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.

should have announced "brilliant, now we'll have a better idea of when to avoid having sex!"

A toothbrush, an electric ⚡ fairly dear one but still, a fucking toothbrush

A very late uncle managed to gift all the female members of the family a pair of tights every year, for at least ten years. Always the same brand, always a peculiar shade called “American Tan” . God knows where he sourced them, he must have had a secret lock up where he stashed them.

do you have any hats?

That’s hilarious 🤣 They probably fell off the back of a truck!

He used to spend a lot of time in pubs so you are probably right!

The last Christmas with my exH. We had many talks about upping the romance and my expectations were high. I received a wire sculpture of Barack Obama.

Ex H once bought me some underwear but it was a pack of cotton briefs - think the ones you might have had aged 5 with the days of the week on the front.
I also once mentioned that as a little girl I’d always yearned for an old fashioned dolls house - so he bought me a book which contained postcards of dolls houses

needless to say the marriage was already doomed 🤣

A hammer. Yes. A hammer.

I have not laughed so much for ages.
My XMIL used to give me beautiful thoughtful gifts and I still got them. She always made very memorable Christmas and I do miss it.

On a bad gift note - someone I know got from her MIL a garden tin animal - wait for it - black sheep.

My grandmother once got my mother a pink plastic potty chair, with a plastic rose attached, aimed for elderly and incontinent adults, that she got from a catalogue. My mother was 35 at the time. Happy Christmas to her.

I think all bad gifts I've ever had pale into meaningless blandness compared to that.

Love it!

And what a very beautiful dog you have, btw.

Oh bless him😅. Did he live through the war years when a pair of stocking were so very dear?

I haven't read the thread, so this may have been suggested, can't you wrap them up and re-gift them back each year? Could be quite interesting to see how long you both could maintain the passive aggression

A knitted robin on a log, glued to some tatty cotton wool and cardboard, with a piece of plastic holly stuck up its arse. I was in the sixth form at the time. Just what every seventeen year old wanted. Even my uncle’s Labrador turned his nose up at it.

The whole thing fell to bits after about 2 minutes. One uncle used it as a football.

I got a hideous Soap & Glory wash bag years ago (by ex’s mother). Had clearly been left in bargain bin: said She’s So Fickle on it 😐

A collapsible bucket.

Just pissed myself 😂😂

I would have loved that!

Nobody should complain about a soap and glory gift set when someone else has to put up with a collapsible bucket.

Surreal

A coat hanger (obviously just grabbed from the wardrobe)
A CD (obviously just grabbed from the car)
A box of petit fours with some missing (obviously just grabbed from the kitchen)
An air freshener (obviously just grabbed from under the sink)
A very small travel kit (obviously a freebie)

Why do people bother? Give me nothing rather than see it as an opportunity to try and humiliate!

My MIL gave me a brown checked overall (the sort of thing cleaners and dinner ladies wore years ago). My SIL was given a blue one.

My ex mother in law bought be a copy of 50 shades of grey. To this day I have no idea why. She doesn’t read those sorts of books (icy cold woman) and she knows that I don’t read that genre either. Knowing her, it would’ve have been a dig, but I really don’t know what prompted the dig as she is usually more targeted and obvious. She isn’t naïve either, and would’ve have known full well the contents of the book. Bizarre.
We kept in touch because of my children. Anyway, since then she has had coffee creams from me each year.

I work for a company that makes product X. Multiple family members buy me product X for Christmas. Why? Just why? I get the stuff practically free. They know cos I share it with them. 🤦🏻‍♀️