What's the worst present you got for your parents as a child?

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I was about 8 or 9 and my mother asked for something for the house as a Christmas present.

I hoofed it to Woolys after school, and proudly bought her a shiny new.........

......dustpan and brush

I remember my uncle practically pissing himself when my mum opened it on Christmas day.

Please tell me I'm not the only one.

Thank you for sharing DeadCert.

You win!

age 6 I bought my dad a cheapo set from poundstretchers that contained shampoo, conditioner, a comb and hair gel thinking it was nice bath stuff, my dad is bald.

I was so proud to give my dad a car wash pack (soap, polish and a sponge) for a first Christmas present. He must have been so chuffed.

I bought my mom Renee and Ronata's single, "save your love, my darling". It was truly shit.

York fruits, every year for mothers day until I was about 10. It wasn't until a few years ago that she admitted she'd never liked them!

It was our fault for taking suggestions from dad really: he bought her a dark chocolate easter egg for the first 5 years of their marriage (the only type of chocolate she didn't like!) and once got her an anniversary card for her birthday. He's lovely, but a bit absent minded sometimes.

One xmas eve when I was about 10 my dad walked me down to the local spar to buy my mum a bottle of wine for xmas. Unfortunately when I got home I tried wrapping it and failed miserably and got into such a state that my mum had to come in and wrap it herself!

Slug pellets had just about killed me.

I remember cycling to the local post office and being delighted with the box of drawing pins that I had bought for my Mum's birthday. I hid them in my bedside cabinet and all night long I kept waking up and getting them out to look at, thinking how pleased she'd be. She was not good at faking her 'delight' in the morning. I was absolutely gutted, especially when my pig of a brother laughed.

A wooden pear

An oxo cube dispenser. I thought it was absolute genius. My poor mother.

To be fair, it was nailed to the kitchen wall for about twenty years.

My brother once bought our Mum a plastic pig that sat in the fridge and oinked when the door was opened.

Also bought DSF a framed print from a car boot which looked very much like this:
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He had a motorbike...completely logical

The first present I ever bought my Mum, at about 5 years old, was a... mesh bath cleaning puff. My Dad tried to gently dissuade me, but I was adamant that she would love it. She duly expressed total delight.

It was rainbow coloured, and I thought it was beautiful. I had no idea what it was, and when she used it to clean the bath I was prostrate with grief, so it hung unused as a beautiful bathroom decoration for, oh, fifteen or so years?? I love my Mum!

My brothers and I bought my mum a lovely teddy bear one year. She loved it.

A year or so later we decided that as she'd been so pleased with the bear we would go one better and buy her gold (plated I think) teddy bear necklace and dangly earrings from Lizzy Duke (naturally)
20 odd years later the teddy bear is sitting next to her bed wearing the necklace and earring set

And a few months ago mum and I were sorting boxes in her loft to see what we needed to keep and what could be sold/binned/charity shopped.
Me: "Christ. I really bought you some tat over the years didn't I?"
Mum. "Yes but it's tat that you picked and that's why I love it.... I think it's time to send it to the charity shop now though for someone else to 'enjoy' "

The soundtrack tape to the Flintstones movie. Because she's taken us to see it at the cinema and I thought she'd liked it. Aaaah, hindsight.

This thread is great. I went through a phase of making my mum lunch in my school holidays when she came back from work. My mum is very slim and health conscious, and also pretty frugal (from choice). To give you an idea, she once calculated she'd had a salad every evening for six years. I therefore think in retrospect she was probably sparing my feelings the day I made her pasta with chicken and pineapple and grated cheese on the top, and she ate it all up.

It's just come back to me now that I fully supported DS1 in purchasing a rather splendid Darth Vadar Mask for DP's 40th birthday, so they could have proper light saber battles!

I clearly haven't learnt my lesson!

He loved it really.

I'm torn between the letter holder from poundland or some Rabbit slippers that were sodding huge and looked like actual Rabbits

My mum does not like or ever liked slippers .

I must of got her much worse though as I'm banned from buying her presents now

One year I forgot to buy my dad a present so my mum wrapped up a packet of his cigarettes for me to give him

I remember my dad giving me a pound to buy mum a present for Mother's Day, and sending me out with the babysitter. I selected a lovely boxed bar of Imperial Leather soap for about 30p and spent the rest on sweets .

my DC wanted to buy my dh fluffy cushions as they were fluffy

I fully supported this just to see his face on his birthday

cushions ate now in their room

When I was very little I may have presented my mum with half a packet of fluff-covered extra strong mints I'd half-inched from her bag

I am loving the giving of own belongings and nibbled/nobbled presents.

I can't remember any gifts that I bought my mum, which probably means they were so bad I've wiped them from my memory. I do remember I did most of my shopping in a pound shop so I'm pretty sure they were dire.

As a parent I was once given a roll-on deodorant by my youngest, I think she saw 'Mum' and thought it was appropriate