x magnification. It was accompanied by a plastic shower cap and a plastic nylon bristled back brush so I was a bit distracted though 😆

CherryBlossomAutumn · 12/12/2021 00:41

OMG so, so many bad presents.

Looking back it’s a wonder I get anything out of my relationships, they don’t seem to know me at all!

Step families presents to me particularly bad. My step sister once got me what can only be described as a clown suit. It was an all in one huge baggy frilly red thing with big white polka dots on. I was a teenager and was made to wear it all day for Christmas. It makes me feel sick even thinking about it.

Samedaysame · 12/12/2021 00:48

When I was 11 I got a pair of Knickers and a pair of socks from my parents. I had asked for a camera .6 weeks later they bought my younger brother a camera, for no reason it was not a birthday or anything to celebrate. I think they hated me because I was born with a disability and it CAUSED THEM problems in looking after me

IamGusFring · 12/12/2021 00:49

An electric tin opener from my ex H .