What is the worst gift you have ever received?

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

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I've got so many contenders (none of my extended family are good at present giving, so I'm used to present crapness and generally take it in my stride.... )

Ones that stick in my mind:

• an extra large-sized man's t-shirt, clearly a free promotional item from a tourist destination in Jamaica (I was fourteen, 5ft 2 and a size 6)
• a single wrapped camera film from a multipack of generic supermarket camera films (way back when we all still had film cameras)
• aged 11, a single pack of 20-denier American Tan tights in a size XL
• a genuine donkey wearing a straw hat from somewhere in Spain
• the only office secret santa I ever did was in my first job - I got a £1 pack of cheap crackers from Poundland

...I could go on....

...last year MIL gave me a set of rubber car footwell mats from Halfords, in case we went on long drives in muddy countryside. We live in a small town in the SE and basically only use the car for popping down the road to Waitrose. I am totally uninterested in cars and definitely don't need any rubber car mats. This year I suggested that she just get me some Ferrero Rocher....

...oh and I've also had the used child's shoes present, from a friend who tried to pass them off as newly bought and terribly expensive (they were very clearly used and had some elderly dried mashed banana on the soles ]

My ex gave me his ex-fiancees engagement ring that she rejected

My Dad gave me a Mr Potato Head Set for Christmas when I was 17.He played with it!

I got a Autumnal nut themed Thorntons selection box from SIL. I carry an epi pen for my allergy. DP and I still refer to it as the box of death.

Soap and soap holder
Book on car maintenance
Size 6 top (I'm size 16)
A loungewear kaftan...fit 4 of me in!!
A large slipper fitting both feet
Half used hand cream
A foot file
Tickets to see Riverdance (just nooo)
An expired voucher

I now ask to be bought nothing!!

Some of these are funny my hubby brought me an umbrella for melt Birthday one year. He thought he was being thoughtful as I mentioned I needed a new one (yeah but not for my fecking birthday) he has made up for it since!

My not melt

FadingMemory "A knitted cover for a loo roll in the shape of a poodle. (From an elderly aunt who was unable ever to visit us and who had made the gift herself)

I thanked her enthusiastically but the object never made it past the kitchen bin"

^^That's such a shame. I feel rather upset on behalf of the aunt. I am picturing her spending hours and hours lovingly making a unique gift and wrapping it up to give to you. I hope she never knew that it was thrown away almost immediately!

This is one of the reasons why I don't "do" presents. It's simply not worth spending money on (or making) things that the chances are recipient neither wants nor likes!

Not a Christmas gift but my "best" friend in school once came back from holiday with a gift for me - a pair of shocking pink satin espadrilles that were two sizes too small. I was baffled at the time because she'd known me since we were 7. She knew that I hated pink, had poorly developed arches and always had to wear sturdy shoes...and she knew my shoe size! In hindsight they were clearly meant to be for somebody else. I suspect her mum gave her an earful for "forgetting" to buy me something.

It did make me realise we weren't really best friends any more. I'd seen it coming, but that was kind of confirmation. (And as if to prove a point, the Christmas card I got from her that same year had been written for somebody else, then tippexed out and re-written for me.) Never have I been so thoroughly branded as "afterthought" by anybody.

Oh my that puffer fish is a MONSTROSITY!

Supermans and Reinette - I seriously wonder if you both dated the same guy unbelievably CRASS to gift an exs jewellery to the new girl!

Some of these are so tragic I can't imagine there are people out there actually passing these off as presents?? Why give at all?!

I've had some odd ones from DH relatives like a bright white 'scarf' made of that synthetic material used in some bobbly cosy socks. Would fit an elf and looks like it came from the pound shop. But nothing like blue tac or used ramekins or used shoes...

Every year my best friend buys me a smelly set usually filled with bath bombs, bubble bath, bath salts etc. I cannot use any of them due to my psoriasis and developing thrush if I use anything other than water.

We’ve been best friends for 12 years and every year I put thought into something she would like/use/want. Every year I get the generic smelly set🤷🏻‍♀️

A weight watchers magazine from my great aunt when I was 12 and awkward (also a normal size).

Wet wipes. Wrapped up for Christmas.

My late grandparents have me a huge bottle of Charlie because it was my favourite. It was when I was 14, but I was 26 and my tastes had changed

Some distant relative gave me An electric fly bat that looked like a badminton racquet- had a switch in grip handle to hit/kill flies !!

Of course it was binned immediately!

My FIL has one of those bats and on more than one occasion said he would buy DD one (am hoping he never does).

The Tennis Racquet of Doom is a most useful gift! Very entertaining. I'll swap it for my Dusty Bin.

A green velour and sparkly silver golf visor from the PIL. I knew they didn't like me, but thankfully they weren't there when I opened it and nearly wet myself laughing at how bad it was.

The free slipper socks which MIL had got with her Primark dressing gown. I knew that's what they were because a) they matched her dressing gown and b) I had the same dressing gown in a different colour.

On my first married Christmas my mil bought me some belly hugging white granny knickers. They were from Littlewoods which wasn’t the most suitable shop for a young lady in her early 20s. Plus they were size 10s and I’ve never been smaller than a 14!

DH is usually great at presents and always does a Christmas stocking for me but a couple of years ago took leave of his senses and bought several items of budget stationery - ball of string, white tac and envelopes. Looked like last-minute desperation but it wasn't that, apparently!
Plastic weasel eitak?! Some brilliantly awful pressies on here so far!

My MIL bought me pyjamas - which would have been fine except the top was 12-14 and the legs were age 10-12 or something weird like that. I think it was a genuine mistake but it made me laugh (and DH) when I tried to put them on.