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Cheap & Nasty Birthday Presents - what's the worst you've seen?

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  • jakes-mum
    jakes-mum Posts: 4,646 Forumite
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    Nasty in more ways than 1, for my 18th birthday a 'friend' presented me with a gift which turned out to be a cheap silver photo frame with my picture in it, an engraving of a bone over the top and the word 'woof' engraved underneath.

    I just handed it back to her

    On the plus side, I won a competition with this exact same story so even the worst gifts can have a nice ending :rotfl:
    SPC No 002 SPC(3) £285/£250 (4) £519.84/£500 (5) £768.32/£500 (6) £911.30/£600 (7) £913.23/£600 (8) £1184.82/£750 (9) £2864.04/£750 (10) £3846.25/£1000 (11) £1779.72/£1000 (12) £1596.55/£1000 (13) £1534.70/£1000 (14) £775.60/£1000 (15) £700.20/£1000 (16) £2081.34/£1000 (17) £1691.15/£1000 (18) £2470.95/£1000 (19) £0/£1000
  • Tropez
    Tropez Posts: 3,696 Forumite
    I honestly wouldn't be able to tell you; it's just too cheap, tacky and nasty.
  • boo2410
    boo2410 Posts: 316 Forumite
    This is a hilarious thread. My late grandma, god bless her, bought me a chip pan - complete with the mesh basket I might add - for my 18th birthday. Not sure why as I didn't leave home til I was 23!!!Mind you I do still have it and use it now - 30 years on. So it did come in useful after all.
  • Cinders:
    Cinders: Posts: 216 Forumite
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    Alpha58 wrote: »
    I'm guessing that this is part of the reason why he is "ex"!

    Thank you all for posting - keep 'em coming!

    Lol, exactly. Tight-fisted doesn't even begin to cover it!
    SPC # 115 :p
  • alphabet_soup
    alphabet_soup Posts: 43 Forumite
    When we were on holiday in Egypt one year, my husband told me he'd bought me a present and walked me to a jewellers. We stood looking in the window for a few minutes, pointing at all the garish jewellery - giant beetle-shaped rings, scorpion brooches, snake-shaped bracelets, gigantic medallions on thick, chunky chains, and all with huge, brightly coloured stones.

    ME: Argh, look at this bug thing! This is horrendous!
    HIM: Nooooooo, this is worse - look at this! Who'd want that on their wrist??
    ME: Oh my God, have you seen these - what they Hell are they??
    HIM: ...Errr, they're necklace pendants with your name personalised in Arabic. I, err, had one done for you. We're here to pick it up...
    ME: Ah.

    We hadn't been together that long. It was a very, very awkward moment.
  • Alpha58
    Alpha58 Posts: 193 Forumite
    jakes-mum wrote: »
    a cheap silver photo frame with my picture in it, an engraving of a bone over the top and the word 'woof' engraved underneath.

    Just spat my coffee over the keyboard. Sorry for you jakes-mum but that is funny!

    Did you see the "friend" again?
  • Alpha58
    Alpha58 Posts: 193 Forumite
    Tropez wrote: »
    I honestly wouldn't be able to tell you; it's just too cheap, tacky and nasty.

    Go on on - I dare you!
  • peachyprice
    peachyprice Posts: 22,346 Forumite
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    Tropez wrote: »
    I honestly wouldn't be able to tell you; it's just too cheap, tacky and nasty.

    Tease......
    Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence and face your future without fear
  • bubbs
    bubbs Posts: 68,101 Forumite
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    Hubby and i once got a box, yes a whole box of cox's apples from his dad, hubby wasnt impressed and nor was i really as not a big apple eater :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    Sealed pot challenge number 003 £350 for 2015, 2016 £400 Actual£345, £400 for 2017 Actual £500:T:T £770 for 2018 £1295 for 2019:j:j spc number 22 £1,457Stopped Smoking 22/01/15:D:D::dance::dance:- 5 st 1 1/2lb :dance::dance:
  • Stephb1986_2
    Stephb1986_2 Posts: 6,279 Forumite
    Hmmm where do I start from the amazing gifts I've received from my lovely soon to be mother in law.....

    A small purse that was a gordy patterned and so I chucked it in the bin
    A pair of socks
    A hat, scarf and glove set
    a 20p card

    All these are on separate occasions.
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