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.

DH once gave me a posh (Japanese?) carving knife as my Christmas present.

I hadn't asked for one, so I was a bit confused - until the turkey was ready to serve and he said "where's that new carving knife?" and proceeded to open up "my" present and use it.

He has got a lot better at present buying since then...

A gardening set when I didn’t have a garden at the time off DH aunt. The same year I berated her after she insulted me to all the family behind my back that I was ungrateful because I never sent her a thank you text for a birthday present. I did send a thank you and screenshot it complete with date and time stamp and sent it in an actual card to prove a point. She still thinks I’m arrogant, I’m just really petty and dislike being spoken about badly when I’m a nice person. Last year she got squirrels in her loft. Had to fumigate and deep clean because of urine and faeces. I got a pack of ritz crackers in a half eaten tube that had been clearly been pissed on with a half eaten soap set. DH got a mouldy pair of squirrel piss slippers and mauled boxer shorts. Everyone else had fresh expensive gifts that weren’t stored in her loft. We haven’t bought for her this year and don’t have plans to see her. We’ve told family we don’t want presents. Zero agro would be splendid.

Japenese carving knives cost an absolute fortune but I imagine it was for him!

Husband is lovely but not great on gift ideas. I'd been complaining about cold feet when WFH so he bought me a terracotta room warmer powered by a candle. It's supposed to be an eco friendly heating device. No idea if it worked, I just could not get beyond receiving something similar to an inverted plant pot and a candle for Christmas. I was quite upset even though I know he was trying to be caring.

Yes, it was totally for him!

All my subsequent presents have actually been for me

A really cheap bottle of wine from my boss. We live in Spain so you can get a really good bottle of wine for 8-10€. She bought me a bottle of white wine (we both drink red and she knows that) that costs around 3€. It’s rocket fuel. I’m honestly not an ungrateful person, but wondered why she bothered.

An Arsenal shirt or some cold pressed oil from an ex. I’m not a football fan, nor do I cook.

Ugh…. My ex once made out he’d not got me anything. Later that night in bed he produced a rectangle box all wrapped with a bow. I was gobsmacked as he was crap with presents. I opened it and….. was a box of fucking mince pies!! (Devils work I can’t stand them and he knew this…) however in a plot twist… it was an empty box of mince pies… inside was actually (drumroll) a Fucking Jade Goody exercise video!!!!!! Not even a dvd (they were just coming out around then I think!) I honestly don’t know which present I found more horrific! The pies I hate or the insinuation I needed to tone up! I was like 18/19 and a size 8!!!!

made myself bloody well mad now. 😂😂😂

My husband bought me an “experience day”. It was a day called How to use your steam oven. We do not have a steam oven.

What...what?

Was he trying to be funny?

When I was a size 10, my then bf buying me a size 18 thong with diamanté trim on the thong part. Should have realised then it was a bad relationship 🤣

An ironing board that he even wrapped up, one of many reasons he is my ex husband.

A pack of dusters from the PILS the first Christmas DH and I were married. I think my face said it all because I never got anything like that again from them! To be fair, they got me other stuff as well and were lovely PILs (now sadly no longer around).

An aunt once bought me an old fashioned girdle, the type that grannies in the 1950s wore. I was 14 and stick thin ….

Same aunt (DM’s sister) bought her two BILs (my DF and another aunt’s DH) a small carton of Quality Street each. So far, so good. When the cartons were opened, my DF’s did indeed contain Quality Street but my Uncle’s sweets were substituted for a few cheap toffees. My DF was obviously the favourite BIL!

I'd actually love an ironing board for Xmas. Sad i know. I'm a really boring person. Don't like make-up, only ever have 1 perfume a time and replace when empty. Not fussed on clothes, spa days etc.
But I love ironing, laundry , cleaning.
My sister is doing me a cleaning hamper for Christmas 😆

A cheese board containing packets of cheese. unfortunately they didn’t tell us what it was or even to refrigerate. it sat under the tree for around 10 days. it was a fizzy cheese drink when we opened it. yes the living room smelled - i kept accusing people of farting.

Many years ago,among the presents from my late DM one Christmas was a telephone/address book (remember them 😂) that I'd given her the previous Christmas. I don't know if she'd genuinely forgotten that I'd given it to her in the first place,or that she DID remember but hoped that I'D forgotten about it!

OMG that's hilarious!

Bicycle inner tubes that didn’t fit my bike …

Our first Christmas after we were married, two cash strapped students 20 and 22, he bought me the Robert Carrier Cooking Cards, I'd never even heard of the majority of ingredients. Lemons stuffed with pilchards was all we could have afforded, had we liked pilchards!
Years later, fed up with his whining about not knowing what to buy me, I suggested that we bought our own present, wrapped it then on the 25th the surprise was in what you were giving. On the 23rd he confessed he couldn't think what to buy for himself!

Allegedly Ronald Reagan's grandchild left a soft toy at the White House when visiting and the following Christmas the child received the soft toy wrapped as a present from his grandparents.

A half used bottle of 'spritz for bitz'.

Yes, the spray you are meant to spray on your bits after you've given birth vaginally. We already knew that I'd be having a planned C section due to complications and the person gifting this knew this too.

For my 50th birthday I got a Terry Chocolate Orange for my OH, he knew that I loathe chocolate orange too. My lack of enthusiasm, and the comments from our daughter, ensured I got a very nice 60th birthday present!

I can't think of any truly awful presents but my dad was given a pack of 6 Combs (think Pound land bumper pack) by his MIL. He has been bald since he was young. He was mortified.
My husband's little brother and sister were given a snowman candle and a santa candle by their grandmother, they were about 3 and 7 at the time, so totally inappropriate. We swapped them and gave them toys instead.
My in-laws once gave me a pair of maroon nylon PJs that were practically see through. I did feel quite creeped out wearing them when they were around.

yeah i get the same sort of things from my other halfs family lots of scented things ooo joy for being allergic hahahaha

A box of baubles that were obviously some sort of ‘baby’s first Christmas’ set (we didn’t have a baby) from my current mil. A pair of weird pantaloon style pyjamas in faded pink cotton with faded labels, clearly from a charity shop (from my then very wealthy ex mil). A pair of guest towels- practical but everyone else got really thoughtful and very personal gifts from my sil & db.