Ever had a present you hated?

[Chris S]

My aunt has just sent me some protective gloves and masks. I can use the gloves to keep my hands clean when I'm working on my bike. I've no idea what I'm going to do with the masks though.

 

[mustang1]

Never!

 

[gbb]

A couple spring to mind...
1990s, my mum got me tank top ....white, with an Aladdin Sane style flash across the front
Gawld knows where she even found it ? I used it as a vest in winter....grudgingly putting it on each time.

Last year I got a book, the role of two specific dogs in WW2. Couldn't have wanted to read it less, and Im a dog lover.
Shame because one year I got Max Hastings book 'Catastrophe'...covering the run up to WW1, fabulously interesting book...from the same person. Ah well....

 

[swee'pea99]

As someone said a ways back, hated is not the word, but I do vividly remember opening what turned out to be a golfing umbrella and looking at no-one really - didn't know where to look. My Dad offered the idea that I was into photography so if I wanted to take landscape photos and it was raining, I need only open my vast, heavy, spike-ended umbrella and Bob would be my uncle. It was true that I was into photography. I don't know if I looked disappointed so much as just baffled.

Some top posts on this thread!

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".

A singing mug. Went straight into the bin, once I'd smashed it to stop it playing a tune.

Is chlamydia a gift?

It's the gift that keeps on giving

A ward Mrs 73 once worked on they used ward funs to buy small gifts for patients on Christmas day.
They just picked one out at random so one guy ended up with a pair of socks. Problem was he was a double above knee amputee.
Luck had it he found it funny.

The late MiL thought that because I'm Irish I must be a Daniel O'Donnell fan and every Xmas and birthday she got me one of his CDs. I can't stand the bloke, he makes Des O'Connor look like the wild man of rock.

I got some purple muscle relaxing bubble-bath. It turns the water blood red. It's not very relaxing.

and last but not least:

When I was 11 or 12 my parents took me to a bike shop, I wanted the one with drop 'bars & "street cred", they insisted I should have a "sensible" sit-up horror which I flatly refused.

They then went & bought bedroom furniture for me instead. Traumatised me for life

Bedroom furniture.

Thanks for the last ten minutes.

 

[stephec]

That's our @welsh dragon Didn't realise she was so ungrateful!

That's not her, way too polite. 😂

 

[Once a Wheeler]

…I've no idea what I'm going to do with the masks though.

Depending on the type of mask:

• Wear one to protect your lungs when you spray-paint that old frame you've been meaning to restore.
• Whilst you do it, put another one in the coffee machine as a filter.
• When you have finished and cleaned all the kit in a white-spirit bath, filter the white spirit through the masks to give it a second life.
• Tie one under the bottom bracket to catch the ball-bearings when you dismantle it.
• Use them as elbow pads when you are doing plumbing jobs in tight spaces.
• Use them several at a time as knee pads when you are gardening or cleaning.
• Use them as wipers when soldering or brazing joints (that old frame again…).
• Cook your next goose on a bed of face masks, they should soak up all that excess fat a treat.

And so on. At very least, put them in a large carton labelled ’Bits Box’ along with all the other stuff waiting for a purpose, and, sure enough, a use for them will come along soon enough.

 

[pawl]

LComplimentary membership of help the aged

 

[Electric_Andy]

When I was 15 i was learning guitar. I had one Xmas present that was heavy so i got really excited. I opened it to find a sheet music stand. I didn't really need it want one but my parents thought I'd like it. I used it a couple times just so i wouldn't feel guilty, it's still in the loft 24 years later

 

[HLaB]

My gran, god rest her sole, would sometimes bring gifts back from the Barra's. I loved them even though they were usually non worki

As much as this?

The birthday gift a family bought for their Nan didn't go down well https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifes...4662#ICID=Android_WalesOnlineNewsApp_AppShare

My gran, god rest her sole, would sometimes bring gifts back from the Barra's. I loved them even though they were usually non working at best but my maw would react like that

 

[Chris S]

Depending on the type of mask:

• Wear one to protect your lungs when you spray-paint that old frame you've been meaning to restore.
• Whilst you do it, put another one in the coffee machine as a filter.
• When you have finished and cleaned all the kit in a white-spirit bath, filter the white spirit through the masks to give it a second life.
• Tie one under the bottom bracket to catch the ball-bearings when you dismantle it.
• Use them as elbow pads when you are doing plumbing jobs in tight spaces.
• Use them several at a time as knee pads when you are gardening or cleaning.
• Use them as wipers when soldering or brazing joints (that old frame again…).
• Cook your next goose on a bed of face masks, they should soak up all that excess fat a treat.

And so on. At very least, put them in a large carton labelled ’Bits Box’ along with all the other stuff waiting for a purpose, and, sure enough, a use for them will come along soon enough.

All good suggestions apart from wearing to protect your lungs when you spray-paint a frame. They're Del Boy specials that leave huge gaps at the side. I suppose I could still use them to get on public transport now.

 

[Chris S]

Every year my aunt sends me a box of homemade biscuits for my birthday and every year they get smashed to pieces in the post. At least the ducks get them.

 

[bikingdad90]

When I was 15 i was learning guitar. I had one Xmas present that was heavy so i got really excited. I opened it to find a sheet music stand. I didn't really need it want one but my parents thought I'd like it. I used it a couple times just so i wouldn't feel guilty, it's still in the loft 24 years later

Dig it out and you have a perfect tablet stand for the turbo!

 

[Alex H]

Every year my aunt sends me a box of homemade biscuits for my birthday and every year they get smashed to pieces in the post. At least the ducks get them.

Woolworths used to SELL broken biscuits (OOPS! showing my age again )

 

[snorri]

I had a cousin who imagined she knew the type of books that I would enjoy and sent me one every Christmas. She never got it right, but I still thanked her for the thought and politely said she shouldn't bother.
On the other side of the coin, it must be nearly twenty years ago that she gave me a glass food preparation board thing for the kitchen, I think I've used it every day except when off on holidays.

 

[Badger_Boom]

When I was 15 i was learning guitar. I had one Xmas present that was heavy so i got really excited. I opened it to find a sheet music stand. I didn't really need it want one but my parents thought I'd like it. I used it a couple times just so i wouldn't feel guilty, it's still in the loft 24 years later

At a similar age my parents bought me a top notch a Fender hard case for my guitar one Christmas - I think I managed to conceal my disappointment that it was only a box. Still, it was light years better than the hairdryer I got a few years later.