Useless/unwanted gifts?

elly68

The_Angry_Jock wrote: »

My aunt always gives my brother and I the worst presents, it's a running joke nowadays (she doesn't know that though), about 20 years ago when I was about 10 we each got an electric stapler, this year we both got ...an electric stapler...with punch!! I put it up in the loft about an hour ago, never to be seen again.

get it on ebay some daftie will buy it ,ps does she work for viking :rotfl:

bacardi66

A toy cat that came with a little toy brush, dummy and potty(?!) from one of my friends last Christmas.

Im 45.

meritaten

Aimless wrote: »

My partially sighted Nan asked if we thought a secondhand popup book she'd dug up from somewhere would be ok for a family toddler... on closer inspection, it was a sex book! :eek:

am quite intruiged here - where would you get a 'pop up' sex book, and which er 'bits' pop up?

elly68

my hubby bought me a scaletrix when we first got married ,worse still there was a similar topic on bfbs radio and one of his mates phoned in and told ev1 .turned out to be great fun in the end as our mad cat used to wait for the cars coming round the last bend and pounce no arguing as no one ever won except the cat

marywooyeah

realised wrote: »

my MIL bought me a size 14 set of PJs last year... I'm a size 6:rotfl:

My ex's mum bought me a size 22 nightie, I was around an 18 at the time and hover between 14 and 16 now and although she said it was because "nighties are supposed to be baggy" I couldn't help but think she'd done it as a fat dig.

My husband gave me a set of weightwatchers scales for christmas a few years ago and couldn't understand why I took offence....so I unwrapped them and made him get on them in front of his family! needless to say he soon saw why he'd embarrassed me with his gift.

baconandcabbage

Who buys JimJams in their normal size..most people go for 2 or 3 sizes bigger they are meant to be comfy

baconandcabbage

doodoot wrote: »

After reading Meritaten's thread about her unwanted pearls, I thought it would be ever so entertaining to post what our worst unwanted or useless gifts have been.

One ex gave me an unwrapped Mars bar for Christmas once - he later admitted to forgetting to buy me something, panicked and nipped to the off-licence on the way to mine on the day. I was 33 at the time.

The funniest has got to be from my ex-MIL - she gave me a men's perfumed gift set...she thought it was for women because it included shower gel.

The one that upset me the most was from my ex - I'd given birth 5 days before Christmas and so I expected something really nice to celebrate both occasions.

I got a singing lobster that sounded like the devil incarnate because the batteries were running out. :undecided

LOL:rotfl:

Aimless

Gillyx wrote: »

The worst thing to receive in my opinion is perfume that is not to your taste at all, purely because you know the person will have spent a good amount of money on it, and if you don't like the smell you really can't wear it.

Probably why I very rarely buy perfume for someone unless I know it's one they wear or have told me they like.

I seem to have had half of the gifts in this thread. I'm always getting soap, makeup or perfume, despite being allergic to most and never being seen wearing any of them. I've also had PJs about 5 sizes and 30 years too big for me. The same person also gave a male 13 year old a perfume set.

This year I had a great one, which I feel bad about including, as it was accompanied by a very generous pressie! But, it was a fake (I hope) fur... thing! Not sure what it is, but I had fun yesterday playing 'get people to put their hand in the bag and guess' cos it felt really weird!

blue_monkey_2

I live in my Ugg Kensington boots - this year my mother bought me a pair of Boots for Xmas. I've just found them on the Tesco website: http://www.clothingattesco.com/shoes+boots/f+f-faux-fur-trim-worker-boot/invt/az122008/&bklist=icat,4,shop,catgkids,kids-footwear

They are not black, they are a kind of bleached grey, the bits that look like creases are bleached bits. Just the thought of wearing them to her house is making me come out in a hot sweat. I should really try them on in the hope they do not fit...... They are really, really awful. I know I *should* be grateful but..... they are hideous. There is no way I am going to be able to wear them in public. I am 40.....!!

Aimless

meritaten wrote: »

am quite intruiged here - where would you get a 'pop up' sex book, and which er 'bits' pop up?

I don't know where Nan got it from, but yes, it had pull tabs and everything to make errmm... things move! It is on Amazon, I looked afterwards to show my other half.

marywooyeah wrote: »

My ex's mum bought me a size 22 nightie, I was around an 18 at the time and hover between 14 and 16 now and although she said it was because "nighties are supposed to be baggy" I couldn't help but think she'd done it as a fat dig.

Mine were an 18... I was an 8!