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.

one windscreen wiper for my side of the car . The one on the other side worked fine .

Ex MiL was a millionaire but tight AF, one Christmas she gave me a really weird nightwear set consisting of pink cotton bloomer style bottoms and a matching cami top, both edged in white broderie anglaise that was threaded with pink ribbon. To top it all was a matching bonnet, a fucking elasticated bonnet. I’m not kidding. It was also obviously 2nd hand from a charity shop, and well-worn too. The print on the labels had long gone! I think the worst part was her trying to gaslight me that she’d spent a lot and trying to make out that it was somehow special.

Ooh just thought of another one… current DP’s DM is lovely and over the years has given me some lovely gifts, but one year she gave me 6 glass Christmas baubles 3 baby pink and 3 baby blue, nothing remotely like any of our Christmas colour schemes. So odd.

Was it your car? Drivers side or passengers?

You and @NewsdeskJCcould do a swap 😆

A heart shaped stencil to style pubic hair with off my now mil.

What is this!

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Wow, amazing that you got so offended by that comment. I buy nearly everything from charity shops and it didn't occur to me to be offended by this.

... boxes of embroidered hankies... folding alarm clocks (I got a lot of those)...

The best worst present my MIL ever gave was a DVD entitled Jimmy Tarbuck’s Golfing Nightmares. The cover had a photo of the man himself, resplendent in full golfing gear, cowering below a cartoon lightning strike.

It was for my 13 yr old son.

A friend of a friend was given (by his parents) one of those light projector alarm clocks that shows the time on the opposite wall.
He's short sighted.

Dog toys. I like dogs. I own multiple dogs. But as a 26 year old, I do not want to receive dog toys as my only gift from my husband.

This is hilarious! Did she know what it was, or did she think it was a stencil for coffee/hot chocolate?

This has to win the thread!

Some of these sound great. ESP the cheese 😂

Ive mentioned this before - but a friend got a book about a man dying of leprosy for her present

I do remember those bath cubes all are mentioning. Lily of the valley and lavender and rose and the ones they dissolve and slippery - not the worst present

I hate lavender and have been given smellies of that smell before - shudders.

once I got a bag of chocolate raisins. I hate currants /raisins etc

One Xmas at XP’s parents house, I unwrapped a dressing gown. I am known for hating the colour blue so I must have looked quizzically at the blue dressing gown. XP’s mother said “I know you don’t like blue but they didn’t have another colour in your size. You can take it back and get something else”

So you knew I wouldn’t like it, but bought it anyway?
If you knew I wouldn’t like it and would take it back, you could have just given me a voucher.
Did the shop only sell dressing gowns or were there other items you could chosen?

Yes too to the embroidered hankies! Often nicely packaged in a display box. Obviously by then boxes of tissues were normal, so the hankies just got put away “for best” and never got used.

I think as a child I sort of assumed that these “bottom drawer” type gifts, hankies and scented drawer liners and embroidered doilies and brush and comb sets and bath cubes and so on, were all the kind of presents that the elderly ladies would have dearly liked to receive when they were a child/young woman in about 1920-1940. My mum certainly recalled getting given things like those big brush and comb sets with quilted padded backs, dressing table mats, embroidered hankies and so on as a child in the 1960s, and they were definitely thought of as “heirloom” objects.

My parents are typical boomers, and have a “boomer loft” full of a couple of generations of this stuff. So I am fully expecting at some point to re-encounter all the sad unused Lily of the Valley bath cubes and embroidered hankies of my childhood, lovingly preserved in case I needed to deck out my marital dressing-table as if it was 1940.

(My dad doesn’t believe in tissues - he thinks that they are wasteful and make your nose sore. He still has cotton hankies that he washes and irons every Sunday for the week ahead!)

When I was 17/18 I worked with a relative who was the manager of the company. Every year we did Secret Santa. The first year working there, I received a box of little candles (I think it was a box of 5 all lined up next to each other in a clear box) all shaped like a penis!! We all stood there opening our gifts and showing one another…. Didn’t know what to say in front of my 60 year old relative!! Most people got a bottle of wine/ box of chocs/ gift card and there’s me with my box of tiny penis’s!! Was most definitely a re-gift too!! They looked like they had seen better days!!

@Newstartplease24 oh my god memories - I had so much of this kind of weird shit stuff in my teens

My FIL gave me a box of embroidered hankies for Christmas a couple of years ago. I was rather touched. I wonder if they were MILs from the 60s.

Oh yes, my DM used to say "keep that for your bottom drawer" about practical sort of gifts 😊

Put a stop to all of this nonsense .

Ask or what you want. All.gifts should be accompanied by receipts so they can be returned.

Or better still cash or gift vouchers.

Sorted.

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Love the terrible stocking-fillers thing, I might be pinching that one.😍

My mother once bought me a face shaver for Christmas. So many emotions - to say I was hurt / bewildered / shocked was an understatement but I said thanks and carried on. YEARS later she asked me how I’d liked those heated eyelash curlers she’d bought me for Christmas 🤣🤣🤣