What's the most annoying present you have received?

inishindie

Hi

I was putting together some Christmas crackers, like you do at this time of year.
I have included some small presents in them. One of them is an electriic key finder. When you whistle it starts up and rings away. All well and good if you have lost your keys. The thing starts up as soon as I whistle.(By the amount of times it goes off I do an awful lot of whistling!!

Have you had an annoying gift? If so what has happened to it?

I can't wait to give this one away!!

Cheers

Ian

The Real B-man

A Del boy Trotter stlye gold Timex watch when i was 17

Dennis the Stone

I would tell but nobody would believe.

Oral Slang

I got a hairdryer from a friend of mine, after she lost mine, which I thought was a tad cheeky!

Ballerina

one year i got a pen and a pencil from an uncle who wasnt really "with-it" when it came to childrens interests.

he topped that the next year thought with a boxset of Heidi....not too bad i hear you say to yourself...


IT WAS IN FRENCH.i was 9.and wasnt learning french.....

i forgave him when he gave a gorgeus necklace,roses by courier and 100 euro for my 18th though...he must have gotten advice

When we were much younger, one of us received a book that squeaked every time you touched in. It was some sort of story book. This squeaking made my dog go crazy, so it was really annoying when he went at it.

thefinalstage

Ballerina wrote: »

one year i got a pen and a pencil from an uncle who wasnt really "with-it" when it came to childrens interests.

he topped that the next year thought with a boxset of Heidi....not too bad i hear you say to yourself...


IT WAS IN FRENCH.i was 9.and wasnt learning french.....

i forgave him when he gave a gorgeus necklace,roses by courier and 100 euro for my 18th though...he must have gotten advice

Tradition my dear. Tradition.

Mr. CooL ICE

The flu. Meant I ended up going 729 days without any christmas turkey

Ballerina

thelastangryman wrote: »

Tradition my dear. Tradition.

huh?
the 18th birthday pressie?not reeeeally

Dord

pajamas.....wtf! :mad:


I was 20 at the time btw! :rolleyes:

Terry

inishindie wrote: »

Hi

I was putting together some Christmas crackers, like you do at this time of year.
I have included some small presents in them. One of them is an electriic key finder. When you whistle it starts up and rings away. All well and good if you have lost your keys. The thing starts up as soon as I whistle.(By the amount of times it goes off I do an awful lot of whistling!!

Have you had an annoying gift? If so what has happened to it?

I can't wait to give this one away!!

Cheers

Ian

http://inishindie.blogspot.com/

Is there some specific reason for putting a link to your blog in the post?

thefinalstage

Ballerina wrote: »

huh?
the 18th birthday pressie?not reeeeally

Depends on your origins really. But in Ireland no, its not.

Sabre0001

A tea cosy - so this year, gifts are being scanned before people are allowed in the house.

GhostInTheRuins

A bunch of nightime reflectors, I mean, come on, they cost about 20c. I'd rather have the 20c.

ejmaztec

That partidge and that pear tree were a bit of a pain! Sh1t everywhere!:D

Jackz

Adidas deoderant packs over and over and over.

GhostInTheRuins

Jackz wrote: »

Adidas deoderant packs over and over and over.

I forgot about them :mad:

Zaph

Yeah, those toiletry gift sets are a pain in the ass. I don't know why my sisters decided that I needed a new razor four years running. I eventually had to tell them to stop last year, I have an older type that I'm perfectly happy with and their's will never get used.

Jackz

Especially when the smell of the particular deoderant contained therein is F\/(kin horrible.

GhostInTheRuins

Actually, just thought of another one, when I was 16 or 17 my nanny bought me a teddy bear night light thing, like this one but much cheaper looking. http://www.spiffybaby.com/images/t_145.jpg I can't imagine the look on my looked like when I opened it. 17 ffs

inishindie

Hi

I have just thought of a worse present, you have inspired me. I was 16 and my father gave me a cassete recorder, one of those that had the controls at the front of the oblong box. It was ten years out of date at the time and to make matters worse it was an old one he didn't want because it didn't work!!

I am still in therapy!

Cheers

Oh, Terry . I had the blog site address on the bottom of a few comments I made this morning. I put them on by accident (you can access the site by clicking on my name anyway).

I wrote to the Moderator at 12:41 this morning and apologised in the newbee section of the forum I had a reply from Ruu.

I was told to keep writing and have fun!! I realise that there are a lot of moderators and you will react differently to these being added.

I put a lot of work into my blog and enjoy it when I get a visit, but I do get a bit carried away when I write. It is like a signature I guess. I have written other comments and it has been omitted.

I have also taken the address from the original copy. I hope this meets with your approval Terry

I hope that that answers your question and resolves the issue

Cheers

Zaph

Granny presents don't count. Unless they give you money after a certain age you're guaranteed to get something useless, inappropriate or downright embarrassing. Thankfully mine stuck to cash.

KazDub

My aunt gives crap presents, year in year out. The annual look on our faces of 'wtf' just don't sink in. That added to the fact that she really couldn't give a flying one, after all, it's the thought that counts....apparently!
She does one of those deposit things in her local chemist during the year, so usually we all just get shower gel or deodorant crappy stuff from her. Her absolute worsts were:

A gift set of a man's and woman's watches. I was supposed to split it with my brother. It came with the accompanying quote: 'I thought you could wear it when you were doing the gardening"..... seriously!

A doll. "I thought it might be something you could develop an interest in". I was about 23!

Disgusting green placemats. She didn't even bother trying to justify the thought behind that one.

Last year my brother got a bottle of shower gel.

My dad got a hipflask and little metal cups. He's not the kind of guy who'd need / want / crave one in his worst nightmare. He also gets a lot of cheap, tacky shirts that aren't anywhere near his size.

There's some people who you'd just prefer to get nothing at all from.

Ballerina

thelastangryman wrote: »

Depends on your origins really. But in Ireland no, its not.

so its not tradition....so i dont get why you said it was...ha desnt matter anyway im just confused(as usual)

Dord

Jackz wrote: »

Adidas deoderant packs over and over and over.

:mad:

mkv83

i was given a 5 pack of blank video's by my aunt two years in a row. I stopped buying her presents.....

Ballerina

mkv83 wrote: »

i was given a 5 pack of blank video's by my aunt two years in a row. I stopped buying her presents.....

hahahahahahahahahahah thats hilarious!

would love to know whats going on her mind as shes buying them haha

Pj!

A bottle of girls Adidas perfume.

WTF like? Thanks uncle.

Lockstep

Worst ever were from a great aunt who never seemed to like me much.

I was into Man United when i was around 6, when i was 15 she gave me an ancient Manchester United yearbook, you could tell she'd bought it on the cheap, She'd even gone through the book and cut out every bit where it mentioned the price. The wispy chinned tosser.


Last year at christmas all my siblings got a card with money in it. I got a card. That's it. It's not the fact she gave me a blank card as much as she would know all my siblings would be opening their money at the same time.
For my birthday she didnt even bother. I'm waiting to see if she gives me anything this year.