Worst/Strangest Christmas Present!

rosalie-lavender

My eldest son bless him is now doing his own laundry at university. He has discovered aeriel liquitabs and thinks they are "awesome" so guess what he bought me for Christmas.....

He did buy a bar of chocolate to go with them but I still think I had better have a quiet word if he ever gets a wife. He has a rather practical nature and I appreciate the thought behind the liquitabs but I am not sure a girlfriend or wife would be too impressed.

I am also wondering why my mil bought me a pack of 10 pairs of chopsticks.

Anglea

My goodness there have been some cringy but hilarious presents given out judging by all these posts, I couldn't believe some of them. Giving one single J-cloth! Or the doormat and the washing tabs LOL.

Like some of the rest of you I discovered the wealthier you are the more embarassing the presents. Every year I'd get this really fancy box. You've never seen wrapping or bows like these ones. So you start anticipating something equally fantastic. But you open the box, wade through the tissue paper and find a really cheap bottle stopper. . You know, the metal and rubber ones that cost about 99p.

It was like that every year and it wasn't done as a joke either.

Spendless

rosalie-lavender wrote: »

My eldest son bless him is now doing his own laundry at university. He has discovered aeriel liquitabs and thinks they are "awesome" so guess what he bought me for Christmas.....

He did buy a bar of chocolate to go with them but I still think I had better have a quiet word if he ever gets a wife. He has a rather practical nature and I appreciate the thought behind the liquitabs but I am not sure a girlfriend or wife would be too impressed.

I am also wondering why my mil bought me a pack of 10 pairs of chopsticks.

:rotfl::rotfl:That would sound so cute if you son was 8 rather than the 18+ he must be if he's at Uni.:D

I bought my son (9) one pair of chopsticks for his stocking as he'd mentioned liking to try eating with them. You've not mentioned anything so rash to your mil have you and she thinks you'll need practise?:D

rosalie-lavender

Spendless wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:That would sound so cute if you son was 8 rather than the 18+ he must be if he's at Uni.:D

I bought my son (9) one pair of chopsticks for his stocking as he'd mentioned liking to try eating with them. You've not mentioned anything so rash to your mil have you and she thinks you'll need practise?:D

Well we have eaten at a Chinese restaurant recently but we ate with knives and forks. To be fair I should add the chopsticks weren't my only present.

The thought behind my sons liquitabs present was that I had said I couldn't afford to use liquitabs with the sheer amount of washing I do with a family. I usually use a washball anyway because my daughter has problems if I use powder. I said I couldn't afford them so he bought me some.

babybug

My aunt this year bought me a brown and orange floral make up bag (lord knows where she found it!), with a few bits inside... All 17 of them were lipbalms Not even different flavours :rotfl:

And my gran bought me one of those colour by numbers things for kids (the box says ages 3-5)... Which would be fine if I wasn't 25! :rolleyes:

auntyn

A close friend gave me a zombie version of A Christmas Carol!! Whatever possessed her?? And no she does not do jokey presents!

milliemonster

My brother and his wife a couple of years ago gave us a present 2 weeks before xmas which we duly put under the xmas tree awaiting the big day.

Over the course of the next two weeks leading up to xmas, the present started to smell, overwhelming so, by the time we opened it on xmas morning we were gagging, it was a hamper of cheeses that had gone off as they so obviously should have been in the fridge!!!! so we had to chuck the lot

donquine

rosalie-lavender wrote: »

My eldest son bless him is now doing his own laundry at university. He has discovered aeriel liquitabs and thinks they are "awesome" so guess what he bought me for Christmas.....

He did buy a bar of chocolate to go with them but I still think I had better have a quiet word if he ever gets a wife.

I think you better have a word if he gets a girlfriend otherwise he won't make it as far as getting a wife!

Bless, at least there was some thought to the gift, even if it was a bit misguided.

RoxieW

Opening my gift from MIL I got all excited at the flash of a turquiose box - esp as she had asked me if I like tiffany jewelery. Excitement soon turned to disappointment on close inspection - they were fake jobbies prob off of ebay - not even nice designs and stating that they are silver but are plastic sprayed silver!! I just hope she didnt pay alot for them! In her defence she normally buys nice 'safe' presents like perfume sets - hopefully she'll stick to that next year!
My absolute worst has to be a 'close' friend who bought me slippers from our local supermarket. I actually felt quite hurt as I always make the effort to buy her and her family something lovely - but then, I've come to expect it from her as my birthday present was 4 days late and again, something thoughtless from our local supermarket. Am very annoyed about it - esp as i'm the first one she comes to for favours adn I'm constantly subbing her when we go out. My new years resolution for 2010 is not to pander to her anymore - if she cant show appreciation with abit of thought then she can go whistle - after the favour that i am doing her at the minute that she asked before xmas :rolleyes:

lolly1981

awww bless him...i think the liquitabs is quite sweet, 1) cos some thought had gone into it, you had said you couldnt afford them and he thought they were ace lol
2) at least he is doing his own washing and well enough to realise what is and isnt a good detergent lol

that being said i wouldnt be too happy if i was his wife and he gave them to me...might think hes trying to say something...but in his defense ...hes doing his own washing now so he probably still will be doing it