Worst/Strangest Christmas Present!

myrnahaz

My husband once had a Mars bar for christmas from his (rich) granny. He was 14 at the time and felt he was lucky as she'd never bought him anything before. My auntie once said she'd buy me a bike for christmas - I raced downstairs on Christmas morning and found - a green and white striped chrocheted poncho.

Gettin_me_own_back

Hubby does not shop, does not bother me as I buy what I want and he gets a nice surprise on the day and cant moan because he has not made the effort.
One year, Mum who does christmas big time, moaned at him so much he went shopping on christmas eve at 7pm.
All that was open was the local Tesco express type shop and the emergency chemist next door.
One card left in the shop which is about 3 foot high and still comes out every christmas, now a standing joke as its 8 years old.
The chemist had a bargin bin, I got some emery boards and a pair of nail clippers, I bite my nails.
Upon comming home mum was not impressed, she continued to nag. He then convinced a friend who runs a local electrical wholesalers to meet him and find a suitable present for me in the stores.
I got a Dyson, was I gobsmacked on christmas day, as we have Parkie flooring all through our house. He spent the whole of christmas, showing the kids how to hoover up lego bricks.
This year I shall buy myself something incrediably expensive on his credit card adn it will be a lovley surprise in January when he gets the bill.

Lyndsay_21

my wonderful MIL put in my stocking last year a hello magazine, some optrex under eye gel patches (do i really look that tired) and something else just as naff that i canet remember now, and a few years before i got a 'lovely' market watch and some perfume so hideous not even my 14yr old sister would wear it!!!

hazzie123

This is such a funny thread,I love it!!

I`m doing a secret santa at work and I`ve had some great ideas of what I`m gunna buy off this thread.Everyone usually buys nice smellies or a bottle of spirits but this year the poor sucker I have to buy for is gunna get the most boring,useless,pile of rubbish I can think off.

beetrootjuicer

Psykicpup wrote:

We have a tradition (well we started it) that one person gets a spoof pressie!

OH used to do this each Christmas for my SIL. It started as a laugh when he bought a book in a charity shop with 50p price pencilled inside which he crossed through and wrote 'reduced to 10p' underneath and gave her as a present. SIL has wonderful sense of humour, thank God, which spurred him onto greater things culminating in the spoof 'Bodyshop gift basket' - he got an old wicker basket and filled it with an almost used up bar of soap, :eek: a hard dried up worn out face flannel, :eek: half a bottle of the cheapest, nastiest moisturiser, :eek: half a bottle of Radox :eek: a squeezed tube of toothpaste, :eek: a cheap toothbrush with the ends bent over, etc. etc. You get the drift. Actually reading this it sounds absolutely disgusting and very unfunny: Perhaps our family have got a warped sense of humour but everyone almost split their sides laughing, especially the kids, as we all sat round opening presents. I should add SIL got her proper present afterwards and we're all still great friends!!:D

musostudent

My Dad's present from my Gran one year was a set of his old school exercise books that she'd found in the loft!! He also got a aeroplane mobile for his 40th birthday, and other exciting Christmas goodies include pirated videos (with scenes deleted??!!), a faeces coloured bedjacket for my mother, one of those colour-it- yourself mugs for me (one of those which is plastic and you can lift the top off and insert your own drawing. I was 15 at the time, and had had the same when I was 3...). It's become quite the Christmas joke!

Little_Miss_Penny_Less

OH's grandmother is a very thoughtless gift giver too... last few years have included:
Set of white cotton hankies (he was 22 at the time!) monogrammed with JP (his initials are MH!!)
A lime green baseball cap with 'tenerife' emblazoned on the front! (and she didn't even holiday in tenerife that year!)
A Cheeseboard set from wilkinsons with the £1.99 price sticker still on (probably would have gone down a lot better without this!)

Kaz2904

I got a lovely gossard g string with diamantes on it from my MIL 6 days after my son was born. mmmm yummy mummy! (NOT)

MrsTinks

Worst one I can think of was last year in the secret santa We had a £5 limit and I had really spent a lot of time and effort in finding a pressie for £5 for the person I had drawn in the secret santa stakes... I got a bargain and had wrapped it really nicely and it was something I knew they would love.

I got...





A bath plug with a floating purple hippo... (99p in all good cheapie shops)

Now to this day I wonder if it was one of my own team that bought me that and have I fired them yet? I do hope so

and more importantly... were they trying to tell me something? I mean A HIPPO for goodness sake! :rotfl:

Becles

I hate secret Santa's.

One I did had a limit of £10 which a few complained about as being too expensive. Anway, the lady I was buying for loved the Body Shop, so I bought her a big basket of goodies from there. In return, my gift was a bottle of Tesco own brand shower gel. I was a bit annoyed as after being told I must spend around £10, I was expecting to get a similar value gift in return.

Another one I did was a limit of £5 and it must follow the theme "warm and blue". As it was winter I bought a lovely cosy blue glove and scarf set for £5. In return I got loads of random blue things such as a nailbrush, an egg cup, a promotional bear obviously pinched from hubby's workplace and an incense stick