What is the worst Christmas present you ever received?

[Newdad19]

In the spirit of helping others prevent the same mistakes... what is the worst Christmas present you ever received?

Mines has to be the sculpted hand photo frame I received one year... that looked like someone's decapitated hand that held a photo for you in its palm

I pack of multi vitamins from my boyfriends (now ex) mum

Scented wardrobe hanger sachets. I was fourteen. They smelled like old lady perfume - at the time, I really preferred Charlie or Impulse or anything apart from old lady perfume.

A mountain of stupid plastic games...e.g. Kerplunk, Buckeroo etc.. from a couple of wealthy friends....I gave the lot away to charity ... I am 57 with no small children...couple also no children....such a waste of money....I need to hint very strongly about this year !!

@Spacerader

I pack of multi vitamins from my boyfriends (now ex) mum

😂 did you have a deficiency of some sort?

My parents had someone paint from a photo of my DC and their cousin. It was awful. Didn't look like them - in fact to me it looked like they were dead it gave me the creeps. My DB thought the same so it wasn't just me!

A can of men's deodorant

Secret Santa, a pink ice scraper with an attached glove. I can't stand pink and couldn't drive at the time and had no family members with a car either. Obviously the giver probably didn't know that.

I'd quite appreciate it now, I'm forever misplacing my scraper.

Necklace off mil that cost £2.95.
Didn't risk wearing it for fear of green neck...

As a child I got a lot of crafty kits and sticker books and such.

Nice presents. But my control freak parents never let me do them.

The kits they would do for me, I’d have to sit and watch. And the stickers were never allowed to be used, they had to stay in the sticker books.

So basically they were not presents I could use. Disappointing.

A box of museli and a gift tin of vaseline from my then soon to be ex husband. We were still living together to make it OK at Christmas for the children but he had to be bitter and twisted. Made me realise I was making the right decision.

This isn’t a bad present for other people but I have a candle business and every single year people insist on buying me candles.
Now the process to make a candle perfect is very long-winded and involves a lot of testing different wicks, different percentages of fragrance oils, weighing the candle every few hours to make sure it hasn’t burnt too quickly etc etc. So my house is constantly full of candles at various stages of testing. I do not ever ever need another candle!

A talcum powder puff and comb set, as a 12 year old from my gran..... I was so disappointed and I'm ashamed to say I'm not sure I covered it up that well either.

A petrol strimmer.

A pair of tights in the work secret santa.

Not fancy tights or even the opaque ones I wore at the time. They were 10 denier 1980s tights...this was 2011.

@TheLightSideOfTheMoon That’s really sad.

My worst was a diet book- cheers, Mum!

A drill !!! Yep he’s now an ex

Fucking Dyson handheld vac. Shittest thing ever. Fifteens mins of sook, three hours to recharge. Didn't even want it!

From FIL & his wife. A pen with a name on it. The wrong name. I'd been with DH about 10 years at that point.

Also FIL & his wife - a housecoat. The kind usually worn by ladies of a certain age. It was obviously hers because it smelled like a musty wardrobe.

They have given DH:

The toastie machine he used when DH was a kid
A roller style running machine out of the shed that had mould on it
A Val Doonican jumper about 4 sizes too small
A set of car mats from Poundland

DS(16) has been given:

A Fireman Sam play set. He was 10.
A man's watch which was too big for DH, let alone DS
A truly awful knitted hat last year
A plastic maths set

They're minted.

A vibrating foot massaging giant slipper that you put both feet into. I was 30 years old, I don’t think I was the target demographic. It was returned to the shop by my then boyfriend. All my friends laughed.

My friend was given a packet of pegs and some dishwasher tablets by either her mum or grandma

A fucking dairylea dunker!

Also got 1 bottle of Avon’s lavender bubble bath for my 30th.

From the same relative. I’d take offence but the rest of the family get equally shitty gifts.
My DSis got a multipack of Mars bars for her last birthday.

Probably doesn't sound to awful to others but.... a make your own bath bomb set from my husband, I barely get a bath in peace long enough to enjoy a bath bomb nevermind making my own bloody one before I go in 🙈 it was well meant but i can't wait to have a tombola to donate too!

One of those bags that were hugely popular in the early 2000s, in the shape of a corset with boobs? It was bizarre, I hated it but I could tell the giver had really tried so I pretended it was my favourite thing.

Ex ILs used to give me the worst kind of tat, three for two gift sets, ancient regifts that they didn't want etc. No thought at all just "we'd better give Undead something, that'll do". I spent ages helping ex H pick out thoughtful, personal gifts because he wouldn't have had a clue, only for him to take all the credit. And the kids only got one (cheap crap) gift each from them because "Christmas is about Jesus, not presents" fair enough. But there'd be hell to pay if THEY only got one gift each from us!

Don't miss any part of that family at all.

Many years ago exH bought me a beautiful personalised artisan leather makeup bag. Only problem was it was personalised with the OW's name. The one he gave her was personalised with my name.

I can laugh about it now but I've had better Christmas mornings

My parents split up when I was 6 and after that the worst presents were always from DF (who certainly wasn't short of money) I would get anything that he didn't want anymore, so one year he just handed me his old portable TV, that had been damaged when he moved house. To follow came a desk, but the best was the year he borrowed a load of heavy metal CDs from the library, copied them and gave them to me in a plastic bag. I wasn't remotely into heavy metal.
As a wedding present he gave me his old microwave, blender and bed as he was replacing them. He went NC with me, as I didn't put enough effort in apparently

@MONSTERSALAD

Scented wardrobe hanger sachets. I was fourteen. They smelled like old lady perfume - at the time, I really preferred Charlie or Impulse or anything apart from old lady perfume.

I got scented drawer liners as a teenager! What for???