Worst/Strangest Christmas Present!

nuttywoman

A bottle of Wash Me hair shampoo , 35p, from hubby`s aunt!
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cantcope

My friend got a cd from an unt when we were young. She came running round all excited to tell me as she "knew" she was getting a cd player from her parents in the afternoon.

Gutted, she didnt. Aunt thought she already had one.

pageee2004_2

One of my most disappointing christmas pressies was last year, I write my OH a list each year for him to choose from, why I don't know as he always says that he is not getting from the list for me as he wants to get me a surprise.....
I had a big surprise last year, as hanging off the tree for about a week was a very small pressie, so my thoughts automatically went to a nice piece of jewllery, earrings or something just as nice....kept telling everyone in work that I am going to be having a nice pressie as it is on the tree wrapped up already....

You can imagine my face when I opened it christmas morning when it was a minature......CACTUS TREE !!!!!!!!!! in a tiny little plastic dom......

All I could manage at the time was "ohh thats different".....
He obviously thought it was hilarious as did everyone at work after the holidays when everyone asked what I had had....:rotfl:

Fingers crossed this year he will stick to the list....


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rls1973

not me, but my mum, received from her MIL (my gran)........a lovely pot of avon perfume cream for christmas one year.

how nice, you may think, and what's wrong with that?

well....

1. it was the same one i had given her for her last birthday!

2. it was opened, used, and finger-marks could clearly be seen in it!

that was in 1988 and things are no better!:rotfl:

oldMcDonald

Just remembered - my (then 3YO) son was given a half-eaten packet of fruit pastiles from his Great-Auntie (now passed on but was getting increasingly confused at the time)

When I say half eaten, I meant half the pack was missing!!

helenhugs

I'm sorry but I'm sat here absolutely wetting myself at some of the "presents" some of you have lovingly received.
I don't think I have ever had anything quite so bad as some of you. My nana (who lives in a gorgeous 4 bed house & has money to spare) give the most thoughtless presents. My mum (her daughter) got a book with tiny writing (she's blind), my children(4 of them to share) got a broken ornament from the £1 shop & I got a packet of out of date biscuits.
hugs
Helen

Becles

When I moved in here, the master bedroom was decorated in pink. I can't stand pink, so I was pleased when I saved up enough money to decorate it pale blue instead.

MIL had visited and admired the new decor a couple of months before Christmas and I was telling her how overjoyed I was to get rid of the pink.

At Christmas she handed me a gift and said she had picked it specifically to go in my new bedroom. When I opened it, it was a pink clock and photo frame

HopeElizzy

Some of these things are so funny.........it's quite heartening to hear that there's a few MIL's with different ideas for suitable gifts.
Last year my MIL gave me a china elephant with a candle holder on it's back, my sister received a giraffe candle holder and my SIL received one as well but won't divulge what it was!!:rotfl:
They were quite grim and I'm not sure where she got them - I can't even sell it on ebay - no takers:o

Maysie

Well i think i may have given a bad gift but it was unintentially.........






Thorntons chocolate shaped car















do not look like cars









after mum put them under trees next to radiator!!!!





cheers mum




stepdad got a bar of chocolate instead o well sorry.




so remember when giving chocolate items be careful where they get placed!

teedy23

when I was much younger, my (now ex) mother in law used to buy me big paisley pattern knickers every year. One year to my surprize, she got me a very sexy full length nightie, slashed to the waist at the front and sides! No she got me a size 22 the top should have been full of boobs and knee length. i was a size 10