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Hilariously "age-inappropriate" children's presents...

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FrauleinF · 05/09/2018 14:28

So...

My MIL got my son this lovely card (pictured) to wish him well on his birthday.

He's 2.

Oh how me and DH laughed 😂 This got me thinking about my own childhood and it reminded me of when, back in the 90's, my own dear nanna went to get my weekly issue of - geek alert - Find out More magazine (where you basically collected pages of an encyclopedia in installments) as my mum was ill, and ended up with the wrong one. Reading all about More's "position of the fortnight" was very illuminating for an eight year old...

I am curious as to whether anyone else on here has received/accidentally given as a present something more than a little "age inappropriate"!

Hilariously "age-inappropriate" children's presents...
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PineapplePen07 · 05/09/2018 16:25

Hasn't happened to me but I am 😂 at both the card and the more magazine- did you read the whole thing?!

MoodyMumOfOne · 05/09/2018 17:42

Ha ha that's made me laugh. I can't think of any great examples but my husband did once get me an anniversary card which said "....on your anniversary" i.e. not a "spouse" one iyswim Smile

wiccamum · 05/09/2018 17:45

My dd was given a fancy coat hook one year...she was 8. She wasn’t that bothered about a coat hook. Then she got another one the next year. Same design, from the same person Hmm. I suppose we could have used them as curtain tie backs

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cameltoeflappyflapflap · 05/09/2018 17:47

My husband bought a card for me for mother's day from our son (our son was a baby) the card said "you're like a mother to me, happy Mother's Day"

SnuggyBuggy · 05/09/2018 17:50

Never too young to start drinking beer

StellaCorona · 05/09/2018 17:50

DD1 returned from her grandmother's house one time with the gift of a slinky negligee. She was about 7. She loved it.

TokyoSushi · 05/09/2018 17:54

A weird ex boyfriend of mine many years ago got me a 'happy birthday to my hubby' card Hmm

Apparently he didn't know what it meant, and even worse, I absolutely cannot bear the word hubby!

LIVIA999 · 05/09/2018 17:57

I got a sateen type teddy once from a neighbour. It was luminous pink and for adults- I was about 8 too!

DollyWilde · 05/09/2018 17:59

DH and I (straight female) got married last month. Out of 50 cards received, one was a Mrs and Mrs card and the other was a Mr and Mr card Hmm We weren’t sure which of us should be more offended until we realised the Mr and Mr card was from my parents...

DollyWilde · 05/09/2018 18:00

(Sorry, not age inappropriate but card inappropriate! Must read thread titles...)

quackaday · 05/09/2018 18:03

@cameltoeflappyflapflap that same thing happened to my sister's friend and I've always found it really funny story - maybe not to you at the time though! Perhaps you are my sister's friend

Urbanbeetler · 05/09/2018 18:05

When I was 6 my mad aunt bought me a pair of fishnet tights. My mum whispered that she supposed I could wear them under trousers. I said thank you auntie, mum says she supposes I can wear them under trousers. Mum was mortified.

Pastaagain78 · 05/09/2018 18:07

A wicked willy apron from my grandma when I was 8. She thought it was a ‘funny little man’.

KurriKurri · 05/09/2018 18:13

My XH once wrapped a birthday present for our 5 year old in paper covered in pictures of well endowed dogs with 'you are the dog's bollocks' written underneath each picture.
he had only seen what he thought was pictures of cute dogs not the writing or the fact that the dog's were bollocky.
Luckily DC couldn't read very well Grin
God knows where he bought the paper Confused

loveulotslikejellytots · 05/09/2018 18:31

For our anniversary I got DH 2 cards, a normal one with lovely words etc. The other was from Love Layla (picture below). It made me laugh when I saw it, and DH found it funny. The twat only went and put them on the mantelpiece in the lounge. I didn't notice, we had the in laws round and FIL did notice. Luckily they have a sense of humour!

Hilariously "age-inappropriate" children's presents...
DelurkingAJ · 05/09/2018 18:55

Aged 14 I was sent a colour-in place May by some elderly family members we hadn’t sen for a few years. I write a very careful thank you. They came round a few months later. Next Xmas I was sent a little evening bag. I think they truely had thought I was about 5.

DownstairsMixUp · 05/09/2018 19:54

My husband does this for laughs. He makes a lot of people laugh! For one of our friends 50th he made two blocks of wood with a hinge that swung open and just wrote happy birthday in it. Recipient still has it Grin for my dads 50th he got him a silly paw patrol card from us, that sort of thing... he is easily amused

Catsandbootsandbootsandcats · 05/09/2018 20:00

I bought my own son a birthday card which encouraged gambling and drinking.

I changed the word bars to mars bars and labelled the bottles of beer as butter beer. Grin

He was 14, so found it most amusing.

I have no idea why I didn't twig when I bought it.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 05/09/2018 20:14

When ds3 was 16 his grandfather sent him a Thomas the Tank Engine birthday card. If he had been 6, it might have been OK, but 16?

And the same grandfather sent ds3 three books for his 12th birthday - a book of comedy cartoon Cornish cats, a book on Cornish pasties, and a book on Cornish cheeses.

Mind you, he once sent his son, my dh, a book on the Toilets of Cornwall - I kid you not - so maybe ds3 got off lightly!

cameltoeflappyflapflap · 05/09/2018 20:16

@quackaday I couldn't stop laughing, he clearly didn't read the bit above happy Mother's Day.

If your sisters friend has 4 dogs and a nearly 7 year old, it's me.

LunaLovegoodsRadishes · 05/09/2018 20:21

A friend's gran sent her daughter some boiled sweets for her birthday. Her daughter was 10 months old at the time.

Sparkletastic · 05/09/2018 20:22

Childless friend bought my newborn a bikini

UselessTrees · 05/09/2018 20:24

SDTG Please say that none of you live in Cornwall, because that would be even funnier.

SoupMode · 05/09/2018 20:33

My mum bought my brother a new t-shirt, he was about 13 at the time.

It was black and said " Same shit different day" across it in big white letters.

Apparently when she bought it she thought it said "same shirt different day".

amusedbush · 05/09/2018 20:41

My gran’s friend always gives us the weirdest gifts - it’s one of my favourite parts of Christmas morning Grin

When my brother was very small she gave him a set of egg cups. Not novelty ones or personalised in any way, just a box of plain white egg cups. She then gave him a new alarm clock four years running.

My personal favourite, admittedly not age inappropriate, is when she knitted my 50 year old auntie a waistcoat in a fetching shade of brown. It was outstanding Grin