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Shit presents (lighthearted I think!)

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KenzoBaby · 26/12/2019 18:18

I'll go first:

  • Mum gave me a pair of Aldi slippers 2 sizes too small. Not like I can even diet into them! And a bag of chocolate coins.
  • Various clients gave me numerous bottles of wine...I'm an recovering alcoholic (nearly 5 years sober, they weren't to know)
  • Colleague who knows about the alcohol issue and to whom I gave said wine gave me some chocolates instead...champagne truffles.
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GAW19 · 27/12/2019 19:30

A close friend of DH got me a bottle of vodka which I would love... if I wasn't breastfeeding 😩
DM got me a penguin facecloth Confused

Horehound · 27/12/2019 19:35

@GAW19 you certainly can have one or two vodkas. Just don't get pished!

Niki93 · 27/12/2019 19:39

I’ll admit in was disheartened this year. I ended up spitting my dummy out behind closed doors on the night to my partner, then i realised how much of a brat i sounded, gave my head a wobble and told my self the old ‘its not about gifts’. But i think the reason i was that disappointed was more because I actually got my family decent things i knew would be worth while whilst i just got a load of second hand shite in return.

For example, i told everyone that with us having a baby on the way in may, this year we wouldn’t be getting people much. I bought both my siblings and their partners a £20 voucher for a local lovely restaurant we all go to. I gathered that a nice opportunity for a meal out together would be more useful than a typical smelly set. I then bought my mam and dad both a ticket to a concert (wasnt expensive but a band i knew they liked). Again, not much, but i felt the presents were ones that definitely wouldnt get wasted and would go towards a noce experience rather than typical lynx africa sets or daft amounts of pointless bath bombs.

What did i get in return? Sister gave me a candle advent calendar (no use to me till next year now, clearly one she’d got and didnt use), and one she couldnt even be bothered to wrap. Brother got me a bottle of wine (im pregnant), my mother got me a pair of slippers 2 sizes too small, a horrific jumper that she clearly picked out for herself. Sister in law gave me a bottle of cream that had already been opened and half used. I just dont see the point. Either get something that wont break the bank but can be put to use (vouchers) or dont buy fuck all!

All my family then said to me ‘thanks for the present but you spent too much!’ But to me, a £20 restaurant voucher per couple isnt breaking the bank, its just thoughtful and makes sense. Safe to say next year they’ll all be getting a card each and il ask for nothing in return. I know its not about giving to receive and all that, but it does make you think ‘why do i bother’. But, atleast i know they all got something they liked and will use. Whilst i ended up with two bags full for the charity shop come boxing day! 😂 i know i sound ungreatful, and i know Christmas is an incredibly hard time for alot of people. But i know my family well and if i had given them the shite they gave me, id of never heard the end of it! Bollocks to next year, il have my baby with me by then and i’ll just focus on that x

MetallicPaints · 27/12/2019 19:48

Posted this on the present swap thread, funnily enough no one seems to want it! Its from SIL who has form for random shite presents. A poncho thing with turtle neck.

Shit presents (lighthearted I think!)
Okbutno · 27/12/2019 20:02

What do these people who give half used tubes of cream etc do when you open this shit? Like what is going through their head?!

georgialondon · 27/12/2019 20:02

@GAW19 you can definitely have some!!!

AnAngryElf · 27/12/2019 20:06

My 1 year old was given this by my father...HmmFFS.

Shit presents (lighthearted I think!)
KimchiLaLa · 27/12/2019 20:15

A pack of unbranded, cheap looking hand cream. Looks like a secret Santa recycle.

StarlingsInSummer · 27/12/2019 20:21

Poor MIL got three handbags this year, each more hideous than the last.

WombleOfTheThighs · 27/12/2019 20:24

Not read TFT and maybe not exactly shit, but I got 4 packs of paracetamol from my DM. She did use them to sandwich a tiny hand-knitted stocking with a tenner in it though. She's a bit eccentric when it comes to presents, my DM Grin

OneKeyAtATime · 27/12/2019 20:26

This thread is hilarious!

WombleOfTheThighs · 27/12/2019 20:27

I also got from her a bottle of Asda bubble bath, a Molton Brown shower gel, a bottle of handwash, the brand of which I forget, and 4 bars of Johnson's baby soap. Just bizarre!

Snaleandthewhail · 27/12/2019 20:34

My mother is not blessed in present buying.
I got an “old lady” scarf. Identical to the one she was wearing (funny that). Tartan, horrid thick fabric, huge, and unlike anything I’d ever wear. This wrapped up four pairs of socks, but they were clearly from a multipack which had been separated so they were just eight loose socks. And I got a copy of The Guilty Feminist, which seems random (any reviews?).

DH got a next voucher and a bottle of beer. He wins.

Heaviestdirtyestsoul · 27/12/2019 20:37

My DS (17) bought me a donald Trump toilet brush.

SpinningBob · 27/12/2019 20:46

A family member gave our 4year old dd a wall hanging whiteboard 'To-do' list,with a section for meal planning. It's not the worst from them. I like tea...and once they gave me a selection of Whittards tea,17 years out of date!

WaxOnFeckOff · 27/12/2019 20:50

I got 10 cans of wifebeater (Stella) from my boss. I don't drink lager.

ShinyGiratina · 27/12/2019 21:04

Coat hangers.
Three boxes of coat hangers.

Yes, DH, I know we have new wardrobes, but basically you've given me a tedious domestic chore for Christmas. Thanks. Crown Biscuit

There were a couple of other things, but nothing really lovely. The socks were the best of the bunch.

At least he asked for the jumpers and got nice ones of his usual taste.

Floralmoral · 27/12/2019 21:05

I’m going to sound like the most ungrateful bitch ever but hey, here goes. DP knows, 100% knows that I don’t like floral scents. I’m just not a flowery kinda girl. I like heavy, sexy, oriental scents and always have. This year he got me some Victoria Secret pink monstrosity and also let our DC choose Daisy by Marc Jacobs as their present for me. It just seems incredibly wasteful. I checked prices and he spent somewhere in the region of £170 between the two of them and honestly, I could have had something so much better for maybe half the money.
Ungrateful bitch, I know.

Niki93 · 27/12/2019 21:40

This thread as me in bits. So comical. Someone needs to write a sitcom script with this stuff.

I think paracetamol tops the list here.

hotstepper4 · 27/12/2019 21:44

I got a Mary Berry cookbook from my mum. I'm a horrific cook, some nights when ds is with exh I don't bother at all, just have a packet of Supernoodles.. And now I'm the owner of a cookbook that features recipes such as pan fried pheasant and venison stew.. Her reasoning "you said you liked her on the Bake Off" Confused

musicposy · 27/12/2019 21:45

Got a bottle of prosecco and a box of biscuits off my nan. Dh and I don't drink, never have. I'm celiac. They know about all this.

I’ve learnt to accept the endless biscuit presents from people who are meant to know! I teach privately and 90% of my pupils were pupils when I was three weeks in hospital with still-to-be-diagnosed coeliac disease and again later with associated pancreatitis, meaning I can also never drink alcohol. They are constantly told that we are a gluten free household and they must not send their child in eating biscuits/ crackers/ sandwiches. I have a few clued up parents but again this year received a huge volume of wine, biscuits, and chocolates with wheat in. Add this to my mother who still three years on says “help yourself to a biscuit dear” when I go there and I could feel a bit irritated!

I have to remind myself they do all mean well and it’s hard to get it right when you don’t understand a medical condition yourself. DH does very well out of it and makes himself quite popular taking boxes of biscuits into work!

EggysMom · 27/12/2019 21:50

I got a huge bag of jelly beans. I don't actually like jelly beans.Those will have to go to work.

I got two scarves. One is furry pink (I am not a pink person). The other is a more sensible colour, but is itchy. I don't actually wear scarves, I find they make me too warm.

Scootergrrrl · 27/12/2019 22:08

I have two tubs of fcuk body "souffle", both of which have finger marks where someone has tested them. It wasn't me 🤮

Afrigginggoat · 27/12/2019 22:21

Mulled wine spices

A) it's minging
B) I don't drink

Jenasaurus · 27/12/2019 22:26

the worst present, in fact the only awful present I have received was a few Christmas ago, I opened it in front of my teenage DC and it was from my BF who I had been seeing for about a year, 2 presents, a toilet seat and a vibrator! He said he noticed the toilet seat was cracked, so would have been useful (if it had fitted the loo) but the other present should have come with a warning, he bought it as he was about to move to another town, and I think he thought it would keep me from straying, just no words!