To ask what is the strangest prezzie you got?

[calamityboo]

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

skinny that reminds me one year MiL got me a mug with a cartoon cow and "mad cow" on it . Which might be amusing and appropriate had we the kind of familiar, warm, jokey relationship I wish we had. Instead, it seemed somewhat incongruous given the reality of the strained, polite distant terms we are on.

DH was given a rear-view mirror for his car by his mum one year, apropos of nothing (both our cars already had one apiece).

Ok, nobody upset hotburrito

Smackapacca, might I suggest a name change to smackahubby!!

I got (and I am utterly clueless to why ) a Zhu Zhu pets Annual.

I didn't know what the hell a Zhu Zhu pet was until my 7 yr old nephew told me. I couldn't give it away to the kids in our family ( all boys, it was a pink annual cover and they all said "yurghhh").

I started writing the thank you letter to the Aunt (of DP's) who sent it but had to give up cos' I couldn't stop thinking "why????"

Hopefully normal service will be resumed next year and I will get a Terry's Chocolate Orange.

DH's aunt gave him a personalised 2012 calendar of "Granny's Last Year".... photos of his grandma who passed away in the summer.

Hideous AND morbid.

Merry Christmas... hmmm

Once got a grow your own strawberry plant kit from an ex p. That was my only present and the lack of thought signalled our demise...

It's ok calamity, it's just so I can play with the log burner... Or is that more scary?

MIL bought me the dual ended delight that was heated eyelash curler coupled with a facial trimmer.

I wouldn't mind but I don't have a joleened furry catapillar. Yes MIL it is still noticeable since it is bright yellow. Just whip the buggar out.......

Some of these are brilliant.

Can I ask ... you who get nothing from Dh's. Do you get them something?

A commemorative Disney Fantasia plate.

I love this thread. :)

when my husband asked me to marry him, instead of getting me an engagement ring, he got me an ipod shuffle.

4 years later, at our wedding he bought us his and hers nintendo ds'es. for our first anniversary he got us a his and hers psp's.

I was happy about his ability to commit, just not his gift choices.

Bearing in mind, the question was "strangest",and not most unappreciated, I got a wireless mouse that is also a calculator and number keypad. I really heart DH!

Yet more J Lo perfume, after I have told him for the last twenty five years what my favourite is ie not J Lo. And after our discussion a couple of months back that the onlyreason I wear J Lo is that I don't have any other kind of perfume since he has given it to me for the last four years.

From my MIL...not a present as such (god know, that would require something called thought and involve possibly spending some money but a CARD:
Literally only card and nothing else.
One sheet of folded green CARD - nothing on the front - their signatures and Happy Christmas on the inside.
Same for my last birthday.
Don't give a toss, but honestly wish they would not bother.
What makes the red mist descend for me is that they could not even be arsed to send DD any present (birthday or Xmas) for past year and a half.
Tights gits

some of these are pure class, by the way...wonder how many of them were recycled gifts :)

I also had underwear-giving neighbours. I was 10. They gave me a pair of pink granny-type pants - with legs

One year PILs gave DH and I a watering can for Christmas (to share).

Another year we didn't get anything as they said they had to buy a new washing machine and had no money left to get us anything.

My DP got a bottle of HP sauce last year, along with a pamphlet of HP sauce recipes.

My husband was presented with a shopping bag emblazoned with the words: 'Natalie - strong and proud'. I think the giver overlooked that part, but it was still quite odd to give him a shopping bag!

This thread is hilarious!! I was very lucky to get no crap. I did get the toolset and box i asked for from my DB and SIL!! Great for a newly single lady - go independence!!

However I was quite offended by a present my DD got from my Ex-MIL. New school shoes (ok) but she'd put black shoe polish in the box!!! AIBU to be offended??

'Natalie-strong and proud'

Hahahaha
That is going to have me doubling over all day.

My sister got a mop and a plastic washing up bowl from my very comfortably off aunt for her wedding.
Oh and a rusty biscuit holder (apparently) with a stale and crushed packet of biscuits therein for same from an old lady.

Not me, but my dad was given a bottle of screenwash by his Uncle. Hahahahahahahaha!

A few years ago, I got from MIL (who else ?) a set of placemats with pictures of my DH's school on them. I have never been to the school and I did not meet DH until well after he had left school.

Then, last year, a jar and a pot that belonged to DH's grandma before she died. Apparently, she they would match the colour scheme in our bathroom. We'd just moved into s new house which needed completely renovating and we hadn't chosen the colour scheme yet.

I got a litre of cheap cider as my secret santa this year.

I don't like cider and I think that as I am from somerset and have an accent, my secret santa just assumed I must love the cheap supermarket stuff.