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!😂)

A few years ago DM gave me 5 items of new clothing in sizes 8-10, with one of the items being a size 6. I was a size 16-18 at the time. She also gave me a bra & knicker set in completely the wrong sizes and she insisted ‘well can’t you just wear them anyway.’

She lives in a long-haul country away so asking for the receipts to change them wasn’t possible, and the cost of postage to send them back and then her change and send new sizes just wasn’t viable. The whole lot went to the charity shop and she couldn’t understand why.

Speaking to a counsellor some time later I said I think she sent me the sizes that she wanted me to be and she agreed.

@MoonahSton as a parent of allergic children this makes me so angry for you - it's the utter thoughtlessness of it all

Not Christmas but for my birthday one year, I received a cat flap from PIL! DH had warned me before I opened it, but I thought he was joking, I couldn't even pretend to like it! Their reasoning - we needed one and when I had the money for a cat flap, I could buy myself a nice jumper or something!

DH bought me some lovely pyjamas that I was really pleased with until I saw “Tall” on the label, I’m 5”2! They came up to my armpits.

One year I received a zest peeler from my SIL! She actually thought it would come in useful (and to be fair I do use it years later).

About 15 years ago my DH (BF of about 3 years at the time) bought me plastic wheel trims for my car 😅 I graciously accepted but years later asked what on earth he was thinking and he thought they were a great practical present! Needless to say we've mutually decided not to bother with Christmas presents for each other anymore which is so much easier and means more money to spend on DS and DD.

We both have large families and getting presents each year when some us of would spend a small fortune and others wouldn't bother we decided just do Secret Santa with a set budget and wish lists so we would all get something we'd asked for! Works out so much easier. We've also decided not to bother with Birthday presents and just buy for the kids instead. Wish we'd thought of this years ago!

Coxy1234

Not Christmas but for my birthday one year, I received a cat flap from PIL!

You should have said, whilst stroking the cat ostentatiously, on your lap, "But we haven't got a cat!"

My ex bought me an iron once. He would buy me dusters, washing up brushes , tea towels etc 🙄

Oh and a mate gave me a duck egg once-she suggested I should paint it 🤪

My MIL got me a book on weaning recipes … She also got me a book on weaning recipes last Christmas.
My children are both weaned.

A single bottle of dove body wash. Odd choice.

My mother got me a small cat that you put water on and it grows hair. AKA mould. It was basically a mouldy lump of soap. And I have a mould phobia.

Noooooo 😂😂 this is the winner surely

I'm talking 1994 when i was 13 but this will always stick with me
my dad and his sister didnt speak so i didnt know her at all. From birth to 13 i had zero gifts, no idea why that year i did but it was sent to his parents address who passes it on

my dads sister(no she's not a aunt as I'm 41 and still dont know her)sent me a 32A trainer bra not a normal bra and a pair of pink trainers in a adult 3

nothing wrong with that you say only except i developed very early(first bra at 9 was a D cup) and at that time i was a F cup and 6ft with size men's 11 feet.

she clearly had no idea of what i was like and probably generalized what the average 13 y old was. She wasn't old she was early 20 at the time
no idea why she didnt ask her parents what i was like, my sister was 5 at the time and got a care bears teddy

at the time my mother was getting my bras from Evans clothes shop even though i was thin i just had very big boobs and i was in men's jeans as i was a 36 leg

these sizes for women didnt exist in the 90s like they do now so i was in men's trainers and men's jeans since i was about 11

I’ve mentioned this elsewhere - my birthday present from FIL this year was The Times Book of Obituaries.

I think she just mis understood the genre. It’s like something from an early Marilyn Mason video. I know plenty of “I’m mad me” rock types that might like it.

It rather depends on if Op is the type of person that has everything already or someone that would genuinely benefit from a decent present.

I got a blanket with photos printed on it. I love my family but I don't need their faces on my sofa... its green and its awful.

I wouldnt be bothered but i pushed the boat out and DP got a bean to cup coffee machine from me. Something he will use everyday.

The blanket will make its way to the dog bed gradually.

Make it an indoor jumper or a jumper for gardening 😂

But OP the bunny top is clearly for wearing with pyjamas or whatever, at home cosy and warm. I don't get why you would even think that your sister would expect you to wear it out and about with your rock chick clothes?

This year there has been no random tat but that's because the repeat offender agreed that we'd each buy ourselves something nice and stop exchanging gifts. It was my suggestion because I'd had enough. That was after the Christmas where her gift to me was a dusty box of anti wrinkle cream, the year before she'd forgotten altogether but would make it up on my birthday which of course she also forgot. It reflected the state of our relationship at the time where I made all the effort and she apparently couldn't be bothered.

@GoodVibesHere Um where exactly did I say that I thought it was for wearing outside??

Because you talked about boots, leather jacket etc and your rock style. I don't see why you need to carry on the rock style for nightwear and pjs bug maybd you do

Sigh. @GoodVibesHere I mention my normal style because it's relevant to the post. No, I dont go to bed in my boots, but even so, the leap from my usual day wear to a pink fluffy hoodie with ears seemed a large one. It was a light hearted op. I think you are over thinking it a bit!

OK then well perhaps sometimes things just don't come across very well in written form, as I have no idea what you're talking about tbh particularly the boots in bed comment! Enjoy your presents OP x

Ha Ha, i got a toaster and garlic press last year (which i neither wanted nor needed) so i bought him an Iron this year....that will teach the bugger 😂

Not awful or weird but very clever. DS & his boyfriend bought us a bottle of Kraken rum, but boyfriend wrapped it so it looked like a teddy bear! We thought it was a tin of biscuits / chocolates in a teddy shaped tin. Genius!