to start a random/unsuitable/shit xmas present thread

[skyofdiamonds]

Please share your absolute shockers here!

MIL used to buy me hideous size 8 PJs to 'diet into' - I was a 12. Thank goodness for M&S returns
Strangely she used to also buy me ENORMOUS pants.

SIL bought her a set of liqueurs one year - she was teetotal.

Last year my sister got me two mirrored glittery photo frames. I haven't put them up. She has seen my home and can tell there is no where to put them and they don't go.

This year the same sister buys me flowery mirrored photo frames. Again, not my taste.

I've just been discussing with my husband how the fuck I can ask for the receipt without her taking the hump.

I got pjs and perfume from my mil.
Sounds ok but her son left me and dcs in the summer for my friend.
I've gone from a size 24 to a 14 since last Christmas. Pj's were too big and the perfume is one she used to wear a few years back and I'm fairly certain it's a regift as it hasn't got the cellophane wrapping.
So she thinks I want to smell like her and am still fat

When I asked what I wanted by my DF and DSM, I requested a new handbag. I even shown them the one I would like.

I opened it this morning, happy with it. Until I turned it over. The front had random bright panels and random sections of various animal prints. Just why??

A tea cosy! I don't even use a teapot!

I got a penguin felting kit from Hobbycraft from my SIL. I don't even know where to start with that one.

I put this in the other thread but I'm still pissed (drunk and angry). I got a baby memory box from an aunt cos I'm in my 30s and childless so need to hurry up. Tick tock tick tock... twat

I suppose one of my gifts would be seen as awful by a lot of people so I will add it to this thread. Truth is I don't actually mind the gift as I know it comes from an older couple who like to give practical gifts.

I got a People's Friend Calendar tea towel from my Step grand parents. They have sent me one every year for the past 10 years. I think I was about 23 when they started the tea towel tradition. I kind of look forward to them now. This year it's a Scottie dog if any one is interested. On the plus side I am never short of a tea towel.

My nan gave me tea towels too - but I love them

My 7 year old got a make up set. Proper adult make up (my 21 year old cousin got exactly the same, from the same gifter). She was delighted, DH was seriously unimpressed.

DD1 got a wooden crocodile and a little set of primary coloured paints to decorate it. Wouldn't be a bad gift for a 6yo. But she's nearly 16.

bulldogmum that's beyond shit! Why are you with him! ?

7yo DS was given one of those ironic Ladybird books, titled 'How it Works: The Dad' by his grandmother. Bless her she obviously bought it in a fit of nostalgia without a clue as to their real purpose. As it contains the immortal line 'an atrocious bell-end' safe to say he won't be reading it any time soon

DP's DM gave me the most hideous headband thing. We couldn't actually figure out what it was at first, it's made of fleece - as in actual just-shaved-off-a-sheep fleece - and is proper bouffant. It looks like it's made from pubes and it smells weird too, kind of fusty. Once we worked out wtf it was I tried it on for a laugh and it cut off the circulation to my ears and gave a disturbing view of what my (naturally curly) hair would look like if I ever had it cut really short. She's been clearing out her attic and I think might have found it in there. She's a strange fish, generally weird and hard work and she and I don't have anything in common, she doesn't particularly like me so it wasn't altogether surprising. It is funny though - and on the plus side the dogs love it, I think they think it's some kind of dead animal and despite having been given loads of new toys have been vying to carry it around all day 😂 Luckily I got amazing presents from DP and my parents which made up for it!

Nothing from DH or kids (they are only little though, and totally reliant on him to buy for me). I had asked for the DK granny smith delicious perfume but parents bought me the golden delicious one instead.

Luckily DS and I have a skip-rat Christmas challenge, presents that we do not spend money on. She gave me a voucher for a long, luxurious bubble bath in her kiddie-free home. YIPPEE!!!!

Lets see what MIL gifts me tomorrow... She is the reknowned queen of tat...

DD(8) got a bottle of JD, a cigar, socks and shaving stuff. MIL dropped round a bag of stuff each for DD and DH when she last visited, only she got the labels the wrong way round

DD chose all my presents this year so all mine are awesome, like actually what I would have bought myself, not just lovely because they're from DD.

MiL got me size 8 pyjamas. Fine but I'm 9 months pregnant and it's going to be a long time before I'm back in to a size 8. Have felt down about my weight gain during pregnancy and MiL has seen me recently (definitely no where near fitting in to small sizes!) so did feel like a bit of a kick in the teeth.

I got 3 tops and 2 necklaces that MIL has been trying to flog in her shop for 2 years on the sale rack, and complaining that nobody has been buying

They got DD some lovely stuff so I'm not bothered, and it's the thought that counts, but they're really, truly not my style (or size!). They'll go to charity.

Opened up my work secret santa and inside was a child's headband with an enormous orange flower attached to it, and a bulldog type hairclip with more fake flowers attached.

DH made jokes about Carmen Miranda.

I got a packet of pant liners from my mil!

Dh excelled himself this year because I screenshot and emailed what I wanted. As usual no presents from fil, sil and brother. Had we seen the latter two, I would have had something crappy to report

Twoevils That is so funny!

My mum gave me a cardigan that she had unwrapped and worn herself twice because 'it matched her outfit and she was cold' and she had also burnt a large hole in it with her cigarette. She said 'i wont wrap it back up theres no point' and also later on in the day kept saying 'dont you love your new cardigan?'
Also there was a clothes peg attached to a top she had given me as a present which also kind of makes me think she had worn it and washed it.

My DD got a word search book from my sil Thought she would do the competition at the back, checked the closing date and it was in 1986! Obviously clearing out her loft again (hoarder tendencies)

I got a baby memory box from an aunt cos I'm in my 30s and childless so need to hurry up

This is awful! What a cow your aunt is.

Many people seem really ungrateful and bitchy.
Hope the gift givers aren't reading this.