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Now I know we have all been sooo good this year and I'm sure Santa brought you everything you hoped for, but cast your mind back (and I bet it's still niggling away there even after all these years), what's been your worst Christmas present ever?
Forget 'it's the thought that counts' and spill the beans!

Hi callyanna well I've got 2 in mind
One was I think a scarf really not sure because it was "velvet" deep stripes very bold colours ( prob 8 yrs ago) and to this day I'm not 100% sure if it was a runner or scarf or whatever!!!!!
Second one was a bracelet also multi coloured cheep looking horrible beads looking as if it had just dropped out of a cracker
Well what about you cally? Sue

Feel a bit mean now telling this story as it was a gift from a child I was teaching at the time. It was the most hideous, grotesque looking garden gnome ornament, so heavy that they had to push it to school in the baby's pram! For years it was on the rockery in my back garden and despite my two boys playing football out there the cursed thing never got damaged or as I'd hoped, decapitated! Probably still there but we've moved house since!

A plunge neckline tight blouse when I was 8months pregnant-I've never expected anything much to my taste from my husband since-I'm a bit like @ballerinaexcept that I do show him what he has bought-just in case he suddenly decides to buy something himself!

Oh dear Merlin, that did make me smile!

40plus years later I can smile too

My next door neighbour got re-married about 10 years ago and after their first Christmas together I asked what her new husband had given her......"Nothing" was her rather chagrined reply. "What? Nothing, as in not a thing, zilch, Zero? " ................"yep" .....she said........"Nothing".........she then went on to explain that she asked him why he had bought her nothing and he replied that he was not good at that sort of thing and it seems that she then told him......"GET GOOD!"............next year she got diamonds so it seems that he got VERY good!

Ballerina x

Er, my worst present was given to me this year by my cousin and his soon to be wife (in fact they're supposed to be getting we'd on Saturday but the venue is currently underwater). They gave me a carrot &walnut cake kit. What's wrong with that? You ask. Er, I'm allergic to nuts!

Oh dear @nursebean, well just think of the calories you've saved by not making and eating it!

[carorees]

Black wellies (not even fashionable coloured/patterned ones) from OH a couple of years after we'd started going out. Possibly not my worst present but the most disappointing as one hopes for something special from one's closest family.

Going further back, when I was working as a Saturday girl at Boots the chemists and could get staff discount on any of their goods, my sister gave me bath salts from...you guessed it...Boots!

[wildmissus]

When I was 13 I asked for 'things to make and do'. That could have been anything - sewing, knitting, crochet, mosiac, absolutely anything. I got a stuff toy seal, eh! I obviously couldn't hide my disappointment as my father quickly took me aside and told me they couldn't find anything that was value for money. Like he was getting any value from it anyway. My lovely granny gave me a teddy bear sewing kit.

This year OH bought me a jumper from M & S in a size 12 - he got that correct but then he bought me another one from M & Co in a size 14 - too big which is just as well because it isn't very nice.

This year OH bought me a jumper from M & S in a size 12 - he got that correct but then he bought me another one from M & Co in a size 14 - too big which is just as well because it isn't very nice.

Hope OH kept the receipt then you can take the jumper back and choose something nice yourself!

Bought my mother in law a tin of biscuits ..the following xmas,received said tin back - empty of biscuits and containing crumbs and some loose quality street in the flavours she didnt like
Ps she was ok really RIP!x

@CandiceMarie That was a brilliant
what a bummer well gave me a good laugh at least
Happy Christmas Enjoy all you do Sue

Bought my mother in law a tin of biscuits ..the following xmas,received said tin back - empty of biscuits and containing crumbs and some loose quality street in the flavours she didnt like
Ps she was ok really RIP!x

Well that really does 'take the biscuit' CM!