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KristaltippsHall
Beginner February 2011

Worst ever Christmas pressies?!

KristaltippsHall, 23 November, 2010 at 16:01 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 31

Just for fun, come on, no-one get offended - and flashes would be extra fun!

I have to start by telling you the now infamous story of my Mother and my H2B.

He never had a Christmas before he met me (raised by Jehovahs Witnesses) and so his first one was amazingly over the top, second year we couldn't possibly do the same. My Mum asked what chocolate he liked so I told her Snickers and though ahh thats nice, she's going to get him some chocs as well as his main present which they had asked me about already.

So Xmas morning comes and he has TONS of presents under the tree, and he's so excited, opens one and its Snickers, yay. Opens another and its socks, another its.... Snickers, ok.... another is a book, then... Snickers.... right. Another...Snickers, oh, another and another.... you guessed it! She had bought a whole box of Snickers and wrapped them in 2's and 3's, in different shaped packages etc.

Bless him he was trying to laugh it off but really finding it hard - I'm sure she thought it would be sweet and fun, but ohmygod! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry! my Dad was livid though he hid it well!

We do laugh about it now.....

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Latest activity by Knees, 7 December, 2010 at 12:36
  • grace85
    Beginner February 2011
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    I'd love that, Snickers are my fav too.

    Ummm not sure what my worst present has been, i'm usually quite lucky with what i get.

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  • WillyWales
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    His Serene Highness the Sovereign Prince of Monaco once bought me a toblerone. I don't care much for nougat.

    Disappointing.

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  • KristaltippsHall
    Beginner February 2011
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    Smiley laugh

    I also once got a bottle of one of the really famous model/singers perfume (can't remember who now, might've been Britney?) from someone very close to me, and I'm sure it cost alot and everything but HELLO?! do you EVEN know me?!!!

    It smelled baaaad too.

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  • COCOCHIQUITA1984
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    My MIL seems to think I have a penchant for leopard print, despite never ever having bought or worn an item prior to meeting her in my life!

    For Christmas 2008 I got a fleecy leopard print scarf, hat and gloves set (hideous it was and completely clashed with my check coat!) and then for Christmas 2009 she exceeded herself and got me a short velour leopard print lounge top/dressing gown hooded thing with matching slippers!

    Both years she has also treated me to a set of lavender scented hangers!!!

    Can't wait for this Christmas!!!! xx

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  • crafty em
    Beginner June 2008
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    One yr i had 2 boxsets from my now hubby - teen horrors and period dramas - i hate them both with a passion

    first year we were married got an ironing board ?

    i now buy my own pressies and give him the receipt ?

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  • teeheeyoucrazyguys!
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    Every year a grand aunt of mine would buy me pants.

    Big pants. granny pants. along with some hellish bath soap...

    2 years ago H bought me a biker type jacket which was very chavvy, didnt fit me. Gave it to my teenage neice. He gave me acrylic paints on another year and they werent my thing either.....bless him....

    I'm generally very grateful for what I receive....... MIL has given me some dodgy gifts in the past but they go to charity.

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  • Little Madam
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    This is the first year OH has ever had to buy for me and I can't wait to see what he comes up with.

    Last year his mom got me a Cappiccino making kit - I hate coffee!

    I also once received a Green Day CD (I love RnB music, so no idea why, we think it might have something to do with the fact that green day played in Milton Keynes where I lived at the time so my sister assumed I liked them?!)

    And finally, a Russel Brand DVD!! I literally cannot stand him, he annoys me with a passion. It's still in the cellophane 2 years on.

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  • Little Madam
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    Who were they from Teehee?

    Perhaps a little TMI but I don't do granny pants....

    Last Xmas morning I opened a lovely La Senza box to find 5 pairs of BIG pants, to which my mom then stated (out loud, in front of my brother and stepdad) "At least they'll take up more than one peg on the washing line".

    I was mortified!! But i've worn at least one pair since then.

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  • Red Baroness
    Beginner July 2012
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    Hmmmmmm, can't think of one for me, but one year my ma got some rubber gloves from her MIL!!! My pa also once bought her a microwave. Obviously he gets this from his mother!

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  • Flowmojo
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    Oh i can top it, OHs nana bought me a china dog ornanament sitting ina basket..(wait it gets better).......when u walked past said ornament its goes 'woof!woof!woof!'

    I kid you not. its hideous.

    Every year a few days after chrimbo we have 6 mates over for a 'friends' christmas, so chrimbo day all over again ....and we have present amnesty where each person wraps up a bad present they got on the 25th and we all have a lucky dip......unfortunatly for me, i wrapped this dogg up and guess who picked it out....OH!!! so its still in our possession!!

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  • ebony_rose
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    One year, my nan got me a lamp, shaped like a handbag. It was light pink, with lace round the edge, and some horrid braiding.

    I think she won it on bingo, it was vile. My friend saw it, and said her daughter would like it, so that got rid of that.

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  • Y
    Beginner December 2011
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    My H2B grandmother bought me an ugly purple/black/brown multicoloured pashmina scarf last year (soemthing which a grandmother would wear, and she works in a second hand shop so I am convinced she got it from there) We are spending Christmas with her this year I would love to know what the hell she has bought me. xx

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  • *JLS*
    Beginner July 2012
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    My parents like to buy me wierd stuff for presents - for my 19th birthday they bought me a rug (was living in Uni halls at the time so had no where to keep it really)

    Last year they got us a table football thing - it's still in the box upstairs in the spare room. we have nowhere to put it up Smiley smile

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  • KristaltippsHall
    Beginner February 2011
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    H2B always seems to buy me stuff that HE loves, probably more than me - funny that!

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  • Kooks
    Beginner September 2011
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    I've not had any shockers but my dad once bought my mum a ceramic Beefeater! Hmmm!

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  • firsttimemum
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    Not me but my mum once got a small tape measure from another lady (I cannot say who lol) she thought it was rather an odd gift but the other person thought it was really nice and practical!

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  • BumbleBrat
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    I can't really think of anything hideous that anyone's bought me, I'm pretty easy to buy for cos I want everything lol! However last year my Mum bought me lots of little things.. Ya know perfume, socks, scarf, ornaments, pyjamas, bits n bobs etc... And a set of knickers. I REALLY do not like getting presents like that especially when everyone is watching me open stuff, I'm a bit of a prude lol!

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  • teeheeyoucrazyguys!
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    Kayl, the pants were from my grand-aunt. I said that Smiley smile I mean I was like 15 years old right up to the age of 22. Huge massive gran pants....

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  • Little Madam
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    Sorry teehee - in my own world today!

    Reminds me of my best friend who came from Zimbabwe about 7 years ago now. Every winter she would be freezing so her mom got her these, I want to say pants, but they were just something else. They came up to meet her bra and had this awful flowery print on them in red!

    Sometimes when it was really cold she'd walk into the office we both work in and lift her Shirt to give me a flash of the material.. So many laughts over big pants!!

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  • MrsMac2be
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    My OH told me this story... when he was married to his ex wife, she couldnt think what she wanted for xmas so asked him for something to go in the garden... he bought her a wheelbarrow, she wasnt impressed!! LOL

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  • N
    Beginner November 2011
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    One xmas eve, around 9pm, few years ago my ex (and he had been my ex for 4yrs at time lol) gave my children a pair of blue fluffy (but bobbly fluffly not nice fluffy) slippers in size 9 - i am a 5, in a silver plastic bag to give me because he hadnt got anything for them to give me

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  • *JLS*
    Beginner July 2012
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    Ooh i just remembered - a few years back my Auntie in Law got me one of those sweetie thong and pant sets!!! I was very shocked Smiley smile

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  • Jay-Low
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    OMG!!!!!! the only person it is acceptable to receive these as a gift from is your OH, or from your friends at your hen do - but your aunty-in-law?! The mind boggles!

    I can't really think of any rotten ones I've received - I'm lucky that I always seem to do quite well. I do remember when I was an early teen, before I could advise my dad properly he went through a stage of buying my mum "practical" presents which she really didn't appreciate. One was a mountain bike (my mum does not exercise or like the outdoors) and one was a CD player for the car (she didn't work at the time so hardly drove anywhere!!)

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    A book about toilets! I kid you not and it was from a family member - not OH thank goodness!

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  • Daisy82
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    Last year after not hearing from my dad's two half-sisters for over decade they both decided to send me something for christmas (perhaps something to do with the my wedding which was earlier this year. I reckon they were keen for an invite).

    One got me a gift voucher for Debenhams which was fine but the other got my this hideous cheap scarf and glove set. It was awful. Looked like something she had found in the back of the cupboard. It was a cream set and there were dirty marks on it. That went straight to charity. I know it was cheap as she left the price on. It would've fallen apart the first time I wore it or washed it.

    They did come to the wedding but I doubt I'll ever see or hear from them again!

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  • Bink
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    One year, my FIL got me (amongst other cheap tatty things) a 5 year diary that was about 4 or 5 years out of date so completely useless!

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  • Knees
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    I think I can top them all.

    When my sister and I were around 13 and 15, she got us matching fleecy pyjamas. Nothing wrong with fleecy pyjamas in the winter, of course, but these were all in ones. Like a baby gro. In burgundy fleece. With a flower motif.

    I think she must have ordered them from the back of some old lady's magazine.

    Bless her.

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