Hilariously awful or weird gifts we have received...come tell!

[NCy]

Yes, yes, we should all be grateful for people making the effort to buy us things etc etc (just to pre-empt the usual thread kill joys.) However. I am 48. I dress kind of ageing rock chick, chunky biker boots, leather jacket, wafty dress sort of thing. Just what I do. My sister is more Next and Boden which is fine, doesn't bother me what she wears. She has bought me this: fluffy rabbit jumper Is it a passive aggressive comment on my dress sense? Has she forgotten Im 48? My partner thinks its hilarious! (Disclaimer: I have not had too much prosecco and I am not sat here wearing it!😂)

@NCy

I wouldn't wear it either, indoors or otherwise. It's bloody awful!

Not sure why that's difficult for some posters to fathom.

Whats wrong with that jumper? It's to wear in the house to keep warm. I assume you don't wear your edgy 'rock chick' clothes for lounging about the house.

I wear similar clothes to OP a lot of the time. All my clothes would have to be in a washing machine that had broken down and unopenable before I'd even think of wearing that jumper.

This thread has had me in hysterics. DD kept asking why I was laughing, so I was reading the best ones out to her.

MIL buys some very random stuff, mostly from catalogues and Avon. But my Mum has become obsessed with the Joules gift sets for me in Boots. I think she loves the 3 for 2 bargains. I get one every year, with overly scented stuff like body spray and hand cream that I won't use, and either hat, scarf or gloves that also will be unused. I now have 2 under the bed that I must remember to send to the next coffee morning.

An annual. Yes, as in, an annual. We're both enjoy reading, but a couple of weeks before, I took home on holiday to Italy. Currently having some time to reflect!

My DP got me a soap bag made out of recycled firehoses. It cost almost £70. I kid you not. It smells like old rubber and is just really odd. I asked what had brought this to mind as something I might like. He looked confused and said a bit doubtfully his brother is a firefighter. He also got me a rucksack exactly the same as the one I have already (he mused that maybe that’s why it made him think of me) and a frying pan (because I like the colour).
He has other redeeming features, thank god.

Washing up liquid.

From my very elderly grandmother-in-law, a full length, nut brown, nylon slip with a St Michael logo (old M&S brand) from, we think, the 1970s. It is unused but Size 24 (I am a 16). Am sure it was well meant but what do you say? 😆

My father (who never lived with us) bought me a Pocahontas one of these, when I was about 12. We lived in a caravan with an outside toilet. It was the most impractical gift, for exactly the reason you mentioned. It wasn't even warm, it was thin polycotton.

Only annoying gift this year was DH bought me a CD. Our CD player is broken, as is the one in my car and I don't listen to CDs anyway.