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

DeJaDont

My womaniser father bought me Bridget Jones diary I think I was 12or 13 ? I read some of the entries on the constant weighing and threw the book in the bin. Sorry Brig but I felt like it was mapping out the female condition and the books you give a girl on the cusp of puberty should be good ones . Sorry you and I were getting fat shamed before even developing hips !!

Darlingx
I quizzed him about hair colour and size then sold him a pendant so she could exchange. I recall I left him a few coppers in change, I picked a nice one, I promise! she would have had to put his drunk ass to bed that night. I also made sure he put it in a zipped pocket in his coat and I zipped it up. Hope he remembered where the bloody thing was haha

Darlingx
just add a few coppers and bus fare, which I put to one side. I remember because I've never seen anyone that drunk still kind of standing. He left we shut door and all burst out laughing

IrisAtwood

A very good friend of mine is Korean she makes kimchi but not aware of this custom Thankfully she does give me her homemade soaps though which are lovely gifts 😂

Ddot

Your like the Christmas fairy !
I think he must have been spending some of the budget in the pub getting up the dutch courage to shop . Honestly we used to get so many wasted husbands before closing time. I wander what it’s like in the lingerie shop. Men frantically buying anything with their eyes closed

Loving the current banner at the top of the page which says "Stylish Christmas" and is advertising a thing that looks like a festive dildo.

That'd be a pretty shit Christmas present, too....

@Proudplantowner

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...

It's literally called NUTella. I mean how tf can one not realise? 🤣

I was given snow spikes that clip on your boots ? a hair band that made me look like I'd cracked my scull a key ring with a metal prong finger, so you dont need to touch stuff. My sister asked what I wanted, i needed an outside padlock for my allotment gate, i recieved a butterfly scarf. Why bloody ask!

As a student nurse in my 30’s in a residential placement for 3 months with Christmas 2 months in, we were invited to join the SS. There was a £10 recommended spend and the suggestion was ‘be inventive in your giving!’ I got a statuette of the Madonna in plastic (got something similar as a confirmation gift from a great aunt!) a pair of bed socks and a DVD of the film Evolution!!

One year at work on a children’s ward, saw my SS gift in the cupboard in ward sister’s office when I took my offering in (cupboard had a lock and office had a lock; we were accompanied by sister in charge of shift to the office to put the gift in and they were to be distributed on our shift closest to Christmas Day) Come Christmas morning, as we were getting ready to leave after a long and busy night shift, sister in charge went and got gifts to give to staff starting and finishing and we all opened them in the staff room - except there was nothing in the cupboard for me. Someone had managed to gain access to the locked cupboard in the locked office and take the gift!! I was told to wait as the person buying for me might have been one of the people off in the run up to Christmas so may be bringing it in. Went back at new year and still no gift - and no acknowledgement that it had been there. Not even sure what the person who put it is there thought had happened (perhaps thought I was ungrateful or hated it or they whipped it out themselves nearer Christmas!!) I never did SS at work after that despite people telling me I was being petty and ‘not a team player’ for not joining in!!

At home, worst was last year - DH and I have a habit of buying tat/silly things for stockings like toothpaste, bubble bath, deodorant etc, that we will use through the year plus sweets and biscuits we’ll all share. Then we buy thoughtful gifts for under the tree. Last year I got him the Apple mini home hub as he’s been dropping loads of hints about it and I usually buy him a piece of tech. He bought me a (much wanted and needed) new case for my iPad. Beautifully chosen personalised picture of our twins on it with my name embossed in gold lettering. Sounds brilliant right? Yep - except, I have an iPad mini 4 and he bought for an ipad 4 so the case didn’t fit the iPad, couldn’t be returned or exchanged as it was a personalised item. So he suggested buying an ipad 4 to fit in it - except you can only buy them refurbished from potentially dodgy companies where you’d be lucky if they arrived at all let alone as described (think grade B2 quality returned because there was a problem stock) so my Christmas presents last year from DH and DTs amounted to £15 toiletries that I would have bought anyway!! The year before, he bought me a Pandora bracelet and 2 charms to go on it - but bought a bracelet not designed to hold charms and, because of the design, you can’t put charms on it!! This year heaven only knows what I’ll get as it’s my 50th the week before Christmas and he has no idea what to get me for that either; my wedding anniversary ‘gift’ is a pamper day at a local spa - except there are no local spa’s; the only ones in driving distance expect you to buy for 2 people (and I have no one but him to go with and he would need to stay home with the twins) and cost upwards of a months food budget for a day and a 30 minute treatment so won’t get bought (but it’s the thought that counts apparently so it’s ok as he did tell me to find and organise one even if it’s actually impossible to do!!)

ChequeredHistory
A waterproof case cover for the violin I rarely played indoors and which never left the house

Was it a hint that they'd like you to play it elsewhere?

I hadn’t thought of that 🤔. Though when I say I rarely played it, I mean like once or twice a year so it wasn’t a regular breach of the peace offence,

Not me, but my best friend was given her dog, that had died 2 months before, taxidermied for Christmas! It wasn't even well done and was honestly horrifying to look at. She cried when she opened it and her parents told her she was ungrateful and she was forced to keep it in her room until she left home for uni.

my best friend was given her dog, that had died 2 months before, taxidermied for Christmas!

Mother of Jesus, that is it. That is the worst present EVER.

@blacklilypad

Not me, but my best friend was given her dog, that had died 2 months before, taxidermied for Christmas! It wasn't even well done and was honestly horrifying to look at. She cried when she opened it and her parents told her she was ungrateful and she was forced to keep it in her room until she left home for uni.

What did she think had happened to the body?

She was only 12/13, I don't know if she thought about it. I don't think I ever asked her. I don't know what her parents were thinking as they are lovely people and have never done anything so weird before or since

What did she think had happened to the body?
What does that matter? I'm sure she never expected to see it again, however it had been disposed of (most people have the vet do this).

A 12 year old being forced to display their dead dog in their bedroom is seriously grotesque.

Taxidermy dog wins the thread.

[quote Tomasinabombadil]@SpookyScarySkeletons

Oh and I once started at a new company at the start of November. Apparently they had already drawn for SS. It was fun fucking miserable on the last day sat at my desk while they all opened their lovely presents.

How horrid for you.😢

One place I worked we also had drawn the SS names and then had a new person (I think she was a temp) start 2-3weeks before Christmas, however she didn’t go without, the dept manager bought a gift so the newbie didn’t miss out on the last working day. 🙂[/quote]
I dont understand who thats an issue, I have run SS before and we had late entries.

Whoever organises just has a quiet word with people asking if anyone hasn't bought yet and is up for swapping their pick (unless it's a tiny office with a clique of besties almost always someone will, inevitably someone will have picked someone they don't like for personal reasons or someone they just can't think of anything for) so they trade and they get the newbie and the newbie gets the person they traded.

@ChristmasHumbuggery

Polar bear salt n pepper shakers Patterned Christmas socks with pom-poms on them that even someone from a Sami tribe would think was OTT A Slazenger headband and matching wristbands A souvenir pen from Austraila

All from the same person.

I bought my husband the salt and pepper shakers and sweatbands before... he loves and uses both.

These threads really show how one person's trash is another treasure.

@Sundancerintherain - you made me smile I was going ask when the judging was going to take place!

NHS glasses

[quote Newdad19]@Loopielu that always happens in our secret Santa too. £10 budget with people buying thoughtful gifts and then someone gets a random £1 box of milk tray. [/quote]
One year as secret Santa host I was in the lift going up to set up the party, one of my colleagues got in the lift and I jokingly said 'what did you get her for secret Santa?' (only 2 boys among girls so it likely was a her) and he yelled 'CRAP' and ran out of the lift just as the door closed.

He showed up 10 minutes later sweating buckets and out of breath and gasped 'sellotape?' at me, I pointed out I didn't have any (like who carries sellotape randomly) and he started trying to origami a box of milk chocolates into a newspaper he had bought to use as wrapping paper... then put it back in the Poundland bag.

Classy Gavin... Classy lol.

@mam0918 hahahaha there is always one. I always end up with one of they crap Dyson desk hoovers in secret Santa that sound a good novelty gift but have 0 function

Ss one bottle of lager and a glass

A bottle of 'Tramp' from my MIL.
She didn't like me