Shitty homemade Christmas Gifts

[justilou1]

I’m really loving the homemade Christmas gifts thread, and am watching it for inspiration. Can we start one for ideas for things to avoid - ie glitter-encrusted his&hers champagne flutes.

I think the thing is that gifts should be personal whether bought or made. You can't just make 20 gerbil shawls and give them to everyone you know but you may well know one or two people who would like one.

Laughed until I wept. So true. My pet hate was scented candles until I was given one of those scented oil and sticks thingies. It had been regifted so many times the sticks had bent.

Acceptable gift? Bottle of Champagne. Don’t even care if it’s Tesco’s value.

Think it entirely depends upon how much money the giver has. I got fed up with jars of homemade chutney or crappy biscuits from friends who are living in houses worth a million and kids in private school! So mean!

I really think that bramble jelly should be exempt from this list. Food of the gods and not available to buy in the shops.

Catastic

Funt? What is funt? grin This is why I can't be doing with craft. Can't even do it virtually.

oh my god I can't breathe!!! Literally crying with laughter here!!

I would really, really, really love any of the homemade foodie gifts described on this thread.

Why has no-one ever given me a Christmas cake in a tin, it’s genius!

And I wouldn’t say no to a gerbil shawl 😁

such harsh comments.i think if people really are making a gift that they genuinely mean something from then let them.there is reason whether they are doing it whether because of money or love.you can always chuck them

I once made my mum a Christmas gift out of a tampon box...I had no idea what it was at the time.

Ok but I love homemade candles so feel free to pass them on

Scrabble jewellery or cuff links. Or (my very fave) towels you can get changed on the beach under... great big things all gathered at one end around the neck which NEVER DRY. And besides I don't care if I flash a bit of skin. It's the BEACH

Is crafting a word ? I made my mum a jewellery box ... Bought the box and covered it with fruit pastilles id sucked and stuck to lid and sides .. She put it in the bin ... I was 41 at the time it hurt

@wearywithteens i love the Lego picture idea! Mine are 10 and 5 and it wouldn't be their main present but I think they would really love it and at least some of the Lego in our house would get used (and not need dusting once it's built)

I was broke one year and collected random jars for months.. filled them with bath salts.. made nice green and red ribbony bits for the lids and artfully (I thought) painted names in green and red calligraphy, onto the jars. Then gave them to my close work colleagues. Who pretty-much without exception laughed at them and occasionally still mention them derrogatively.

I won’t make that mistake again however broke I am. If I’d have read this thread in time I wouldn’t have made it at all.

I gave them on the basis that I’d have been touched to received one myself. Big mistake. Huge.

I think it depends on if it fits the recipient. I've made gifts in the past. One year (in a fit of insanity), I decided to knit gifts for all family members. I spent a lot of time choosing items that seemed to fit their interests and color choices. I still see some of the items being used today. But I can see the issue if I decided to knit everyone the exact same item for everyone because it wouldn't be suitable. It comes down to if the gift is a result of thoughtfulness or lack of thought.

GerardButlersBird

Your colleagues were very rude. I’m sure they thought they were being funny but really that is not on at all.

GerardButlersBird I think your colleagues were really unkind and insensitive to laugh at your gifts, even more so for continuing to bring it up. I would have been very grateful for some bath salts. Some people are just mean spirited.

Thanks for the I think it’s just that at work, the camaraderie pushes the limits at times. We spend so much time in each other’s company that the “anything goes” humour crosses boundaries we wouldn’t breach outside of work and I’m as guilty as the next person of that. But I genuinely would’ve loved one of the jars as a gift and even if I hadn’t, wouldn’t have dreamed of showing it, had someone gone to the time and trouble to make/personalise a gift for me.

In other circumstances these same women have been very kind and considerate and we are actually friends. I agree they were rude and a but hurtful tho.. and I feel a bit silly still when the gifts are mentioned.

Tbf many of earlier posts on this thread made me think that it was a stupid mistake to make.

@margesimpson40 😂😂😂😂😂

I also think there is a big difference between something made by a person who a) has a talent for eg knitting, sewing or making biscuits and b) puts some thought into who would like such a gift (ie no biscuits for the person on a diet, and no bobbly rough pullover for the person with sensitive skin) - and the person who makes something crap/ugly/useless and gives one to everybody regardless of whether it's remotely in line with their tastes and preferences.

You poor loves! Drowning under a welter of homemade cake, gin, jam and chutney.

I wouldn’t normally do this but your plight has moved me.
Any one suffering this outrage should pm me so I can remove and dispose of everything safely.

Gerard’s
The (hipster, teenage) DCs are crazy for bath salts and I’d love a pretty jar with my name calligraphied on it.
Your colleagues sound a bit silly.

Homemade gifts from your kids up until the age of 10 are fantastic(ish). After that... Nah thanks....Especially from adults. Buy a proper gift, or send a text to say why you won't be gifting this year - fine. No Problem.... We all know where we stand. But don't send homemade crap in the guise of a 'present'.

Reindeer made out of wine corks and bent wire (1 cork for Head and 1 for body)
A hole herd.

Whole herd