Do I win the award for the shittest gifts?

[QueenConsort]

New boyfriend of 6 months got me :

2 x 2024 calendars ( who the fuck needs 2)

Garlic press ( already have one)

Stress ball

No card

Come on, beat that.

You're both pretty much in the same league. Quite bland gifts. But with 2 calendars he wins but you are not far behind...

My mum gave me two tea towels. Not novelty ones. Just two green and white checked tea towels. You can never have enough, apparently.

A doorstop that looks like it was designed by someone on a bad psychedelic trip!

Aftershave, socks, a card, a mug, some nice bits

What are the nice bits? The aftershave is ok if you know what he likes, but a mug and socks are low effort gifts and nothing to write home about. Yes, his presents to you are a bit lack lustre, but yours aren’t all that far behind.

Ex got me an Iron

I wouldn't mind these tbf. Probably a bit of a side gift though, i.e not the main gift.

Oh my goodness I'm laughing so hard at this

To be fair your gifts to him sounds just slightly less shit than what you received… aftershave, socks, a mug?? Garlic press, 2 calendars and a stress ball clearly thoughtless but so are yours to him 😄

Your presents are just as rubbish as he got you so I'd say you're a perfect match.

No you're not. That's shit. Is he generally a good boyfriend? I got a holiday abroad.

DH is great at most things, gift giving is not his forte and was always way off the mark every time. We don't do gifts anymore but buy ourselves nice stuff we actually want.

Did you have a crafty one so you could tell them you'd used it🤣🤣🤣

My DH may as well have got me nothing for the lack of thought and the clear last minute purchase, i know he got it yesterday. After 20 years together I thought he'd know the sort of things I'd like. I feel so ungrateful but I hardly get any presents at Christmas now as family tend to focus on the kids. So I've felt pretty down all day just thinking how much he doesn't know me.

Anyhoo, I've got that off my chest, hopefully my mood will brighten up.

How do people get it so wrong?

Sorry OP but this made me laugh out loud! 😹

I have you beat:

Nothing from oh (he didn't even sort a gift from ds out)
My sister got me half a pack of Christmas window stickers
And one of my other sister's gifts to me have seemingly been lost in the post (she did send them, I have the tracking info).

So yeah, the only think I opened this year is some window stickers. Go me.

DH and I (together 16 years) don’t do presents for Christmas. I got him some ramen spoons (something I wanted which has gone down well), I allowed him to wrap up some hiking socks and a curly hair towel that were still in the packaging to keep the kids happy that I had something to unwrap. I really don’t believe in spending over the odds on things that will likely be much cheaper tomorrow. So we always go shopping in the sales and get what we want then.

I’ve had some good impromptu gifts over the past few months anyway, new bike wheels, perfume after his last business trip, plus a few other things I was coveting. It’s all the same money and I’d rather he didn’t waste it for the sake of getting a gift.

Yes @QueenConsort that's shit.
DH bought me a dark green stockings and suspender set from Temu. I can laugh at myself so I tried it on and I kid you not, I looked like princess Fiona from Shrek when she's in ogre mode. I've gained weight recently so it didn't look great. The tights were a paler green, it was more like Halloween than Christmas.
To be fair on him I did say I don't want a gift. He later said I think that was a gift for me wasn't it? Men.

DH got me a rotary cheese grater and a mug… which on paper sound like really shitty gifts but I was actually delighted with them 😂

Oh god I feel your pain my ex best friend was like this - told me what cookery books she wanted etc and then did something similar to me - I posted my gifts in time for Christmas and then she didn’t - so glad I cut contact with her. I told her first how I was feeling - she had a year to step up and then I cut a 30 year friendship

@Peekingovertheparapet we’re the same as you. If we need or want something we’ll get it or save if it’s not immediately in budget. The money all comes out of the same pot so big gifts just feel like a waste.

You clearly have been on the bloody sherry if you think his shite presents are ‘not far behind’

A lovely mug, good quality socks and aftershave are some perfectly lovely
gifts for a newish boyfriend

To be fair, what nice bits are there, when you got him socks and a mug? I mean how much worse can it get?

And a charging cable!!! I completely forgot about this until just now. This was actually my best present. It’s a cable for an item of a ‘personal nature’ that isn’t standard (so we haven’t got a duplicate in the back of a drawer - trust me, I’ve checked them all!) and got lost some time ago. DH remembered to order one and stuck it in my Christmas card.

My wife got me a bottle of wine even though I haven’t had a drink for 3 months.

I think my DH panicked a bit on this one