What is the Worst Present You Ever Received?

I'd been vegetarian for decades, but my mother would buy me leather bags and purses.

Sallywally1 She sounds like my MIL. She had not gone out to work since the day she married but was highly critical of my (lack of) domestic skills, despite the fact I had children and a full-time job. She always bought me 'useful' presents like metal teapots, tea towels or even a plastic washing up brush.

On four alternate years, umbrella and apron from late MIL as she ‘couldn’t think what to buy me!. I think she considered me to be undomesticated! I did work full time and had three children, but in her eyes that was no excuse. She never had to work.

I worked in a club for a while, and saw them there, behind the scenes, as it were.

That's my tentative foray into the world of fame.

We had a thread about that once; it wasn't about famous people we'd met, or knew well.

The more tentative it was, the better.

MissAdventure

I just looked up some of their songs, and there's one called 'Little white bum'...

They lasted into the eighties and even had a television show at one point.

I just looked up some of their songs, and there's one called 'Little white bum'...

MissAdventure

Oh dear... 🤭

Their comedy version of the Smurfs Song was quite topical in 1978, but by 1979 it was rather old hat. Always wonder whatever happened to The Barron Knights.

Oh dear... 🤭

Can't remember anything really bad, so I must be lucky, but I did receive a Barron Knights cassette when I was 11 with their comedy versions of songs from 1978 that dated really badly.

Sons MIL gave me the present I had given her daughter the previous year.

A facsimile copy of Mrs Beeton was the only decent present my ex-husband ever gave me. His others included a beige cardigan, a set of cheapo iron saucepans and tarty pink fluffy slippers.

Pilipala Are people so stupid they think you don't notice or won't mind.

Some presents are just insulting.

I stayed in a hotel one Christmas and all the guests had present.
Mine was a plastic toy in the shape of a bear. It was supposed to squeak but it didn't work.

A bottle of perfume with a third missing.To make things worse it had a sticker underneath saying tester.

Beechnut for all I know, it could be. It was in one of the Army quarters we were living in at the time - if I had fessed up he could hardly have sent me back to retrieve it😁!

A packet of spaghetti.

A lorry-load of horse manure. I had an allotment, so it could have been useful once rotted, but it was steaming.
In the days of fine tights, MIL gave me a pair of stockings in bright tan, size for 11 shoes. My shoe size is 3. That same Christmas she gave my DH a very expensive overcoat (£££ range).

Cardboard glue-together Micromodels when I was twelve years old. I don't think I completed one of them.

Is it still there Greyduster?

Clothes in the mother-in-law's size and style. The now ex h wouldn't give me the receipt so I could change them for my size. Instead, he gave clothes and receipt to his mother so she could choose whether to take them back and get the money refunded or keep them. I wonder why he's ex...?

Shortly after we got married, DH bought me a shortie nightie. It was a lurid acid yellow nylon, with black lace trim. I told him I loved it but I was appalled! I eventually “lost” it down the back of the immersion tank in the airing cupboard and made a great fuss about not being able to find it. We came to the conclusion that it must have come adrift from the clothes line and had blown away😬!

A rubbery, bright yellow pineapple shaped ice cube tray for our 40th wedding anniversary.
A second one too. 40 KitKats for my fortieth birthday.
Both from friends, and we were having parties. I had made it clear I didn’t want any gifts.

My brother and I both have birthdays on 27th of the month but a few months apart. One year when we were children he received a pretty petticoat from my godmother!

shoppinggirl

For Christmas every year my (wealthy) mother in law used to give us a £1 Boots token each. £1 each to DD's, £1 to DH and a £1 to me. It was a standing joke . However, one year she gave me and DD's £1 each as normal and DH got a cheque for £500. I seem to remember she'd won the Premium Bonds. We dined out on the story for years with friends!

I hope you dined out a few times on the £500!

my worst present from anyone is flowers, my sil always sends them for birthdays and christmas, i even said i got rid of my vases, why would i keep them.....so she sent me a vase,i am lucky that i have a few neighbours i can give them to.

rocketstop

I so would like to tell you, but the gift was sooo bad that it would identify me and them !!!

I am intrigued, can we try and guess?

My guess - a year's supply of industrial strength deodorant.