Useless/unwanted gifts?

busiscoming2

My ex husband gave me an iron and an electric knife on our first Christmas together in our own home. I wasn't amused by that!

blue_haddock

my mum got me a set of tea towels this year for christmas as every time she comes round she is fed up with using my old tatty tea towels to dry up!

adelight

I was given some used mens wooley gloves when I was about 8. My cousin was given a tin of beans this year...

Memory_Girl

I'm feeling guilty now as I bought my Mum a purple clock, purple tea towels, purple chopping board and colander to go in her brand new kitchen that we have just finished fitting for her (Purple accent wall)

Mind you now I come to think about it - she has already had her revenge, she spent Christmas at mine being waited on like a Queen and her new kitchen hasn't been "road tested" yet

MG

cyclingyorkie

My 83 yearold mum came for Christmas this year and gave us:-

OH - homemade cake
Me - 4 bars of Doctors soap ( whatever that is) and a set of tacky drawers to put gibble in ( round/not fully constructed/plate already peeling)

DS - a bottle of Blue perfume - she hadn't seen the label pointing out that it was for women.
DD1 - a necklace with a label saying 'genuine 100% silver plate'
DD2 - comb thingys to style hair with - they are actually quite nice!

So DD2 and OH have come off OK and the rest of us.......

purple.sarah

Memory_Girl wrote: »

I'm feeling guilty now as I bought my Mum a purple clock, purple tea towels, purple chopping board and colander to go in her brand new kitchen that we have just finished fitting for her (Purple accent wall)

Mind you now I come to think about it - she has already had her revenge, she spent Christmas at mine being waited on like a Queen and her new kitchen hasn't been "road tested" yet

MG

I don't see what's wrong with that (unless she hates purple!) I'd love someone to fit me a new kitchen and give me accessories for it, especially in purple!

jackieb

Cherry_Bomb wrote: »

Last year my MIL bought this for xmas



To this day I still don't know what to say about it

I was actually going to put one of those in with my son's presents. I ended up not buying it though. But I would've been glad to get one as last year I couldn't find any anywhere!

purple.sarah

make_me_wise wrote: »

Not sure what to do about this. A friend of mine has given me a set of jewellery for xmas that she no longer uses. It is a swarovski gold necklace and earings set in a starfish design. It is absolutely stunningly beautiful but it is so far from the type of thing I wear and I know it wouldn't suit me. What to do though? I dont want to offend her by handing it back, but we see each other quite regularly and she is the type who will wonder why I am not wearing it. Thankfully all my other gifts were just what I wanted and needed.

You could wear the jewellery set a couple of times when you see her then say you are keeping it safe or saving it for a special occasion or tell a version of the truth, that you think it is stunningly beautiful but it doesn't really go with your outfits or style, just be tactful.

BonandDom

Well DD and DH did themselves proud this year :beer:


I really, seriously don't mean to be nasty but darling MIL gave us:-

DH - dressing gown (never worn one in his 49 years), battery operated socks!!, bottle of red wine (doesn't drink and hasnt done so for 18 years).

DD - pyjamas size 16(she's a size 8), dressing gown size 18.

Me - box of smellies (can't use as brings me out in spots), dressing gown that gave me a static shock.

What really upsets me is she cannot afford what she had bought and if she had only spent a little time and thought she could have spent a quarter of the money and got us something we would use.

Turtle

Worst thing we ever got was a very tacky painting. Some friends bought it in Spain in July and spent the next 5 months going on and on everytime we saw them how much we were going to love their present that year. As the day got nearer we got more nervous incase it was something we didn't like. On the big day itself we sat looking at it under the tree, not daring to open it :rotfl:OH took the plunge and did so, it was truly awful, a surrealist pyramids scene (we love Egypt) with palm trees, oasis and sea gulls :rotfl:in a nasty black plastic frame in colours to match our living room :eek::eek::eek:. OH bless him (I chickened out) told them he could understand why they thought we'd like it so much but that it wasn't quite to our taste . About 5 years later we went in their dining room and they had one the same but in colours to match their room :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

We also always seems to get bought white wine when we only ever touch red or rose and mention as often as possible that we don't drink white but obviously no one listens :rotfl: