Time for a worst/most bizarre Christmas present thread

[pinkksugarmouse]

Ex DH and I separated on good terms and the first Christmas exchanged gifts in front of our 12yr old DDD.To show we were friends. He got me 2 lush bath bombs. Now I have life long Rheumatoid Arthritis and haven't been able to use a bath since I was a child. We'd been married for 14yrs. We'd lived in a place with a walk in shower due to my arthritis. I wasn't upset just baffled.

Oh, that is every kind of wrong.

The year DH and I got married, after spending months berating me for not changing my surname, MIL gave me some Mrs. DH's surname embroidered tea towels. My SIL (his brothers wife, who also did not change her name) laughed so hard she cried. So I put them in her stocking the next year, only to find them returned to mine the following. We're on for year 13 this year, I believe she had custody for 2025.

Needless to say MIL does NOT see the funny side of this. 😂

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@mathanxiety
If only I’d known! She could have had my brother’s flan tin 😊

Love this! 🤣

Knock off?

WTAF?!

OMG - I remeber bath pearls . Memory archaeology!!

This is epic! I reckon you'll get better value out of them then you would as towels.

Go you and your SIL BTW for keeping your names. STBXH had a meltdown the week before our wedding when I said I was keeping mine. I caved but surprise suprise he turner out to be emotionally abusive and controlling.

20 years later I filed for divorce in the morning and changed my name back in the afternoon. Couldn't wait for the divorce to be final.

I knew I'd seen it before, that hideous crab/sea urchin thing is MURANO glass! A Google lens search shows it retails at around £40! Unbelievable. You could sell it but it's worth keeping for kitch value and lols.

Ha ha, that’s brilliant

Out of date sachet of bath salts, second hand notebook and, once she'd opened gift from me, promise of a gin liquer that she'd 'forgotten to put in the bag'. It never arrived.
From the same friend for previous gifts:
A charity shop plastic brooch
A couple of empty bottles (as ornaments i presume)
I had treated this woman to meals out, gig tickets, thoughtful gifts.
She also offered to get a glass of tap water when it was her round of coffees.
And went on extravagant holidays.
I hate mean people.

Absolutely marvellous, @Swissmeringue! Well done to you and your SIL.

I'm actually feeling a bit sorry for the poor old glass crab 😂
My worst was when I was 11 and went to stay with my, now NC, father, my stepmother, 2 step siblings and 2 half sisters. Had never stayed at christmas before and was only "allowed" to visit once a year by both father and stepmother. Non the less I idolised my father as you do at that age. Woke up xmas morning and went down, massive sacks of gifts under the tree, like enormous sacks...for each step sibling and half sister. I got... a bottle of my stepmothers unwanted nail varnish. I was devastated.

Many moons later a very wealthy aunt gifted my 5 year old daughter 3 bright yellow plastic builders buckets, the kind used for rubble! Wtf?!

My ex in-laws were very adept at demonstrating their dislike of me through the medium of Christmas presents. One year they gave me a piece of cardboard with

(Rest of message disappeared randomly!)
…with “Book Token” written on it in garish felt-tip pen. I’d have looked like a right wombat taking that to the till in Waterstones!

I suppose you could have given the bath bombs to someone else for a gift.
I had lots of weird, maybe nasty gifts. One Christmas Gran in law asked me my size as she was going Christmas shopping. On the day, all her family around plus 2 boyfriends of grandchildren. I watched as, one by one the men were given their gifts; matching shirt and tie sets. Then it was the turn of the ladies. One by one they opened their Christmas presents: matching lingerie sets. Last but not least a present for me. It wasn't what I expected given that everyone else had been treated the same. I was given an After Eights sized gift. I thought, "that's OK, I like After Eights." If only it had been chocolates. I was given a hideous, cheap and nasty evening bag. It had stuck on beads and very sharp metal trims. I said my thank yous while feeling like crying. The following Sunday, on our weekly visit to Gran in law (nobody else bothered to visit her) at the sheltered accommodation we bumped into one of the other lady residents. "Hello" she says, "did you like your Christmas present? Blanche won it in the raffle". This was a theme that continued throughout the years of that marriage from her and PIL. Dior perfume for the ladies, a second hand book from the charity shop for me. Matching gloves and scarf for the ladies, a tacky ornament from the discount warehouse for me.
My last Birthday present from the ex? Clothes, yet again in his mother's size and style which he then gave to her as usual, with the receipt in case she didn't like them, as I was "so ungrateful".
I did eventually get the message and am happy to say that I got a divorce and now have a wonderful DH who treats me as I should be treated.

My gift buying on behalf of Santa, to my two very ‘believing’ DC’s.

Wanting cheap options and running out of ideas, I bought my DC’s a small hand held hoover each.
I know, I know…bad enough ( my reasoning was that they could hoover their rooms…occasionaly …😳)

On Christmas morning, DC’s were very puzzled that Santa didn't know that at aged 7 & 9, they didn't have a car and were not old enough to drive.

On closer inspection the hoovers only worked off the car cigarette lighter!

My sister is renowned for giving presents with no thought about the recipient. Last year she gave my husband a pack of 4 cheap coasters for Christmas (think Poundland), the year before a book about cars even though he can’t drive and has no interest in cars. I’ve had a pack of 5 floral high waisted knickers when I was in my thirties. (I’d no more wear these than she would wear thongs.) I always put thought into her presents and what she would like, but this year I may just deliberately get her something useless too!

DH got me a screwdriver set as my main present, as I’d ‘been mentioning I wanted a set’.
Sister would give me clothing she’d been given but didn’t like for some reason, despite the fact I’m at least 4 sizes bigger than her so nothing would fit.

Good for you. I wonder why she cried - what was going through her head.

My mum is a dreadful & stingy gift giver, for me in particular. I got Aldi’s own brand basic body lotion & hand cream from my Mum one Christmas, with a handwritten note telling me how this was the best lotion according to one of my Dad’s carers.

One year I got padded coat hangers, which my husband thought was hilarious. I’ve also had perfume that was clearly off & likely to have been years old & bought at a charity shop. Also got M&S Isis perfume just two years ago, M&S had stopped making that particular perfume I think around 2005.

She wasn’t/ isn’t short of a bob or two, thousands in the bank & many years spent going on luxury cruises & other holidays before my Dad got ill. In fact that reminds me, one year she saved the night time ‘turn down’ service mint chocolates off her pillow from one of the cruises & gave me them in a plastic bag for my birthday.

In the year I got the Aldi’s lotion I had changed my working hours to help care for my Dad & give her time off to herself one day a week, I felt very unappreciated and undervalued, I thought she might have made more effort given all the help I was giving her with my Dad’s care needs. My friends are always shocked & appalled at the 2nd hand or cheap crap she gives me considering how much I do for her & did for my Dad before he passed away last year. Conversely she was always quick to ask me for specific expensive things for herself & my Dad for their birthdays & Christmas.

I always politely thank her for her ‘gifts’ … but I could never be so mean & tight to my family & make sure my own grown up kids get nice presents that they want or need. It does actually matter, & it’s not about the amount spent … I’d rather have a £10 M&S voucher than the rubbish she gives me.

Our first Christmas together, living on a farm totally out in the sticks and with very little cash, my DXH bought me a very expensive bottle of gin… and no tonic 🙄

A framed felt tip drawing of myself that had actually been commissioned, but looked like a 10 year old had done it.

When I was dating my now husband at aged 18, my SIL to be bought me red lacy underwear from Victoria’s secrets. We don’t live in the same country as our families now so sadly no more raunchy presents for me 🤣

edited to say, SIL doesn’t talk to us much, never really did and makes low effort when we do see her which is once a year so makes the gift even more strange.