What is the worst Christmas Gift you've ever received?

[AB Editor]

It's nearly Christmas!

I am sure a few of you are still rushing about attempting to find the "perfect" present for loved ones... Okay, maybe not the perfect one, maybe just something they'll quite like... Oh, okay, something that they'll find funny when they open it... Okay, sod it! Just anything then! If it comes in a small bag, it saves time on wrapping! You can always make it up to them next year after all!... etc etc etc...

I just found this: http://media.tumblr.c...la5dbx0yil1qctkcl.jpg


Can you beat that for a crappy present?

Spare Ed

[milly143]

Me and my sisters have 'Tacky presents' every year. We basically find the cheapest, crappiest tat we can get our hands on and give it to each other. Usually wrapped in toilet roll, carrier bags or used tinfoil. Last year I went to Wilkinson, bought 1 toy doll, pulled it's limbs and head off and wrapped up each piece individually as a gift for them each. This year's gift's will be bought from the new pound shop tomorrow.

[saxy_jag]

Last year (or was it the year before), hubby and I received, from our less-than-loved daughter-in-law, something known as a depth charge set apiece. It consists of a large glass and a shot glass, his in plae blue tinted glass and mine in pink. Maybe I'm naive, but I have no idea what a depth charge is. Obviously some sort of party drink. I know we both enjoy a drink, but I think DIL thinks we're a right pair of boozers.

Needless to say, they're going to the next car boot sale!

[McMouse]

A friend told me about AB.

[AB Editor]

Keep us updated Milly - I hope you find some spectacular tat.

Saxy_Jag - Sound like she might have won it in a work Christmas raffle to me. And yes, straight down the car boot. If you're interested "How To Make a Depth Charge" is featured in the video below...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhOM0-kQjNM

[rowanwitch]

had a garden gnome from my sister one year...gave him a great paint job....he ended up with a leather effect waistcoat and chaps, a black studded cap and I changed his fishing rod for a whip....friends love him and he has since been joined by arnold from the Gnome guard so I have fairies at the bottom of my garden
The metallic silver duck money box with a feathered neck trim comes pretty close though

[tigerlelly]

Christmas pressies are usually ok but for my 50th birthday my sister gave me the silver and mother-of-pearl photoframe that I had given her for her birthday 2 years before! She didn't even remember that |I had given it to her so from that moment on no presents have been exchanged.

[China Doll]

I'm generally more of a 'it's the thought that counts' person as I'm usually quite chuffed to get a present at all. However, one year, an ex boyfriend got me a gnome who was holding an axe with a nodding head. Now despite my name, it's a generally well know fact that I hate dolls or doll like figurines of any sort (which would include gnomes) as I find them creepy, it's also generally known that I think gnomes are utterly pointless, anyone who's known me for longer than 10 seconds would probably be able to suss that I'm not much of a gardener and anyone who's known me for a second knows that I absolutely hate nodding heads on anything (like those things in the backs of cars) as I struggle to think of anything more bloody pointless... so I was kind of left thinking, 'What The Funicular?!'..... I say that no thought went in to that gift at all!

[SlackAlice]

A narrow yellow/black silk striped tie from one of my Aunts when I was about 12yrs old.

Came in useful for a 'tug of war' with my dog!!!

[cazzz1975]

2 gifts stand out, one I received a few years back a space hopper, and a small cheap tiger ornament with a chipped leg when I was about 12

[LoftyLottie]

Hubby bought me a tumble drier once for Christmas many years ago!! He was so pleased with himself, bless him. I couldn't be cross.

Someone bought us a pair of scissor things to cut the tops of boiled eggs. I hate boiled eggs!!

[mazie]

I can beat that Lottie. I got a dehumidifier ! He couldn't understand why I wasn't jumping for joy

[AB Editor]

Excellent stuff.

"The metallic silver duck money box with a feathered neck trim comes pretty close though" - I reckon that came from a garden centre.

Space Hopper sounds quite good to me Cazz.

Lottie & Mazie - It's quite offensive isn't it? Could have been worse, some hoover bags for example.

Spare

[rowanwitch]

I bought arachnophobe sister a 'stop Boris' one year she had hysterics and was sick....result!!!!

[merciasounds]

From my friends mom, she'd got the knitting bug and made me a pair of hideous yellow and purple legwarmers, except they must have been for somebody with tree-trunks for legs, they wouldn't stay up, they just puddled around my feet! In the end I stuffed them and made a draught-excluder with the one, and something warm for the pup to 'cuddle' up to in his basket!

[funnygirl]

One year I got a TV Times cover/holder!!!!

[snags]

My 7 year old niece made me a bracelet from coloured cubes of letters which spelt out my name. Each coloured cube was separated by little spiky coloured metal discs.

She clearly didn't spend enough time on the construction and was poorly supervised by my sister during the manufacture of said bracelet, with the result that when I put it on, the string snapped, spilling the different elements all over the floor, which I then stood on, puncturing my foot in numerous places, which bleed profusely.

The worst gift ever...

;-p

[craft1948]

For many years my dear late mother bought me bath salts..........she couldn't understand that I didn't have a bath tub.

[naomi24]

Two plastic replicas of Old Masters which I had to put on the wall because my elderly aunt would have been hurt if I hadn't. I put them up behind the front door. :o/

[naomi24]

A friend once bought his wife an ironing board cover - and couldn't understand why she wasn't pleased.