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

My husband’s aunt gave me a gift set that was covered in dust and dirt. I think it had sat in her bathroom for ages. My ex bought me a table top bowling set.

MIL bought me size 6 PJs to ‘diet into’. Next year she bought me size 18 pants. I was a 10/12.

SIL bought MIL a set of flavoured vodkas. She’s tee total. She also bought us the same cooking set from boots 3 years in a row. Didn’t even want one.

My worst was nothing at all. From a boyfriend I was spending Christmas alone with. He'd asked for ideas. I'd even spotted him going into one of my favourite shops. I'd bought him a stocking full of presents, some small things for under the tree and a main present and he just hadn't got me anything. He complained about Christmas Dinner and wanted to go to the pub without me on Christmas Day evening. I finished with him in New Year and he begged for us to get back together then cheated on me. He was an utter tosser.

A collapsible bucket.

MIL bought me bathroom scales as she thought I might want to lose a bit of weight.

I had told DH I really wanted to get a pug- just folly as I’m allergic to dogs. So, for Christmas, he put pug into Amazon search and bought just about everything that came up. I had a pug purse, pug socks, pug coaster, pug mug, a pug diary… you get the idea. I was not impressed, I’m not proud of it but I cried. After that he always made lots of effort!

A constipation stool. A plastic step to put around your toilet to improve the angle of sitting so you can open your bowels more effectively.... I wasn't even constipated...

I was in my early teens when my great aunty showed me a long plastic tube for saving £1 coins and asked me if I would like it as a Christmas present. I was so delighted! I was so happy! I couldn't believe my luck and then I got the tube without the pound coins which was devastating as I didn't have any money ever

@CloseEncountersOfTheTurdKind

My uncle gave me bra straps for Christmas when I was about 14

Just the straps?!

A bottle of vodka.... that was half drunk...

A bottle of taboo that was so old, it was dusty. I was about 13.at the time.

A hand me down jumper and bath robe from my partner's 80 year old aunt.(her hand me downs, the jumper was covered in her hair ).

A bag of pot pourri, a box file, chunky ear rings that i was allergic to, from my ex

My daughter always gets chocolate from my mil, she's dairy intolerant. She knows this and says everytime, she's OK with this isn't she?

Same mil gave my daughter a very pink toy pram last year, when I said no to prams as we just don't have the room and shes really not girly (plus was only 8 months at the time) . OK so I could forgive that, but it was absolutely filthy , there was mould all over it and it stunk of wet cat and cat poo.

My grandad spent the majority of the year hyping up my present. I was SO excited. Got to Christmas day and what did I get, a Western riding saddle that he’d bought off a bloke in a pub. I didn’t and never have owned a horse.

My mum did warn me not to get overly excited as there was a vital part of the present missing… I was gutted.

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DH bought me four mugs one year. My best friend had a chat with him. The present got much better for a while but now he doesn’t get me anything.

A four pack of Tenants Lager with an envelope taped across it containing a five pound high street gift voucher. From my now MIL 😬

My husband that year got a can of Lynx Africa, a giant tin of Nescafé and a multi-pack of ten pens with Scotland written on them.

A bar of Imperial Leather soap and a can of ASDA deoderant for men. These were from my ex sil who insisted that we "do Christmas gifts" for each other. She had 4 kids and I had none ... she wasn't daft was she

A fancy Italian pasta/wine box set. A wooden box, containing a bottle of red wine, some pasta and some pasta sauce.

I don't drink, a fact the gift giver knows, and at the time we were mid building work, so our 'kitchen' was a tiny table top oven and a microwave. So my Christmas gift was wine for DH to drink while I struggled to cook tea. 🤬

A tow rope. I didn't even own a car!

@Redsquirrel5

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DH bought me four mugs one year. My best friend had a chat with him. The present got much better for a while but now he doesn’t get me anything.

You mean your stbxh... surely???

@CharlotteFlax

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

I got given one by my husband, best present ever, love it 😊

Second hand paperback, packet of couscous, 99p memory game, undrinkable bottle of wine - those are the good ones...

I got a sweater that my grandfather didn't want to wear either. It really was the ugliest sweater I've ever seen.

Oh god, my partner was given 10 portions of fish by his mum for his birthday. Which is nice I guess, but it meant that muggins here had to stay home all day waiting for them to be delivered so they wouldn't go off in the July heat, think of something special to make with the fuckers because they were special birthday fish, then find space in the freezer to store the leftover fillets. She also suggested that I might want to cancel going out for dinner on his birthday while they babysat because obviously I would want to cook the fish for him while it was fresh. I was fucking livid and some of the bastard fillets still greet me two years on when I open the freezer.

As a child-anything my grandmother bought
She would raid the local car boots and buy crap that nobody wanted (least of all us-she hated us,but loved my cousins-it showed)

My mother took after her in the shit gifts (only me and my kids tho)
Classics include a foul pink blanket with sleeves,a cross stitch that I was meant to do and then frame it to give back to her,a present I’d given my dad 3 months earlier and she’d framed it to give back to me,snowball candles,clothes she wore then gave to me (I was a size 14-she was a 30-and what 20/30 year old wants to wear mummies old clothes even if they did fit?) a 60’s (bright orange and pink) housecoat that stank and granny scarves that even granny would have passed on as they where too old fashioned

My fella-the first Christmas we spent with his parents
Toothpicks
Fucking plastic toothpicks from Asda-I thought they where earrings until I opened them-I really can’t figure out what was going though his head on that one
I now write a list and he follows it

I’m not that hard to buy for-honest!

A donation to a charity I didn't support from my tight arsed company, for whom I had done many hours of unpaid overtime. It just seemed so thoughtless.

@SirVixofVixHall
I think they’re describing those toys that contain a picture of a bald man, some iron filings and a magnet. You use the magnet on the back of the toy to give the bloke hair. In this case you use it to give the woman pubes