Worst/Strangest Christmas Present!

Kizzyella

This thread gave me the most laughs last year at a time when our moneysaving could be quite intense and serious. I thought I would bump it in the hope that it will continue.

Sallys_Savings

Thanks for boasting this thread up....soo funny!!

Sarahsaver

I love it on the Simpsons when Ned Flanders gives his kids 'pretend CHristmas' AND they are genuinely delighted with their invisible gifts :rotfl:

Nanaof2

What a GREAT thread!

Like most of you some of my worst have come from ex MIL. They included
A box covered in shells she'd picked up on her hols & the glue she had used stank
On 2 separate occassions ceramic jam pots. One I thought was going to be an amarylis bulb kit but it was a jam pot packed in an old yogourt carton.
A shapeless nightdress in about a size 26 when I was a 12. I swapped it for one my Mum had in my size & had never used. MIL's one was too big for Mum & she was a size 22 at the time
For my 21st b/day she made me a blouse which wouldn't do up because I'd had my daughter 2 months before. Her reckoning was that she knew it wouldn't but it would when my bust went down (didn't meet by about4 ins)
She also once gave me & her son matching shirt & blouse she'd made. Same material different colours His was black & mine was red Yuck

Keep up the thread I haven't laughed so much for ages

tallyhoh

croboy wrote: »

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!

And WERE you surprised??

celyn90

Thanks so much for posting all these, I've read it right from the beginning and I've been in tears with laughter for most of it. I think my boss is wondering what I'm doing :rotfl:

My mum bought me a baby blue nylon velour dressing gown with a hood for christmas a couple of years ago. :eek: So now I can be a pajama hoodie!

We also have a secret santa at work (actually reffered to as secret Satan - because they are usually evil pressies). My boss has recieved many copies of "how to win friends and influence people" (he got Machiavelli's "the prince" from me last year). I always get off lightly for some reason - cookery books or chocolate.

Sarahsaver

Ooh once from a secret santa I got 3 cans of spray on deodorant - heck did I feel paranoid after that!

Kizzy001

If we are talking about secret santa presents.....

I used to work for a law firm, the Senior partner (who owned the firm) bought one of my colleagues a jar of "vickes"...my colleague’s name was Vic..

i'd never seen the whole office stunned into silence ..ever!

Senior Partner was such a cheapskate..!

laurajayne

I'm quite lucky by the sounds of it - I haven't really had a rubbish present (small family I think - we ask )

But my secret santa was hilarious - and embarrasing.

When I worked for a mobile phone retailer, there was always a christmas outing for the branch managers, and a secret santa for a £5. Well I thought I was being wild when I bought a blow up sheep (tat was what we were aiming for mostly - like a grow your own girlfriend thing, or a reindeer that 'excretes' chocolate raisons...you know the things lol). Well, they'd pretty much emptied the bag, and I hadn't got anything....then my area manager handed me mine. I opened it (bearing in mind we were in the middle of a busy restaurant), and it was a 'strap on' from ann summers. Now I'm pretty open minded, but even I blushed Everyone else roared with laughter, and my ASM was begging me not to report it to HR (incidently, I checked and they were like £40!)

The best bit was when I got home, and had to show my parents what I'd been bought :rolleyes: They thought it was funny to!

Alias_Omega

I once gave my nan a present, and about 3 years later i got it back..?

Cheapskate..