Best ever Xmas present....
 

What was the best, worst and most disappointing Xmas present you have ever received?
For me: BEST were 2 presents from my sons when they were very young, a vintage Vicorian-style Father Xmas candle which I got when Ricky (my eldest) was 6 -still get it out every year but have never lit it as it's too beautiful to melt away. Then at he same age Eddy (my youngest) bought me a lovely xmas wreath which i put on the door every year.:)

WORST: a pair of Toe-socks which my God-father gave me when i was 15 -horrendous and impossible to wear.:(

MOST DISAPOINTING: When i was 9 I desperately wanted the new Petite Type-writer. On Xmas day, when i opened my present, mum had bought one of those big black 1950's finger-breaking jobs second-hand (something like the one Jessica Fletcher uses in "Murder she Wrote"!) it did have a double reel though -red and black!:rolleyes:

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I suppose we should be thankful to get any gift.
I am sure we have had a thread on this before.........never mind.
One of my best presents was from my daughter. I was(when younger) very much into Aerobics and exercise.......She bought me a Flash Dance Sweat shirt and sweat pants in grey with 'Flash' embroidered on the top in red.(it must've been the 80's....when Flash Dance was popular)

I loved it. It was comfortable. I wore it to go to my exercise class, to go swimming. I wore it to do my exercises at home......and was sad when it practically fell to bits from all the wear it got.

Himself bought me my least loved present. I has seen an advert for a little hand held Dirt Devil cleaner....I must have remarked that it would be ideal for doing the stairs.
I should've kept my gob shut, because that is what he bought me....and he wondered why I wanted to give it back to him as a suppository!

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Oh dear, not again -I had no idea....:o:D

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Worst Xmas present I ever received was a computer chair last year.................

Best one - £5 in Dec 2009

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Best, a minature greenhhouse when I was seven. I was already interested in gardening, this present cemented it. I grew sunflowers, and a mimosa pudica, a sensitive plant which closed when you touched it. I still have the watering can.

Worst. A twelve inch ruler in the shape of a plastic yellow foot, followed the year after by a pair of scissors. I'd always received interesting books from my parents friends from Worcester before this, but when I hit 13 the presents were just odd. Though I did appreciate them, if only for the amusement at how they'd top it the following year.

Again, I still have the scissors, so thirty odd years later, perhaps it wasn't so bad a present after all.

:D

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I could do with a new computer chair if you don't want it Bee!:D

Expect you've already spent the fiver -or do you like to save up:)?

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Know what you mean...

WORST: a pair of Toe-socks which my God-father gave me when i was 15 -horrendous and impossible to wear.:(

- before the toe socks i got some Avon Pretty Peach cologne and hand cream -they only "girly" present I received at Xmas ever. I loved it as all the other presents i ever got were Educational or useful (ie boring).

After the toe socks it was a soap-on-a-rope like a lemon, then a wooden biro to wear round the neck which clipped into the top (green), finally some burgundy leg-warmers which i used to wear for playing tennis (these I did appreciate as they were trendy back then) Pressies from my God-father stopped at 18...

Wish someone had bought me a mini-greenhouse -i just got a patch by the garage where i grew starwberries. I did go on to get a Botany degree though:)
Am very good at killing off house-plants these days...:D

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Don't worry it's an annual tradition.

Like stuffing.

You've just stuffed us a little early this year, that's all.

:D

Let's expand it.

What's the best present you've bought for someone else?

My mum was poor as a church mouse growing up, but had one much loved secondhand doll. As an older teenager she gave it to a young relative, who broke, then lost it.

About ten years ago I saw the exact same doll, that I recognised from seeing photographs of, at a fair in Chelsea Town Hall. Life sized baby doll, made from something like bakelite, eyes that opened, and a 'Mama' mechanism when you winded her. The poor mite was naked, so I bought some passably period clothes from a baby linen stall in Tooting market.

I was too embarrassed, to say I was buying clothes for a doll, when they asked me what size the baby was, so I said it was for a friend, whose baby turned out to be 'premature sized', apparently.

Mum cried when she opened it on Christmas morning, and couldn't believe I'd found the same doll, she'd loved as a child.

That made me happy.

She's now called Chelsea. The original one was named Sal.

Chelsea sounded a bit better than Baby Tootin'.

:D

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Well there are no bad presents but the mother in law bought me a packet of cigars just 7 days after coming out of hospital, think she was trying to tell be something:D

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Best present: Electric guitar when I was 15.

Most disappointing: When I was 9 or 10 I asked Santa for a Star Wars "Light Sabre" cos all my friends had one. What I got was a Laser Sword, an inferior imitation and half as long as a proper Light Sabre......I lost every Light Sabre duel!!!

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Yoda's little helper?!!:D

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Thought it was time for something seasonal as they'd switched on the Xmas lights....:D

The best present I've bought for someone else was not a Xmas one (I'm still working on that one).
It was just a book but it had a special meaning to me which was also appreciated by the person who received it...

I love giving presents and have recently realised that the recipient is the most important thing and not the gift...some are never happy with whatever you give them, even if you have gone to great trouble or expense, because they will just never understand your intention in the first place.

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Worst christmas present was from one of my sons and it is a book about cannabis, he wanted me to read it so that i would get an understanding as to why he smokes it. It makes a great wedge :D

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Lol, I thought you were going to say it makes a great support to roll 'em on.

:D

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You obviously didn't understand his intention in giving you the gift...

Could have been worse, could have been a book about cannibals.
Then what would you have done with the stuffing for his Christmas dinner?

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The best gift I ever gave was not a Christmas gift, it was for Mothers Day.
I had taken Ma out to visit my sister in Oz. As you all know, I am an inveterate journal writer.
I documented where we went on our six week trip. The things we did, took pictures.
Wrote about it all.
Then when we came back I started to put all the pictures onto Disk for Ma to look at.
Mothers Day was coming and I didn't quite know what to get for Ma......so I asked her....she couldn't think of anything at all....then one day she phoned me and said she had been in Oz all afternoon - she had been looking at the pictures on the TV.
An idea was born. I would print out my journal entries and add photo's and make it into a book. It took quite a bit of doing........I kept messing it up(I was less computer literate then.........it must be 7 or 8 years ago) but eventually my book was finished.
Ma was thrilled with it. Even now she goes through it on a regular basis and she tells me that it gives her great pleasure.
The work that went into this gift was well worth it.

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The obvious worst .... snot rags from my great aunt Jane:mad:

Best ever:confused: Still waiting ... maybe this will be my year:alright:

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I had two 8mm films. One was my 1st wedding. The other was of my son aged 3 months.
I got them put on a video and gave it to my son - he was delighted to see long deceased relatives, some he never knew and some who he can scarcely remember

PS That was a while back - he intends to convert it to a CD now

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15 years old I got one of these

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49.99 from debenhams in Blackburn

( I got 50 quid for Xmas that year so it was everything I got that year )

I still had it 15 years later. The cassette door was smahed off, the back all melted from being left in the sun, the tuning bit was mmissing so you had no idea of what freq you were tuned to etc but it still worked despite being completely abused. the same year my best friend back then received absolutley shed loads of stuff ( purple people eater being one of them, he'd broken/lost/ forgotton about them all by Easter.....

goes to show its not how much you spend but what it means that counts

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I remember you getting that, Beat Boy.

Doing your moves, on a piece of lino, outside Woolies.

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:D

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Do you have any special requests Eric -have you sent a letter to Father Xmas yet?;)

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Often it's the personal things where someone has put in some effort which are the best presents -not the exotic or expensive things...:)

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Hehe, not me I'm afraid, it was only when I came back from Uni aged 19 that I had absolutely any conviction to dance^H^H^H^H^H make a fool of myself by dancing and that would never be in full public view....

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I'm thinkin' about it ... trouble is all I can come up with is an Oscar Wilde quote:eek: Maybe I'd like the monkey's paw .... there again maybe not:D I believe I'll think along the lines of a gift for someone else .... I know it sounds corny but I really have always got more pleasure from giving gifts, rather than from receiving them. And I don't believe I'm alone in that.

I have Santa's Canadian address: Santa,

North Pole

HOH OHO (I think this is the official postal code for Santa):)

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yeh poor do.......shame it wasn't n Electric Chair.:D

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You are not alone -i like buying pressies too, it's hard to be original though and these days my sons always just want money and i only have one child to buy for and she has (literally) everything!

Last year I actually bought and wrapped some stuff up for myself - how sad is that...:o perhaps i'll try writing to the address you cite above.:D

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Awww .... about six years ago, when I was going thru a rough time, all I got for Christmas were two cards: one from my ex, and one from a furniture store where I had bought a bunch of stuff:(

Maybe I'll try the HOH OHO thing too:

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Better than the Michael Bublè album which was the last one I got! Do you think they dress up as Father Xmas as well as his "Little" helpers!:D

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You need help,:confused::D:D

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Is that an offer?!;):D