What is the worst Christmas present you have received?

[KookyGreenHelper]

I will start. Every year a certain family member gets me bath bombs. I cannot use them as i am alergic to them. I have suggested things i would prefer every year like chocolates or a good bottle of wine. This family member always fails to listen. I am fed up of pretending to be greatful.

Any present is a good present? Say thank you, give to charity or someone you think would actually like it. No big deal.

WickedWaterWitch? I remember that 🤣

That's dreadful. Someone bought me some baby items for a birthday once - I had no baby at the time, wasn't pregnant and was single. They also gave me overdate chocolate- from 2 years ago! This is someone who I was friends with for years.

We are no longer friends.

About 25 years ago DH's mum gave him a pvc apron with sexy underwear drawn on it replete with blow up boobs. My MIL is very Catholic and has never before or since given any indication she finds anything like this remotely funny. She insisted DH put it on to help cook xmas dinner. DH still shudders at the thought of it.

One of those over the bath 'shelves' to put your wine and book on etc
The way my bath sits there's no edge on one side so can't use it !!

Including the mildewed, out of date chocolates that PPs have mentioned?

A random tyre?

Charities won't take secondhand cosmetics, half-bottles of perfume, out of date foodstuffs…

From my sister in law, to me and my husband.
An Animal Rescue (or something similar, l forget exactly which) annual.
An actual annual.
My husband and l were both in our thirties, with no children.

My MIL bought me a biscuit selection box a few years ago knowing full well I cant eat gluten and it makes me very ill. I took it in the passive aggressive manner it was meant (she had a smirk on her face watching me unwrap it) so smiled said thank you and handed them to DH.

A former colleague of mine has diabetes and a severe nut allergy. Every year her mil used to buy her chocolate with nuts in.

A marble rolling pin from my Nana. The same one that I gave her for Christmas the year before.

Used fluffy pink slippers from charity shop…gifted by my dad’s wife.

Most gifts were from charity shop. In the end I used to keep them and open when we had friends around, so they could both believe it and have a good fecking laugh about it…

Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Home Sewing from my parents. I can sew on buttons & redo a hem. I have absolutely no interest in doing more. How they thought....🤷

😂

😂is that not an attempt to murder!

Have you recognised some of the gifts you’ve given on this thread or something?

Cough medicine. I wasn't ill but had been three months earlier with a cold bug. Giver couldn't understand why I found it so weirdly hilarious

Out of date food gifts (I assume regifted).

Polyester socks
Scented candle after I specifically said I didn't want a scented candle.

My mum got me a huge jar of evening primrose oil capsules… because I’m so grumpy

A very revealing dress and tiny handbag from my aunt. It's the absolute opposite of my style (I prefer to stay covered up and love my backpacks) and was two sizes too small.

No idea whether it was intended as a criticism of my clothes/weight or was just thoughtless.

I’ve just had a birthday and EVERY YEAR it’s the same from my parents.

A Bayliss & Harding gift set and children’s paint brushes.

I can’t use scented stuff. My skin will dissolve from my body. My mum has been in my bathroom (she has no boundaries so I’ve no doubt she’s been through my bathroom cabinet. The Inkey List and The Ordinary is what I use. She knows this.

She’ll also asks if I’ve used it yet. I’ll be honest and explain that my skin won’t cope with it.

She’ll then say it should be fine because it’s really high end.

The paintbrushes also don’t get used. I paint miniatures. She’s seen them. The paintbrushes she buys are for children. Big brushes for uncoordinated child hands.

It puts me in a bad mood.

She goes to TK Max, buys random crap and then tries to ‘match’ it to a —victim— person.

A Tearfund garlic storage pot, three years on the trot from MIL - she's strong Christian, but a hopeless gifter!!! 🤣

So I’ll start by saying I have a bit of a strange phobia - it’s chenille fabric, I just can’t be around it. One year my DM bought me a head to toe fluffy chenille dressing gown. I think she knew it was a bad gift when I unwrapped it and promptly launched it across the lounge with a loud shriek. Still makes me shudder when I think about it now

@LifesTooShortForYourNonsense you seriously think that? Some of what has been said here are items that are just rude, selfish, cruel, bizarre and completely thoughtless.
As I said upthread - unless the giver actually has dementia there is absolutely no need for some of these gifts.

Exactly.

She was quite good natured about it. I think she’d come to terms with her MiLs peculiarities. We used to joke about whether she’d got the chocolates again or a bottle of cyanide for a change.