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

fluffnutter

My friend told me that one year her (very rich) SIL gave her husband (SIL's brother) a Rolex and gave her a saucepan. How crushing!

Toto

My husband once bought me a chopping board for Christmas

Dizzy_Ditzy

I was given a kitchen trolley for my birthday from my ex :eek:

Money_Bunny

30th birthday present from my husband was a plastic tea tray (you said you would find a tea tray useful - yes, but I didn't mean I wanted one for my birthday)

My friend's husband gave her a surprise trip to Paris for her 30th

pk04

One year (in my twenties) I got a make your own bracelet/necklace set. Now I love jewellery and would quite happily make my own but this was clearly aimed at a 7-10 year old :rotfl:

Cinders:

For Mother's Day my now ex husband bought me an out of date small box of malteasers!!

sugarsugar_2

At age 15, from my evil step mum and Dad for Xmas - A lime green velour tracksuit size 6. Coincidentally the same size as evil step mum. I was a size 14 at that time. Wish I'd had the guts to say something at the time instead of being so sweet and passive.

I once got my nan a lovely pair of slippers for her birthday that were gifted back to me at Xmas. Batty old cow.

When I was 9 I got a pound shop diary from my best friend that was missing the month of December. :-)

Alpha58

Cinders: wrote: »

For Mother's Day my now ex husband bought me an out of date small box of malteasers!!

I'm guessing that this is part of the reason why he is "ex"!

Thank you all for posting - keep 'em coming!

top_drawer_2

Spendless wrote: »

A twirl as in a spin around on your heels or a chocolate bar? And she gave another friend a plush toy? How old were you all, 6?:p

A chocolate bar - around 30p at the time.

It wasn't the disparity as such that I had an issue with but that she had so obviously put so much thought into buying the plush toy and so little into mine.

We were around 15 yo.

busiscoming2

My DS1 received a couple of Star Wars books (he hated sci-fi) for Xmas from my BIL and SIL with the name of one of their sons in the front.