What's the worst christmas present you ever got?

drunkmonkey

Mine has to be 6.99 crate of small bottles of tesco beer, my brother had 2 drank and the wrapping open before he handed it to me. He got one of my scratched xbox games all wrapped up last year. Looking forward to how bad a present he gets me this year...hopefully he got the hint from last year.

Snakeblood

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Mine has to be 6.99 crate of small bottles of tesco beer, my brother had 2 drank and the wrapping open before he handed it to me. He got one of my scratched xbox games all wrapped up last year. Looking forward to how bad a present he gets me this year...hopefully he got the hint from last year.

A ****ing goat for some lad in africa. Didn't even get a bite of it.

chin_grin

Snakeblood wrote: »

A ****ing goat for some lad in africa. Didn't even get a bite of it.

Reminds me of something similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GwWhK9zdek

stargazer 68

My ex husband bought me a deep fat fryer one year after he broke ours! :eek:

Kojak

Gold, Frankensince and mir.

What the hell was I going to do with mir, the space station.

Sunnyisland

Dovies wrote: »

My ex husband bought me a deep fat fryer one year after he broke ours! :eek:

Is that why he is an x

stargazer 68

realies wrote: »

Is that why he is an x

That was top of the looong list - the epilator the next year added to the list too!

tmc86

A science encyclopedia when I was about 10 or so - you can't play with that on xmas day

Nephinbeg

A really ****ty computer joystick with a few shareware games, Duke Nukem etc., which of course didn't work on our windows 95 computer; my uncle had to spend half the day installing them. Best part is I ended up playin these FREE games with the keyboard.

I wouldn't mind but I asked for N64 and my best mate next door got his. I guess Santa loves some children more than others....

kfallon

A pair of goalkeeper gloves.....I never, ever, ever was a goalkeeper :rolleyes:

Tho I did end up using the gloves for one of my more famous and favourite activities :P

Sunnyisland

Dovies wrote: »

That was top of the looong list - the epilator the next year added to the list too!

My now partner got a hoover from her x :D

Frank Black

An automatic alarm for my oil tank for when your level drops too low.

Thanks Dad.

Sunnyisland

kfallon wrote: »

A pair of goalkeeper gloves.....I never, ever, ever was a goalkeeper :rolleyes:

Tho I did end up using the gloves for one of my more famous and favourite activities :P

Thats funny :D:D

St.Spodo

A carton of cigarettes. ''Smoke up, Johnny!'', said my dad.

kfallon

realies wrote: »

Thats funny :D:D

It wasn't funny on that Xmas Day :P

As an aside best present I ever got was actually for my Birthday one year. Had been badgering me Ma & Da for ages that I wanted the Liverpool jersey but they were adamant they couldn't afford it. The day before my birthday I was still on about it but my Ma brought down my present wrapped, a square box in wrapping paper just to show I didn't get the jersey. I was brokenhearted. Next day I opened it and it was one of those big Lyons Teabags boxes with the jersey stuffed inside!

Me Ma said the look on my face was priceless when she showed me the wrapped box. She was tempted to tell me when I was close to tears but the joy when I discovered it the next day was worth her keeping quiet

starbelgrade

Someone gave me a potted plant last year for Christmas.

It's dead now.

What a shit present that was.

Turtyturd

A packet of batteries...most parents forget the batteries...mine forgot the toys.

mojesius

When I was 8 or so, I got a nintendo (NES) with a teenage mutant ninja turtles game. Not that this is a bad present, but I was a girly girl. I'd never heard of the Nintendo, didn't know what it did and I was baffled as I'd told the folks I'd wanted a barbie car and new barbie for xmas.

My brother, who was around 14 at the time, opened the nintendo immediately and started playing it for hours, telling me how great it was (and not letting me play). Turns out, he told my parents I had been raving about wanting a nintendo with the turtles game all year, simply because he wanted something else and couldn't get BOTH presents himself. Chancer.

Purely out of spite, I pretended that I liked the game and proceeded to play it all day so he couldn't (1 player game). I got really good at it, and any game he'd buy for 'my' nintendo, I'd play, and get really good at, just to piss him off (Mario, duck hunt, street fighter, ice hockey). It did make me a lifelong nintendo fan in the end, and over 20 years later, I can kick anyone's ass at mario kart. :cool:

But I'm still a bit pissed off cos I really wanted that pink barbie car, never got it in the end.

sam34

the first year I started working my father got me one of those metal filing cases, "for all your documents" he said. what a crap present!


my sisters mother in law once bought her a DVD called "lose the fat for life". my sister was less than amused but did take pleasure in telling the mother in law years later that she had lost 13 stone of useless crap, after the divorce came through!

frank9901

a top of the pops album,i had no record player

foxyboxer

Subbuteo.

Wanted it like mad when I was young.
In hindsight I was actually enamoured with the name of it.
The actual game itself is rubbish!

emeraldstar

A few years ago my parents gave my teenage sister a blender. My mom spent Christmas trying to persuade her it was a smoothie maker (she doesn't even drink smoothies). Still in the box.

drunkmonkey

emeraldstar wrote: »

A few years ago my parents gave my teenage sister a blender. My mom spent Christmas trying to persuade her it was a smoothie maker (she doesn't even drink smoothies). Still in the box.

A blender is a smoothie maker

Turtyturd

foxyboxer wrote: »

Subbuteo.

Wanted it like mad when I was young.
In hindsight I was actually enamoured with the name of it.
The actual game itself is rubbish!

Got that one year...set it all up only for my da to come in drunk and stand on one of the goalkeepers and break it. Went back in the box never to be used again.

emeraldstar

drunkmonkey wrote: »

A blender is a smoothie maker

That's kinda the point...

Hank_Jones

St.Spodo wrote: »

A carton of cigarettes. ''Smoke up, Johnny!'', said my dad.

Oh, it was a banner fcuking year at the old St. Spodo family?

Apanachi

A set of knitting needles from my ex (I kid you not!)

livinsane

I am giving everyone homemade presents this year. BAHAHAHAHAHA :pac:


Seriously tho, I am making some cool stuff.

some random drunk

I was 10 or so and Santy brought me a lamp. Not a musical lamp or a lamp that lit up different colours or was in anyway interesting. Just a small lamp for a bedside table.

UpCork

I don't really remember getting any crap presents...maybe I just see the good in everything haha.

I remember an elderly relative of my Mother's giving her what she thought was perfume one year - Mum opened the box, all excited as she loves perfume - it was aftershave! The lady had bought it for the smell rather than looking at what it actually was I think. Still, it went to the charity shop, so someone got use from it.

krudler

I hate getting novelty stocking filler gifts, the cheap tat you find near checkouts at Dunnes cos well you're a guy, and all guys would love a Top Gear board game right? RIGHT? ehhh, no. you know what makes great stocking fillers? money. or a hmv voucher. contributions towards my video game and blu-ray expenditure are always appreciated. beer openers that spout inane catchphrases from tv shows that havent been relevant for years arent.

kfallon

krudler wrote: »

I hate getting novelty stocking filler gifts, the cheap tat you find near checkouts at Dunnes cos well you're a guy, and all guys would love a Top Gear board game right? RIGHT? ehhh, no. you know what makes great stocking fillers? money. or a hmv voucher. contributions towards my video game and blu-ray expenditure are always appreciated. beer openers that spout inane catchphrases from tv shows that havent been relevant for years arent.

Whoa? How old are you and you still get something in a Xmas stocking??? :eek:

eth0

I can't remember any particularly shoite presents that I got but someone got an office golf set one year. Still in the box here 5 years later if not more

foxyboxer

eth0 wrote: »

I can't remember any particularly shoite presents that I got but someone got an office golf set one year. Still in the box here 5 years later if not more

adverts.ie please

mecanoman

One Christmas, i was 15, mid 90's my older Brother had decided to go

joyriding with he's friends on Christmas Eve in the family car, managed to

destroy it, but he really nice touch was to get the car back home into

the shed and close the door.

Mother spend the whole day in bed, not a very pleasant Christmas.

dilallio

I once got a mass card from my granny for xmas - she mixed up the envelopes.

My neighbours may have lost a loved one, but at least the 25 punts inside the card they got from my granny must have made them smile.

SV

krudler wrote: »

I hate getting novelty stocking filler gifts, the cheap tat you find near checkouts at Dunnes cos well you're a guy, and all guys would love a Top Gear board game right? RIGHT? ehhh, no. you know what makes great stocking fillers? money. or a hmv voucher. contributions towards my video game and blu-ray expenditure are always appreciated. beer openers that spout inane catchphrases from tv shows that havent been relevant for years arent.

Hope ya get **** all this year!

krudler

SV wrote: »

Hope ya get **** all this year!

good, less tat to throw out come new years :pac:

Dots1982

The art of happiness by the dali lama.....I decided to wait for the movie

MoodeRator

mojesius wrote: »

Turns out, he told my parents I had been raving about wanting a nintendo with the turtles game all year, simply because he wanted something else and couldn't get BOTH presents himself. Chancer.

Sorry mojesius but your brother was a genius!
Hope you get your Barbie one day!:)

Ellis Dee

My mother-in-law once gave me a book titled "God is an Englishman".:rolleyes::rolleyes:

cml387

Ellis Dee wrote: »

My mother-in-law once gave me a book titled "God is an Englishman".:rolleyes::rolleyes:

....yes,and?

lucycat

Last year the husband gave me a Gok Wan book - not sure what part of 'I fking HATE that annoying twat' he never heard, considering I shouted it at d'telly anytime I was unfortunate enough to spot the smug b*stards face.

Seriously thinking about regifting it to him this year...

emeraldstar

kfallon wrote: »

Whoa? How old are you and you still get something in a Xmas stocking??? :eek:

That's only like the best part of Christmas!

Piper101

one year we decided to Kris Kindle at home...my brother got me!!! woke up christmas eve at 5 p.m., realised all the shops were closed. Happy morning so it was when I woke to €20 and a box of after eights. Needless to say we havent done kris kindle since...

Cill Dara Abu

Got a Man United calendar from my Granny one year was delighted with it until I noticed it was for the year nearly over and not the new year.

She was terrible at giving gifts at Christmas, she gave my brother a bag of satsuma's one year.

Cill Dara Abu

Piper101 wrote: »

one year we decided to Kris Kindle at home...my brother got me!!! woke up christmas eve at 5 p.m., realised all the shops were closed. Happy morning so it was when I woke to €20 and a box of after eights. Needless to say we havent done kris kindle since...

Jaysus, I'd be delighted with the €20, and after eights are nice.

Noo

Piper101 wrote: »

one year we decided to Kris Kindle at home...my brother got me!!! woke up christmas eve at 5 p.m., realised all the shops were closed. Happy morning so it was when I woke to €20 and a box of after eights. Needless to say we havent done kris kindle since...

Some money and chocolate...I'd consider that a successful christmas.

Hank_Jones

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Got a Man United calendar from my Granny one year was delighted with it until I noticed it was for the year nearly over and not the new year.

She was terrible at giving gifts at Christmas, she gave my brother a bag of satsuma's one year.

Maybe she thought it was Halloween.

Cill Dara Abu

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Maybe she thought it was Halloween.

Doubt it, she couldn't even get the fecking year right :rolleyes:

al28283

Dovies wrote: »

That was top of the looong list - the epilator the next year added to the list too!

Classy