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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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toomuchturmericinwatermelon · 12/12/2021 09:16

A Glade candle from a distant work colleague
It's like, why even fucking bother

ivfbabymomma1 · 12/12/2021 09:22

My husband bought me a really expensive pair of shoes... bare with me on this. It turns out they are actually too painful to wear for more than 3 steps. No amount of breaking them in will do anything and the pain of spending all that money for a pair of shoes to sit in a box makes them the worst Xmas gift with the best intention I guess! (Couldn't return them as i was adamant I wound break them in)

30062015 · 12/12/2021 09:22

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.

Coteeee · 12/12/2021 09:23

Brussels sprout jigsaw puzzle...pees me off just thinking about it

Rosiesmydog · 12/12/2021 09:26

DH once forgot my birthday. He saw the cards and realised what he’d done. He then went to Tesco and bought me a ready meal and gave it to me to cook for myself. I guess the fact it was a Tesco finest slightly ameliorated the shit-uation…

Watchingyouwazowski · 12/12/2021 09:27

I’m so sorry to read your story. I hope your life took a turn for the better.

Watchingyouwazowski · 12/12/2021 09:28

Sorry, that was to @30062015

fizzypop100 · 12/12/2021 09:28

MIL used to proudly hand over a wrapped chocolate orange. Every Christmas for 25 years. And watch me open it whilst saying "oohh you'll enjoy that won't you". Nothing else. While we bought them allsorts of nice things

caramac4 · 12/12/2021 09:29

On Christmas day my H gave me a gold bracelet from Beaverbrooks showed it off to all my family......
That night he burst out laughing and told me he'd bought it from the pound shop!!
He's now my ex!!!

FlamingoQueen · 12/12/2021 09:32

One year my uncle gave me an Avon jewellery box (was prob about 10) - was truly awful, but his daughter was my age, so never understood why it was so awful.
Mil bought me a ladyshave one year! Awkward!
Also, mil gave dh a £200 watch plus other bits for a big birthday. I had £15 stuffed in an envelope for mine! Even dh thought we should be treated equally (and would rather have had less).

WestendVBroadway · 12/12/2021 09:34

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.

What was the shittest present you ever received?

MiracleBaby2022 · 12/12/2021 09:38

A pair of enormous granny knickers when I was about 12. And it wasn't a joke. The same woman gave my mother a kitchen roll. All wrapped up and all.

Psychgrad · 12/12/2021 09:42

My DP’s parents and sisters always give us the 3 for 2 soap set from boots- every year for the past 15 years that’s what we get, I think his mum goes to Boots and gets the three sets and then the sisters distribute it between themselves so each one has a gift to give (they are all in their 30’s/ 40’s so should be better at this). Worse still, we have moved country now so when we go back to visit at Christmas they insist on still giving us these sets even though we can’t take them on the cabin baggage so we end up leaving them behind every year.

My DP also bought me one of these soap sets for our first Christmas together- he has developed his gift giving skills since (thankfully)

FlibbertyGibbitt · 12/12/2021 09:45

A boyfriend bought me a swatch watch (remember them ?) and a photo of a haircut he’d done as he was a hairdresser……..exceeeeeeppppttt he also bought another girl the exact same thing and she showed me.

What a twat 🤣

Bagelsandbrie · 12/12/2021 09:47

My mil (who we now don’t speak to for various reasons, nothing to do with the upcoming shit present mentioned) once got me a set of silver western style spurs and little cowboy hats to fit on jacket potatoes so they look like little cowboys.

LindaEllen · 12/12/2021 09:49

My dad's sister's presents were always a bit of a talking point at Christmas, as she has very specific tastes. So anything she sent could add to this list. We love her to bits but goodness, sending a 15yo girl a mustard and green carpet bag..

She also used to send me earrings every year, despite knowing that I didn't have my ears pierced. That was an odd one!

mallees · 12/12/2021 09:50

My MIL giving me a used scarf she found in the drawer (I know because I saw it there once)
Real ugly and unsuitable for my style, not even dry cleaned....

RalphLaurenG · 12/12/2021 09:52

A box of chocolates from a family friend, Mintos or Mentos, something like that. Not only had they expired the year before, they weren't even IN PRODUCTION when she gave them to me.

She has a reputation for being tight - ironing wrapping paper to use it again, that sort of thing. Oh, and they are not short of money either.

We call her Meano Mary 😆😆

LetHimHaveIt · 12/12/2021 09:52

@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 this happened to you. I hope life got better x

ecology1989 · 12/12/2021 09:52

A second hand Katie Price and Peter Andre CD… from my partner at the time. Sad times. (No I didn’t ask for it) and it was my only present that Christmas so not actually a joke alongside something else…

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere · 12/12/2021 09:54

Possibly the pair of black fishnet stockings from my best friend a couple of years ago. They were far too small and even if I had that size figure I would never have worn them. No idea why she thought they would be a good idea. This year we have decided to buy our own presents. We will wrap them and open them in front of each other.

LetHimHaveIt · 12/12/2021 09:54

@Rosiesmydog

I think it compounded it.

TattoedLady · 12/12/2021 09:58

Secret Santa gift - a post-it note in an envelope with 'I Owe U' written on it. My brother once got a pair of nail clippers from his MIL!

DeathWinsAGolfish · 12/12/2021 10:01

@30062015 I sincerely hope your life is in a good place now.

Whammyyammy · 12/12/2021 10:09

A crash helmet!

From my then boyfriend, now husband of 26 years, so I could go on the back of his new motorbike he bought himself just before Christmas. I hated motorbikes back then and it took 20 years for me to actually get on the back of one.

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