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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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Whatineed · 26/12/2023 02:10

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.

Do it!

I've regifted hand cream and shower stuff this year after years of a friend knowing I can't use perfumed products and still insisting I get them as they are useful for the guest bathroom.

They've now been given to my partners mum who last year gave me an embroidered bin bag holder and a whisky miniature.

Its a lot easier to deal with the disappointment over the lack of thought when you've batted back in the same way. 😂😂😂

QueenBitch666 · 26/12/2023 02:12

ADesignForLife · 25/12/2023 17:36

MIL gave DH (ie HER OWN SON) testicle moisturiser. I couldn’t look him in the eye when he realised what it was.

Edited

Is that actually a thing?!!!!!! Grin

HolyZarquonsSingingSeals · 26/12/2023 02:15

Endoftheroad12345 · 26/12/2023 01:10

The dish

Oh that is truly hideous, but it looks reassuringly breakable.

RantyAnty · 26/12/2023 02:28

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.

😂😂

Cadenza12 · 26/12/2023 07:54

She's usually a thrifty gift giver, so I was surprised that she had spent so much. However she didn't.

Desolatewardrobe · 26/12/2023 08:37

My father used to pass on whatever he’d won in the pub raffle. One year I remember a set of teddies, with ‘2000’ embroidered on them. It was several years after the Millennium and I was a grown woman with no apparent interest in stuffed toys.

Iwanttobeanonymous · 26/12/2023 09:35

Whatineed · 26/12/2023 02:10

Do it!

I've regifted hand cream and shower stuff this year after years of a friend knowing I can't use perfumed products and still insisting I get them as they are useful for the guest bathroom.

They've now been given to my partners mum who last year gave me an embroidered bin bag holder and a whisky miniature.

Its a lot easier to deal with the disappointment over the lack of thought when you've batted back in the same way. 😂😂😂

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I will do. Pity its just bog standard and not fancy vintage but it'll buy something off my "books I'd like" list!!

medianewbie · 26/12/2023 11:09

A card from my Dad which said:
'keep going'. A plug in overblanket from exH: so now kids have 1 each to use in our freezing house (he doesn't pay maintenance to help with the bills)
A box of chocs from my friend (I had bariatric surgery 2 yrs ago). Ho hum.
My teens have Autism & find Xmas overwhelming so we've not opened all our gifts yet. They may have got me something - I may find out later.
Main 'gift' is that we survived the Day with no tears & hopefully some joy :)

rwalker · 26/12/2023 11:17

StragglyTinsel · 25/12/2023 17:17

STBXH turned up with a box of cheap chocolate for me (‘from’ our DS - it’s not even what I’d choose from the shop he went to, which surely he knows) and a Christmas card. The Christmas card says ‘to my wonderful wife’ on the front. 🤯 I just raised my eyebrows and said nothing about it.

This is a man who is behaving like an unbelievable dick over the financial settlement. I’m actually flabbergasted that he’d intentionally buy that card.

The majority if not all cards to wife,husband,mum or dad
all have special , the greatest type of thing on them

theres definitely a market for cards you are a obliged to buy without this type of thing on they literally don’t exist

RachelGreeneGreep · 26/12/2023 13:19

HowDoYouSpellThat · 25/12/2023 18:34

Thanks @AuntMarch hes been busy at work.. but we have a lot of shared interests so there's lots of things he could have booked or arranged. I think the worst thing was that I wasn't surprised that he hadn't made the effort. It's often the same for birthdays, mothers day.. either something late or totally forgotten.

Then I would be forgetting when it's his birthday or Father's Day from now on, if I were you.

Fs365 · 26/12/2023 13:51

QueenConsort · 25/12/2023 16:38

Am I being an ungrateful bitch?

not ungrateful, but you were hardly pushing the boat out with your own efforts

TheAverageJoanne · 26/12/2023 14:10

I got a terrible secret Santa present. A Daniel O'Donnell compilation.

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QueenConsort · 26/12/2023 14:24

Why is £50 aftershave a bad present? I also got him other bits.

He left prices on too and spent £6

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QueenConsort · 26/12/2023 14:25

I also got him a t shirt, some shaving stuff he was after and some silly gifts

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Grimchmas · 26/12/2023 14:31

Ysee that's a bit of a drip feed. For all we knew the aftershave you bought was a lynx africa gift set

Framilode · 26/12/2023 16:14

my mother used to give me lovely presents. However, for my husband's 40th birthday she gave him a large can of brilliant white paint in a plastic carrier bag. That one has gone down in the annals of family history and always causes a good laugh when we remember it.

Cheesestring67 · 28/12/2023 09:32

Periscope?? 🤣

Davros · 28/12/2023 09:39

TheAverageJoanne · 26/12/2023 14:10

I got a terrible secret Santa present. A Daniel O'Donnell compilation.

Another snort thanks to this thread. You can't even regift that

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QueenConsort · 28/12/2023 19:41

He said he had a late surprise for me today I was excited, thought maybe I'd been OTT.

He gave me his used washing basket from his house as a late present.

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QueenConsort · 28/12/2023 19:42

My wash basket on its last legs but still!

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oneflewoverthe · 28/12/2023 19:42

If this is true, he's a massive weirdo.

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QueenConsort · 28/12/2023 19:43

Yes, this is true. He thought he was being kind as I moaned about my wash basket lid being broke.

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Therunecaster · 28/12/2023 19:48

ADesignForLife · 25/12/2023 17:36

MIL gave DH (ie HER OWN SON) testicle moisturiser. I couldn’t look him in the eye when he realised what it was.

Edited

Wtf

ThisIsaNiceDress · 28/12/2023 21:57

Jesus this is depressing… I guess I’m somewhere in the middle, nothing to sing and dance about but won’t be winning the batshit crap competition either…

2Old2Tango · 28/12/2023 22:38

My DH of 30+ years got me nothing, not even a card. He also got me nothing for my 60th this year. He's always ordering himself tons of crap off Amazon, so he could have found something if he'd been inclined to. He has around £170k in his personal bank account from an inheritance (which he doesn't share - that's a whole other thread) so money isn't an issue.