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Whats the worst present you have recieved ?

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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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PamBeesly · 12/09/2011 19:54

Grin MrsHerculePoirot did you eat them?

RumourOfAHurricane · 12/09/2011 19:58

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MrsHerculePoirot · 12/09/2011 20:07

Well yes, it would have been rude not too! Very odd though...

Clandy · 13/09/2011 19:27

Oh my goodness I has been in stitches reading these presets!! Grin also taking iras a good sign that DP buys me good presents so obv got a keeper!

Last year I got a banana holder from MIL... Which has so far managed to only squeeze in one banana, and when I pulled it out in the staff room on the 1st day of my new job people thought I had brought in something very rude... Blush

Clandy · 13/09/2011 19:28

Oops * have not has!!!

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jen127 · 14/09/2011 10:41

Would it be inappropriate to provide guidance to our DH's/DP's. I am quite prepared after ten years of shit interesting presents to give it a whirl.
In addition to my pasta make we tend to go through a phase when shopping , all the presnets last year were feet related ! Socks/slippers/ foot cream / more foot cream/ foot scrub/ more foot cream you get the idea, we have also had the autobiography theme. Alan Carr/ Jimmy Carr / Michael McIntyre. I think the book shop must have had a 3 for 2 offer on ! :-)
Thus my list this year would include one set of nice underwear ( bra and panties), a bottle of perfume, a voucher for my nails and of course a suprise. It is at the surprise part that it will go wrong of course ! :-)

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iWILLdothis · 14/09/2011 12:49

6 packets of sanitary towels from MIL...

LaDanseMacabre · 14/09/2011 12:52

An advent calendar .... think about that one .... Hmm

LaDanseMacabre · 14/09/2011 12:55

Ah - should have added it was a Christmas present .... Grin

StealthPolarBear · 14/09/2011 12:58

Shodan am pmsl :o Post a picture (you don't have to be in it!) - or does it just roll up like a bandage?

Lol at pack of sanitary towels - I think that competes with the knicker elastic!

moonbells · 14/09/2011 13:27

I got a knitted dress off my aunt once. Teal coloured. With a roll neck. I was 13.

Never got worn.

My poor aunt could have won prizes for her astonishingly awful or tasteless presents. She was the one who gave dad a knitted golfing clown. They have never dared throw it out. One day I'll burn it.

Last Christmas I was a recipient of lots of stuff from the in-laws, bless 'em. Got bought chunky silver-plated jewellery. I know it would be lovely for a lot of folk but I only wear really small/slim gold-coloured stuff (silver makes me look like a ghost).

My own family knows how I feel about presents and unnecessary clutter. They never buy anything without checking I would actually like it...

LieInsAreRarerThanTigers · 14/09/2011 13:31

My dh once bought me a steam cleaner AND a gravy separator for the SAME Christmas!

SierraMadre · 14/09/2011 13:45

Last year my MIL gave me a revolting delightful turquoise handkerchief vase and a pot with a lid in the same colour. She said she thought they would go with the colour scheme in our bathroom.

There were several problems with this: first, we had just moved into a new house and we hadn't decided what the bathroom colour scheme was going to be. Second, the items in question previously belonged to my DH's grandma, who'd died the previous February. MIL had clearly been hanging on to them all that time.

The final insult was that the only thing she got me that she had actually spent any money on was a 99p box of Sainsburys own after eight mints. I hate mint chocolate.

AurraSing · 14/09/2011 14:00

I must be getting old, because I'd be quite chuffed to get a pasta maker.

I'm not says who, but one Christmas I received two second hand pillows (apparently, she didn't get on with them), a dress that didn't suit her so she thought I might squeeze into, and a Bagpuss DVD that SIL and two DN didn't want. My MIL hates me.

Kveta · 14/09/2011 14:11

a litre bottle of stain remover from mad SIL last year. because I'm a mother Hmm she had got it gift wrapped in the shop, and then wrapped it herself too! how thoughtful!

she also got me a bar of soap which smelt like death and a 10 ml tube of treatment for coloured hair. I don't colour my hair. Oh, and she got me an ENORMOUS bottle of hair spray too. I think she went 'ah, SIL, she has hair! I know what to get her!'. I was annoyed because I had gone to a lot of effort to get her something really special and appropriate for her (teapot and special artisan type teas).

this year, she is getting a banana guard and a sample bottle of tabasco sauce.

RedRubyBlue · 14/09/2011 14:26

A suitcase for my 16th birthday. From my Mum.

Shock Sad Grin
Merrin · 15/09/2011 13:02

These are great!

My DH got me those tree freshners for the car one year...

glitch · 15/09/2011 13:06

I asked DH for a new sports bag for the gym last year.
I got a new sports bag for the gym, unfortunately it had my name and age on it Confused
I've still no idea what possessed him and no, the bag has still not been used.

LieInsAreRarerThanTigers · 15/09/2011 13:08

My mum went bonkers one Christmas and bought about five battery-powered toys/gadgets for us and the dc - including one of those 'breathing' real-looking sleeping puppies...it was as though she had just met me and knew nothing about me, as I have always avoided battery things and been a very 'green' person in general, and don't like useless tat (specified no ornaments on wedding list!)

pinkhyena · 16/09/2011 11:21

Years ago my grandma got me a towel. One of those ones that has velcro round the top to stop it slipping down. I did also get some money in a card from her though so I shouldn't complain too much.

RedRubyBlue · 16/09/2011 11:53

my 'friend' bought me this

WTF!

StellaAndFries · 16/09/2011 11:59

From my pil's set of hideous trashy lace underwear at least 2 sizes too small. I was heavily pregnant with dd2 and according to MIL it was to help put the spice back into my relationship with dp. Our relationship needed no spice thank you very much, especially not nylon lace spice.

Dillydollydaydream · 16/09/2011 12:16

My mil once got...
Chocolate body paint complete with little brush to paint it on with?!
Because I love chocolate. Not sure if she realised what you actually do with it :)

YouWinOrYouDie · 16/09/2011 12:21

Ha ha at suitcase at sixteen. My friend had this as a present too. Sadly it backfired and she is back at home at the age of forty five after having been bailed out by her parents to the tune of £80K Shock

I once had saucy lingerie bought for me by my uncle. When I was thirteen.

cakesandale · 16/09/2011 12:26

I know someone who got a pack of ryvita and a lecture on weight loss from her mother Shock

My own personal worst was a 2ft tall plaster Benjamin Bunny. I was 38.

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