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Worst christmas present?

Quality · 2007-12-03 16:12:00

One year he bought me a lamp!!! A fecking uplighter!!

03-12-2007 4:12pm

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One year he bought me a lamp!!! A fecking uplighter!!

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#2 03-12-2007 4:17pm

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I know a guy who bought his girlfriend (who he lived with) an iron for christmas..

She marched him back out on St Stevens day to buy her another pressie..

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#3 03-12-2007 4:18pm

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a spud :-/

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#4 03-12-2007 4:22pm

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I got this horrible Elizabeth Arden Red Door giftset one year. It is the most horrible perfume ever. It smells like cat piss.

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#5 03-12-2007 4:22pm

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A lump of coal

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#6 03-12-2007 4:22pm

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Padded hangers, seriously, they werent even scented!

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#7 03-12-2007 4:29pm

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i bought my brother a mini forklift dinki thing for him one christmas, i was four so he was about 6, he opened it said it was the worst christmas present ever and stomped on it:rolleyes: i cried for about 2 hours after that, worse still my mother thought it was funny

worst gift i ever recieved was a pair of socks wrapped up in this big massive box when i was about 10- thought it was something major and was really excited leading up to christmas to open it!! again my mother thought it was brillant.... am im begining to think my family dont like me :eek:

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#8 03-12-2007 4:32pm

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One of my ex's used to always give really crap presents. So bad I can't even remember what they were!

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#9 03-12-2007 4:32pm

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A dressing gown which makes me sneeze when i wear it

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#10 03-12-2007 4:33pm

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Knitted sweater

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#11 03-12-2007 4:37pm

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biko wrote: »

Knitted sweater

ah ye cant beat a christmas geansai

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#12 03-12-2007 4:42pm

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A pirate copy of the film "World Trade Centre" from my brother. You coudnt even see it. A whole €2 worth there.

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#13 03-12-2007 4:47pm

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biko wrote: »

Knitted sweater

At least someone put time and effort into it for you!!

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#14 03-12-2007 4:50pm

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I win hands down.

I bought my mam a tin opener once.

Close thread!

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#15 03-12-2007 4:52pm

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chopperbyrne wrote: »

I win hands down.

I bought my mam a tin opener once.

Close thread!

Ah she an evil one alright! Yore Ma gave me crabs.

Now I've got that done with, the thread can be closed.

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#16 03-12-2007 4:54pm

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chopperbyrne wrote: »

I win hands down.

I bought my mam a tin opener once.

Close thread!

Wow, I forgot about that. I bought my mam a tin opener for christmas about 4 years ago too.

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#17 03-12-2007 4:57pm

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An angle grinder which promptly joined all the other tools in the purchasers shed.
Every year my sister buys me buckets and buckets of make up. I don't like make up. It has got to the stage where I am really disappointed now and we have a spat and she says she'll never buy me anything again.
For my birthday this year she bought me tonnes of make up.

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#18 03-12-2007 4:58pm

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AIDS.*

*that would suck.

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#19 03-12-2007 5:03pm

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My brother gave me foundation for someone with black skin before. I have really pale white skin. He was only about 12 so it was actually very sweet, but still!

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#20 03-12-2007 5:08pm

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got a thighmaster off the boyfriend one year.......he has now learned his lesson......

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#21 03-12-2007 5:10pm

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I bought my dad a pair of Guinness slippers that were my size knowing he couldn't wear them as a joke. He wasn't impressed

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#22 03-12-2007 5:15pm

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Archeron wrote: »

A pirate copy of the film "World Trade Centre" from my brother. You coudnt even see it.

So at least there was a bright side

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#23 03-12-2007 5:52pm

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ah i only started a thread about worst present ever yesterday and here it is

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#24 03-12-2007 7:17pm

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my da gave my ma a secateurs one year. she didn't speak to him for days.

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#25 03-12-2007 8:15pm

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My brother and I once got a set of reflectors for our bikes off our grandparents while our cousins got computer games. No favouritism there then.

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#26 03-12-2007 8:39pm

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I got a Barcode Battler before.

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#27 03-12-2007 8:50pm

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My aunt got me a bunch of storybooks when I was about 8 years old that all had some sort of religious morals and sayings at the end of them. It didn't work, hear that auntie!! :mad:

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#28 03-12-2007 11:16pm

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a pair of slippers off my mother saying 'Trying is the first step towards failure'... i found it funny tho

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I once got a mobile phone car hands free kit in a work kris kindle....
I didnt have a car at the time ... I couldn't even drive or had never
made any attempt to learn!!!

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An industrial sized box of condoms.

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Saint_Mel wrote: »

I once got a mobile phone car hands free kit in a work kris kindle....
I didnt have a car at the time ... I couldn't even drive or had never
made any attempt to learn!!!

Thats pretty funny ^ , what a tight prik that guy/girl must of been haha

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A concert ticket, the concert got cancelled, bitch got her money back and got me nowt.:mad:

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I got my old bird a €500 excersize bike, at her request, then she never used it and eventually confessed it was "because it made her feel fat"....:rolleyes:

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KingOfFairview wrote: »

I got my old bird a €500 excersize bike, at her request, then she never used it and eventually confessed it was "because it made her feel fat"....:rolleyes:

LOL

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Got a big Airfix boat off my great uncle. Was a huge thing, real complicated, with tonnes of tiny little fiddely bits. So yea, a great present for a 7 year old... Parents wouldnt let me even open it.

Found it a few years later and prompty destroyed the living room settee trying to make it

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#36 04-12-2007 10:04am

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My sister got me this tub of bubble-bath that turns the water red and makes it look like blood when I was about fourteen. It had been literally years since I had taken a bath, having long since moved on to showers. Why did she think I would want this?!? That was pretty bad.
Another year, she got me a table tennis set (net, paddles and ball). I have always hated table tennis, as I had told her a million times. I gave it straight back to her and told her I didn't want it.
My other sister gave me a Mach 3 in Christmas '05. Sounds okay, right? Two problems:
1. I already had one! I had tons of spare blades too.
2. I have a beard. I trim the stubble around my neck about twice a week, so a blade last me about two months.
The last thing I needed was a new Mach 3.

People say it is the thought that counts. I agree fully with that statement. No thought went into any of those presents.

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I gave my brother a shaving brush one year so that he'd stop using mine. He wasn't impressed.

Then the next year my girlfriend at the time gave me a new shaving brush. And I knew why my brother hadn't been impressed. :rolleyes:

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#38 04-12-2007 11:21am

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Rollerblades...uugh! What were they thinking!!??

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#39 04-12-2007 11:34am

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GDM wrote: »

My brother and I once got a set of reflectors for our bikes off our grandparents while our cousins got computer games. No favouritism there then.

Gold sounds like my family too!

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The boyf was going to give me a hairdryer last christmas but I quickly put him straight! I HATE practical presents.

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#41 04-12-2007 2:21pm

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One year my sister got soap on a rope off our brothers girlfriend!!
We had some laugh over that,

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Man utd towel...I'm a liverpool fan. Twas handy for drying the dog though:D

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sweetie wrote: »

Man utd towel...I'm a liverpool fan. Twas handy for drying the dog though:D

Controversial stuff from a Man U fan's point of view

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A kite.

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I got a crucifix one year - always a welcome present for atheists...

I wouldn't have minded quite so much but it was one the ugliest things I have ever seen - it looked like a plastic baby doll which had been nailed to a bit of spare 2X4....hideous looking thing! :eek:

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A pair of white socks from a three-pack.

My brother got one pair, my sister got the other.

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blah wrote: »

I gave my brother a shaving brush one year so that he'd stop using mine. He wasn't impressed.

Then the next year my girlfriend at the time gave me a new shaving brush. And I knew why my brother hadn't been impressed. :rolleyes:

For second there I though you were implying your brother was sleeping with your girlfriend and he had given her the shaving brush to give to you?

Worst present I ever got was a box of bic biros from my brother. Worst part was they were green, nobody uses green!

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A friend of mine once went on a bender and blew his present fund.
He ended up getting a doormat as a collective present for the whole family.

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taxidermied (sp?) trout... no kidding...

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I belong to a parenting website called Magicmum (www.magicmum.com). The issue of the worst present arose there a while ago & we all agreed on who got the worst.........a poor unfortunate mam who's husband bought her A BURIAL PLOT IN THE LOCAL CEMETARY:D

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a pedicure set..

like i only cut my toenails when they rub off my shoes.

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