Shit Christmas Presents Thread - with a returns question

[ShitChristamasPresents]

The terrible presents have started to arrive 🫣 Cheer me up by telling me what utter weirdness you have received…?

I’ll start. Baby bangles for my two dc. Who are way too old for baby sized bangles and it wouldn’t have been their thing anyway. They were from Argos and I have the order number on the packaging. Anyone know if we can return them without the present giver finding out?!

It wasn’t for me, but I did witness someone being given a book about Australia - they weren’t from Australia, they’d never been to Australia, had never expressed an interest in going there or wanting to know more about the country …

My ex MIL gave me a blue toilet seat for Christmas one year. My ex BIL gave me a picked baby shark in a test tube ‘with love from Tenerife’ on the side of it for my birthday. They obviously hated me!

Tesco printing paper

I have a rich aunt. She went through a phase of giving us gifts in our 20's (weirdly nothing when we were younger) Gifts would vary from £50 (brilliant) to a used lipstick.

She doesn't get us anything anymore which is fair enough as our communication with her is a few texts a year. It did use to make us laugh to see who got a used lipstick and who got cash.

She did recently ask for our details for her will. I'm not getting my hopes up 😂

A bottle of cheap perfume with the raffle sticker still stuck to the side! Candle which had been used before and men's hair gel.

A Bristol University mug. My brother went to Bristol.

He got Edinburgh, where I went.

Clearly a mix up from a dear but odd aunt, but weird even without that as we both left over a decade ago.

Years ago from late MIL frilly knickers from Asda.

My first serious boyfriend (back in the late 80's) banged on about the gift he'd got me, for weeks before Christmas... I was so excited... He was neither well off or skint and had bought me some lovely thoughtful stuff in the past... Opened it, it was a chalk, clown money box... Chipped I hasten to add... I laughed and he said, it's great isn't it, don't you like it?! Maybe I'd have got a better present if I hadn't lent him some money for a "darts" weekend in Blackpool, which I found out from a mutual friend, 3 months after I'd split with him, was actually a pub crawl/shagfest... I did throw a pint over his head when I dumped him, wish I'd have ground the chalk clown into his food!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Mine was a baby keepsake box.

This is when I was single and had no kids. I'm still confused by it.

An underwear (knickers and proper bra) set from a school friend when i was in primary school. Tbh i think it had been bought for her but didn't fit so given as my gift. It was too small for me too.