To ask what is the strangest prezzie you got?

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My mil got me a panda onesy and a parrot that is also a doorbell!

A takeaway coffee cup shaped cup, only made of blue-and-white china with a silicone heat sleeve and silicone lid.

I was thoroughly - it would be ideal as a travel cup for the car only I don't commute by car. And I cycle to the station in the mornings so can't very well trundle off to work with a cup in one hand. And for something that's presumably meant to be used on the go it's very breakable.

Very odd but sort of pretty, and lovely of BIL and SIL to think of me, but the actual item would probably only be more useless if it was made of chocolate (and even then I could eat it)

More crackers.
Brigit, did you go to the tiger thing?
Have images of you nodding politely and oohing and aahing as earnest types rake through tiger poo.

Priceless.

Every year Mad Aunt sends crazy gifts so this year when it came round to her gift (without her in the house of course), I announced to everyone - right its Aunty's gift lets see what we got this year.

I was slightly dissapointed by the lovely set of cox & cox place settings she got me. Very nice and not odd at all.
She did buy my 8 year old son a 7 year old girls horsey gilet though and my DH got a leather bound shopping list pad.

my DH got a garden bench for his 30th from his mum and dad. Clearly from the hardware shop down the road from the house on the way to the party. £20 sale special. nice.
Husband did his usual gift really for him as well - not that I dont like Coldplay but he has listened to it non stop since he bought it for 'me'

sherbet my mum's main present from my dad was a garden bench - she's wanted one for ages, it definitely cost more than £20 and she is a few years older than your DH

My MIL got me an Airwick air freshner and about six smelly candles, am now paranoid my house smells but no one wants to tell me!

An 'erotic' novel with all the characters names changed to my name, dp's name and bff's name....and so on.

Dp ordered it from some site and paid a fortune for it. I could barely bring myself to read it. So cringey!

He still thinks it was the best present ever though, that was 4 years ago.

Ooh tringle, cringing for you!

Oh yuck tringle, that sounds ghastly! Was it all "...and tringle panted in anticipation as tringle's DP lifted his toolbox off the workbench?"

It's the adverts they show before Christmas which make clueless present buyers think that lawnmowers, electric toothbrushes and razors are good 'gifts'.

I blame them!

Deste - why would you continue to wrap up a dress that you know is going to be too small? I'd find it really strange if someone gave me something for an 18 month old that was aged 9 months, even if they said I could change it. I'd probably think they were a little strange.

I was once given by a friend , a miniature town house ornament.

On closer inspection. , you could see tiny half dressed slappers in the windows ( painted on ) .

Yup ...he bought me a brothel .

( to be fair. He did work in Amsterdam)

We got given premature baby clothes (for less than five lb) for dd when she was five months old. Even when she was born she was six fourteen. I just thought our friends picked up the wrong hanger so didn't say anything.

I got an Ab's slendertone from my DH! I have been going to the gym recently and have found it hard to tone my jelly belly. But I've never expressed a wish for it and it's not really the sort of thing you want to get from your DH, especially when you are unwrapping it in front of the rest of the family including his grown up children from his first marriage...

tringle, thats shocking

That was it exactly! "tringle stepped out of he shower to find her dp staring at her with a tell-tale bulge under his towel". Vomit.

I've hidden it somewhere. Hopefully it'll never be found. I think it cost him about ?40 (we're in Ireland). Ugh

Highly expensive nut filled chocolates and a lovely bottle of expensive Port.

Only 'strange' this year, as my inlaws know I can't drink alcohol for the foreseeable future and due to suspected nut allergy in our daughter, we have to maintain a nut free house until we get her test results back from the hospital.

As they are nice inlaws and have no intention of trying to kill DD2 or annoy me (by waving very nice bottle of port in front of me), I assume they were bought and wrapped a while back and they didn't think about the change in circumstances.

Made DH and I laugh when we opened our joint present mind :)

Oh Tringle, that's hilarious!!!!
I'm never going to be able to look at your dp in the same way!!! :o

Cocktail sticks. Four packets, from Pil.

Also from Pil, a 'finger skateboard', and one for DH....

WTAF?

The ones I bought as DH was struggling that got wrapped last minute when the baby was crying..... badly with lots of tape I couldn't got off and with the comments " don't see why I had to wrap the darned things, you bought them"

I swallowed the reply.....

Some glitter gel pens, why would you buy an adult glitter gel pens?

My favourite on this thread is the bagpuss charm bracelet

I was visiting the parents the a couple of weeks before Christmas when DP turned to DM and said as we are passing x shop we can get a paper shredder for us for Christmas!!!

Mum and I nearly choked, Dad just looked confused. DM is still not amused.

i got a three pack of lint rollers and a sachet of birds custard powder from MIL and a red tabard from DH auntie this year. a few years ago MIL gave me a novelty bikini line patterns waxer. this thread had brought tears to my eyes!www.mumsnet.com/tch/1.gif

oh, first time adding a message, not sure why its got the www at the end, was meant to be a smiley!