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Spill the beans... on the worst Xmas present you got

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  • kazzieg
    kazzieg Posts: 220 Forumite
    :mad: a six pack of fairy washing up liquid from my hubby!
  • kazzieg wrote: »
    :mad: a six pack of fairy washing up liquid from my hubby!

    That would go with the box of liquitabs my son bought me when he first went to university. He thought they were "awesome" and when I said they were too expensive to use for the amount of washing I do he bought me some for Christmas. That is his practical nature coming out but I could have thought of better Christmas presents.:rotfl:

    This year I had a plant. I ordered it myself and then told the boys what "they had bought me." far safer!
  • A hoover - when I was 19 :( I did need a hoover, but at the time I thought I was too young to be given domestic appliances as gifts...!
  • a childrens K necklace every year for the past 6 years for birthday and xmas (im now waiting on my 13th for my upcoming birthday) from my sister in law

    to be fair she was 11 the first year so I kinda let that slide now she is 17 i would have thought she could at least get the right size

    o yeh and K is my initial so i suppose it could be worse lol
    The only people I have to answer to are my beautiful babies aged 8 and 5
  • A.J._3-2
    A.J._3-2 Posts: 121 Forumite
    bath cavier (sp?) when gifter knows i dont have a bath only a shower!!!!
    Proud to be dealing with my debt
    CCCS member, Debt free wannable nerd 1237
    Combined debt total=[STRIKE]sept 09 [/STRIKE][STRIKE]£5679.27[/STRIKE] Nov 09 £4599.46
    DFD [STRIKE]SEP [/STRIKE] OCT 2012:huh:
  • When it spilled out of the wrapping we didn't know what it was: a pan-shaped wooden board, with 5 assorted varnished bread-buns, which had been stuck to it.
    We worked out that she'd MADE it as a thing to hang up in the kitchen- a bread-board decorated with fake bread! And I really think she thought I'd like it. We doubted that you could buy a thing like that.
    Great debate ensued about whether it should go in the recycling bin or the ordinary bin...!
    (a marginally better gift than last year's orange satin full-length underskirt - does anyone wear underskirts? - size 20 - I'm a 14.)
  • Grandmother-in-law regifted me an enormous pair of off-white baggy knickers which wouldn't have looked out of place on a flag pole, along with a cast-off cardigan that was so big I could wrap it around myself twice. Delightful.
  • Willow92
    Willow92 Posts: 2,186 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    When I was 12 I received a kids craft set thingy for 5 year olds... I think it was to make masks or something. Oh and a £25 digital camera that broke a couple of months later.
    Savings £8,865.22 £/15,000 Aiming to save enough for a house deposit.
  • hi my parents were given a small piece of driftwood with 4 tin robins attached!!!!!:(
  • dldl
    dldl Posts: 7 Forumite
    When I was about nine my sister gave me a box of cotton wool balls which she then went on and used.

    What a nine year old would do with cotton wool balls is a mystery to me :think:
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