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.

I think this one wins the prize.

Last year I got a book called "1001 Uses For Vinegar" from my MIL. In complete seriousness.

My granny used to include a teatowel with every single present for my mum, who got mightily irritated...
...so WHY the **does my mum do exactly the same to me ?? and it's always something covered in pastel wild flowers or hedgerow birds or similar. AAArrrggghhh.

My FIL bought my MIL a day of driving a bulldozer on an assault course. She is a 63-year-old twinset-and-pearls Scottish lady.

The next year he bought her a toasted sandwich maker that plugs into the cigarette lighter of a car. He was very proud of having secured one of these, as apparently there was a waiting list .

miobombino, perhaps she gives you tea towels because she has a lot of them sitting in her cupboard, never used, due to being given too many

I remember my father been really excited one year as he had got my mother a xmas present. For weeks and weeks she wondered about what it was and on xmas morning my father went off and my mother was soooooo excited. My father came up the path not long after with.............. a rotary clothes line his shoulder!!! She was very disapointed and he was so pleased - it still makes me laugh. He fixed it in the ground on xmas day and mother is still waiting for the real present.....

My mum once gave me a toy hamster that sung kung foo fighting. i was very until dh was sorting the wrapping paper empty boxes and he found in the box a really nice gold bracelet that almost got chucked!

A baby blue nightshirt with a yellow fluffy rabbit on it from my mother. i wouldnt have minded but I was 32 at the time! I was just thankful it wasnt one more of her christmas jumpers.

After eight mints - I can chain eat an entire box without realising!

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dooley - my DH has the same kung fu singing hamster and he loves it! given to him by mates and it has a pride of place on shelf

A book about chinese prison paintings!!!

I got the '1001 uses for vinegar' book last year too!

I love this thread-makes me realise I'm not only one to get strange pressies!

A felt rabbit in tyrolean costume carrying a felt basket filled with small plastic cabbages. Technically it was useless as it was a door stop.

Strangely it got lost in my last house move

I got an ornamental plate (mil KNEW I didn't have knick knacks etc) with my name spelt completely wrong.

It wasn't useless, but DH now realises that white goods are not acceptable as christmas presents since the year he bought me a dishwasher. And I thought I already had one - him

Wooga - i actually asked for the vinegar book!! Does that make me very sad? I think i already know the answer to that one.

Did you know that it was used in Dr Who to kill the Slitheen?? Every home should have a copy!

supermarket toiletries set EVERY Xmas from both MIL and SIL.

I just cannot find a home for so much unwanted (and probably toxic) body lotion.

The first Xmas after moving in with DH I got a tin of "cook in sauce" from my parents. Knowing how my family works I guessed there might also be a casserole dish for me. When we'd opened all the presents and no casserole dish had come to light I was a bit confused. Speaking to my parents on the phone later that day I asked if I'd missed a joke or anything because I was a little surprised by the tin of sauce. "Oh no," said my mum, "I just thought you might like it".

My Mum (God love her) is awful at buying presents. Perhaps she's just tight because she buys some really cheap tat. One year she got DH a cheap set of drill bits. She's terrible at wrapping too and buys that horrible cheap wrapping paper that tears if you so much as look at it. When I was a kid, hardly any of my pressies were surprises as they were always hanging out of the paper.

I love you Mum

I got a Capricorn nightie from my aunt (I'm Sagitarius and my b'day is 2 weeks before Christmas) I did however give my 'boring uncle' shoelaces for christmas!! -oh the shame of it what was I thinking!!

I recieved a Capricorn nightie from an aunt (I am Sagittarius and my b'day is 2 weeks before Christmas) I did however give an uncle a pack of different coloured shoelaces! Oh the shame of it what was I thinking!!! Apparently he loved it and it came in v useful though so might not count.

vole3 - i have actually ASKED for a dishwasher this year!! I'm so fed up with all the bloody washing up that i have to do!!

One year tho, i got a cheap wicker basket of pot pourri from my FATHER and his wife. I was absolutely mortified and so upset as my sister and brother had got nice pressies! Cant remember exactly what they got, but even my sister's boyfriend got an electric drill from them. I just felt like crying as they knew it's not my sort of thing at all!! Needless to say when i got home, it went straight in the bin.

Mummypenguin, my Mum is just like yours. What I don't get though is despite buying wrapping paper that disintegrates to the touch, she posts them to us carefully protected by expensive bubble wrap and several layers of brown paper! I end up having to bind DDs present with sellotape. But yes, God love her, at least she is still around to do it and my DDs do love a bit of plastic tat

My nan bought my dp a pair of world greatest dad socks last year. not unusual you may think but we were at the time childless and had been ttc for 3 years after 2 mc. will be 34 weeks pg this year. think he may get worlds best grandad boxer shorts.

i also got a bottle of wine from sil for 2 years running when i owned a pub ( how thoughful)