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Whats the worst Xmas present you have given...
munta
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or been given for that matter?
Its that time of year where we all start buying tat to give people on xmas day so I thought we could share our ideas of what not to buy.
Pringles for a start is not a good idea! http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1378613
The worst pressie I ever bought someone was one for my ex. She asked for a dishwasher for Xmas one year... I bought her a packet of J Cloths.
Dont think she was too impressed to be honest 
In my defense though, I did buy her some really nice stuff too.
So the list so far
1 - Pringles
2 - J Cloths
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Its that time of year where we all start buying tat to give people on xmas day so I thought we could share our ideas of what not to buy.
Pringles for a start is not a good idea! http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1378613
The worst pressie I ever bought someone was one for my ex. She asked for a dishwasher for Xmas one year... I bought her a packet of J Cloths.
Dont think she was too impressed to be honest In my defense though, I did buy her some really nice stuff too.So the list so far
1 - Pringles
2 - J Cloths
Please add
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I'd have thanked you - then given you one of the J-cloths to wash the Christmas dishes with!
After all - you are going to need the practice - with no dishwasher, other than yourself of course!
Another time (I was about 20) she gave me what in those days was 'Oil of Ulay' - now Oil of Olay. She looked like a cross between an evil prune and Gordon Ramsey so why give me that for my beautiful (then unlined) face, I have no clue.
Nother time she gave me a pair of tights off the market. They were cheap American Tan ones and when I opened the packet - I kid you not - they had 3 legs.
Do/did you not get on?
I only had one squirt from it.
Didn't like it!!
a quilling set, 40% already complete, and obviously from a charity shop (from my paternal aunt)
4711, it's bloody rubbish isn't it!!
She bought me the The Rainbow 30th Aniversary DVD
She wore it all the time, long after we broke up. In fact I bumped into her recently and noticed she had it on (broke up over 7 years ago, so she must have liked it).
The DVD is still in the celophane
Jeez, I hope you were the one who intiated the break up.
me: 2 tea towels
him: a shoe brush
We paid her back the next year by giving her:
From our eldest daughter: a string of pearls meant for Xmas tree
From middle daughter: a 5p deer ornament found at the school fair
From son: a set of thank-you notes (also from school fair)
Alas, she loved the pearls and the ornament was still on her mantlepiece when she died!
Don't know what happened to the thank-you notes. Some other sucker probably got them the next year.
He had a lot of Thai men working for him and on the day two of them came round to our apartment and presented me with a block of toilet freshener wrapped in lurid purple cellophane and one of those battery operated dogs that march round a pole stopping every so often to let out a few 'barks' ....... I was oddly touched by both presents as the lads were very obviously pleased with themselves - I still have the dog somewhere
My worst present was an electric can opener from my brother - mind you, it was the only present he ever bought me :cool:
Lies, it was only that one year I didn't give her anything.
Anyhoos, one Christmas (the rest of my family are religious, even though I'm not) I got her a present. Christmas morning, there's no present for me, she didn't open her present - after all I don't give her a present, so clearly there was nothing for her. When someone else pointed out that there's a present there for you, she opened it and was quite delighted, but had no idea who it was from until my sister in law told her ....
A few hours later I'm clearing up the devastation and something falls out of the piles of paper - a pair of support tights. Which is what my mother hurriedly wrapped in a scrap of used paper to give me as a present. They were a paid she'd bought for herself, but hadn't worn yet :rolleyes:
Worst present I gave someone wasn't a bad present as such, i bought a flying lesson [each] for two of my siblings. Neither of them went. Neither of them told me they weren't/hadn't taken the lesson and the vouchers expired (I could have used them myself), cost me the best part of €400 :mad:
Another time I gave a sister-in-law a €100 voucher for a store (I didn't know her well enough to buy her an actual present see) she just stared at me. Didn't give me anything ...
I buy my siblings and my in-laws something from a charity shop these days, not wasting my money on them ever again!
my mil got me a ornament of a ballerina and the next year a grey hound.... she got them for my fireplace.....i hide them then get them out when she comes...the things you do for family peace lol.
I dont know the worst gifts i have given others...i am a big planner so try to think of something nice well in advance...the worst gifts are the ones ive had to get in a rush as there has been less thought in them i suppose.
Myself and my oh spent about 150quid on presents for my mum one year, she had given a list of stuff she wanted, we told her we had got her some really great stuff and she said oh I'll have to get you both something really special so come christmas day my oh opened his presents to find some socks from primark and a bag of nuts! The next year we only bought her some socks and a bag of nuts, she found it funny.
One of my dear children, since disinherited and expelled from the UK, once gave me a CD of Cliff Richard singing the Lord's prayer to the tune of Auld Lang Syne. It wasn't the ghastliness of the song so much as the thought that she thought I would like it.
Someone near me once gave his girlfriend a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig for her birthday...she lived in an ordinary suburban house with a tiny garden...
Reminds me of a gift a relative once gave my kids.. some kiddies' Jaysus story books. They went straight to the charity shop. I felt bad for about a nanosecond.;)
Gave them to someone we have to visit once a year
on the present wrote something for all the family to share.
my only gripe was i was not there to see the furor when they opened it. Bet it was brilliant.
lol lol