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 LED candle from my MIL. She didn't even wrap it.

@twentysevendresses
I worked with a lovely lady many years ago, her fiancé got her an iron for Xmas, but as she knew beforehand about it he also got her a surprise pressie to open….
guess what?
Yep an ironing board😂

On the light hearted side of things my then boyfriends step mum bought me a Hannah Montana lipgloss set when I was about 19 or 20, I might have even been a bit older! She'd only had sons and had no idea what was age appropriate for women, but she was the best so i didn't mind.

More recently an in law gave me and my DH a joint gift of a small box of those little incense cones, but the box was all smashed up and broken where they'd clearly pulled it out from the back of a cupboard where they'd sat for years.

A skillet. When it was delivered, it was me who was in and it had a massive pic of a skillet on the front of the box. I make an effort now not to mention random boring household stuff I'm considering in the run-up to Christmas...

For the last few years my mil got me that!

Microwave cleaner from my MIL

spare hard drive

The Readers Digest DIY Annual from DH. It was in retaliation for my giving him the Encyclopedia of the Universe the previous year! I'm the astronomy buff.

I like gin and I like gardening, and I received a gin herb set. Good so far? Well, the giver of the gift had unboxed it and had attempted to grow the herbs for me but in the process had killed 2 out of 3 so I got 1 sachet of 3 seeds. All very odd and disappointing.

I remember getting a sewing kit from my mum and I was like erm who wants a fricking sewing kit for Christmas lol.

I'm now a 43 year old woman who asks for a new sewing kit every year haha

My husband's mate gave me a Tesco Value loo roll holder.

He's got long standing mental health issues and is unable to work so hasn't much money. I didn't expect a present but would have been happy with a family size bar of chocolate or something else for less than a fiver. Not a loo roll holder!

My own, 5 sets of matching diaries and notebooks as a child ( my Mum couldn’t understand why I was a bit upset at this, and it was because there was nothing else really for Christmas, and we didn’t get gifts through the year. )

Bubble bath and soaps for my highly allergic two girls, every year

And every year, clothes which were too small with all the labels pulled off from MIL, for said girls. No matter what size I gave when asked for sizes in October each year, to take into account growth, she bought them too small.

Such a waste and a disappointment. Some of them were hideous admittedly, but what a waste of time and money, and disappointment for the girls.

Well maybe but I have never used hankies and they went straight in the bin.

It's a toss up between posh oven gloves and a posh shopping bag.

This is sort of funny as my sister and I delight and giving each other cleaning products for christmas! The latest craze is exchanged unique zoflora flavours!

A soap penis from a co-worker in secret Santa.

I was 18 and he was a mid forties divorced male.

I wasn't his secret Santa recipient he just decided to get me the soap penis as a nice extra.

creepy guy

My family bought me that one year, I wasn’t pleased. It cost a fortune, smelt like cake and I have an unperfumed cream I use.

My then mid twenties SIL bought my husband (her brother) and me (also mid-twenties) a framed photo of herself.

Some of these are brilliant! Some of them I actually want - I really, really, really want the orange velvet bucket bag.

It was a china lobster pot, with gold highlights, with china lobsters and crabs running all over it decorated with china roses and a vase as part of the back of it. I think DH and I laughed for about 30 minutes straight after opening it. It took pride of place in our bathroom for many years until a visitor broke it . The following year they gave us a brown resin fish with red rhinestone eyes which I also admired greatly as it was completely insane

@DemonicCaveMaggot Oh god, the lobster pot sounds fabulous. I don't suppose you have a photo, do you?

My mum bought me an umbrella for Christmas when I was 12

A £50 voucher for ASDA. Every year for a decade. Nothing wrong with an ASDA voucher at all, It's just at the time I lived about 70 miles away from the nearest one, I asked from the next year if he could swap it for a Tesco one then I would be able to use them..

He went mad and never got me anything again!

What? I have! Multiple times. Not sure why this is annoying you so much...

I used to buy that for my FIL for the purpose of washing and deodorising him, but I don’t think they meant that for you, it’s often just a gift 💝

Well it’s going back a bit but my mum’s mum never got us anything. She lived in sheltered accommodation.
She also used to sell anything my mum used to give her in the pub on Christmas night.
One Christmas Day she was pissed as usual. I was 14. She secretly handed me a gift and told me it was our secret.
As soon as she was gone I told everyone and we sat around awaiting the great gift unwrapping.
It was an empty packet of Benson and Hedges.
We were none the wiser.
She had also given us cards for the first year, no envelopes. Addressed to her from other residents, she just crossed out the names!
A few days later I called to see her with my mum. The warden kindly informed us that my nan had robbed decorations from the tree - empty cigarette packets meant to look like gifts!
She had also been banned from the Christmas party for fighting.
She was about 70 by then.
My mum was a real lady, rarely drank, never swore and had very high standards.

A datebook from MIL containing all of DH's family birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
I assume it was her way of telling me she'd like me to send them cards and presents on their special days, and exempt DH from these duties. She even referred to her and FIL as 'Mum' and 'Dad' in this book, which I would never call them. I have my own parents. She should have given it to her son. I gave it to him and said to do with it what he wished.