Right. We've covered shite presents we have received. From every conceivable angle. Now, lets move onto shite presents we have ^given^.

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The gift set of Royal Jelly smellies from Boots to MIL was a definite low in my giving history it must be said. Found in original packaging in box room on her demise some 10 years later.

lolol Cloudhopper - you should win the prize for the funniest shite presents

Isn't she just the best?!
Also pissing myself at well dressing tome.

MUM.... bath cubes
DAD.... comb and brylcreme
SIS.... come sent pack for drawers or something like that.
3 MONTH OLD NEPHEW.... pack of bibs

Nephew was the only decent(ish) pressie out of all of them, but, heh I was only 8 and budget was a massive £2.50.

This was also in the 1970s

As a child (also in the 1970s) my brother used to buy each family member a packet of polos and a pencil, each item carefully wrapped.

A fake taxi meter that said 'dads taxi' that also doubled as a car air freshener. To be fair I did get him some lovely leather gloves too.

We used to give our mum a wooden spoon and a pair of pants every birthday and Christmas until we were old enough to know a lot better.

my birthday is just before christmas and one yr my brother bought me a hair clip for my birthday and i got the matching one a few days later for christmas

SIL a chocolate cluedo game that we were given last year and have never opened. Mind you don't feel guilty she usually sends us nothing or some biscuits - she even sent my ds a chocolate selection box when he was 4 months old!!!

After XH and I finally got divorced and I drove off in the car that he was still paying the loan on I bought him a car cleaning kit from Sainsburys from DD, he was less than thrilled as he didn't have a car anymore but was paying for mine.

(He is/was a wanker so please don't feel sorry for him)

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My mother once made the mistake of opening a gift from her sister in front of everyone, including her. It was a particularly vile vase, in bright red glass. "Oh, how beautiful!" she said, gallantly. "Where shall I put it?"
My brother (not known for tact): "how about the loft?"

By magicofchristmas on Tue 02-Dec-08 00:15:44
MUM.... bath cubes
DAD.... comb and brylcreme
SIS.... come sent pack for drawers or something like that.
3 MONTH OLD NEPHEW.... pack of bibs

Come ? &

Pinner4, I have no idea what your post said !

I have given many a shit present in my time. Highlights include a 'constance carroll' pressed powder in a fetching orange umbrian sun sort of a shade for my Mum from the pound shop (in my defence I was about 11 and had £5 to spend on about 4 people), a book of the greatest 500 movies of all time ever for my nanna (who didn't even own a VCR) and later a copy of some godawful musical on DVD before realising she didn't actually have a DVD player

Last year bought mil a lovely designer watch and we got royal jelly soap and bath gel.
A few years ago my nana bought my mum some cheap kitchen scissors and a packet of shoe insoles..which left my mum completely baffled, gave us lots of laughs round the table on christmas day.

NDP.... ROFL my spellings attrocious it should have been SOME and SCENT not sent.....then again you've got me wondering i'll have to ask her. Can just imagine my poor parents faces if it was, they are from the older generation and would have been horrified.

My brother once gave me a wrapped up roll of sellotape for Christmas.
(He has SN so I was quite grateful - it acutally came in very useful!)

By BIL once recieved (from his extremely wealthy and titled mother) a (wrapped up) box of mansize tissues and his wife (my sister) got a bottle of tea tree oil.
(His mother may be very wealthy but does all her shopping at Macro!)

I also (years ago) asked my DH (who was then my boyfriend) for a copy of 'The Wasp Factory' by Ian Banks. He got it wrong and instead gave me a vidoe of 'Watership Down' . Which I have never watched as I am freaked out by evil rabbits

And then I married him!
The following year he bought me a Gucci watch

a pack of 3 hair scrunchies for MIL from pound shop last year
a 10p name sticker for my brother when I was about 8 and the same year a pack of 10 cheapy biro's for my dad.

I proudly presented my parents with a piece of slate, lovingly lugged back from a school trip. The slate was tastefully decorated with a shite rustic painting of two hedgehogs loitering by a flower.
My mother (lovely woman) put it up on the wall, and spent the next two months inching the pot plant in front of it, until it mercifully disappeared behind foliage, never to be seen again...

Last year my dh received a book on Great Toilets of Cornwall from his father.

I once gave my mum a little bronze statue of a horse that had broken off its base (I'd bought it for myself at a jumble sale). By bedtime I was missing it sooo much that I became distraught and went to ask mum if I could have it back!

But then my mum did once give me, as a stocking present, a pair of knitting needles and enough wool to knit a scarf for my dad - because she thought I'd like to knit something for him - I was really upset that I'd been given a present that was basically for someone else, but she guilt-tripped me into keeping it and knitting the scarf!

I once gave my father a box of Terry's All Gold - he doesn't like plain chocolate.
Have also given an aunt a bathmat. In my defence I must say that she is impossible to buy for, and I hit the last minute head spinning frenzy. She bought me pants anyway - and they were at least six sizes too big so I don't feel too bad.

I have been reliably informed by FIL, that MIL would like a pair of CHAINSAW gloves this Christmas.

So, in the absence of any dissent from DH, that is what she will be getting....

Have I really killed this thread with chainsaw gloves. They are bad, but surely not that awful...

Have I really killed this thread with chainsaw gloves. They are bad, but surely not that awful...

So bad I killed it twice...

Sorry, just can't top that....

My husband suggested that a Christmas present to us both this year could be....

weighing scales for our bathroom.

That would be fun.