BEST/WORST XMAS PRESENT

Howarya..

Anyone want to get the ball rolling on the best or worst Christmas Present you ever received that sticks out in memory.

Needless to say it could be something you actually received or something a little more to do with the emotions. Presents that were expected and received or not received as the case may be around the GROVE years would be good.

I´m rackin the brains myself and will get back to you later.

ME

Edited by Mins

The same year I got my Atari home computer...these were the rage in the 80's. Mel-you had the Commodore equivalent,right?

Played games for years with it.learned a bit of 'Basic Language' and made a bit on the side bootlegging games in school.

Had it until recently.Before my dad got his PC some years ago he asked me to set this Atari up so he could practise typing. It had a disk-drive (WOW) and it was like 'giving it back' to him.

He died two years ago and while clearing out his house there it was in his attic...couldn't bear to get rid of it.

Computers..used to own an Amstrad.

I am sure we were one of the few final year students in Galway to take notes on a PC during lectures...circa 1991.

Anyhow best present...

Replacement Aran Jumper for the one that got knicked at the Grove, from my true love.

Worst Present...

One of those foot spa thingeys....
Never used it.

Boring I know....

YEW lot out there can and will do better !!!!!!!!!!!!!!


ME

Had a few dodgy presents over the years but worse that mine was my wife got given a Hari Krishna lp for Christmas from her brother. 

A few years ago my mother in law gave me a set of edging shears



FFS!

Is that why she's your EX sis-in-law???

Inlaws and Outlaws...can´t beat em

My dad bought me a new guitar (under orders from my mam not to get me another one, but he did anyway).

My brother still believed in Santa as he was 5 yrs younger. He dumped the guitar still in the box on my bed at some ungodly hour. Kicked it off the bed and fell back asleep. When I woke up and saw it (and my mam's face too) it was defo the best pressie ever.

Worst was a couple of years ago, my hubby bought me a pair of earrings almost exactly the same as the ones he bought the previous year. Saw the bank statement few weeks later, saw the $700 cost and nearly killed him. Never wore them, afraid I would lose them.

My brother bought my mam a kettle one year. Didn't go down well, but the bump on his head when she threw it at him was funny.

Killian,

LOL Edging shears, Was there a method to her madness? Was she trying to tell you something about your hair?

My worst Christmas present was definitely a PINK tshirt dress with a ......(I can hardly bring myself to even think of it) a black painted leather belt. It was HIDEOUS, I don't care if it was the 80's, I was going to the Grove at the time. WHAT WAS MY SISTER THINKING!!!!! (never mind the fact that I hate PINK and NEVER wear the colour). Happily she was living in Canada, so it got binned straight away and she was none the wiser .

Best Present is harder, there've been a lot of good ones. For me presents with a thought behind them always stick in my head. So a joke presents from my parents when I was about 17 of a paper back Enid Blyton book I read to death when I was a kid kinda sticks out. I had inherited the book and the last two pages were missing so although I had read "The Secret Island" over and over I never really knew how it ended. I must've said something about it during the year, but there is was in my "Stocking" that Christmas, we all got a great laugh out of it and I thouroughly enjoyed rereading it after all those years.....Ahh I'm feeling all soppy about it now.

Killian your mother in law sounds like mine !!!! Every year without fail I get a bottle of perfume from her. I am really odd on the perfume that I buy and am sure alot of you gals out there are - like men and there aftershaves, well naturally enough my kids get to wear mammys perfume that nanny bought as its the only bloody bottle that I leave lying around ! Right Im going to be a sado here - best Present - Jimmy asking me to marry him !!!! Worst a really expensive pair of earnings of an ex boyfriend - I didnt have my ears pierced !!!! He really was so thoughtfull - he got dumped the following week !!