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

Gingernutty

PinkLipgloss wrote: »

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No, no sorry.....

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No, mustn't laugh......mustn't......HAHAHAHAHAHA:rotfl:

No, someone put time, care and thought into thaHAHAHAHAHA :rotfl:

Snurk.

Gawd! It's hideous! :rotfl:

PinkLipgloss

Gingernutty wrote: »

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Gawd! It's hideous! :rotfl:

Indeed it is! The poor teacher was at a loss as to what to do with it....

Someone suggested giving it to a charity shop (obviously not a local one) however she said she'd be too embarrassed to donate it.

Keeping_Positive

When we first got a car thr in-laws bought me a car cleaning kit for Xmas. Not cheap to be fair.

Aimless

Set of perfume miniatures to a 12 year old....boy! PJs 4 or 5 sizes too big and really not my style. A scarf which I hope was fake, but felt like a dead something! A kitchen appliance as a joint gift, when we live in separate houses. Admittedly they're all accompanied by money, I wish they didn't feel obliged to buy 'something to unwrap'!

Aimless

Oh, and to all the bad Valentines/ Mothers Day pressies, my other half just doesn't buy any! Despite him being given gifts, him seeing me buying Mothers Day stuff for my mum, it doesn't click that in my family we do presents for those days.

Shassa

Where do I start! I've had so many thoughtless presents over the years.

When I was about 15, I got a set of video tape cases for Christmas from my brother - the burgundy ones which look like books.

My mum has always bought me the most awful clothes for Christmas. I ask her not to buy me anything but she still does. When I was about 14/15 I got some truly horrendous sweatshirts with puppies on the front...not just one but multiple in various colours! For my 18th birthday I got a blue fake leather handbag (£4.99 from the local chemists).

For Christmas from MIL, a vegetable peeler, clothes at least two sizes too small, tea towels, regifted toiletries which were obviously years old.

From Aunt - A book weight, ugly handbag, various address and birthday books, silver coasters which turned black despite never coming out the box!

From Secret Santa at work - An air freshener.

Actually, I'm starting to think nobody likes me :eek:

marmitepotato

Oh, and I had forgot about the blue toilet seat my ex MIL got me, to go with the pickled baby shark her son (my ex BIL) got me for my birthday.

Please note, they are now my ex family!

Lumbix

Loving this thread! For about 3 years in a row for Christmas a great aunt gave my sister & I bobble hats & my parents a tea cosy. All were hand knitted with 2nd hand wool in the most gawdy colours you can imagine. All 3 were exactly the same except the tea cosy had a hole cut ( yes cut! ) in it for the spout & was also complete with a bobble.
OH's step mother told him one year that as a Christmas present she was going to pay for him to have his ear pierced. He was 35 at the time & if he'd wanted it done would have done it by then! She couldn't understand why he declined this kind offer.

Valli

We had a secret santa at work a few years back. I got the boss. I was NOT pleased - talk about fraught with difficulties!; anyway good old BHS came to the rescue with one of their xmas gift sets - Jack Daniel miniature, a glass and a couple of chocs in a gift set - with their usual pre-christmas reduction it came in under budget. Boss opened it and was thrilled and said (really loudly) I thought it would be crap but this is good!
Unfortunately the poor colleague he gifted to was absolutely gutted to receive a 'joke' boxing thing - a inflatable 'post' for you to thump when stressed. Everyone else had taken the Secret Santa fairly seriously and bought thoughtfully for their designated recipient. Knowing this my colleague was really, really hurt. But he thought it was a great gift!

amyloofoo

I have 3 wonderful stepsisters and their mother has quite a talent for picking presents... Dad has full custody of them due to her drinking, and she still takes this out on them. Her eldest started her periods at around 12 and was painfully shy about it... so her mother bought (and wrapped) her a box of tampons for Christmas (and that's it), knowing that she would open these in front of family. A couple of years later she sent a bin bag containing a dirty charity shop coat for their Christmas present, presumably to share between the three of them!

I always felt really sorry for them, but then a couple of years later I could really sympathise when my Aunt did exactly the same thing and gave me one of her old coats for Christmas!