alpin
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That t-shirt is brilliant
Shame I binned it - it could have been yours 🙂
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Secret Santa at work a couple of years ago... a £10 book token.
I am 48
Wrong thread on wrong forum. Doh!
I also love the Moose Lee t shirt!😆
Whiskey flavoured toothpaste! So you always smell like you are drink driving?
We do a secret santa among the adults in our commune; I got drawn by my MiL (no, not like one of those french girls, that would be weird) and asked for a voucher towards an escape room that the wife, kids and I would enjoy.
Instead, I was given the money equivalent in pound coins (shows effort to go to the bank and draw it out at least)
However on opening the present it wasn't in a bag so ended up in a scrabble for pound coins and one's been lost (presumably under the TV cabinet, i think the kids and their cousins returned them all)
Then we played Newmarket (card game) and we needed some coins to put on the winning cards.
Net result, I'm about £8 down on my Christmas present. At least she didn't win any of her money back!
(I like my MiL fwiw, taking the P here mainly)
Yesterday a distant relative bought me a plastic USB lamp in the shape of the PlayStation symbols.
I don’t even have a PlayStation....
Received a Harry Potter lunchbox, how the hell is Harry Potter merchandise still a thing ffs?
^^ Poundland still selling off old stock?
Sorry, that's not going to make you feel much better is it?
It's not, they are re gifting from when it was.
😉
I was quite pleased with my Diamant board game, I've played it once before and it was good fun so i was quite looking forward to unboxing it and having a game earlier.
My wife now knows why it was cheaper on Amazon than anywhere else....I think it's genuine, but it is the Spanish version! The instructions are beyond my 'Dos Cerveza' level.
(thank goodness for the internet and being able to get the instructions in english with three clicks of a mouse)
My late mother had a well deserved reputation for trawling charity shops for our Xmas presents; culminating in perhaps the worst " silk dressing gown with dragon on the back" in matching colours for my two brothers and myself.
We have now instigated an annual...." Do your worst" pointless/tasteless/just awful Xmas present .
Bless ya ma 😁
Not one but two "world traveller collection" hot sauce gift sets (from different people). Entirely made in China brought to the UK by that renowned purveyor of esteemed high quality produce B&M.
Not my gift, but my stepdaughter at the time received an ornament of a little girl opening a gift on Santa's lap when she was 11.
I used to do a regular favour for someone who insisted on buying said gift as a thank you. The thought was there, but it missed the mark completely, especially when I replied (when asked) some chocolate would have been perfect.
Just received the second round gifts from my side of the family.
My youngest sister has bought us some reusable metal straws some reusable beeswax food wrap and got my eldest the penguin book of Greta Thunberg...
There's nothing quite like telling your loved ones that you think they're wasteful eco-terrorists for Christmas...
She also got me top from Gap (who knew they still existed), the label informs me it was made in Vietnam.
I think the most ill-judged gift I've given was some modelling balloons to a then girlfriend. I hadn't really gathered that modelling balloons are really difficult to blow up - it was 50:50 whether the balloons would inflate or the veins on your temples. There was 200 of them so plenty to practice with. I'd also somehow managed to forget she suffered from severe asthma.
Secret Santa at work a couple of years ago… a £10 book token.
I am 48
Why is your age relevant?
The only information of any relevance would be whether you read books or not.
Secret Santa at work a couple of years ago… a £10 book token.
I am 48
I’m not seeing a problem here - I’m 65, I get books for presents, for which I’m very grateful.
The worst present I had this year was an album of Christmas songs by Tiny Tim! To be fair, this was just the latest in a long line of Christmas CD’s from a particular couple, who’ve tried to find the worst album they could, this year’s is the last, as they felt the joke had reached its logical conclusion, things couldn’t get any worse.
They managed thirty minutes of it, my copy lasted ten minutes then went in the bin!
Belated gift and not necessarily crap, but....
960 Tesco tea bags. Told my old man that I needed to buy some tea bags before heading back to Germany. Four packs of 240.
That should see me through till 2022....!
Work secret santa; bottle of beer, a curry sauce in a bag and another food item. Clearly just couldn't be arsed and searched the cupboards that morning. I've since dropped out of the stupid thing.
Some of the presents mentioned seem pretty good to me. Maybe not as Christmas presents but useful never the less....
One that sticks in my mine is a book I got from an Aunt that she had quite clearly either found at home or bought from a jumble sale. Dog eared and not age appropriate.
about the biggest disappointment was when I was around 10 and mum had decided to hang a final present on the tree to be opened on the 12th day. I was absolutely convinced it was a level crossing for my Hornby and pestered her every day to let me open it. Come the 12th I tore in to the paper only to find a box of felt tips. Fail.
we've done a few in our time, mainly in the Reading area because we tie it in with visits to grandparents.
The first one we did was in London near Euston, Hint Hunt.
We did Escape Reading - Kidnapped which was our first with the kids and was very exciting even if the room was a little tatty (but fitted well with the story)
We did a second with them, The Library
Then we did Escape the Wild West with Escape Hunt (also Reading) - was very slick and well decorated but the game was a bit repetitive
And then just after Christmas with my money we did Pudding Lane with TimeTrap, which was the best of both, slick well decorated room, imaginative mix of puzzles with physical and mental challenges, good host that fed in hints just when needed..... It helps that each time the kids are a bit older and know more what they're doing too.
https://www.timetrapescaperooms.com/pudding-lane/
It's not a cheap experience but we thoroughly enjoy them.
Trouser Press.