Most pointless Christmas gifts

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I'll go first...

Hat and glove set (haven't worn a hat or scarf since I was 10)🤣

Body lotion! Who actually bothers to apply that stuff😬

Body lotion! Who actually bothers to apply that stuff😬

Everybody, I would have thought. Even DP uses body lotion after his morning shower.

A really expensive, ugly arrangement of fake flowers from DH after we said we weren’t doing presents as we are so broke we can’t sleep at night for worry.(I would have loved a pair of gloves (as my hands are regularly freezing) or a secondhand book or a couple of chocolates or naice coffee or a token gift like a coffee mug or a pen or a nail polish or lipbalm or a pair of running socks or a phone case if he wanted to get me a little something to unwrap.)

I would also have loved some fresh flowers, but he entered a sodding florist and spent 4 or 5 times the price of a lovely bouquet on something useless and hideous.

Double disappointment as it was my birthday in December and we couldn’t afford any gift or celebration for that. Just feel so depressed and worried about our poverty as we both have health issues and I can’t seem to get over the incompréhensible waste of money on this tat.

I'd be happy with either. I do wear gloves and hats, especially the former, and love body lotion as I have dry skin, though prefer a decent hand cream.

Good for re-gifting though or giving to a school fair or similar.

I would have loved candles but I got food including a lot of biscuits, and I've been on a diet all year. I ate the posh ham and put the rest in the community pantry.

😂 What is she trying to tell you? I'm surprised my dm didn't buy those for me, because she loves to tell me how tired and stressed I look 😩

Unfortunately I got given a turtle neck jumper that’s made out of that really itchy wool. I don’t usually wear turtle necks as they don’t suit me, and I really don’t like the itchy wool as even if I wear something underneath it irritates me to distraction.

This is from my dad..

A box of biscuits and a jar of chocolate covered dates that went out of date in January 2023.

DS got a pair of gloves with flashing lights in the fingertips. He’s 8, and even he was a bit

Brown leg warmers (100% acrylic made in china)

Same book they gave me last year

Tiny one person tea pot (just use a mug surely?)

I love a Boots gift set, and candles! Never get them though 😢

@Itsaswelltime can you take them back and exchange for plants or flowers? I'd be fuming too. Sounds quite bizarre.

I think I have the most pointless gift, but it's bloody marvellous and I love it.

It's an ornament, from my teenaged son.

It's a pair of disco-mirror-ball bananas.
Every home should have some.

Wind chimes. Dh bought me wind chimes. And a pillow. I like my current pillows very much and have not once suggested any new pillows.

Oh dear. I thought mine was bad off dh this year but wind chimes 😳

I suppose any gift that doesn't match the recipient is pointless.

I received some secateurs, loppers and gardening shears, I'm delighted as I have a new allotment …but they would be pointless to anyone without a garden or allotment or no interest whatsoever.

I once got a whole host of gluten free baking ingredients as a Christmas present from a friend (gluten free flour, baking powder etc). I don't have a gluten intolerance and have never followed a gluten free diet (however the friend was eating gluten free at the time). It did seem that she had just cleared out one of her kitchen cupboards ...

I don't. I'm not keen on body lotion.

Decades of crap from my SIL who declared she was ‘brilliant at buying presents’. This includes buying us the exact same set from boots 3 years running (didn’t want it once) leather gloves for me, 4 times. Also a whole list of things that she loved so assumed we should to, so many books to go with tv shows she liked and we’d never seen (or had any interest in), music she liked, films she liked.
They made out we were super mean for not being over the moon over these things and not then watching the tv series/going to see music in concert etc.
so glad we don’t exchange gifts now.

Not to your tastes maybe - but not exactly pointless as both are gifts which I would use.

I'll have your body lotion! I have dry skin and use it after every shower. Bonus points if it's posh scented stuff.

@My20sportraitlady that's from TKMaxx, they had a whole range of ornaments covered in glitterball mirrors.

One year I got a garden gnome. I didn’t have a garden.

this year, more fucking candles. Please stop with the fucking candles.

I don't use body lotion, any smelly sets are broken up and I use the shower gel/deodorant/shampoo then all the body lotions gradually build up in the bathroom cupboard and are binned every few years.

This year I've had a couple of smelly sets that smell awful, one is cookie dough, I hate toiletries that smell of food, they're so sickly. I'll be taking those full sets to the charity shop.

You can get an ultrasonic cleaning kit for vintage jewellery.

You can donate the body lotions. Our food bank takes them and the hygiene bank. Or toiletries amnesty.