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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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NewInTown08 · 27/12/2019 22:32

DH got me a pair of kitchen gloves, a cutting board, and the Kitchen Aid meat grinder attachment.. I would have been excited for the ice cream attachment, but I'll be returning the meat grinder. Every year it's some kitchen or home appliance.. It's the thought that counts, but I am mildly annoyed every time.

We3kingsoforientareandabump · 27/12/2019 22:54

Chocolates and baileys that I can't have because I'm bf a child with a dairy allergy.

moanyhole · 27/12/2019 23:03

I got one oven glove from my DM last year and thus year I received the second one!
My SIL gave my sister a huge set of make up and a lovely lace top, she gave my a woolly hatHmm

Starlight456 · 27/12/2019 23:06

I got a M&m’s s necklace . If I was 80 would look lovely looked on website to see if I could swap it for food . It’s not on website so assume charity shop

Bunnybigears · 27/12/2019 23:11

DH and I got a joint present from his mother, it was an iron. Not a fancy iron either a big standard £15 from Tesco sort of an iron. As we have been married for over 10 years and have 2 sons who wear shirts to school you would have thought she realised we already have a functioning iron.

Spartonian · 28/12/2019 00:12

Like others, I received a Baylis and Harding bath set and it was already opened from DSis.

sweetkitty · 28/12/2019 00:25

I was a bit let down this year too.

My Dad gave me a box of Ferraro Rochers - I’m vegan (kids demolished them though)
DH got me perfume and slippers I asked for (ok) and then some non vegan chocolate I can’t eat. No imagination or surprises at all. I spent double what he had and had put some actual thought into it (I know it’s not about the money he earns 4X what I do but it’s the thought a £2 present can be the best one).

That was it.

KickAssAngel · 28/12/2019 00:42

I don't wear jumpers, I hate pink, and anything that touches/presses on my neck makes me retch - so absolutely no polo neck/roll neck anything.

MIL bought me a bright pink (like Barbie, lurid pink) super thick roll-neck jumper.

It's pretty much the perfect storm of what I hate in one item of clothing.

BallacheForLife · 28/12/2019 01:02

My best friend messaged me today to tell me that for Xmas her MIL had gifted her a roll-on-deodorant and an ice scraper for the car.

MySonIsAlsoNamedBort · 28/12/2019 02:23

Pegs and a peg basket from MIL. They were so nicely gift wrapped as well. Grin

DownUdderer · 28/12/2019 06:25

Tesco tea towels, I could open a tea towel shop, I got some at Easter and for every Christmas for a decade. granny handbag and matching wallet. Posted from the UK to Australia, postage was 18 quid.

FREEM · 28/12/2019 08:42

only 1 gift from my mother a glade candle. I was therr when she bought it £1.99 at the range.
I told her last year im not a candle fan.
MY sister and husband got £50 gift cards.
she seems to like me so I don't get it
ho hum

MurrayTheMonk · 28/12/2019 09:30

These from my mother. Love the fact that she left the £1 price tag on the kettle descaler. The cook book would be fine if she hadn't spent the last year telling me I'm getting fat.... so it's actually a bit of a dig. She is subtle as a brick Grin

Shit presents (lighthearted I think!)
Blackbear19 · 28/12/2019 10:53

DownUdderer you need to introduce your family to Amazon wish list and save them a fortune in postage.

shreddednips · 28/12/2019 11:12

I got a diet book from my MIL. I am not on a diet, but I am a bit fat. Clearly she's noticed!

Every year, my FIL goes out to buy me a gift, we don't give him a list but every year he gets it spot on. This year he got me a lovely handbag with many useful pockets inside. I was chuffed. So that made up for it a bit!

WombleOfTheThighs · 28/12/2019 11:37

I think that tops my paracetamol, Murray Grin

WinterBerry7 · 28/12/2019 11:40

My best friend got me a self help book. It was all about taking steps to be more proactive, how not to be lonely, how to make friends, how to be more ambitious, how to be less selfish.

I’m actually pretty hurt by it.

Spied · 28/12/2019 11:48

Really smelly (old& musty) PJs from asda. Smell filled the room soon as I opened them.Tgey must have been stored in attic or shedConfused
Cheap, old, last year's packaged gift set with battered box.
Could be worse. Last year a 'friend' gifted me two bags of tat from the charity shop she volunteered in. Horrible men's sock/mug set and stained old clothes were two of the 'delights' I remember.

MurrayTheMonk · 28/12/2019 11:54

That is pretty horrible of her winterberry...

NWQM · 28/12/2019 12:14

Marks and Spencer's wash bag with magnolia stuff in it from in laws.

Sounds okay but they have been my in laws for 13 years and I've had one every year! 13 bags! I sell ethical bath and body products for a living!

As latest it's the PTA's mother day gift shop donation sorted.

SophiaLarsen · 28/12/2019 12:34

From my in laws we got a gold coloured palm tree bottle opener, matching gold palm tree 'picks' and an accompanying dark wood serving dish. Perfect for a bad taste party.

Mykittensaremyfriends · 28/12/2019 12:43

Every year my DM buys me for Christmas antibacterial hand gel (don't use), a multipack of pocket tissues (rarely use), a pack of Dove soap (don't use), moisturiser (don't use), a toiletry bag (already have), trainer socks (don't wear trainers) and a scarf (don't wear). Think she likes me to have lots of presents to unwrap and that they are useful items however as I have pointed out to her all of these can be bought in the weekly shop and no real thought has gone into it as I don't need/use/want them. She obviously finds it hard to break with tradition although didn't get teabags this year!

Whatisafrond · 28/12/2019 12:47

I'm horrified for everyone who got diet books or self-help books. How cruel.

Muckyboots1 · 28/12/2019 13:21

I gave my friend a posh candle in a gorgeous holder, which matches exactly the colour scheme in her recently done living room, and a box of truffles from a local chocolate maker. Both of these things I know she likes.

I got a tin of shortbread from Poundland and a half used bottle of micellar water instead.

Got two nephews really decent presents to do with their hobbies, spent £30 each. My two DC got a pack of cards and a cheap plastic unicorn toy.

Won't bother next year

Torple · 28/12/2019 13:28

Not Christmas but for my 40th a friend gave me some books that were part of a series and said ”They’re good, I’ve read them.”
Turns out that not only had she read those actual ones, and turned over the pages to mark them, but she enjoyed books 1 and 4 so much, she kept them and gave me 2, 3 and 5 from the series.
It’s probably not the point, but she gave up work at 37 because she inherited a massive pile of cash and now describes herself as a “professional potterer” - as in someone who potters about.

So she possibly could have stung for new copies....