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.

Perhaps they give you the stuff you gave them? Just regift it to them again then!

I was the guilty giver in this one! For OH's 70th birthday I bought him a flight in a Tiger Moth, not realising it was an open cockpit, he had a terrible fear of exposure! After about 10 months he booked to go with the proviso that he could change his mind and I wouldn't be annoyed. He loved it and bought the photo and video of his flight!

Just being generally surplus to requirements.
Unwanted gangly teen, not cute little child.
’You’re too old’

Maybe tricky excluding one, but passable to exclude two together.
From 15, I was excluded from family holidays too; I was left behind at home with the older sister. Because ‘she spoils every holiday but I can’t leave her on her own’.

OK confession time. When I was about eight I bought my mum her Christmas present in Woolworths ( RIP). It was a fabulous glittery blue plastic Santa sleigh with several detachable reindeer, I think when you put it all together it was about 30 or 40 cm long. I didn’t have any wrapping paper so carefully wrapped each element in yards and yards of toilet paper, must have used a good couple of rolls, and put them in a giant cornflakes box. To my mothers credit she kept a straight face while unwinding unwrapping her present. Funnily enough I never saw it again, by the following Christmas it had disappeared from the Christmas ornaments box.

Only fools and horses board game!

An electric tin opener

I actually got a Teasmade for Xmas in 2008 because I'd specifically asked for it and it's still going strong!

I never found the milk an issue - I just put a bit in the bottom of a mug and it's only occasionally in the height of summer that it goes off but even then it's usually fine.

The first Teasmade they gave me kept going off exactly 4 hours earlier than I'd set it for (I had to get up at 5.30 and it went off at 1.30am!) so they exchanged it and the second one did the same thing! Then they got me a different model and it was fine. Must admit I use it less since getting a husband who gets up before me and brings me a cup of tea.

I came on here to say my worst gift, which was from an ex-fiance. A set of Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit tiny kid size books. It would have been a lovely present for a five year old. I was 28 at the time and v v disappointed!

however I now realise this was quite decent compared to some of the horrors on this thread.

My mum bought me "The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read" by Philippa Perry for mothers day... it was a passive aggressive dig at my parenting... which back fired a bit as it's all about how everything is your mothers fault....

I leave it in the spare room when she stays now.

Not Christmas but I'm still recovering from this one. It was my MIL's 80th this year and we hosted the whole family for her and gave her lovely gifts chosen by me. She had in her bag a scarf that someone else had given to her that she hated and was laughing at. On my 50th a couple of months later the only gift I got from her was that scarf!

As I said, I'd have enjoyed it 10 years earlier. but as 16 year old, it felt a bit like being given pull-up pants or inflatable arm-bands.
If you're angling for my copy you're out of luck - strangely, I don't seem to have it.

A hedgehog made out of newspaper.

Reminds me of many years ago, we bought my MIL a scarf/shawl, wide and long made form a fine material, not exactly cashmere but still expensive, it was in autumnal shades. Later in the year it was unseasonally chilly and we were planning to go out when we were over there visiting and I said I'd forgotten a scarf. She said Oh, I have this awful thing someone gave me last Christmas, it's really dull colours, you can wear it!

had a teasmade and mum did too years ago but the milk was a real issue if it was warm or heating on it would curdle but also leaving it over night could get a bit dusty. i suppose these days you could use them little pots you get in hotels from poundland amazon etc but rarely see them now. i am guessing that like hostess trolleys and electric carving knifes they still make them but rare as hens teeth

Remember the Simpsons episode where Homer got so fat he couldn't wear regular clothes? He started wearing a mu'umu'u. Well my MIL gave me one of those, I had put on a few pounds that year - nothing too bad just gone from a size 10 to 12. She had just come back from a Floridian holiday so she probably picked it up from Walmart there. It is mostly polyester and in candy colours of pink blue and yellow. I don't know why she did it as she as we get on really well and she usually does quite thoughtful gifts. I still have it, no idea why, don't want to inflict it on anyone else and maybe I will grow into it one day.

@izzywizzydizzy I have a copy 🙂
Plus the original Father Christmas book and several of Raymond Briggs's other books.
All bought when I was an adult. I love Raymond Briggs books.

A bar of very cheap soap think the old Boots multi packs just one bar well used the inscribed name had been washed off and was still damp from the bathroom shoved in a brown paper bag
a brown paper bag of rotten sprouts apparently thought i would find them useful for the festive lunch but by time she gave them they were rotten mouldy
a ginger jar minus the lid with a big crack through it
a very dusty old jar filled with dusty pot pourri which smelt vile with a piece of dirty net curtain covering the top fastened with an elastic band

Aged 18 I got a vibrator in a works secret Santa, obviously meant to embarrass me as a very quiet anxious young woman. (I worked in an office where my boss was always shagging the clients, solicitors office and the clients were always woman going through divorces so not vulnerable at all).

who should I have given that to? Or which charity?

so no, any present is not a good present.

American tan, a very popular shade, back in the '60s when I had my Saturday job and they were kept in boxes behind the counter with one of each shade open to let the customer out her hand inside it to see if she liked it! No multipacks in supermarket then!

Nothing at all. Likewise for my birthday. Presents for me aren't a thing any more.

Are you my first cousin? 😂😂

Margaret! How are you?😁

@Needmorelego, I also love Raymond Briggs, a genius. Though "When The Wind Blows" still disturbs me...

I’m good, thank you Val, stopped wearing the American Tan tights though.

Me too!