What gift left you speechless?

Janthea What did you receive from your sister that year?? Surely you can better the 2x Prius!!

Ten days before she was married, DD2 was given a gold satin evening bag embossed with sparkly bits by her mother-in-law as a Christmas present. The bag had been used by MIL at a wedding two months previously and then wrapped up and given to her future daughter-in-law - it even had a wine stain on it. How to win the love, trust and affection of your new DIL! Her husband was given a bag of lovely clothes from Rodd and Gunn (a rather nice men's outfitters in Sydney) and a return flight from Sydney to Brisbane so he could go and visit them - he didn't - he changed it for another destination. I could write a book - perhaps I should

Ok janthea You've 'one-upped' us all well and truly, and left us speechless!

The gift that left me speechless was a present to my two daughters from my sister and brother in law - a brand new Prius car each!! This was six years ago.

Shysal a bright orange wheelbarrow sounds like a lovely gift!

One Christmas my mum in law went to a market and bought my husband, son and 3 nephews fluorescent orange towelling dressing gowns.When she had gone they all put them on and stood in a line. We were speechless alright!

When the children were young, I always asked my wife to open my present first. I used to give my wife a present such as a spud peeler or equally mundane item for domestic cleaning. She was none too pleased until she opened the gifts from the children which seemed to be the more expensive items for which she'd dropped hints over the previous months.

My sister in law bought me an electric potato peeler thing from Oxfam.

My sister once gave me a lovely big wrapped up box for Christmas, I was floored and totally disappointed when I opened it and found a pillow for my bed!!!!!!

The gift that my son gave me on his 12th birthday. We were out shopping, his birthday money burning a hole in his pocket, when he asked me if he could go to another floor of the large department store [alone]. When he returned, having spent almost all of his gift, he gave me a bottle of my favourite perfume - Opium. I was bowled over by his generosity of spirit. Such a sweet memory.

A bright orange wheelbarrow for Mother's Day. I was a bit miffed at the time, but it had lots of use.

A wooden box from a client I worked with for three years, given on our last session together. Inside a folded up piece of paper with a child-like coloured rainbow. I was speechless, bent my head and cried.

A cake, beautifully decorated with piped icing, from a postgrad geophysics student. It was left on my desk when I went for a coffee break. It wasn't even my birthday.

Probably the sandwich toaster I got from my parents for my 21st !

I am going to keep my counsel of personal gifts. But DIL, when pregnant for the first time, with a girl, due end of Feb, was somewhat surprised to receive, amongst several xmas presents for the foetus - a pink bikini.

One year my husband bought me wheel trims - yes, wheel trims - for my car. He was surprised I was less than thrilled!

The gift that left me speechless was a necklace designed by DD for my 60th birthday. A white gold pendant in the shape of an XL with diamonds to represent my children and a pink sapphire to represent the one GC I had at the time.

A bottle of Martini, Port and red wine from my alcoholic ex. I don't drink alcohol but he enjoyed them.

A box of tissues was part of my present last year from my elderly sister-in-law and the other part was Dove handcream. I'd asked for a tissue when visiting her and commented on the good quality of it (mainly just for something to say, as I always seem to have to say something...), I think the tissues are £1...

I remember being awake most of one night with excitement when I was about seven, because I could see a huge parcel for me.
It was a new blanket for my bed.

My daughter, in her concern for my arthritic aches and pains and my loathing of cold weather, bought me a 'slanket' one year. On unwrapping it the whole family was speechless and my DIL had to turn her head away as she was dying to laugh.
My great aunt was very wealthy and very tight fisted and was known to give away 2nd hand gifts. One year she sent my grandmother a tortoiseshell comb in a little gold case with the initial 'G' in rhinestones on the outside. My grandmother's initial was 'E'.
My favourite presents are booktokens so I'm really boring.

The best was from my DH, he asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I jokingly said anything with diamonds. On Christmas day I was presented with a small oblong parcel, on opening it I found it was a pack of playing cards but when I opened the pack inside was a lovely diamond brooch.

The worst has to be the home perm kit my parents gave me for Christmas when I was around 13!

A petticoat, in a funny shade of violet (not fashionable, even in the 1950's), which when I looked at it closer, was secondhand. This was given to me by a very elegant friend of my mother's when I was in my teens. She was not impoverished and in the late 1950s, new petticoats were readily available and not on coupons

phoenix that sounds like my OHs imaginative approach to presents.

some of my young relations clubbed together and bought me my kindle. As we don't go in for lavish presents you can imagine this left me speechles and very thrilled.