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 pyrex dish and three tea towels.I was just about to turn 12 and my mother had just died so Christmas was extra grim that year.

My MIL gets me a shower gel from Boots every year, the biggest, cheapest bottle she can get her hands on.

So I treat myself to something now every year, wrap it up for myself to have something nice on Christmas morning.

Not a Christmas gift but a birthday one, and not really an awful gift but the situation made it so. DH got caught cheating when I was very heavily pregnant, and it was a few days before my birthday. I decided to try to make the best of things and try to move on but was obviously heartbroken and very stressed. I asked for a specific, very cheap supermarket cake for my birthday as it's my favourite. He came home with something completely different that I don't like and then invited his parents over and the three of them sat and said how good the cake was and how it was their favourite and how weird it was that I didn't like it. Still makes me absolutely seethe thinking about it.

So good to see your husband had your back.
What she did was awful.

My ex MIL used to do exactly this. Buy clothing from sales that was either much too big or very small and dd couldn’t wear them - she once bought a size 16 pair of leggings for my 8 year old. I asked her to give money for dd to spend instead or put in her bank account but she wouldn’t.
years later I found out that ex had told his family not to give any cash to dd as he said I would take it from her and spend it on drugs. I have never taken drugs and have a professional career, but it was so his family wouldn’t help me financially when I was at university and he wasn’t paying csa.

Gucci envy? That's amazing!!

My MIL won that award years ago with Poundland bag of Pebbles one year and a singing ice cream scoop the next. I used to take it to the staffroom and play it when people were getting too loud. STFU or the Scoop is coming out. Fuxking nuts! 🥜 She expected gratitude as well. Mad family, her son once bought me 'roll on deodorant' x 2, the tester bottles. They were about 50p each, he was also looking for a pat on the back. 😆

@Andoutcomethewolves ok apologies. If you've told them then they are just selfish to keep giving them.
Have you actually asked them why they do it? I really would love to know the thinking behind some people's gift buying.
It just really drives me nuts this time of year with the "I hinted I wanted X but got Y" or "I casually mentioned....." etc.
I always think "just speak up" 😂
As you have......that sucks for you 🙁

Made me LOL

My late MIL was the shittest gift giver I've ever known.

Scottish, and sadly she doubled down on the stereotype of Scots being tight. I used to get the gifts other people had given her that she didn't want...usually with original gift tag left on.

Most were beauty gift sets from places like Body Shop etc. One year I got a M&S set, from the Royal Jelly range. It had bath foam, hand wash, hand cream etc. I used the hand cream once and had the worst rash break out on my hands. Took weeks for it to go away. Checked the manufacturing date, which was 10 years previously!

The only time she actually spent money on a gift from me, it was crap from the pound shop, a manicure kit...the nail clippers promptly broke as I opened them. Once she gave me a pair of boot slippers, size 5...I'm a size 8...re-gifted Primark rubbish obviously meant for kids/teenagers. Husband couldn't understand why I wouldn't wear them...all her shit used to go straight to the charity shop/bin after that.

all the people that buy me alcohol knowing i don't drink

From an ex boyfriend, a nightie, from Woolworths, long length, pink, with a ribbon at the neck, the sort of nightie an old lady in a nursing home might wear. At the time I was 20 something and quite hot, even now at 50 something and not hot I wouldn't wear it. From another ex boyfriend, a set of lights for my bike, didn't even ride my bike that much.

A plastic bag full of free hotel toiletries that my Mil had collected whilst on holiday in Japan. Everyone else got a thoughtful gift.

A homemade (but low quality) ham sandwich and a bottle of cheap (really cheap) wine.

I don't eat ham and don't drink alcohol. It was like the guy just gave me half his lunch and some petrol station quality booze.

Bright orange underwear from Agent Provocateur. I hated the colour, it wasn't practical, it wasn't comfortable and it didn''t fit.

I broke the strap just trying to get the bra on and promptly returned it and bought a very pragmatic camera bag that I loved.

Needless to say, the relationship ended within months.

A blanket with a picture of a cow on it and the words "grumpy cow" written underneath.

I got a tea towel with welsh words on it. I am not from Wales, don’t live in Wales and don’t speak Welsh. I am not even British. From Mil of course

From my MiL back in the 70s, a shortie nylon overall in lurid shades of purple and orange. Every year she used to knot my DC a jumper each for Christmas. They used to cry if I tried to get them to wear them because the necks were so tight it almost pulled their ears of to get them on and off.

5 weeks after having a baby mil bought me an old lady cardigan 2 sizes too big. Went straight in the charity bag

Well if you spoke Welsh already you wouldn’t need the tea towel would you!

Gift it all back to her - You seem to like it so much !

Wind chimes. I hate them. Why add more noise to the environment? What added insult to injury was that I had trailed around the city centre, getting the family exactly what they had asked for, at great expense of time and money, and I get a fiver's worth bloody wind chimes. The following year I was given a hideous large model of a dog. So since then I have given money or vouchers.

A postcard of Princess Diana.

Same here .. things for bath.. not for same reason as you.. l don't have a bath lol.
I have a walk in shower...haven't had a bath for years .🤷‍♀️

A bright yellow tweety pie nightie off MIL. I looked ridiculous

Chlamydia?