Time for a worst/most bizarre Christmas present thread

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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.

My mother in law (in time honoured fashion I am now nc with her but not because of her present). I think that they were made by Always but am not 100%!

@Newstartplease24 Lily of the valley bath cubes! YES! I remember those buggers. I'm also 54! I'd forgotten all about them until you said that. Wow.

A wooden vase. Think about it.

I did try putting water in it and as expected it seeped through. Ended up using it for pencils. Could’ve put fake flowers in it I suppose. But it did make me wonder WHY someone would make a flower vase out of untreated wood?!!

My x bought me a hoover one year for Christmas. We did need a new one, and it was a pretty pink Hetty one, but he didn't buy me anything else! And I absolutely hate hoovering! I think that was the beginning of the end of our marriage! 😣

A few years ago my lovely MIL bought her grandkids a packet of Jey cloths each and also she go pt one of them a battery powered hairdryer 😂 No malice at all , she was lovely and prob thought how useful they were .

A Nick Knowles album - not every sure who he is

😂😂😂😂😂

It’s the satin cushion that’s pushed me over the edge!

😂😂😂

A phone charger mat . In return I has bought him a special guitar, designer bathrobe , thoughtful extras . Even the DCs said What the Hell Dad . My ex now.

My fil bought my mil a mop one year 🫣

2 left slippers from dh

Actually my uncle once bought me a pack of cheap American Tan nylons in an adult ladies’ size for Christmas. I was 12 and had never seen anything like them — I was completely bemused.

Mind you, that same uncle had form for being a terrible gift giver (he was and still is also monstrously cheap. He used to give away freebies he’d got on cruise holidays as Christmas gifts, so as a pre-teen girl of 9 you might well receive an adult men’s size XXL promotional “Welcome to Jamaica” tshirt and he thought that was completely normal).

For several years running in the 90s he would buy a job lot of 50 discount cheap film camera films from Costco, and everyone in the family would get one (1) individual camera film for Christmas, in the little black canister, with a teeny shiny stick-on paper bow on top.

At least the camera films were useful! 😆

From my stingy, tight, very financially loaded aunt- half a filthy wall tile she'd found when digging in her garden, " IT'S VICTORIAN" yeah right, and a pair of 20 denier nude tights, one leg stretched out as if tried on.
Wrapped in crumpled last year's (or 5 years ago) Christmas paper. No joke.

From my now xh, a bottle of tequila rose which he knew I hated.

Och, a chopping board, no....a Kitchen Aid on the other hand.....

My MIL gifted me slippers from the charity shop. She thought they’d be ‘ok’ because one still had the tag on, meaning unused. I soon found out WHY they were in the charity shop in the first place, they were both right feet. She was never very good at choosing gifts………

Our family do our best to reuse wrapping paper, ribbon etc and make gift tags out of old greeting cards. The paper that's got too creased is used in children's (and now grandchildren's) parties for pass the parcel.

Some years back, we’d bought our first home and moved in early December. That Christmas, as part of my DH’s present from his Mum and Step Dad (apparently SD’s idea - thought it was hilarious), he received a penis shaped bottle opener carved out of wood. Really bizarre as his SD is not usually that kind of jokey fella and my DH was just bemused.

Anyway, joke’s on him as we still have it 11 years on and it’s actually a bloody brilliant bottle opener! Must be the shape of the shaft that lends itself to a firm grip 😉😂

The Xmas I was 15 a lovely aunt (who we hadn’t seen for a couple of years) got confused as to how old I was (we were much the youngest cousins) and bought me a colour-in placemat. We saw her at some point the next year and the following Xmas I was given a beaded evening bag I still use! Writing the thank you letter for the first of those was an excellent exercise in creative writing.

Well, that ‘baby’ is now 17 so the memory is somewhat hazy…but we’re still together 😆 We were spending Christmas with his parents that year so I didn’t call him out on it at the time…it was more an underwhelmed “Oh!” and a look as if to say “Interesting decision”! I do remember making a point of buying myself the book a day or two later and suggested that maybe part of my present could be to ensure I get enough time out to make sure I could read it!!

When I was 13 my friend gave me a plastic mini sewing kit. I didn’t sew and had zero interest in it. Nothing says ‘I forgot about you’ more than a random prize from your school lunch cracker! (she confessed later).

Another year my aunt gifted me a small gift set of Chanel No 5 - a travel sized bottle with atomiser lid. Unfortunately she had bought it from a charity shop and hadn’t looked too closely. The box contained no perfume, just a little plastic lid with nothing to spray. Luckily I hate Chanel No 5 anyway 😂

Actually, checking dates, it was when DD was tiny not DS…

My family, love them to pieces, are awful at buying presents

I have received over the years:

A ripped half packet of batteries
1 broken dirty coaster because it had a cat on it, and not a pack, just the one.
Out of date opened body lotion, it smelled awful.
A pair of child gloves, i was 30 at the time
And my favourite:
A used, old shower pouf on a stick. That was hilarious, i literally couldn't keep a straight face. I couldn't even do the pretend. Oh i love it. Honestly.
There are more, and i could go on for days. I genuinly think they just go round their houses and just picked up anything that needed throwing out!

From my mil over the years I have been given a mug tree, a banana tree, hand blender,serving spoons,dog shaped remote control holder, butter dish, sheets but the worst one was a carpet sweeper! I always put effort into her presents. Grateful that my husband her son has always been so generous and thougtful with presents!

@Newstartplease24 YES!! I’m 59 and remember getting a good selection of “old lady” items in my time. Little manicure sets in zippy cases, soaps on ropes, bath cubes, comb and hairbrush sets, jewellery cases/ring holders…