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

@UndeadSlut

One of those bags that were hugely popular in the early 2000s, in the shape of a corset with boobs? It was bizarre, I hated it but I could tell the giver had really tried so I pretended it was my favourite thing.

Ex ILs used to give me the worst kind of tat, three for two gift sets, ancient regifts that they didn't want etc. No thought at all just "we'd better give Undead something, that'll do". I spent ages helping ex H pick out thoughtful, personal gifts because he wouldn't have had a clue, only for him to take all the credit. And the kids only got one (cheap crap) gift each from them because "Christmas is about Jesus, not presents" fair enough. But there'd be hell to pay if THEY only got one gift each from us!

Don't miss any part of that family at all.

Mine were like that and we used to put so much effort into buying them gifts that we knew they’d love. I received a bottle of orange nail polish one year that I know she probably got free through work. Another year I got a cheap glitter pen and a packet of tissues (bizarre). After so many years of this we stopped bothering.

One year a tomato shaped timer.

The next? Nothing.

Now exh.

[quote Harlequin1088]@Juniper68 She has a drink problem, yes. Consequently, my brother and I despised Christmas as children. The awful presents aside, our mother would just use the festive period as an excuse to drink herself into a stupor from dawn til dusk. The rest of the year she'd at least make a bad attempt at hiding it but Christmas meant that in her eyes she was "allowed" to down two bottles of whisky a night have a drink because "everyone else is" (they weren't).[/quote]
I'm so sorry you went through that. Are you still close to your brother?

@Absc

A book on 100 ways to eat horse - I’m vegan and had also just lost two of my horses that Christmas.

Fuck me!! Who sent that??

A silver plated spoon and a tin of spam 🤣

My Nan always used to give me random presents, mainly things she had picked up from jumble sales or charity shops as well as a random food item, I kind of miss the excitement of opening her gifts.

A bottle of non alcoholic gin from DH.
Even before I stoped drinking (medication related) I was a beer once in a blue moon drinker, I never drank gin. This was also lavender flavoured. While I like lavender as a smell, it's not something I want to drink!!

It was horrible.

My ex once gave me one of my own books. Wrapped up. Twat.

An XXL mens T shirt and hotel toiletries from my dad from a work expo he'd been too. So basically completely free things gifted as xmas presents. Realised then what a complete tight bastard my dad was.

The freebie from She magazine which had been out of print for years at that point. It must have been a bumper summer issues as had things like toe separators, flip flops etc. Most odd at best, insulting at worst!

@Juniper68 Yes my brother and I are still very close. We maintain a relationship with mother (Dad took custody of us in the end) and now we're adults we can be quite firm about our boundaries. We both abide by the "5 o'clock rule" - we never take a phone call or have a visit with her after 5pm as she'll be too drunk by then. We've found if we see/speak to her earlier in the day, she can actually be quite reasonable and occasionally good company. As long as we stick to our rule, we can just about maintain a relationship with her.

She's still terrible at buying gifts though and, almost hilariously, is even worse at receiving them. Every year I make the effort to buy her something thoughtful that I know she'll like but she still screws her face up as though I've shat in her shoe 🙄

[quote Harlequin1088]@Juniper68 Yes my brother and I are still very close. We maintain a relationship with mother (Dad took custody of us in the end) and now we're adults we can be quite firm about our boundaries. We both abide by the "5 o'clock rule" - we never take a phone call or have a visit with her after 5pm as she'll be too drunk by then. We've found if we see/speak to her earlier in the day, she can actually be quite reasonable and occasionally good company. As long as we stick to our rule, we can just about maintain a relationship with her.

She's still terrible at buying gifts though and, almost hilariously, is even worse at receiving them. Every year I make the effort to buy her something thoughtful that I know she'll like but she still screws her face up as though I've shat in her shoe 🙄[/quote]
My late mother would do that face. Or just nothing. She was lovely mostly. Just weird about gifts.

I'm glad you're still close to your brother.

Washing up gloves with frilly bit around the tops and scented things for draws

A Swiss Army knife - which was flung at me on Christmas Eve, because I had 'spoiled the surprise' by guessing what it was

What actually happened was after he had dropped soooo many hints I actually had to say ' you haven't got me a bloody Swiss Army knife have you?'

A gothic style mirror with a candle holder and a hideous hook nosed witch leering over the top of it.

There was a stunned silence as I unwrapped that beauty.

A pair of very ugly china sheep.

A regifted flask. I would never have known, to be fair, except for the name etched onto the handle!

A box of Earl Grey Teabags . I don’t drink tea, only coffee.

Asda trainer socks from MIL when I don't even own trainers.

Two blouses of a style never worn by anyone under the age of 60. One pink, one cream. In a size 22.
From MIL who was (surprisingly) over the age of 60 and a size 22. Presumably bought them for herself and didn't like them.

I'm a size 14.

Two bunches of half dead flowers from my ex husband...he ran a spar shop and I'd been walking past the bucket with them them in for a week!..
I'd gave got the message with one bunch!!

A bar of soap with a doily. I was about 8.

@Disfordarkchocolate

The electric can opener wasn't a highlight.

My ex-husband used to buy me random perfume ever year. He just picked whatever was new, never a thought about what I would like.

He surpassed himself with tickets to a musical for my 30th. He enjoyed it, I realised I needed to leave.

My late OH found out I like Obsession so I now have 4 unopened bottles of Obsession and 1 I'm using, he knew when he was on a good thing! When we were first married, 50+ years ago in the '60s, we were poverty stricken students and he bought me the Robert Carrier cookery cards, I'd never heard of half the stuff, eg 'brill' is a fish?? Never used them, I may do a '60s retro evening in the New Year, no shortage of recipes.

A second hand dressing gown in an ancient plastic carrier bag, from my mum.

DH never got anything "Because she knew he didn't like presents".

I did love her though.

Bath cubes... remember those?

A blow up sex doll called Mustafa shag from my soon to be ex dh. My sisters cat popped it after we had blown it up to entertain ourselves during Xmas dinner. That was a very odd Xmas!