Disappointing/weird/inappropriate christmas gifts

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celyn90

sexylulubelle wrote: »

A lush bathbomb.......... and yes wait for it... I cant stand Lush:( I know I'm strange just find their products too overpowering........ this present was from my friend who knows I cant stand Lush........ but she loves it......

I also got Lush stuff this year and a huge set of Yankee candle votives. With that lot combined, my living room smelt like a tart's boudoir until a freecycler came and picked them up.

I feel guilty, really guilty, but the smell makes my nose run and my skin itch.

No exorcist kittens though, thank heavens.

*Louise*

krustylouise wrote: »

DD and I are friendly with our neighbour next door, she's lovely and we visit her often. DD often takes snacks over such as yoghurts etc (also brings her own spoon) these spoons are soon cleared away by said neighbour and I never see them again! As they are just teaspoons I have never felt so Scroogey as to ask for them back, besides she recently had a stroke and i wouldnt want to make her feel bad for forgetting that they arent hers. About 3 weeks ago we were at our neighbours and I happened to mention my lack of teaspoons but not that it was because they are currently sat in her drawer! Imagine my surprise when she bought me a pack of 8 teaspoons for Christmas haha.

I was genuinely grateful for them, but if it weren't for her snapping up mine before I had chance to get them off DD as she finished her yoghurts I wouldn't have needed them haha x

I would have nipped that in the bud ages ago by buying a pack of 50 plastic spoons for a pound and only taking one of them when visiting :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

sexylulubelle

celyn90 wrote: »

I also got Lush stuff this year and a huge set of Yankee candle votives. With that lot combined, my living room smelt like a tart's boudoir until a freecycler came and picked them up.

I feel guilty, really guilty, but the smell makes my nose run and my skin itch.

No exorcist kittens though, thank heavens.

Lol I'm so glad I'm not the only one....:rotfl: smelt like a tarts boudior.....it is very strong indeed and will never ever forget the first time I ordered something from Lush and it was delivered in a great big box with popcorn the sickly sweet smell mixed with popcorn made me wanna gag it was awful........ Oh I also got a yankee candle votive...... I like candles tho so that didnt make my " not what I want christmas list"....:p

celyn90

I end up buying a lot of Lush stuff for other people - my dad really loves it. Over the past few years I've bought a lot of the goody bags to send bits to other people, but rarely use it myself. I have a hand cream I like, but it's virtually unperfumed.

I had a bad experience with a "ruby red slippers" bubble bar a few years ago - my bathroom ended up looking like psycho meets disney and the amount of glitter in my hair made it look like I'd been clubbing with a bunch of fourteen year olds.

The votives were a Christmas set of twelve, the combined scents were ever so sickly. I work in a laboratory so I'm used to strong chemical smells, but that lot was pretty evil together

room512

I had all great Christmas presents this year but about ten years ago my Aunty bought me a visitors book. I lived in a tiny flat and didn't have many visitors!!!

Cottage_Economy

sexylulubelle wrote: »

A Recipe Book for making a 100 different Soups.... Sigh I'm a chef and caterer I honestly dont need a book to tell me how to make soup.........

I sympathise. I'm very good at baking and have more baking and cake decorating stuff than you can shake a stick at. Someone got me a child's baking set this year and it wasn't a gag gift. Oh and then there's the umpteen bl**dy books on baking and decorating muffins. Those book people who go around the offices with their boxes have a lot to answer for.

We had two butterflies on our wedding cake and every year we get pelted with butterfly gifts and cards at every opportunity.

We also have a few rescue cats so naturally that means I must be targeted with cat gifts and paraphenalia at every turn.

Orange_Candle

One of mine was particularly strange. The in-laws dropped off our presents on Christmas Eve, so after they left I put them out under the tree. One of the labels said that it was To DH, FOR me?? Like my 24 yo husband can't be trusted to buy his wife gifts?
Opened it and it was a small rubber duck. Gave us all a good laugh, but still have no idea why we would want a small rubber duck, and why it was labelled in that way!

Laurajo_2

We have a house rabbit.

We don't have a garden.

However, one relative bought us a hideous stone rabbit garden ornament. Because dh is rather sentimental, this was displayed in the living room. Another relative came round, noticed it, and bought us an equally hideous fibreglass rabbit. The original relative came round, saw we had two and assumed we had liked hers and bought us another rabbit statue. And told some other relatives that we collected rabbit statues.

This is now escalating and we have six, equally gopping rabbit statues....I really need to nip this in the bud! Xx

*max*

Laurajo wrote: »

We have a house rabbit.

We don't have a garden.

However, one relative bought us a hideous stone rabbit garden ornament. Because dh is rather sentimental, this was displayed in the living room. Another relative came round, noticed it, and bought us an equally hideous fibreglass rabbit. The original relative came round, saw we had two and assumed we had liked hers and bought us another rabbit statue. And told some other relatives that we collected rabbit statues.

This is now escalating and we have six, equally gopping rabbit statues....I really need to nip this in the bud! Xx

:rotfl:
I think you've missed the "nipping it in the bud" window!

Tell everyone your poor rabbit is dead and you are so traumatised you don't want to see another rabbit ever again. In fact you have had to gather all your rabbit ornaments and hide them away, as too painful a reminder....