Worst/Strangest Christmas Present!

stripey_cheese_skirt

never_enough wrote:

She still makes stockings up for us all full of things she's found during the year & to be honest I enjoy those more. They're usually full of silly little bits & bobs, including a satsuma & chocolate. She finds small size bottles of wine for OH & nice smellies for me plus a strange puzzle or something to try to make us think complicated thoughts when we've clearly eaten & drunk too much to do anything of the sort!

thats lovely, thats what i want for xmas

vivw_2

What a wonderful thread...never laugh so much!

Generally I receive ok presents but do remember one year as a newly married 19 yr old my mum bought me a long grannie type white nightie...not quite sure what she was trying to say!!!

angchris

i`ll never forget my christmas present a few years ago from my godfather.... it was all nicely wrapped up with expensive looking paper bows and ribbon and i thought wow its nice to be remembered as i had never had anything from him previousely....
it was a toilet seat with a mirror in it that i could hang on the wall:eek: :eek: how thoughtfull of him :rolleyes:

shockingmoment

biscuits and a packet of pate from my sister. just wonder what went through her mind when she thought - 'I know, I'll get him.....'

Ms_Chocaholic

Once got a present from my boss at work, a box of chocolates. Nice you might say, what's wrong with that you might say, except that they still had the tag on which wished his wife a very Happy Christmas. His wife was a teacher at a private school and obviously the present was originally given to her by one of her pupils.

Hope he reads this and recognises this !!

*zippy*

My MIL and SIL always gave us stuff we didn't like, so I used to bag it up and take it to the charity shop until one year my SIL confronted me and said she had seen her presents in there

Sassers

Not a Christmas pressie but a pressie all the same.....When I was 10 I came out of hospital after an eye operation. You can imagine how swollen and gruesome my eye looked and what did my dear old mum buy me? A jumper dress and matching tights. How brilliant just what I was after...except they were wine coloured.
And matched my poor old eye perfectly.
lol

piglet6

OK, Mr P has been nagging me to put this on here ever since I told him about this thread. It wasn't a Christmas pressie, but a birthday pressie to him from the parents of my best friend (but they are a bit like family - I always refer to my friend's mum as "my other mother"...growing up, the three of us were so close that people weren't sure which kid belonged to which mother, because three of us were always together with one mother or the other!!!).

Anyway, i digress...

Mr P received...

A Feather Duster(!!!) :rotfl:

It was given with a suggestive wink that we would probably find something "fun" to do with it... His face was a picture! Don't get me wrong...we are not averse to a little bit of "fun", but we did not expect it in the shape of a feather duster from a very respectable couple in their 60's!!! :whistle:

This was about 8 years ago, but I have to admit, it is the present he remembers the most(!), and he brings it up whenever we have to buy pressies for the couple who gave it to him! :rolleyes:

Piglet

CFC

My DH is Swedish, and I went to spend Xmas with his family the first year we were engaged. Never met them before, wanted to put on a good show so I took a few very nice pressies that were small enough to go into hand luggage.

All the family were there - he got loads of presents from each of them, I handed out my pressies as well and I received one pressie from the large family, from MIL to be - a very nasty bent candle with the message on it 'Millenium 2000' stuck to it in glitter And of course, it was 2001....

By the way we never received a wedding present from any of them either. They didn't come to the wedding. And the night before he flew out to marry me, MIL told him not to go because flying was too dangerous...

MIL sent us a belated wedding present 2 years later...it's lucky I don't take offence very easily!

Strange how I refused my MIL's entreaties to go and live in Sweden, eh???

stas4949

My brother was once given a lovely watch by our gran, it had a little train that went round on the second hand (u know the sort), trouble was he was 22 years old. We still laugh about it every christmas............