what about the worst Christmas present....

[captainbovine]

ooooooh I remember a doll when I was about 8. Now I hated dolls, and they got me this bride doll....fortunately for me, the leg fell off! but horrors!!!!!! my mother had an address and sent it away to be fixedLuckily for me though it never came back..phew!!!

what about yoyu?

[5129frederick]

I told a mate I saw four youths giving my mother-in-law a good kicking in the park.

"Good God, did you get involved?"

"Well,"  I replied,  "I thought about it, but they said they could manage." 

To help her get over it, we took her to the local wax works and wandered into the House of Horrors department.  A young lad approached her with a sheaf of paperwork in his hand.

"Madam, "   He said,   "Can you keep moving please.  We're stock taking."  

[right-then-petal]

hahaha

[ed_blackadder_1]

I have no such problems with MIL as my OH sadly lost his parents when he was young and was brought up by his older brother.

[hightara]

oh god......... i havent laughed so much..... legion yours is epic....... and the loo brush......... ba ha ha

 Bless our ones........... they may have seemed carp.... but at the time they where precious/surreal

[mouse4702]

This isn't my worst, it's my Dad's worst Christmas present.  My Mother's Norwegian penfriend once sent him a scented candle!  This was about 30 years ago.  he was most afrronted.  "Does she think I'm a bloody woofter?"

[chickengrandma-2008]

We never dared give my dad toiletries as a gift.  He always said 'So you think I smell do you?'  and I think he meant it too! 

[calibra101]

The worst present I had was from my MIL. It was a huge bright red knitted loopy hat which covered my ears and tied under the chin. I have a perforated eardrum so suffer earache in windy weather so that's why she did it bless her. Before leaving her house she said put it on as its windy out there, what else could I do? I had to do the walk of shame to the end of the street in it, my mate couldn't stop laughing. I was 25.

[cookiecookuk]

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@chickengrandma-2008 wrote:

We never dared give my dad toiletries as a gift.  He always said 'So you think I smell do you?'  and I think he meant it too! 

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my OH says if he gets smellies as a gift only dirty people wash

[**streety**]

I'm ashamed to say that the worst Christmas present I can remember was given by me to my Mum.....

An ice cube tray!!!   


I'm mortified and haunted by that memory forever (I was school age if that makes any difference)

[saasher2012]

😀👍👏no not really! lol.

[shelly180]

My MIL used to always "recycle" Christmas presents.

She would never open presents in front of us and we soon worked out why!

What her daughter gave her was given to me the next year, and what I gave her went to her daughter

the following year.

We cottoned on to this and started giving her a hamper full of luxury foods, all of which expired 

before the following christmas.

I have had slippers that don't fit, I returned them to the store, only to be told they were last years stock 

and they had no price for them, I was mortified!

I have also had ..........................

a soiled yellow plastic make-up bag filled with free samples.

Two random balls of wool.

A Damart vest.

All of which I thanked her profusely for!

When my son was Christened she gave him a girls snowsuit with the mittens and boots missing.

And as has been said all of this from someone not short of a penny or too.

[saasher2012]

😳😞 bless her! Lol.

[calibra101]

BTW I said my age in my post as loopy stuff is usually knitted for babies.