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!

Moondog - I know, it cheered me up no end!

My mother gave me a White Company silk nightdress and a pair of White Company silk pyjamas.

I sleep naked

Come on over to the Christmas present swap thread, Bonsoir

I just thought, the other year we got FIL a Mr Grumpy mug as PIL always joked about him being grumpy when they saw our mr grumpy mug dh uses. I wonder if FIL is complaining about it on Grandpanet somewhere

A set of heated rollers.

I have curly hair.

The youngest two DDs were given a pair of meerkat garden ornaments - nothing wrong if you like that kind of thing but
a) we have a v small garden
b) we have no ornaments/windmills/novelty plant pots so no idea what made them think we'd want to start
c) DD3 is 3 years old - wtf does she want a garden ornament for??

(To anyone who watches Russell Howard, they are not the same as the ones that went missing from that lady's garden....)

Obviously not curly enough MrsHannigan!

I didn't get any strange presents but I did manage to eat a penny. Two things about this worry me. Firstly they were wrapped in foil in the pudding and I, er, haven't seen any evidence of the foil but I have seen the penny. Secondly, I think I need to review my eating habits as I evidentially inhale food.

This year's oddest gift was a sparkly brown crocheted scarf and gloves set. I didn't even know you could make brown sparkle.

I was surprised not to receive my usual gift from MIL that is really intended for my children - like last year's set of five animal shaped soaps (she even wrote on the label that she hoped the children would like them), or the previous year's kaleidoscope. She does always buy me a nice present too but I wonder why she doesn't just label the gift for the boys rather than for me.

I have yet to open SIL's gift, which I predict will be a notebook. Unless she has decided to break TEN years' tradition.

Oh and the boys received in the post this morning - a Birds Eye polar bear each. Addressed to them but with no note to say who they were from. DS2 cried because it scared him.

PMSL at all of these especially

MrsSeanBean Wed 28-Dec-11 10:32:35
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!

Was the giver called Natalie?

i got some washing powder from my mum

my 3m DD got lindt chocolates from her great grandmother.... out of date before she reaches 6m so i will eat them for her. (Not that id give her a whole thing of chocs then anyway)

The wierdest present I ever received (I think it actually was a Christmas one) was from a male friend of mine, when I was a student. It was a wrought iron figurine. Of a dog having a wank. And his jizz was shooting into the air above him and he was pointing at it in evident awe.

We stood it on top of the video recorder. A few years later, our student house had a break-in and the VHS was nicked (shows you how long ago this was!), along with some other stuff. And the figurine, too. The thieves must have thought 'Fuck me! That'll amuse them down the pub! I'm having that too!'

And yes, I claimed for it on the insurance. 'Erotic Figurine', I put.

I'm going in there shower. There had better be a load more of these by the time I get out.

When we had children, my MIL overnight stopped getting DH and me literal piles of presents (mostly stuff we'd never use - tat that went straight to the charity shops) and just bought for the DC instead. Fair enough, but a year into this new regime, she obviously felt it was a bit harsh, and gift-wrapped me a small packet of Lotus Caramelised Biscuits. (69p in all good supermarkets.) It was actually a more thoughtful gift than the previous piles of tat, because she knew I liked them!

A new loo seat, it was a resin one with flowers in. Heck there is no excuse it was a loo seat for Christmas

This year was a mop and sweeping brush from Dh...not really menat for christmas as was given on christmas eve...just something extra!!
I already have both and upon telling him i dont have a mop bucket, he got rather excited at the prospect of going back out to buy me one!!!

I suppose it's better than the time he was away on a works trip for 5 days and bought me a present for being stuck at home with 5 kids.
The other wives and girlfriends were given jewellery and perfume..... i got a rechargable hand held hoover

Or the time i was hankering after a new car (close to christmas and my birthday)...he announced he's got me a great present in the colour that i really wanted and i'd love it....it was a fecking steam generator iron!!!

Can you sense a theme here?????

Oh and i forgot to add DH's secret santa last year where the obligatory £5 was to be spent.

He recieved quite a large gift bag with 3 solitary creme eggs rattling around inside!

Shiregirl - I used to suffer massively from eczema but don't anymore and have lots of product advice if you want it? If so, PM me. All my products are cheaper and more effective than Dermologica.

My weirdest gift this year was a big pile of bread sauce sachets from my secret santa - although it was also one of my best (one of them? Like I was inundated with gifts, lol) because you can't buy it over here.

Oh, actually I did get a weirder gift - I am not sure yet what it is even for. It is from my Polish GMIL and appears to be a book containing sheets of loo roll with carefully cut and pasted gum paper pictures. Some are snowflakes, others are flowers or random images. Absolutely no idea what it is for, but it is easier to store than the Polish sweet-wrapper Nativity scene and less than the peachy orange crocheted antimacassars from the year before that...

My Mum is a carer and every year receives piles of gifts from her clients which duly go under the tree until Christmas day... one year she had just moved into her new partner's house and totally forgot about the under-floor heating. That year she got about 30 giftwrapped boxes of melted chocolate mess...

erotic figurine

My dad bought me (unasked for) a 'game' (which says THIS IS NOT A TOY, age 14+ and warns epileptics, people with heart conditions or pacemakers and pregnant people not to use it) where everyone holds onto a handle, you press this button in the middle and terrifying music starts up and the light flashes...then when it turns green you have to press the button on your handle and if you're the last person to do so you receive an electric shock. An actual eletric shock, not a vibration.

Weirdest thing is that no one in our extended family questioned this choice of present at all...

Clip in hair extensions from mil ( I have v thick long hair ) and some boots which were not v nice. I politely said the boots didn't fit so she could change them, first she said she'd lost the receipt, then the shop closed down

She's known for stock piling random stuff to gift (she is v generous tho as the gifts are always random stuff but she gives cash too). She once gave sil some chocs that sill had given to her (as sil got them from work so they were company branded!) lol

She also gave dh a Chelsea kids lunchbox for his thirtieth!

My mother - aged 86 - was somewhat puzzled to receive a John Wayne film DVD and a Birthday Book from one cousin. She says she is not going to use the book as she will probably be dead before the next lot of birthdays ( ever the optimist) and she cannot remember ever having evinced any enthusiasm for cowboy films!

Anyone got a link to the Christmas present swaps thread? I got three pairs of gloves, a poo coloured wool scarf and 12 champagne glasses to add to the 36 I already have ...

Stealth Polar Bear - no the giver isn't called Natalie. That's the puzzle - no idea where or why as to the 'Natalie' part, we're still pondering!