Worst/Strangest Christmas Present!

misfire

My naff presents are nowhere near as funny as above but here goes.

My best friend once bought me a wooden christmas tree decoration in the shape of a teddy bear when you pulled the string its arms and legs moved... i was 14 at the time and not impressed...

My aunty is so mean (and loaded) bought me a pashmina - i kid you not it was the cheapest nastiest thing - i wouldnt have even used it as a cat blanket. She also got me really nasty 99p gold bling jewellery with clip on earings (i have pierced ears) for my 18th birthday. She ALWAYS used to buy me horrid presents and my brother fab presents... we have a crap christmas present comp in our house and i hold the top two spots! no one has surpassed the crappy wooden decoration (which we still have an my mum still puts out every year at her house)

Secreat santa - we had a £5 limit and my friend (who found the list so knew who was buying for her) was bought a nasty cheapy pen (type you get fre for doing surveys) and a smalll box of mingles chocolates.... she was on weight watchers and had been proudly telling everyone how she had lost 2 stone by not eating chocolate!! She was expecting a really nice present as ti was one of the managers who was buying for her who got paid mega bucks!

... another person got a cheapy plastic mirror from wilcos and a 99p selection box..

You cant beat secret santa for crap prezzies.

ailuro2

TWO wire kitchen utensil holders from Boots with a Beech base, the kitchen had just been done up with Cherry wood doors, he thought they'd match.

Today they hold pens in the computer room.

Nexy year brought a beech(!) cheese board, I suspect it was the buy two get one free offer in Boots and he couldn't think of a third thing...but I like cheese?

One birthday it was a set of 5 floating flower candles from the local gift shop, couldn't even be bothered going two miles to an area with more shops. Reason was I like candles.

Trained well,though, last year it was a very expensive eternity ring....or he'd have had eternity listening to me moaning about those flaming candles!!

All said though, I don't complain, because he's lovely and thoughtful the other 363 days of the year:D

In_Search_Of_Me

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Classic!

honey28 wrote:

This has to be the funniest thread ever. Told myself I was going to just read a few but here I am 30 mins later PMSL!!

OH's granny is cracker at presents. One year she had gone on a knitting spree and made DS an aaron jumper - lovely except she had forgotten to make a hole for his head. She also made a hat to match,and gave it to DS for Easter - it resembled a chefs hat and both DH and I were able to fit into it at the one time - still have photo pinned up in kitchen.

Last year she gave me a box of chocolate. Nice present. They were the same ones we had given her the previous Christmas and were all white and mouldy inside with several missing and the empty papers still inside. I have also had handkerchiefs off her embroidered with her initials, not mine!!

Last year a relative from England came to stay with my folks for Christmas. She bought all the couples hot water bottles, DS (7) barbie bubble bath and DD a pack of dummies (she was 3!!) one cousin (21) got the free toys from a cereal box - she had been collecting them. The creme de la creme was when she presented my brother with a balaclava to wear to work on cold mornings and home again - not the best thing to buy someone who lives in N Ireland and travels by train and bus to Belfast :rotfl: She made us all open them one at a time so she could see our expressions. By the time it got to my bro I was in full on hysterics. They had to tell her I had too much to drink :rotfl: We all got the presents after dinner, and all were wrapped in paper she had salvaged from earlier in the day

In_Search_Of_Me

My mum got me...a shed! Dead chuffed though but havent got it yet...comes under the odd category me thinks! Will be great when I have my new allotment! but realise that its not the sort of thing most would want!!

nappentass

My Mum was bad for 'disguising' pressie's - regularly Dad would get choccy and biscuit boxes which actually contained socks and undies, my memorable one was a HUGE box which contained lots of packing and a small bar of chocolate - very diasappointing because I was still quite young then. Either that or she would forget where she put things for pressies - I never got an annual one year ... found it when I was clearing the house after she passed on.
Mind you Dad never read cards - I stopped him giving her a beautiful card for her birthday one year because I said "with deepest sympathy" with hiindsight perhaps he was trying to get his own back
Jill

Spendless

Some cheap copy perfume, the sort with the name it's meant to be a copy of mis-spelt. Best thing about it was the 50p I got for it when I did a car -boot

DH once bought me a football top from the team he supports . I don't even like football :mad:

jeppy

AfM wrote:

I think the title says it all.

And I thought you like him!!!

jeppy

My poor dad (he died in 1992, still miss him badly!!) bought me educating rita on video. It was on TV the same day. I felt so sorry for him.

Great film though!!

scrimperjan

My first husband was very unromantic and useless at buying presents; the first year we were married I pleaded with him to buy me anything rather than just give me the money. The week before Christmas a tiny parcel, the size of a small jewellery box, with my name on it appeared under the Christmas tree. I was so excited, I was extra-nice to him all week. Christmas day came; I ripped the paper off....it WAS a jewellery box! With beating heart, I opened the box, to reveal.... ten quid, and a note that said 'buy yourself some knickers'!

JustJosad

I was so looking forward to xmas last year My BoYf ( now ex) Is a Surgeon.......mmmmmm so money no object I thought..........Christmas day to my delight he gave me a natty set of Hospital scrubs, cos they make great PJS.......!!! ........in a funny way he was right got rid of him kept the scrubs