Who got the worst gift?

[arcticpandas]

Very very lighthearted. Some people are starving so no whining about not getting the perfect gift. Instead looking at it from a humoristic perspective: who got the worst gift in our family? Please add yours as well..
In our family;

1. DH got 200 ml cologne while he wanted/needed 100 ml to bring with him on airplane (travels every week).
2. I got fine chocolate with alcohol from uncle again (everyone has told him I do not like it but he just can't get it). He even added "I know you can't get enough of those". Not passive aggressive- that would be sinister. He really likes me and is convinced I like them.

Also got a large hand bag from DH. Not wildly expensive but still- the cords are too thin- I keep loads of stuff in my handbag. He bought it 3 months ago so can't return it.

1. DS1 got a sort of a travel bag for mobile Phone to attach on bike from an aunt. He hasn't been riding his bike for years.

4.DS2 got a shirt of his favourite team that was so large on him it looked like a dress. Can't return it. Bil said he will grow in it😅

1. Dh got Mil a a stylish coat size L. It was too small. Yet Mil isn't a big woman. I'm a medium and it was perfect on me but she's got bigger breasts. She wasn't happy about large being too small.. didn't say anything because very polite but it was obvious she was unhappy.

1. Aunt got a big box of chocolate. She's on wli and barely eats anything. Def not chocolate. She discreetly passed them on to dh.

So who wins?

Old coffee jar containing a (used) pen and open packet of Post-it notes…it’s a memory jar apparently.

OMG- unless this is a gift from a child in which case it’s quite sweet you have to laugh at the audacity 🤣🤣🤣

Off MiL, complete with charity shop price sticker still on ...

Bloody hell - you win!

I didn’t get anything at all this year. Not one thing. But rubbish gift that lives on in the memory was my late DF who when I was a teen, gave me a gift of a small triangle cut out of cardboard with six postage stamps arranged on it then wrapped in clingfilm. Bizarro.

My worse one was some pyjamas that I won’t wear because I’m very fussy about pyjamas! I only feel bad bc they’re a nice brand and won’t have been cheap - il pass them on to dd though.

Oh, and a dressing down my dm bought me in which I feel like Sybil Fawlty! Il still wear it even though it looks hideous though bc it’s comfy 😝

my dh got me a Lego set. I’ve never been into Lego in my life. His reasoning was it’s therapeutic and will take my mind off things!!

That is taking the absolute piss - I hope you didn’t buy the cheeky fuckers amazon wish list?

I have been on a long weight loss journey. 5 stone down and 2 operations for loose skin removal.
I received 3 big boxes of biscuits. 4 big boxes of chocolate truffles, 3 boxes of Thorntons chocolates, a 4 ft long box of assorted treats (chocolates, biscuits and florentines and a box of M&S chocolates.
I will probably donate them to the food bank.

Your parents sounds very nasty. I wouldn’t want people like this in my life.

Sorry to keep commenting on individual posts but some on these are just awful.

Sorry I disagree about the cologne - I imagine that’s an easy mistake for anyone to make who a) doesn’t fly often and is ignorant of the 100ml rule or b) thinks the 200ml is much much generous/better value and that it can be easily decanted if the receiver wants to take it abroad (as surely most people don’t take all their aftershaves abroad with them?). That is one I actually don’t get the big deal about - seems very petty (unless they are genuinely not bothered and are being mock-offended!)

Christ - yes, he is very very entitled to be upset about that.

A grown man sulking bc his dm bought him the wrong size aftershave? What a melt.

No. At the risk of sounding like an arse - I am wealthy. I could afford to buy only Penhaligan’s Halfeti hand wash if I wanted to (and I do occasionally to be used just by me!)- but quite honestly why would I waste the money on something that gets literally washed down the drain?

It doesn’t matter which hand wash you buy, it cleanses your hands and the smell is gone after 5 minutes. There seems to be some weird kind of snobbery around B&H on MN like “ooh, it’s SO rubbish and a sure sign you have no taste” it’s like some kind of moronic, collective Hyacinth Bucket type mentality where all the B&H mean girls gang up together to prove how none-chavvy they are.

Its weird. It’s just hand-wash guys! And some of them smell very nice and are perfectly fine to be used in the downstairs cloakroom of my £3 million pound house 🤷‍♀️ who gives a shit?

It’s really sort of wannabe-bourgeois. I find it very interesting actually 😂

Not quite the same, but we bought each other the same Christmas card. It shows we are thinking in the same way.🙂

5 stone is incredible. Congratulations, that is not easy ❤️

Return it? Mention the fact that he was so mean every time he uses the console? Get a takeaway with the voucher and don't share it, eat it in front of him while he has spaghetti hoops or similar 🤣. And most definitely take out the money to repay yourself from the join account. And get him a tin of soup next year if he's not under the patio by then.
What a man child! I'm so sorry.

This is giving me Roland the Rat vibes! 🤣

This made me giggle.

We have one car with a cd player and one without. Thr one with is driven by me more than DH, so I have my selection of cds in there.

A 30 year old book on aromatherapy, complete with dried out samples, mildew and ancient sellotape from MIL.

To be fair the whole thing was DP's fault - he was getting his Mum's decorations out of her loft and noticed the book had been dripped on by condensation and bought it down to ask her if he should chuck it away. He got distracted and left it on the table with some proper pressies he'd bought round for her to wrap up ( she doesn't do computers so he handles buying the internetty bits for her ) and she seems to have assumed it was something l'd asked for!

This has reminded me of a gift DH gave me a few years ago - a wooden model kit of a steam engine. The kind that requires you to pop out fiddly bits of wood from a template, use tweezers to hold them and super glue altogether. He said similar about taking my mind off things!

I had a newborn and a toddler at the time. The eldest is 10 now and I honestly still do not have the time, patience or space to commit to this activity.

A bottle of Sainsbury’s Prosecco, a joint gift for me and my husband. Neither of us like wine and we don’t drink often anyway and the friend who gave it to us knows this. She usually gives really thoughtful gifts, I actually looked in the empty bottle bag to see if there was something else in there. Feel like we’ve somehow upset her.

Another friend gave me a Dove gift set which includes a Dove reed diffuser. I don’t like the smell of anything Dove so will donate it to a food bank.

My Mum used to get us monumentally shit gifts. Poor DS (15) got a homework planner with pink unicorns on it last year. Other DS (20) got a lime green and shiny grey laptop bag. And she really made us work for her work - obscure and expensive stuff which then she'd probably never use.

I kind of missed it now she's gone. It gave us something to laugh about.

@TheatricalLife Thank you. I appreciate that. It’s been a journey

Just go nearby for dinner,.read up on the play and pretend you went...

I bought my own present, a dress........ some how ive ordered the wrong size

Surely he uses eau d' toilette when he is at home. He can keep the 200ml one for then. Maybe get the smaller one for his birthday. You can't have too much perfume .