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Do I win the award for the shittest gifts?

145 replies

QueenConsort · 25/12/2023 15:48

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.

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PartOfTheFurniture12 · 25/12/2023 22:39

Asthebellcurves · 25/12/2023 22:32

I think my DH panicked a bit on this one

I'd forgive the cocktail picks but Comic Sans is a divorceable offence.

HolyZarquonsSingingSeals · 25/12/2023 22:49

I was once given a calendar for the year about to end.

Potnoodleforbrains · 25/12/2023 22:57

My husband got me a card with nothing wrote in it . When I asked him why he said, so he could use it again next year.

Downunderduchess · 25/12/2023 23:04

Some of these posts are not even funny, if you’re not fussed about the present or lack of that’s fine, but if you are disappointed year after year that must tell you something about how your other half feels about you. Lack of effort, no consideration etc.

VikingLady · 25/12/2023 23:05

DH once got sellotape, a single walking pole that was too short for him (he doesn't hike, it was useless, he was also 30ish), a pair of trousers that were coincidentally in FIL's size so he took back, and the gifted umbrella that came with the trousers. That he also took back. So in short he got sellotape.

Last year I spent ages on DH's gifts. He got me utter shite. Cheap chocolate of a type I've always loathed that he picked up last minute in B&M, a duplicate of a book I owned, and two (two!) hideous nylon monkeys that you hang up and pull tissues out of their arses. They were pink. Which I also loathe.

I swapped the chocolate for nice ones he'd got from a friend. The rest I visibly put on the charity shop pile.

whatchagonnado · 25/12/2023 23:15

Bottle of gin, box of chocs, unwrapped, with a sticker on them both with my name on it.

Davros · 25/12/2023 23:24

@VikingLady * "two (two!) hideous nylon monkeys that you hang up and pull tissues out of their arses. They were pink. Which I also loathe.* "
That made me snort good and proper

SleepingStandingUp · 25/12/2023 23:42

Grimchmas · 25/12/2023 17:34

I'd say these were on a par with what you received to be honest. Unless the aftershave was an expensive one, but even then...

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They're not thrilling but they're safe.

Two calendars unless one is clearly a desk one for one and one a wall one for home, but assume op would have mentioned that, is odd

A garlic press without context is odd and is indicative of no actual thought.

Hollyhobbi · 25/12/2023 23:44

My ex mil once gave my dd1 a bottle of men's aftershave, a diet cookbook and a random pair of pillowcases with no matching duvet or anything! She was about 13 or 14 years old at the time and not overweight or anything unlike ex mil who has been obese for the 30 plus years I've known her!

UnpropitiousNightmares · 25/12/2023 23:45

A box of Epsom Salts - for the bath I don't have from adult child who shares the same bathroom as me. 🤷‍♀️🤣

Alexanadra · 25/12/2023 23:54

Boyfriend of 2 years got me a roll of binbags because he heard Mr say I needed to get some more and a box of breadsticjs he's stockpiling ...oh and a box of teabags. Beat that! No card either

TheAverageJoanne · 25/12/2023 23:59

Davros · 25/12/2023 23:24

@VikingLady * "two (two!) hideous nylon monkeys that you hang up and pull tissues out of their arses. They were pink. Which I also loathe.* "
That made me snort good and proper

I'm peeing my pants reading this.

Tbry · 26/12/2023 00:11

Rocksonabeach · 25/12/2023 22:21

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

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What is it with rubbish friends? My best friend of over 30 years last year decided really close to Christmas we suddenly aren’t giving, I give to the whole family (8 people). So I had all these presents I had to give away last year and got sent a card only after Christmas. In between then and now and me explaining how I feel we agreed to just give to each other from now on which I thought was fine and let last year go.

So I sent off lovely gifts and a card really early and it was returned to me 1st December…..can’t tell why or if it was just royal mail. So I message to say I was a bit confused what’s happened and I’ll resend it. Response, did not clarify whether she returned it or not, was that she doesn’t want to give this year. So told her in that case if she’s really sure (I don’t want a gift in return btw but I don’t want to think I have paid £80 for gifts I can’t give) I can give her gift to charity and will resend cards. She said fine she doesn’t want the gifts 😰🤷‍♀️. So I felt really sad about it but took the cards out of the parcel and resent them. I’ve been sent no card and now know I won’t get one late as I was told a couple of days ago she’s not sending me a card.

Our friendship is permanently over as I can’t take anymore of it. After 30plus years I deserve far better.

Rattenbury · 26/12/2023 00:13

TheAverageJoanne · 25/12/2023 23:59

I'm peeing my pants reading this.

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Same, DH is trying to read in bed next to me and I’m getting side-eyed as I’m laying here sniggering Grin

TurquoiseTurtoise · 26/12/2023 00:27

Coconutter24 · 25/12/2023 17:41

After just 6 months I wouldn’t spend a fortune on a new partner cos it’s still early days but I’m sure he could have at least got something more thoughtful or useful…. Unless you need 2 calendars haha

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My relationship is only 6 months and my BF got me a 100% cashmere scarf from the white company, in one of my fave colours - it came with a white company card but a lovely and personal message and in a nice box

Set him straight or accept this is who he is

QS90 · 26/12/2023 00:37

Potnoodleforbrains · 25/12/2023 22:57

My husband got me a card with nothing wrote in it . When I asked him why he said, so he could use it again next year.

But... he still could reuse it, if it had been written in? Unless he was planning on giving it to someone else??

Cadenza12 · 26/12/2023 00:37

My friend of many years bought me a lovely and (for her pricey) gift. After she left I looked for the gift tag that I had seen when she handed it to me
It definitely wasn't there, and the penny dropped. She had seen the tag too as she handed it over and removed it, the first regift of the season! She's very wealthy.

SwordToFlamethrower · 26/12/2023 00:45

I said no presents this year as it was too stressful for me.

So I didn't get dh anything, not a card either. And he got me a foraging knife and a mushroom box subscription.

TheAverageJoanne · 26/12/2023 00:46

Cadenza12 · 26/12/2023 00:37

My friend of many years bought me a lovely and (for her pricey) gift. After she left I looked for the gift tag that I had seen when she handed it to me
It definitely wasn't there, and the penny dropped. She had seen the tag too as she handed it over and removed it, the first regift of the season! She's very wealthy.

I don't understand. You said that for her this was pricey but that she's very wealthy, isn't that contradictory?

Loubelle70 · 26/12/2023 00:47

One year my bought me an ornament..it was glass and said dear daughter and a sentimental verse...it was actually for a daughter who had passed away...the ornament was in shape of headstone with engraved flowers 😂..we did lol at it

Iwanttobeanonymous · 26/12/2023 00:57

In laws gave us two bottles of port. I don't drink. They know I don't drink. So basically a present for DH. Otoh dh probably thinks it's a great present!!

I may take charge of "my" bottle, hide it away and regift it to DH for his birthday in March. Then I can spend the money I would have otherwise paid out for his birthday gift on me.

Endoftheroad12345 · 26/12/2023 01:06

My ex H bought me (from the kids) a revolting dish from the junk shop of a small seaside town - the kind of place that people dump 30 years’ accumulated shit when they are selling their holiday home. It is a delightful combo of cornflower blue, sunshine yellow and terracotta- I imagine it was the height of chic in 1986. Our 5 year old chose it so I can’t actually chuck it.

Tbh it’s a first as he never bought me a Christmas present in 20 years and certainly never anything from the kids. I got him a cap and some swim shorts - just H&M but I know he will wear them. Twat 😂

I’ve bought myself a ticket to New York for a week with my amazing, thoughtful, excellent-present-giver boyfriend.

Endoftheroad12345 · 26/12/2023 01:10

The dish

Do I win the award for the shittest gifts?
Pennythoughts28 · 26/12/2023 01:12

A e cig and packet of chewing gum , I got a diamond necklace last year 😐

JeanRondeausMadHair · 26/12/2023 01:54

Nothing from anyone. Unsurprised.