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.

Not a bad idea, we should all ask for something we know we may not like but can give to a charity shop or shelter. Blankets, scarves, hankies, socks
Alternatively ask for the booze of your choice, or expensive coffee/tea/mixer whatever food or drink item floats your boat. Then one way or the other someone gets something they want.

My worst present was a kettle, not even a great kettle, one you buy in an emergency for 5 pounds from tesco. Cheap flimsy plastic, 3 month guarantee type of kettle. I cannot imagine why a kettle would be in any way a good Christmas present.

Amarula is lovely did you try it?

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DD got a bath bomb gift set from her GF. She's allergic to them AND we didn't have a bath. Both things he knew because we'd discussed her endless eczema appointments AND that when she had chicken pox that year she couldn't have an oat bath BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE A BATH.

We've since moved and do have a bath but they were regifted immediately afterwards! No amount of bath owning will stop her scratching off her own skin.

Maybe ask for socks or scarves, and you can donate to a homeless shelter x

The trouble with the really terrible gift givers though, is that they'd ask what you want, and you'd say socks or scarves, and they'd then give you some mouldy truffles, a single gardening glove and a subscription to What Tricycle? magazine.

My mum put a "write your own will" kit in my stocking one year

My mother bought my husband a cheap toilet brush and I'm being serious here and that was his only present from her that year. She is an OAP and I wonder WTF she was thinking? The year before, it was a can of Heinz soup.

How festive!! 😮

You win.

Oh, I got one of those from my gran when I was 18. She got herself one too and thought we could do them together. We both wore a lot of black and liked Bauhaus, so it kind of fit with our vibe in a way.

A knit your own acrylic tank top. Tank tops weren't in in 1984!

MIL usually comes up trumps in the "worst present" department. DH and I have been together for 30 years, but I honestly can't think of 1 present that's been even a little bit not shit. I always smile and say thank you because honestly it doesn't bother me at all but offerings have included:

Red wine - a favourite of hers to give me, but she knows I don't drink at all.
A size 10 jumper (secondhand) - I am size 18.
A second hand and noticeably dirty bathroom bin as I had failed to put a bin in the guest room bathroom when she came to stay once, 10 days after we moved in. (I am a bit of a clean freak so definitely didn't like this).
A notebook - nice apart from it was used (by her) on some pages.
Kitchen whisk - I have several.
Numerous promises of books which I would like, but they never appear "I forgot to wrap it so I'll drop it off next time".

A used lipstick
A bottle of wine when breast feeding

Many years ago, as an impoverished student, I asked my 'difficult' mother for a new bag for Christmas. I politely specified what I needed - you know, cross body, big enough for A4 folder, that sort of thing. She seemed happy enough. Come Christmas Day, the big reveal: a small hand-held-only bag, with strange pointy wings, no room for stuff like folders. Hideous. She said she thought 'it would be more use to me.' It wasn't.

A metronome.

I never asked for it but my mother thought it would be useful for me when I was practising for my music exams.

Scented bin bags...

My mother asked for a book for Christmas which I bought her. I duly leafed through and made polite noises. I obviously overdid it because she regifted it back to me on my birthday a mere 7 days later, along with some mens socks she’d obviously bought for my Dad in Sainsbury and the plant in a basket I had given her for Mother’s Day

From my now late MIL many moons ago.A mulipack of three ordinary soaps, with one one removed and the other two left in complete with the torn wrapper.
She never was a present giver

From an aunt and uncle when i was about ten ...an inflatable plastic coat-hanger .
Other treasures included those clear plastic rainmacs and concertina rainhoods.
On attaining teenage years it was always American Tan tights , 3 pack , 30 denier .

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An Ikea catalogue.

Last year my husband (now ex husband) thought he would spend the Christmas money his mother gave us and the kids on getting the fucking hedge trimmed in the back garden. As a lovely surprise that he knew we would all love!!

We seriously had no money due to him not working and never contributing to anything, so instead of using that money on a rare treat for us we got an immaculately trimmed bush in the garden.

Bastard!!

My SIL is terrible at gift buying. She sometimes buys loads of gift sets from boots and just distributes them, we had the same one 3 years running.
For a few years she would buy people things she liked (she thought this was a great idea) so I got books for tv shows I don’t watch and music I don’t like. They kept ringing and asking if I had started watching the tv programme, I didn’t, apparently this meant I was ‘difficult’.
They often get DH alcohol, he doesn’t drink. Same with his mother, she was very offended.

MIL used to buy me clothes in tiny sizes to encourage me to diet. Fuck right off.

A pair of stockings (pantyhose). Flesh colored. To be fair, I was in Italy with family friends. They were visiting long lost relatives as family had emigrated from Italy years and years before. Christmas morn comes, everyone exchanges gifts but nothing for me, as the tag along. I think the old Nonna felt sorry for me, as she went and fished out said pair of hose and gave them to me, not an ounce of English spoken.

Doesn’t that make it the best gift?!!