Hilariously awful or weird gifts we have received...come tell!

[NCy]

Yes, yes, we should all be grateful for people making the effort to buy us things etc etc (just to pre-empt the usual thread kill joys.) However. I am 48. I dress kind of ageing rock chick, chunky biker boots, leather jacket, wafty dress sort of thing. Just what I do. My sister is more Next and Boden which is fine, doesn't bother me what she wears. She has bought me this: fluffy rabbit jumper Is it a passive aggressive comment on my dress sense? Has she forgotten Im 48? My partner thinks its hilarious! (Disclaimer: I have not had too much prosecco and I am not sat here wearing it!😂)

About 20 years ago, my then girlfriend bought me a mouse mat, with a Harley Davison and an, erm, scantily clad, surgically enhanced woman...

I'd love to share a piece of absolute tat I have been bought but it would truly out me - basically a tacky as fuck ornament that has a date with a charity bag.

A Nightmare Before Christmas remote control holder.

I do like NBC, however, I never watch television.

They know this. Most of their conversation revolves around ‘did I see the program on last night’ and I tell them each time that I don’t watch television.

Aw I think it’s cute! 🐰

18 year old boy at the time and my girlfriend got me a small plastic vase (thingy) with a fake flower and a suction cup to stick to glass.

I’ve received second hand trainers off dh this Christmas 😬 complete with dirt. I’ve had a google and they’re only £30 brand new!

When I was 21, a bird feeder from my husband.

Not a nice fancy one, just a bog standard tubular bird feeder. I'd mentioned a few weeks before that I was going to get one when I got paid 😂 bless him.

He learned a lesson and I got a bottle of Chanel Mademoiselle this morning.

I have bookmarked this thread as later in the week I will no doubt be able to it with the annual back of crap we receive from the inlaws who are very much quantity over quality. Always some great crud to take the piss out of in it.

I have a friend that always regifts (not necessarily unused) gifts. We've received a completed child's journal, half used or mixed up toiletries, a previous year's calendar and pencils with her child's names on them.
Shes not short of cash. In fact this year she's had a massive inheritance. Which might explain why we've clearly received gifts that have come from her dead relative's house thus year.
She is of course the person who insists that as a group of friends that we continue with buying our families' presents. I dont get it.

😱Noooo. What was he thinking??

My 3 year old was gifted a massive (nearly 2 meters long) inflatable unicorn from my mother's work friend who I don't know, it is insanely large and we had to blow it up as my 3 year old didn't understand and wanted it. I have never met this person but I'm wondering what I have done to her to do this to us 😅

A kitchen roll holder.

Two words

Henry. Hoover.

my gift from my husband. I’ve never expressed a want or desire for one either 🤣

and now the shady little bastard is giving me a side eye.

There must be a back story as this is shocking

I presuming divorce is on the cards?

DH got me some boots I already have, his logic being that he knows I like them 🙄

Oh god OP, this just means your sister really doesn't understand or know you. Because an 18 year old might wear this to a rock club with the boots and a skirt, she thinks you would too. Totally different look and yet she's no idea.
I'm cringing for her tbh.

Just to clarify, when you say you've never expressed a want or desire for one, were you referring to a hoover or a husband? 🤔

Oh dear. That is not good. 😯

This year from my parents I received a bath bomb and a candle from b&m. DH received a box of golf balls with the £12 price tag still on. Usually they are really generous to us, we made loads of effort for them and put together a lovely food & wine hamper with all their favourites. My brother and his gf got £500 cash in their card. Not sure what we’ve done to offend them this year but it was almost embarrassing opening that whilst my brother opened his

It's for lounge wear not outside wear though surely?

But I'd be more annoyed she bought it from Shein! What was she thinking?!

👏👏👏😂

For the first Christmas I had since meeting my father (when I was 10) he got me a computer. Nice you'd think. Except it was "rescued" from the tip out back of his factory and it was bashed to hell and covered in stains. Not only that it had windows 95 I think and only two programs (the typing notepad with only one font and paint).

As much as I appreciated the effort he went to getting it, it was junk and I didn't use it more than a few times. It died.

Well yes that's true...however my lounge wear (my what?? Ok, joggers and jumper) still aren't usually pink, fluffy, nor do they have ears. Slight mismatch. But hey, I've taken a selfie with me wearing it to send to her to say thank you it is actually quite cosy