What was the shittest present you ever received?

[BrightonOrLancaster]

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

A loo roll. My friend was killing herself with laughter as I unwrapped it. She had actually bought me something decent as well, but funnily enough the loo roll is what sticks in my mind.

A knee-length, blue gingham nighty with a Broderie Anglaise yoke, dangly blue ribbons and big puffy sleeves. Starched so much it could have stood alone.
As MIL gave it to me she said she hoped I liked it as much as she liked hers 😬

My SIL gave me the worst presents.. the worst of them being pig fridge magnets with matching pig pinny. She’s strange, and we don’t see or speak to each other any more.

A secret santa at work years ago - a laminated A4 photo of Middlesbrough football club from 1938, or thereabouts. No fucking idea!

Cheap earrings and necklace set, every year, from my mil. I don’t have pierced ears. Yes, I did get DH to explain every year but it didn’t make any difference.
Huge set of plastic cars for my toddler son, again from mil. As soon as he played with them the wheels broke off, exposing sharp spokes. They went straight in the bin.

5 sets of diaries and notebooks as a young or preteen. I wasn’t impressed, that was all I got that year. Bloody awful
I tried to explain my upset to my Mum, but she didn’t understand my chagrin.

Bloody diary and notebooks set. Maybe I’ll get her one this year 😂😂

I’ve never ever used a diary, then or now

A BBQ cookery book as a vegetarian. No vegetables in sight.

@43leftfeet

A spa day for me and my friend

Only:

1. I hate spa days

1. There was no voucher or anything, it was a spur of the moment "oh shit I haven't got a present, let me promise something" thing

1. It was from DP, we pool our money so it was effectively asking me to spend my own money on a spa day I didn't want. And, about 3 x the price of what we usually spend on presents.

1. DP never actually made any arrangements, so as well as having to effectively buy it myself, I'd have to research and arrange it myself too

The thing that pissed me off the most is I hate spa days. and DP should have known that. At least if he was going to suggest I arrange and pay for my own present it better not be an expensive waste of money on something I don't want.

Worst present ever. It was never mentioned again.

DP can be quite generous and thoughtful, he's not always so shit! He's got me some lovely gifts over the years. I don't know what happened that day.

When you were arranging and paying for this day that you hated, didn’t it occur to you, to choose something else instead 🤣🤣🤣 to arrange and pay for, yourself

My brother always gives presents that I think are well-meaning but seem to have absolutely nothing to do with the recipient. Once he gave me a table tennis set. I don't play table tennis. At the time I don't think I had even had a table.

Not me, DH. And not 'shit' but just so incredibly odd.
A long pair of traditional shooting socks, gifted by his own mum. They would have been expensive and were his main gift.
We were 25, living urban lives in our first flat in the inner city, and have always been anti blood sports!

I ended a relationship because for my 29th birthday my then boyfriend bought me a "happy 30th" card and a tin of quality street.

I asked exDH for a sewing box. I was expecting something feminine, covered in material, with a padded lid.
What I got was a compartmentalised plastic box from a fishing tackle shop.

exDH said a lady at his workplace was making sundresses for a bit of extra cash and would I like one and if so what colour? I said " any colour except brown and not spots". When it arrived - yes you've guessed it - it was brown with white spots.

A fleece lined foot warmer from my then boyfriend, I was 27 not 90...

Then the following year, a red polyester satin teddy (I'm really tall and had told him never to try to buy me clothes because it's really hard to get stuff to fit).

It was one extreme to the other. He's now my DH and has settled down a bit 😆

My PILs don’t usually bother getting me anything (despite my own mum spending a couple of hundred pounds on my H each Christmas and birthday). One year they obviously felt obliged to as we were visiting, so they hastily grabbed a piece of cardboard out of the bin, wrote “Book Token” on it in coloured pen, presented it to me and scuttled away. I left it under their sofa.

Exh got me a tortoise garden ornament. I didn't like gardening or tortoises. He, however, like both.

Then one year he got me a navy blue. suitcase. No reason, we weren't going away or anything. When I asked why a suitcase, he said 'it's your favourite colour'.....its not.

The last year we were together, he got me a ring. With a 'pale natural sapphire' centre stone (18 years together and he still thought blue was my favourite colour) 'diamonds' on the shoulders.

He then spent Christmas telling everyone how expensive it was. It turned out to be topaz in the centre and white sapphires on the side, which he knew. I didn't care it wasn't expensive. I cared he lied.

My dad once memorably gave my mum a sieve for Christmas...words were had about the appropriateness of kitchen equipment.

The next year he bought a wok but hid a bottle of her favourite perfume inside.

Funnily enough both the sieve and wok lasted years and were used so much.

On the other side, the worst gift I have given was when I was about 6.

Mum and dad had split up so my Auntie arranged her Christmas present from us. She asked me if mum had said she needed anything. I remembered she needed a new whisk. So my auntie got her that 🙈

As I got older I made sure I always got her a really thoughtful gift as I always felt so bad about it 🤣

She passed away just over a week ago. I found the whisk, completely, knackered in a drawer. Over 30 years later. I bet she has kept some of the more 'thoughtful' gifts I gave her. It made me laugh and cry and the same time 🤦‍♀️

I asked for a normal Nivea intensive moisturiser, little container with a pink lid. She got me 50+ wrinkle cream. I'm 35. Fuck off.

I got a plastic ironing board cover. I wanted an ironing board cover, plastic one? Not so much.

@Fritilleries

I asked for a normal Nivea intensive moisturiser, little container with a pink lid. She got me 50+ wrinkle cream. I'm 35. Fuck off.

A friend did that to me when I was 32.

We aren't friends any more.

Husband bought me a parachute jump to help me get over my fear of flying

She asks me every year for ideas and every year I ask for the pink one and every year she gets it wrong. I think she does it to wind me up.

My DB and SIL gave DH and I and big set for making fancy cappuccinos. We drink very plain black coffee and always have done.

The christmas about 3 years ago when i got given a cardboard thing with 3 little drawers in it to pot jewellery in and a set of christmas themed cutlery holders from my son and dil.I was surorised and quite hurt though tried not to show it .It stung even more as they had given perfume and nice jewellery to his wifes mother.It was not the fact that her presents had cost more.im not grabby.But was the lack of thought and care that had gone into it.My daighter asked him about it and he said oh she chose mums presents.I was very hurt as i had always been close to my son and we had a loving relationship. Well very sadly we are now nc.Nothong to do with that incident and not my choice. Gradually me and my daughter were pushed out of his life and i have no idea why.Just very sad about it all.😪

I asked for a poncho and got a massive, ugly shawl. I put it on once at work because I was freezing and my colleague said I had just aged 20 years.