The naffest of Christmas gifts!

Flippinheck

RosieandherMaw

Flippinheck

Sense of humour failure, RosiandherMaw?

I don't think so.
Mocking others whom you don't know has nothing to do with "humour" unless you also subscribe to locker room banter.

Isn’t that exactly what you are doing? Aren’t you mocking others in your post? That’s how I read it anyway.

Only taking my lead from others, it seems I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t….

It's not so much the naff gift, but the why that gets me. I received a cheap sewing kit in a pencil case type container from someone very close to me,
who knows that I have every sewing device needed to man including my own, personal sewing kit that goes on all holidays etc with me. Just grab anything less than £2 and it'll do? Now that is just insulting. I'd rather you gave £2 to charity in my name!

Blossoming

The naffest Christmas gift I ever received was a huge fake pony skin handbag. It was. Incredibly ugly and the clasp was designed to rip the fingers off anyone attempting to open it.

I'm really glad it was fake though..

RosieandherMaw

Flippinheck

Sense of humour failure, RosiandherMaw?

I don't think so.
Mocking others whom you don't know has nothing to do with "humour" unless you also subscribe to locker room banter.

Isn’t that exactly what you are doing? Aren’t you mocking others in your post? That’s how I read it anyway.

I think I might dread the home made gift (excluding grandchildren of course whose talent is second only to Michelangelo and Monet combined.)
No, the knitted item or vase/jug or other craft piece which has clearly been a labour of love (well I think it has ) but in a bilious colour scheme, or nasty nylon wool or daubed with paint to look like a spider in a fit. Crinoline lady loo roll cosies - remember them?
Well-meant, but just because you CAN make something doesn’t necessarily mean you SHOULD.

When I was about 11, so around 1970, my Grandma ( who live with us) bought my mum a pair of kitchen scissors for Christmas. To say she was displeased with the present is an understatement!
Forever after in my family any naff presents received on any occasion were and still are described as being 'kitchen scissors presents'!

My bachelor brother gave DH a naff cook's apron printed with the torso of a skimpily clad beauty. DH was very impressed but it triggered my inferiority complex so I disappeared it.

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.

😁

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.

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

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.

A signed photograph of any politician.

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 .

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 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!

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..

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.

A used candle, a Secret Santa gift at work.

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!

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 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.

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?

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.

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!