Spill the beans... on the worst Xmas present you got

proudmommyof2

From the mother in law! A pair of rubbish slippers & toiletries in a bag! Total cost was about £2! I was thinking u really shouldn't have bothered! I may sound ungrateful but she knows i have stupidly sensitive skin!!

CraftyMom

My mom has always prided herself on saving as much money as possible - a few years ago she presented me with a pair of hideous Marcasite earrings. Do you like them she said. Ok - the're different..

But she could'nt resist telling me - nobody wanted them from the church christmas sale , so she waited until they were left over a the end and got them for a bargain 25p .. She wae so proud of herself...:(

skint-student-nurse

The worst present i got this year was from my sister - it is exactly the same thing i got her for her birthday next week *awkward*

Willow92

skint-student-nurse wrote: »

The worst present i got this year was from my sister - it is exactly the same thing i got her for her birthday next week *awkward*

So you got your sister an awful present? You're just gonna get an awful one back at some point. xD

Trow

skint-student-nurse wrote: »

The worst present i got this year was from my sister - it is exactly the same thing i got her for her birthday next week *awkward*

Well, maybe you could turn it around. 'I loved this so much that I thught you'd like the same thing' - or just have a laugh about the fact that you'd both had the same idea.

At least it goes to show that a) you are on the same wavelength and b) you spend a similar amount on each other!

Trow

Mine's more a 'worst present you gave' story.

I tend to try and be organised, and buy reasonably early. I had ordered my son a Xmas gift at the same time as his birthday one. Not a problem.

Except for the fact that three of his friends clubbed together to buy him a birthday present - and - you guessed it - it was the same item I'd bought him for Xmas.

So, undiscouraged, I bought him something else along the same lines but different. Well, didn't his friends buy him that same thing for Christmas too!

JELLYBABY_2

A couple of years ago I opened my present off my sister to find a large mug filled with mini whisk, two different types of marshmallows and hot chocolate mix. What's wrong with that?! Nothing actually, except I had gifted it to her the Christmas before as part of her present (I know because she doesn't shop in the same stores as I do)
She was also watching me closely for my reaction ..... so I made damn sure there wasn't one! I declared it was just what I wanted and took myself off to prepare said hot chocolate there and then. When I returned she said 'See I couldn't drink that because it says on the back 'May contain traces of nuts'.
For the record, she is not allergic to nuts and does not have an intolerance to them either. She just declared one day she doesn't like them anymore, so while I wouldn't choose a box of Brazil nuts for her, didn't think hot chocolate was a no go.
They do say you can't choose your relatives :rotfl: I would not have the cheek to re-gift to the person who originally bought for me and especially not to 'make a point'.

pennyfrog

I've always been pretty lucky with the gifts I've received- although hubby and I got a shocker of a pressie a few years back from his sister.

She'd been really organised that year and finished her Christmas shopping around mid-October- and told us very excitedly that she couldn't wait for us to get our gift that year as we'd "LOVE IT!"

Hubby's parents mentioned a couple of times about how pleased she was with what she'd bought us, too.

When Christmas finally arrived, hubby's parents were staying with us that year (they and his sister live in another county) and had brought sis-in-law's pressies to us and our kids with them. On Christmas morning as we unwrapped everything, they said to us how SIL was disappointed that she couldn't be with us this year to see us unwrap our gift- and told us that she'd 'really gone to town' this year and spent a lot on us.

With great expectations (No, Dickens, no royalties for you!) we opened The Gift.

It was a pair of china clown dolls- each about 2 feet high.

Now, we both absolutely hate clowns at the best of times but these............ these were the sort of thing that Victorians would have used in the illustrations of some horrendous Cautionary Tale designed to scare the willies out of children. They weren't even semi- tolerable. Not even a kitsch Pierrot. These took the word 'Hideous' to a whole new level. If we'd been on our own we'd have screamed- then laughed ourselves stupid- but with the in-laws there we couldn't!

I have to say that Hollywood will never, ever award Oscars to anyone more deserving than hubby and I!!!

The day after Boxing Day, when the nearest Charity shop to us opened (and the in-laws were gone) the demon clowns were the first donations across the threshold. As hubby said, they HAD to go- all the time they were in the house, even in boxes, he was afraid to sleep in case they came after us in the night!!!!

To this day we can't work out what on earth was going through her mind. Mind you, some of her other gifts to us have included a set of candles with several of them partially burned down. A jumper for my hubby which was interestingly exactly her hubby's size (ie far too small for my tall, long limbed hubby) and which we'd seen her hubby wearing on our previous visit and kitchenware that sometimes hasn't managed to come up quite that clean after being used before being given to us!!!!

Then again- that same Christmas my Father In Law was a true contender for Bad Pressies To Receive.

They'd brought their own gifts to open with them and his parents gave him a jar of pickled walnuts and a pair of scissors.

Interesting year!!!!!!!

MoneyMission

One year, my MIL got me a set of nesting, stainless steel gravy boats.

jojo2004

MoneyMission wrote: »

One year, my MIL got me a set of nesting, stainless steel gravy boats.

Is that so, if your gravy lays eggs, you have somewhere to keep them?

My worst present, as a teenager, was a set of gift bags (paper) in varying sizes, with a design based on a oil painting (dingy) of fruit in a bowl - complete with a fly. Yummy.