What are your ‘pet hate’ Christmas presents?

[YellowsunriseClara]

Lighthearted thread, as I’m sure everyone is grateful for any gift they receive.

Just with Christmas coming up I’m wondering which gifts you are dreading getting (but know you’ll probably get)

Mine are the Lynx women gifts sets (hate it but seem to get it every year!)
Any Poundland creams as they seem to make my skin itchy and red
Anything Bayliss & Harding (I know there is another thread about that)
Cheap perfume that smells like paint stripper
Obvious second had gifts that the giver didn’t want for themselves (it’s usually something totally unrelated to the things you’re interested in)

One year my friend got me some unwrapped Poundland glitter body spray, not sure why as I’ve never worn the stuff and it was clear that it was in the back of her wardrobe from a while ago

Toiletries or chocolate.
My skin is a nightmare so I can only use very few products and I don't really like chocolate.

Toiletries unless they are specifically the ones that I use

Hampers of "luxery" groceries like fancy pate and weird chutney with alcohol in.
Unless you know what they actually taste like and think I'd like it, then just no. Same for chocolate - either get the really good stuff or leave it.

Fashion/indoor scarves - I only wear thick woolly ones for outside, anything floaty and printed can fuck off. There's a reason you have never seen me wearing one.

Anything which is a Christmas decoration. Because by the time you've sorted through presents it's past 12th night and the decorations are back in the loft. So what are you supposed to do with a Christmas tree shaped item for the rest of the year. Same with Christmas mugs

Yy to Baylis and Harding - although admit they are handy for people who are hard to buy for and dnt drink so cant buy a cheap plonk for

Any thing from a 2 for 3 at boots - although I use the offer but I spend 45 mins agonising over it. Where as to at is just brought in 15 minutes in the lunch break

Any thing which is aimed at an older or younger target market.

Gift cards - ultimate cop out. Especially when brought for a shop 200 miles away. Or a generic spend me in many places one

I love a bath set! I receive so many (which I'm questioning now) that I haven't had to do a shower gel / bath puff/ bubble bath shop in years! any chocolate oranges or after eights going spare can come this way too! Naff gifts wise I always get a giant tub of marshmallows.... i hate the things... and it seems to be a different person each year! They must see it and think I love them....and so the cycle begins!

Gift box cheap toiletries. As a PP has said, one of the three for two offers. Secret Santa is the worst for this type of thing. I regretted taking part in last year's Secret Santa. The work place I was at was just so shitty and unpleasant. No sense of occasion in the giving/receiving either.

I threw away the Secret Santa present I got which is a shame because it was a nice gift and I liked the giver. (Couldn't donate it as it was cosmetics.) I just didn't want the bad karma of that work place at home when I no longer worked there.

The Secret Santa threads on MN last year were a real eye opener how what should be / is usually a goodwill gesture just gets abused sometimes. Either by people who are just takers i.e. will get a gift but not contribute despite agreeing to take part. People who just delight in embarrassing the recipient with either a shitty present or a sex toy.

Anything from a charity shop.
Every year I get something from a family member that is so obviously something they picked up in a charity shop. I wouldn't mind if it was something useful, but alas it never is. Last year I got a battery powered mirror about a5 size in a battered box. Graciously accepted and thanked them for the gift but I honestly would rather they didn't bother.

I don't like any gift type stuff/gift sets. I usually can't use any toiletries because my skin is very sensitive so can't use anything scented, not a fan of novelty cups/mugs - I don't even drink tea/coffee. I do absolutely fucking LOVE novelty socks though!!

Ditzandspritz
I'll swap your marshmallows for my after eights then. I love them.

Toiletries, my skin picky
Clothes, I'm fussy and a small size so what people think is small enough, usually isnt, give me a gift card

I'm gunna sound bad but charity gifts. I like to pick who I support, not be told who I am supporting. Plus yeah I like gifts, so what

Spa days, I hate massages and all that crap

Get me
something footy or WWE related
Tech accessories
Gift cards

I cannot use any bubble bath at all except for a specially mild one! So any thing like that is no good to me sadly . Like Tins of Shortbread /fudge though

Cheap (but they’re usually not that cheap) chocolates. Just get me a fucking dairy milk!

Thought of another...soap and glory gift sets

Most gifts 😀
I only receive gifts from dh and adult dcs...stopped doing them with other family members and friends years ago.
I don't want shit Boots 3 for 2, novelty tat or cheap chocolate.

Scarves, candles, bubble bath and Thorntons chocolates. Oh, and random novels from DH, who has no clue what I like to read.

Every year I get a can of coke off my mum. When I was little this was a real treat as it wasn't so widely available as it is now. But 50 years on it is a bit weird.

Crappy Prosecco or gin branded items. Pyjamas, t shirts, mugs, bits of tat. And last year I got two lots of sparkly stuff / flavoured beads for Prosecco / drinks. In fact, maybe that was two years ago. They’re still sat in my ‘drinks corner’ and won’t be used unless I take them to a hen do perhaps.

Anything that stinks or makes me itch
Alcohol
Mugs
Chocolate with palm oil
Cute sweets, I can't eat cat heads, I just can't
Fur, dead dog fur, dead cat fur...trims on hats, bobble keyrings etc.

Glittery scarfs, my mil buys me one every year. Luckily I know in advance its coming because she has 4 dil and we all get exactly the same thing and she likes us to all sit & open our gifts together. She.got me a reusable shopping bag last year that folds away into a little pouch, best gift ever . I use it pretty much every day.

Make up/bath stuff gift sets rarely contain anything I would use. Cheap & cheerful scarves, jokey items like crown shaped teacosy, stuff that will just clutter up the house like a photo of an eclipse....
Honestly, I could stock a charity shop single handed!

I love book vouchers and will always be overjoyed to get them. Despite telling everyone this I rarely get them.

I hate kitchen gifts (apart from my waffle maker), bubble bath etc (even White Company) and moisturiser. My Mum and Dad gave me ugly jewellery for several years. It was baffling because it was nothing like I wear, or even my Mum would wear. No idea what to do with it, whoever empties my home when I die will be baffled.

What I find annoying is when people ask what I'd like and I'll say for example a particular brand of mascara that cost £15. However they think it doesn't look much so get me a £25-£30 gift set with a mini version of the mascara and a load of crap I won't use because the gift set looks better to them.
Whereas I'd use and get pleasure from using the cheaper full size mascara.

By FAR the worst was a wine tasting "package" where someone came to our house and brought the wines with them. It was essentially a massive sales pitch and the person was IN MY HOUSE so I was trapped. Just awful.

Toiletries sets with stuff in that I would never use like a massive tub of body butter and those weird body pouffe things (does anyone actually wash with those?!)

MIL always buys me crap make up sets (boots 3 for 2, 100%) - think Little Mix or similar. Awful and would never use. Make up is such a personal thing anyway, and I certainly don't want cheap tat with pop stars on it.

Basically anything make up/toiletries related in a gift box/set. There's always stuff you won't use. I'd much rather get separate shower gels/shampoos etc and scrap the "pretty" box.

Gift experience days which have a short time period/inconvenient location which cause an inconvenience and more cost.

I actually love Christmas and giving / receiving gifts but if they are rushed and not thoughtful and just a tick box exercise then I would honestly rather the person didn't bother!

Our friends buy us a bottle of wine every Christmas, even though they know that neither of us drink!

Without being horrible to anyone who buys it as a gift or likes it Soap and Fucking Glory

I said I liked it once and was bombarded with it for years, ended up giving most of it away.

Gift giver last time they bought me it had the fucking cheek to be like "and that's your lot this time as we don't get discount anymore" after years of being bought gifts that were not only of the same value or above but A LOT more thoughtful