what is the worst xmas pressie you ever received?

[bubbles2904]

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

moondog, i think it was my cousin that bought the popcorn maker. LOL dd got a hideous porcelain like doll last year from the pound shop. it was off my nan who had wrapped all her presents and died suddenly. that doll is so treasured now and is not allowed to be played with

some of these posts are having me wetting myself

pmsl at some of these, batters, parcel string??
WWB wins of course.
But I also like the James Dean/sheep/cat/unicorn floods of presnts.
I was once given a pair of slipper socks, that?s the worst thing I can think of actually.
The only other bad thing is ludicrously off-target age-wise gifts for the kids.

psml over morethan1's urge to indulge her passive/aggressive tendencies.

I saw some real crap in 'The Works' today,including one of those naff boxed sets.This gem was called 'The Art of garnish' and included a crappy cook book,lots of plastic and cardboarder and a few kitchen utensils-melon baller,lemon zester,lark defeatherer.......

You get my drift.

These are hilarious.

Apart from the hideous and totally useless oven-gloves I got one year (so thin I burnt both my palms and broke an entire lasagne on the floor as I picked up the dish from the oven, and yes, I still have the scars) I've done OK.

What is awful though, is the number of shit presents I've given. When I was little, I once got to Christmas Eve realising that I hadn't got anyone anything. So I swung into homemade action, and came up with things like a pair of home-made paper earrings for my Mum. Cringe.

I once even gave my baby brother a colouring in book which was already half done...

And the most awful one was when I gave my Dad a novel written by a famously gay actor. Now, I bought it with the best intentions, as he loves this bloke's work, and the book was all about Africa, which he's also really interested in. Sometime in January, he said: "Great book, really... interesting," so I read it.

Imagine my horror to find that peppering the text were the most graphic scenes of bestiality involving all kinds of lovely zoo animals, men, women, children, aunties, you name it, everyone gets it.

Mortified. I apologied, and he's such a sweetie and said: "No, really, as I said, jolly, er, interesting, darling..."

This Christmas it's all going to be fine, honest...

Oh dear these are so hilarious, how about we start a swap thread listing all the unwanted 'gifts' then mners can swap them around and give them out to their relatives who have given them daft presents in the past???

No Mill,I disagree...the paper earrings would have been made with love.

My SIL has a thing about shopping in charity shops for mad / wacky presents for the 3 of us.
D and I are are constantly tempted to say 'please, just don't bother buying abything'.

The fodue set from the 70's was pretty awful, and rusty!

Pretty much every year we receive some awful, mad, pointless, slightly smelly 2nd hand oxfam type gift.

Oh and my mum once bought me a 'How to Write Your Own Will'.
It wasn't the only present she got me, I did get some great things from her that year as well but....!!!!

Cannot top the elastic! But my wickedstepmother bought me a pair of pink floral pajama trousers and a bright pink nylon cardie in a size 16. I am, and always have been an 8-10 . And EVRYONE who knows me, especially my father, knows I NEVER wear pink, especially cos I had bright chilli red heair at the time. And it was my 30th birthday present from both of them. To add insult, when I ungratefully took them back to M and S for a refund, I got £6 as they had been in the bottom of the bin sale . I know it's the thought that counts, but there was no thought there - except for malice imo

The fondue set...you sure there wasn't some funky retro thing going on there??

(I love my fondue set.......my arse doesn't though!)

The elastic is priceless, how hysterical.

Thomcat my MIL is a devote of the carity shop as well. I love her to bits and she can be amazingly generous. But some of her gifts have been priceless. I have a small wooden box from last year, year before that a 'sperm' sgaped tee light holder, she gave my BIL a bucket of old hinges once.

OTOH she gave me a beautiful victorian saphire and diamond broach when I got married , so I shouldn't moan!

A green nylon tie with orange cabbage roses on it, from a not so old aunt! The following year it was an orange tank top!!!!

PMSL at sperm-shaped tea-light holder. D'you think she knew what it was? (Only it's the sort of thing my mum might buy for the kids and say 'look at the nice tadpole dears'!)

PMSL at millguff!

morethan1 I agree with new girl sponsor a donkey or a goat for her! Even better if you can have one named after her

Have to admit i've recycled presents before! Also have the obligatory unused fondue set in the cupboard...

I asked for a garden shredder but he said No, too boring.

He got me Mrs Beaton cookery book instead

cellulite cream - priceless!
top tip for everyone who hates their mum/mil/sm - jane fearnley whittingstall's good granny guide - I ve got 3 copies to buy myself.......

the worst has to be the sets of toiletries which everyone finds so popular. They are what you buy when you couldn't be bothered thinking of a decent gift for the person. One year that seemed to be all I got and I never use them (sensitive skin), they gather dust until spring cleaning. I'd rather a gift voucher.

SIL gave dd (aged 1 at the time) a hand made felt santa handpuppet - a damn ugly thing with big googly eyes that made her scream and was put away immediately. Still it was better than the "Robin in Snow" Christmas card cut up to make a jigsaw the following year.

Plus, I was given a pair of slipper socks from my dad that still had a label on to someone else from some-one we'd never heard of - turned out that they had been a present to his secret mistress!

The worst one I've ever heard of was to my friend from her new boyfriend at Christmas - a jar of pickled onions! He was dumped!!

I'm also remembering now that at Christmas my Grandpa used to give us kids, and bearing in mind that two were boys, a selection of his dead wife's appliqued t-shirts.

My little brother, aged about 4, went through a comedy camp stage wearing glittery bat-wing tops with sequins on as a direct result.

My mum used to seethe.

Thanks MD for saying my earrings were made with love. Well, that and a heck of a lot of Pritt stick. Actually, Mum and Dad moved recently, and guess what, she's only still got them. Bless...

My lovely (but ever so slightly crazy) grandmother once sent me (aged 9) a pair of men's swimming trunks ...and they still had sand in.
She also sent my whole family a set of glass decorative perfume bottles. Unfortunately, they were all broken and since she had forgotten to put stamps on the parcel we had to pay the postage.....which was £30 because she lived in Florida at the time!

Oh three absolutely brilliant ones!!!!!

rofl!!!

SIL bought me a size 20 satin nighty. I'm a size 14. She's a size 20. very obviously an unwanted gift for her she was recycling. Inlaws bought ds1 a hand felt puppet of mozart. they got it from the metropolitan museum of art in new york. but even so, mozart. he was 2 FFS.

dreadful furry (!) nightie (this was pre-fleece days, iykwim) with embroidery - bunnies or similar - and satin embellishments with broad ribbed cuff round bottom (it finished just above the knee - well i think it did, i never tried it on). I think my ex-boyfriend told his mother, who'd bought it, that i took it back. it was jaw droppingly bad, i'm not really doing it justice.

from husband,an umbrella stand,fashioned from a genuine elephants leg.