FabSwingers.com forum: Worst Christmas present

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

One year C’s mum bought me three boxes of cereal.

She bought C’s brother’s girlfriend an expensive necklace and earring set.

I had been around a year longer than her, who had only been around a month and a half.

And she knew I didn’t like the cereal she bought me.

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

When Ash's sister asked him what we would like for Christmas, he said a four slice toaster!

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

I'll adopt you both. Tell her to do one.

I'll get you something cool.

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

"I'll adopt you both. Tell her to do one.

I'll get you something cool.

Oh I adore you

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

"When Ash's sister asked him what we would like for Christmas, he said a four slice toaster!

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

my ex in laws were very practical people one year they bought us giant sized tin foil & cling film. lasted years

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

"my ex in laws were very practical people one year they bought us giant sized tin foil & cling film. lasted years

I'd love that.

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

"my ex in laws were very practical people one year they bought us giant sized tin foil & cling film. lasted years

See, I’d appreciate that!

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

"my ex in laws were very practical people one year they bought us giant sized tin foil & cling film. lasted years

See, I’d appreciate that!"

at the time I thought wtf but actually it was a great gift

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

A Conservative victory next Thursday

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By *osie xWoman
over a year ago

wolverhampton

I once got a replacement toilet seat

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

"my ex in laws were very practical people one year they bought us giant sized tin foil & cling film. lasted years

See, I’d appreciate that!

at the time I thought wtf but actually it was a great gift

My best friend always buys me a jar of coffee when she comes round for dinner as it's more useful and practical than flowers. I love that.

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

"I once got a replacement toilet seat

Did you need a replacement?

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

Aftershave, it’s possibly one of the most gifted present I receive. Oh another bottle of aftershave, why thanks. I’ll stick it with the other 50 bottles I’ve got

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By *mberWoman
over a year ago

Preston

My ex mother in law bought me a cafetiere.

When I opened it she said "I know you hate coffee, it's for when we visit"

Thanks!

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

"My ex mother in law bought me a cafetiere.

When I opened it she said "I know you hate coffee, it's for when we visit"

Thanks!

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

"Aftershave, it’s possibly one of the most gifted present I receive. Oh another bottle of aftershave, why thanks. I’ll stick it with the other 50 bottles I’ve got

Always wondered why ‘smellies’ were an appropriate gift

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By *roticGoddessXXWoman
over a year ago

Richmond

One year, I asked my then husband for a big roomy hoodie to slouch around in. I wore size large, so asked for a women's XL or a men's large. He bought me a women's medium, "thought you'd like it better."

The worst part was that he bought me a nice nightie--size 2XL.

He obviously never looked at me.

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By *nto My ArmsMan
over a year ago

Herts/London

"my ex in laws were very practical people one year they bought us giant sized tin foil & cling film. lasted years

Practical, or very kinky?

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

"One year, I asked my then husband for a big roomy hoodie to slouch around in. I wore size large, so asked for a women's XL or a men's large. He bought me a women's medium, "thought you'd like it better."

The worst part was that he bought me a nice nightie--size 2XL.

He obviously never looked at me."

My in-laws once bought me size six pyjamas. They knew I wasn’t a size six, they just didn’t want to offend me by getting me my actual size

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

As a kid my auntie and uncle always used to buy me educational presents instead of fun stuff.

As an adult probably the socket set my dad got me about 10 years ago, I still haven't used it!

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

My mother in law bought me socks and slippers in the wrong sizes and an ex bought me a dust pan and brush.

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

A three pack of paisley patterned y fronts from my ex mother in law

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

God my ex in laws gave me so many, I got a purple waffle tablecloth one year, then another year a pack of massive granny knickers. X

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

My other half once bought me a windscreen wiper. He’s a keeper.

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By *Man1263Man
over a year ago

Stockport

As I have got older, none.

Some may not of been my choice of thing (if I was to choose for myself) but looking back (and forward) it's a gift.

So, all good

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

Wow, i think I've been really lucky when i read this thread :D

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By *osie xWoman
over a year ago

wolverhampton

"I once got a replacement toilet seat

Did you need a replacement?"

Nope I’d just bought one lol

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

A hand held hoover for the stairs. My delightful husband of the time thought he was being nice

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

"A hand held hoover for the stairs. My delightful husband of the time thought he was being nice "

But did it make the stairs look better??

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By *ady23Woman
over a year ago

Coventry

"One year C’s mum bought me three boxes of cereal.

She bought C’s brother’s girlfriend an expensive necklace and earring set.

I had been around a year longer than her, who had only been around a month and a half.

And she knew I didn’t like the cereal she bought me.

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ooh dear

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

"Wow, i think I've been really lucky when i read this thread :D"

Me too..

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

A tub of anti wrinkle cream! Wow! Thanks!

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By *adame 2SwordsWoman
over a year ago

Victoria, London

Bought my boyfriend at the time a lovely mountain bike (showing my age, when they first came out), I got a broken rechargeable torch and a badminton racket (I don't play).

Never got flowers for Valentines, instead a 60p packet of flower seeds!!!

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By *hoenixAdAstraWoman
over a year ago

Hiding in the shadows

It wasn't an awful present, in fact it was quite nice, and definitely not cheap.

A spa kit for a bath..

But, as I don't have a bath, it was pretty bloody useless!

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

Cat poo in a c90 box.

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By *lbinoGorillaMan
over a year ago

Redditch

Worst thing I ever received was an animatronic Billy Bass singing fish

God knows what the people who got it me were thinking, but it's about the only thing I've ever given to a charity shop at the first available opportunity

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

A colleague bought both her daughter in laws an iron each for Christmas.

Another colleague received a tumble dryer from her husband.

I've never had a really bad gift

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

Oh and another colleague was given a pair of crotchless knickers by her son and daughter in law. That was an awkward Christmas lunch.

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By *ily WhiteWoman
over a year ago

I once got a lovely coffee set...the only problem was I can't stand coffee

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By *sandu2ukCouple
over a year ago

Nottingham

"I once got a lovely coffee set...the only problem was I can't stand coffee

I’ll have it. Lol. I love coffee. X

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington

Once received a Robbie Williams compilations album (on cassette) lucky for me I had no way of playing it as I’d not had a cassette player for years

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

"Oh and another colleague was given a pair of crotchless knickers by her son and daughter in law. That was an awkward Christmas lunch."

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

Anal..... Baileys and god knows what else screwed me over!

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

"Oh and another colleague was given a pair of crotchless knickers by her son and daughter in law. That was an awkward Christmas lunch.

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By *hubaysiWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

A CD of Dale Winton’s favourite choice pop songs. Some really nice disco stuff on it and I loved it. The person who got me it in the Secret Santa despised me but I loved it! Even got them a thank you card to make them squirm!!!!

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By *acktar74Man
over a year ago

leeds

Some square sausages

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

Ex mother in law got me a cooking for beginners cookbook one year AFTER being cooked for at our house by me, every week for TWO YEARS

Cheeky mare

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I probably mentioned this last year, lol. The relative who got me a generic gift voucher. That's fine! But, it was because they didn't know me, I was hard to buy for. The strong implication in that interaction was that I was a bitch

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

"Some square sausages "

We love square sausage!!

J x

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By *oddamnCouple
over a year ago

leicestershire

"I once got a replacement toilet seat

I've gifted one of those before, but only because the person had repeatedly complimented our soft close seat and her toilet seat had had it.

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

Ex husband bought me a new deep fat fryer

He even gave me it early so he could have home made fish & chips

How thoughtful

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

"Oh and another colleague was given a pair of crotchless knickers by her son and daughter in law. That was an awkward Christmas lunch.

Get some for your MIL. Please do it !!

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

A skateboard... i was 33 at the time.

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

"Some square sausages "

I love square sausage.... especially with haggis in the middle of it.

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

"Some square sausages

I love square sausage.... especially with haggis in the middle of it."

Easier to fuck yourself with a normal sausage though

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

"Oh and another colleague was given a pair of crotchless knickers by her son and daughter in law. That was an awkward Christmas lunch.

Get some for your MIL. Please do it !!

god could you imagine

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

I brought my ex an iPad, an iPhone and an iPod. The year I got her an iRon was awkward...

Seriously I’ve not had a bad gift as an adult but when I was a kid an aunt brought me a football kit, trouble was it was for my team’s despised rivals, I couldn’t hide my contempt and disappointment. I learnt at an early age that my face tells a thousand stories!

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

I got a new divorced barbie doll one year, but it came with all of kens stuff

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

Bought the wife a washing machine

She had been going on that we needed a new one

Thought I'd kill 2 birds with one stone...

In my defence I was very young and inexperienced and will NEVER EVER!! make that mistake again

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Bought the wife a washing machine

She had been going on that we needed a new one

Thought I'd kill 2 birds with one stone...

In my defence I was very young and inexperienced and will NEVER EVER!! make that mistake again "

you learn the hard way sometimes

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By *ightkitty4uWoman
over a year ago

Epsom

My mum is the worst at present buying, I even send her links to the item at the cheapest price... she still goes off piste...

Last year I got a silent pool gin glass and a mini bottle of the gin.. I love the gin but would have preferred a big bottle and no glass! Glass is still in its box in cupboard

She got me a bay tree too, I mentioned I wanted one a few years back, I have one growing in my garden... yet she brought me one...

When I got my first laptop years ago she got me a laptop bag, was the most chunky manly bag ever, I even told her not to buy me one as I’d seen one I liked and was planning to get...

I’d hate to think what I will get this year, I’d actually rather she didn’t buy me anything and save her money and my having to be polite about it all

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I'd blanked this from my memory. My first husband bought "me" a three piece suite.

. I didn't even get to choose it, he just presented me with the receipt on Christmas morning.

. We weren't together the following Christmas

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

"I'd blanked this from my memory. My first husband bought "me" a three piece suite.

. I didn't even get to choose it, he just presented me with the receipt on Christmas morning.

. We weren't together the following Christmas"

What colour was it?

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

Frying pan from a bf

To be fair I do still use it!

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By *AYENCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

A huge tin of Quality Street - 'kin hate that shite!

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"I'd blanked this from my memory. My first husband bought "me" a three piece suite.

. I didn't even get to choose it, he just presented me with the receipt on Christmas morning.

. We weren't together the following Christmas

What colour was it?"

Green and very old fashioned. He also had a terrible gambling habit which meant I ended up paying the instalments on it anyway

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

A lump of coal

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

"I'd blanked this from my memory. My first husband bought "me" a three piece suite.

. I didn't even get to choose it, he just presented me with the receipt on Christmas morning.

. We weren't together the following Christmas"

Sounds like a very practical guy.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"I'd blanked this from my memory. My first husband bought "me" a three piece suite.

. I didn't even get to choose it, he just presented me with the receipt on Christmas morning.

. We weren't together the following Christmas

Sounds like a very practical guy. "

if his intention was to get rid of me he certainly was

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

I was once bought a book about the worst car parks in britain by one of my uncles.

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

My uncle one gave me a lovely wooden bowl filled with nuts and a nutcracker.

I have a nut allergy.

I did once buy my grandmother a packet of 48 toilet rolls. Her house was conveniently located between my 2 main offices at my last job and I'd pop in about once a week to eat cake and use the facilities. her expression for using the bathroom was to 'spend a penny' so I also taped 52 pennies to her gift to pay her for each use. She thought it was hilarious.

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

A set of nose clippers from someone at work

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By *ed LipstickWoman
over a year ago

Fucksville

I received the same perfume set back that I'd bought the Sister-in-law 8 yrs later. Perfume opened and off. She's not a fan!

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By *lbinoGorillaMan
over a year ago

Redditch

"I'd blanked this from my memory. My first husband bought "me" a three piece suite.

. I didn't even get to choose it, he just presented me with the receipt on Christmas morning.

. We weren't together the following Christmas

What colour was it?

Green and very old fashioned"

I like green! Cars, furniture, the lot

I'd love a green sofa, although not sure if the Chesterfield style would be all that comfortable

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By *icoleAndLisaTransCouple (FF)
over a year ago

Ellesmere Port

"Worst thing I ever received was an animatronic Billy Bass singing fish

God knows what the people who got it me were thinking, but it's about the only thing I've ever given to a charity shop at the first available opportunity "

I share your pain.

My ex's stepmother had a habit of taking "Christmas presents" rather too literally. She would buy people Christmas stuff (decorations etc.) for Christmas and hand them out on Christmas day. You know, 12 days before you're supposed to pack the whole lot away again, when you could have 'enjoyed' the thing from the beginning of Dec_mber right through to early January.

One such gift was the Christmas Big Mouth Billy Bass. Basically the standard one, but with a Santa hat glued on it, and it sang Christmas songs.

I think I still have it in a box in the loft, somewhere.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"I'd blanked this from my memory. My first husband bought "me" a three piece suite.

. I didn't even get to choose it, he just presented me with the receipt on Christmas morning.

. We weren't together the following Christmas

What colour was it?

Green and very old fashioned

I like green! Cars, furniture, the lot

I'd love a green sofa, although not sure if the Chesterfield style would be all that comfortable "

I like green too but if I'm having furniture in my house I like to have a say in what furniture and not be given it as a gift when we would both have use of it. As it happened he had a terrible gambling addiction and never had any money so I ended up paying the instalments

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By *lbinoGorillaMan
over a year ago

Redditch

"Worst thing I ever received was an animatronic Billy Bass singing fish

God knows what the people who got it me were thinking, but it's about the only thing I've ever given to a charity shop at the first available opportunity

I share your pain.

One such gift was the Christmas Big Mouth Billy Bass. Basically the standard one, but with a Santa hat glued on it, and it sang Christmas songs.

I think I still have it in a box in the loft, somewhere."

Oh dear god, that sounds kind something out of one of Dante's circles of hell

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

"I'd blanked this from my memory. My first husband bought "me" a three piece suite.

. I didn't even get to choose it, he just presented me with the receipt on Christmas morning.

. We weren't together the following Christmas

What colour was it?

Green and very old fashioned

I like green! Cars, furniture, the lot

I'd love a green sofa, although not sure if the Chesterfield style would be all that comfortable

Hahahahahaha so I read this as ‘suit’ and thought he had bought you a green, three piece suit

I wondered how bloody much he paid for it if you had to pay it off hahahahahaha

Makes sense now

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By *uenevereWoman
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

My nanna always bought the worst Xmas presents.

She meant well but nobody ever got anything they liked or wanted.

The pink lace nightdress case when I was 13, is the most memorable... it was hideous

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

"My uncle one gave me a lovely wooden bowl filled with nuts and a nutcracker.

I have a nut allergy.

That's brilliant

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By *eiaorganaWoman
over a year ago

Dundee

A box of Lucky Charms and a can of grape soda from the work secret santa

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

Anything I have to ask for or anything too practical

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

I once was given an electric blanket...... I was 11. Worst present ever

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

My ex mother in law bought me Delia smiths how to boil an egg book. Never did like her in the first place, it would seem the feeling was mutual lol.

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

My ex Mother in Law got us an A4 photo frame with a picture of her in it

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

"My ex Mother in Law got us an A4 photo frame with a picture of her in it "

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