to think this is a crap present?

[GildedWingsOfGrace]

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?

Mil has bought me a soundless door bell and cling film for the first 2 christmases it was with dp.

My ex PIL's sent me sexy undies for Christmas a month after we broke up - wrong on so many levels.

A friend of mine (who is known for giving shit novelty/joke presents which always just miss the mark) gave my DH a stone for his birthday. Literally just a stone. Not semi precious or even remotely attractive. Needless to say he would have preferred she hadn't bothered.

Best Christmas gift I ever heard of was one that my FIL received from his mother (73 and slightly nutty but FAB). He once told her that he fed the dog tuna occasionally to give her a glossy coat so she bought and wrapped a four pack of John Wests finest. Needless to say I lmfao for about an hour.

Could you say "sorry to have to tell you this, but the gift you bought DD must've fallen off its hanger, because we just received a hanger."

FWIW I think fancy padded hangers are hilarious, I would've laughed.

Metarie, is that a doorbell one Christmas and cling film the next, or did you get two doorbells on successive years?

Yanbu it's a rubbish present and so random!

When I was 15 and working in my first job I was given a box of mini chocolate penises from my secret Santa. Boak

I asked my Dad what he was getting Mum for Christmas one year, (knowing his past record of poorly chosen things for my hard to please Mum) "Nothing, she still hasn't used last years present" oh what was that I asked.... "a plot in the graveyard" he replied. He was joking, and my mum thought it was funny.

The worst present I have ever heard of was when my dh was a little boy, his aunt and uncle gave him, their only nephew ( no nieces either) a VHS tape which they had recorded wrestling from the tv on. As a Christmas present.

Having said that, it's the same aunt and uncle who have his nana a twenty pound note in an envelope from them, theirs two children, two children's partners and two grandchildren, as an 80th present.

I had a small stepladder from ex mil one christmas and a dressing gown in a size 10. I'd just given birth and was a size 16 at the time. She said she'd take it back. Which she did. I didn't get another one though!

Another year she gave me a jumper in a size 18. I'd lost the baby weight and was a size 10. Again she said she'd take it back and yet again I didn't get a replacement. Odd. Decidedly odd.

But then the year she gave my bil a playstation she got exh a plastic kite and a t shirt off the market. She likes the games that woman.

Not just a loo seat of course, that would be silly.

He also gave me some bath salts, a book, a bar of chocolate covered marzipan, a box of Bendicks chocolates, a bottle of rum, a cut crystal mug, a bottle of perfume, a box of marzipan fruits and a Mercedes - for the Scalextric.

His mum got a Mercedes for her fiftieth. Hers is big enough for two people and has a soft top.

My granny gave me a delightful 16th Birthday gift!

A long black 'bag'

One end opened, and it was just enough space to put your hands in-and change your camera film! no need to expose it to the light!

the year before that, a sleeping bag.

Anniegetyourgun your comment made me remember...

my MIL habitually buys the smaller children in the family sticker books with all the stickers already put in them, as "they wouldn't put them in straight".

Mad as a box of frogs....

Calabria, no offence, but it sounds like your DH nicked the raffle prizes from the PTA cupboard.

Sparklingbrook - I think hollyisalovelyname is right, and your aunt goes commando on Thursdays!

I will have to ask her SDTG. I hope she isn't really wearing my other 6 days worth of pants.

shrinkingnora next time your BiL comes to stay, your DH absolutely must put the ceramic horse's head in his bed when he's asleep (preferably drunk).

Perdita from "Polo" was given padded coat hangers by evil stepgrandmother Biddie Macleod, and her mum Daisy got cake forks, while the favoured members of the family all got nice presents.

A friend of mine got luggage straps with her initials on them for her 18th birthday.

A padded coat hangar is indeed a crap present.

We're on it stubborn!

It is a crap present. Is she known for giving er...unusual gifts? For dome reason, all I could think of, when I read the thread, is the episode of Fr Ted when a visiting priest gives Doughal a video player, and Ted gets a very dubious looking statue...'you shouldn't have, you REALLY shouldn't have. .
Love the idea of th horse's head in the bed!

Some reason, not dome reason!

muffinmonster It so does!

He's just asked why I was laughing so much. I may never get another present from him ever

YANBU! Don't think it beats the worst present he received though. A pair of windscreen wipers. He didn't even drive or have a car at the time!

If it had been Pip aged 16 snogging some randon boy in Rickyard Cottage, would David have laughed and suggested an early night ?

I think not.

ooops !!! wrong thread!!