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.

Thank you for the laugh, hysterical.

I love that anecdote. ❤️

Teasmade would be an amazing present 😂😂😂

My exMIL got me a horrendous black patent bag with yellow chains on it. I think i managed to hide my disgust. I left it when I moved out.

Also when I was about 22 a bouncing tigger game because I said I like tigger.

DD21 has a November birthday and when our DDs were younger we always had a family party. DB's DC were terrible eaters so one year for nibbles I put out carrot sticks, celery, cucumber, pepper and dips (if I had put out crisps DNs would have filled up on that rather than eating proper food).
That Christmas Day MIL gave DD21 one of the Sainsburys Value variety packs of nibbles (pretzels, several types of mini crackers) except there were only 4 of the 6 were there because she had removed the pretzels (DD's favourites). Her reason for the gift was that I was a terrible mum who was forcing vegetable sticks and hummus on my poor DC. DD21 loves hummus and would rather eat that than crisps.

Are they from Lush?

Fabulous 🤣🤣🤣

My BF Mum bought me a full length, high necked, long sleeved ornate embroidered Victorian night dress from 'Past-Times'.

I am genuinely in awe at some of these.
My worst ‘gift’ was from MIL - she doesn’t do gifts, only cards (lives abroad, thank for), so she sent me a card for my birthday.
I shit you not, it was a blank blue card, like those diy ones, with a matching envelope.
nothing written inside. Nothing on the outside either.
When DH asked her about it, she simply piped up that she thought I could write my own.

Why don't people listen, understand and not buy things you are allergic to, can't use as don't have a garden, bath etc?

Socks. Dont get me wrong, I like socks but every year mil clearly buys a pack of 5 socks, opens them and wraps two pairs for me and the other 3 pairs for my sil I can only assume she doesn't like me as much as sil as I always get the 2 pairs and she always gets the three pairs. Mil isn't short of money either and isn't tight with money in general. It is such a strange thing, I just don't get it. Another thing she has gifted me before were kids gloves with sparkly unicorns on.

God is past times srill going. I remember that in the 1980s when Davis winter houses were a thing.

For 2022, MIL gave me a pair of brown leather gloves (new with tags). I tried to return them to John Lewis. Lady on the till said they’d been bought in 2016 and valued at £2 on the till!! 😂 When I told her it was my gift from MIL, she gave me a gift card for £35 🥰

All of them, tbh. Same with birthdays. I didn't expect much, but get things that show no consideration or care. Last year DB gave me a hideous, cheap throw rug & bitch a day quote calendar. I think those are crass & low brow gifts. And I don't use paper calendars.

My worst gifts? DM giving me a box of random knick knacks she'd tried to fob off on me a couple of weeks before when cleaning out her cupboard. My 40th? DH saying 'what dud you buy yourself?' Today is my birthday & he rushed out yesterday on lunch, after not getting around to it & I know it'll be a pile of instant scratch tickets. That I haven't liked doing for many years.

I don't care what I get, I just want some thoughts says we give a sh*t. DD has made me something & that's awesome.

I told DH I knew my ship had sailed, but he WOULD make sure DS knew to consider birthdays.

No - I dont think it is. This was probs late 80's / early 90's.

He was very much the parentified golden boy - I expect subconsciously she couldn't tolerate he was sexually active .... hence the nun-like night wear for his teenage GF.

As a kid, as I read books - before GCSE English killed my love of reading fiction (only read about 12 fiction books since that - plus that again in audio books since then, 27 years ago). Relatives used to give me WH Smiths gift vouchers and my birthday in mid Jan.

It took almost the whole year to spend them all. My DM bought most of my books from Red House Books? which were much cheaper than WHS.

About two years before there was a H&M in Leicester, I was given a voucher for them and the nearest store at the time was Milton Keynes. My parents did a 40 mile detour to MK to spend my voucher enroute to some of their friends.

Used make up kit and a pair of tights.

This is exactly the one my mother bought me when I was 18 (but it was puke green and not puke pink)

Just what every desperate-to-be-trendy teenager wants for christmas

My ex mother was delighted when I gave it to her

That is a beautiful dog! He or she should definitely get whatever they want!

Windscreen wipers for my car, about 6 years ago. I needed new ones to be fair to DP. But it was still the shittest gift ever and he hasn't topped it since.

A so called “poetry” book by Brummymummy.

@Auburngal I know. It's a mystery. It's one of those things in life that I really really do not understand.

A car air freshener from MiL, years before we could drive or owned a car. Also, an opened Dove gift set that was bashed and seemed old.

Also, this one will seem petty and childish to some, but I’m a huge Harry Potter fan. My sister got me a Slytherin blanket, I’m a Ravenclaw 😂

A used pot of body butter with a finger scoop mark in it and a hair on top.

Box of leibniz biscuits from my mum when I was 18. Year before that a box of jelly belly beans. Both were my main and only presents. I knew she was broke but it was the lack of thought.