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 car fire extinguisher… 🙄

He once bought me aubergines .

To be fair to him it made sense in that we were students and none of the shops on campus sold decent veg. I love aubergines and had lamented never having any.

So he went to the big supermarket (an hour on the bus) and bought me two aubergines.

He did also get me a new Kindle so he actually did really well and I did enjoy the aubergines. But opening them - yes wrapped aubergines - was unusual in front of my mates.

My first boyfriend at 16, in 2014. A red sort of business dress with was a strange sort of padded material, almost like scuba but double layer. It had shoulder pads and three quarter length sleeves and every edge was scalloped. Like this but ugly and sort of
business-y’. It cost him £70 from John Lewis and I wore it okce and almost sweated to death.

My camera shy friend who hates having her photo taken was given a selfie stick from her mother in law. It wasn't even new!

@december2020 Cheezus in all his dead glory

A pair of bog standard welly boots!

These are hilarious. My DH once bought me a Christmas tree bauble for my birthday…..in April.

@murasaki omg 😂😂😂😂

Oh my, Cheezus…..😮

Not Christmas, but Valentine’s Day one year my husband bought me an industrial quality hammer drill. By the next VD, he was an exH. I still have the drill…

And that was Cheezus live, or rather not, from my porch right now.

No!!!!! What the actual heck? I couldn’t quite imagine what it looked like, but that is not what I expected 🤣

I actually love this. I would cackle all day if DP got me a Cheezus

Got a tumble drier one year 'so you don't have to take the team football kit to the launderette to dry it.' Astonishingly, that isn't why he's an ex.

@IDontWantToBeAPie DP thanks for your for your feedback,it was more positve than mine.

i know this is LiGHtHeARTed and you wanted to feel better but this is just all fucking tragic.

Your OP isn’t a one time fail, you describe a man who doesn’t like putting his hand in his pocket and doesn’t really care.

You deserve a nice present at Christmas.

You all deserve a nice present at Christmas.

That had me laughing 🤣 tbf all the posts on here are brilliant.
Great thread OP.

I've not had anything bad from DH but was once bought a creepy pot doll by a relative who I think secretly hated me. I couldn't get rid of it (long story) so I had to turn it around so it's evil eyes didn't stare at me.

Omg that looks more like a rat than a mouse 🐁 Is it actually real?

i was about 13, massive box with my name on the tag. I was so excited but the reality was a shoe rack like this that hung on the back of the door. Most disappointed I’ve ever been but didn’t say anything except that I loved it.

Didn’t see the whole title, sorry.

Going back a few years but it was a bang and olufsen sound system ( record player, cd etc…. I’m not into music at all.

made worse when his mum and dad arrived for dinner saw it set up and said to their son oh great youve replaced it.. turned out his ex wife kept his sound system as part of their divorce settlement . So my present was really for him!

yes he is an ex now!

@Georgeskitchen it is real. I still need therapy from opening it and touching it.

I do have various odd items that may have led him down this path, a snake.skeleton in a box, a butterfly in a box, a sliced sheep brain in a box liberated from work, but there is a joint factor there. A BOX.

Ex DH gave me a Wii Fit. I was not amused, but it wasn’t why we divorced! I had NOT asked for a wii fit, nor mentioned anything about my fitness levels or desire for more activity.

My now (lovely) DH is usually very good, but bought me AirPods a couple of years ago. Great you’d think, and really they were - problem was that I had not asked for them, however DS HAD asked for them and I’d gone and bought him some cheap ones from Argos that seemed fine and were 1/4 of the price. Could have throttled DH for buying me the expensive Apple ones, it was so crap on Xmas morning when DS got rubbish ones that he might have been happy enough with, but then there’s me with the ones he really wanted. I felt like shit and gave them to DS and took the rubbish (they were fine) ones myself, so then DH went in a huff with me and DS wasn’t even very happy. So that was a monumental fail all round. In fairness, DS did get an iPad so he was hardly hard done by!

Cheezus is adorable! He reminds me of stuart little 😂

We ALL deserve a fucking Cheezus.

#MNersForCheezus.