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.

I DID ask for what I wanted. I wanted a dressing gown. He knew better, hence the stuffed owls.

It was the elderly ladies who were thinking of the bottom drawer type gift in the seventies not a child born in the sixties, to whom it would have seemed quaintly old fashioned even then. Also, elderly ladies in the seventies were a different breed from the ladies of the equivalent age today. A sixty year old lady in the seventies really was an elderly lady and dressed and behaved in this way. Their values, inherited from those of their parents, were Victorian and Edwardian in origin.

When i was a teenager from ex sis in law I was given a bright orange sellotape dispenser and memo holder with the £1.50 sticker still on 😂

Yes, I got those “bottom drawer” type gifts as a child in the 1980s, so the ladies giving them would have been born in the 1900s-1930s. My siblings were younger than me, and grew up in the early 90s. I don’t remember them being given as much of that kind of stuff, if any.

Electric tin opener from my ex H.

I would quite like that book!

I was given every single one of these by my grandma! I'd forgotten about the rain bonnets, they had a distinctive smell, didn't they?

Im banking this one . .genius

This sounds like babÿ doll pyjamas, which were considered quite glamorous in the late sixties/early seventies. They were very much of their time.
I also received some of the elderly lady gifts. They were rather sweet, really.
The very worst gift l was ever gone was a birthday present - my birthday is just before Christmas so l hope it counts. An older, American friend, who has an unfortunate manner much of the time, gave me a dress that had been passed on to her with the immortal words: "it was too big for me so I thought it would fit you." Leaving aside the fact that wè are, in fact, a similar, medium size, albeit a different shape, this monstrosity was grey - a colour that makes me look like a corpse - and was at least a size 26. It could have fitted both of us and still had room for someone else. The style was one that could never have been fashionable. I have seen more glamorous tents. Amazingly, our local charity shop accepted it.

DH is a pretty rubbish present buyer, I think the worst was about 15 years ago, I’d asked for a nice blanket, something snuggly and warm that I could use on the sofa - I’m known for my love of comfort, fave presents are always nice slippers/socks etc.

Opened it excitedly to find a baby pink, cellular baby blanket. Not remotely snuggly and bloody huge. Probably would have fit a super king bed. I was so gutted .

Im so easy to buy for, so I always find gifts disappointing as the thought it rarely there.

Doesnt help, that I absolutely love buying presents and take great care in looking for something just right!

Made me snort so loud I scared the dog awake.

Ugly glass crab wins so far.
I see those glass making videos on YouTube and it’s fascinating to watch their skills but when they’ve finished making the glass pumpkin or fish I always think ‘nobody wants that’.

when I was around 14 my grandma got me a family size gigantic tub of cream crackers and nothing else. made me laugh.

A book with black and white photos of modern art, including sculpture, when I was 14. I can't remember who gave it to me.

A dress that came down to my ankles that was the colour and shape of a big burlap sack, and almost the same material, from exMIL.

My mil picks things up over the year and holds in to them for Christmas. Think expired boxes of chocolate that have gone white

She knew exactly what it was and that I’d be opening it in front of my parents. It was so embarrassing. 😳 She thought it was hilarious. I still have it (unopened) hidden away somewhere.

Absolutely remember all those things. I did quite like the Lilly of the Valley bath cubes though. And the notebooks.

Newstartplease24
sorry I meant to quote you.

My partner got a broken biro pen wrapped up in a screwed up piece of old newspaper with his name misspelled on it from some old distant aunt at a family do. He actually said to her I don't want this effin old junk and binned it right there and then.

Back when my now husband I were dating his first Xmas present to me was a 4 slice toaster from his Mum's electrical shop! His thinking was that with a 2 slice toaster there's always 1 person waiting (?).... anyway we've now been together 16 yrs married for 8 so it's worked!

Christmas, I was in my early teens and my auntie gave me a concertina rain bonnet (a thin plastic sheet with ribbon ties to cover ones hair), this was long ago when older women would wear these. I am now her age and still wouldn't wear one, actually I don't know if they are still made. I did like the snap it made when folding it up, haha.

A sweatshirt with “Wine O Clock” printed on the front and my full name on the back! Needless to say it’s still in a drawer unworn😁

PJ bottoms from BiL in XXL

I’m a size 10

I, hands down win this one!

I once received a 6 bag of crisps - that had been opened and only 5 were in the pack! From my MIL! They were my favourites though 😬

My bonkers granny once gave my mum an address book for Christmas, except it was already used. Full of addresses of people my mum didn’t know… 🤣

My aunt was the queen of giving useless crap as gifts. She gave me a school uniform for a school I didn’t attend. Uniform was clearly used and full of pulls and holes. That year she also gave my dad shampoo. Not a totally useless gift except my dad was bald and the shampoo bottle was half-empty.

It was almost exciting to see what rubbish we’d get from her every year!!