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.

Pyrex dishes when I was 17.

A leg shaver (didn’t ever say that I wanted one) from mil

Losing your total sense of smell must have been terrible.
(I'm guessing your sense of taste is also badly affected by that, as they're so interlinked? Double bugger).

So, yes, you're more than justified to feel hacked off by those thoughtless gifts, IMO.

As ash tray (person giving it knew i'm very anti smoking but wanted to smoke in my house), a second hand toiletry bag complete with second hand toothbrush. A cutlery set. A range of lavendar things from M&S to help you sleep (I have no problem sleeping, but i do know the person giving them does and they were all opened). Polyester blouse with those cut out shoulders to wear on holiday (why would i wear something so disgusting in a hot country). Biros that dont work. All from my MIL. I've suggested to my husband that we stop or greatly reduce giving presents....but apparently she enjoys it. I thought the recipient was supposed to enjoy it?

I have three. A friend regifted me a present I had bought for them. My aunt bough me a jumper in her own size ( I was at 6 she was a 14). She asked if it fit me and i said no and she said I might as well give it back. Someone bought me an ashtray in secret santa I don't and never have smoked!

I married my ex husband on Christmas Eve. That was a particularly shitty gift!

@Lifelover16
A purple pink and red hand knitted twisted scarf - looked like a piece of large intestine.
😂

Not the worst by any stretch but I recall Christmas shopping with now late OH in the days when we always bought each other a book in addition to whatever else. We were in Waterstones and I pointed to a book and said What ever you buy me I don't want that! On Christmas morning as I opened my presents there was the book! I asked if he had forgotten what I'd said and he replied that he recalled I had mentioned it so he bought it!

i was a few weeks off 13
i developed really early
at the time i was a 36E cup and 6ft with 36 inch legs(i was born 26 inches)
this was early 90s,clothes for tall girls and big cups were very hard to get so i had to use catalogues
i got from a old distant 3nd aunt i didn't know through the post a 32 aa trainer bra and a 12-13 pinafore dress
my very first bra at 9 was a C cup so i was never that size

she just assumed i was a standard 12-13 year old

Not Christmas, but for my first Holy Communion my grandmother bought a set of matching dishes, white with a gold edge. My mother thought it was so we wouldn't have a hodge-podge of plates for the guests. But no, it was my present from my grandparents.
My sister got an almost identical one three years later, only hers had a silver edge.
Grandmother's reasoning was so we'd already have a set once we got married. I can tell you, getting married was not something I thought much about at the age of nine.
Strangely, that was also the last ever gift my sister and I got from our grandmother. For subsequent birthdays and Christmasses we just wouldn't get anything.

I'll have to change my name again after this because anyone who knows me will recognise me immediately...

My ex once got me 'luxury' washing up gloves, hand cream, and an action/thriller book (the kind marketed at men, full of ex-SAS characters). I do have quite eclectic reading tastes, and enjoy a good action/spy/thriller book from time to time, so I initially thought he'd selected it specially. But he later explained that he found it in a charity shop and mainly chose it because it looked unread, and therefore new, rather than looking secondhand.

What's worse is that he also told me where he'd got the gloves and hand cream - a local independent boutique that stocks lots of nice gifty bits, jewellery, bags, scarves. He could literally have picked virtually anything else in the shop and I'd probably have thought he'd tried.

That's not even why he's my ex!

Thought of a couple of other things my MIl has bought....we call them single use umbrellas, i guess for obvious reasons. Pants that were two sizes too small.

@NiceCutRoundDomeDormice Exactly that! The huge build up!!! What on earth possesses people to think we'd actually love something like that?! 🤣🤣🤣

Not me but my DH once got a shaving set from his Mum, he’d had a beard for years. We still laugh about it now.

Bubble bath. From everyone. I do love it and the year before no one had got me any. we do a loose list between sh, dm and the teens which they are meant to co-ordinate (we do the same for each other).

None of them could be bothered to even think about it. They just got easy, can't be arsed gift sets mostly from Amazon or the supermarket.

It's not like any of them usually but after I'd had a tough year at work where I had worked myself to near burnout I will admit to a little cry in the loo.

A hamper of out of date Sainsbury's baked goods and hot chocolate

Jack in a box when I was 3. I've hated clowns ever since.

When i was about 15, my mum tasked my dad with going out to get me something I wanted (too long ago to remember what!). Instead he went to a farm sale and, I’m guessing, realised he had forgotten my present and so brought me a radio and tape player, that had been sitting around in a dusty, dirty shed on the farm and no longer worked. Two years before they’d brought me a cd player so I didn’t even have any tapes any more. For my 16th, I’d begged them for a charm bracelet like all my friends were getting and instead they got me a cheap hairdryer (I’d brought myself one a few months before) and a pencil case. I’ve asked for money ever since…

Presents my MIL has given me over the years include

Anti-wrinkle cream, when I was in my mid 20's

A book about Justin Beiber

Used make up

A L'Oréal for Men shower gel gift set

A multipack of sponges

An ironing board cover

Call me paranoid, but I don't think she likes me very much.

Someone gave my brother, then aged about 9, a chocolate factory kit, where you melted chocolate in the microwave and then poured it in to moulds to make lollies.

So the actual gift was food poisoning for the whole family. Great times.

A carving knife and fork set. I’m vegetarian. He thought it was funny.

Il just give the highlights

the curse started when I was 5, when I received chalks off Santa at church and a chalk board! I was so excited. My dad decided these were too messy and swapped them for a pack of two pork pies and gave the chalk set to the girl next door.

Then when I was 12 I was gifted lavender talc and a flowery housecoat from my nan. My
8 year old brother got a pack of 5 black tights from M&S and my 13 year old cousin got £150 of toy vouchers the same year. Favouritism at its finest

The first Valentine’s Day together DP got me a fitness video fuming

a couple of years ago 18 year old DS got me a statue of me and him carved into glass that lights up and flashes with LED lights for Christmas. What the fuck do you say when you open that??? He was so excited and insisted I plug it in straight away

Then for my 40th birthday my gran gave me a 1988 copy of a Mary berry cook book (so not even the year I was born or owt) and a baking sticker book which actually stated for 3-7 year olds in the cover. My 5 year old niece was thrilled when I said she could have a go haha

god knows what this Christmas will bring

I love Amarula so actually wouldn’t mind that gift 🤣

The same Poundland pink scarf from the same person for 6 years running.

Half a pk of knickers from a multi pk and my sister got the other half from my nan. I'm a size 20 my sisters a size 10 the knickers were a size 16 😂