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

@mindutopia that made me lol.sorry!! Why burts bees though do.you have any idea. It's quite an odd/niche brand in my mind.. although i suppose it is high quality and not a tat brand. I'm loving imagining it being run over and then your mil just picking it up hehehehehe

BobIsMyUncle - I think you win!

A friend of mine personalized a plate for our wedding with our names. Not really my style but it's the thought that counts. I do wish she had looked at the wedding invitation and spelt my dh's name right though!

A device that flashes at night to look like your TV is on to deter burglars 🤣

The Christmas of the year in which my youngest started school FIL bought me one of those colouring books for adults and a pack of felt tip pens. Vaguely thoughtful I guess; they were all the range at the time. However, it was presented with the message that now that I had "time on my hands now that dd had started school I might like to spend my spare hours colouring". I worked full time. Which he knew, but didn't agree with, and made his feelings known at every opportunity.

Apparently, it was my fault that he liked dressing in women's underwear, I didn't make him "feel like a man". Whereas, Michelle (Michael), Simone (Simon) and Bridget (Brian) did.
Silly me. WHAT was I thinking?????

Three dead rat foetuses encased in perspex, which my dad rescued from a bin in his school science department. And then wrapped and presented to me for Christmas.

I'm sorry for all of your experiences. Some, I shrug my shoulders, whilst others, I think WTF were you thinking? Why did you think that was appropriate? I will never know. I put it down to people being a Grubby Little Oik. I don't apologise for that. I am happy within my own skin. It's not perfect. Been knocked about a bit. I think what has helped me, enormously, is getting off Facebook, et al. I'm not on anything. This is it. MN Vipers. I have found my people! Your gentle support has so helped me. Thank you.

ex mil gave me jade goody perfume set, years after she had died. plus i was in my 40s at the time and i'd never mentioned jade goody ever. i can only presume that ex mil nicked it?!

plus some HORRIBLE gold jewellery from current dh that makes the bracelet that joey bought chandler look classy.

also my son once gave me some photos of ex dh "as a joke". i was literally in tears.

Have any of you ever seen a 6' 3" man, trying to wear my underwear? I'm 4' 11", and just about 7 stone. I tried, so hard, to get my head around a size 16 bloke, trying to fit into my size 6/8 underwear. I never did manage that. It changed our relationship, forever. Not because of that. Because he never learned to hide his internet history, and my kids were using our one computer, for homework. This was before the days of laptops. I showed him how to delete his history, made sure he understood, got him to show me, that he could.

He showed me that he could, and then I was sent home from work again, early, due to sickness. He was upstairs, in our room. He hadn't heard me come in. I'm not a loud person, and it was a 3 storey house. I couldn't believe what I saw. Wearing my underwear, a long haired wig thing, and on the internet , at the same time. The kids were at school, so had no idea. That was it, for me. Not the underwear stuff, the lying, the deception stuff. Having to delete his history. I did NOT need my kids to see that you could buy a false vagina. I did, however, find it useful to find that I could buy a "shoehorn" thing, that stopped the camel toe thing.

I just wanted his internet history to stop. I'd showed him how, numerous times. And THEN!! he decided to get into credit cards. I've never had a credit card. I had a store card, once. Never a credit card. He applied for a credit card and I said no. He was accepted and I said no. I cut up the card, and he applied again, got accepted and I flung the card in a drawer. I never wanted a credit card. £40,000 later, on Credit cards, I have tried, so many times, to talk to these credit card people, but, it's not my name on the card. A two edged sword. They cannot talk to me. My saving grace, was that because my name was on the mortgage. and not on the credit cards, I was given a years grace, but the house WOULD be repossessed. Because he'd refused to talk to anyone, the options reduced. Do ostrich's actually bury their head in the sand?

Yes, they do. I was at work, and he accepted an offer on the house. Mea Culpa.

@notimeforaname thank you, is all I can say. Thank goodness.

The ex gave me a disposable nappy, full of £1 coins. The nappy, for some reason, collapsed, and very kindly, he gathered them up and paid for boiler repairs.

A fake blue plaque but a surprising no. of people here on MN thought it was ok - madness!

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A fake blue plaque but a surprising no. of people here on MN thought it was ok - madness!

I remember your thread with the present from your bro for a significant birthday. I agree with you, it felt like a 'novelty' fun present-almost like a funny add on alongside a more thoughtful present-but without the thoughtful present!

As a 12 year old, I got a second hand, naked, dirty, hair totally tangled Barbie. I had wanted one about 4 years previously. Gutting.

I was a terrible gift giver as a child. I was invited to the rich kid’s birthday party and didn’t tell my mum (cos it wouldn’t have made a difference) and I gave her my huge green cross costume jewellery. She told me she knew it was mine. Another time, I re-gifted an address book to my best friend who pointed out that I had written several addresses in it already. 😳

@gregdaviesiswonderful it still has pride of place in the downstairs loo but whenever I go in there it stands out because it’s quite small. I’m going to have to put some other things up so it’s size isn’t so obvious. I still think it’s shit

Aged 8, i got an alarm clock and a dictionary for Xmas. I still remember being not at all excited...
Thankfully my x-DP's mum did worse: DP brought back from his Xmas visit to her, a small bag of linguine for me (why??) as well as a homemade fabric pouch for tissues, that she'd just been gifted by one of her grandchildren. Double insults, to me and her grandchild...
I had not given her anything but a card, and had asked DP to let her know I would be happy with the same, but he said he'd felt it would be 'churlish to refuse' the pasta and regifting she gave him, presumably at the last minute. Arguments followed...

Ooh, I was 9 or 10 when I got my first Oxford Concise Dictionary - best present ever! I loved it!

Anything from the PiL. Size 22 running leggings from Lidl middle aisle (I was a 12-14), a 99p plasticky bag for life covered in woodland animals (this was my only present and I was still in my 30s!), a pink plastic foot washer thing (like a boot scraper) for the bottom of the shower to name a few. Thought it was quirky FiL who bought the presents (he did the cards so...) but he's now passed and this year I got a plastic shower pouffe on a plastic stick (for those hard to reach places).

@30062015

Birthday - not Christmas. I lived with a very abusive foster family in the early 80's. I mean every kind of abuse you can think of. One year the foster mother (I used to call her mum) bought me a box of Fairy soap powder and a bottle of dettol for my birthday. She gave them to me before school, I remember thanking her and the awful heartbreak in the pit of my stomach as even I was astonished. I spent the whole day at school praying it wasn't my real present and it was a joke to teach me another lesson and there would be something else when I came home. There wasn't anything else and that really was my 12th birthday gift. I was called smelly, dirty , everything, so I guess it was her way of helping me - but not thinking the equivalent of 2 cups of water a day to wash myself , a musty hand towel to dry myself, and wearing school shirts for 3 days and home clothes washed once a month didn't help. While her children had endless hot showers, shower gels, clean towels and clothes that were washed regularly.

I'm so sorry you were treated like that. If I could, I'd go back and give the 12yo you the biggest cuddle and tell you just how precious you are.

Receiving nothing.

A large blue schoolbag with an enormous high vis square pocket in the middle of it with a picture of a boy and girl holding hands, so "I wouldn't be knocked down" from my neurotic DF.
I was 12, and was horrified at the thought of having to use the monstrosity for the coming year.

My birthday was in August so I often received school supplies as "presents" from my parents. Not so my golden child DB.

The following year (13) was no better. A large moulded plastic Winnie the Pooh lamp. I'd never even liked WdP as a little child.