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'm loving this thread!! The same tea towel three/four years running!! The Tyrolean rabbit!! Can't compete with those, but here are mine - My Dad gave me a good bottle of Rioja the year I was pregnant at Christmas... SIL and BIL once sent DD1 (several weeks late) some socks for a 3 month old baby and a dress for a 5 year old, both from Tesco. DD1 was 2 at the time. We had sent their DDs Boden dresses (the right sizes)

From my dh's VERY wealthy aunt and uncle, two chipped crystal glasses - the sort they gave away with petrol some years ago...

From my sister, a bright purple fluffy bunny teddy. I am 35 ffs....

My brother gets me good stuff, but we like the same sorts of things....

My poor mum really hasn't got a clue and now gives us money, which is very much appreciated

From mil, a bright yellow t shirt with 3 cats on the front, and the rears of the cats (in graphic detail) on the back. A scarf thing that was like metallic fish net. Neither was like anything that I might have possibly ever worn. She is queen of the almost what you actually wanted - DH might say that he'd like a purple shirt from so and so in size XXL, tall. She'd buy an M&S yellow shirt in regualar tall 'it looked better'.
From SIL, the two of us got a £2 Matalan candle in peach between us. The year after, a bottle of dip. That I couldn't eat. The year after a giant plastic pepper grinder.

MIL phoned last night to see if we would like a carbin monoxide monitor for christmas ......

Laidback where have you been? (kitty here) come and say hello on the march thread please!!!
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"Two faced" make up set from my not so subtle MIL last year.

Randum Chelmsford Market brown mascara (I only wear black) from MIL year before.

Cheap as chips gold necklace and earrings set from MIL year before (have never knowingly worn anything other than silver in my life)...

Got to say, that my Mum is in the same league as yours Mummy Penguin. As a child I found it deeply frustrating - we received tonnes of weird pressies - totally random ones bought in sales, all incredibly badly wrapped. One present in a dozen would be alright - the rest would just clutter up my room and I'd feel a mixture of guilt, embarrassment and anger on Boxing Day trying to figure out what to do with them all.

The arguments that we had when I was a teenager were appalling really: I came across as really ungrateful from her perspective, but I felt that she should have made a teensy bit of effort in trying to understand me. On the plus side, I learned to improvise really well and customise clothes to get a unique rather than fashionable look! Today, I'm the complete opposite to my my Mum - she's a hoarder and I'm a chucker. I do my best to accept people as they come and only buy stuff that they want.