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what is the worst xmas pressie you ever received?

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bubbles2904 · 21/11/2005 17:52

or a child of yours? i know it's not all about giving and receiving presents, just thought it would be interesting. my dd was 8 months on her 1st xmas and received 4 jigsaws aged 6 and up LOL

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bubbles2904 · 21/11/2005 18:50

PMSL at some of these answers. elastic???? wtf!!! My 73 yr old grandad was given a popcorn maker. his response was "i can't even eat popcorn with my teeth ! "lol

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bubbles2904 · 21/11/2005 18:52

my sister once got a cuddly pig, and commented on how lovely it was. for the next 5 years we all bought her pig related things. it was only last year she actually admitted to hating them

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Cadbury · 21/11/2005 18:53

a broken little toe.

Zephyrcat · 21/11/2005 18:57

Last year my Nan gave my dp a velvet bag - the type you would use to give a bottle of whiskey or something in - just a decorative bag thing y'know? ...... no bottle though. Just an empty bag!!

frannyandzooey · 21/11/2005 19:02

LOL Bubbles, that happened to a friend of mine at school. The first thing that you noticed when you went into her room was all the James Dean memorabilia, so of course, if we were ever stuck for a present for her, we always got JD stuff. After knowing her for years, I got into a conversation about what was it she liked so much about James Dean. She confessed that she didn't like him that much and had never actually seen one of his films - she just bought a postcard with his face on one day because she thought it looked cool, then her sister saw it and bought her a poster. From then on it snowballed and she was too embarrassed to say anything to stem the tide of James Dean related gifts that came her way

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bubbles2904 · 21/11/2005 19:06

PMSL, i don't think i've ever had anything thats been bad, but i always remember me and my middle sister getting the same things. she's only 2 years older than me. i used to open all her stuff so my mum would think that she had been rooting not me, one year she got lights alive and i was so excited. on christmas morning my mum had only bought it for her and i was sssooooooo gutted. serves me right!

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Mercy · 21/11/2005 19:06

Wenceslasligo; varnished bread owl??

Please tell me

LadySherlockofLGJ · 21/11/2005 19:23

Haven't read this thread yet..........has WWB been here yet ???

She will win.

WigWamBam · 21/11/2005 19:25

I've been here ... how could I resist

hunkermunker · 21/11/2005 19:26

WWB, are you buying her an assortment of different items of haberdashery for Christmas this year?

Or perhaps you're hoping for some buttons?

LadySherlockofLGJ · 21/11/2005 19:28

No further bets please WWB is the winner, it will take some going to beat that.

WigWamBam · 21/11/2005 19:30

Buttons ... mmm, there's an idea. Maybe if she keeps this up long enough I'll have enough bits and pieces to make that catapult that martianbishop was talking about ...

jinglinggoblin · 21/11/2005 19:32

hmphh, surely my 5 yr old gets some recognition for a broken 2nd hand go cart with no pedals which fit a 14 year old

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bubbles2904 · 21/11/2005 19:34

i think the go kart one is hilarious. trying to think of more. my nan once got a ketchup bottle shaped like a tomato

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popmum · 21/11/2005 19:45

I unfortunatley have 'sheep associations' - like the james dean thing - poeple think i love sheepy things and i am really not that bothered about them. I mean the odd tea towel or picture is ok, but every year i get flipping sheep things - worst one was a black large t-shirt with sheep on (from yorkshire dales) !!!!!!!!!Not my sort of thing at all. Never worn at all, though am preg now so maybe when giving birth....
Don;t know how to put a stop to it

wenceslaligo · 21/11/2005 20:34

this came up before but - well that's it really. owl sculpture, made of bread dough, baked, varnished. you can get bread ornaments they are a kind of crafty thing. hideous it was.

wenceslaligo · 21/11/2005 20:34

i'd quite like a ketchup bottle shaped like a tomato!

wenceslaligo · 21/11/2005 20:35

in a kind of kitsch ironic way of course

helsy · 21/11/2005 20:36

When we were still going out together, my DM bought DH some fairy liquid, a blank tape and a pair of socks and put them in a shoe box for him.

helsy · 21/11/2005 20:37

In my first job, someone who didn't know me at all was my secret Santa. All he knew about me was that I'm Welsh, so I got a pound of leeks, some socks with sheep on and a tape of Welsh male voice choirs. Oh how I laughed.

babster · 21/11/2005 20:43

My mother's friend used to give me pots of Avon hand cream and moisturiser when I was about.. err... 6. Bonkers.

teabags · 21/11/2005 20:43

I got dumped by my 1st love at xmas (many years ago). I was distraught .

My SIL, who is v tight, bought me a mousemat with a map of Edinburgh on it(and we don't even have a mouse, it's a built in one on the laptop)

MummyJules · 21/11/2005 20:58

DD got a wooden duck candle from a close relative last year! My mum always buys my sister smelly things which is completely dense considering she can't smell!

dingdongMEGGYMOOonhigh · 21/11/2005 20:59

i love these threads!

NotQuiteCockney · 21/11/2005 21:08

Oh, I used to have one of those James Dean things - it was unicorns in my case. It took me years to work up the will to say "erm, I don't like them any more".

My MIL still keeps buying me things with cats on. We have actual cats, but that doesn't mean I want 500 things in my house covered in images of cats.