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Curlywurli

I was 14 or 15 and my sister gave me an electric razor and a dictionary!

19lottie82

Curlywurli wrote: »

I was 14 or 15 and my sister gave me an electric razor and a dictionary!

I don't know why this made me laugh, but it did! :rotfl:

pinkteapot

Some sort of electrolysis hair removal thingy... When I was a very self-conscious teenager. Mum said she thought I might want it for my top lip.

shegirl

How long have you got?

My list of bad Christmas presents includes:

A ring binder.
An electronic stapler with metallic purple staples wrapped separately!
A book of crap towns (!!!!!!?!?!)
A pair of granny shoes.
A CD cleaning kit.
The ugliest,tackiest,old age chavviest bracelet you could imagine-chosen because they knew I liked simple but unique with a little flourish :eek::rotfl: Guess they aren't good with identifying opposites!
Garden lights and ornaments when I was living in a top floor flat

When I was a kid and my 'parents' bothered:

Videos and tapes my mother wanted
Cheap make up that was known to bring me out in a rash
A carriage clock that went on the mantle piece...
Was pretty much the same every year!

suki1001

I've thought of more.

My mothers side of the family were always shopping in charity shop. My grandmother once bought me a swim suit for christmas. I'm not averse to having things bought for me from charity shops, but it was one of those swimsuits that was so well used, it had gone see-through from the chlorine.

My sisters mil is very generous to my children and always buys them presents. Very useful ones too. However, I'm not sure she was concentrating one year, because she bought my son a pale blue dressing gown, however - when he opened it up it had one of these bears on the back:



A bit of a shocker for an 8 yr old boy. He still wore it though.

An old lady bought me 2 pairs of peach nylon/silky big knickers - think carry on style, when I was about 11. She was worried about how my dad would react!

19lottie82

suki1001 wrote: »

However, I'm not sure she was concentrating one year, because she bought my son a pale blue dressing gown, however - when he opened it up it had one of these bears on the back:



A bit of a shocker for an 8 yr old boy. He still wore it though.

Oh, bless him! :rotfl:

suki1001

19lottie82 wrote: »

Oh, bless him! :rotfl:

I think she thought it was just plain. Seriously, she's unbelievably generous. My sister's been married to her son for a good few years now, but they'd only been going out a couple weeks before the first christmas they were together and she got my sister a pair of ghd's and some £40 slippers. She's not loaded but she loves christmas and saves up all year and really splashes out on everyone. I never expect anything for my kids, but she always gets them lovely presents of which we are always very grateful - even if the dressing gowns have lovely fluffy bears on!

bear77

My mum always goes to town with "stocking fillers"....

Last year I got a pair of cheap black nylon knickers with the word "Cheeky" emblazoned across the back in pink crystals. I'm 35...

One of the best has to be a toilet cleaning system that she had actually wrapped up and put in the Christmas Stocking! Along with some refill pads, also wrapped up!

She is very generous and thoughtful and all that is appreciated, I just look forward to the random stocking fillers & seeing how bizarre they get each year!

Ambersuccubus

Slinky wrote: »

Worst present ever was a birthday present from a then boyfriend who I was nuts about at the time. Took me away for a weekend, had a lovely romantic meal, at the end of it he shoves across a small tin with a picture of a cat on it. Heart starts pounding, could this possibly contain something shiny and ring shaped? No, it was a minature Swiss army knife.

I should have stabbed him with it........

Ah, I'd have loved that though. One of my best pressies (and the giver is now an ex anyway, for other resons) was a fabulous purple mini Maglite he'd saved coupons from Weetabix for. I approved of the present AND the moneysaving!

System

Some really distant relative once bought me a massive history book. I was about 10 and had no interest in history..

also..this is slightly off topic but does anyone else have bf's/gfs/OHs that don't wrap presents? my 2 most recent exes both just used to give me the presents in the bag they got from the shop. The thought was there and i appriciate the present but personally i like to wrap them them as unwrapping them is part of the excitement