FabSwingers.com forum: Worst presents you've received

By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

What is the worst present you have ever been given?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Salt for my piles

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By *ingle Beds LassWoman
over a year ago

Bedfordshire

Electric hand warming gloves!!!!!

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

My work secret Santa a few years ago was a box of Lucky Charms and a can of grape soda

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

aged 15,

a toy robot from my nanna...kinda like the 50s style robot...I wanted a real robot...

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By *enithWoman
over a year ago

closer than you think

My ex mother in law bought me a China chicken one Christmas ...... Bloody horrid brown thing you put your eggs in!!!

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By *isstinseltoesWoman
over a year ago

Calderdale innit

A pair of odd shoes!

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts

An ex paid £80 to transfer me a level 80 W.o.W character for my Birthday, despite the fact that I had made it very clear I fucking hated the game (and yes, I had given it a chance!) and had no intentions of wasting another second of my life on it.

He got arsey at me for not playing it and made out I was ungrateful. He then paid another £80 to take it back after we broke up.

- Amy. x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A horrible plastic poncho with a big picture of an egg on the front ..just bizarre !

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Joop......

although, I did have the best smelling bin for months...

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By *4nc3rCouple
over a year ago

Clacton-On-Sea, Essex

As a gift from her youngest daughter, my mother-in-law has bought me the same cheap tacky ornament (skeleton hand holding a snow globe) two years in a row now and hasn't even noticed lol

Infact when I opened it at Christmas she was like "I saw this and I just knew I had to buy it for you as it's so your style and it's really unusual" I was like "thanks..."

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts

"My work secret Santa a few years ago was a box of Lucky Charms and a can of grape soda"

They're not exactly cheap to get hold of...

Not like you can thank someone for diabetes though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A china fox in a glass dome, with plastic foliage and a piece of rope wrapped round it. Given by a bf when I was in my early 20's. I opened it and thought WTF!

I reckon he forgot and got the first thing from the Argos catalogue in a mad rush. Unfortunately it fell and broke a few days afterwards!

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By *4nc3rCouple
over a year ago

Clacton-On-Sea, Essex

"Joop......

although, I did have the best smelling bin for months..."

I hate hate hate joop lol

One of my friends was wearing it when we went to the pub a few weeks ago I refused to sit next to him haha

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"aged 15,

a toy robot from my nanna...kinda like the 50s style robot...I wanted a real robot..."

That sounds like a great present and a 15 year old with unrealistic expectations.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A T shirt from my sister.

I hate it.

But she said "I thought you'd like this" when she gave me it and I didn't want to upset her.

It's been in my wardrobe for the last year unworn with the tags still on it.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"As a gift from her youngest daughter, my mother-in-law has bought me the same cheap tacky ornament (skeleton hand holding a snow globe) two years in a row now and hasn't even noticed lol

Infact when I opened it at Christmas she was like "I saw this and I just knew I had to buy it for you as it's so your style and it's really unusual" I was like "thanks...""

Give her one back and keep the other on display. Tell her you saw it and knew how much she liked it so you thought you should get her one too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A wand. Can't leave the bloody thing alone

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Joop......

although, I did have the best smelling bin for months..."

pour homme or pour femme? I just want to be clear exactly of what your rubbish smells.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"An ex paid £80 to transfer me a level 80 W.o.W character for my Birthday, despite the fact that I had made it very clear I fucking hated the game (and yes, I had given it a chance!) and had no intentions of wasting another second of my life on it.

He got arsey at me for not playing it and made out I was ungrateful. He then paid another £80 to take it back after we broke up.

- Amy. x"

The second £80 sounds like the best present.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Salt for my piles"

Are they sluggish?

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Electric hand warming gloves!!!!!"

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"My work secret Santa a few years ago was a box of Lucky Charms and a can of grape soda"

Food and drink - it's at least useful.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"My ex mother in law bought me a China chicken one Christmas ...... Bloody horrid brown thing you put your eggs in!!!

Just like eggs, so easily broken.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"A horrible plastic poncho with a big picture of an egg on the front ..just bizarre !"

Fried or boiled?

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Are You whinging about your birthday presents lickety

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"A china fox in a glass dome, with plastic foliage and a piece of rope wrapped round it. Given by a bf when I was in my early 20's. I opened it and thought WTF!

I reckon he forgot and got the first thing from the Argos catalogue in a mad rush. Unfortunately it fell and broke a few days afterwards!

That's sad.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"A T shirt from my sister.

I hate it.

But she said "I thought you'd like this" when she gave me it and I didn't want to upset her.

It's been in my wardrobe for the last year unworn with the tags still on it.

Give it to a charity shop. You do like your t-shirts though so in a way it was a thoughtful gift.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A business card holder

I don't work

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Are You whinging about your birthday presents lickety "

Only the one from my Father. As my sister said, we should document all the bizarre crap presents we have had from the parents over the years.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"A business card holder

I don't work

That's one of those presents meant to inspire you to want business cards.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gonorrhea

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Gonorrhea"

That's a pretty clap gift by all accounts.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A business card holder

I don't work

That's one of those presents meant to inspire you to want business cards.

I still have some from my last two jobs.....I could pretend

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By *evaquitCouple
over a year ago

Catthorpe

The genuine intentions behind it are what I like more than anything but when you recieve a broken portable television as a teenager with no means to fix it spoke volumes to me. First time I uttered the word 'wanker'.

Him

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My mother in law always buys crap presents. The list includes.

A Parmesan cheese grater

A thing for putting pizzas on to bake in the oven

A chopping board

A sachet of washing powder that looked remarkably like a free sample that was handed out at a tube station a few months previously.

And the worst to date is a bag of hay. Not even a big bag.

I love her but she's bonkers.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"The genuine intentions behind it are what I like more than anything but when you recieve a broken portable television as a teenager with no means to fix it spoke volumes to me. First time I uttered the word 'wanker'.

Him"

It is the thought that counts. Just some thoughts aren't worth having.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"My mother in law always buys crap presents. The list includes.

A Parmesan cheese grater

A thing for putting pizzas on to bake in the oven

A chopping board

A sachet of washing powder that looked remarkably like a free sample that was handed out at a tube station a few months previously.

And the worst to date is a bag of hay. Not even a big bag.

I love her but she's bonkers. "

Your bag of hay beats the crap presents from my parents. Only just mind!

I've had the free samples given as a gift too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

An ironing board cover for my wedding anniversary last week. He thought he was being clever because it was the year for iron

at leased I don't feel bad about getting him nothing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

An ironing board cover...not even a funny one! I was underwhelmed...

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

Bright fluorescent pink gloves and scarf set which had clearly been an unwanted present of their own as the packaging was dated and damaged. Looked like it had been sitting in the bottom of a cupboard for around 5 years. The gloves were too small (like a child'd almost). A bit galling when I had bought them a set of designer French cutlery.

This year I got a pair of cheap ASDA pyjamas from the same person. Nothing I would ever wear, an awful colour and the wrong size again. I had bought them an electric grill/mini oven for their new kitchen.

This year they get no more than £10 spent on them. Over the years I have spent a great deal on this particular family member and put a lot of thought into my gifts. What I receive back is usually tacky, with little thought put in. I'd rather a decent card with a nice message if they are a bit skint than be insulted. However, they aren't that skint when they can spend a fair bit on a new mobile for another family member.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One year for my birthday, anniversary and Valentines day my ex got me....nothing. That was nice.

Either that, or a Guns n Roses tshirt. I hate them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"An ironing board cover...not even a funny one! I was underwhelmed...

Snap!

Was it for your wedding anniversary too?

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"An ironing board cover...not even a funny one! I was underwhelmed...

Snap!

Was it for your wedding anniversary too?

I need a new ironing board cover.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My ex wife saying I do

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By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

A few pairs of y fronts

from my ex,s family at xmas I said thanks at the time for them, they went straight in the bin when we got home as I unpacked the car and she sorted the kids out

they also knew what i had done as well as on the next visit they was told what happened to them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

a bee gees cd that i didnt want

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a garden hoover upper of leaves

both off the ex - he liked the bee gees and he couldnt be bothered to brush up leaves so he was making my job easier - i might add these were both xmas pressies - the cd went straight into his car and the hoover went into the garage and when i left him i left it there

cheeky fecker so he is

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

A dustpan and brush one christmas

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"A dustpan and brush one christmas

Some of them are very fancy (and expensive) these days. I like those long-handled dustpans that mean you don't have to bend down.

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By *ot monkey71Couple
over a year ago

middlesbrough

Once got american tan tights for me and hi karate aftershave set for him off my gran. We were in our early 20's lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A beard trimmer, and I'm clean shaven

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A dustpan and brush one christmas

someone must have thought the dust bunnies were breeding

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My ex wife saying I do

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

"A dustpan and brush one christmas

Some of them are very fancy (and expensive) these days. I like those long-handled dustpans that mean you don't have to bend down.

Nope bargain basement cheapie kind. It was even beige!

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"A dustpan and brush one christmas

Some of them are very fancy (and expensive) these days. I like those long-handled dustpans that mean you don't have to bend down.

Nope bargain basement cheapie kind. It was even beige!

You should have led with the beige. That's just unforgivable.

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

"A dustpan and brush one christmas

Some of them are very fancy (and expensive) these days. I like those long-handled dustpans that mean you don't have to bend down.

Nope bargain basement cheapie kind. It was even beige!

You should have led with the beige. That's just unforgivable.

Isn't it just!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A dustpan and brush one christmas

Some of them are very fancy (and expensive) these days. I like those long-handled dustpans that mean you don't have to bend down.

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Nearly nude cleaning ... stockings and suspenders, just bends from the waist

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

"A dustpan and brush one christmas

Some of them are very fancy (and expensive) these days. I like those long-handled dustpans that mean you don't have to bend down.

Nearly nude cleaning ... stockings and suspenders, just bends from the waist

Getting a touch distracted are we?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A dustpan and brush one christmas

Some of them are very fancy (and expensive) these days. I like those long-handled dustpans that mean you don't have to bend down.

Nearly nude cleaning ... stockings and suspenders, just bends from the waist

Getting a touch distracted are we?"

Blame Cariad with yesterday's thread

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent

6 cans of diet

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts

He got arsey at me for not playing it and made out I was ungrateful. He then paid another £80 to take it back after we broke up.

- Amy. x

The second £80 sounds like the best present.

If only it had been paid to me...

That £160 went to Blizzard.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"6 cans of diet "

Do you drink diet ? If so then it's not a complete waste.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"6 cans of diet

Do you drink diet ? If so then it's not a complete waste.

I thought women loved a six pack

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"6 cans of diet

Do you drink diet ? If so then it's not a complete waste.

I thought women loved a six pack

Come to my party and let Hottie get her hands on a six pack.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"6 cans of diet

Do you drink diet ? If so then it's not a complete waste.

I thought women loved a six pack

Come to my party and let Hottie get her hands on a six pack.

I'm about 2 cans short

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent

"6 cans of diet

Do you drink diet ? If so then it's not a complete waste.

I do now but back then I never did. It was my MIL. She obviously thought I needed it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not really a crap pressie but one year on holiday in Switzerland i saw so lovely pencils n coloring books my mum got them n said i could have them for my birthday in a few weeks

The day came I opened my other pressies but really wanted the pencils n books I waited all day until bed n plucked up the courage to ask her for them

She had lost them

Gutted

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"6 cans of diet

Do you drink diet ? If so then it's not a complete waste.

I do now but back then I never did. It was my MIL. She obviously thought I needed it. "

A very long time ago my MIL to be told me that I must never gain any weight at all as her son would not like that. She said that as she piled apple crumble and cream into a bowl along with the rest of her force-feeding habits.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Not really a crap pressie but one year on holiday in Switzerland i saw so lovely pencils n coloring books my mum got them n said i could have them for my birthday in a few weeks

The day came I opened my other pressies but really wanted the pencils n books I waited all day until bed n plucked up the courage to ask her for them

She had lost them

Gutted

I feel your pain - I love stationery.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A T shirt from my sister.

I hate it.

But she said "I thought you'd like this" when she gave me it and I didn't want to upset her.

It's been in my wardrobe for the last year unworn with the tags still on it.

Give it to a charity shop. You do like your t-shirts though so in a way it was a thoughtful gift."

It was a thoughtful gift and thats why I've kept it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Simple things hey xxx

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

Mr has never given me a crap present, thankfully. My first birthday together he gave me a lightsaber. My boy knows me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What is the worst present you have ever been given?

Happy birthday for the other day

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

The last Xmas before me & the ex split up, I wanted a Backgammon/Chess table. You can get them on ebay for around £40-50.

She bought me a kiddies compendium set, with snakes & ladders and ludo, that required tweezers to pick the pieces up

I gave it to her grandson

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"What is the worst present you have ever been given?

Happy birthday for the other day

Thanks. That's a better present than some I have received over the years.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"The last Xmas before me & the ex split up, I wanted a Backgammon/Chess table. You can get them on ebay for around £40-50.

She bought me a kiddies compendium set, with snakes & ladders and ludo, that required tweezers to pick the pieces up

I gave it to her grandson

Did you ever get one?

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Mr has never given me a crap present, thankfully. My first birthday together he gave me a lightsaber. My boy knows me

Which colour?

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"The last Xmas before me & the ex split up, I wanted a Backgammon/Chess table. You can get them on ebay for around £40-50.

She bought me a kiddies compendium set, with snakes & ladders and ludo, that required tweezers to pick the pieces up

I gave it to her grandson

Did you ever get one?"

No, but one day you never know

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

"Mr has never given me a crap present, thankfully. My first birthday together he gave me a lightsaber. My boy knows me

Which colour? "

Green. It's Qui Gon's

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My ex was restoring a car and bought some new bits for it. He got an air filter and a front grill, wrapped them up and gave them to me. I laughed to begin with coz I thought that he was messing around and had got me something nice and was just teasing me. I was wrong, he hadn't. But he thought he was the funniest guy this side of the Watford Gap. I got my own back....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What is the worst present you have ever been given?

Dried fruit for a Christmas present

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

I still have at least two wedding presents we were bought and hated and stashed on top of the wardrobe because we felt guilty about throwing them away.

I was married for 10 years and have been separated one and a half....

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By *trawberry-popWoman
over a year ago

South East Midlands NOT

A pack of 3 stick on spotlights. From those creative folks over at JML (junk manufacturing limited).

But really the worst was a pendant. It wasn't my style at all and coming from someone who has known me almost all my life I was shocked she got it sooo wrong.

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By *eovilcouple76Couple
over a year ago

yeovil

Couple of Xmas's ago I received a sponge and a flannel. Wouldn't have minded if they accompanied the usual toiletries you always get but that's all they got me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A flat pack pine coffee table from that swedish place. All wrapped up. How lovely. Always wanted one of them

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Couple of Xmas's ago I received a sponge and a flannel. Wouldn't have minded if they accompanied the usual toiletries you always get but that's all they got me. "

Was it a natural sponge?

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"A flat pack pine coffee table from that swedish place. All wrapped up. How lovely. Always wanted one of them

Think of it as getting a Lego kit.

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By *iss_Samantha_LovecockTV/TS
over a year ago

bmth /poole sometimes blandford

a dan dare annual my nan bought me when i was little .. i'd never heard of him

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A Lyclear Rinse Treatment

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"a dan dare annual my nan bought me when i was little .. i'd never heard of him

That was educational.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"A Lyclear Rinse Treatment

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A Lyclear Rinse Treatment

You should pass it on to the Polks

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