Light hearted! What’s the most random Xmas present you reveived?

[MrsDoubtfire2018]

So this year, it had to be a fire blanket and car tyre valves from the in(outlaws !)😄

I once got a bag of pasta. They were penis shaped though.

The worst was a toss up between purple satin lingerie ... 4 sizes too big from my aunt and uncle (!), velvet purple trouser / skort (remember that brief time in the 90s these were fashionable? The trousers with a skirt/short attached?), and half a portable cooker (you couldn’t buy the parts separately so utterly pointless!). I actually do like the colour purple but those items were horrendous. I also find a use for most things or pass them on to people who will enjoy them, at least someone was kind enough to think of me. My uncle is just a psychopath, that’s another story.

An ugly grey elephant christmas tree decoration from MIL.

She thinks she gives us an ornament every year, but has actually only done it for about 3-4 years. Think she is confusing us with someone else. We just smile & nod.

A 5 foot inflatable fish with a bottle of helium.

Roll on deodorant, box of tissues and a bauble thingy with silky knickers in.

From my Nan.

When I was 16.

My daughter got 8 pairs of socks with “born in 2018” printed on them, she wasn’t.

A free book that had been taped to a magazine.

A coin purse key ring from my Grandma

Standard Grandma gift

I want a donkey stool!!

Where can I get the creepy doll?

as a 13 y old i received a package of a distant cousin ive never met of my mothers so 3rd or 4th to me from Scotland(we are welsh)

it was a trainer bra in a 30B and a starter pack of sanitary protection for teenagers at the time is was a 38E or F cup as i developed very early and never saw a period(still havent seen at 37 due to PCOS)

they clearly didnt know me and just through i was a standard 13 y old girl

A bag of wood kindling for a log fire from DH.

We don’t have a log fire.

Hubby received an ashtray in the shadow of a coffin once - and he didn't even smoke
🤣🤣🤣
I got a draft excluder one year!

My step mum bought me a ginormous bag of premium dishwasher tablets.

It's random but has become a bit of a family tradition. I've not bought dishwasher tablets myself for ages

My secret Santa at work got me a winter hat with a fluffy pom pom on it from Tesco...they put it in a wine gift bag with tissue paper...just kinda random

Years ago now, but DB once gave me a digeridoo - no idea why and he couldn't explain it either!

Dusting gloves, I wet dust and house isn’t dusty.

Fold up shopping bag.

Cheap manicure kit.

Battery clothes Bobble remover

Flawless shaver and light up mirror that the light won’t turn off on.

Reallynsdty cheap make up.

A book of ‘Prosecco wisdom’

All from my mother 🙄 not one thing I need or want and would rather she didn’t bother to be honest.

She buys me a hairbtemiver every year, I don’t need them or want them for Christmas,now have 4 cluttering up drawers. I epilate any hair 3 times a week so it’s not as if I am ever actually seen with facial hair! She seems to think I need them, my DH, magnifying mirror and me beg to differ!

@NotTheMrMenAgain I'd love a didgeridoo my housemate plays the euphonium so I'd like to repay the practice in kind.

@MrsDoubtfire2018

Yes Old spice.

I can’t remember fully if it was tuna to be honest but it was definitely some form of tinned food.

A laundry pouch! It is a bag with lots of smaller bags/ pouches inside it. It says Laundry Pouch on the front.
We have a wash basket and a washing machine...where does pouch fit in?

Strong alcoholic chocolates from my parents. Most likely a regift. My dh doesn’t drink and I hate alcohol in chocolate

Gosh some of these horrors make me positively grateful for mine!

My worst this year was two blatantly regifted items from my sister that she didn't want and were not things that I would want, one will go to charity and the other Ebay

Last year it was an accessory from a good brand but something unusual about it led me to Google and I discovered it was for children, specifically boys, and I knew who she had bought it for originally and ended up unable to give it to, and it went from being a good gift to a smack in the face.

It's such a double standard as I buy her things she acknowledges as thoughtful but would raise all hell if :

I complained about her gifts

Did to her what she does to me

Only the fact that I secretly have the upper hand because I've psychologically detached from caring and I expect it keeps me sane

I got some anti freeze, Estée Lauder Youth Dew (the actual smell of old ladies) and a half used bottle of dove body wash from my Grandad one year. I think he was clearing out his spare room after my Nan died.

A Take a Break magazine. In a gift bag.

A slug trap.

We have not complained of, and do not have, a surfeit of slugs in the garden.

Just remembered ex mil with good intentions gave me an elephant ornament (I like them) I looked at it saying they looked like happy elephants is she sitting on his lap? Fil said umm looks like they are oh my! Yup she bought me elephants that look like they are shagging 😂😂 I still liked them though

@theuselessgiraffe boots had the little China measuring cups

I got some of the food caddy bags which my in laws would have got free from the library. I was running out, so they were actually quite useful and were more of a stocking filler than an actual gift!