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ODD PRESENTS THREAD..... Add Yours Here......

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DanJARMouse · 20/12/2007 18:30

Ok, so being the impatient organised person that I am, and not wanting the girls to be bogged down with presents on christmas day, we have opened a few from distant relatives that have arrived in the post.

DH's gran has sent the girls a pair of PJ's each, fab, right sizes etc but also accompanying them was a pack of 4 pairs of knickers.... age 9-10 (my girls are 2 and 3!) with a note in them - "2 pairs each, lots of love Gran"

WTF?

Age 9-10 knickers.... for a 2 and 3yr old?! And to SHARE them?!

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MerryAnnSinglemas · 20/12/2007 18:33

maybe she read the size wrong and what's wrong with sharing 4 knickers between 2 ?

mumofmonSTARsOfBethlehem · 20/12/2007 18:34

a few years ago i got a tin of marrofta peas from my gran

mumofmonSTARsOfBethlehem · 20/12/2007 18:34

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DanJARMouse · 20/12/2007 18:36

lol mom

MY gran is great, just sends a cheque!

DH's gran is a bit bonkers, she never gets sizes right, so i was quite chuffed she got the pj's right! She sent our nieces stuff aged 12.18mnths last year and they are 3 and 5!

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mumofmonSTARsOfBethlehem · 20/12/2007 18:37

Am still trying to figure out the age on the knickers! Maybe she thinks they will do to "put away"...??

maybe she didn't even look at athe sizes

FrumpytheGrumpyreindeer · 20/12/2007 18:38

I'm sorry but it can't beat the knicker elastic from MIL........who was that now? Califrau? Oh damn, I can't remember?

coldtits · 20/12/2007 18:38

My Grandad sent me a dolly when I was 17!

Weegle · 20/12/2007 18:38

I got a nail care kit, including used emery boards. So not just a recycled gift but a USED recycled gift............

..............and I have to keep my nails short for my job.................

yup, it was from my MIL

pollypumpkin · 20/12/2007 18:49

A knit-yourself-a-scarf kit (I can't knit) displayed as if it is a tall cappuccino

AnAngelWithin · 20/12/2007 18:51

my nan has bought me a clothes horse/airer and a reindeer teddy that sings 'grandma got run over by a reindeer'

Cappuccino · 20/12/2007 18:51

when she was 3 my mum's friend brought her a collectable porcelain doll in a presentation box

it was not to play with, she said sternly, but in case she wanted to collect them when she was older

Cappuccino · 20/12/2007 18:52

when dd was 3

Califraunkincense · 20/12/2007 18:54

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Blandmum · 20/12/2007 18:59

Sperm shaped tealight holder

wethreekingsofORINOCOare · 20/12/2007 19:16

when I was about 14/15 my uncle's wife (his third, so I don't think of her as my aunt ) bought me a raffia waste paper basket.

Several years later, when dd1 was three weeks old, she sent me a "101 papier mache ideas" book - as if I'd have time to do that with a newborn

Maidamess · 20/12/2007 19:20

A Remington Fuzzaway for getting the bobbles off my woollens. My mother gave it to me. I was so cross I threw it against the wall when I got home and it smashed. I'm not very grown up!

FrumpytheGrumpyreindeer · 20/12/2007 19:20

Califrau, can I say how beautiful your Christmas name suits you. I remember we shared a Christmas outfit last year until I swapped mine at Markies I am wearing my cheapskate vintage one

FrumpytheGrumpyreindeer · 20/12/2007 19:21

Knicker elastic STILL (and always will) win it for me.

FrumpytheGrumpyreindeer · 20/12/2007 19:22

In fact, I might get my MIL some [evil maggot emoticon]

WigWamBam · 20/12/2007 19:32

I'll send you some, Grumpy; 34 metres enough?

FrumpytheGrumpyreindeer · 20/12/2007 20:01

34 metres will be perfect thank you! It remains my watershed moment on MN. The moment I realised I was amongst friends

PurpleTinselPrincess · 22/12/2007 01:47

Needless to say, I always get tonnes of purple stuff and I've had some fabulous stuff over the years from my parents (I'm an only child so I still get spoilt even though I'm 30!). Anyway, the year before last, they got me a massive steam iron just because its purple!? She knows I hate ironing so it could have been a hint but even so, I wasn't exactly over the moon to receive it! Since then, it has been collecting dust in the kitchen - it takes about 20 mins to heat up and you have to use special water to fill it up; then when its hot enough, you get drops of water all over the clothes - wtf!

We've sent them a link for the microwave that we want this year so they get exactly the right one...

Furball · 22/12/2007 06:54

I have posted this before so excuse me if you've read it but my MIL gave me a top and when I opened it I pointed out it was the same as the one she was wearing. She replied it was, they were on Buy on get on Free and she had the free one

susiecutiemincepies · 22/12/2007 07:07

I can't stop laughing about anangelwithins' gran who gave a reindeer that sings grandma got run over by a reindeer!!

Well, need I point out to you lot that you are jolly lucky to have been given pressies at all...

My grandma has never bought me anything in my memory. My dad ( needless to say its his mum who never gets us anything) has remembered my birthday maybe a third of the time? A few years ago, he actually remembered, but rang me to tell me that he was about to go into a book shop to buy me a pressie, when he passed a homeless tramp outside so he gave him £20... the £20 he was about to buy my book with....

SO i guess my 'best' pressie I was given was £20 on tenants super for a smelly man in the West end of London ?

TEUCHywithallthetrimmings · 22/12/2007 08:44

dashboard wipes - I just peeked!