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Most annoying present bought for DC for Xmas?

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vimtoqueen1 · 29/12/2016 18:34

What have you bought or been bought for the kids that you find the most annoying?
light hearted
One of ours got a car that goes on its own and plays music - driving me up the wall but both the kids love it !

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Yoarchie · 29/12/2016 20:03

Craft set aimed at kids
3 hours of my hard work needed to produce a shitty version of the finished product.
Hate kids craft sets, always packed with cheap, poor quality materials and tools many of which need substituting, need adult to essentially do it and crappy instructions.

MsJamieFraser · 29/12/2016 20:04

PIL got Ds2 with a voice of a demon a karaoke machine...

lorelairoryemily · 29/12/2016 20:05

My niece got silly sausage, it's not annoying but it's totally obscene!!

Cyclingforcake · 29/12/2016 20:05

Toot toot vehicles and track. I'm not sure I've put it away. Apparently I'm mean mummy. I don't care. 😃

Cyclingforcake · 29/12/2016 20:06

Oops. Awful emojo. Sorry. Grin.

Sierra259 · 29/12/2016 20:06

Something that I specifically requested none of when people asked me for ideas. Think something like Lego because a) we already have a shitload of it, and b) what we do have is only played with sporadically. Fast forward to Christmas day and one of said item is unwrapped and is also almost an exact duplicate of one we already have! Accompanied by the giver saying "I know you said no x, but...... " Xmas Angry

TeamAlphaFemale · 29/12/2016 20:07

TenaciousOne
It's the happyland station set. I must admit I've had a little play with it myself as it is pretty cool Grin but it just needs to have an off switch!!

sometimesKit · 29/12/2016 20:07

That's not my badger.
DS LOVES it. As soon as you read the last word on the last page he hits you with it, saying "again?", and I don't have the heart to say no. Or the strength to deal with the resulting tantrum.

SantasLittleMonkeyButler · 29/12/2016 20:08

YoYo Panda - it never shuts up! It talks more than DD (5) and that's really saying something!

The hatchimal is also quite vocal when switched on!

crispandcheesesandwichplease · 29/12/2016 20:08

I second putting sticky tape over the speaker bit of noisy toys. I also, in previous years, took batteries out of things that would work perfectly well without being noisy (a toy vacuum cleaner that still worked but without noise, and a posh edition of Guess Who that for some reason had flashing lights and noises when a guess was correct!)

rosieandjim2 · 29/12/2016 20:11

My ds (17 months) got a vtech toot toot garage which sings call 999 and we will catch the burglar Hmm xx

TeamAlphaFemale · 29/12/2016 20:13

Cyclingforcake
What vehicles did you get? My DS has a number of toot toots and some are bearable, others rip parts of your brain away Grin

TheWeeBabySeamus1 · 29/12/2016 20:16

A peppa pig toy with no on/off switch! I'll be sat here at night and it just goes off on its own!

TeamAlphaFemale I bought the same one for my son last year - he's scared of it and it's still in its box 😂

TeamAlphaFemale · 29/12/2016 20:17

rosieandjim2 we have that one - it's my (and DSs) favourite!! I have to warn you, other toot toots far more annoying...!

rosieandjim2 · 29/12/2016 20:18

Haha my ds loves it presses it over and over just so he can dance lol Grin

PuntasticUsername · 29/12/2016 20:19

This is more of a "narrow escape" one: a relative tried to palm fucking Pie Face off on us when we visited their house. When I said no thanks, she told DS1 that she had asked me to take it home for him, but "Mummy said you can't have it, sorry. I know you'd love to have it at home but we have to go by what Mummy says, don't we?" and now DS1 thinks I'm the wicked witch of the west. So yeah, thanks for that Hmm

itsnotterrysitsmine · 29/12/2016 20:19

My aunt got the dc's a goat tub of jelly babies, each. Nobody, including dc's, like them & am now stuck with 2 tubs taking up storage space until I can regift or donate them & dc's asking if they can try them (previously have & definitely don't like them) & why did she get them something they don't like. Repeatedly.

MothertotheLordsofmisrule · 29/12/2016 20:26

TheWeeBabySeamus1

Wait until the batteries start to run down in a toy and then you get strange demonic screeching in the night when it decides to start up.

Ds2 had a Brio train station that could record messages, at one point instead of a recording of ds2 saying"The train coming into the platform blah blah" the damn thing would growl and howl the cries of tormented souls.

And then do it again at random points.Shock

TheMrsD · 29/12/2016 20:26

A 56 million billion piece marble run.

Tabymoomoo · 29/12/2016 20:28

Furby is driving me nuts! So loud and I had no idea its humour was so toilet based - it seems to spend most of its time farting, burping and using the loo! It asked me to pull it's tail earlier and did a huge fart when I did (dc seem to find it hilarious of course)

Sundaysmumisfullofwine · 29/12/2016 20:30

A whistle.

Who buys a three year old a fucking whistle?

I've hidden it. (It's going back to MIL's. well, she liked it enough to buy it)

millionsofpeaches · 29/12/2016 20:40

Aquabeads 😒

Cyclingforcake · 29/12/2016 20:42

We've got the police car which is just about bearable. The dumper truck and tow truck are doing my head in. And the garage itself is worse. And then all five go in unison. There's two more still wrapped. I might get them out sometime around Easter.

TheMrsD · 29/12/2016 20:49

Oh yeah Aquabeads here too. On the plus side about half have gone up the hoover now.

Scotinoz · 29/12/2016 20:49

A Peppa Pig microphone thing; annoying tunes, no volume button and no sodding off button 😩