what's the most useless xmas pressie you ever received.

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I once got a tube of Lush bath bombs when I lived in a flat that didn't have a bath - only a shower. And the person who brought me the present knew this as she lived in the flat before I did.

A pair of curling tongs , my hair is naturally curly ! A pairs of straigtners woudl have been better. Needless to say it was from MIL !

A calendar in February.

Note to self - read the title properly!

A glass floor based candle holder ... the Christmas ds1 was 8 months old.

ROFL Colditz

BBC DVD posted to us in America - it doesn't play on our DVD player.

an electric wine cooler. What's wrong with the fridge ?

a packet of granny sized knickers so voluminous that, when I tried them on, the top of the knickers appeared over any pair of trousers or skirt I had on.

some thick size 18 pyjamas because my mother thought they would be useful when i got bigger during pg!!!
I wasnt due till May and i'm only a size 12 FFS!
The thought was there!

One of those musical cake slices from DH's grandmother. Not really my sort of thing, frankly!

Almost everything MIL has ever bought me. From the black sequinned 'evening' bag to the diamante drop earrings.

She knows full well I never go anywhere and, er, I'm not a 60 year old with a penchant for cheap 'glamour'.

God, I sound like such a bitch. She's a very nice woman (just crap with presents)

Earrings
I don't have pierced ears
Any ideas what I can do with them??

A book on Street Graffitti - gave it to my brother who loved it, not my thing at all, present from BIL

Are you all ready for this one?

An Advent calendar
(I kid you not)

A handwarmer that you stick in the microwave. From dh. We did not have a microwave at the time.

A pair of pyjamas with the bottoms missing!

an avocado slicer, a lakeland 'washball' thing, a pair of shorts for running in (more like hotpants!)

All from MIL!!

a freaking westlife album from my gran

i mean, come on ffs

A dammit doll that my mum made - freaky looking cotton doll with freaky hair which you hit on floor etc and shout dammit and she also bought me a scarf and box of liquer chocs .... (was pg at time) Luckily my sister got the same and sat and laughed for hours it was so crap

I vividly remember a christmas as a young teenager, my oldest sister opening her present from my grandparents, to reveal a beautiful silk slip. (I think they'd been on holiday to somewhere exotic or something, really not their normal style present!)
My middle sister opened her present - an identical, beautiful silk slip.
I feverishly tore into my present, so keen to get into my first ever bit of beautiful underwear that it didn't quite register that my present was an altogether different shape.
So imagine my surprise when I pulled off the paper to reveal....

a 350 piece jigsaw puzzle and a pair of patterened (yuk) tights, so small that the crotch barely came past my knees. I still feel hard done by, to this very day!

Not me, but my Dad. His sister bought him one of those keyrings which, when you whistle or clap loudly, beeps so you can locate your keys. He's been totally deaf in one ear since the age of 20 so has no way of locating the direction a sound is coming from.

DH has bought me: a chopping board, hot water bottle, tea/coffee/sugar jars and a set of saucepans.

Not so much useless but thoughtless!!!....

DH bought me two bags of pegs one year!

Pink, flowery duvet cover, that was grim and dusty inside the packet.

And a superkingsize when we have a double bed.

My mother repeatedly bought me those bloody horrible Fererro Rocher thingies, every year without fail (I have a nut allergy).