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

Secret santa one year was a gift set that had foot cream, exfoliating gel and some fluffy slippers. All sounds lovely and it would've been... had I got the slippers and the cream hadn't already been opened. Nothing says find a new place to work than a half empty plastic box and some tested cream!!

My own money. I'd been sending a tenner a week to my parents to save for me for our honeymoon spends, so I didn't spend it all on the wedding. They proudly handed us envelope of cash saying "we've been saving for your honeymoon"

I asked a few months later for the money I'd been saving and they said "oh we gave you that at Christmas"

Oh

Ok then

@Spacerader

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

Oddly enough this was what DP gave me the first Christmas we were together 3 bottles nicely wrapped! 22 years down the track he still buys me vitamins but he's gotmuch better at Christmas presents

A washing machine. I know it was the thought that counts but honestly, a washing machine!

I think that's a great present!

An insanely thick itchy polo neck jumper from my husband. It was horrible and chosen just before the shops closed on Christmas Eve.
I’ve never been able to stand polo necks as they drive me crazy. Can’t bare anything round my neck and it common knowledge with everyone on my family so he definitely knew it.
Sounds a bit dramatic maybe but I was so upset when I opened it, I nearly burst out crying.

It's a toss-up between a lightweight multi-coloured cylinder with an opening at one end or a small tin of musty-smelling tea. Both Christmas presents from bosses. 🌹

From DH - An old fashioned potato peeler (the kind with orange string wrapped around the handle for grip.)
I found it difficult to use, on the rare occasions I wanted to peel bloody potatoes.
The next year he bought me a left-handed potato peeler.
I am a leftie, but.... he peels all the spuds now.

I might have a name change and take a photo of the worst ever Christmas gift from MIL but other lesser contenders are size 16/18 underwear. I suspect she bought them for herself as she is a larger woman, I’m a size 4/6 due to illness and will never put weight on. As bad were a blue and red reindeer onesie, (I was 40) also size 16-18, a hideous set of bright blue Victorian ice skaters on tiles that she had badly painted, a mud brown duvet set, a vase in a similar brown she’d painted with badly applied gold leaf and a box of Oven Pride oven cleaner. I could go on and on, we’ve been married a long time…

We were given a bottle of cheap nasty women’s perfume in a stiletto shaped bottle.. to share between us all as a family…

@Bebethany

Newdad19 Doesn’t decapitated mean ‘one’s head cut off’?

Haha going by the hand photo frame I think it would be safe to say his head was in such a state!

The year my mother mixed up the presents and sent me that packet of Erinmore Mixture pipe tobacco intended for my uncle (I don’t smoke) - he got my M&S socks.

My grandma is the loveliest lady, but the worst pressie buyer, last year my 37yo husband got a marvel bath set, her heart was absolutely in the right place as 'I know he likes the films' 😍 the liquid in the bottles was bright green and smelt so strongly it hasn't ever been near his skin, it's just sat on top of our bathroom cabinet

I can't quite believe how many bad presents there have been. Some of these are so funny and others just sad though!

From my husband for my 30th. 30 presents which included such crap as deodorant, tights, pencils, sharpener, eraser etc For the money he spent, he could have bought me something nice. He’s improved in gift buying since thankfully

A lady shave from my BIL!!

Secret Santa at work. Penis shaped ice cube tray. I was 40 and married with two young kids!

A CD of Neil Sedaka singing his own words to classical tunes. I unwrapped it, gagged, and put it straight in the bin.

A pair of raspberry milkshake coloured tights from my Aunt when I was 10, but even better I had to share them with my younger sister!
Then a couple of years ago my OH got me a tyre for my car!

@ArtMill2010

I got a ‘Countdown to the year 2000’ alarm clock.....

..... For Christmas 2000. :)

Well, it would have given you a week of heady millennial anticipation!

One of these from my Nan , I was 8 years old.

I got a weird black bristly jumper as a teenager. Maybe it was meant to be unique and interesting but it basically was made of bristles that stuck straight outwards about 5 inches all over, thousands and thousands of them. It looked like thick hedgehog bristles but black. It made me look about 6 dress sizes larger and like a toilet brush. I had to wear it on a family occasion!

@goingback

Secret Santa in work- MANKINI - don't know if it was a very lazy and cheap regift or something a bit creepy.

That wasn’t in the 2000s was it? I worked in a restaurant for a couple of years and we had lots of work Christmas parties coming through and almost all of their secret Santa’s had a mankini and/or a thong made of those sweets on elastic (like the bracelets from when we were kids) or even once a wind up hopping penis - which got left behind and took up residence in our break room….

Should add, I just thought the English did things differently at work Christmas parties. I’m Australian and have never been toone like it, or when at uni working in restaurants seen the same things being given I saw in that English restaurant

Two books from my XP. Delia's 'How to Cook' and 'The Joy of Sex'. My thoughts on receiving the first cancelled out any desire to look at the second!

A dressing gown for a 12 year old as a 43 year old woman not a mistake