Worst/Strangest Christmas Present!

buxtonrabbitgreen

Chocmonster7 wrote:

My brother bought me a vaccum cleaner last year and an ironing board for a birthday present a couple of years ago. Sad thing is I asked him to get them for me - well I wouldn't spend my own cash on them.

One year I asked my mum for a new iron. I totally hate ironing and really resent paying for an iron to do it too. So I was glad to have it. But she really didn't want to buy it for me. She always liked to give me something nice for myself, like perfume.

Guinea_2

One Mothers Day (sorry not Christmas!) I had bought my first present with my own pocket money which was a box of Maltesers. Anyway, I got hungry the night before Mothers Day and ate half the box. I didn't think Mum would notice.......she did.

jackieb

I got a cake of soap from my sister-in-law. I thought it was a strange present. Thought she was trying to throw me a hint. Just after Christmas I saw one in a local chemist and it had cost £13! My son was just a toddler and he bit it. I still have the soap, complete with teethmarks. My son is now 22.

£13 for a cake of soap over 20 years ago. I wonder what it would cost in today's money.

Oh, and for my 30th birthday my husband bought me a Dyson. He rarely buys me any Christmas or birthday presents and he was chuffed with himself. It was a purple, red and yellow de stijl model. I wanted to lump him over the head with it.

goonlord

My nan once bought my mum some facial hair bleach (and my mum, in all seriousness, turned to me and said 'oh, she must have meant this for you' - i'm blonde!!!).

Loved the story of the 8 year old getting cigarettes....

dawn060861

I am 45 and when I was about 40 I got a plastic kitchen storage jar filled with a cheap imitation of Smarties LOL LOL I am so glad the person who gave it to me was not there when I opened it. She was not a relative by the way LOL

Dawn

linzibean

I have had some real clangers in my time from my Dad's side of the family. When I was 8, I got a board game all about hollywood greats of the 30s and 40s. Of course this was my sepcialist subject in primary school :rolleyes:

I have also receved a wallet with my unles initials embossed in it, that my sister gave him a couple of years ago Various really awful cheap perfumes that I used to keep the cats out of the chippings at home..

But best of all was a DVD from my (now) ex - a workout DVD for "quick weight loss". This is just an example of his tact He is now VERY MUCH an ex :rotfl:

indiegirl_2

My OH received a National Trust hipflask from a work colleague for her birthday this year, needless to say, as a 24 year old female with no interest in hiking, it will be finding it's way onto eBay!

One Christmas brought a pair of pink lacy satin knickers, the type a dodgy french "hostess" would wear, from her grandmother, which is all well and good, except she was 12 at the time and her cousin got a matching pair!

sarahlouise210

Last christmas I did not get anything at all from my husband - his excuse ...he walked all round B & Q and could not find anything I
would like:rotfl:

PurpleDuck

I have been :rotfl: at this thread.

My dh bought me a book on cleaning one year *because I like that sort of thing* My god did he pay for that one.

an ex MIL to be bought me a foul tartan shawl one year. I called off the engagement not long after - I could take the hint

And my lovely old neighbour gave me a set of hankies that still had the lable on them - she'd got them for her birthday from someone and had passed them straight on :rotfl:

artydoll

sukysue wrote:

I have laughed like a drain at these posts but I betcha can't beat this,
my mum used to look after an old gent.(out of the goodness of her heart) who was made of money and he bought her a tin of processed peas for xmas.We used to wait with baited breath to see what he would give her every year ,once she actually had a pkt of Marie Biscuits!!!

I've got to stop reading these posts,I can't see for the tears of laughter running down my face

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