Worst/strangest presents you've received from your other half

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Inspired by another thread where OP was disappointed in the present her husband got her.

What are the weirdest/worst/most disappointing presents you've received from your partner at Christmas.

My DP is a very sweet and kind man but is notoriously bad at choosing presents for me. He earns good money but is quite reluctant to spend it ever to put it politely. I, on the other hand, love getting him gifts and won't hesitate to get him whatever he's hinted at for Christmas/Birthday no matter the cost.

Some of the gifts he's got me for past Christmases;

>Some fake stick on nails (I never wear fake nails and they were so small they would only fit a childs hand, they almost look like they came free with a kiddies magazine)
>A bright pink hoodie 3 sizes too small (this was the "main prezzie" that year)
>A rape whistle (???)
>A pair of earrings I already owned and he has seen me wear many times
>Some plain black socks that were miles too big
>A pair of "posh scissors"

Please make me feel better by sharing your present fails.

A lump of cheese . Yes I know I like it but doesn't mean I want it wrapped under the tree 🌲

A weather station. Because I like to know what the weather is going be like.

A cardigan, exactly like one I already have.

I got Clearasil spot wipes the other day from DH for my birthday. I'm 54. (He got me other stuff too just to be clear but this one really confused me!)

Bright pink weight lifting equiptment... I was pregnant and have no interest in lifting weights, he however does lift weights but told me I wasnt allowed to touch 'his' weights so apparently got me my own (which as I said I had no use for or interest in).

A humane rabbit trap.

The same book he bought me three years earlier. "It's the new edition. "

A car cleaning kit.

A massive hat when I am very small.

Bath salts that never dissolved. It was like bathing in grit.

He was really chuffed with himself too. That was our first Christmas, he's got a LOT better over the years.

I have never received a bad present from my other half he's great at buying gifts.

But last year I got super excited and bought him this box set thing related to a game we've been wanting to start playing together. I was so chuffed to give it to him but when he opened it his face fell.

Turns out it was the exact same thing he had already had on the shelf for ages 😱 I had got caught up in the name of the game being the same and the fact that it was on offer and the last one on the shelf, not realising that it was COMPLETELY the wrong thing and was not a good or exciting gift at all, never mind the fact that he already owned it!

If that doesn't make much sense, imagine you collected something, and there is a bog standard basic starter edition of your collectible items, and you got it as your first ever item in your collection. And then imagine that there are super cool, intricate special items you can collect too. And your partner thought they were getting you the super cool special thing when they were in fact getting you the bog standard quite boring thing that you already own. Well, that's what happened!

I'm spoiling him a bit this year to make up for it 😘

A wok for my birthday, three days after I'd given birth to our first baby: "So it'll be easier for you to cook supper".

I was hoping for jewellery.

An iron. He also bought me something nice but over 30 years later I can only remember the iron.

Bottle of liquor

A taxidermied mouse on a crucifix on a painted tile. I still have no idea why. He says I shouldn't have said run wild and free on the Internet, and he does have a point...

It now hangs in the porch so it's out of my eyeline, and is called Cheezus. It amuses many amazon delivery drivers. I mostly forget it's there until they point it out.

Oh gosh these are truly awful. DH bought be a beanie hat with a torch in it!! Looked awful and would never have worn it…. Practical though.

My husband likes to give me weird joke gifts so I get every year the Marigold gloves, tampons, sponges/fairy liquid in the stocking.. He does get really great gifts as well - he just thinks he's funny when I am sat there opening tampons or something!

A wooden spoon...I had been complaining that none of our wooden spoons were the right shape, so he bought one and wrapped it up for christmas! Sort of thoughtful I suppose.

LOL at Cheezus @murasaki !!

Not me but my aunt received from her step daughter (no love lost there) 3 sachets of gravy granules ,which were a free gift sellotaped to some Bullshit lifestyle magazine.

Luckily my OH is a brilliant gift giver. But my best friend…
it’s shocking. She’s so considerate and thoughtful and gives random, very appropriate and well-loved presents throughout the year as she sees them. But it’s the pressure of occasions I think, she loses her mind.

-a really hideous and huge blue and orange jumper with cats on
-a set of neon pink, character shaped salad tongs?
-generic bath set and purple old lady slippers

she is so good the rest of the year, it just mutates on birthdays and Christmases!

From DB - a pack of weight watchers noodles 😧🤐

@RaRaRaspoutine Cheezus was also his idea. I am hoping for something saner this year...

oh and for my 21st birthday, my parents gave me a half used tub of custard powder and a bottle of wine that was meant for a friend who was going to visit them but cancelled. We’re very low contact now for other reasons but that was a memorable birthday!

A mate of my DH likes to tell the story about how one year he bought his wife a snow shovel so she could shovel their pavement.

A massive jar of pickled onions 😂

This thread is hilarious 🤣🤣