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

*believed him at the time!

Crocs. Putty coloured. Wrong size. Spoke volumes.

One of those very cheap and large make up kits which has around 100 really garish eye shadows and 50 blushers in varying shades of bright pink.
My aunt bought it for me because she didn’t think I wear enough make up (I actually do but prefer a natural look).

When I was a child I want a go-kart more than anything. My dad refused to buy me one as I was a girl and insisted on buying me a dolls pram. I didn't play with dolls.

A CD player from an ex for his hi-fi separates system

Cast Iron Fondue set. I was 12.

Two stand out - now ex bought me an ironing board cover (my only present). My aunt when I was 13 bought me some room fragrance.

A low fat cookery book from SIL…..when my BMI was 23-24. Ouch. Late DH maintained it was because I was a vegetarian, and SIL thought this was similar to “healthy eating”.
I took it as the insult it was meant to be

@Spacerader

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

I would appreciate that.

A painting that I hated and my ex H loved .

Panty liners.

"Still. At least I wear socks. The earrings she bought for me to go with the (two sizes out, in a colour I never wear, Tesco) jumper were special. I’ve never had pierced ears."

My dad this to me.

A half eaten tube of Smarties from my MIL. She says she got peckish while wrapping them up.

MIL got DH and I a joint present…. A step ladder.

Also received a hammer to break out of car if it went into a ditch.

She means well…

@Pumpkinsonparade

Necklace off mil that cost £2.95. Didn't risk wearing it for fear of green neck...

We moved away from friends & family when I was a teenager. My older brother (my mother's golden child) swiftly escaped the ghastly family home, leaving just me & my parents. My mother declared that she wouldn't be doing Christmas that year as, "There's no point now he's gone." Er, hello! I'm still here. Nope, I didn't count, so there was no tree, no decorations, etc.

My two best friends from our old town clubbed together & sent me the big, arty Tolkien calendar for that year & I was thrilled with it. Then I opened my only other present, from my aunt. Yep, it was exactly the same calendar. I hated both calendars then, because looking it either one reminded me what a sh*t Christmas this was.

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The year DBIL and DSIL suggested charity gifts I spent ages looking for something personal (think football kit for refugees as gift for football fan). They said there had been a "problem with the order" and two days after we met I received in the post, by huge coincidence, the exact same charity gift slip I had given DSIL, only it was totally irrelevant for me. They blatantly faked a donation to charity, having themselves suggested we do charity gifts.

Coat hangers!

@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.

I wasn't allowed to use my stickers either! DM always used to go on at me for "wasting" them, IE sticking them on paper! I asked her about it recently and she said stickers were expensive back then (nineties) and not so easy to find. Which is fair enough I suppose but still... I sometimes have the urge to say it to the DC when they're using stickers, but I stop myself because they're cheap and cheerful now.

She also worried about me "using up my felt tips" when I was colouring. What is the point of felt tips if not to use them? She still worries about my DC doing it, and no amount of reassurance that they have hundreds of pens seems to help!

A pair of men's Christmas socks with a scantily clad woman on dressed in a Santa outfit. Another one was a mug with "hard work never hurt anyone but why take the risk". A sly dig at my disabled, non-working status.

Candles I was allergic to from my ex (which he knew about because I’d told him several times I was allergic to this particular thing) 😂 got to laugh about it now but it was the only thing he got me 😩

13 and my aunt gave me a velvet g-string. And forced me to open the present in front of my entire family. I was not amused.

Lasagna cooking dishes off ex I wasn’t pleased, awful dressing gown of aunt think 1970s old lady design. Tights from sil not even pretty ones just plain brown a colour I hated at the time.

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

DH's grandma gave me a knitted loo roll cover with a doll on the top and a crinoline skirt to cover the spare loo roll- that was the year I met him.

The next year she gave me two tea towels with leaves printed round the edge and a recipe for liver and bacon casserole on one and beef stew on the other one (I am vegetarian).

MIL took over her present buying for her after that 😂