to ask what the worst present you ever had was

[Justforlaughs]

When I first started seeing my now DH, he asked what I wanted for my birthday. I answered "nothing" and I got it! I've also been given a size 10 bikini (when I was a size 16), by a Great Aunt and a hose reel by my MIL. What strange things have you been given?

[Lavenderhoney]

Zukiecat, my dm gets me cleaning products! I asked if she thought I kept a dirty house and she said no, so I can spend the money I save on something nice:)

An iron from ex bf. oh how I laughed.

2 pairs of black big pants ( for the weekend) and 5 pairs of white big pants ( for the week) from dm

[orangeandpumpkinlooking]

Wine. From several people who know me well enough to know I don't drink much, and never wine.

[Phoebe47]

Packet of custard creams from M-in-L for my birthday! Well, her 5 year old grandson enjoyed them.

[ItLooksLikeRainDear]

When we were little we always waited with anticipation the opening of our Christmas presents from 'grandma' (my mums wicked step mother!). It was one of our Christmas highlights each year to see who got the worst one.

The one that will forever stay with me is when my mum opened hers & inside were a pack of 'seconds' tights. One pair had 3 legs!!! My Dad literally cried laughing. It's one of my fondest memories and we got many jokes out of it for years.

[Pochemuchka]

A potato bag.

Wtf is a potato bag? Well I didn't know until I got one for Christmas from my darling MIL.

It's a cloth bag to store potatoes in so they don't go off.
Aside from the fact that I hardly eat potatoes and don't do the cooking, it didn't even work!

[quirrelquarrel]

A free Holland and Barretts magazine. With pictures cut out already.


Think Zukie definitely wins. I know I've always wanted loo roll for Christmas.

[quirrelquarrel]

Also a cardigan with the bottom half cut off because "it's trendy, it's in all the shops at the moment". Not hemmed or anything. Just a pair of sleeves with hand back panel.

[BuddyTheChristmasElf]

I love my potato bag, they really do work (unless DH puts them in the potato bag while still in the plastic packaging from the shop )
but would NEVER give one as gift!

[TeaTeaLotsOfTea]

3 blank cassette tapes from the in laws

[BeatTheClock]

A print of a painting (from my Antiques mad uncle) when I was about 9. It was the most depressing picture ever set in Victorian times of a shivering boy, based roughly around the titel 'And What Shall Become of this Child?'. God it was awful. Maybe it was worth a fortune but not to a 9 yr old.

Then one yr from mil I received a very large and imposing black hat Sort of homburg in style. I looked like something C1920'S Chicago in it. I mean how to you choose a hat for someone? And I never wear hats.

[quirrelquarrel]

Oh god and enormous kind of bright purple faux-velvet pyjamas.

Which my mum insisted were outdoorwear. Like a three sizes too big tracksuit to go running in. I'd just joined a running club out of school. She tutted and sighed when I refused to wear them for anything else but bed, "you're just too self conscious, I see everyone else wearing this kind of thing". Yes mum, okay.

All flooding back now....

[Pochemuchka]

@ buddy's DH putting potatoes in the bag while still in the plastic

[healstorturepeople]

I had one Christmas where it felt like no-one knew me. I got tons of smellies which I hate, I am not a smellies person. I got a radio when I never ever listen to the radio. I got clothes which were no where near my size and I got a gravy boat (not quite so bad but a little random!)

[Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme]

This will out me but for my 21st my then bf gave me a jack and a wheel wrench for my unreliable Mini. It is a bit of a legend amongst our friends now. Good job he also gave me 21 red roses.

He's my dh now. I don't learn. Mind you he did, pretty quickly.

[TeaTeaLotsOfTea]

Oh and for my 19th birthday a clock shaped like a crown from my mother. thats it. It probably cost £4.99 or something like that

[squoosh]

A friend of mine was given a grave plot for Christmas one year by her Uncle! Now that's forward planning.

[notwoo]

I got curling tongs from my mum and dad when I was 17. Would have been great if they hadn't also given me some the year before!

Not sure what happened there as they're usually pretty thoughtful with presents.

We did have one relative who was renowned for dodgy presents-one year we got advent calendars (on Christmas day) and another we got toddler sized slippers when we were about 10 and 7!

[docket]

A toilet brush from my FIL!

[Mandy21]

My all time Christmas low, in my life-forming teenage years, was excitedly opening a big squishy parcel from my Mum to discover it was a bottle of Clearasil and a bumper bag of cotton wool balls.

Last year's present from my H will also be hard to beat - for months he'd been saying how good his present was, how I'd be thilled, how he knew it was something I'd love - it was a (single) electric blanket.

[Virgil]

When we had DS1 DHs best friend bought the baby a packet of chocolate muffins and a bag of tangerines

[Jayfer]

My Nan was always great at 'interesting' presents. The ones I remember most are the neon green lipstick which would apparently turn pink when applied (never got to try it out as my mum confiscated it), the large orange teddy shaped candle which was chipped and battered and the best (but thankfully not for me) was a lady shaver which had already been used!!
My american aunt has produced some shockers but the best recent one was for my DH. She bought him a balaclava with eye holes and a mouth hole. It doesn't sound bad but he works on a military base and if he were to turn up at the gates with that on he would be shot!!

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

I think squoosh's burial plot wins.

I once got a pair of knitting needles and the yarn to knit my dad a scarf, in my stocking. When I told mum I didnt think it was a present to get something to make for someone else, she basically guilt tripped me into keeping it - "But you like knitting, and your dad would love to have a scarf you have made him - he will be disappointed".

[apostropheuse]

I was given a hideous white kind of alabaster clock. It had a round brass effect face with flowers on it. It was embraced lovingly by a pair of carved pigeons - one on either side. They gently caressed the clock face with their outspread fecking wings. This piece of art was about ten inches tall. Tackiness personified. It currently lives hidden at the back of a cupboard in my bedroom.

The thing is, my only son bought it for me when he was about fourteen. His three sisters were hysterical with suppressed laughter and they wouldn't drop their gaze as I opened it up and dutifully ooohd and ahhhd over it. He was convinced I loved it of course.

[Primafacie]

I think the tinned beans poster wins!

I once received nothing (from ex) because he "didn't have time to shop". He had been unemployed for six months and did precisely fuck all, all day, everyday. We had a joint account too, so he had access to funds. He became ex that year.

DH had one box of tissues all wrapped up at our wedding. Turns out it was a mistake by MIL, she had intended to use them but was too busy yakking through the whole bloody thing.

We also got a dead bird 3D painting thing as a wedding present - just think of Phoebe's "art" in Friends, but with a bird sticking out of the frame instead of a mannequin. We left it in India for ILs to bin :o

DH had a nose hair trimmer as a wedding present.

A friend of mine got a burka (sp.?) from a male friend. She's not Muslim/Afghan.