Ever had a present you hated?
- Thread starter Rusty Nails
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lazybloke
Today i follow the flying spaghetti monster
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
Yes, I upgraded and married (2 decades ago) someone with more common sense.
Mrs L has occasionally reminded me to "measure twice, cut once".
That's better advice than "measure once, add 22%"
Could have been worse, for instance a two tone blue tank top knitted by the woman who gave birth to me a year after they went way out of fashion.
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
Did she thing it to you ?
LeetleGreyCells
Un rouleur infatigable
- Location
- Whitehaven Mansions
I am grateful for all the presents that I receive as it saves me buying for other people at other times in the year 
My wife gives the best gifts as she asks what I want and gets me to order it so I get exactly what I want at the cheapest price.
Family and ’rental units are more hit and miss, definitely mostly miss. I stopped saying anything long, long ago though as they get the huff as my wanting to swap a present means they got it wrong. And they are always right. Even when they’re not. I have boxes of stuff that a) I have no use for; b) have no idea what they were thinking when they bought it for me.
If a gift is not useful and practical, I can’t see the point. It’s just a waste of money.
My wife gives the best gifts as she asks what I want and gets me to order it so I get exactly what I want at the cheapest price.
Family and ’rental units are more hit and miss, definitely mostly miss. I stopped saying anything long, long ago though as they get the huff as my wanting to swap a present means they got it wrong. And they are always right. Even when they’re not. I have boxes of stuff that a) I have no use for; b) have no idea what they were thinking when they bought it for me.
If a gift is not useful and practical, I can’t see the point. It’s just a waste of money.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
star wars mug for fathers day , wife thought she done good ...........
Still in the back of the cupboard.
Still in the back of the cupboard.
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
My aunt bought me a bar of chocolate back from Austria. It was the same as the ones sold in my local Lidl.
Its that time of year. Listening to radio 2 two people mentioned this.
1. A couple were given a very old food mixer with no instructions. The elderly gift giver explained "you are not in my will so this is something to remember me by".
2. Another couple were given a Christmas present by someone.....it was the present she had given that person just 2 months earlier.
In the last few years I have been given so many soaps/shampoos/skin creams etc that I could open a shop. Maybe they are trying to tell me something
1. A couple were given a very old food mixer with no instructions. The elderly gift giver explained "you are not in my will so this is something to remember me by".
2. Another couple were given a Christmas present by someone.....it was the present she had given that person just 2 months earlier.
In the last few years I have been given so many soaps/shampoos/skin creams etc that I could open a shop. Maybe they are trying to tell me something
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
A singing mug. Went straight into the bin, once I'd smashed it to stop it playing a tune.
Cheap crap wire frame 'bike' clock. No need for one, didn't even open it, went into the bin a few months later.
Cheap 'multi-tool'. Yep I know it's bike related but don't you think I'd have at least one already. Was so cheap, I didn't dare use it.
Shampoo etc. I can't actually use that amount - tonnes under the bed.
I'd be happy if people actually just bought me socks. Can't have enough socks.
My sister in law did buy me 'Is My Bike OK' t-shirt a year or so after breaking my spine - I laughed, Mrs F didn't.
Cheap crap wire frame 'bike' clock. No need for one, didn't even open it, went into the bin a few months later.
Cheap 'multi-tool'. Yep I know it's bike related but don't you think I'd have at least one already. Was so cheap, I didn't dare use it.
Shampoo etc. I can't actually use that amount - tonnes under the bed.
I'd be happy if people actually just bought me socks. Can't have enough socks.
My sister in law did buy me 'Is My Bike OK' t-shirt a year or so after breaking my spine - I laughed, Mrs F didn't.
Cant really put a like to that one
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Hmm ... I held my dying mum's hand in hospital from the afternoon of Christmas Eve through to Christmas morning.
The nurses were singing carols to the patients and handing out Christmas goodies. A young nurse popped her head through the curtains round the bed and offered a card and present for my mum. It was the most poignant moment of my life. I thanked her and said it was a lovely gesture, but they were not needed because my mum would never open her eyes again and they would just go to waste... The poor woman looked like she was going to burst into tears.
I don't 'do' Christmas now...
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
Haven't we got this thread already?
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/ever-had-a-present-you-hated.246180/
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/ever-had-a-present-you-hated.246180/
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
Is chlamydia a gift?
