BEST/WORST XMAS PRESENT
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Topic: BEST/WORST XMAS PRESENT
Posted By: Mins
Subject: BEST/WORST XMAS PRESENT
Date Posted: 05-January-2007 at 15:50
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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. Iīm rackin the brains myself and will get back to you later. ME 
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Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 06-January-2007 at 12:18
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When I was 15 my eldest brother gave me a bottle of Denim. AFTER SHAVE! I was 15...obviously it was a gift he received and didn't need...still can't figure it out... ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 06-January-2007 at 12:24
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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. ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 06-January-2007 at 13:00
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Yeah, Martin - I went through the whole range of 'cheap' home computers back in the 80s - Spectrum 16k the Spectrum 48k the Commodore 64, then Amiga... As to your question about pressies Mins, similar to Martin, the worst present I ever got was a deodorant/after shave kit (even though I had been sporting a beard for a few years up to this).... ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: Mins
Date Posted: 06-January-2007 at 15:22
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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
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Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 06-January-2007 at 18:49
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I swear the worst present I ever got was a crollie doll - remember those things. I was shocked and stunned when I seen it under the tree and went immediately for my brothers tool kit!!!!! My hubby sent me home a gift to Ireland once of shoes he bought me - they went back in the post the next day!!! they were sh*te..... ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 06-January-2007 at 20:19
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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.
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Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 06-January-2007 at 20:41
Siobhan got me a big 8 player poker table cover (one of them 'professional' ones) for the dining table this year and, even though I'm not very good at cards, everyone (from nieces, nephews, uncles etc.,) had a blast playing Texas Hold Em over the holidays..goes well with a few beers!!   ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: kbannon
Date Posted: 06-January-2007 at 21:49
A few years ago my mother in law gave me a set of edging shears FFS! ------------- 
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Posted By: Blondie
Date Posted: 06-January-2007 at 22:30
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Got a plastic bag and purse from ex sis in law !!!!!!!!! As Killian said FFS ------------- Blondie I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it ! |
Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 07-January-2007 at 01:04
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Is that why she's your EX sis-in-law??? ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 07-January-2007 at 19:06
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Ive an ex sister in law like that. Got to the stage where we would pop the pressies into the oxfam bag unopened.
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Posted By: Mins
Date Posted: 07-January-2007 at 19:27
Inlaws and Outlaws...canīt beat em
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Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 08-January-2007 at 00:16
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Last year my sister gave me a sweatshirt type of thing (actually,if you were a girl you would call it a 'top') It was definitely a girls one and I'm convinced it was something she received and decided to pass it on as she didn't want it...why me I'll never know. She doesn't come on here so HA! in your face,Rose... (I sound like Bart Simpson) ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 08-January-2007 at 02:46
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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. ------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: whippersnapper
Date Posted: 08-January-2007 at 10:05
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Best: Load of good ones - anything sport related or books on irish politics. And that game Operation when I was a kid. I wanted it for about five years before the auld fella managed to get hold of it. Worst: My wife's aunt likes shopping. She likes giving pressies. I'm not sure when shopping if she ever considers whom she is buying for or whether she just buys random gifts for random people. A pair of gloves for driving stands out as possibly the worst I have got. Short of getting me a cigarette golder and scarf to go with them, I'm not sure how much worse it could get. I now paint a smile on my face and then open any presents from her. It lessens the chances of a natural reaction. My daughter is 3 and at her last birthday responded (as she did at Christmas and a few other times to various people) with "I don't like it". Normally I'm mortified, but at the same time not keen to batter her sense of individuality. This time it was just "That's from me for the gloves as well" And I know it's the thought that counts! ------------- I'm searching for that cash I should have saved for the crash |
Posted By: Esthalon
Date Posted: 08-January-2007 at 14:38
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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. ------------- Smoke me a kipper I'll be back for Breakfast! |
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Posted By: muller
Date Posted: 08-January-2007 at 22:13
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This year has to be up there. Missus bought me a cool, tan (no pun) leather lether jacket. I feel so posh wearing it and am too mean to splurge on something like this for myself. And to top it my daughter bought me a DVD of the 2006 Ryder Cup which I attended. Still tingling. ------------- Life is for living |
Posted By: BakerBabe
Date Posted: 08-January-2007 at 22:43
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 !! 
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Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 11-January-2007 at 10:07
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H.D bought me a guitar one year......great pressie I hear you all say, except for the fact that I don't play the guitar (never have done) but he loves to play the guitar and wanted a new one !!!!! Got my own back on him the following year ......I went out and bought him a Foot Spa..Hehehe  |
Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 11-January-2007 at 10:29
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Hope ya got it second hand from Mins......................( see above ). |
Bluebell wrote:Posted By: monarch
Date Posted: 12-September-2016 at 13:21
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I have no interest in clothes and people insist on giving me more as presents .I have a mountain full of the stuff that I will never wear . ------------- There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 13-September-2016 at 12:05
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I know what you mean Frank. If, on the rare occasion, I do want a new shirt etc., I'll buy it myself. People don't know what I like and, more often than not, pick up something that I won't wear. ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |