pointless Christmas Presents

The_Good_Fairy

kazmeister wrote: »

My MOTHER bought me a 'thingy' that you can make your own squirty cream and a box of spare gas bombs to go with it. That was it! I just dont get it, its not like I have cream on everything, in fact prob only buy one tin of the stuff per year. WEIRD that after 43 years she still hasnt got a clue about me.

Oooh I love those! You can make 'trendy' foams to go on all your meals, best I've seen is sycamore foam! Though I am a little obsessed with food Try it and let me know how it goes

bringmeshoes

well i did very well this year, all presents are fab. although i havent been to my grandparents maybe ive got some tinned potatoes to go with my chicken pies from last year!!! every time my grandmother sends me a card she spells my name wrong for 29 years!! she puts the 'h' in a differnet place each time so instead of 'sarah' i get shara, sahra,sahara or any other varaiation. the thing is she is my mothers mother and gues what my mum's name is...sarah or should that be sahra!!!:rotfl:

jackieb

I got a lovely Russian bracelet from my dh, but it won't go past my 4 fingers! He bought it at the duty free so he won't get it exchanged. He said 'oh well, the Russian girls are all skinny. I should have known'. I felt like Cinderella's ugly sister trying to squeeze it onto my wrist! I bruised my knuckle I tried that hard. .

My mum came round on Christmas morning and I told her to try them on to see if they would fit her. She got it on fine, so dh told her to keep it.

I was willing to cut off a pinkie!!

mumoftwo

greenmoneysaver wrote: »

mumoftwo - admire me some more!

Managed to get something smelly from the body shop - but not aromatherapy oils, but house fragrances, and then ones I got really smell awful.

To top that I have also got 2 pairs of chocolate (coloured) fish net tights from M&S, with price still on and size small/medium. That would have been fine but

• I have never and will never wear fish nets unless for fancy dress
• they would need to be black for fancy dress
• I have recently been diagnosed with an underactive thyroid and gone up 2 dress sizes, making these too small - as my MIL well knows

Still, I can still ruin her beloved youngests wedding next year by wearing them and a short skirt to the wedding (in Feb - my legs will be blue and beautiful) - I will be moneysaving by not waxing my legs to save the money for the skirt...

Roll on the pictures!

Well, it was close!! something smelly and no plug in or something with cats on :rotfl:
I would like to know what goes through her mind about the fishnets? Was she just browsing through M&S looking at things with cats on, saw the fishnets and thought: I will get her those, she'll love them!!! It just amazes me how she can get it so wrong.. the smelly mix up you can sort of understand but the tights....

Can't wait to see the pictures:D

moo2moo

My youngest was over the moon. She got face paints from an elderly aunt. She had a fabulous time x-mas day painting anyone who stayed still long enough. Downside was discovered at bed time when the stuff failed to come off. Have scrubbed at it, tried make up remover and more scrubbing none of which was successful. Daddy went to work this morning with a black eye (previously a pirate eye patch) and bright red cheeks, think Aunt Sally from Wurzel Gummidge (if you're old enough).

I bumped into one of the neighbours who thought I'd flambed the x-mas pud and got third degree burns to my mouth and nose. Had to disappoint them telling them I was a 4 year olds attempt at a clown. Eldest daughter came off the worst. Yesterday she was a butterfly. Today she has 2 black eyes, a bright red nose and mouth and a green forehead.

Spendless

I got a pair of velour trousers with a bow at the front. I'm a plus size. I'll leave it to the imagination.

but my 4yo daughter beat me. She received a pair of pyjama bottoms, but no pyjama top. :rolleyes:

redruby

my DD 13 years got a silk hankie, a free broach from a catalogue, a really old charity shop handbag suitable for a 90 year old, and a cd which had been hanging around in my sisters house for 6 months :rolleyes: and which sister had copied for her use, all this from my sister who has just spent nearly a million pounds on a new house, and who is minted !! I would not mind but a £5 note would have gone down so much nicer, its all off to the charity shop apart from the cd.

And I put so much thought into her present :rolleyes: familys eh

lilac_lady

My SIL is notoriously mean and I look forward (in a warped way) to her Christmas gift. This year it was a neck chain wrapped up nicely. It's the same as the chain I wear at work to carry my ID card....previous gifts have included out of date chocolates, an empty tin(?) a candle that already been lit. Not all the same year - that would be tooooooooooooo generous.

jackieb

redruby wrote: »

my DD 13 years got a silk hankie, a free broach from a catalogue, a really old charity shop handbag suitable for a 90 year old, and a cd which had been hanging around in my sisters house for 6 months :rolleyes: and which sister had copied for her use, all this from my sister who has just spent nearly a million pounds on a new house, and who is minted !! I would not mind but a £5 note would have gone down so much nicer, its all off to the charity shop apart from the cd.

And I put so much thought into her present :rolleyes: familys eh

Did you ever wonder how she was able to afford a million pound house?

marvin

Flashing red Rudolph nose sent all the way from the states, must have cost more in postage!

Still its one up on last years rapping Rudolph!