I've just been browsing a specialist website for ideas on a present to buy for someone who loves hiking. I need to get something for a friend's birthday.
Anyway I came across something called:

THE DEUCE OF SPADES

Apparently it's for burying ones own waste if you need to 'go' in a field or wherever!

I think I'll give that one a miss & buy her some hiking socks instead.

It got me thinking about naff presents and thought about my own over the years. I think the worst I ever received was a plastic bucket & washing up bowl for a wedding present from quite a close relative. They were rolling in money too - Perhaps they didn't like me very much!

What was your naffest present?

I think the worst I ever received was a plastic bucket & washing up bowl for a wedding present

But surely such things were quite normal in those far off impecunious days?

An Addis set, a set of kitchen utensils, a pack o kitchen linen (dishcloths, tea towels, floor cloths), sheets, a blanket or two, towels, some saucepans.

One of the most practical of our gifts was probably the cheapest - a laundry bag, but stuffed full of household rags.

For all your modern silicone you can;t beat a man's vest or and old flannelette sheet!

Laurie, Carol, don't ever forget the Tupperware!!!!!

Got me thinking about the usual gift for a wedding present was a toaster years ago, folks finished up with loads of the blooming things Yuk! think what Laurie mentioned the Addis range would have done me fine as we didn't have much money.

We married in 1957 and my grandparents gave us tea-towels, pegs and dusters; to illustrate how very poor we were, they were much appreciated.
The most naff birthday present i can remember was a ceramic bowl containing pot fruit.

Nylon bedsheets! Every time we turned over in bed on a cold night, there was a crackling of blue sparks but on a night that was above freezing, we sweated! Ugh.
The second most naff thing was a tiny ceramic photo frame, adorned with odd representations of bits of fruit and piglets and with space for a picture about the size of a postage stamp . I never did grasp the point of that!

We had 5 teapots as presents when hubby and I got married Carol way back in 1949 and we were still on rations which included tea. The ruddy teapots lasted us a lifetime.