The shit Christmas presents of 22 thread.

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Another year, another round of presents from family that I cannot use. I have a serious food allergy and another health condition that means that I can't eat or use some foods/cosmetics. These are not new health issues, had them since childhood, yet there is not a single gift out of the few that I received that I can make use of. I decided to be blunt this year (after years of unsuaitable gifts) and tell the givers that I can't use their gifts due allergy etc but thanks anyway. Now I'm an ungracious brat. Am I? "It's not their fault I'm fussy." I'm really not, I just don't want to get sick. I would prefer not to do the gift thing as I'm not overly bothered about that part of Christmas, but I would be ruining it for everyone else, everyone else who gets decent thoughtful presents based on knowing what they like, it's shit when those thoughts are not reciprocated.

Anyone else want to join the naff presents club.

I am crying here. And having a coughing fit with laughing.

Bath bombs make my fanny flaps curl up like roller blinds, followed by an immediate dose of thrush.

Thank you! I thought I was going mad. I spent ages thinking and choosing the gifts. Sisters kid but both in total agreement.

My dh actually wrapped up the pack of socks I bought myself and put them under the tree for me. Probably because he didn’t bother to buy me anything. I think he thinks that because I can buy whatever I want when I want, I don’t need a Christmas present. Or a birthday present. The socks weren’t meant to be a present, I just needed some socks.

@NancyDrawed Im sorry and SNAP. All day I’m vowing that this will be last Xmas married to the selfish f**ker. Xx

Maybe I'm getting to be an elderly woman, but I love both hand cream and rose wine; I realize that the latter is unsuitable for someone who doesn't drink at all.

I got Ferrero Rocher and Hotel chocolat and I love them. But my sister gave DH and me electric toothbrushes! I would have been insulted if she'd got one just for me (as if I have bad breath or something) but as she got them for both of us I'm just puzzled and hurt. We have electric toothbrushes already (nicer ones) and I got her some really well thought out things (from a list of things she has asked for previously and I know she still likes and doesn't have). Sis wasn't there (she was supposed to be but claimed to be ill - she has form for this). So I was able to regift them to our parents(who wanted them) on the spot.

SIL gave us a magazine and a scented candle (B&M sticker still on it). She knows I get migraines from heavily scented products.
it could be worse though, once I got a half used bottle of perfume and a bag of salted peanuts.

Clearly there are a lot of people on here who gave hotel chocolat gifts this year. Its fine. Its my opinion that they are not a thoughtful present. As long as the person you sent it to thinks it's fabulous, that is all that matters. As I said earlier ,we have stopped giving presents. I am the recipient ,over the last 5 Chistmasses or so, of scented candles. Anything like that ( plug in room scents, joss sticks, incense) trigger an asthma attack. I gave 20 unopened ones to a charity shop before Christmas.

I wanted Rylans bio but never got it lol.

I think you have the best deal of the day! Sounds perfect.

Dh got me the following from the small Tesco last night:

puzzle mag
mini bottle of Prosecco
broken bar of chocolate

I got a multitude of babyliss and harding and dove sets. I shall be taking some to the charity shop next week..
Worst present was a photo frame from my interim line manager... From pound land. The price still left on. It went out with the recycling where it belongs. ☺️

My dm gave my dh a packet of fig roll biscuits nicely wrapped neither of us could speak as she's absolutely loaded, they cost her about 50p!

This off my Dad 🤦‍♀️ My sister got the same and spent 50 quid on him 🙄

Oh, l got a scented candle. It's a scent l like, but l can't use them, l have asthma and they make me wheeze.
The donor knows l've been ill for nearly 2 weeks with a virus and a chest infection that's made me cough so much l'm amazed my pelvic floor's still intact.

A set of cheap unbranded pear and onion chutneys and the foulest smelling candle with the £2 sticker still on. Courtesy of Secret Santa.
Not doing it anymore.

A collection of toiletries - actually nice ones and a standard present from this person -
but among them.a deodorant. Im now paranoid in case I'm smelly....

Wow....just wow.

I would. Can I swap it for my kilo of prunes from DH?

Bath bombs make my fanny flaps curl up like roller blinds, followed by an immediate dose of thrush
Me too 😵‍💫
Body Shop, Baylis and Harding etc all make my skin horribly dry and itchy.
My late MIL gave me a used facecloth and a bar of coal tar soap three successive years, the third time the soap was used too 😳
I made it very clear to DH that if did it once more I would not be polite.

My 4 year old wears her dressing gown every morning until she gets dressed so it sounds like a lovely present to me!

My only gift came from DH. I sent him the link to it in October and checked that he’d bought the right one because we’ve been married 22 years and you learn, don’t you?

It was an expensive textbook for my hobby and I’m genuinely VERY happy with it but I sometimes think I’d also like some of these thoughtless smellies everyone is complaining about 😅

It's actually quite nasty/ next level not caring that the found them, wrapped them and put them under the tree knowing that they were a purely functional thing .....and that you had bought them in the first place (simply because you needed them). So crap.

My snobby sister in law bought the DCs food vouchers. Apparently, she thought they'd be good as she knows "people like us are struggling". What she means is we don't own our house and our car is old.
Honestly, she's a cheeky fucker sometimes. But then she is the queen of passive aggressive gifts.

I got hand cream that went off in 2016.

The packaging had dirt all over it lol 🥲