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Can you top my rubbish gift?

94 replies

frankie80 · 18/12/2014 23:07

So first xmas gift this year, from my secret santa.

A box of chocolates.

What's wrong with that, I hear you ask?

1, they are alcoholic chocs (I don't drink)
2, half the chocolates are missing.

Anyone got similar stories?!

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thecatfromjapan · 19/12/2014 09:41

Goes without saying that it was a used pencil , not brand new. But it was nicely wrapped.

Jumblebee · 19/12/2014 09:43

My dad once got me a pack of highlighters and some sticky notes for Christmas (although I had other really good things). I was a bit Hmm but as I was doing my A-levels they were handy.

I can't believe some of the gifts on here, a pencil?!?

GemmaTeller · 19/12/2014 09:48

My sister once gifted my son a pen engraved with HER sons name on it.

It was turned round in the box so the name was underneath.

debka · 19/12/2014 09:57

I look after my mother who has terminal breast cancer- this is relevant!

One Christmas my exMiL gave me one of those charity pins you can buy for about £3, and a card saying 'I know it's the wrong one, but I thought you would like it'. It was for ovarian cancer.

MiL has form for this sort of thing, but this really took the biscuit.

thecatfromjapan · 19/12/2014 10:00
Shock These are making my mil look good.Grin
GertrudePerkins · 19/12/2014 10:00

my next-door neighbour just came round with this beauty
I'm feeling really ill, so didn't quite manage to fake the requisite enthusiasm.

thecatfromjapan · 19/12/2014 10:01

And Debka: hope you and your mum have a really lovely Christmas.

Memphisbelly · 19/12/2014 10:05

When I was around 12 my nan bought me some awful 80's knickers with 'kiss here' on the elastic. Shock My dad still saw me as his baby girl and didn't approve so she got a telling off....she has never bought me anything since!

LuannDelaney · 19/12/2014 10:10

I love the bottle of Baileys going back and forth between Triptrap and mum.

DaftStudentNurse · 19/12/2014 10:21

The christmas my ds was 6 months old, my (now ex) mil presented me with a gift saying 'it's an investment in the future'. Perplexed, I unwrapped the present. Inside was a carrier bag with a dozen boys briefs in it. Now not only were these briefs second hand, faded, grey and bobbly they were also stained! I have no idea where she got them, she loved buying tat from charity shops, always seemed to leave the good stuff behind. But these were in such bad condition I can't believe a charity shop would have sold them.

The present wasn't the main reason, but by the following CChristmasshe was my ex mil, thank goodness.

PulpsNotFiction · 19/12/2014 10:23

Ahh Gertrude My mil bought us one of those awful pictures with the tea lights last year. I'm Blush to say me and DH cracked up laughing and the more we tried to stop the more we laughed. Hideous.

She recently sent me a text to ask if I would like a Russian style poncho this year. WTF! With matching fur hat. Err sounds fabulous mil but no idea what one of those is and I'm not sure I want to find out!

^ that wasn't my response btw, I was a tad more diplomatic than when we received the tea light canvas.

WhereHas1999DissappearedToo · 19/12/2014 10:26

Got a first aid kit from work, apparantly a lot of 'thought' was put into it Hmm and I've done countless unpaid overtime this year (worked weekends, stayed late etc) No one at work was impressed!

schmeegle · 19/12/2014 10:42

Dh got me a book about improving my golf swing one Christmas. I don't have golf clubs and I've never played golf. I happened to watch the US Masters some 8 months previous and it stuck with him Confused

ClarkGriswoldschristmastree · 19/12/2014 10:54

A jar of marmalade which was one year out of date !

TheWordFactory · 19/12/2014 11:01

My BIL often just misses me out!

He'll come to our house for Christmas with his DC and last year with his new wife and her DC too (who I barely know) and hand out gifts to DH and DC but miss me out Grin.

Greenrabbit · 19/12/2014 11:20

I got a draught excluder/door stop one year. No idea why, lots of fake smiles once I'd realised what it was.

Ultracrepidarian · 19/12/2014 11:35

Oh surely it's the giving that counts.

My sil and bil are awful so much so that we said no more gifts some years ago.

A book on out of body experiences during coitus, a bottle of lambrini, some twiglets, a box of dairy milk, Avon gift sets and a BBQ basting set and two cookbooks on how to perfectly cook meat. It was all presented beautifully in a gift hamper.

The dc got a build it yourself bike to share. We have 4 dc.

May I just add we don't eat meat and I'm coeliac. This gift was the one that prompted the no more exchanging of gifts. They weren't happy couldn't understand why we should stop.

Cookie84 · 19/12/2014 13:19

Loving the half a pack of children's tights!

One year my brother bought me a winnie the pooh key holder. I was about 14, living with my parents, didn't have a key for the house yet and wasn't exactly allowed to start nailing stuff to the wall. I think it stayed in a drawer until I moved out a few years later and then binned most likely.

Also received a pen and tweezers from my mil for my 30th birthday. Weird.

Drania · 19/12/2014 13:20

I have a theory that my MIL doesn't like that DH and I are the only ones in the family without kids not for lack of trying.

For the last three Christmases we've received a kids craft set, apparently because she didn't want us to feel left out. Confused

Gatekeeper · 19/12/2014 13:28

my dear old Ma bought me a stuffed squirrel wrapped in a tea towel Grin

claireykins00 · 19/12/2014 13:34

My nan once gave my mum a really tacky looking badly made sunflower.

My nan received from her significant other, who was quite well off with money, a 50g yorkie bar

When my sister and I were kids, I once gave her a comb from a barbie dollI had. As soon as she opened it I demanded it back and threw a tantrum until I got it. Two days later I chucked it in the bin

Lillabet · 19/12/2014 14:01

This might out me but hey ho!
Ex BF bought me rechargeable batteries and battery charger our first Christmas together! I kind of got where he was coming from, I listened to my walkman a lot and was always running out of batteries but that was all he bought me. I'd spent a fortune on him and it was his birthday too so he'd got double presents! It should have told me where the relationship was going and I should have run away there and then. DSis has never let me forget it (21 years ago now!) Hmm

FannyFanakapan · 19/12/2014 14:07

my MIL and SIL regularly regift items to me. Its quite insulting.

MIL last year gave me a cake stand. I dont bake. Previously she gave me her old breadmaker, because she didnt like it, so it was OK for me to have. To reiterate, I dont bake.

SIL sends me random beads - I don't wear jewelry - which are completely not anything I would ever wear. SHe also regifted me a scarf - it stank of her very distinctive perfume and I have seen a picture of her wearing it. Ive also had dog eared paperbacks.

What pisses me off is that I am always very good at selecting gifts for her, and her husband always gets a nice gift voucher for music or for wine. Im just thrown any old thing that they don't want.

This year, I've asked for vouchers.

ooohsopink · 19/12/2014 14:24

A year into marriage, we invited the IL's round for Xmas lunch and I thought it would be fun to make Christmas crackers, with personal gifts inside for each person.

I bought for hubby and his parents: crystal earrings, leatherman penknife etc nice little gifts.

Hubby bought for me so it would be surprise.

It was that indeed - we all pulled the crackers - mine last so all eyes on me.

I couldn't quite work out what the item was, so held it up at eye level to examine - and then realised they were a pair of crotchless knickers.

I was sitting opposite FIL.

You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife...

MelonOfTroy · 19/12/2014 14:26

I've been married for 10 yrs and have never had anything from either of my BILs despite me buying them something from our family.

TBF it's never bothered me as they always get something for the kids which is very kind.

MIL gave me a face flannel and shower puff a few years ago, bless her.