Worst gift ever?

my lovely grandad (died in 1995) was very independent and still bought presents for everyone and then wrapped them in matching wallpaper!
his three sons got the same thing as did his three daughters in law. the girl grandaughters got, you guessed it, the same thing as did the boy grandsons (i lost count of how many there were but i know there were 9 in total).
he was lucky to have several great grandchildren and, yes, the girls got the same thing as did the boys (i think there were at least 15 of these in total).
however when my son opened his, and two cousins opened their's, we were very amused to see "good boy chocolate drops" (doggy choc drops) emblazoned on the packets - grandad had thought it was a good idea as his great grandsons were all good! they were hastily removed from sight and replaced with something else the following day. none of us had a dog at that time and i never found out what happened to the choc drops.

My DH bought me a long black velvet skirt, pencil slim and size 8. Quite where he thought I would wear this as we were as poor as church mice at the time, and couldn't have bought two cinema tickets, and how he thought it might fit me...I really don't know. On another occasion he asked our ten year old to get me a Christmas present as he was 'busy', but didn't give her any money to do so.

We do a "Secret Santa" at our litle group of eight ladies, we buy for about £4 as everyone is retired and it is the thought that counts, but the year before last I was shocked when I opened my parcel, and three little tea lights dropped out of the packet, I was so disappointed but still had to pretend "they are always useful" I felt a hypocrite saying that really, but didnt want to offend anyone.She didnt have to make a great effort or imagination to give these, probably had them in a drawer somewhere!

A hideous painting of a junk (as in a boat used in China) at sea during sunset given by DH's great-aunt as a wedding present (a November wedding many years ago).

Naturally she claimed it was an "original".

I found out soon after that they were sold in Woolworth's as Christmas presents that year.

My ex mother-in-law gave me a gadget for taking the tops off jars......meant for someone with wrist problems......I was about 25! Same person gave me a tall Wedgwood (not Wedgwood) coffee pot, metal lid was bent and it was stained inside.

I was still away at teacher training college and for our second Christmas I bought my then boyfriend a leather writing case full of paper, envelopes, stamps etc. He literally threw two half pound boxes of milk tray across the room to me, saying he couldn’t think of anything to buy. I did marry him, forced into it by parents, eventually got rid of him after 30 years!
Present husband bought me an electric toothbrush, I do look after my teeth and see the dentist regularly. No gift at all last Christmas.....even though I bought him a stone carving experience which he loved.......

My first husband was a twin and one Christmas my MIL gave my SIL (my husband’s twin’s wife) and myself an identical jumper each! I think she had been so used to dressing her boys the same she thought she could/should do the same for their wives! ?

My late son once bought me a blow up miniature plastic zimmer. I was NOT amused.

My worst ever one was thankfully not from a family member or a friend, but was part of a Secret Santa at work.

I was given a book called "How To Poo At Work". I was dumbstruck. And really REALLY offended. And then paranoid, wondering if there was a hidden meaning behind giving me that book. Anyone who knew me at all would have known that this wouldn't be my sense of humour at all.

I never did find out who gave it, and actually, I didn't want to know, because that would have really changed the relationship between us.

One of DD's boyfriends thought it was hilarious and was thrilled when I said he could have it. Thankfully that relationship petered out

The deeds to a plot in my FILs family burial grave. It was the gift for my 21st birthday!

A wicker laundry basket, from my ex!!!!

Where I used to work,our Secret Santa rule was under a fiver and a different theme each year.One year,"square and green" was the theme and I received a pack of 2 green scourers!

A shower cap from the market from MIL, everyone else got jumpers and shirts!

A plastic tray from my sister. ?

Back in the sixties, married 15 months and with a new baby, I was washing everything including nappies by hand. My neighbour was buying one of the new fangled automatic washing machines and offered me her old wringer type for £10, which my (now ex) husband reluctantly paid. Fast forward two weeks and its my 21st birthday. After waiting eagerly all day, it dawned on me at around 8pm that I wasn't actually getting a present. Feeling very hurt I mentioned it and his indignant reply was 'I bought you a washing machine didn't I - what more do you want?' To top that, his mother bought me a pair of old lady slippers. I wouldn't even wear them now, let alone at 21!

Car mats, not once but twice.

Just after we had moved to a new house my father gave me a roll of chicken wire for my birthday. For Christmas he gave me a pair of plain white pillow cases.

Wanting a particular book I'd written on the top of my 'Christmas List' as a teenager, the only thing on the list, and receiving a a red dressing gown instead and being told that a dressing gown was of more use than a book!
Needless to say, said dressing gown got worn once and was left behind when I left home two months later. The book, a nursing text book I eventually bought second hand with very handy hand written notes in the margin.
My favourite present, a cross stitch pattern and threads of my daughter and her husband on their wedding day, 18 years ago, and recently, my coffee machine!

My husband once bought me a tin opener. He then insisted that I open the present early so that we could leave it for the neighbour who would be feeding the cat while we visited family over Christmas.

A filing tray from my father when I was about 13 (awkward age for absent dads, I admit). I was hoping for a portable Olivetti typewriter and was sure that's what the wrapping contained!

MIL gave me a candle holder which I know one of her friends gave her for her birthday months before. I was there when she received it and remember thinking I didn’t like it but never said anything. Probably should have and then I might not have received it for Christmas.

At Christmas a 1/3 eaten box of Turkish delight and for a birthday a second, possibly third, hand repulsive grubby scruffy woolly jumper. Both from my MIL. It remains a mystery to me all these years later how she had the audacity to gift wrap such vile old tat ......

It's a toss up between a metal filing box from Smiths from my husband or a set of really nasty comments from 'my best friend' of some 40 years, because of ill health I was no longer able to play host for her free Xmas lunch etc - needless to say she is no longer a friend she appears to have found someone else to sponge off.

I really can't stop laughing at some of these!

A Stilson Pipe Wrench from OH fro my birthday...the sort of thing you use to undo the u-bend under your sink. As it was his birthday a few days later, I re-wrapped it and gave it back to him

I am trying really hard to remember why I gave the AC hot water bottles, along with a lot of other things, in their Xmas parcels, I have a feeling it was the year the DGC all had chickenpox!