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.

It was a Secret Santa, so the person knew me - and knew I’d recently had a failed IVF, and had no children.
I got in the Secret Santa, what looked like a set baby spoons.

Slightly smaller than teaspoon size, with cute pictures of ducks etc on.
I had a kind of - what??? reaction, and the person next door to me had a similar reaction.
Unfortunately the person who bought them saw my reaction and apologised, saying she thought they were cute teaspoons.
I felt absolutely bloody awful!!!

One I'd forgotten until now. DH's cousin lived in Australia and gave us a large Christmas tree bauble with a mooning Santa stuck to it. We put it back in the box and it lived under the bed for a couple of years until we managed to pass it onto someone who actually liked it.

My worst Xmas gift part 2.

My ex MIL gave me an ovulation test kit. As she wanted grandchildren from me and my ex. We never wanted children. I only saw her once between the NY and the August when me and ex split up.

She should be lucky as my ex's brother has 5 kids of his own plus 4 step kids (different partners)

I was a shy 16 year old virgin and some guy at my first job got me a mini Karma Sutra book with actual people in it 🙄

SILs holiday photo printed onto a metal plaque.
A tinsel hedgehog.
garden shears - we didn’t have a garden.

Someone on here years ago got something like 30m of elastic from her MIL IIRC

From my in laws. A teddy bear teapot, from a charity shop. The glaze was all cracked and it was dirty inside, it was for my "teapot collection". I have never collected teapots.

Send the Amarula my way - it’s lovely in hot chocolate!

My (lovely) MIL bought me a salmon pink housecoat - I was 29 years old!

I gave it to my grandma, who absolutely loved it!

For those who may not know what they were:

Worst present I got was from my husband a few years ago. I'd asked him for a laptop backpack, like a Targus one that needed to be replaced. He got me one which was from a dodgy Chinese company off Amazon (whose website has disappeared), and then proceeded to tell me he'd got it cheap! Saying that I should be pleased because he got a bargain. I tried not to show my disappointment. It's not like he couldn't afford a better quality one either. He was just being tight!

My husband's godmother bought me a plastic thing which had a roll of paper in it. You wrote your shopping list on it, then tore it off to take to the shops. It came from M&S, so it wasn't complete tat. I decided to take it back and exchange it. Great long queue, but I persevered, and eventually it was my turn. Lots of whispered conversations and then the supervisor came over and told me they hadn't made these for YEARS!

Everyone in the queue was enthralled! I just burst out laughing and explained who it was from and jokingly said 'I bet her wardrobe is full of things like this, that she's been given over the years!' When she died, I was proved right ....!

One year i got a book from my aunt. I had already read it. When i was a child my grandma got me a doll. It just would not turn off. My mum ended up taking the batteries out.

Some of these are awful, and some are hilarious.
For me it is a toss up between:

1. From DH, festive sparkly red underwear at 38 weeks pregnant that I would never, ever choose in a bazillion years and made my eyes want to die
2. Childs 'paint your own pottery mug' set from SIL because I 'like mugs' (am one, more like)
3. From my best friend, a couple of years ago, an anti-wrinkle cream 'for sagging necks' now we laugh about it but at the time I went and had a little cry like Emma Thompson in Love Actually😢

This wasn't so much the worst..more 'bought in a state of extreme panic' I think. My XP had promised to buy me a pair of boots for Christmas - I wanted a pair of Rocket Dogs but have to buy in a shop as I have difficult feet so we were going to go shopping before Christmas so I could buy them and give them to him to wrap. We went shopping but he 'needed to get a few things' and didn't have time for me to shop or try anything on. So, no boots. When it came to Christmas day he obviously panicked and didn't dare not have anything to hand over, so he bought four boxes of Thornton's Chocolates and wrapped them all up separately. I like chocolate, but not THAT much chocolate. I think it took me a year to eat them all. I never got the boots.

I got a £50 voucher to be used at a selection of luxury hotels. I'd have to spend at least £200 to use it. I'm newly divorced and when I looked up where to use it the first options it showed me were romantic getaways. This was from my mum.

I was vocal about my fury at the covid response and how I wasn't taking part and neither were my children ( neither myself nor my children tested, isolated, didn't wear masks etc ) My MIL bought my 14 year old a box of face masks to wear as a christmas present! Told her to take them home or put them in my dustbin.
The NHS rainbow/ captain tom shite jigsaw got the same response

Best friend's XH.
She got him a playstation 4 ( on pre order) and a gaming chair.
He got her a novelty lighter.
She doesnt smoke.

I joined this thread to say Ped Egg from my FIL. I have lovely feet, thank you very much. Straight to the charity shop on Boxing Day.

A joint gift for me and DH from MIL of solar powered garden lights that you stick straight into the ground. We lived in a top floor flat.

Family Secret Santa. I got an amazing gift for my brother, while from my step-mom I got the contents of a gift bag from a conference she had recently attended: a pen, a notebook, a sort of messenger bag I never used, a pin. It was awful. There was less than no thought put into it. (And I’m very easy to buy for! Stepmom had been in my life for 20+ years at that point.)

A wig stand. I have a full head of very nice natural hair

A petrol strimmer. He’s an ex for a reason.

sorry but im giggling still

Can I join in with a Big 0 birthday present I've just received. A friend of mine who I don't see much of because we had a bit of a falling out.... insists on buying antique/old stuff and after knowing her forever, she would know it's not my style.

She got me some earrings from an antique market. They are honestly horrendous, I have never seen such ghastly earrings in my life, I wouldn't dream of wearing them!

What has finished me off is.... they are crusted up on the back, obviously from some old lady's earwax and I feel sick 🤮🤢

Thank you, that was cathartic.

Creepy bastard

My fave so far!