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.

Lol this thread is so funny. I actually can't believe people send these things out as gifts. I guess it's people taking the saying 'a gift is better than none at all' quite too literally. I don't think I've ever received a 'bad gift' but I think in the past I've received a hand cream set off my nan (love my nan!) one year and although it was from a well known brand I always find hand cream and hand moisturiser absolutely pointless! Lol what is the actual point in hand-cream?

@FrancisCrawford that is so sad, you must have felt absolutely awful being 4 years old... reading your post made me feel sad inside!

A packet of bog standard plastic pegs from my MIL. On her previous visit, she had overheard me & DH bickering because I used the tumble dryer too much.

She's not passive aggressive at all 😒

Ribena coloured pettocoat, when I was about sixteen, from my gran.

I don't think the price of the gift matters. My grandfather received a gift from me that was from Poundland for Christmas one year and he loved it... Just didn't tell him where I got it from! It was a book that would normally cost £7/8.

A penguin necklace from my mother because "I heard you like penguins". No, I don't like penguins, it's actually owls that I love, and maybe you'd know that firsthand if you were a decent mother

There was nothing wrong with the necklace btw! It was perfect. It was the the fact that she got it so wrong when she's my own mother that made it a bad gift.

I received an owl-themed calendar from MIL last year. I stumbled across it while browsing for things to buy on the website she bought it from (well-known shop, it was entirely coincidence that I found it) and it only cost £1.

It was lovely. I loved it. That's why, to me, thought matters so much more than how cheap it is. Some people don't have the money.

We got given an antique map of a county from my DH's aunt and uncle. We were confused having no connection to the place and then they explained it was because that county was between where we went to Uni and where we lived at the time.... tenuous to say the least.
It was hard keeping a straight face.

No one ever believes me but I swear this is true - when I was younger we had an ex-catalogue shop in town. I wanted a "dentist" game and my mum bought me one from there and when I opened it, it had no teeth in it 😕

I'd think some people had the same MIL as me

Mine also bought me (when I was 22) enormous belly warmer white knickers - 3 sizes too big (she did this several times). I'd only met her a few times - why the hell buy me knickers!
And flanelette nighties designed for old ladies

She used to buy my SIL perfectly normal things

MIL got me a Celebrations box without a lid.
Except it was emptied of all Celebrations chocolates and then half filled with Aldi sweets.
Oh and instead of a lid there was some scrunched up obviously reused wrapping paper, sellotaped to the box.
Beat that!

I'd hinted for a sunlounger, big box & inside was a clothes horse (because I do so much washing!!!)

A rather 'eccentric' rellie of my mum's once got her some toilet paper for Christmas. At least it was useful.......

As a cat lover, I have received very many cat-themed fridge magnets, mugs and jewellery, though nothing as spectacular as 'that' ring.

@FrancesCrawford. 💐

DH has had from his quite well off Dad:

Car mats from the £1 shop
An old, partly broken roller type 'running machine' that he'd had in his shed
His old Breville toaster
One of his own Val Doonican style jumpers - too small for DH
Classical music CDs that we'd seen in his house months before
A set of Allen keys

I got:

A four pack of Lidl Smirnoff Ice alike drinks (I don't and never have drunk them)
A pen with the wrong name on
An umbrella with rusty spokes

I got a tin of corned beef from my (now) ExH. I mean, I like corned beef, but wouldn't exactly have deemed it a suitable present. No it wasn't a joke present. It was one of 2 presents I received that year don't remember what the other one was but i know it wasn't much better. I got him tickets to a tour of a racing track and some shirts and a new wallet (needed wanted and asked for)

A low energy lightbulb. My dad got desperate in Homebase at 3 pm on Christmas Eve one year.

Slightly eccentric relatives bought my DB a bottle of Head and Shoulders one year. He was most put out, as he doesn’t have dandruff...or any hair.

Me ex's gran bought me sexy underwear. Red faced opening that in front of his extended family!

My DH bought me an iron which he then forgot and left behind when we went to DM for Christmas. I was at the time a Saturday feeling very undervalued. I suggested inserting it sideways where the sun didn't shine. I was also given a very very cheap Secret Santa calender at work - probably free from certain charity that sent stuff unsolicited. I might have been the wrong side of 50 but not not that boring. I like a good social life

From an elderly NZ relative by marriage of Dh we once got a 'tea shower' - at least I think that's what it was called - like a hugely oversized, thin square headscarf, gaudily printed with a map of NZ, kiwis, etc.
I was told it was for putting over your tea things to keep the flies off.

I have had a few odd presents in my time, but the most jaw dropping was when a relative gave us a crate of beer and a few bottles of wine.

What's wrong with that, you may say.

The bottles all featured pictures of Hitler

My sister has a friend who always gives rubbish presents and last year gave her a pair of earrings that my sister had bought her the year before, and a lip stick which had already been used!

The board game 'Risk' - Lord of the Rings edition. We were in our 30s, had no interest in Lord of the Rings or games, had small children and no time for lengthy and involved pastimes.

I kindly lied to the giver and said we'd enjoyed playing it. Soon after, when they asked DH if he'd liked it, he told them we hadn't looked at it yet . It caused quite a bit of upset, that weird present.

Rosemary Conley’s Hip and Thigh diet - from my Step Mother .... I was 19.