Insulting xmas prezzies.

[snowbodysfool]

Whats the most insulting christams present you have ever been given and who gave it to you?

I got my mum wind-up Jesus and Mary figures once. My 2 brothers thought they were hilarious and started having races with them. Mum however was furious and threw them in the bin.

No sense of humour these catholic ex-nuns.

My ex MIL made me a pair of cerise pink dungarees, Well I was 8 months pregnant. I looked insane. My ex and I laughed for hours. When DD (aged 2) opened her presents we found MIL had made her a pair from the leftover material.

A self-electrolysis kit. I didn't ask for it. But my SIL saw one and thought of me. Am I that F*ing hairy? (Answer: yes, actually I suppose I am! )

I was offered a washing machine this year from my MIL. (DP got a HD telly she thought it would be nice for me to have something just for me) erm no ill stick to the straighteners i origianally asked for if you dont mind!!! Bless her

Washing machines cost more than straighteners though .

Cliff, your mum is an ex-nun? Wow.

Yes they do but I have a fully working washing machine but my hair is a HUGE fuzzy mess!!!

mumbear - i love the way your MIL assumed a washing machine would be something "just for you"!!

my MIL gave me the most appalling pair of slippers last year. they were really, really tasteless. i gave them to the hamster to make his bed with! but they weren't insulting...

I think she thinks im not doing as good a job as her at looking after her one and only son cos i make him do his fair share of the housework. At least he can wipe his arse now he lives with me!

edam - explains a lot I'd say.

um, I guess it might!

Are you not going to give us any hilarious anecdotes from your childhood, then?

mb, surely it was 37 metres of the stuff?

Ex BF's mother gave me a bottle of Clean and Clear.

Same woman gave me a pair of pink fluffy high heel mule slippers. Strange as I don't think she ever saw me in anything other than sensible laceups or trainers.

Had a small business a few years ago and my staff gave me a £5 Asda voucher. Not a bought one but one that one of them got for nothing for spending a certain amount in the run up to Christmas.

MIL offered us money to decorate dd's bedroom after dd and i had drawn and coloured giant maisy characters and hung them up "i thought you might like some nice wallpaper"!!

doesn't beat the knicker elastic though...ping....

My eSM (is that right for evil stepmother???) buys a whole pile of crap at the very end of the sales, and wraps it all up separately, for next Christmas. Last year we received a 3cm x 3cm 'smallest book of belly dancing'; a bright pink bag that folded up inside itself to become a tiny bright pink bag; a shower cap; two packets of tictacs and a stale mini-Christmas cake from Sainsbury's.

DP gets really worked up about it- the waste, really, as so much ends up in the bin. We open their presents in their absence after a large glass of wine - this enables one to be less irritated, I have found!

my OWN mother bought me an oven liner thing for a roasting pan one year from the betterware catalogue AND a kitchen roll.

This was the first yr with dh - he thought she was mad - still does

Soda stream! What a cool gift!