Christmas Presents

[natalie_1982]

Going on from Karmgirl's thread below.... what is the funniest present you have received?

Here's mine...
One Christmas my great aunty gave me a coffee jar full of cotton wool balls, my mum a plastic red necklace (like the sort from a Crimbo cracker) and my nan (gt aunt's sister) a small box full of UHT milk cartons that she had pinched from a cafe.

She was / is not in the least bit senile and is very wealthy, so we absolutely have no idea what her thinking was behind these gifts LOL

[karmgirl]

haha thats well funny

The funniest I've had is prob a cushion

[yinyang]

When I was a teenager my gran gave me a jumper with four sleeves - the idea being you would wear the jumper as normal and knot the other two sleeves casually around your shoulders! Needless to say, I thanked her politely and stuffed it in a cupboard never to be seen again.

[puddicat]

The jumper with 4 arms hilarious did she think you were half a octopus!!!

[annie0000]

Lasy year my Son bought me one of those bead string things that you hang on Christmas trees - it was bright green. As it was all looped round in the packaging, he thought it was a beautiful necklace. He was only 7 and he did his Christmas shopping in the Pound Shop. I still wore it for Christmas Day.

[k8bailey]

Don't know about funny, but these are the worst/wierdest presents I've recieved:

A book I owned that my brother borrowed on xmas eve wrapped up in newspaper and 'gave' me on xmas day - cheapskate!

A hair clip even though I have REALLY short hair (shaved head at thime actually!) and a matching necklace which was broken, so basically it was a carrier bag full of beads!

A photocopied note from my grandparents saying that my xmas pressie had ben donated to charity. I was seriously skint at the time, and there are only 10 people in my family so they would have only had to write it out 4 times but they went to trouble of using a photocopier instead?!

Oh roll on December!! LOL

[natalie_1982]

I love the four armed jumper idea LMAO

Thinking back, as a teenager, a "friend" gave me half a tub of talcum powder and a used sponge - I got her a cute little diary. Some friend. Pah.

Needless to say I haven't seen her for years :-D

[karmgirl]

why on earth would she give you talcum powder and a used sponge - strange

[yinyang]

Wish I'd kept it now. my sister got one too so we could have passed them on to my girls as treasured family heirlooms

[natalie_1982]

Maybe she thought I was smelly karmgirl :-(

Yinyang, make it a family tradition, you and your sister should knit one for your daughters and they in turn should knit one for theirs.

[ayla99]

My brother was given girl's dressing up shoes & necklace set one year. We think they were intended for his baby daughter but the pressie definitely had his name on it!

[ChocolatChip]

My birthday was only yesterday :)
And I did happen to recieve 3 used coat hangers!

[CUPID]

Here's mine......
It was a few years ago now, but my mother-in-law gave me my christmas present 2 weeks before christmas, so I put it under the tree with all the other presents. But after 3 days our bulldog was going nuts aroung the tree. When we pulled all the prezzies out, the one off my mother-in-law was
soaking wet, so we opened it, and it was a piece of frozen beef, no wonder the dog was going nuts........:-)

[Ice.Maiden]

Lol!!! Mine was a knitted toilet roll cover, fashioned into the shape of a lamb. I found it so hilarious that I sumitted a letter to a local paper about it. The letter was published....my auntie read it....and I almost shrivelled with embarrassment.

[stagnalis]

my twin sister who's supposed to know everything about me got me a left handed pen one christmas
would have been an ok prez if i wasn't RIGHT HANDED!
lol, we still laugh about it now