Cheap & Nasty Birthday Presents - what's the worst you've seen?

*zippy*

One birthday my well off parents in law gave me a 99p book where you could look up medication and it told you its side effects. I was in my early 20s, fit as a fiddle on no medication.

I rang my MIL to say thank you and was rudely told "I'd had a busy week and saw that and thought it will do" I felt worse knowing she had given it knowing it was !!!! and didn't care :rotfl:

marmitepotato

My ex BIL gave me a pickled baby shark in a test tube with 'A Present From Tenerife' sticker on the side for my birthday. It actually made me feel sick to even glance at it. Needless to say it suddenly dissappeared soon after...........

It still makes me feel sick to even think about it.

Kayalana99

My Nan passed away unf, Grandad remarried and whole family didn't like her...another story.

Since he is pratically useless(but loveable) she buys all the presents, cards etc.

Its been a family joke the type of presents we recieve of her to this day we can't figure out if she geniuly thinks thier nice gifts or its cause she feels she has to buy us all something but doesn't like us...lol.

I can't remember many but

alarm clock (one of those cheap nasty black ones that works by winding the back up)
Letter sending kit...the notes really small for thank you letters wonder if she was hinting?

The main one that stands out for me though is when they got my Dad a Kids history book...and my grandad gave it him and said 'we thought you might be interested' with a gone out look on his face cause he must of realised how ridulous it was...lol

chewynut

Wow, I'm so relieved the crazy people in my family passed away before I was born and the rest of them stuck to money :rotfl:

My mother kind of does this to a member of our family. They are (deep breath) the children of the son of my dad's eldest brother's wife's brother. She didn't mind giving presents to the first one because the baby wasn't actually the son's and it was nice and responsible how he'd taken care of his new girlfriend and her son. They've now popped out three babies in a row in their quest to have a son and expect the rest of the family to pay for their four kids.

That ain't happening! They can have the 99p baby things from Boyes! (that one made me laugh because we actually did that)

PinkLipgloss

Not a birthday one - but was hilarious none the less.

This happened around 3 years ago when I was working in primary school in Scotland. One of the preschool teachers (around 30 years old) received a large beautifully wrapped heavy box from one of her students at the end of the school year. Needless to say, she was very excited about revealing what was inside. When she did, the staffroom was in fits of laughter.

Words cannot justifiability express just how hideous it was.

It was something like this....

Alpha58

marmitepotato wrote: »

My ex BIL gave me a pickled baby shark in a test tube with 'A Present From Tenerife' sticker on the side.

Ewwww...

Brecon_Beacons wrote: »

A fake fur collar. It looks like a dead cat.

I don't know why but that one really made me laugh!

Thank you all, so much...keep 'em coming! I had no idea there were so many people who give truly awful presents!

Claree__x

Forgot to add - for my wedding present my dear father bought me a pair of what I presumed were silver goblets. This was bad enough - !!!!!! are you supposed to do with them? Going by the rust on them now - I presume they're not silver. They've been in the cupboard since last July...not really sure what to do with them :rotfl:

PinkLipgloss

I have to say I'm quite shocked by the hideous presents from parents!

Both my parents know my taste in various items really well! My Dad has bought me some lovely jewellery over the years (always silver/diamonds, he knows I dislike gold) and my mum knows my taste in clothes etc probably better than I even do - she buys me some great outfits that I inevitably end up wearing to death.

aileth

A pink shoe fund wooden moneybox with fairies on it that was obviously for a 4-5 year old girl. It was for my 24th birthday.

Saturnalia

My sister got given a pack of 3 tea-towels by her MIL one Christmas.

Her SIL & BIL gave everyone a memory stick with a 2-minute video of their two sons on a sleigh with a moving background. The background made everyone seasick, some tone-deaf numpty was singing Jingle Bells as accompaniment, and one of the kids was crying.

I got a plastic rose for Valentine's Day once, "it'll never die, like my love for you". It was tacky, cheap & fake, like the giver.

Same bloke - I'd asked him for nice underwear for my birthday. I got a tacky babydoll nightie. In nylon. And I make a heck of a lot of static. What's even funnier is that he'd also bought me a bagload of plushy toys from the pound shop - if he hadn't bought those he could have bought me the present I wanted!