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What is the worse prize or present you have ever Won/Got

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  • #62
    Fishyfreak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 576 ✭✭✭Fishyfreak


    Kriskindle in work a few years ago.

    Got a skipping rope :eek:


  • #63
    lazza14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭lazza14


    A friend of mine got a 10 journey metro ticket as a secret Santa gift, usefull I suppose but cr*p as a gift..


  • #64
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    When I was...probably 9 or 10, we were eating breakfast on christmas day and my father asked me, for no apparent reason at the time, if I was a fan of Bros. I told him I thought they were complete rubbish, but just a few minutes later, unwrapped a present from my brother to find a tape from the same band.


  • #65
    Pang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    A set of sheets for a double bed from Dunnes.


  • #66
    silly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭silly


    Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »
    I would have been delighted with those.

    I was delighted - but was such a miser i didnt want to share them and was so sick after eating them all!


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  • #67
    mathie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭mathie


    Not a "won/got" story but ....

    When I was innocent/idiotic young lad I thought the best Christmas gift for my girlfriend was a ... Playstation One.

    In fairness she got her own back by saying "Yes" when I asked her to marry me.


  • #68
    sausages79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭sausages79


    Bottle of milk at a Tombola - obviously it was warm by the time I won it


  • #69
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Earrings. My ears are not pierced.


  • #70
    elfy4eva
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elfy4eva


    Won raffle prize at the work xmas party once, a bottle of Amé. I didn't even know what it was, thought it was a brand of wine something. Nope it's a fruit drink and it's minging I saw it the next day in Tesco on special 2 bottles for 4 euro. I payed 5 euro to be entered to the raffle. Kick in the teeth!


  • #71
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    my auntie would often give my sister 50 euro and give me a selection box. Subconciously saying to me im the less loved one


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  • #72
    Scouser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Scouser


    KK was cancelled this year

    last year the boss got a present of 'management for dummies'


  • #73
    Tzardine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    When younger my older brother handed me a huge box for Christmas all nicely wrapped.

    I thought Jesus fair play to him, maybe he is not the b0ll1x that I always though he was.

    Open it up and there is a poxy hair comb in it


  • #74
    dazberry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,159 ✭✭✭dazberry


    When I was 8ish I won a competition in a toy shop, the prize turned out to be a football game with no instructions. Because of the lack of instructions my mother brought it back, and arrived back with an Action Man with eagle eyes and grip hands :)

    When I was 10 and an only child, I got Operation, "The mad doctors game from MB games" from my Aunty. Not all the mad when you're playing in on your own!

    When I was 12 the same Aunty gave me a copy of Jet Set Willy for my new awesome Sinclair Spectrum. There was no code card in it, so I couldn't play it :(

    People insist on giving my novelty mugs, I can't drink tea or coffee, so they stay in the box and are often just given away. Beer mugs would be a different story ;)


  • #75
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    My parents were given a bottle of Bacardi once, from a couple they used to socialise with really often. Neither of them has ever, ever been known to drink Bacardi.


  • #76
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Ilyana 2.0 wrote: »
    My parents were given a bottle of Bacardi once, from a couple they used to socialise with really often. Neither of them has ever, ever been known to drink Bacardi.

    Sounds like a re-gift. Handy way of doing things.


  • #77
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    Muise... wrote: »
    Sounds like a re-gift. Handy way of doing things.

    Only if the gift actually suits the people you want to pass it on to :pac:


  • #78
    bigdone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 ✭bigdone


    Winter sox - every year somone buys me winter sox


  • #79
    Nerdlingr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭Nerdlingr


    Got a Kit-Kat from my parents at Christmas once. It was wrapped and everything.


  • #80
    AgileMyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭AgileMyth


    I'd be delighted if I won a bag of turf!


  • #81
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,831 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Specialun wrote: »
    I won a bag of turf once. I also won a hairbrush in this weird country fair raffle a few yrs ago.

    Do you know how much turf cost or any fuel these days. Its a great prize. There are fuel Raffels now


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  • #82
    AgileMyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭AgileMyth


    Ilyana 2.0 wrote: »
    My parents were given a bottle of Bacardi once, from a couple they used to socialise with really often. Neither of them has ever, ever been known to drink Bacardi.
    Always good to have a selection in the house for entertaining.


  • #83
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,004 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Scouser wrote: »
    KK was cancelled this year

    last year the boss got a present of 'management for dummies'
    I once had a manager who left that on her desk in an open plan office for a few years! Fair enough, she obviously realised her limitations but advertising them seems to be missing the point.

    I think the worst kris kringle gift I ever saw anyone get was a breast pump. He was none too amused.

    The down-right oddest would be the guy who got six six-packs or tomatoes (because the Kris Kringle "theme" :rolleyes: that year was "red"...

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  • #84
    dazberry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,159 ✭✭✭dazberry


    Scouser wrote: »
    KK was cancelled this year

    last year the boss got a present of 'management for dummies'

    Worked in a job where one guy was always losing files on the network, transpired he was accidentally dragging folders into other folders and then complaining that stuff was disappearing. So got him "Windows 95 for Dummies" as KK. Did not go down well at all - was getting dirty looks all night - had to stay well out of the way :D

    D.


  • #85
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,734 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I got a book that my aunt printed from the internet just a huge pile of A4 pages

    I rather have the money from the ink (tight bitch)


  • #86
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,831 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Scouser wrote: »
    KK was cancelled this year

    last year the boss got a present of 'management for dummies'
    Sleepy wrote: »
    I once had a manager who left that on her desk in an open plan office for a few years! Fair enough, she obviously realised her limitations but advertising them seems to be missing the point.

    I think the worst kris kringle gift I ever saw anyone get was a breast pump. He was none too amused.

    The down-right oddest would be the guy who got six six-packs or tomatoes (because the Kris Kringle "theme" :rolleyes: that year was "red"...
    dazberry wrote: »
    Worked in a job where one guy was always losing files on the network, transpired he was accidentally dragging folders into other folders and then complaining that stuff was disappearing. So got him "Windows 95 for Dummies" as KK. Did not go down well at all - was getting dirty looks all night - had to stay well out of the way :D

    D.

    KK is a good idea if A. you know everyone can take a joke or B. Know who you are buying for and how there sense of humour is.


  • #87
    Scouser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Scouser


    martingriff wrote: »
    KK is a good idea if A. you know everyone can take a joke or B. Know who you are buying for and how there sense of humour is.

    i think the boss got a DVD the year before of 'horrible bosses' - so the joke went too far it seems


  • #88
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    We did Kris Kindle last year, I got my brother in law. The limit was €60. We all wrote down a few ideas, he wanted some expensive aftershave. I bought it and wrapped it up, gave it to him Christmas morning.

    A few days later my sister said I was really scabby, I said the aftershave cost well more than €60, she said yeah but you spent about €10. I hadnt a clue what she was on about, turns out I gave him a box of biscuits and gave the neighbours some lovely aftershave.

    Yer wan next door must think Im trying to get stuck into her husband :o They'll be disgusted with the biccies this year.


  • #89
    Silverbling
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 311 ✭✭Silverbling


    In the honeymoon stage of a 2nd time around relationship, newly pregnant and the so called love of my life got me an iron for Christmas, one of those big steam jobbies and nothing else because it was so expensive.

    His reasoning was I would not do his ironing due to not liking the iron, I hate ironing and think that a grown man should iron his own shirts, he kept it when we broke up 3 years later after many many rows about me not using it to iron his clothes :)


  • #90
    Shane-KornSpace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    Recieved : When I was 5, my godmother got me a mobile for hanging above the them the cot I no longer slept in.

    Recieved : my mate got me the single for Dj Otsi's 'Hey baby' for kriskindle. I was was a hard rock/metal fan with long hair. Sound.

    Gave: 2 packs of of smokes to a work colleague for kriskindle

    Gave: a large glass jar of cheap sweets to my ma for mothers day. It cost me 2 euro.


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  • #91
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,831 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Scouser wrote: »
    i think the boss got a DVD the year before of 'horrible bosses' - so the joke went too far it seems

    Depending on the amount agreed to spend eg €10 etc should signify what you get should not be taken seriously. If it is than a case of WTF did you expect is called for.


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