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

A glass frog from my grandad when I was c9. I had expressed no interests in frogs or ornaments, oddly I wanted a toy …

Some of the posts here have made me chuckle, but others have made me sad for the poster.
My best 'present' was from XMIL, while XH and I were still together, but on very rocky ground. FIL had already passed away (he was a lovely man and a good friend to me). She, meanwhile, was getting rid of stuff she didn't want, ready to move in with the new man (one in a line of them, starting six months after FIL had passed away).
I got (drum roll) a set of Delia's 'How to Cook' books. Yes, I already knew how to boil an egg, etc. I knew she knew the message it was sending. (She'd previously made a point of telling me how well her other DC's children spoke, for example.)
I don't even care if this is outing as she was such a nasty person to me....

A pantie girdle from my aunt. I was 12. I think she labelled the parcels wrongly. I wonder what the other recipient got!

@DreamingofTimbuktu

A glass frog from my grandad when I was c9. I had expressed no interests in frogs or ornaments, oddly I wanted a toy …

And ... that was the worst? Goodness, some people do lead charmed lives.

Secret Santa. A crunchie, a snickers and a bounty. All from multi packs. a really dented and foul smelling single votive candle and some men’s ultra cheap shower gel. It was a fiver guide price for SS, think mine spent 2. Oh and it was in a torn birthday gift bag addressed to Maggie. I’m not Maggie.
But my mate got an empty Peter rabbit tin. So good year!

Book on crafting with cat hair from DH. Not intended as a joke.

A packet of 24 plastic pegs

A patchwork rabbit fur bomber jacket for my 19th birthday... Apart from it's ugliness, I was a militant animal rights vegetarian, who had bred pet rabbits when younger ... I'll never know what possessed my DM & she was obviously so proud of it too though I suspect she'd been nosying at the furriers shop owned by the family of a boy she was trying to pair me off with at the time

I was going to say that time when we went to the in-laws for a gift exchange and I got nothing, but I think I'd rather have nothing than some of the things on here

It was only as we walked to the car that DH realised. Although, to be fair to his very lovely gran, she'd bought us (both non-drinkers) a bottle of wine. I think that was the year DH decided to scale down his gift giving efforts to his side of the family.

Second hand trainers, half a pack of socks and a shopping bag. All on the same Christmas. I went outside and cried!

Plastic revolving spice holder complete with out of date spices.

Slippers that were too small (but coincidentally, would have fit the giver)…

And a black lace lingerie jump suit… which the giver later stole back from my chest of drawers.

@TheLightSideOfTheMoon that is very sad that your parents would not let you make the crafty things! Did you ever buy any for yourself as an adult?

Not me, but my ex was given a shoe brush from one of my relatives. When you pressed a button a shoe horn popped out. Wouldn't be so bad if he was an old man but he was only about 19!!

Lingerie from my MIL. It was weird, luckily I didn't unwrap it in front of her.

@SarahAndQuack it’s a relatively lighthearted thread so why call me out!

[quote DreamingofTimbuktu]@SarahAndQuack it’s a relatively lighthearted thread so why call me out![/quote]
Oh ... ok, I didn't read most of it as lighthearted, but I can see the OP reads that way. I read the whole thread and a lot of it was really sad.

A glass frog is shit when you’re 9.

Infact, a glass frog is shit for most people at any age.

Tin of soup and enchilada kit :)

Not sure how random items from the food shop qualify as Christmas gifts

One Christmas I received a packet of antibacterial fridge wipes and one of those small tissue packs from my inlaws.
The following Christmas it was a roll of black bin bags. Just the bin bags - nothing else.

My MiL hated me so much.

A travel iron with brown sticky burn marks on the bottom

@WhenPushComesToShove

Bath cubes... remember those?

No but I do remember "bath beads". They always looked so lovely and shiny. This was in the 1970s mainly.

For my birthday this year my dad gave me a CD of a memorial service for a well known tragedy in which nearly 100 people died. He gave me the same CD last year too...

This is fairly outing, but my ex-DP bought me a large stuffed animal for Christmas. He spent over £100 on it, but it was exactly as described: a dead, stuffed, animal. Fortunately it was seized by his landlord (along with all his other possessions) in lieu of rent arrears.

His DM bought me a metal sign with a 1950s housewife on it alongside a comment about wine drinking. It was hidden in the back of a cupboard until I moved house.

My uncle gave me bra straps for Christmas when I was about 14