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to think this is a crap present?

88 replies

GildedWingsOfGrace · 08/09/2013 14:05

Now I don't want to come across as ungrateful. My daughter had her 21st birthday a few months ago, my sister sent her a card and then asked how old she was - didn't realise that it was a special birthday.

Anyway today she gave her a present for that birthday - a padded coat hanger.

Just what every 21 year old wants.

Aibu to think that this a pretty crap present?

OP posts:
DamnBamboo · 08/09/2013 14:06

Yes it is shit and no YANBU to think it.

ZombiesAteMyBigToe · 08/09/2013 14:07

Yep, it's a pretty crap present, but its going to make an awesome family joke / funny story in the future!

WhoNickedMyName · 08/09/2013 14:08

Yes it's crap but any present given a few months after the event would be crap imo. It's given as an afterthought.

Sparklingbrook · 08/09/2013 14:09

That is indeed a shit present. No scented drawer liners or lavender bags to go with it. Sad

One year for my birthday my Aunt sent me one pair of pants with 'Thursday' on. Sad

oldgrandmama · 08/09/2013 14:13

I know a guy who gave his wife a plastic washing up bowl, with matching brush, nylon scourer and plastic 'tidy' for draining cutlery for her birthday. She was not pleased.

WafflyVersatile · 08/09/2013 14:19

Yes, but on the bright side at least it's not a top that will have to be worn when she sees her or a lovely ornament which will have to be put on display if she visits.

She could have got her something amazingly expensive and swish and it still would have been a rubbish present if it wasn't something she liked. You can't go wrong with a clothes hanger! Useful and out of sight.

WafflyVersatile · 08/09/2013 14:20

I think my point is that at least it's not a net loss. It's not made her quality of life worse in any way.

MrsMongoose · 08/09/2013 14:30

I'd be asking her if there was meant to be a lovely party dress hanging on the tacky hanger she sent.

ExitPursuedByADragon · 08/09/2013 14:36

Yes that is a rubbish present. Is she normally so thoughtless?

MexicanHat · 08/09/2013 14:40

YANBU. What a strange present. Maybe she's just passed on something she didn't want?

Amy106 · 08/09/2013 14:41

No. You are correct. That is a crap present. Is this typical behaviour for your sister?

SomeDizzyWhore1804 · 08/09/2013 14:43

On my 21st I had a boyfriend who was a complete wanker. He brought me a bumper book of sudoku Confused

But I think that the coat hanger maybe even trumps that.

WhoNickedMyName · 08/09/2013 14:44

No I think a bumper book of sudoku from a boyfriend trumps a padded coat hanger from an auntie as a shit 21st present.

I hope he wasn't your boyfriend for too much longer after that? Grin

EastwickWitch · 08/09/2013 15:32

DH once bought me a can opener one Christmas.
He's heard me mention I needed one & thought it was a hint.
all those hints about Tiffany, Jimmy Choo et al have gone unnoticed

phantomnamechanger · 08/09/2013 15:38

I reckon she won it in a raffle, no-one ever buys these do they, they just do the rounds of being raffled/re-gifted.

I remember as a 12yo in 1982 having to make a padded coathanger, and matching dressing table lacey mats, and a padded tissue box cover, in needlework - we thought these things were beyond naff and only for great-aunts even then!

Scoundrelette · 08/09/2013 15:39

I got a tin once. An empty tin. The person who gave it to me was quite odd though, perhaps they thought it was some kind of existential gift for me to ponder...

Rooners · 08/09/2013 15:43

That's terrible.

I was dating a man once and went to a load of trouble for his birthday. I mean loads, ordering stuff from abroad, getting something engraved. I really liked him.

2 weeks later and it was my birthday - he came round and brought nothing. Not a card, nothing.
As he was leaving I asked, jokingly, 'where's my present then?' because I really thought he might have forgotten.

He reached in his pocket and handed me a tiny cereal bar that he had forgotten to eat at work. 'There you go' he said, smiling.

He was totally serious.

Someone once gave my son a present that had clearly been on the shelf for so long (probably jumble sale tbh) that the batteries had all corroded inside it. He was a tight git as well.

FixItUpChappie · 08/09/2013 15:43

Having been on the receiving end of coat hangers as a gift (my batch wasn't even padded - thanks mom) YANBU.

DeathByTray · 08/09/2013 15:47

Sparkling that really made me roar Grin

Did you never get the other days of the week or were they scattered amongst relatives?

Sparklingbrook · 08/09/2013 15:52

No, no other days of the week were forthcoming and no other relatives reported day of the week pants at all Death. I must have been singled out as 'special Niece' that birthday. Sad

MrsRajeshKoothrappali · 08/09/2013 15:56

I quite like soduku.

The thought of the lone padded coat hanger actually hurts me. What good is just one.

Coat hangers need to match. And be in even numbers. And all hang facing the same way. One is no good.

zoobaby · 08/09/2013 16:10

Crap. Unless it's an heirloom woven by French nuns from the silk of Tibetan silkworms or something. Otherwise crap.

crypes · 08/09/2013 16:16

It's not a present it's an insult, in fact no present would be better than that .

Ham69 · 08/09/2013 16:21

Sparkling that is brilliant!

Sparklingbrook · 08/09/2013 16:22

No it isn't Ham. Where was the rest of the week? Sad Grin