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.

A pale lilac anorak.
I’d last worn an anorak at the age of 5, and would look like the living dead in lilac.
MIL always complimented me on my autumn 🍂 shade clothes, so I’m guessing she must have got it cheap somewhere. Straight to the charity shop and she never commented on not seeing me wear it.

Mmm
You know there are creepy dungeons there.
Was that a message?

Candles. Ugh, hate them!

Also a very sparkly knee length, pencil skirt which was the least flattering garment imaginable (on top of the fact I live in jeans and hoodies- sparkles are NOT my thing at all)

A history book 😕

Me again. My parents have no imagination when it comes to presents. So they ask what I want. I say, a nice bracelet, for example. Then they have a panic because I haven't specified which particular one. So i have to send a link with the size and type I want. But at least I don't get what I don't want.

My Dad has told me the exact slippers he wants for Christmas. My mum has told me a guideline to follow: hand cream. So at least I can choose the brand.

No surprises in my family. None.

Nothing truly awful here. My mum has form for wrapping up things like supermarket value biros, alongside other, marginally better, gifts. She once bought us sparkly plastic coasters that are not remotely our style, which made me wonder if she knows me at all 😆 Truth be told, she's not that interested in the whole thing and also has zero sense of ceremony/Christmas atmosphere - she'll hand things over unwrapped, with prices on, etc. Mostly now she requests an actual link to the exact item she is to buy me and vice versa. I'm not keen on how transactional this feels but at least we both get what we want 🤣

(To be clear, she's lovely and well-intentioned, just a bit bonkers)

An ex boyfriend told me only had a tenner to spend on my birthday and Christmas since they are so close together. I got a comb and a lip balm. I think he did genuinely try his best but he was unemployed, unhygenic and lazy so he wasn't going to be for me long term.

My aunt once got me twilight perfume that was clearly marketed to pre-teen fans of the film. I was 26.

Anything my narc mother has bought me (I'm nc)

She just had this massive blind spot for me (the scapegoat)

A Katie price knock off perfume
A blanket with sleeve-complete with someone else's food stains
Slippers that where falling apart and filthy
Ditto gloves,socks and a hairband
Second hand and used make up
An eye gel that was so old,the contents had evaporated
A vanity case that was falling apart
Snowball shaped candles
A statue of budda (no idea on this one-i think it was a dig)
A granny style dressing gown in puke green (I was 18)
Granny knickers in a size 30 (her size-i was a 14)
A skirt I'd told her she looked nice in-i was 15 and she was pushing 45
Second hand,washable breast pads (id finished breastfeeding 2 months earlier-another dig)
A cross stitch picture I'd made and framed for my father earlier that year
Tins of cat food-we didn't have a cat

Dp once bought me toothpicks-i cried over that one

The best had to be ds,them aged about 12

it was mother's day and as the kids didn't have much money,I told them if they wanted to buy me something,to wait until the monday-it was a minimum of at least half off (no pressure-i wasn't that bothered)

So after school,he trotted off to the local corner shop to buy me something nice

He even rang to say he had got his bargain and I'd love it

He walked in and handed me a box of chocolates

That was empty-temptation had got the better of him on the way home!

colour pencils wrapped in my own blanket (she didn't want to spend money on wrapping paper)

Some oven cleaner from my mother. Cheap and passive aggressive. Merry Christmas!

I say this every year on these threads, but My ex Fiance gave me tampax he got free from his staff shop one year, “because he knew I used them”. I was actually on the mini pill and didn’t have periods, but I did keep some in the bathroom just in case. We seperated soon after this!

One of those floating globes, the sort of thing a rep would give to a business when they want to sell their crap to them. Not only is it not the sort of thing either of us would look at twice (because they're so naff), but we don't have either the space of the electric sockets to plug one into.

😂

As a horse mad child, I received a crocheted plastic doll spare toilet roll holder- with a crocheted dress to fit over a bog roll.

Like WHY?

I hated dolls, and bog roll was something parents bought.

A pony book from a charity shop would have been fine!

🤣🎯

Out of date chocolates (due a week before the Christmas that I opened them) that had also melted then re solidified.

Toothpaste.

😮

Holy rodents Batman!

My DSD once got me a cheap and nasty acrylic pompom hat with a fox face, complete with ears. Totally thoughtless, totally not me, and obviously the result of a last minute dash to Asda. Her DF was mortified, because he knew how much thought I put into gifts for DSD and her family.
I know you don't gift to get but that was the year I resigned as chief present buyer.

Hello..I'm a Dog.

My absolute worst Christmas present was a pair of nail clippers.

And a stupid coat with legs that make the squirrels take the piss.

What's wrong with Donut beds and natural treats?

All MIL.
A swim sock, they type you wear to stop verrucas. I didn't swim
A full length, high necked, long sleeved grey nightie, because, and I quote, "DH won't be interested in you in that".
A framed photo of her and FIL when they were courting, they were divorced by this time.

What a fine and noble looking hound....

A plastic purse from Tesco from SIL. I tried to take it back only to find it had been in the sale in the summer for 50p. And no, she isn't hard up, the five horses and £75k sand paddock vouchers to that.

A size 20 jumper from SMIL when I was a size 10.

Years ago as a teen I got a pair of gloves that were clearly not new and had a hole in from an elderly tight relative.

Every year I get chocolates and other foods containing animal products from a relative who knows I’m vegan but doesn’t agree with anyone being vegan. My partner eats them or we pass them on, which my relative knows, but still she does it. She also bought me pyjamas 4 sizes bigger than I am. Just her way of trying to get a reaction which I will never give her.