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

MrsAtobe

A tube of cheap wall filler, I kid you not. Not even smooth, it was gritty and horrible. I got my own back though, the family member who bought it for me needed some, so I gave it back to him.

Calien27

MrsAtobe wrote: »

A tube of cheap wall filler, I kid you not. Not even smooth, it was gritty and horrible. I got my own back though, the family member who bought it for me needed some, so I gave it back to him.

Wall filler?? :eek::D

What was the occasion?

zaksmum

Ok...prepare to be grossed out now...! My old Nan used to sell secondhand clothes in Paddy's Market in Liverpool in the 60s.

She once found a pack of Hamlet cigars in the pocket of a pair of men's trousers too stiff with old wee to sell on. She cut her losses and wrapped them up to give my dad for his Christmas present.

They reeked of old wee when he lit one up and she had to confess.

My mum didn't speak to her for ages after.

marisco_2

I was once given a 'knit your own pair of slippers' pack. I dont knit, I dont wear slippers. I would not have been seen dead in them. Even the good folk down the charity shop I tried to offload it on weren't too keen to take it off me!

Erinnire

zaksmum wrote: »

Ok...prepare to be grossed out now...! My old Nan used to sell secondhand clothes in Paddy's Market in Liverpool in the 60s.

She once found a pack of Hamlet cigars in the pocket of a pair of men's trousers too stiff with old wee to sell on. She cut her losses and wrapped them up to give my dad for his Christmas present.

They reeked of old wee when he lit one up and she had to confess.

My mum didn't speak to her for ages after.

Eww, I actually retched at the thought...


The worst present I got...

My ex and I exchanged a present each on christmas eve and I'd got him a video game of some sort and I unwrapped a £1 microwavable Omlette maker...

It had the price on the card bit at the top and we'd brought it two days earlier from Morrisons together!

I think I actually said "!!!!!! are you serious?" and he got in a right hump!

Gingernutty

Counting_Pennies wrote: »

It was not really a present, but I remember it sticking massively in my mind.

Each time we passed under a motorway bridge I always wondered what was housed in the windows above it. I often asked my parents if we could drive off the slip road and have a look.

So my parents did one thing better. They arranged my birthday party there as a surprise.

So there I as with all my friends in a greasy spoon motorway caf!.

It was awful. My parents were so chuffed with themselves.

:rotfl: I'm sorry! I know I shouldn't! I don't know why, but this made me lol!! :rotfl:

Calien27

zaksmum wrote: »

Ok...prepare to be grossed out now...! My old Nan used to sell secondhand clothes in Paddy's Market in Liverpool in the 60s.

She once found a pack of Hamlet cigars in the pocket of a pair of men's trousers too stiff with old wee to sell on. She cut her losses and wrapped them up to give my dad for his Christmas present.

They reeked of old wee when he lit one up and she had to confess.

My mum didn't speak to her for ages after.

:eek::eek::eek:

Oh gosh that is so gross :eek::D

SailorSam

I've got a nephew that started an Internet business and is now a multi-millionaire, a few years ago at Christmas he gave me a packet of garden seeds, i thought it was a joke and waited for my real presents but it wasn't a joke and to make matters worse none of them grew.
Another time his Sister, my niece asked what i wanted for Christmas and i said a bird-bath for the garden. I showed her the broken plastic one i had and she said they had one like that as well and theirs broke, it must be rubbish and they;d never have one again for their garden. Well the exact one that was to rubbish for them was given to me. It lasted less than a month before it blew over and broke.
I understand now how rich people have so much money.

SailorSam

Wow this is a great thread it's giving me some really good ideas what to buy for the people i don't like.

Brecon_Beacons

I have had so many rubbish presents - many of them are so bad that I would feel terrible even attempting to re-gift them or sell them on Ebay. Most are too awful to even be given away to the charity shop! So they sit in carriers in the spare room. I think I'm hoping they will disappear of their own accord.

would you buy anyone the following:

• A cheap glass stem vase filled with liquid gel that you burn like a candle - with a plastic rose stuck on the top;
• A nasty carved wooden cat that looks nothing like a cat;
• A plastic break-apart 'hand warmer' from the pound shop;
• A fake fur collar. It looks like a dead cat.
• And the piece de resistance: A plastic-sprayed-silver piece of 'jewellery' masquerading as a watch-fob on a chain - it looked like it came out of a Christmas cracker, and was given me by someone who I gave in return hand-made chocolates, a (new!) paperback novel and a Bayliss and Harding toiletries gift set from Debenhams. Oh yes - and they popped a chocolate miniature into the gift bag as well - you know, one chocolate miniature from an opened (and presumably eaten!) box.

with gifts like these, who needs enemies?:rotfl: