Whats Your Worst Ever Christmas You Recieved

augustsmummy

On our first christmas in our new home, I woke all excited, only to be greated by the gift from my hubby, a tesco value jumper. Not even Fred and Florance!
He had tried to get me a necklace but due to staying in the pub too long after work, when he got to the jewlers they were closing the shutters and turning away lots of men!

He did make up for it in subsequent years, with diamond watchs, coffee machienes etc, so he is not all bad.

DHs worst present was from his mum last year, it was a PINK duck radio! It is one which floats in the bath - well DH is a shower person, and he's male! He still guilt trips them over it now.

The worst gift MIL got was last year from her other son (my BIL) he got her a bathrobe. Nothing wrong with that you say, until you find out it was a freebie from work, and had his works logo on it! It was one they used as promotion for their bathroom installation business. :rotfl: talk about money saving!

little_miss_thrifty

I remember when i was about 12 i received from my parents a 4ft long, fluffy, peach coloured caterpillar....????

Inkedkitten

A tea towel, from my aunt....was one of those ones where the kids draw faces on them at school n are sold to people at bazaars etc. It must of been given to her as the school was no where near us, I think I must of been about 12/13....having to do my "WOW that's great thank you" speech was a hard one that year.

RoxieW

one year, when we'd just had ds1 - we went to MIL's for xmas with their family. we got a fantastic camcorder to record our sons first xmas. BIL got a diary and pen set with the 99p sticker still on it. We all howled with laughter thinking she was having a joke and would produce his real pressie from behind her back. She wasnt and she didnt. Poor second born son - i think he'd always felt short changed and that just rubbed salt in the wound!

FairyElephant_2

DH got a 'smellies' set from his mum a couple of years ago - including a comb, shampoo & conditioner for men.......he's bald and has been for years! Bless her, she is a lovely lady really!
Last year she got us a word-puzzle game, a bit like scrabble "because you play Scrabble such a lot" - which is true - when on hols & w/e's away we do....thing is we'd bought the game ourselves, during the previous summer when we were on holiday with her and she'd played it with us...and we all decided that we didn't like it!!!

A couple we are friendly with are a nightmare to buy presents for - I always try really hard to get something nice and suitable for them, but have finally decided not to bother this year...we have recieved from them in the last few years: A bottle of chilli-vingar (everyone knows DH does not eat anything remotely spicy), a candle wrapped in suede (at the time I had a 2nd job doing candle parties - she knew and had been to several of them!), a tin of biscuits 6 months out of date, a bottle of whisky (which neither of us drink)...I could go on.....

My ex-MIL (why is it so often the MIL's who are so bad at pressie giving?!?) used to regularly give me 'passion-killer' nighties, and her son PJ's, despite being frequently told that we didn't wear anything in bed! She also used to give me hideous £1-shop-type china ornaments for my birthdays, despite that we had a tiny house with nowhere to put stuff like that - and I was well-known for hating 'dust-collectors'!

My dad was one of the worst present givers I knew though - he once bought my mum a set of large heated rollers - when she had had her hair cut very very very short about 3 months before!

Fourcandles_3

As a child I would open something like a pencil case having watched my brother open a new computer or scalextric or similar. Often I got nothing at all though so...

Now I usually recieve lavender smellies from MIL which I'm allergic to. Last year it still had her name on it from when she had recieved it from her SIL.

I received from my hubby last year as my only present a freebie he got when he bought a brand new all singing all dancing phone.

cazpumpkin

the worst xmas present and also xmas ever was years ago now .

id just had a baby and then found out in the november my husband was having an affair, then being told he wanted a divorce, then we were stuck together (until he threw me out) due to negative equity in the property . he openly brought girldriends back to the house whilst me n the baby hid in the spare bedroom nice eh

for some bizarre reason, come xmas he took me & the baby with him to spend xmas with his mum and dad,

i got given a book i kid you not called the "outsider" by albert camus

he was given condoms and champaigne

i can only look back and sat it was a blessing the day we got divorced lol and im very happily married now for the last 15 years to a wonderful kind man

loopy_lass

i got a second hand pan with a wonky handle, and a 25p oxfam sticker underneath from an aunty... my daughter then aged approx 6 received a half used book of stamps and a red pepper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! beat that !!!! bless her.. it wasnt because she was tight or horrible but a touch excentric..

loops

Miss_314

My dad was always the 'do your shopping on Christmas Eve after the pub' kind of bloke. Anyway, one Christmas when I was a toddler him and his best mate stumbled into an expensive jewellers to buy presents for their partners. My dad also picked up a few things for his three sisters and stumbled on home. Next day, with the family opening their presents, my mum started to get really excited seeing my aunts opening their boxes...expensive earrings, necklaces and bracelets for the three of them. Then he handed my mum her small box, perfectly ring shaped (they weren't married at the time); she opened it to find...a thimble.

His sisters apparently had to explain to him why my mum was upset that day. He still didn't get it. !!!!!!.

SandC

little_miss_thrifty wrote: »

I remember when i was about 12 i received from my parents a 4ft long, fluffy, peach coloured caterpillar....????

In other words................ a draught excluder. :rotfl: