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 dark chocolate orange from my mother. I detest dark chocolate. And I'm diabetic.

Summer clothes that fit my DD (10 weeks old) now. The label says"0-3 months" and it's not like she is tiny or anything. Light cotton, shorts and a floaty cotton top, obviously summer clothes.

A pastry brush, allegedly from ds2 (aged 2) but chosen by dh .

MIL got us some foil 'I've-just-run-the-London-marathon' blankets a few years ago. There still in the car waiting for the dire emergency she envisages. She got dh some teaspoons this year as 'we don't have enough' . She is lovely though!

FFS They're - maybe a grammar book would have been better !

One pair of knee high's from my Great Aunt. I nearly keeled over laughing at that one (the thought is very much appreciated, but she is in her 80's and really should not be spending her pension on presents for me)

Luverly

An experience at the zoo involving shadowing the zoo keeper who looks after the tigers.

I do not particularly like zoos or have ever shown an interest in tigers.

Perhaps he's after the life insurance money!

Ivanta - do you and your mother not get on? [Grin]

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2 individual-portion-of-biscuit holders, Lakeland. For the avoidance of crumbs. Kindly meant but I was a bit as I never take biscuits far from their packet before eating them.

Brigit I'd love to do that! Swap you for my 'Bling Tin' (literally a cheap tin with the words 'Bling Tin' emblazoned all over it), containing a copy of Jillian Michaels' 6 Week Abs workout DVD.

We were very low on the random this year (DH got dried butter beans last year). Best was probably the explanation MIL gave for buying her son a whisk (in addition to some lovely stuff); she "thought we'd have some fun with it."

After reading this thread I'm wondering whether this is some bizarre kind of sex advice. Or maybe she just thinks DH and I's evenings would be enhanced by whisking things

Also low on the random here but our oddest wedding present was from a friend who gave us......
... a copy of the dvd of their wedding.

Beautiful.

Not this but last Christmas, DMIL gave me Yves Rocher face cream aimed at women over 60. Maybe I look my age but I sure don't look 60!

DH got a 1920's style vase ...

Marginally better than DD's (4) last birthday where DMIL posted a card on her actual birthday and DSIL who is also godmother never bothered with even a call.

From DM a couple of years ago. A limited edition bagpuss charm bracelet with hideous coloured garish charms from Danbury Mint or some such like, (with a certificate of authenticity don't you know) because I like bracelets and liked Bagpuss when I was little.

ROLLMOPS

ROLLMOPS

ROLLMOPS

ROLLMOPS

a Bagpuss charm bracelet actually exists??

A joint present this one, a set of posh non stick frying pans. That cant be put in the dishwasher. Or be used with an oil mister.

And the only thing I fry is the sunday breakfast, which is why my frying pan costs £2.99 from homebargains, and goes in the dishwasher.

Oddly dh didnt want a frying pan set off his dm. ffs.

They are still in the box.

fluffy - I have a proposal.... Swap your gift for some rollmop?

I would LOVE some non stick pans instead!

What do the present buyers think when they buy these gifts. I would be mortified handing over some of this crap knowing the receiver was going to open it in front of me. Does anyone on here admit to buying gifts that are dire. I know I handed over a dress to a friend for her daughter and realised when I was wrapping it that it was 9 - 12 months and the baby is 18 months old. It came on the wrong hanger but I did say if it was too small to give it back and I would change it.

snow shoe thingyies that fit over shoes and stop me falling over on the ice. From my DH. Doubt I will ever use them.

herewego wtaf?! I'd give it back to them for Xmas!

But I dont like roll mops .

PILs got me what looks like a huge coin purse (too big for a useful coin purse, too small for a little handbag, but with the clasp-y closure, iyswim) that is knitted with a SQUIRREL on it. WTF..?
Also from PILs a bracelet or hairband. I have no idea which. It's kind of a donut shaped ribbon-ed affair that is too big to be a bracelet (even for my giant man-wrists), and too stiff to be a hairband.
Also a novelty ice cube tray. We have an ice-maker in the fridge... they know this, having been to the house...!

We are sadly lacking comedy presents this year due to the passing of my gramps a week before christmas (RIP)
However we used to get some corkers. I once got some Barbara Taylor Bradford DVDs (aged 20- wtf?), my husband got a war videos trilogy we saw on his shelf the last time we visited, my mother got a petty cash tin (no she doesnt have her own business) and my brother and Dad got like a stamp the library have to stamp the date books are due back with lots of random letters on- to put on your private documents to avoid identity theft. Before he died and I was round his house the plumber came and remarked upon the 'genius' stamp he'd also been given as a gift last year... pmsl I miss that man!

Got some classics off SIL - a joint pressie of a calligraphy set. Were we supposed to spend our evenings writing things in beautiful script?

Then the joint present of a bottle of wine and some very syrupy chocolates. Great, until you remembered that I was pregnant and I'm diabetic. So couldn't have any of the present.