I received lots of lovely gifts because like nice inexpensive gifts. Unfortunately I also received two bottles of wine even though Imcannot drink alcohol anymore…not very amusing I know but I am sure there are some howlers somewhere on here!
Hubby’s brother once sent us a box of After Eight mints and some fancy ground coffees. It was a nice present, but he hadn’t given enough thought to the packaging. The coffee was fine, but the mints had been so battered that they were uneatable.
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No such thing as a terrible present, I wasn’t so keen on the lawn mower or ladder as Christmas presents, but was glad to have both, the following summer, last year I had some nice chocolates under the tree… well they would have been for the underfloor heating! lol, they were OK, just couldn’t tell what they were once they’d set again…waste not and all that! In the same vein though, the worst thing ever was my 5th birthday cake, pink icing OK, covered in dessicated coconut…not OK, I hate and always have, coconut, the texture,the taste, even the look, pirroueting ballerina fine, crepe paper ruff thing (you don’t see those any more do you?)…so as I said, not really any such thing as a terrible present, although my sisters weren’t too keen when I bought my nephews rockets 20+ years ago!
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A bucket and a mop from a house-proud Aunty and joy of joys a new toilet, literally a new toilet for my birthday from a loving husband 
Admittedly our loo had broken only a couple of days before but …
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I once had a ‘bag for life’ and a queen like head scarff off the mother in law both wrapped nicely. I was 38 at the time! lol xx
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ha ha!
julie my mother in law bought me a few headscarves and i was in my twenties!
my best friend just wouldn’t be told that i didn’t want a poncho.
she bought me 5! yes five ponchos!
i gave them all back.
nowadays i don’t know anybody who wears or buys them.
nothing against them but just not for me.
that best friend died 4 years ago and i miss her like mad although i don’t miss the ponchos.
carole x
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Everyone in Birmingham wears ponchos Carole plus all the shops are full of them lol xx
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A few years ago hubby and me plus hubby’s father all received knitted jumpers from hubby’s Aunt…none of us could get our heads through the holes. Market rubbish knitted wrong and if you managed to squeeze your head in you’d have to be cut out so…dustbin!
I think I might have asked him where his toilet was and would have bided my time and bought him a toilet brush for his birthday! you could always charge him for using it!
Hubby one year bought me a new George Forman grill ,great you would think only 2 people in our house this thing was a double sided monster catered for twelve easily, wouldn’t send it back said it might come in useful one day ,one day it did sold it to my friend that ran a pub for his burgers . Men and their pride got to love them.
katy
That IS a terrible present!
My son bought me drain rods this year!
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drain rods, now that is a christmas present to envy.
where would we be without drain rods?
bless him he was trying.
Ha ha ha haaaaa…
A box of biscuits … from my brother and his wife. Nice thought, but really they know I am gluten free lol, so i gave them to my daughter.
I love ponchos!
They cover my belly and catheter tubing!
Plenty for sale in shops as someone else says.
pollx
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I once got a set of candles from my Aunt. I quite like candles so not too bad but they were in little glass cup things (like an egg cup) and were tiger and leopard print. She LOVEs leopard print (think Bet Lynch) I however, don’t. Still they were a gift that she picked and I like candles so not so bad… until I opened then and they had been used! She proudly told us all that she had bought all of our presents from Oxy (Oxfam to those who aren’t on best friend terms with the place). We thought (and you know what thought did) that she had purchased their range made for them under the fair trade scheme or something like that but, no she had bought 2nd hand gifts that had been well used. My nephew even got a toy car that he had left at ther house by mistake!
We agreed after that to just send cards and not worry about the pressure of buying gifts!
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SMH…I’m straying away from Christmas a bit but I have got to share this now. I used to help at a pensioners get together club in the village and every week we had a raffle. Just small donated prizes but every so often somebody donated sweets or biscuits they had opened. They opened them, didn’t want them so put them in the raffle.
It was my job to check the donations after that.
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the usual Toblerone - made the mistake of enthusing about the Toblerone I was given some years ago at Christmas and it’s been Toblerone ever since.
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