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  • aileth
    aileth Posts: 2,822 Forumite
    Few years ago my ex's parents just turned up at my door on christmas day (they had come over from Holland!!!!) and gave me the wonderful gift of a purple satin bag which had all those indian type frills on it. It looked like they had picked it up from a man with a van down the road. They gave my sister a really nice necklace - wonder if there was more to that eh??

    Another one is my mother in law gave me a pink wooden money box made for five year old girls and some coffee coasters.
  • onlyroz
    onlyroz Posts: 17,661 Forumite
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    My mum's hopeless at buying me presents. She keeps buying me spa treatments when she knows that I've never set foot in a spa in my life (and never intend to). She also like to buy me "practical" presents like luggage straps, but the weirdest one was a giant roll of clingfilm from Makro - lasted us for years but I've no idea what was going through her mind when she wrapped it up for Christmas.

    She also insists on buying my daughter cheap tacky plastic jewellery when she knows I have a phobia about the stuff.
  • I don't think I have ever had anything rubbish or at least can not recall anything but I do remember one year when my OH was 3 months pregnant with our first child my mother gave her a toilet training seat and a potty...not sure where they went as by the time we actually needed them (3 years later) they had been misplaced.
  • Tropez
    Tropez Posts: 3,696 Forumite
    My mother purchased me a pack of several pieces of underwear with tacky, sexually suggestive phrases on them. I could only hope my mum didn't get it (not that unlikely, she has asked me at various points what 69, cottaging and cowgirl meant) but it still made me wince.
  • sassyblue
    sassyblue Posts: 3,793 Forumite
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    Tiglath wrote: »
    A very detailed book on great scientific inventions. I was 5.

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    My worst presents were all in one Christmas, it was a fondue set, a really awful oil burner and some cheap make-up in awful neon colours.

    I felt cheated.


    Happy moneysaving all.
  • room512 wrote: »
    A visitors book - have no idea why anyone would want one, unless they own some sort of holiday accommodation, which I don't!
    marisco wrote: »
    My dad once ended up with 26 pairs of socks as no one knew what to get him. Since that xmas he has been far more vocal about what he would like and is now one of the easiest to buy a present for :D
    A diary and calendar set for that year (1week left)

    A peach frilly cropped top when I was 8 months pregnant

    And - I think this one deliberate - a 24x12 inch canvas of the worse photo of me I have ever seen. Hair everywhere, looking goofy, bloated, you name it. Giver knew I hated the photo!

    The tears are rolling down my cheeks! These are hilarious :rotfl:

    I'm so glad I have the office to myself just now :)
  • Any
    Any Posts: 7,959 Forumite
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    My father's second wife has got the taste for really tacky stuff... she loves it.
    This wasn't Christmas present, it was a wedding present, but it was this really tacky tea set in rainbow pearly paint with lots of gold line edges etc.. my OH shows it to everyone as an entertainment, he hates it so much.
    I know it is from foreign (her) country and all hand made and quite pricey in those parts though.. so I still keep it.

    The year after she bought me christmas jumper which would have been O.K. in hippy years if you told them you made it yourself and you were stoned at the time..

    Year later dad called me for my size and I got out of him that she saw "lovely jacket" at the market she wants to get me and I begged him not to buy anything without me, as we have different style. He sends me tokens since.

    I don't mind cheap stuff, I shop in sales and at the markets a lot myself, but I don't like cheap looking stuff. I know however that she means well.
  • I had to post ..... :cool:

    My gran (Scottish) disliked my (English) mum SO much, one Christmas she gave her .....

    ......

    a bag of sugar! :eek:

    AND it was wrapped! :rotfl:
  • janninew
    janninew Posts: 3,781 Forumite
    I've loved reading this thread, has made me laugh so much!

    I remember the first Christmas when I was with my now hubby and he opened a present from his Dad and discovered a box of Ryvita!! One of my presents was a blue lipstick! :D
    :heart2: Newborn Thread Member :heart2:

    'Children reinvent the world for you.' - Susan Sarandan
  • Last year my MIL bought me a keyring clock in the shape of a ladybird. After suggesting to Hubby that he should buy it and Hubby politly declining (he is VERY good at buying me presents) she felt I really should have it and put it on back order for me.
    For my 18th birthday years ago my parents and sisters bought me an extra large pot noodle (can't remember the name of it) and watched raptly as I opened it.
    There had been an advert on about this pot noodle being the most emense present ever. However, it fell flat on it's face as I hadn't seen the advert.
    I don't often return to a thread I've posted on so.... if you want to ask me about anything I've written please pm me- I don't bite.
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