pointless Christmas Presents

bestpud

mum2one wrote: »

we have only just got in contact this yr with daughters other grandparents - even though they have been yold by my solicitor not to send presents - it falls on deaf ears. So apparebtly 1st Dec they posted 2 parcels - they havent turned up,

Thou the 1st and only time I met them (their higghly religious) they brought some presents that they had been putting up for the day they meet us, the 1st present I opened (was meant 4 daughter) - a mantel clock a foot high face of jesus with the clock in his hand!

Hense a visit to the charity shop! x

Thank goodness for lost post is what I'd be saying!

mum2one

bestpud wrote: »

Thank goodness for lost post is what I'd be saying!

A massive thank you:T , Id of got down on bended knees to kiss the ground, but my back would give way and Id need the fire bridgage to get me up......................... thou on 2nd thoughts if there hunky fireman.:j

bringmeshoes

my grandparents gave me a box of chicken pies last year, i dont even like chicken pies

lady_noluck

My mum gave my dad (the man she's been married to for 37 years) a wind up torch for his birthday last year. She even left the 99p sticker on it. And that's all he got from her!!! Then she wonders why he doesn't make an effort when it's her birthday!! I hate to think what they'll get each other for xmas!!

I know it's "the thought" that counts but some people make it very obvious they haven't put cash or thought into a present and it's insulting more than anything.

My mum, last year, asked me what I wanted for xmas, and I said ........a bottle of Baileys. Nothing else, just that. What did I get?? The £3 Aldi version, a cat desk diary (I didn't have a desk) a pack of 12 lipsticks in various shades of body fluids (with a 99p sticker on!) and a packet of.............................................a pocket packet of tissues. (Just one packet)

Hmm, thanks mum. I see you spent hours thinking about what I would really like. :rotfl: I give up.


Bets now on for what I recieve this xmas. Whoever guesses right, i'll send it to you!!

newmrslockwood

It was my sons birthday yesterday and His uncle and Aunty asked him what he wanted. He asked for something to wear.
When he received a hood we were flabbergasted! Just a hood! He is 14 and when they asked if he liked his pressie he said " Well, its a bit weird!"
Obviously no thought gone into that one. I spend hours thinking and planning what to buy everyone and i don't think many do when it comes to us.

bestpud

My sister and I received a soap box (empty) and a plastic coat hanger from an aunt and uncle one christmas - we were about 8 or 9 at the time!

The following year we received a pair of ladies tights each!

I guess they are just practical kind of people.

My sisters face was priceless and I suspect mine was equally amusing!

moo2moo

Being a bit naughty I came across a bag in the cupboard and peeked. Bad bad girl. Hubby has bought a travel rabbit. Innocuous enough sounding but (a) its in an Ann Summers bag and (b) it plugs into a car cigarette lighter. Suppose it'll come in handy should I ever get stuck in a stationary traffic jam (alone and in the dark) and even then.....!

bestpud

moo2moo wrote: »

Being a bit naughty I came across a bag in the cupboard and peeked. Bad bad girl. Hubby has bought a travel rabbit. Innocuous enough sounding but (a) its in an Ann Summers bag and (b) it plugs into a car cigarette lighter. Suppose it'll come in handy should I ever get stuck in a stationary traffic jam (alone and in the dark) and even then.....!

They had one of those on Top Gear and I have to agree, the mind boggles!! Imagine of you had an accident? Or stopped to give someone a lift without thinking?

And all those smiling motorists.... Maybe road rage will be reduced?

Olliebeak

ooooooooo your name isn't Mrs Clarkson by any chance is it? Jeremy was showing one of those (travel rabbit!) in the Top Gear studio last night - the audience's reaction was hilarious!!

bestpud

Olliebeak wrote: »

ooooooooo your name isn't Mrs Clarkson by any chance is it? Jeremy was showing one of those (travel rabbit!) in the Top Gear studio last night - the audience's reaction was hilarious!!

Lol, great minds - funny wasn't it?