Worst/Strangest Christmas Present!

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melt71 wrote:

The year after, I had split up with my husband at the end of Oct so I took my daughter up to my parents house for xmas. I live in Dorset so it was a long way to travel with a 3 year old on my own. Xmas morning comes and my younger sister started to open all of her presents, I gave my folks their presents, I gave my sister her presents and they gave my daughter her presents. I did not have 1 present to open!! My mum just said 'I didn't know what to get you so I'll get you something in the sales if you want'.

This board has had me LOL until I read this post and it really touched me. I could have understood if it had been MIL but your own mother, JEEZ.
Have this on me melt71 :beer:

Although many of you have had problems with MIL mine was just the opposite; despite the feeling of dislike being mutual I would always get the good prezzy and OH would get crap eg - one time she gave me an expensive cut crystal fruit bowl and OH got a plastic carthorse!!

cannylass_2

My MIL and SIL are ace at inappropriate pressies!! over the years we have had set of blackboard surfaced mugs and chalk-to design your own mugs, came complete with hot choc sachets which had best before date several years earlier! a make your own flower from an onion device (every home should have one), but the best one has to be the 2 pack of old lady nighties given to me one Christmas,. they were the wrong size, so in true MSE fashion,i took them back to M and S, to find they hadn't stocked them for 4 years and could only refund me £2 for them!! i now agonise over what i buy them a great deal less than i did!!!

Sassers

Have stopped laughing enough now...these are brilliantly hilarious posts!
Anyway, very excited one year that my birthday was coming up, my nan made loads of hints she'd got me a fab pressie. You know what it's like....lots of anticipation, the big day arrived, my nan came round, gave me the gift, I ripped open the parcel.............
.....Inside was a sparkly flashing yo-yo and a single duvet set of carebears.

It was my 22nd birthday.:D

stripey_cheese_skirt

nappentass wrote:

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

I feel soo bad because I did give a sympathy card to someone when I was at school, I didn't know what they were really for at the time... what a nightmare :sad: ... her sister gave me an equally great gift...a tin of biscuits for christmas which they'd eaten exactly a thrid of (they said they thought I wouldnt notice because theyd eaten the same same amount from each layer :huh:

My stepmothers elderly mum gave me a pencil once, and explained to me on the phone for twenty minutes how to use it, very kind of her

My sons nursery agve him a flannel last year ... at least it was useful

This thread has entertained me so much, I always agonise about what to give people but now I'm not going to worry at all!!

Smickan

scrimperjan wrote:

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'!

:rotfl: I think I love you :rotfl:

stripey_cheese_skirt wrote:

My stepmothers elderly mum gave me a pencil once, and explained to me on the phone for twenty minutes how to use it, very kind of her

Bless!

SuiDreams

myrnahaz wrote:

My husband once had a Mars bar for christmas from his (rich) granny. He was 14 at the time and felt he was lucky as she'd never bought him anything before. My auntie once said she'd buy me a bike for christmas - I raced downstairs on Christmas morning and found - a green and white striped chrocheted poncho.

My Hubby got a mars bar off his brother for his 21st

croboy

One X-Mas i thought it would be a good idea to buy a plaster kit and make my girlfriend a plaster mould of my manhood. It seemed like a good idea at the time........we split up on X-Mas day evening!

meerustar

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Absolutely hilarious thread :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I remember when I was younger, my nan gave us a tin of chocolates, Quality street I think, with all the strawberry & orange creams taken out as they were the only ones she could chew ...

A couple of years ago I thought my husband had bought me a new pair of boots (I had been dropping hints that my other's were looking a little rough) and opened the shoe box to find he had my old boots re-healed and polished :eek:

But the best was a freind of mine. Her MIL gave her a home video of her hubby from growing up etc .. and included an hours worth of video of him with his ex-wife ... half of that on honeymoon too :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

SuiDreams

Loads of stories here, the best one I think is my friend from work one year spent a fortune on her mum and dad expensive DVD palyer and some DVD's, they got her ..... Nothing.

Last year me an hubby got horrid presents off my sister so we wrapped them up and gave them to his family.

One year my BIL and his wife gave me the free bag she got with her make up (you know the ones spend x on make up and get a free bag with make up in it) unfortunately the free make up had been removed first.

My FIL buys some terrible presents, one year I got a winnie the pooh hot water bottle (sounds nice eh?), but it wasn't a proper one, and it looked like horrid as it wasn't made properly and was forever known as ugly pooh. One year he gave hubby and BIL some old football papers (for their team) they were old and raggy and ended up in the bin. and a few years ago he got one of those drawing things for kinds you know those multicoloured boars that are coated in black that you draw a picture in (he was 27). The list goes on.

Juliepink26

Very funny thred

When i was 15 my mum bought me a duvet for Christmas, not a cover no, the hollow fiber inside one:eek: . Told me i should be gratfull.:mad:

The next year i recived a large box that made a ticking noise my dad thought it was a bomb!

Last year a large box sat under the tree for weeks, i thought must be really nice to make up for all the crap presents over the years, when i opened it i found a lare remote controll car!! Bare in mind iam 25yrs and had no kids at the time, my Oh thought it was halirous when he put batterys in ,it didnt even work!!! Mum said the prestents got mixed up and my 2yr nefew got a lovley set of hair brushes.