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.

This is a gift I received not gave but one year my DH gave me swimming goggles.
Useful? well, they would have been if I ever went swimming which I don't. Not if I can help it anyway. Don't know where he was going with that train of thought. He was crestfallen when I questioned him - he thought I'd like them

I once bought my brother a bar of whole nut for christmas, and I dont mean one of those big bars, just a small one, it cost 27p

I did wrap it though.

That was OK, then whoingodsnameami.

A couple of years ago I bought my dad a remote controlled speedboat for him to play with (on his lake) for Christmas.
I don't think it's been out of its box
Last year I bought him a Nintendo DS with brain training.
Ditto the box.
What was I thinking?

This year he's getting a scarf

Also bought my FIL and MIL a pasta making machine one year and wrapped it up with packets of flour and eggs. Which I thought was a fab present.
Till I discovered they already have one gathering dust at the back of the cupboard, also never used

Then another year I gave them Denby egg cups. Don't think they've ever been used!

And also bought them a selection box of coffee. I think that did get used but in retrospect it's a strange christmas present.
I like trying to be creative, but sometimes it just backfires!

my dad once bought my mum a deep fat frier.

An auntie of mine once bought me a digital watch, must have cost about £2.50 as it had a plastic mickey mouse stuck to the front of it. I was about 16 at the time, I am also totally blind and have been since birth. . Wonder if I could get her to buy me a car.

A friend of ours once bought his wife (for Christmas) - an egg whisk and a pineapple. (That was all)
She wasnt' very pleased.

Nappyzone, sorry but am roffling at you not seeing why dh wasn't thrilled with his pretend fishing game. Because sitting at home pretending to be fishing is exactly the same as going fishing .

I once bought Sil Happy-Go-Lucky on dvf, with the mistaken belief it would be a good film - It's not. It is absolutely shit.
However since it turns out Sil is not a very nice person, and has been really bitchy towards me in recent years, I am glad that I didn't get her something nicer

My BIL is known for giving some rubbish presents, I'm not sure why he thought is like a dvd of Chopper - about a serial killing maniac...
A couple of years ago DM gave me a Madhur Jaffrey cookbook and a box of spices, I don't particularly like curry and never have.

I've given my fair share of crap presents though. One year for we birthday, I painted DM a picture of horses and had it framed. I was about 25, it was rubbish!

One year I bought FIL a desktop pool table. I don't think it's ever been used!

I think my dad's present this year may fit into this category. We've got him a framed aerial photograph of their house. We're now wondering what we were thinking!

Poor DM had some awful presents when I was a child, cheap china dog, cheap fake crystal vegetable crudités dish (although this one is still used twenty years late!) spring to mind.

Spent ages buying sil2's present, she had told me how much she loved a particular cocktail, spend a lot of time tracking down a particular spirit which is not easy to find, bought some beautiful glasses with the rest of the ingredients. Saw bil few weeks later, sil2 was not happy with the present, what was I thinking?! Explained the reasoning, he comes back a week later, yes it was one of her favourite drinks, she had forgotten we had had that conversation, but she couldn't drink them because of her new diet. This year she is getting a Cath kidston set that I have been given and can't use (sensitive skin).

I gave DH a 1GB memory stick once. I was really pleased with myself (they were newfangled things then) and couldn't understand why he was underwhelmed.

My poor mum once got a 50p trial sized bottle of Gliss conditioner. I was about 10.
I once bought my sis a particularly shite Billy Joel album. She has never once shown any inclination of being a Billy Joel fan.
Our first Christmas together I bought my now DH those snow grip outer soles for shoes. He was underwhelmed. But then he bought me tea towels and a pinny so...