Useless/unwanted gifts?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I'd wear those boots under jeans I'm not an Uggs type of person - they clash with the leather jacket and the music gear.


I got what exSIL thought was a really mean and funny present one year. She chucked a few bits of her unwanted crap into a box - but it included one of those face masks you chill in the fridge. I really don't think she intended to give me a cure for my 15 year long problem with migraines, but she did.

Ex bought a size 26 white towelling dressing gown when I was pregnant and size 14. And a mobile phone when I said I didn't ever want one.


But the worst presents were from another ex - he borrowed £30 off me to get me something for my birthday (January). He rolled back in 6 hours later, absolutely ratarsed, carrying a £5 massager from the chemist and an ornamental cabbage.

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Nuninge

Humphrey10 wrote: »

When I was about 5 years old, all I wanted for Christmas was a Duplo cow.

I got given a Dulpo horse.

Did you look in its mouth?

Steel_2

An australian aunt sent me a coin purse made of koala bear fur when I was 7.

Apparently my parents had told her I loved the book she had sent the previous year about a koala bear so she thought I'd love the purse.

In it was an old english penny 'for luck', presumably left over from the time she emigrated in the early 1950s.

Wasn't lucky for the poor frickin' koala.

I was so upset at the thought that lovely koala in my book had been caught and skinned.

I never thought about her in quite the same way again after that.

marywooyeah

when my son was 6 months old we were having christmas at my husband's aunties house when she randomly started asking me questions about solid feeding and if I used a food processor to make his food. I told her I'd tried 3 different electric blenders but none worked correctly so I'd bought a £5 hand stick blender from argos which had trumped the lot of them, and how pleased I was to get such a great item so cheaply.

I unwrapped our "main" present which was a massive kenwood food processor with about 10 different accesories. I was mortified and the aunty went into the kitchen sobbing. I felt awful but how was I to know she'd buy a massive thing like that, especially after he'd been on solids for 2 months! this was 2008, and I recently gave the thing to a friend still sealed.

FineLine

Sister bought my partner socks which said "hot stuff" on them..... totally awkward, like she's trying to hit on my partner lol.

When I was about 14 I bought my mate a cheapo eyeshadow box set and wrapped it in wallpaper sample cos I didn't have enough money for wrapping paper and was too scared to ask for more money!!!

ButterflyKisses

I think my all time fav was when I was about 8 and my sister was 6, we had identical presents then my Dad announced we each had a 'surprise present'. She got a brand new bike. I got a Feast ice lolly. Was yummy though! :rotfl:

OneWickedSon

Nuninge wrote: »

Did you look in its mouth?

Of all the posts in these "awful present" style threads, this is deep genius.

Caroline_a

Four days after DD1 was born was my birthday. MiL came bearing gifts, cheap and nasty tights that were far too big, and a cheese grater. The following year, thinking that she'd just had a bit of a mental lapse, I was quite excited about the small cylindrical package from her. It was a small drum of Woolite... 'so you can do your hand washing'. Yes, right...

Glittermonkey

One year my ex boyfriends mum gave me a box of mint chocolate matchmakers.

My birthday is just before Christmas and my brother and sister in law gave a me a box of polystyrene balls for the tree that they had painted themselves!

My current boyfriend is useless, one year I got 5 CDs, next year I got 5 books. Another year I got make up that contained lots of blue eye shadow and blue mascara. My 30th birthday he gave me aftershave! This year he got me perfume so least that was an improvement but I had hoped he would make an effort and think rather than run into Boots on Christmas Eve.

onlyroz

My mum keeps buying me massages and spa treatments, and I really am not a massage and spa treatment kind of girl. She also, without fail, buys me a luggage strap for Christmas - but the weirdest by far was a huge roll of clingfilm from Makro that lasted us about 2 years. She also buys us really cheap wine that she gets on offer from he coop.

My dad is quite bad, apparently. One year my mum got a Jo Brand book in hardback and the next year she got exactly the same book in paperback.