Worst/Strangest Christmas Present!

Scully's_Girl

This didn't happen to me, but is pretty bad.
One of my dearest friends was working as a guidance counsellor in a school. Her boss, the principal gave her a candle for Christmas. It had a black wick and loss of wax indicating it had been used.

whistler-alison

My OH bought me a carpet sweeper the first year we were living together. I was such a lucky girl that year :T

windowstuart

when i was a child, my family was poor. my father gave me a stick and said it was a flute...but he couldn't afford the holes (which he then promptly said he might be able to afford next year!!!)

just to let you know how poor we were, when it was cold, we used to sit around a candle. when it got REALLY cold, we'd light it!!!!

oh, woe is me!

natlie

Hi
I had a pair of earrings but dont have pierced ears lol

I had a gift set of moisturiser last yr that expired in 2004 thanks

I had a box of out of date maltesers that had turned into liquid goop

The best one was a folding tortoise shell frame with a picture in one side and an old style clock in the other it was horrible but I put a piccie of the kids in it and gave it to my partners grannie and she loved it lol

Nat
xxx:rotfl:

Primrose

A friend was in hospital seriously ill and her skin was severely jaundiced. Her mother-in-law sent her a nice new BRIGHT YELLOW cotton nightdress.

As an wedding present my grandmother gave me a scruffy velvet-lined box of dessert spoons which were all black and tarnished. One of her sons had won them in an athletics match at school 40 years previously. I was obliged to clean them up and put them on display with our other gifts. Unfortunately my uncle to whom they had originally belonged saw them on display, tried them back and it started a big family argument, hours before our wedding. Granny just sat through it all grinning. (We're still using the spoons though !).

Primrose

One year my husband gave me a trailer-load of manure. I was absolutely thrilled to bits with it as it was just what I wanted for my veggie patch but all my grilfriends said they would have divorced their husbands had they given them such a gift. Perhaps I just have a warped sense of humour !

Littlejoan

my husband one year received from our neighbours a plastic box of bulldog clips - why did they think they would be useful?
Joan

fiendishly

A couple of years ago my husband was given the usual port and stilton gift set by his sister in law, no problem there, he enjoys it every year.
They must have forgotten me, because the gift tag had " .... and Sue" hastily written on it in a different colourd pen.
I have yet to forgive.

suesuesue_2

My (ex) husband bought me a deep fat fryer one year....!

When we had opened al the presents, he said, oh, hang on, I've forgotten one!

He rushed upstairs and I started to get excited...jewellery...shoes...a handbag maybe?

No, he had bought me a bag of potatoes as well!

suesuesue_2

Primrose wrote:

A friend was in hospital seriously ill and her skin was severely jaundiced. Her mother-in-law sent her a nice new BRIGHT YELLOW cotton nightdress.

Thanks a classic!