Worst gift ever?

My mother sent me a tissue box holder once made out of long haired shocking pink nylon with googly eyes. It was Canadian and for a size of box that you can't buy in the UK. I was well into my 30s.

One Christmas, I received a new, rubber bath plug...not even a chain on it, from my late, unlamented husband. We had friends in for lunch, so I hung it round my neck on a piece of binder tow, (farm folks will know what that is!) and wore it all day as a necklace.

Oh I love these threads!

For Christmas last year I received a potato peeler from a good friend

I’ve turned into my dad. I’ve lost count of all the gadgets he bought us over the years but whenever I go to my sisters I know exactly what will be in her kitchen drawer.
Now I seem to be buying them for mum.
This year her exciting pressie is going to be 3 sleeping bag liners. She has 3 spare beds and finds them difficult to make now. So now no more bed making when we visit, we will just be handed a bag to get into.
Personally I feel this is a totally brilliant idea. My sister is ready to take a photo of her face when she opens them.?

Of my eldest sister a bag of blue pot pourri, no bowl to put iit in and the colour did not go with any of my rooms .

Our father used to love flea markets and gave my sister and I some table mats for Xmas one year, they were all mouldy on the bottom lol
He is 84 in January and isn't able to get to the markets now, thank goodness. Love him

When i was about 6 or 7 just after the war i was very excited to see a HUGE parcel come from Father Christmas ... tore it open to find a Meccano Set from my much loved youngest uncle who was 12 ...
Guess who spent Christmas Day playing with the Meccano....

My elder son, aged 4, was given some money by husband to buy a Mother's Day gift - his first sortie into the shops alone. My gift was a packet of pegs and a scrubbing brush - he had probably never seen me use either! As he got older the presents changed subtly to six wooden egg cups for Christmas one year and a very large cafetiere another. Thank goodness his wife now buys the presents.

Here it is!

I remember when we were courting I was trying to get the Bodach to be a bit more adventurous in his clothes, so he was looking forward to getting the lilac shirt he had asked his mother for ( it was a long time ago!)
However, a few days before Christmas we were hurrying to go out, and he borrowed his mother’s hairdryer.
He was less than impressed when Santa brought him the Pifco Ranger Hairdrying Gun for Men!

A friend of my mother gave us a pickle jar, still sporting the beetroot juice around the neck. She said she wanted us to have it, as it had great sentimental value to her. We later found out she used this line with everyone to whom she gave her old rubbish!

Have posted this on the wrong thread so reposting.
One of my Dds was given for Christmas ( by an ex boyfriends parents) the socks and eye mask they had been given free on a flight.

last year’s diary for me ( “you can just change the day and it will be ok, and I’ve only written on a few of the pages”)

I doubt anyone can beat that, crystaltipps!

From my SIL a plastic plant pot with sea shells stuck on it. ??

A wedding present (so long ago) of two steel and black plastic ashtrays - ghastly even then - given by a male friend whose tightness with money (he had plenty) and (to us) appalling taste, later turned into family jokes.
He never changed. Except for anything he himself wanted, he was as tight as you like to the end.

Equal 1st place goes to a 'tea shower' - like a sort of huge flimsy headscarf, with a garish map of New Zealand printed all over it - sent by my lovely MiL's stepmother (lovely MiL, not the SM) from NZ.

Since I had no idea what a 'tea shower' was, it had to be explained to me that it was to put over your tea things to keep the flies off! Gave me and dh a good laugh, though.

Incidentally that stepmother was a mean old baggage, too - refused to send the one thing of her father's that my poor MiL wanted after he died in NZ.

well after reading all these....my dark maroon bob hat n scarf in manky poly bag doesn't seem sooooooo bad lol.

My MiL is notorious for giving “useful” gifts - An ashtray and a can of lager for my DS ( who doesn’t smoke but I guess he drank the lager), a big ball of elastic bands she’d collected which had been discarded by the postman for one of the DC; last year’s diary for me ( “you can just change the day and it will be ok, and I’ve only written on a few of the pages”) ...you get the drift. At least we have a laugh about it.....!

Polly48, Kittye A glue gun and one of those garden kneelers to help you get back up.

A pressure cooker with a fleece inside. We could eat hearty stews and I could wear the fleece. Both of which would keep the cold out and save putting the heating on. He had to go!

In fairness, I had been complaining about the seat in the downstairs loo, which had a tendency to try to throw you off sideways, but really..................

That’s hilarious Phoenix !

From my beloved Mr P, at Christmas, a beautifully wrapped toilet seat!

And another year, something that was was the right size and shape to be an ipad or similar tablet type thing, but was actually a digital air compressor for inflating car tyres!

We had a lovely mongrel half sheep dog for 16 years who I missed terribly when she died. By this time I was working full time and we both agreed it would be unfair to get another dog. The following Christmas a large parcel appeared under the tree ...it was a life size look alike furry dog which sat next to me and I could pet just like my precious Vicky. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

A Mary-Rose thimble was funny but well intentioned. The meanest was a freebie out of date Boots No 7 bag with mini cosmetics .. I knew it was a freebie because I had been given one the previous year when I bought 3 items.