Worst gift ever?

Theoddbird

A gift should just be accepted with the caring it was given with. However small or large that is not of consequence. A gift is a gift... It should never be thought of as the worse gift you have received...

Yes, but some of these seem to have been given with no care whatsoever, just as an afterthought which is both insulting and hurtful to the recipient

I was given a set of kitchen utensils (fish slice, slotted spoon, ladle etc) in a plastic carrier bag for my birthday one year from my first husband. Very imaginative - and very last minute since he popped into Woollies on his way home from work because he’d forgotten it was my birthday until the postman brought me the birthday cards from my sisters and parents in the morning before he’d left the house.

I asked dear husband for a fur coat the first year we were married. He instead gave me a herringbone patterned heavy wool car coat with hood.
I was pretty petite at the time, and it was almost too much to carry on my frame. He had mistaken my request for fur to mean a request for a really warm coat. That never happened again, and I got the fur coat for the next Christmas.

The worst birthday present I received was from my best friend at school, a necklace that I’d ‘lost’ in the school changing room a few weeks earlier. I was speechless, especially when the person that originally gave it to me was there when I opened it.

Not me, but a colleague got a dustbin for Christmas from her brother once.

I qualified as a chef, amd had already been cooking in a pub for a year, when a friend's mother gave me a book.....'Basic Cookery for One'.

A framed picture of a Scottish castle, given to me by my daughter after she and her husband had been on a trip to Scotland. I know it sounds unappreciative, but I've never been to Scotland myself (England is the closest I've been), and I didn't particularly like the picture, which was gloomy and foreboding. I don't know what possessed her to think that I would like that picture.
But since it was from her. I did hang it up, and it remained on my bedroom wall for about 10 years. I finally took it down and replaced it with something else. People should never give works of art as gifts, unless they know for a fact that the person likes that particular work. Otherwise, the gift turns out to be a big headache. Taste in art is a very personal thing.

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Priya90

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One year MIL gave me a pack of three pairs of knickers for my birthday. They were huge, not only several sizes too big also the waistband came up up to just below my boobs. They were made of industrial quality thick nylon in pale yellow, lilac and pale green. Still I had a good laugh about them.

A plain white T-shirt from an aunt for my 21st birthday.
It felt so thoughtless and impersonal.

My DH's parents gave him a plastic wash bag for his 21st.
For my 13th, one of my aunts gave me a dolls' plastic tea set and my grandmother gave me an ashtray with a picture of a football on it. I didn't smoke then and I haven't smoked since.

Lynne59

What's the worst present you've ever received, either for Christmas, birthday or another occasion?

Mine was a small box of Dairy Milk, from a close friend of many years.... mine to him was a golf bag, to put his clubs in (he was an Estate Agent, so not on minimum wage, like I was then)

That sounds disappointing, especially after your thoughtful gift! Sometimes, mismatched presents can feel awkward, but it’s the thought that counts. Hopefully, your friendship was strengthened despite the gift mismatch!

Terry's chocolate orange for my 50th birthday, to add insult to injury it's something I loathe! That was from my late husband. He got the idea I wasn't thrilled and I got a SLR digital camera at 60.

My husband bought me a kilt, it drowned me and I looked.a sight, he couldn't even take ut back, it eventually sent unworn to a charity shop.

My husband bought me a horrible grey coat for Christmas. I hate grey! It was a horrible style as well. He’s banned from buying my clothes. I wore it for work because he’d lost the receipt and the shop wouldn’t take it back or exchange it. Grrrrrr!!!

A washbag.

An empty washbag, to boot.