What is the Worst Present You Ever Received?

A tea towel......explaining the rules of cricket!

After my first answer I remembered this! A secret santa - presumably intended as a joke, or maybe someone though I really wanted/needed a man! They were wrong. It's inflatable and less than 2 feet tall!

For my 21st anniversary aunt gave me a nylon net shopping bag.

One Christmas my MIL gave me a nightie. It was one of those bri nylon, several layers affair in various hideous shades of lilac and purple. It was just before we got married and when i slept over (in the guest bed!) there were always nylon sheets on the bed. OMG the static almost killed me! My hair stood on end, everything crackled and i was wary of passing anything metal in case i self-combusted. I'm still convinced she did it on purpose

When I was first married my MIL sent me a large ugly quilted dressing gown. She said it would be useful if I was in hospital.

A small hideous figurine of a dog sitting on a log. I know it came from the Poundland shop because I used to work there! Tossed in the bin!

Makeup, which I've never used and never will, I'm not gorgeous but I don't want to wear a sticky mask! I much prefer the ugly but natural look! Also binned!

When I was 15 I received a naked Barbie doll, with tangled hair and the £1.00 charity shop sticker still stuck to it's guts! WHY GIVE ME THAT RUBBISH?! Binned!

And once I got a small framed photo of a hunting scene, by someone who knows I'm anti-hunting/animal cruelty ''because there's dogs and horses in the photo and I know you love them!'' Yes, I love the dogs and horses but not what they're used for! Binned!

A blood pressure monitor from my DH!

My exDH gave me a Creda tumble dryer for Christmas.

A Weightwatchers cookbook bought by my future in-laws! MiL had attempted to break us up by suggesting to my then boyfriend that he found someone 'younger and slimmer'. They never hid the fact that they disapproved of him being with someone 5 years older than him - and yes I was overweight! They seemed to think that me being older would jeopardise their prospects of becoming grandparents.
Once I had given them their first GC I was referred to as 'My lovely DiL!'
I've been divorced for many years now and my replacement is younger but she wasn't slimmer - he ended up paying for her to have a gastric band!
I actually still see my MiL occasionally - visited her last week with my DD - and my ex's partner has never been approved of by her. Her other son's marriage has failed and she never liked the other DiL. I don't think anyone would ever really be good enough for her boys, but I seem to have managed to win her over. I feel sorry for her as she is a frail 93 year old who doesn't see her sons very often.

My husband(now ex) bought me a pair of slippers for my birthday that were size 7. I was a size 4. I asked him how he got it so wrong, and he said he drew round one of my slippers on a piece of paper and took that to the shop, then kept trying to find some that fitted the shape!
Another year I received a gadget that chopped up potatoes into chip size. His favourite meal was deep fried chips!

A potato peeler from my brother. When I asked him why, he said he thought it would be useful.

My worst birthday present was from my mother in law 1st year is was a 2p pladtic rainhat, the fold up type. 2nd year it was a pair of thick poo coloured old lady tights. I was 18. Dont think she liked me 🤣🤣🤣

For Christmas my boyfriend gave me a lacy undergarment from M&S, that was like a slip but with a divided skirt to wear under culottes, which were/had been slightly fashionable in those days (about 1969, when I was 18). My mother was absolutely horrified. As was I, for a different reason - I never wore culottes. Mum took it back to M&S to see if she could get a refund or swap it for something else, only to be told by a very embarrassed assistant that it was old stock - 3 years old!!
Reader, I didn’t marry him.

A set of coasters my Mum had bought while she was on holiday! I was really upset as we usually gave each other nice presents, and that was all she got me for Christmas!

I once recieved a very flimsy cheap gold necklace and bracelet set. The gold was so thin that it creased like tin foil. The boyfriend i got it from soon became an ex!!!

A table cloth with stains on it from my boyfriend's sister. I don't think she liked me!

Have some of these husbands got a deathwish!

A pencil and an apple for my 18th birthday from my fiancé.

Let’s just say the apple lasted longer than the relationship after that 😂😂😂

An ironing board cover - from my husband!

A roll of black bin bags from my brother - we were involved in a long running campaign re a landfill site and he thought the bags might raise a laugh.

A granny nightie from my m-in-law .... long before I was even a mummy!

Keep them coming.

I have had a good laugh about the awful presents you have received.
I was guilty of giving a naff present one Christmas when I bought my father a roll of insulating tape. I even wrapped it and put it under the tree. In my defence, I was only eight with a weekly income of 2/-6d and I couldn't afford much.

As a wedding gift, friends of ours (who were rather well off!), bought us a soap dish, in the shape of a pink bath with a grey cat sat at the taps end! It came in a cheap cardboard box, like something from a pound shop! We honestly thought it was a joke, and the proper gift would follow, but no, that was our wedding gift! Very annoying, considering they were married before us and we'd spent quite a bit on their gift which we'd chosen from their own wedding list! I remember that we did actually use the soap dish for a while, and it became a bit of a talking point amongst our other friends, if only to prove what cheapskates our more well-off friends actually were!

My husband, in the early days of our marriage, bought me a Demis Roussos CD for my birthday. No idea why...

When he saw I was less than thrilled, he said he'd return it.
I asked if he'd done so, quietly hoping for something a bit nicer to be coming my way🤞

"Oh yes," he said, "they gave me my £1 back."

It had been in a bargain bucket at the shop door 😑