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.

This is hilarious😂

Years ago my then boyfriend bought me a toy hamster that had nunchucks and sang Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting. A friend found it hilarious and was playing with it and somehow got the nunchucks stuck in my hair!

A very grown up set of underwear from a lovely auntie when I was 12! It was very pretty and I would imagine, very expensive. I would love to receive it now but the memory of opening it on Christmas morning in front of my father still makes me cringe years later. I have no idea what she was thinking as she was/is always great at gift giving.

We also received a framed photo of SIL, she was maybe 16 and had recently done some modelling. Only the photos weren't of her shoots, just a random photo of her on holiday. She laughs about it now and got me a Louis Vuitton bag last christmas!

My best friend is terrible at presents and sometimes I think she's given me things she's found around her house. Last year I was given a drawing her child had done (very much appreciated, it's framed in my office) and a bottle of hand soap. Tesco's cheapest one as well. She's a millionaire!

I didn't make the first one clear, we had a framed photo EACH. Because one wasn't enough

That’s lovely.

That is shocking and very nasty behaviour.

A dehydrator. I didn't even know what it was.

He spent 3 days excitedly dehydrating fruit then it went to the back of the garage to die a lonely unused death along with the ice cream maker and waffle toaster.

I made him an amazon wish list this year.

OMG, my late MIL had one of those. It was so adorable and my baby twins used to laugh and laugh at it.

Thank you for the happy memories

From an ex: Wooden spoons and an iron... needless to say it was the nail in the coffin!

For one birthday as a teenager my mum got me a birthday greeting card. When I looked at it I saw it had lots of signatures of people I'd never heard of and was addressed to someone else. She'd obviously forgotten to get me a card and got me a random one she'd found in her office. 😂

(She was a great mum so it's all good. I found it hilarious and still laugh with her about it.. decades later. )

A cupboard under the stairs crammed with umbrellas (I did eventually get rid of them).

At 26 I received a twin-set of Nivea face creams from my dh. Exactly the same thing he bought his elderly dm! I have never used face cream in my entire life. A really ££££ but hideous present was a gold necklace/bracelet set. It was well meant so I kept it but I've never worn it, I need to flog it.

Not my OH but I bought my Mum when I was about 14 a plastic icing set, with multi nozzles and piping bags! She was dumbfounded because it wasn't the great present I'd thought it was.

To this day I have no idea why I thought she'd like it.

Am I the only one who thinks Cheezus is a bit sick?

Last year DH got me a horrible tight chunky knit jumper, the type that would instantly make you pass out when you put it on. Ralph Lauren logo, not that I've ever worn designer stuff in my life, with added actual gravy splashes (I hope anyway) and mysterious blue stains on the sleeves.... 😬

No, I do too. It’s kind of grim.

That said I like the butterflies so I guess I’m not so high up on my horse after all. 🤣

Oh and if anyone wonders I have 4 sisters and they got umbrellas too so that’s a hell of a lot of umbrellas crammed under those stairs.

I still have the first umbrella she bought me, it’s fine after all these years (maybe because I could never use it as a child. She only bough adult umbrellas which were huge).

This made my morning/life.

Nope... I love wierd stuff but a tiny corpse hanging on my wall is too much wierd.

I also really love animals including rats/mice which I find intelligent and social creatures so the idea of crusifing one doesnt fill me with giggles but just sadness for the poor creature.

Now a plushy 'faux' rat/mouse not cruisified I would love though (I have several christmas mouse teddies as the 'not a creature was stirring' line seems to make them christmassy).

I was gifted a Barbie advent calendar for Christmas by an elderly relative. I was 15..

It was quite fun eating all the chocolates in one go though 😊

Mine bought me a set of 10 ‘chefs cloths’ tea towels to you and me.

I don’t even like cooking but I did do all the cooking. He didn’t like the fact the existing teas towels got food stains on them when I was cooking and taking things out of the oven. If he’s done the cooking he would have known that’s that’s what happens, not some bad on my part.

The worst thing though?, because of his temperament I had to pretend to bloody love them, any thing less would have resulted in a hissy fit.

Oh I just remembered, it wasn’t a Christmas gift, it was for my birthday, somehow that makes it worse.

We married at the end of my first year at College so we were absolutely skint, both students, he bought me for Christmas some Robert Carrier recipe cards, the only ingredients we could have afforded were pichards, but not the lemons to stuff with them, we'd never heard of a lot of things, eg brill!
For my 50th birthdays he gave me a Terry's chocolate orange, apart from the parsimony he knew that I loathe them! For my 60th I got an all singing, all dancing SLR camera.
One year we were in Waterstones just before Christmas, we would always include a book in what we gave, and I pointed to a display and said Whatever you buy me, I don't want that! Christmas morning, there it was, his excuse was I knew you'd mentioned it.

He sounds bad, he wasn't, married over 50 years, we argued a lot about money because I dislike spending on myself!

Xmas when I was about 4, mum got my older sister got a new dolls pram and new doll.

she gave me the old dolls pram, which was too small for big sis.

and which I played with anyway.

that was the year I realised she was the favourite, but knew I couldn’t show it.

@murasaki Cheezus looks like a terrible warning! To delivery people (or mice).