The naffest of Christmas gifts!

Whiff

Dress from my in laws that was 2 sizes to small and made from horrible material. They said it was to give me incentive to lose weight. I gave it to them back after opening it and that comment. Told my mother in law it more her style .

They gave us money after that..

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A chinese calender given over 5 Christmas's by DH, nothing else! Too add insult, they were given free to customers. How did I know they were free? Simply because they also gave me one during every December when it was my turn to collect the take away

The one that sticks in my mind is a Christmas present from my Father in Law back in the early 70s. A pair of flat backed plaster viking figures, made of plaster and painted gold. They were the sort of thing you might have won at a fair and I think we were supposed to stick them on the wall. They travelled around with us for a while and eventually got lost in a house move. So that was all good.

A crochet tea cosy from an ex mother in law, I didn’t even have a tea pot! Obviously not up to scratch as a housewife.

Not particularly naff, but I have a dear friend who for the last several years gives me the same things for my birthday and Christmas, Mugs how many does she think we need?

Yes I see the socks!! £1.99
Might make a trip on Thursday.
Read the gas meter today so need to cut down. These will keep me warm.

So naff they're funny.

It’s a tradition that I buy Amaryllis bulbs for both DDs and myself and we have a competition to see whose flowers first!

Sad, I know, but we’re easily amused!

Georgesgran

It’s a tradition that I buy Amaryllis bulbs for both DDs and myself and we have a competition to see whose flowers first!

Sad, I know, but we’re easily amused!

My friend bought me one a couple of years ago.

It grew about an inch of greenery then gave up.

Jaxjacky

A crochet tea cosy from an ex mother in law, I didn’t even have a tea pot! Obviously not up to scratch as a housewife.

Could you wear it as a hat?

I meet up with ex colleagues after Christmas. We each bring a small bag containing an unwanted gift, and we do a lucky dip.
No money 'wasted' on unwanted presents, and we all have a good laugh.

I got the most beautifully boxed, and inside wrapped in fabulous tissue paper a gorgeous expensive silk scarf from SisIL2. How did I know it was expensive? Because we had bought it for her birthday present several months before! Thank goodness I love it, although I was tempted to send it back for her next birthday 🎊

My ex’s mother bought me the same presents every year: a white polo neck jumper, a bottle of musk perfume and a box of Opal fruits.? I had quite a few white polo neck jumpers! I absolutely hated the perfume and Opal fruits but , on the first occasion, being polite, I had said how lovely thank you, big mistake!

A used candle, a Secret Santa gift at work.

GrandmasueUK

I got the most beautifully boxed, and inside wrapped in fabulous tissue paper a gorgeous expensive silk scarf from SisIL2. How did I know it was expensive? Because we had bought it for her birthday present several months before! Thank goodness I love it, although I was tempted to send it back for her next birthday 🎊

I would be delighted with that!
While I make every effort to choose the right present for the recipient, I never buy something I would not like myself.
And too often I give in to the temptation and buy one for me too.

Now you've tempted me to give my three SIL's and one DIL a photograph of me in a frame ... they will be delighted, I'm sure..

I don't do Christmas, being an Athiest, so I never buy anyone anything, but over the years I've been given, by those who know I don't want anything because I don't celebrate it, when I was THIRTY-FOUR, a naked Barbie doll with unruly hair, complete with the 50p charity shop price still on it! WHY?! I've never collected or played with them! Binned!

I've also been given makeup by those who know I never wear it for any reason and don't agree with it. I'm naturally ugly, so I wouldn't want anything to make me even more so! They then moaned and groaned bitterly when they saw me without it, so I told them a few home truths! Unopened, unused. Binned!

A small, seriously ugly and creepy bear sat on a log, from the Poundland shop! Binned!

GrandmasueUK

I got the most beautifully boxed, and inside wrapped in fabulous tissue paper a gorgeous expensive silk scarf from SisIL2. How did I know it was expensive? Because we had bought it for her birthday present several months before! Thank goodness I love it, although I was tempted to send it back for her next birthday 🎊

When I was a child, a friend of my grandmother always used to give us lovely sharp penknives for birthday and Christmas. We had quite a collection, so, every birthday and Christmas I used to give my brother a penknife from my hoard and he did the same in return. People don't give small children sharp penknives anymore, I can't think why.

I've had a few naff presents.
I know that two of my friends always recycle unwanted gifts.
I've notice that one of them expects a really great gift in return and expresses her disappointment if she feels that her gift isn't acceptable.
She gave me some Spring bulbs, which completely disintegrated with age when I tried to plant them . It was January -
a bit late anyway .
To be honest,our gift exchange has become meaningless .
They've both ignored my birthday recently .
My mother in law specialised in giving cheap gifts.
I was given a hideous much too big cardigan ,which was full of repairs and another time an enormous polyester nightgown ,
which was also faulty.
She told my sister in law that they cost a pound in the market .
She used to watch us open presents so that we didn't tear the paper so that she could reuse it.
I've been buying presents through the year and I try to give gifts which I'd be happy to receive .

A signed photograph of any politician.

Calendargirl

Magenta8

RosiandherMaw I am sorry you are finding the posts on this thread "goady in the extreme". I saw it as a lighthearted invitation to share some awful presents that had the merit of making us laugh. I am sure I have given some people some real clangers in my time that certainly don't reflect impeccable taste on my part..

Often the sheer desperation of having to buy something, anything, for people you don't necessarily know well or understand leads to some unfortunate choices especially if you are on a limited budget.

On the subject of teapots, let's just say some are beautiful some are not.

This second paragraph says it all.

Spending money you can ill afford on ‘stuff’, that others don’t want and you have no idea what to buy them.

This is why so much present buying is absolutely pointless.

I couldn't agree more. I stopped buying presents for adults years ago. Racing around the shops to buy a pile of landfill is utterly ridiculous.

Just wondering if asking for a metal detector would be a naff idea since I've had a knee replacement? 🤔

I'm sitting here on 10th November in my Christmas socks from last Christmas. They are grey with stars a little house and a sleigh flying. They are socks, keeping my feet warm. I have trousers on, I will have ankle boots on when j go out no one will see the horror of my naff Christmas socks.

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Amaryllis used to be quite common to give not that I ever saw the point or ever had one. In the garden centre the other day I see they were nearly £20! so perhaps not cheap tat anymore!
socks I do not care I wear them whenever and whatever the season!
ex MIL used to be queen of tat gifts. an old coffee jar filled with dusty pot pourri with the smell long gone and a piece of dirty net over the top held with an elastic band.