3 days until the big man is here - worst gifts?!

[MerryChristmasEveryoneee]

I thought I would start a 2022 thread about this as I was going through my "unwanted" present drawer.. that sounds mean but any gifts I recieve, go into that drawers and I regift them to others (within reason) but I had forgotten how funny some of this stuff is!!

1. camouflage condoms (from MIL to DH.. these will NOT be regifted, not sure why they arent in the bin...)
2. A yellow scarf with golden giraffee on it (gifted to me from someone in DH family.. I mentioned I liked giraffees one year)
3. A bottle opener - it is a naked man and the bottle open is where his.. aherm.. would be (a gift from my friend to me, she said she saw it and thought of me... erm okay)
4. an old a4 cat / kitties calendar (this should really be in the bin now too.. not sure why I ever recieved it, I dont like cats).
5. a set of candles... nice gift you say? well they are lemon sherbet, coca cola, vimto scented - I'm not a teenager, fs
6. my FAVOURITE - a tshirt, quite a big one at that - that is bright pink with a huge campervan on it that says "dont worry, be happy" - oh yes, I wrongly said I liked campervans at one point
7. Last but not least a PJ set with "papa elf" on it in a mens size XXXL - from mil to me... she apparently didnt know what size I was?! erm, I am a 10, a womens size 10 at that...
8. a bottle of echo falls that my friend always buys me.. I think echo falls is sh*t, so I will regift to someone this year

So.. what rubbish / tat have you ever recieved

GO!!

Ps, I am not ungrateful but spend weeks, hours, forever searching for the perfect gift for someone so sometimes I am a bit miffed or taken back by some rubbish I have received. I think the Echo falls is a joke now... I have told that friend, in passing convo, that I dislike wines like Echo falls...

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I think I've said this one before but it bears repeating. We had this lovely, lovely next door neighbour who we sort of adopted into our family and she did all her Christmas shopping from catalogues. Every year, one of us would get something really marvellous and all the other gifts were strange. We appreciated them because they were purchased with love, but they were extraordinary.

The weirdest one was the plant pots my mum got a couple of years ago. They were made of resin but textured to look like hessian sack, yet inexplicably moulded into the form of a t-shirt. Came as a pair. One had a huge 3D cat face on the front and the other had an owl, and both creatures had glassy eyes made from what looked like marbles. They were quite large.

I mentioned once to my MIL I like bath stuff (ie nice bubble bath) so now every Xmas, birthday, anniversary you name it I get the cheapest bath bombs from the market that look like something a 13yo girl would buy. Think glitter, artificial scents that bring on a migraine, bright colours that stain your bath and loads of chemicals enough to give you a yeast infection. I just don't know how to tell her I don't want them!

My late MIL was a terrible gift-giver. She had no interest in me (as I wasn't a blood relative), so she'd give me something odd or random, often whatever was to hand.

Gifts included: a plain white plastic chopping board (the sort IKEA sell for 95p); a shop-bought Christmas pudding; clothes she had bought for herself, worn once and decided she didn't like them (we were not the same size); a fluorescent pink hat and scarf set; and, most memorably, a tin of peaches.

Most years she actually gave me nothing at all - and I preferred that.

Not for me but last year MIL bought DSs girls PJ's from m&s, we are taking pink glitter writing, leopard print and short length tops. Their faces were a picture. Thankfully they said thanks and moved on sharply.

We mentioned we were trying to cut down on using plastic one year and MIL gifted us a pack of disposable, wooden, cotton ear buds…

Not me, but DS received a second hand kids book that had obviously been picked up at a car boot (like everything) by the in-laws. Another child had written their answers inside. It was his only gift too. Still pisses me off now, 6 years on!

An ashtray with a little model of a Rastafarian smoking a large cig on it. I don't smoke, never have lol

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Big Man...
Greg Davies please.
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My brother is very wealthy and SIL is a stay at home mum. He outsources all present giving to her and I sometimes wonder if she's deliberately crap just to send a message to him. My mum and I joke about whose turn it is to receive cheap tat. The best was the year I didn't see them on Christmas day, but picked up several large wrapped presents a few days later (I dropped off lovely things for them, think wine and Jo Malone etc). I excitedly opened my presents back home to reveal...several large see through plastic drawers and desk tidy for a home office. I didn't do a desk job, didn't have a home office, love antiques and hate plastic. I looked them up on line and they were about £10 each. I had a little cry that year. What the F were you thinking SIL. Just get me toiletries or something.

Cat litter.

Yep. Cat litter. I do have cats, so it was useful, I suppose.

But fuck, who want Cat litter on baby Jesus birthday?

Also a pack of Tesco Finest Croissants from ex.
I like croissants and I'm sure I would have enjoyed them.
But he ate the whole pack.
Dick.

My grandma used to give awful gifts. Usually free stuff she got with her damart order. When she died we found a cupboard full of the crap gifts!

One year, gmil bought us a Tesco cheese selection which was odd enough as DH really isn't a big cheese eater and would have only eaten the cheap cheddar. But as it had been put under the tree at PIL for a week (and mil would have taken gmil to buy it, so knew well what it was) it had developed a whole life of its own by the time we opened it, and we had to stop at the first bin on the way home.
My weirdest though was the last year my mum bought presents. I got a partly made 'make your own ship in a bottle' when I have a hand disability and couldn't do something like that, an Alan Titchmarsh book (totally not my thing), and 100g of lemon sherberts in a paper bag. 5 year old ds got a Chinese cookery book, not a kids one

Many, many years ago we used to receive Christmas gift from a very posh and wealthy friend of mum’s, Lady X (may she rest in peace). She had form for buying gifts from jumble sales or giving other second hand gifts. Presents to us children were always clean, but completely incorrect age ranges (eg, a fisher price telephone when I was 10), but the real low was a present she gave mum one year. A used, unwashed nighty, with what looked like old skid mark stains on it. Absolutely rank.
Mum was really upset at the time, but the gift has proved a good one since as we always have a good laugh about it at Christmas time, and always raise a glass of sherry to dear old Lady X.

When I was a teenager in the 90s, I very much had a goth type look. I was careful to not stray from this image (and as a student was completely able to get away with it in everyday life).
My boyfriend's parents gave me a bright green fleecy jumper with images of teddy bears on it.
I can't imagine ANY teenage girl would have wanted it, let alone one who dressed as I did!

A pair of pjs which were a size 10…im a size 16…
A 30ml thimble of perfume
both from DH

whats annoys me is i puta lot of effort into Christmas, thinking up unique gifts, his are always disappointing. I give him ideas, he gets the ideas, no thinking outside of the box

Oh I've just remembered one, not me but my DF. Back in the 80's he mentioned to his mum my DGM that he had just started cooking from scratch and he loved onions. So next Christmas he opened the biggest white onion I've ever seen then and now. He's face when he opened that, she even managed to wrap it up and put a bow and streamers on it!

My DP. Knocked it out the park a few years ago at Christmas.

I bought myself some new underwear I think around the 23rd they arrived in the post (I paid for them with my own money!) .. he bloody wrapped them all and gifted me them .. when I told him I bought them, he thought I ordered them with his card as a hint for Xmas!!!!! Thankfully this year he’s told me he’s put a lot of thought into my gift this year and has been ordering online as parcels have been coming (he doesn’t generally order anything online). I think he’s had to when he knows what I’ve gotten him 🤣

A dented bottle of fake tan - pretty sure it had been used too

A pen holder shaped like a wheelie bin and one of those cheap lipstick holders with the mirror. Was a secret Santa present. I had the person who I received from and went to great effort to choose something I knew she would love. And she did, very enthralled with it. I didn't even take it home. Straight in the bin (discreetly, I'm not a savage!)

A packet of dumpling mix from my MIL

an opened pack of floor wipes from next door neighbour when we had new hard flooring fitting.

I am not ungrateful but spend weeks, hours, forever searching for the perfect gift for someone so sometimes I am a bit miffed or taken back by some rubbish I have received. I think the Echo falls is a joke now...

Looks to me like people spent time trying to find the perfect gifts for you too!

What a knob post 😂

A year's supply of Pantene shampoo and conditioner.

A plastic lazy Susan and six bags of cheddars. From B&M bargains off BIL/SIL.

I'm quite disappointed it was a typo. I can imagine something like little knitted or crocheted giraffes hanging off a scarf, like tassels...