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What's the worst chrissy present you could personally ever receive?
I'll give an example. One of daughter's teachers are vegan and still received a shit load of chocolate.
My parents gave me personalised numberplates one time. This was up in NSW where you have to pay a fee to have personalised plates, so they essentially got me an extra $100 on top of my rego every year.
And I drove a silver car so they got me gold number plates. I know no one would have actually cared but I felt like everyone was looking at my car when I drove out of the RTA with the new plates on because they clashed so much
Do not give silver people gold things! And ask first if white gold counts.
It needed some fluffy dice to go with.
That would have been a better car gift. It was a Mazda 323, nothing special. I know they did it because my brother had personalised plates but he had a Subaru Liberty that was much more interesting and he's much more of a car guy than me
That's hilarious ๐
My aunt gave me a pillowcase..I was a 12 year old boy. Bad enough that I remember it clearly 35 years later.
Edit.. Oh. I thought we were doing worst ever actually received
Actually: My school book kit for the next year A hot pink satin thong (brother, not his idea) A large print Fairy Tale book at 15 A 30yo very used hair dryer A kitchen appliance bought in the previous year sale so it had zero warranty
Doesn't matter. Either.
A slab of Crown
bad news about loved ones
gifts?
A dairy cookbook.
Any record by John Williamson
Bananas in Pajamas stuff
A house next door to my MIL.
Ooof that last one. Never met mine. Glad to keep it that way.
ETA: when I was full GF I was given a GF cook book. Great yes? Until you discover it's American and 3/4 of the ingredients are 'a can of X brand soup' that doesn't exist here
husband would want to live there ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ซ
There is an OtherPlace phrase for that