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Whats the worst present you have recieved ?

79 replies

jen127 · 07/09/2011 16:29

Ok The first year i was with DH , I recieved sloggi knickers , a pasta maker and a fish slice Hmm! Don't know where his head is at ! I took the pasta maker back but 10 years on I would like one now !
So lets have them !

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chirpchirp · 09/09/2011 20:16

I just spat vodka and coke all over my laptop PamBeesly....a fucking shovel!!!! Are you a keen gardener?

MrsCurly I worked in a bookshop a couple of years ago and the vinegar book was one of our best sellers. I imagine you weren't the only unimpressed relatives that year.

moondog · 09/09/2011 20:18

A she-we

PamBeesly · 09/09/2011 20:22

no chirpchirp but maybe she thought it would come in handy for when her DS got out of line! Grin

MindyMacready · 09/09/2011 20:40

Banana tree (one you hang bananas on) -

LostInTransmogrification · 09/09/2011 21:52

On our first Christmas as husband and wife xH ( who was boffing his second wife-to-be at this point) bought me all the Boots 3for2 offer toiletries he could find. He did have the decency to look uncomfortable when I unwrapped the umpteenth hand cream though. I spend ages picking his presents, wanker.

Merrin · 10/09/2011 18:44

My MIL gave me a very sharp knife.

Leela2 · 10/09/2011 20:46

A pair of builder type wellies from my now ex husband

RedRubyBlue · 12/09/2011 09:19

I once received a 'wine puzzle'. It was a wooden box with a bottle of wine concealed within it and to retrieve the wine you had to 'solve' the puzzle.

This consisted of a rope with a series of knots and pulleys and toggles.

DP got a pair of scissors, cut the rope, retrieved the wine and put the wooden box on the fire.

I remember that present with great fondness - a fecking wine puzzle.

Hmm
CokeFan · 12/09/2011 09:55

I think I might have posted this before but my mum seems to specialise in this sort of thing. Highlights have included dusters and dishmops (allergic to polish and washing up liquid), books on dogs (have a rabbit and no interest in dogs) but my all time favourite has to be a dvd trailer (not film) for the second lord of the rings film that she got free in the Daily Mail. It even had Daily Mail written on it. She does seem to think that if she wraps something up then that automatically makes it a present. I love her really...

mummymccar · 12/09/2011 11:00

When I was 6 I got luggage labels.

kellestar · 12/09/2011 11:57

A yellow bikini in size 12, from a great great aunt who I don't normally recieve gifts off. I am a size 18/20 and had a baby 7 days before xmas. It made everyone laugh when I opened it anyway Blush was a little sensitive and emotional.

My gran always buys me clip on earrings in the most 80's of styles. I have had my ears pierced for 20 years now, still gets me clip on's.

kickingking · 12/09/2011 12:02

From SIL when I was heavily pregnant - a bottle of wine and a box of very syrupy chocolates. I am also diabetic.

From same person, a Per Una scarf. Nothing wrong with it, but it just didn't go with my coat. I took it to exchange it and was told it was no longer sold in the shop, and was last on sale there two years ago. The cheeky bitch had either regifted it or got it in a charity shop.

mymumdom · 12/09/2011 12:03

A smoking baby from my SIL. I had just given birth to DD2 and I hate smoking.

DawnTiggaWeirdyBeardy · 12/09/2011 12:04

A hair dryer.

IHaveVeryShortHairAndDon'tNeedOneTiggaxx

kickingking · 12/09/2011 12:07

My gran bought me and my sister a pack of novelty Christmas knickers each when we were teenagers. You know, with snowmen and trees on, etc.

They were size 16. At the time, my sister and I would have been lucky to fill out a size 6.

EllenRose · 12/09/2011 12:12

Awful table mats and a pair of socks that my ex DH bought from the local garden centre, and when I say local, I mean literally round the corner so I was clearly a panic purchase on the way home Sad

Note Ex DH Smile

allhailtheaubergine · 12/09/2011 12:15

What's a smoking baby??!

mymumdom · 12/09/2011 12:37

smoking baby here
shudder

RedRubyBlue · 12/09/2011 12:52

MyMumDon

For the love of GOD! Why? Hmm

allhailtheaubergine · 12/09/2011 12:56

What the arsing Jeff?

mymumdom · 12/09/2011 13:10

I know. My SIL is not a horrible or stupid person either. I really don't know what that was all about!!!

Shodan · 12/09/2011 13:24

The worst gift I ever got was from DH on our first Christmas together, but I do have fond memories because it made me laugh so much.

It was an item of underwear from a 'saucy' catalogue. White, very thin t-shirt type cotton, all-in-one body sort of affair. It had a neckband like a dog-collar, from which descended two strips of material front and back, designed at the front to just cover the breasts. All four strips joined at the middle and then divided again, neatly showing off buttock crack and hairy mary. Then all four strips joined again to meet under the crotch, which was fastened with velcro.

After I'd donned this lovely item and stopped weeping with laughter, I asked DH what his reasoning behind it had been.

He said (and I've started laughing again already) he thought it would be useful for when I do my karate...

Grin
YouWinOrYouDie · 12/09/2011 13:31

Grin at very sharp knife from MIL.

My mate once got a book about how to commit suicide from hers.

I was pestered and pestered by my sister once when I would have been happy with a voucher so I answered that I would quite like a mortar and pestle.

She got me a version from Wilkinson's for a pound or so which appeared to be made of balsa wood. Needless to say, it wasn't fit for use and certainly wasn't ornamental.

LRDTheFeministDragon · 12/09/2011 19:34

My mum got me boots own brand shampoo and conditioner, and a bar of matching orange boots own brand soap for my 18th - I have to admit I was gutted! And my poor brother, bless him, is rubbish at presents and got me the most hideous necklace once. It was sort of dirty brass colour (as in, tarnished), with tiny little violet coloured sparkles of faux amythyst studded all over it like tiny warts, in an oval shape like an old lady necklace and on a chain like a bike chain. He was an adult at this point - and he is still very pleased about it years on, he thinks I loved it. Blush

MrsHerculePoirot · 12/09/2011 19:46

I'm pretty sure I can win this one. I got a packet of TUC biscuits last Christmas. Seriously.