To ask what gifts you didn’t like?

[MamToTeens]

I’m not saying this to be ungrateful, but sometimes I do wonder what goes through my relatives’ heads at Christmas anyone else? We received:

A tin of peaches for my 12 year old
Clothes that are 5 sizes too big for my 15 year old
Alcohol for me, when I’ve made it very clear that I don’t drink and haven’t for 20 years
A window vacuum
A box of drawing pins

What strange gifts did your family get?

I loved all my presents this year.

OP those are terrible gifts except from the window vacuum I would have loved that . I somehow managed to lose my mum's and this has reminded me to have a look for it as they do an excellent job!

@zukiecat

That’s really horrible if your colleagues.

A pack of 9 triple ply Santa toilet paper. Not as a main present to be fair but was on offer at a “bargain” price. Mothers!

Kind of amazed how many gifts you all got! I only got two

When I was a child, can’t remember exact age , maybe 10, I received 5 diary and notebook sets.
Five, so all of my available relatives, bought me those. I was not enthusiastic. ( I did thank them all, I just complained to my Mum)
It was a very poor Christmas

A silver plated necklace in an expensive jewellers wearing box!

I rarely wear jewellery other than my wedding ring.
If it had come with the original cardboard holder, I'd chance my luck returning, but it's not so....charity?

Might ask my friends DDs if they'd wear it.

My DH is a v keen road cyclist. From his parents he received a model bike encrusted with a couple of thousand sparkly beads: it's going back to the chazza.
We can't decide if it's better or worse than previous gifts of pre-used hair clippers containing someone else's hair, or a hideous home made "rustic" mini cupboard which included 4 dirty mugs wrapped in kitchen roll.

I once got a single pair of knickers from a multipack (you know how it says so on the label?). They were size 14 and I was an 8 back then...

Mostly lovely apart from the Mr and Mrs mugs from MIL, white with gold lettering (went straight into charity shop) and what promised to be a very posh candle but ended up being a jam jar filled with Epsom salts in a posh candle box 😂😂😂

My step mother years ago bought my ex husband a woman's cardigan. She claimed it was unisex. It was about 6 sizes too small and definitely not unisex, but was absolutely worth it for the laugh.

Other step mother classics have been an open bottle of vodka with about 1/4 already gone and leopard print monogrammed dressing gowns, with the wrong initials (I absolutely kid you not).

DH bought me an off-brand version of VIPoo toilet spritz but he did also get a lot of sweet and well thought out other gifts too

From same person: Two pairs of secondhand slippers in different sizes (neither mine) and a pair of socks that say ‘Australia’ and have koalas on the back (never been, never wanted to)
Who wants to guess who this lot was from?! Winner gets 2 pairs worn slippers and Australian socks....

@EL2019

Thanks, I was more hurt than I let on at the time, it was a pretty nasty thing to do, we're in a group chat thing on Messenger and they both put up pictures of all their piles of gifts, including the ones they gave each other.

They ridicule me for my Pagan beliefs too, and find it a huge joke.

I guess I need better friends

Yes. I’m sure if you said anything they’d fall back on the “bullies’ defence”:
“We were only joking. Why do you have to be so sensitive?”

I hope 2020 brings you better friends x

From BIL, a massive ornate spice rack that has twirling balconies that hold the big round bottles of very old looking spices. Most of the herbs are almost white with age and smell of nothing.

Worst of it is is that I am, and always have been, very minimalist. I hate clutter of any kind on worktops. BIL has known me for 39 years FFS.

Thankyou EL2019

That is exactly what they say if I get upset at them laughing at me.

Thankyou for your kind words and wishes

Ds was given a where's wally book by a friend. We don't buy for them and it was just a lovely random gift. Except every wally is circled in biro!

More of a ‘There’s Wally’. We’re all the other characters circled too? What kind of killjoy circles the characters anyway?

From my parents - a set of three coat hangers! Joint birthday/Christmas present.

Amusing thread
I had brillliant presents this year, silk pillow cases, a thermal butter dish that I've wanted for ages but not been sufficiently motivated to buy myself, great books, hand crafted china christmas tree decorations, and a framed limited edition print that I love.

One year, my grandmother suffering dementia, kept insisting that I take her gold watch (it had long been promised to me, but I knew it would be followed by her claiming someone had broken in and stolen the watch).
She eventually accepted my "no, you keep it, you're going to be enjoying it for a long time to come" - busied off to the kitchen and came back with a cucumber - "well, here you are, take this instead...."

Jo Malone candles, I don't use them but again I have about 3 this year-guess the charity shop will be happy.

Scented candle - I hate candles and won't have them in the house, so that's off to the charity shop.

Today. Black leather gloves with a fluffy trim. Absolutely not something I would ever use. They are very tight on and I just don't get it at all.
I'd say it's the thought that counts but when it's from someone who should know you really well it feels like the opposite iyswim

Exh got me a kindle amazon fire stick thingy. Not a bloody clue what it is

@PsuedoSatisfactionBaby

OMG - I was gifted exactly the same thing 😂😂😂😂
All wrapped in a cellophane parcel with a bow. If you live in the North west, we may share a present giver!!