What was the worst Christmas present you ever had.

[Norman Potting]

No apologies for an alternative to the "best of" thread.

Mine, from the early '70's, was something called "Computacar". Basically a battery operated car that you could "program" by way of a card that you cut bits out of and slotted underneath it to make it go left/right/back/forward.

Unfortunately it couldn't handle carpeted floors and unless you happened to have a room the size of a village hall with a solid floor, was of no use to man nor beast.

 

[Gwylan]

An electric razor from my mother. I hate the things and have no idea why the old dear decided to buy me one - I'd been wet shaving for about 20 years (as she well knew).

 

[Badger]

Most presents from my sister when I was a kid. She'd sometimes get me a thing I'd asked for but more often than not she'd get me something ridiculously PONY for example a watch with really sharp edges that was filled with some sort of blue liquid. I think she was the person that went in The Gadget Shop and actually bought things.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

A box of Crystallised Fruits.

 

[Staly]

A few years ago I got a car window ice scraper from my wife's aunt. This was a doubly crap present by virtue of the fact that I didn't own a car.

 

[CheeseRolls]

I would have been around 10 or 11 and I got this item of footwear from my parents. Said footwear had moulded studs attached to a thin canvas top, with a small thin plastic toe protector. They were just utterly useless and even now I struggle to think what you could possibly use them for. At a push I would suggest hockey if the conditions were soft but not too damp underfoot. Any sign of moisture and your feet were swimming, wear them on tarmac and you may as well have put on ice skates. We all to greater or lesser extant have windows in our lives when we are visionaries and trend setters, this was not one of those periods for me.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

When I was a kid, Every year I got tickets to the Panto with my Auntie.

I absolutely hated the Panto. I would rather sit listening to fingers down blackboards than be subjected to it ever again.

Merry Christmas.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

My girlfriend gave me this - I dumped her on New Years Eve!

 

[pasty]

Gifts from my sister-in-law

Christmas 2008: B-B-Q tools set
Birthday (Feb) 2009: B-B-Q tools set
Christmas 2009: B-B-Q tools set

 

[Badger]

My girlfriend gave me this - I dumped her on New Years Eve!

Really? You managed to stay with her for another 6 whole days? It must have been tough holding it in for that long.

 

[gruntage]

When i was younger my aunt used to send my family and I the worst presents. We would always save hers till last and open them one at a time to see who got the worst. Presents so bad, that even my cousins (in their 40s) will call us to compare what their mother had brought them. Its a bit of a family tradition - all without my Aunt knowing.

I still hold the 'record' for worst present. When i was about 11 I received one of those clip on book lights, which although i liked to read, at that age all i wanted was football or TMNT related items. Not only was this a shoddy cheap plastic booklight, the bloody thing was broke! I don't mean that the light didnt work - the actual neck was snapped and had the wire hanging out. When my mum went to exchange it at WH SMITHS, i received the cash value of the item: £1.25.

Just edges the DIY book my brother received; aged 10, or the Gucci perfume my sister received a few years ago.. turns out it was a fake set from the market, near where she lives in Spain, which upon opening, literally stunk so bad, that we had to open the windows for a while afterwards.

it's a shame she said she isn't buying anyone presents this year.

 

[Marshy]

A Toilet Seat of my sister....

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

A few years ago I got a car window ice scraper from my wife's aunt. This was a doubly crap present by virtue of the fact that I didn't own a car.

Rings a bell. I once got given a bag of disposable 'rubbish bags' for the inside of your car. Each one had a sticky tab for attaching it your door.

I didn't have a car. I was 11.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

A three DVD Bos Set of Out Of Town with Jack Hargreaves in 2006.

I watched them all as well in case I was tested as to their content.

Great them tune though.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

A Toilet Seat of my sister....

Someone gave you your sister to use as a toilet seat?!

 

[deakers]

When I was about 9 and my brother was 8 our posh Auntie got us a whole breaded ham.
I still remember my Dad saying, "Great, the boys will enjoy kicking that up and down the f#@*ing hallway"

 

[tonymgc]

A framed Manchester United team poster. It ended up on the fire that very evening.

 

[Gritt23]

I can clearly remember the year the girl I was living with on a fairly on/off basis bought me a little square clock radio. Hmm, nice enough, but it didn't scream love and romance did it? Unsurprisingly, we called it a day completely, just a few weeks later.

 

[Bobby's Gull]

A Tesco bag with Skint written across the middle of it. Whoop de doo!

 

[tonymgc]

I also once got this

Its the old chesnut of if you like football you'll like anything to do with it.
Waiting for the usual barrage of blooper dvds, world cup fact books & 'worlds greatest fan' mugs i seem to get every christmas.