Worst/Strangest Christmas Present!

luxor4t

X-MiL, on our first married Xmas gave me a carrier bag full of wrapped gifts. Xmas morning my gift was: bag of nuts, net of sprouts (very limp), packet of stuffing, jar of beetroot, pickled onions, babycham ....her idea of the key ingredients for Xmas lunch, none of which I enjoy eating, & anyway I had done all the food shopping.

Current MiL has never given me tea-towels, I feel so left out! She used to buy nylon or polyester 'tops' at the market as birthday gifts: they'd remain unsold in the CS even on 50p day!

moonpenny

I was feeling a bit fed up and have only read the last 2 pages and can't stop laughing. Funnyist thing Iv'e read for ages,:rotfl: will have to start at begining now!

Sarah_Joanne

My grandma is the worst at buying presents, it's the running joke at Christmas opening her presents to see what tat we all have. Usually it's from chraity shops or re-gifted e.g. my sister receving a jewellery roll that my mum had bought for grandma the year before.

The best thing she's bought though was for my hubby 2 years ago - a mini car vacuum cleaner! Except he didn't drive then :rotfl:

scaredy_cat

i think we need a 'Worst Chistmas Pressie Swap Shop' thread on the 26th, so peeps can swap if they like what someone else got!!

Nessynoo

I thought I'd resurrect this thread for all of our random 2012 presents.

(And for anyone who has missed this hilarious thread)

Has anyone opened any weird secret santa gifts yet?

thrifty-gal26

In previous years the MIL has given me:

A black lacy thong
A pack of knickers ( the kind a 6 yr old would wear )
A car brooch
A tea towel that came free with PG Tips
A cat notepad
A brown mug full of jelly beans
A small tea tray

And most years she buys me jelly beans from Aldi as I mentioned I loved Jelly Belly beans ( but only jelly belly beans ) and chilli chocolate ( i like spicy food but not chilli chocolate ) and japanese crackers

God bless her. I feel bad because she is trying to be thoughtful but she is just wasting money as it goes in the bin.

Now my sister is married she also gets a load of carp so its a competition this year of who gets the most random thing :rotfl:

samphe

cornishtightwad wrote: »

havent read them all so i hope no-one else has posted anything like this (i somehow doubt it). how about your grandmother giving you your deceased grandfathers re-usable contraceptive (as she no longer has a use for it !!). apparently they were literally sheaths which were washed out and re-used. wish id kept it now to show the doubting thomas who dont believe me

A fantastic thread which has had me crying laughing! This one however has left me gobsmacked! Did you use it?!!!

I stumbled across this thread in the middle of the night last night when I couldn't sleep and logged back in this morning as soon as I woke up! Nice to know I'm not the only one with a nightmare MIL!

anniemf2508

the strangest and probably the most inappropriate present i ever got was from my boss (he was in his late 50's, me in my early 20's)....see- through black underwear.....saying thank you after xmas for that was awkward

MrsTinks

Being as this year I bought most of my own presents... I did pretty good. Only exception to the bliss was my works secret santa - so I kinda chat to nearly everyone - it's just me! And it would have taken anyone I don't know 2 seconds to find out what I like (chocolate, wine, food... ) - so... what did I get? That's right!
I got a re-gifted set of body butters from Tesco... *sigh* How do I know they were re-gifted? Because they were their summer range and haven't been sold for 5 months and part of the packaging was missing PMSL...
Honestly! At least I coughed for a full tin of Hero's to my recipient who I barely know but took the time to check if he liked chocs and if he was dieting or diabetic!

SugarSpun

This year I only got a couple of slightly off the mark items in the box of stuff my mum packed for me (she makes one for each of us). DH, however, received a black sequinned shower cap.