Off-topic Best and worst Christmas gifts you’ve ever received?

[V_23]

Fun fred since the content on the Bay has been anemic of late.

What are the best and worst Christmas gifts you’ve received over the years? Inb4 “worst was when someone gave me some Carlton merch ”

Best:
iPod Mini when they first released. Was cool af at the time.

Worst:
An empty CD wallet. Couldn’t believe how lame it was at the time and never even considered using it. Threw that in the trash real quick.

 

[Sqotty from office works]

Was given a French mask n snorkel that lasted 22 years, best pressie for a crayfish diver.

Worst was a chainsaw that was for cutting shrubs, didn't have the heart to tell city missus how useless it was.

 

[Chronz]

Best:

In 1989, blew my mind as I was 5 years old.


Worst:

 

[V_23]

New worst:

To V_23 i gift the ultimate big footy power with the ability to induce months of multi fred melts

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[zackah]

I actually got given an umbrella once. Who the **** gives someone an umbrella for Christmas?!

Also don’t need it in Brisbane anyway

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

I actually got given an umbrella once. Who the **** gives someone an umbrella for Christmas?!

Also don’t need it in Brisbane anyway

Some thoughtful person should get you these babies for Christmas

How many times have the Yankess and * broken your heart and reduced you to tears over the years ?

 

[V_23]

I actually got given an umbrella once. Who the **** gives someone an umbrella for Christmas?!

Also don’t need it in Brisbane anyway

Could’ve used it as a projectile

Also, here’s an adorable gif I found while searching for umbrella gifs.

 

[Hamingja]

I actually got given an umbrella once. Who the **** gives someone an umbrella for Christmas?!

Also don’t need it in Brisbane anyway

Was it from a Sydney flog?

Sydney head office gave us all umbrellas for a present in Adelaide. Even less need for it there.

 

[zackah]

Was it from a Sydney flog?

Sydney head office gave us all umbrellas for a present in Adelaide. Even less need for it there.

Since when did umbrellas become presents FFS? If you want to be a lazy campaigner and give a gift with no thought whatsoever do what everyone else does and give a ****ing gift voucher D/Hs

 

[Mofra]

As a kid, this was as good as it got:


Probably the worst was a digital picture frame, given to me by someone who gave a digital picture frame 5 years earlier that I didn't use.

 

[V_23]

Since when did umbrellas become presents FFS? If you want to be a lazy campaigner and give a gift with no thought whatsoever do what everyone else does and give a ****ing gift voucher D/Hs

 

[Saveloy Rockstar]

Nothing l says “I don’t care” like a calendar

 

[Pistol Night]

Nothing l says “I don’t care” like a calendar

Lynx Africa Gift pack?

 

[Triggering Tiger]

The best Christmas present is when your family is healthy and well and the worst present is when they're not.

 

[Cyclops]

Best: anytime I get a bottle of whisky, or whiskey.

The micronauts Battle Cruiser was good when I was a kid.

Worst was a nylon polo shirt from my aunt. She put a brick and some uncooked pasta inside the shirt and wrapped it "so it would be heavy and make a rattling sound if o shook it."

Usually generous, it was a shit gift for a 10 year old.

 

[Pistol Night]

Best: anytime I get a bottle of whisky, or whiskey.

The micronauts Battle Cruiser was good when I was a kid.

Worst was a nylon polo shirt from my aunt. She put a brick and some uncooked pasta inside the shirt and wrapped it "so it would be heavy and make a rattling sound if o shook it."

Usually generous, it was a shit gift for a 10 year old.

My brother and i used to give each other bottles of whiskey every year and try and polish them off during the day. The family suggested we try something a bit more in keeping with the Xmas spirit after we both were too blind to make tea 2 years in a row. I actually didn't make lunch one year

 

[Cyclops]

My brother and i used to give each other bottles of whiskey every year and try and polish them off during the day. The family suggested we try something a bit more in keeping with the Xmas spirit after we both were too blind to make tea 2 years in a row. I actually didn't make lunch one year

Family is a leading cause of life and death.

This year I got Black Bush (immediately sloppedsome on the Christmas pudding to flambe it) and a single malt called Balvennie.

 

[jannissary]

best i’ve gotten was a (now resold) first edition pressing of unknown pleasures (by joy division) from my uncle. very good album.

worst was tickets to see relatives i dislike in queensland. waste of my summer holidays!

 

[All Aust]

For some reason, I could glance at this campaigner, grit your teeth, bang the drum a bit harder to push the tough things. A gift that kept giving so to speak.
Got this with a one off purple dragster (first bike) that dad would have spent hours building from parts.

Worst gift - avon splash / aftershave that was encased in a glass spark plug. Avon, the master of cheap stench edging out Brut 33.

 

[Stronzo]