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

OMG. May I ask how he tried to explain that one?

He didn't - he just came clean straight away. There wasn't really much he could say seeing as I knew her name. He asked if he should go and I said yes - I don't know whether he went to hers or not, or whether she opened 'her' gift or how she reacted!

I barely spoke to him or saw him again, but I do know they didn't last. Can't think why

@again2020

My dad got me a faux orange snakeskin bag once. He usually has pretty good taste but it totally wasn't me . I used it once when he was around to be polite.

Problem with using it to be polite is, he might think he was on a winner and buy more accessories to match.

We used to do a stocking for our mum every year and one of her favourite gifts ever was a little toy man that collapsed every time you pushed a button :) also, the sticky people that you throw at glass doors and watch them climb down

I had a nasty £2.99 bunch of weeping flowers from my so called father who I am now no contact with......he used to buy me the same flowers on a regular basis so no change although it was Xmas and we were hosting....I would have preferred nothing honestly...absolute embarrassment at the time

I remembered another from my DM. A beige tartan umbrella. I smiled and thanked her and she just shrugged and said "I didn't know what to get you so thought that'll do". It was particularly awkward as we were all at my future inlaws house who were kindly hosting us. I could see my MiL's eyes widen at what she had just witnessed. I was so embarrassed. Not just at the present, but my mum's attitude towards gift giving, like she couldn't care less. I had bought her tickets to a musical.

To this day, DM still buys more for my DH than she does for me

An electrical extension lead......he was my partner at the time.......now my ex
I did get my revenge by actually telling everyone the present he had given me.......I did have quite a few unrepeatable suggestions of what I could use it for 😂😂😂

I once got Brillo pads. Not a packet of them but 3 all wrapped up in Christmas paper

I got the chocolates that had been left on their pillow when they had been cruising a few years before.

They always bought Dh something that he wanted but for myself and dc it was any old tat that they had lying around.

My in laws are good and bad at the same time.

Good because MIL sticks a £20 note in an envelope for everyone in the family (except SIL but that's a whooooole other thread) so good in that we can choose what we want but I just think it's so little thought and effort. It seems a bit miserable. I love Christmas and absolutely love picking out thinks that I'm sure the receiver will love. It seems so depressing to just stick a note in 10 envelope and that's your Christmas presents done!

Also they hate everything we have ever bought them. MIL once was talking to me about a certain drink that she loved when she was younger but couldn't find them in the shops anymore. Strangely enough I was in a random shop a few weeks before Christmas and spotted it! Bought her a little pack of them for Christmas.
They are still on the cabinet 11 years later.

A box from my husband which held polish, oven cleaner and dusters.

Gemma Chan was in Captain Marvel, and she brought a lot of personality into a very minor role under a ton of blue makeup, so I was expecting great things from her. I can only assume the direction was to stand around with a drippy baffled expression for the duration of the film, because that was all she did.

It was too long, the costumes looked dreadful, too many lingering shots of beautiful people and beautiful scenery but with almost no plot. And the plot there was didn't make any sense at all.

I don't know how that post ended up on a Christmas thread when I was in the Film topic Er my worst present would be a DVD of the film I was just talking about!

As a child I was obsessed with torches. Thought I was getting a torch. It was an umbrella. Gutted.

@BadwordMcGee

I'll be very, very sad when I no longer get a tin of tuna as a Christmas present.

My cats would kill for a tin or tuna each as a Christmas pressie 😸😸😸

@KeeG8181

My mum once bought me a slimming world recipe book. I was 14. It never got used

I got one of those from a close relative a couple of birthdays ago. Granted, I do need to lose weight, but who gives a diet recipe book as a BIRTHDAY PRESENT?

Actually, from the same relative, for my last big birthday I got a map. Not even a personalised map. Just a map. I'm actually very easy to buy for!

Snowchains.

I got a copy of "men are from Mars, women are from Venus". From the wife of my boyfriend's brother. Clearly thought I needed relationship advice 🤣

A bright pink handbag from my (now ex) MIL. I only ever used black or navy blue handbags,and she obviously thought I needed brightening up a bit. Another year,she got me a full make up set - eyeshadow, blusher,lipstick,the lot. I only ever wore a bit of mascara and lip gloss. Another one of her attempts to make me look 'more presentable'.

DH bought a back massager from John Lewis . It went straight back as the point was I like a back massage from you . Never ever buy me a present with a plug on it again. & to be fair he never has

Not Christmas but 21st I was so hurt a pair of buy one get one free flip flops I can’t wear them they cripple me always have done. I chucked them away not long after.

I know this is mean but I feel so much better reading these posts, my crappy gifts are major crap but some on here are so very thoughtful and inventive, I'm impressed by the sheer bitchy balls of some people.

A Nutella mug and chocolate spread gift...I'm allergic to nuts! Although I think a lot of people don't realise that it contains nuts...

A matching pen and pencil.
On the plus side it did mean I could quote the lyrics of Tom Lehrer's satirical song "a Christmas Carol" in the fulsome thank you letter I sent my cousin.

pair of socks, nasty cheap chocolates ..from in laws at xmas six months after their ds being diagnosed with cancer..i had been going to the hospital twice a day for two months and not that i expected great presents i didnt expect socks and cheap nasty chocs that his mother tried to suggest were her favourite...never found them on google...they were cheap nasties and she can get to shit...i made an effort and was thoughtful about the gifts and we had so much going on

Not me, but a friend was given a toast rack with a picture of the Last Supper in 3D

I would love one of those!!

Ddot

I used to work in a jewellery store and had exactly the same now the older me would have taken advantage of the situation so the partner at least got something decent but they were usually rustling around in the bargain basement section. Then there were the toff kids looking for a present for mother on a budget . My coworker used to laugh and say they spend more on a wrap of coke . We worked in Bond street and u know what she was right sadly.