Worst present ever

corblimey

It's the thought that counts, but sometimes that's just not enough.

I'll never forget receiving a fairly dodgy football book from my mother for a Christmas during my 20s. It was dodgy in that it was obviously aimed at a much younger child. Who liked football. I "accidentally" left it behind when I returned to work after Xmas.

However, the icing on the christmas cake? 12 months later, it's my present again!!! My mother claimed she'd found it around the house and thought she'd forgotten to give it to me, so she hid it away and brought it out again that year. :eek:. Crap present. Twice. New low. We're looking into homes.

Miaireland

I got given the most horrible cardigan last year by friends of my parents. It is vile. It is really horrible. A mixture of wine, red , cream, fawn, black and brown. I honestly thought that they gave me the wrong package.

bigron2109

I got a horrible calendar when i was about 23..It was pictures of flowers and hills.At least the auntie could have bought me one with women in it.something interesting to look at..

Loveless

got a small reem of A4 printing paper

I know a woman who got a wheelie bin from her husband for Christmas ... "well, you said you needed one!"

DentalPlan!

I have an alco great uncle in his 70's (you know the ones!) who dropped me off a used deck of cards last year

god bless him

lanod2407

......... agreed with my wife to "buy something small" several years ago after we'd bought a house and budgets were rather tight. So I bought her a signed book by an Irish author

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and she turned up with a raymond weil watch for me!!! Apparently she spent the whole day waiting for me to come up with the "real present".

Another year she couldn't speak for several hours after a full set of golf-clubs arrived on the bed Christmas morning ......... in my defence, she had said "gosh, I'd love to play golf" one evening when it was on TV - I took that as a massive hint ........... Doh!!

soccymonster

A pair of socks from my sister.
Wasn't that bad, in fairness, until I noticed that my other sister got me a pair of socks too...

tommy21

My mum's friend bought me a Mark's and Spencer's tube of chocolate coins when I was 16. It wouldn't have been so bad except both of my sisters (older and younger) got expensive jewellery.:mad:

bellapip

One year I got a goldfish, it was floating on top of the cereal bowl. Apparently while my mother had tried to tie a bow around the fish bowl it fell in the sink and smashed,.!!!! Hmmmmmmmmmmmm reallly..
My mother said the fish was very distressed and most likely died of a heart attack,.

Was that before or after the REAL shops closed I wonder???

_Whimsical_

Just what every woman wants...an army camoflage sleeping bag with "Secret pocket for a knife!" written on the tag. It was all wrapped up with a gold bow around.

Worse still I got it during a period of long illness that meant I was unable to get out of bed for months at a time. I've never been camping in my life. I'm not that kind of girl really. I have no idea what the motivation was. Maybe they thought the floor would provide a change of scenery for me.:rolleyes:

Dr_Phil

Socks. Black, cotton socks.

robbie_998

a bag of coal

draward

Got a white pants for my 21st

Evolute

I got a keyboard when I was younger. When I actually asked for a guitar

That_Guy

Every year on Stephens' day our family does a Kris Kindle for the older family members.

Men buy things they think a guy would like and women do the same.

So anyway I'm the youngest of the oldest in the family if you get me and last year they went from oldest down to youngest so I was given the last present.

I felt numb and helpless as everybody looked at me opening the dreaded "last present", the one that everybody was avoiding.

I eventually opened it with various mumurs of "WTF?" shooting around the room.

In my hand was a travel hammock, a boules set and a travel adapter.

gogo

That_Guy wrote: »

I eventually opened it with various mumurs of "WTF?" shooting around the room.

In my hand was a travel hammock, a boules set and a travel adapter.

I don't know why, but I find that really funny.

My husbands sister gets him a liverpool annual every year, dont even know where she's buys them, not too bad you may think, but he's 33!

Pigwidgeon

I asked for a scooter one year, and I got a pogo stick, not even one of the easy ones to use, but a really heavy one, that I could barely lift.

Davidius

My brother once gave me a box with a brick in it and the word "Hello" written on 3 strips of paper.

I thought it was funny.

Bonkers_xOx

The Christmas before my Junior Cert, my mam bought me the entire 'Revise Wise' set.

LizT

Remember one Christmas I had dropped loads of hints about going to see Little Britain live.
On Christmas Day my mam gave me an envelope and I thought - Great, she got me the tickets!!

Unfortunately it was tickets for Celtic Tiger - Michael Flatly's dance tour.

Still it's the thought that counts and it actually turned out to be good!

Luno

One of those really cheap soap sets from like a 2 euro shop

That_Guy

M&S* wrote: »

One of those really cheap soap sets from like a 2 euro shop

Ah yes. The ones that actually make you smell worse.

KnifeWRENCH

My worst was probably a Tesco Value SuDoku game where people are supposed to "race" to see who finishes the SuDoku first. It never got opened.

Last year my Dad gave my sister an air purifier; that was a bit of a WTF? moment. I, of course, found it hilarious!

Stella777

I received a book from my husband. It was called...

"How to Be a Good Wife." Seriously.

Alicat

Stella777 wrote: »

I received a book from my husband. It was called...

"How to Be a Good Wife." Seriously.

:eek:

YCHGTBOY

soccymonster wrote: »

A pair of socks from my sister.
Wasn't that bad, in fairness, until I noticed that my other sister got me a pair of socks too...

Well ur name is soccymonster......:D

Doop

Cracking up laughin reading this thread...

Worst presie i ever got was from my mother... 'The lord of the rings movie guide book...

I wouldnt mind but ive never expressed ANY intrest whatsoever in the lord of the rings.... and have yet to see the films...

quicklickpaddy

My godmother, who I know to be fairly well off and relatively close to the family once gave me scented socks for christmas... And now the average tends to be scratchcards.

Worst crimbo present you've ever gotten?

BluesBerry

3 bic cigarette lighters from my brother he was 19 at the time there was just no excuse none at all:mad:

I still think he forgot and emptied out his pockets and wrapped them up he swears blind it took him ages to pick them out

And a 100 pack of tea light candles from the mammy (reduced from pennys cause I was with her that day she bought them)

Little Niece bought me a car airfreshner (tweety pie one)

I swear I think my family suffer from dementia cant wait to see what I get this year

Im hoping for some fire lighters:D

D4RK ONION

quicklickpaddy wrote: »

My godmother, who I know to be fairly well off and relatively close to the family once gave me scented socks for christmas... And now the average tends to be scratchcards.

Worst crimbo present you've ever gotten?

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While I'm here, the worst Christmas present I ever got was from one of my best friends last year who bought me the legally blonde box set to real life troll me. I got him an ocarina because I know his favourite game is Zelda: Ocarina of Time. That annoyed me a little, but it was funny :rolleyes: