What is the most unwanted gift?
Jaylon Goyette
2025-05-08 11:32:15
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The most unwanted gifts people receive are diet plans, cufflinks and soap on a string. Bad romance novels, hankies and aftershave were seen as other dull items to be gifted on birthdays, Christmas and beyond. While 57% don’t welcome clothing of any kind being selected by someone else. The study also lists other unwanted gifts including children’s toys, a tie, movies you’ve already seen, new map of the United States, cleaning products, and joke books. Additionally, items like address books, new windscreen wipers, sports memorabilia, de-icer, and boxers or pants are also considered unwanted. Other items on the list include a mousepad, dressing gown, apron, party games, a scarf, chocolate coins, calendars, bath salts, and iron. anti-ageing products, potpourri, car maintenance kit, and novelty socks are also among the most unwanted gifts.
Myrl Nolan
2025-05-08 11:09:43
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Novelty items such as slogan tees and fancy dress have knocked soap off the top spot of the nation’s most unwanted Christmas gifts according to an Oxfam survey.
The YouGov study of 2,000 adults across the UK found that almost half (49%) of people who celebrate Christmas are least happy with the sight of a novelty item such as a joke gift in their stocking, with kitchen utensils and slippers also making it onto the no-no list.
In just two years, novelty items have jumped from number nine in the chart to take poll position, knocking soap from the top spot of the UK’s most unwanted Christmas gifts list.
With toiletries, clothing accessories and home furnishings also making the list,
TOP 10 UNWANTED CHRISTMAS GIFTS
Novelty items
Kitchen Utensils
Underwear
Home furnishings
Toiletries
Slippers
Sleepwear
Bags
Clothing accessories
Food
Francisco Reichel
2025-05-08 11:06:11
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Clothes that aren’t my style – 29%.
Deodorant gift set – 21%.
Soap gift set – 20%.
Bath salts/bath bombs – 18%.
Novelty socks – 18%.
Hat and scarf gift set – 14%.
Candles – 13%.
Pyjamas – 11%.
Statement mugs – 10 %.
Makeup gift set – 10%.
According to the experts, around 89% of Brits avoid telling the giver they dislike their gift, often pretending they like the present or appreciate the thought behind it.
When it comes to doing something with the unwanted items, nearly a third choose to regift or donate to charity, while others let them gather dust (18%).
Faustino Mertz
2025-05-08 11:05:13
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The most unwanted gifts people receive are diet plans, de-icers, and bad romance novels. Ties, cleaning products and movies they’ve already watched were seen as other dull items to be gifted on birthdays, Christmas and beyond. While 45 per cent don’t welcome clothing of any kind being selected by someone else. The Top 20 worst gifts people have received includes items such as car manual, new windscreen wipers, soap on a string, and potpourri. A poll of 2,000 adults found 63 per cent receive up to seven presents each year which they’ll never use - with friends, in-laws and colleagues labelled as the worst present givers.
Letitia Ferry
2025-05-08 10:58:28
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Toiletries topped the unwanted gift list. Twenty-eight per cent of respondents said they received soaps and bath bombs they didn’t want, with moisturiser next, twenty-two per cent. Seventeen per cent said they received unsuitable jumpers and candles. The TOP 10 UNWANTED CHRISTMAS GIFTS includes Soap, Bath Bomb, Moisturiser, Bubble Bath, Body Spray, Candle, Jumper, Mug, Joke/Gag gift, Perfume. Also appearing on the list – ties, keyrings, handmade gifts, and pens. Whilst toiletries regularly top the list of most unwanted presents, Oxfam’s survey uncovered some more unusual festive gift faux paus including an out-of-date diary, a toilet seat, a broken bottle, bag of apples, bikini trimmer, steak knives gifted to a vegetarian, and a hairbrush given to a bald man.
Annabel Green
2025-05-08 09:54:28
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Items such as novelty gifts, unwanted duplicates, socks, and even ugly Christmas jumpers were noted as undesirable. Additionally, some individuals reported receiving unusual items like single pieces of fruit and household mops. The reasons behind gift dissatisfaction include gifts that don't match personal interests, those deemed unusable, and re-gifted items. Socks were noted as one of the undesirable gifts at 20%. Novelty gifts were also highlighted as unwanted at 26%, and unwanted duplicates at 22%. Ugly Christmas jumpers were also noted as undesirable at 11%.
Mathias Osinski
2025-05-08 08:09:02
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A burial plot and a toilet seat top the list of the nation’s all-time worst Christmas gifts, according to research that suggests one in five Britons receive an unwanted present in their annual haul. Among the other duds were the secondhand tumble dryer a 19-year-old received from her boyfriend, roast beef given to a vegetarian and regifted shower gel from the year before. Lisa Webb, a consumer law expert at Which?, said it was hard to think of less appropriate gifts than a gravesite or toilet seat but charitably suggested that anyone can struggle to get it right when buying for friends and family. More than 2,000 members of the public were polled by Which? about what they were given at Christmas last year, with 21% saying they had received an unwanted or unsuitable gift. The consumer champion also asked people to tell them about the worst present they had ever received.
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