Worst gift ever?

Priya90

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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.

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'.

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

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.

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.

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.

That reminded me of another present from my Ex, Hyacinth Bucket's Book of Etiquette. It wasn't even for a joke!

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Wooden "pegs"

My step sister bought me some wooden pens for my 21st Birthday. My parents bought me a cardboard "key" that played "Happy Birthday"!
Worst Ever? My step daughter bought me a broken wooden wine rack, which had been reduced in price several times (ending at £1.00) with all the bright red stickers left intact!

most years zilch from ex. got rather nice purple sweater from house of fraser in 1986?.......on same storecard bill as a cartload of designer undies......he must have forgotten to give me those eh?

When my son was a little boy, his granddad came in with a beautifully gift wrapped big Xmas gift for him. His eyes lit up and he excitedly opened the gift; It was a wellington boot holder, something you would put on the wall of your garage or shed. He was only about 4yrs!

A Christmas pudding opened on Christmas Day. Being prepared I’d already bought one. We finally ate it the following Christmas.

I posted on here last year about a xmas gift from a friend which was a box of tea bags so out of date I think they must have come from some Pharaoh's tomb (they certainly smelled fusty), and a rather nice box she later said was meant for someone else and asked for it back. And there was a secret Santa present last year of a box of curry powder meat rubs for barbequeing, though we only eat curry (supermarket ready-made) once in a blue moon, and barbecue even less. However the funny side was that the meat rub was suitable for vegans, according to the packet! Worth it just for the laugh!

My worst ever was a birthday present from an older friend. It was a hideous second hand dress in grey, a colour which gives me the unlovely six feet under look and of a design which was never fashionable. My friend gave it to me with the words: “it was too big for me so I thought it might fit you.” It must have been at least size 26 and I was a 14. Fortunately, a charity shop accepted it.

It was a wedding,,, 1st wedding for me I was given £5 and Mum made a few sandwiches, my sister (5 yrs younger than me) had a huge wedding top hat and tails. 2nd wedding for me I was given a frying pan from my parents, my sisters 2nd wedding she was given a Kenwood Chef food mixer.

A box of cleaning products and polish, a disgusting many coloured plastic poncho and a plastic container for video tapes. From my late but not lamented husband.

I’ve been on my own for 6 years now and can honestly only remember one gift from my husband in our 28-year marriage: a pair of tiny headphones! I’m sure he bought me the usual perfume, chocolates and the like, but I’ve erased it all from my brain. Perhaps he gave me the headphones so I could listen to music and block out all his shenanigans! I’ve never looked back since I divorced him.

Youngeil surely at age 4 it would made sense for his father to go into the shop with him to choose a suitable gift! I blame his father

I had given two mugs to a raffel my friend won them and said was happy with them especially as I had sent them
6 months later she gave them back to me as a birthday present and said she didn’t need them as was a bit short they had coffee stains in

I think these show that not much - if any - thought went into the gift at all!

I'm just laughing so much and noticing the number of 'exes'!

Pooohbear 2811….. what an awful story. Your awful mother . We as s family have loads of birthdays in December including mine on 2nd…my granddaughter 20th ….my uncle..9th….my father was the 11th…and two nephews on Xmas day…..none or us would dream of ignoring the December birthdays….hardly people fault they’re born in December!!!