Worst gift ever?

When I was 14, my mom gave me a small oil painting. A teenager doesn't want to receive a painting, believe me ))))))

Late M I L was given a bra by her sister (Who had a reputation for being "Careful"") We were all convinced that she had bought it, found that it didn't fit as she wished, so passed it on!

TWO G strings that never got worn?

I've heard of two couples who, for their amusement, pass to and fro, the same presents and cards, each year.

Well ... A friend gave me a small package nicely wrapped and I saved it to open on Christmas Day ... imagine my excitement when I peeled off the wrapping to reveal a single small Quality Street chocolate ? What ? ...

Not tight
"Just careful y'ken!"

A bottle of Vosene hair shampoo when I was about 12.
My mum said my aunty probably wrapped it by accident when she was distracted.
I'd love to know what she actually meant to give me?

My mother in law gave me a far too big hideous
polyester nightgown and the next year a giant
loudly patterned acrylic
cardigan ,both labelled reject stock .

My sister in law said that she bought them from a bin in the local market for a pound each .

When we used to unwrap gifts MIL was on guard to make sure that we didn't tear the paper so it could be reused the next year .

My husband gives me milk tray every year. I give him a couple of shirts so he can't tell people I didn't give him anything.

My husband gives me milk tray every year. I only give him a present so he can't tell people I never gave him anything!

I've had several that compete. Nearly every year we exchanged presents my sister bought me stuff that just flummoxed me. She has always hated my clothing so would buy me off the wall stuff that I would never, ever wear...she probably felt the same about the gifts I gave her!
One year, I received lingerie from my husband which cost him a fortune, which I didn't want and turned out to be allergic to. At the time I wanted some paving slabs to put in the front garden so it always looked tidy and didn't rely upon Mr ICHTB to mow.

Why has this ancient thread resurfaced?

Should there not be a "best-before date" on them?

Cheap sent from Avon and old lady hankies - secret Santa at work. Straight to charity shop on way home.

I got a toolbox from my ex husband! ,I still have the toolbox but not him thank goodness

Wheel trims from my EX husband.

From my dearest, very best friend, one year she bought me a snow shovel!!! I consoled myself with the fact that we did have a lot of snow, as forecast, and there was a shortage of shovels!!! I never used it though, I lent it to my neighbour and he snapped it in half first shove!

A light up dog collar. I haven’t got a dog !

My children were 1 and 3 years old when I received an electric nail varnish remover from my sister in law!! I didn’t have time to put the nail varnish on, let alone take it off! Years later I received an electric can opener, which would only open small tins!’

Two months after we were married in 1979, my husband bought me a vacuum cleaner for my birthday (‘you kept saying you needed a better one’). His Mum would have appreciated it - she was very practically-minded.
He has since learnt the error of his ways…
P.S. We’re still married after 43 years.?

An ex once gave me a large Barbour box for Xmas and I was so excited thinking it was that dark blue jacket that I’d been hinting about.
But no. It was a drab green cotton parka type of thing which came with its own tin of DIY waterproofing. My mother said she’d never seen anyone’s face drop so fast.
It was very expensive and I did exchange it (said it was too tight) for a nice ordinary non Barbour jacket plus about £150 on a store card which bought several birthday presents !
Ex husband’s first Christmas present to me was a steering wheel ?

When we were first married I told my husband, only half jokingly, that if he ever bought me a frying pan or any kind of household item as a present I’d divorce him. Just before we were divorced he bought me a frying pan. To his credit it was a good quality pan, and more than 20 years later is still in regular use.

Drove miles to a nearby town to buy my then husband a brand new sheepskin coat for Christmas, I’d been saving all year!
From him I got a small plastic indoor watering can!
He became my Ex after 8 mean-spirited and violent 8 years!

My sister, one Christmas not so long ago, bought me the most hideous, garish bright green costume jewellery set, a necklace and bracelet. I took them to my January WI meeting for the 'unwanted gits' table. Needless to say no-one picked them up and they went to a charity shop!!
There is no love between us, never has been, never will be, but that took the biscuit as the most revolting present ever.

For my 18th from my fiancé… a pencil and an apple.

So that relationship was over pretty soon

We were given a set of place mats as a wedding present, which was very nice, until I used them for the first time and saw that they had dried gravy stains on them.

As an eight year-old, I spent all half term week weeding and digging my rich but tight Nanna's garden for her as she had arthritis and could no longer do it herself. My reward? A Fry's Chocolate Cream bar... that she'd not only opened but had bitten a lump off, teeth marks perfectly preserved. Gosh thanks Nanna.

bath bombs, I do not have a bath, only a shower. Another time an out of date magazine (not even one I would have been interested in) and a small pack of travel wet wipes.