What is the worst present you received this Christmas..and why?

Rain_Shadow

I got two bottles of 'Black Tower' (from the same person).


I drank both of them 'ironically'.

pennywitch

For me, not much can top what I got from my mother twenty-odd years ago. She'd bought everyone else expensive presents knowing that they'd be opening them in front of me, while I had to do my best to look happy as I opened (in front of everyone else) a plastic gadget for shaving bobbles off of woolly jumpers, knowing full well that I knew she'd fished it out of her car boot stock and had been flogging them for a quid a time.

I haven't spoken to her in three years and so got nothing from her this Christmas, which I find much more acceptable All my presents were lovely this year, and if laughter is the gift that keeps on giving then I've just had an extra one in the form of the actual laugh-out-loud moment that came from reading of the the terrifying mother-in-law sofa cushion

suki1964

Going back to the yardley, it is the sort of gift my nan and aunts would have loved way back when

Thinking about it they all died in their 60's so they weren't old. Just I think back in the 60's and 70's Yardley was 'posh'

I was amused to see the gift sets in boots. It was always sold in the perfumery department of the department stores when I was a child, never in woolies where most our Christmas gifts came from

suki1964

pennywitch wrote: »

For me, not much can top what I got from my mother twenty-odd years ago. She'd bought everyone else expensive presents knowing that they'd be opening them in front of me, while I had to do my best to look happy as I opened (in front of everyone else) a plastic gadget for shaving bobbles off of woolly jumpers, knowing full well that I knew she'd fished it out of her car boot stock and had been flogging them for a quid a time.

I haven't spoken to her in three years and so got nothing from her this Christmas, which I find much more acceptable All my presents were lovely this year, and if laughter is the gift that keeps on giving then I've just had an extra one in the form of the actual laugh-out-loud moment that came from reading of the the terrifying mother-in-law sofa cushion

Aww penny, mums can be horrible I know

One year, not only was I not invited to Christmas dinner when she knew I was home alone at the age of 19, my present was all second hand stuff, a half used roll of cling film , the same with foil, a roasting pan, half a roll of bin liners and a potato peeler :rotfl:

Still have the roasting pan now

Franalamadingdong

A gift from mum's relative to my son was a big box of old craft stuff and some minions stuff. He'd love it. The problem is that it absolutely reeks of cigarettes. I'm a nonsmoker and my son's not been around cigarette smoke. I've been told cat litter might help remove the stench. So it's a gift that will cost me further and might not even work to get them to be useful. DS won't go near the box, which I'm glad as I don't want h stinking. Yuck.

moneyistooshorttomention

springdreams wrote: »

And I'm a generation younger than you are .... hence why in my view people in their 60s are old and thus Yardley would be a suitable gift ...

Oh well...you know now it wouldn't be - and we aren't...:rotfl:

t14cy_t

i love yardley stuff especially the april violets range and im 46!!

JohnB47

You want a video of someone else's sewer? Hmmmm.

gilly1964

I asked DH for a mandolin one year.

He couldn't find one so got me a stylophone.

Unfortunately I meant the kitchen type not the musical instrument, but at least he tried :rotfl:

tallyhoh

Well, not my worst prezzie but one that made my cross - 3 small bottles of shower gel that cost approx £50!!!!! I know the person who gave them to me was coerced into buying them from a friends "cosmetics party" I nearly cried as they have so little money.