The Worst Gifts to Get Mom

Ah shucks, you really shouldn’t have! No, I mean, you really, really shouldn’t have.

As if moms don’t already have to put up with a lot, faking delight at dud presents is the absolute straw that can break the mythical camel’s back. Especially after you’ve stayed up all night eating Santa’s mince pie whilst fighting with the sticky tape to wrap presents from him!

Take a seat, have a read, and if you agree with this list, send and share it with any and all potential mom gift-givers in your midst… mainly, share it with the mini hoodlums you had a hand in creating…

Behold: here are the very worst gifts to give a mother you love, or even just faintly like…

–Fake-fancy chocolate you grabbed from the reduced-to-go barrel, especially if you then demand she open them right then and there, at 6 am in the morning and share them with you. Double especially if you know that, if she hesitates, you might just throw a bit of a festive fit.

–Something re-gifted from her very own re-gift drawer (I’m looking at you, last-minute husband).

-Any and all household cleaning products. You have been warned.

–Fake flowers. Yes, even if it’s of her favorite flower. Fresh flowers though are always a win.

–Ornaments she didn’t specifically ask for. Unless you have made it yourself – then she will absolutely love it. My own dear mother once foolishly let us kids know that she loved pigs. Decades and decades of Christmas’s and birthdays and Mother’s Days later, her house is seriously overrun with kitsch ceramic pigs, which she feels obliged to keep and display. It’s too late for my mom, she’s grown too attached. But if this story can save just one other mom from being overrun by cheap ceramics, it’ll be worth it.

–The perfume you like, but haven’t checked she loves.

–A book of perfectly google-able quotes. Back in the day, before the internet, these kinds of books might have served a purpose. But today, I content that these books will soon meet the same fate as Blockbuster’s DVD stores. My own mother once gave all of her kid’s books of inspirational quotes a few years ago. So bad are these kinds of books, they’re near-impossible to even re-gift. Nicely played mom – I assume this was a sub-conscious way of getting back at us for all the pottery pigs.

So what gifts are guaranteed winners?

Really, I have no idea! The answer will vary for each and every mom out there. In fact, your mom might just be the mom who truly loves matching perfumed talc powder and hand lotion combos, or dodgy Lithuanian chocolate that’s actually passed its sell-by date.

Or even cleaning products. What I do know about all moms though, is that our kids are our greatest treasures.

You are the best gift she’s ever been given.

So writing your mom a heartfelt card, reminding her of why she’s a real gift, is a guaranteed win – each and every time, no matter your age or stage.

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Mums we want to know what some of the funniest (in a bad way) gifts you have received, then smiled politely back and said thank you for.

Comment below and let us know,

Chat soon x