Sally Buttons

What are the crappiest presents you've ever had and who gave them to you? (I find that nans are the worst offenders in this).

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Gwyndolyn Quaintly

YES! Nans are.

One Christmas my Nan called round to 'drop off the gifts' to myself and my sister. My sister got a BIG box and I got a small one - and my sis opened her's first - it was a GhettoBlaster. My sister was about 8 at the time, so I thought 'waheyyy!' Nan's on the ball this year. You see- the previous 3 years (yes, 3) she'd given me a duvet. Yes...a plain single duvet. No cover, no nothing - just the duvet- but don't complain, right?
Sooo I'm thinking alrighty then - deffo not a duvet! Gotta beat a GhettoBlaster. Nan left and I eventually opened my gift, dead excited. Talk aout an anticlimax. It was a giftwrapped Bumper Value pack of Christmas cards...only...no christmas cards inside the box..just shredded newspaper...so I rummage and rummage trying to find the 'small and expensive' thing she MUST have hidden in it...but no. Nada. So I empty the whole lot out on a tea-tray convinced I missed it...only there's nothing. I put every last one of the damned shreds of paper off the tray one by one. SHAG BLOODY ALL IN THE BOX. My sister still thinks it's f******** hilarious. The year after that, my nan took my cousin on holiday to Portugal. She gave me a pair of tights. Lovely. Makes you feel so loved, y'know?

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angels_and_daemons

My aunt Julia, who works in a fabulously well payed job, with her fabulously payed husband, and who has three kids so should know a thing or two about what kids want.... got me a tin badge with a sailing ship on it, after a LOT of research it was something like the russian merchant navy...

That year she got my dad a tin of paté that was 6 months out of date...

So it's not just nans that are rubbish

Ebony&Markus

Tea towels and flamboyant red cushion covers with golden strings coming out of them......

Lenore

Oh so many where to start?
My grandmother (cant call her nan she was an old witch) used to save up those little things you get in cocktails like umbrellas stirring sticks and plastic monkeys when she went on holiday and then give us them for christmas.
My first Fiance when told i would like something different for an engagement ring got me a signet ring twat!
Dave is pretty useless at pressies bless him he does try though one year i got a hand soap dispenser and some lavander inscence with some lavander bath salts ick old lady smell. Another year mascara and eyeliner usefull but not really present material and another year a phone for the house why?
Saying that though i have had some nice ones from him he paid for my first tattoo and my tongue piercing he tends to buy better presents when they are spontanius rather then its your birthday i must get you something

angels_and_daemons

Mascara and eyeliner? wonder what ran through his head at the time... "she uses these a lot I'll get her some more" I guess you're just lucky he found himself in the make up department and not the sanitary product isle... that would have been an odd thing to un-wrap.

And why do people give socks at christmas? My dad got me socks one year - he knows I think it's the most pointless present ever... shows no thought of any kind went into buying a present. If your child needs socks, buy them socks, don't wait till christmas, if however that child is grown, if they needed socks they'd have bought some themselves

Cal Soulshadow

Remember those ghastly Franklin Mint ads you'd get in the Sunday supplements? I remember laughing at one with my best friend because it was so vile. The offending item was a pair of velvet wall plaques, one featuring a little boy praying by their bed, and one of a little girl praying by her bead. The children were cartoon-style cute, a bit like the Love is...kids, only with clothes, and in some sort of horrible white china stuff.
You could have a choice of velvet - I remember there being wine red, forest green, dark blue and...ugh...brown. Not that they wouldn't have been hideous in any colour, of course, but...ugh...brown.

So Christmas day comes and there is a box from my aunt. Under the wrapping paper is a plain cardboard box from the Franklin Mint. My mum thinks it's some lovely china horse, as I'm into horses, but no. You guessed it...it's the horrible praying munchkins. On brown velvet. Ugh.

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cherry

theres a few things that come to mind but one of the worst i have seen was sent to my mother in law - a lovely lady - on her 60th birthday from her sister. It was a white ceramic toilet brush in the shape of a pig.

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Cen Brennah

One year I got a yellow plastic wine rack that could hold 6 bottles from my mother in law. (they cost 75p at Wilco's) The same year she bought her daughter a huge brown fake leather bag. (£1.50 from Wilco's)

Also she sent one of her grandsons a dvd game for his birthday. That was free with the Daily Mail.

athos

last year on my birthday i recieved .... a new mouse for my computer !
now, if i'd have really needed one i'd have bought one. this was supposedly from my (then) 5 year old daughter - yeah someone else bought the present on her behalf, but i think she'd have made a better job of it. instead i've a strong suspiscion that it was a last minute job from the currys round the corner.

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Ebony&Markus

Socks and pants.....

Rebecca

The homemade sweater my Grandma gave me *Shudders*

Colours - Orange, yellow (I hate yellow), Purple, green, pink, brown, carry coloured... All in stripes.. *Shudders*

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Paladis

Having declined a big bash for me 18th to save me parents some money i kinda expected a grand gesture of a present instead (having saved them afew hundred quid)...to my delight i got a set of mechanics screw drivers,extremely handy for a trainee electrician.

Meiko

I think it has to be what my ex bought me for valentines day. It looked for all intense purposes like a nicely wrapped red heart shaped cardboard box of chocolates. But what it turned out to be was a red cardboard shaped box, that was meant to of contained chocolates but was infact empty with a rip in the side and was tied up in cellophane. Talk about a cheapskate.

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Rebecca

*Chuckles*

Got some 'Jewels', who turned out to be polished glass when I had it checked... *Mutters*

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