What's the WORST secret Santa present you've ever had?

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There's a thread about the best, but I thought the worst would be funnier. 😁 Would like it to keep it light, so no comments about being ungrateful etc please!

So what's the worst secret Santa present you've ever had?

Some really horrible plastic jewellery that was obviously second hand. Gross. I’d given a really lovely necklace, even if I do say so myself and the recipient appeared to be delighted. Anyway, I never give jewellery now, just in case tastes are too different.

A nail gloss kit, I never ever wear it and have made it very clear that I don’t. I wrapped it up and gave it to DNan

On a project with work, lots of different nationalities, I got two secret Santa presents, a John Lewis Christmas cake in a tin and a pack of thongs, looking at you Mick Fletcher you letch.

Cornishmum that brought back memories of a secret Santa where someone got a feather duster and everyone was a bit confused. This was up north though so some other poor woman!

A Sam Bailey [xfactor] biography and a box of oven pride

A jar of honey and I really don't like honey.

TWICE I tell you I have received nothing having put a lot of time and effort into buying a present for other people.

Once was the organiser's fault - the person who was supposed to be buying for me was abroad at the time the whole thing was organised and knew nothing about it, and wasn't even back in the UK until after Christmas, meaning I got nothing at all. That one stung particularly as I was working (unhappily) on Christmas day (I'm a nurse) and opening our secret santa presents was supposed to be our treat on Christmas day, and instead I went to the present sack on Christmas day to find I had nothing, which added salt to wound of being at work and away from family.

The second time was at our NCT meet up. The woman buying for me couldn't attend at the last minute (fair enough it happens) so again no gift bought for me. The person who was buying for the woman who didn't attend therefore decided to give the gift to me instead, which was kind of her, but it was red wine which I don't like. I did manage to regift though to a friend so all was not lost!

A red wine glass. (Clearly used.)

Another year a Merry Christmas mug with a 1.50 price tag on the bottom when the price was supposed to be worth a tenner. She couldn't even be arsed to wrap it, stuck it in an old label box and thrust it in my hand in front of me in the office. Then went off to open her lovely Prosecco and chocs.( I was gobsmacked for weeks.)

Strangely though I use both these items all the time. I never took the Christmas mug home and just use it all year long at work. So I suppose they did end up being useful!

Socks. Black socks with flamingoes on them. I'm well known in the office for never wearing black or pink. As we opened our gifts in the Christmas party venue, I left them there.

The giver panicked. Nice woman but almost cripplingly shy. It didn't ruin my evening but it did make me feel a bit down for a few minutes when everyone around me received really great gifts.

A children's bible. I was thirty and very much not into religion.

A box of old lady scented talc

Not the gift itself, but one year, someone got the boss a pedometer. Quite a nice present. One of our team was fairly recently arrived from overseas and looked at the box and exclaimed quite loudly "Oh! A peado meter". There was absolutely no reason to think that the boss was (and still is) a very nice man, and we all tried desperately to not laugh and have to explain to the innocent colleague what he'd just said. Boss was mortified.

Sorry! Was anything but a very nice man! . Fat fingers.....

A plastic 'lazy susan' with several bags of Cheddars. I know it was from BIL from B&M Bargains. Cheap. Not doing it this year.

I'm well known in the office for never wearing black or pink.

What a bizarre thing to be well known for

Nothing - I had half left but made a special trip in with my baby. The giver wasn't in that day and no gift, the irony was that she was my giftee and I had spent ages choosing and over price limit too.

How do you all know who your santa is? The whole point of it being secret is that you don't know!!

A book about "looking on the bright side of life" on the day my father died

A bottle of genital wash.

One boss bought for another boss (his friend) a pregnancy test as the last 3 women he had employed had all become pregnant within months of him employing them. Cheeky but funny in the circumstances.

A black g-string, the size of a pirate's eye patch.

A half eaten box of cheese balls. It was a “no spend” Secret Santa. Some people made things. Some people offered services (a night of babysitting etc). Don’t quite think my giver got the idea...

Box of Ferrero Rocher (I have a nut allergy)

A secret Santa Back in my young promiscuous days I got a packet of plastic soldiers and the suggestion that I use them to count my conquests along the top of my headboard. The girls in my office found it hysterically funny. I was mortified. 😡

@m0therofdragons there's a charity day which suggests you wear pink. 60 people in the office managed it. I didn't (only one).

"We're having official portraits taken, please wear black". Umm....