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Worst/Strangest Christmas Present!

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  • moggylover
    moggylover Posts: 13,324 Forumite
    victory wrote: »
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


    I'm hoping that you are not laughing at the thought of what it has been useful for:eek:.

    In the days when it was purchased for me I used to work alongside my then OH, he would cut up the trunk and I would strip down all the canopy and cut up the smaller stuff with my small chainsaw:D.

    I was happier doing that than I had ever been doing any other sort of work in all my days:o
    "there are some persons in this World who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them"
    (Herman Melville)
  • victory
    victory Posts: 16,188 Forumite
    No not at that just at the way a man's brain works red and sexy = chainshaw :rotfl:
    misspiggy wrote: »
    I'm sure you're an angel in disguise Victory :)
  • Anglea
    Anglea Posts: 7,208 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic
    I wonder if the people whose gifts we're slagging off are also online somewhere talking about our crappy gifts to them? :D
  • Kandipandi
    Kandipandi Posts: 1,656 Forumite
    Again not christmas but my EX hubbie forgot it was our wedding anniversary and went to work as normal remembered throughout the day and when i collected him from work presented me with a huge basket of beautiful flowers.

    I was touched that he had remembered and gone to such a lot of trouble, and I said I hope you didn't spend too much, the thick sod admitted that he hadn't paid for them, they were from work (he worked as a Nurse in a Nursing Home), it was some old dear's funeral and instead of leaving the flowers at the Crematorium they brought them back to the home to cheer the old dears up, and he snaffled one for me!!
    I was horrified, and he couldn't figure out why :rolleyes:
    You can stand there and agonize........
    Till your agony's your heaviest load. (Emily Saliers)
  • Gleek
    Gleek Posts: 710 Forumite
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    I have to bump this for this years round :)

    My worst present was a book of cocktail recipies. I don't even drink...! Not bad by any of these though :rotfl:
    Princess Sparklepants
  • Not for xmas, but one of the worst was a large bottle of cheap perfume from wilkinsons from dp (he thought getting a bigger one would be better value) it cost him £7.99, the worst thing is I have never worn perfume in all the time I've known him.

    Another one was tesco value box of chocolates...hmm if your present has a value logo on it you have to feel loved lol

    Lastly a Leona Lewis cd when I had been moaning through the whole x-factor that I couldn't stand her.

    All of these were from my dp.
    Mummy to two beautiful girls and one gorgeous boy.
    :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
  • mum2cara
    mum2cara Posts: 29 Forumite
    edited 18 September 2010 at 8:21PM
    a pair of childrens socks.......seriously
  • my nanna asked me to wrap all her christmas presents one year. she has a big cupboard and buys things through the year, as well as wrapping she wanted me to pick what gift to give who.
    so i assigned all 30odd presents to people (including a lovely wicker basket filled with toiletries for myself and a gillette set for dh), wrapped them all and clearly labeled them with gift tags and bows. there was presents for people aged between 6months and 48years.

    come christmas morning i took the presents out of the gift bag she had given us and found both presents had a huge rip in on the front. i could clearly see i had a doll (selected for my 6year old cousin) and dh had a doctor who screwdriver (which was for 10year nephew).
    her answer... 'i couldnt find the names on them' even though the labels were still on the presents (at the top of the rip!)

    it was a lot of fun getting together to swap present though, lots of laughing at what people had been given.
    Mummy to ds 29/12/06 dd 10/2/08 ds 25/5/11
    :Amy angel born too soon 18/11/12, always with me Emmie Faith:A

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  • tub28
    tub28 Posts: 131 Forumite
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    The first year I went to my (ex) boyfriends house for Christmas I had already been pre-warned that gran always knits her presents ... and the family "tradition" of having to wear grans knitted garments for Christmas dinner. :eek: I got a balaclava as she thought it would be useful for when I was waiting at bus-stops in the winter (!??!?) how ridiculous did I feel trying to make a good impression while wearing a bloody balaclava for dinner!!!! :D

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    OMG! The best laugh for ages!
  • Sniggering at this thread.....!
    My neighbours son, now 17, has received a blow-up plastic armchair three years on the trot from his (not at all elderly) Auntie.
    My sister in law living in America sends presents, when she remembers. Generally we'd rather she forgot. For our wedding present, she brought all the way back from Mexico, a huge cardboard box full of newspaper wrapped packages. She was obviously very pleased with herself and couldn't wait for us to open them. They're the real thing, she kept saying, not just made for the tourists! Fortunately for us, my MiL had already been shown the contents by excited daughter and whispered to me - "I don't know why she chose these, I really don't, I apologise for my daughter..." With some trepidation, we started unwrapping the various heavy objects, to reveal seven, large, carved, painted wooden masks. One a red devil with horns, one was a cross eyed rabbit, one was a sort of skull-like wraith, there was a sort of evil baby face, and the rest were vaguely animal-like but nothing I could recognise. All were painted in lurid, crude colours and they even had a faintly unpleasant odour. I suppose there might be some people in the world who would recognise their authentic ethnic artistry, but we certainly couldn't. Sinister and peculiarly frightening summed them up. How on earth she'd got them through customs I'll never know. Did we ever hang them up in our new home? Nope. They lived in the same cardboard box and the same newspaper in the loft for about 14 years. They even moved house with us twice. We kept promising ourselves we'd burn them one bonfire night and even joked they'd come back to haunt us! Eventually, we donated them to a charity auction as the booby prize. Someone kindly bid on them and now they live in the same cardboard box at the back of his garage.......
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