Worst gift ever?

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.....!

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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!

Here it is!

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.

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....

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

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 .

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.?

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

Oh I love these threads!

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.

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.

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!

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 really can't stop laughing at some of these!

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.

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 ......

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.

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!

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.