What is the worst gift you have ever received?

[Comedyshortsgamer]

a couple of years ago my brother got me 6 cans of pepsi max for christmas, that was strange.

My sister got me a hideous wooden abstract art type statue of a naked couple doing it doggy style. I opened it in front of the IL s and threw it in the nearest kitchen cupboard. It remained there for about a year until I chucked it in our solid fuel stove.

My mother received a box of roses from her SIL. It was out of date and filled with all the crappy flavour roses and quality street. Obviously they used their last year bottom of the tin sweets and put them all in one tub and gave them as a present!

Pan scrubs from MIL.

A tattered second hand handbag that had what looked like a small bag of cat poo in it Not envy! Its presence in my life disturbed me greatly until such time as I could discreetly get rid of it. Thankfully I have cats of my own, and am fairly used to poo, otherwise I'd have been even more .

Not me but my SIL bought her (and my) MIL a set of liqueurs - she was teetotal.

I have a cat. I like jewellery. My brother bought me a ring with a cat on. Obviously, that kills two birds with one stone. He seems to think merely owning a cat means that I'm a crazy cat lady crying out for some cat related detritus in my house. I've had a book, a make up bag, some tea towels, coasters all with some tacky cat picture on it. Every christmas brings yet more disappointment. This ring though...the look on his face was priceless as he gave it to me. Thrilled that he had ticked every box and couldn't possibly have got it wrong. I'm 28, not six years old. He is in his 30's -and should know better- . If he paid 50p, he paid 50p too much. As much as I want to chuck this ring out, I have to keep it because no one believes me when I describe it. -Just go to accesorize next time, mkay?-

Ginandchampers - that's one ENORMOUS ring!

A packet of cotton pads from my mother in law or there was the year my mum bought a new tv and stereo for the living room as a Christmas present for me and my brothers... we never watched tv in the living room. Any time we tried my Mum and stepdad would come in, turn it off and tell us to go away and we weren’t allowed to use the stereo in case we broke it... that was awesome 🤣

My ex bought me s colouring book and where’s wally Star Wars annual for Christmas. We broke up not long after, I bought him a lovely bottle of gin —not to forget the nice gifts for his family and nieces—. Tosser

From PILs a garment clothes bag. From IKEA. Later spotted that you buy them in a 2 pack for 99p. Don't know who the lucky recipient of the other one was!

Some of these are brilliant

A solitary place mat and coaster. I cried.

A runner bean stringer.

A dried puffer fish on a string (so I could hang it up).
What?

From SIL. " I thought you would like something unusual for the new bathroom"

My ex's billionaire Aunt gave me a gift when I attended her pre-Xmas meal at her Palo Alto mansion (she owns something like 1% of Exxon's total stocks plus substantial shares in several other major companies). Generous, I thought, given I was essentially a stranger. She was legendary for her dreadful cheap gifts though. My BF got a 20 year old iron with no plug on it, his mother got some shoes in the wrong size, his sister got some perfume that had been opened and his father didn't even get a gift. Everyone was amazed when I got an Audubon Society wall calendar which was still sealed so obviously brand new! Until we noticed that it was two years out of date...

I also got a packet of crackers and a used pocket calculator once, but that was quite sweet as I'd been an unexpected guest and the lady in question had obviously run round in a panic and wrapped the first things she could find as an extra gift for me. So I appreciated the sentiment (crackers were in date too, always good!).

Same SIL produced a hand made cushion with the word "Nana" on it.

In Welsh I'm a "Nain" ...

In English, surely it should be spelled "Nanna"?

So she took the gift token out the card I gave her and had stuck it in the post back to me rather than actually give money to charity, the very gift she and DBIL had themselves suggested.

Is it possible they were having financial issues at the time? I only ask as I once had to regift an M&S voucher I got for my birthday back to my sister at Christmas! I was stony broke and couldn't have spent money on anything else, plus she'd suggested vouchers for M&S or Next so she had wanted them anyway... Still felt bad though and hoped she didn't notice.

Though I suppose it was just me who missed out there, not a charity missing out on a promised donation.

SIL wrapped up a pair of (very dirty/knackered) second hand shoes for DD.

Beautifully wrapped mind.

But the shittiest (and dirtiest) present ever received.

An engraved pen. From DH.

The cat ring wins!!!

I once got one green candle from dh’s aunt (weird but she really doesn’t have to buy for me)

Next year some vintage pearl and silver earrings which I presume used to be hers. Much better tho I love them!

Year after it was lace doilies which smelled strange.

Last year dh got a sword and I got a Russian style fur hat. The kids use it for dressing up like a lion.

She does send strange presents but we always look forward to unwrapping them to see what it is!!

It’s personal choice, I have a Nana

Noooo I used to LOVE getting blank vhs and music tapes. Could claim them as mine and do what I wanted with them!

Almost every gift from my mother, I'm scapegoat and sis gc - I'm always getting things my sister would LOVE but aren't for me at all: clothes in wrong sizes/colours/fabrics (allergic to wool/lanolin and don't wear leather as I'm veggie and have been for almost 30 years), books by authors I don't like, music and DVDs featuring artists my sister loves... It's a very tricky relationship and Christmas is certainly not the time to get into it but it does hurt. It's not the cost, she could get me something from pound land but if it genuinely showed she KNEW me I'd be so happy.

One of my grans bless her was DETERMINED we'd be "ladylike" and would get us things like tan tights, heated rollers and the like, brother would get stuff like neckties, cuff links... None of this stuff got used but we kept them as they were bought out of genuine love.

Supermans - oh my god I'd have been livid!! What did you do?

Just goes to show how subjective taste is though - I'd have loved Seethings wooden erotic art and know quite a few people who'd love that cat ring.

I do wanna see the dried puffer fish on a string though - Wtaf?!

A knitted plant from someone I adore who struggles with present buying. But the topper was exfil who gave me a book on etiquette. I refused from that point on to ever set the table correctly when they came for dinner and did my loudest laughs just for him.

Got bought a Walking Dead boxset on DVD last year.

I don't like The Walking Dead, and even if I did why would I want to rewatch it on DVD? I've got a 4K TV and streaming services.

DVDs were always a lazy "this'll do" gift and I'm glad to almost see the end of them.

It’s personal choice, I have a Nana
@HauntedLobster
Well that clears that up thanks
Is she in need of a correctly spelled cushion?

I'd throw in the puffer fish but it got a bit stinky, and was interred in a moving ceremony.RIP