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 meeting there old food processor, because she had bought a new one. It was my main present. I was 17/18 and not in desperate need of a food processor.

A spoon holder. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry

My mother gave me her old…

A Bayliss and Harding gift set.

As bath Smellies go, I think they're decent. But I was given it by my manager as she handed all the rest of the team Harrods bears as she made a big thing about getting everyone one each year. She was such a cunt.

A frying pan from my DM - a very crap pan from the market. Wouldn't have minded if it had been a good pan.

A little felt stocking containing 40p in shiny 2p pieces from an elderly aunt. She remembered that I loved shiny coins as a child- when I was 3. The gift was given when I was 12.

2 years ago my dm took an M&S gift card from her handbag on Christmas morning, handed it to me with ‘your cousin sent me this, not sure how much money is on it. Didn’t have time to shop.’
I have access to my dm’s email account as I organise travel for her to family. My siblings expensive and thoughtful gifts were all confirmed by email from John Lewis.
Last Christmas I didn’t get a worse gift because I got nothing!

Some padded hangers from my ILs.

Not me, but my sister once got a cocktail shaker which had clearly been used. She doesn't drink alcohol.

When I was 10, I was given a handbag..I was a tomboy and wanted a football and Icehockey gear🤣

Same aunt gave my mum an empty perfume bottle, and an empty chocolate box filled with all of the free soap and shower gels from the fancy hotels the aunt had stayed at on her travels that year.

My friend gave me and my eldest daughter a packet of cable ties each one year!

(Other DD got expensive make-up and DH got some of his favourite whisky)

DH and I got a joint gift of an old coffee jar filled with hot chocolate stolen from the givers workplace and one dusty mug. I think the idea was we could take it in turns to drink our ill-gotten beverages

DH also got a cheap plastic helicopter alarm clock. A number of propellers would shoot across the room and you had to catch and replace them to turn the alarm off. Not the best gift for someone who shares a bed with somebody trying to have a lie-in!

@DavidDevantsSpiritWife

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

What a wanker! Did you ever get your bag back? I don't know why I want to know but am a bit intrigued with what happened to them!

@DavidDevantsSpiritWife

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

😱 You win

steak knives ...................I've been vegetarian since I was 14yo and the giver knows this

A cream jug from one of my grandma’s.

In the shape of a Devon cow. It came with a wee card telling me so. The handle was the tail and the cream came out its mouth.

It had udders and a bell, very detailed.

I was 14.

@DavidDevantsSpiritWife

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

OMG that's amazing! I mean yes, awful, but honestly like something that didn't make the cut for Love Actually because it was too cliched!

What did he SAY?

A big, mahogany desk. I was about 9 I think, and I was quite upset by it - I pretended I really needed the loo so I could run away and have a little cry. It was not something I'd even thought about wanting or needing. My parents had a thing for buying traditional, wooden furniture, so it was obviously something they'd wanted - it killed two birds with one stone. I lied to my friends about what I got for Christmas when we got back to school

ExH got me 2 diet books one year (no other gifts) I was heavily pregnant with DD1 who was due that Christmas Day!

My DP bought his mother a tin opener, he sold it to me that is was a good present as she had problems with her wrists.. personally I am fully aware it was a PA present as my DP was pissed off at his mum. This was a woman who had always been treated like a queen, got similar presents to me ( which i did say was a little weird as i felt like mum 2)

His brother bought him a £1 antique style jar thing but price was on the bottom.

All of them were tight fisted twats, who earned way more than me and my family who always took time to buy considered presents. We were aware of those who earned less and didnt expect the same in return. Not his lot...they are shit bags and if i get one more pair of cheap xmas socks, shampoo for blonde hair (i have brown), or nasty chocolates they can get to shit... i spent a fortune on lovely presents and add in a box of hotel chocolate. I was never brought up to give to recieve but that was with like minded individuals...this lot i am fairly sure just give me the stuff they dont want. My DD got a kite three yrs in a row...my hubby laughed and said nothing but my DD remembers.

@TheLightSideOfTheMoon

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.

Oh this makes me sad 😞

The year I got divorced, my brother gave me a small bag of chocolate-covered coffee beans. It was a shit Christmas for obvious reasons, and sitting in my parents' house watching his whole family open lovely gifts to and from each other, really stung.

Fortunately an incredibly lovely MNer sent me secret santa that year, and I am still so touched by how beautifully she'd wrapped up some nice bath stuff for me. It was so much nicer than my family's gifts to me that I kept getting asked who this 'friend' was who sent it.

A cocktail recipe book. I was pregnant.

An electrical spot treatment thing.

The instructions were badly translated into English and mentioned the word 'sparkles' over and over. I think they meant 'sparks'.

No ta.