Curious Gifts

[LadyCG]

Perhaps we need a little light entertainment on AB today.

So, what's the strangest, most useless or unwanted gift you've ever been given? My ex once got me excited all day saying he'd got a present back at his house for me. Imagine my disappointment when he gave me a Henry Hoover. He genuinely thought I'd be overjoyed with it. I could have wrapped it around his neck.

What about you?

[rowanwitch]

It was the first thing I threw away

[Georgiesmum]

One Christmas my husband bought me a pair of oven gloves, a vinyl coated shopping bag and a pair of kitchen scales and wondered why I wasnt thrilled.

[Cloverjo]

My dad liked to make daft gifts for my mum. One Christmas he gave her a 'plant pot' made from a hospital male wee receptacle, painted beautifully.

[Barmaid]

Having financially supported a previous partner for several years and paid for everything I was more than a little miffed than when he got his first very large pay packet I didnt get a bouquet of flowers or a box of chocolates, I got a new iron so that I could iron his new (all 29 of them) designer shirts.

[LadyCG]

Goodness, a lot of thoughtless gifts mentioned here.

BM - I'd have slung the iron at him and told him to do it himself. What a prize pillock.

[naomi24]

Barmaid, think yourself lucky getting a whole iron. My friend's husband presented her with an ironing board cover on her birthday.

[LadyCG]

When my step-father's sister won over 1.5m on the lottery, she bought my mother and step-father an ironing board for Christmas. She bought me a pen for £3.99.

[Captain2]

When in the Buildng game we used to get gifts at Xmas from Contractors. One lovely gentleman would always send very nice wines, so one year when a parcel arrived from Harrods I was rather excited. The result was a mahogany state of the art boxed shoe cleaning kit. He has no recollection of ever ordering such an item (however it is still in use 20+ years later). Would have preferred the wine though.

[rowanwitch]

My sister has ok me a number of really useless items over the years. Mostly clothes of the type she thinks a fat woman should wear, strange books, 'guinea pig pride and prejudice' anyone. Odd cooking items, spray glitter, etc. A garden gnome who was repainted as an s and m dungeonmaster who stayed at the end of the garden with another gnome called Jeremy. One time she got it right, two boxes of saffron, dried porcini and a bottle of truffle oil.

[LadyCG]

I chuckled at the garden gnomes!

[tonyav]

Many Christmas's ago my sil bought me a can of de-icer and a hatchet, nicely wrapped though.

[rowanwitch]

I put a picture with the caption Ed on his day off it was the only time I had an answer removed without asking for it myself