Presents you bought for your parents as a kid (1 Viewer)

[Jim Daniels]

I remember the first present I ever bought my Dad was a peach - I didn't get much pocket money in the early seventies.

On more than one occasion, I bought my Mam knitting needles and a ball of wool for her birthday.

They always let on to be delighted..

 

[Mormon Nailer]

we were visiting relatives in Canada when I was a kid. My sister and I planned to buy our mother something over there for christmas. Christmas eve and nothing bought.

Thhey mad a big deal of opening presents over there, everyone gathered aroud to wathe each other open their presents and you were allowed open one thing on christmas eve.

I desperation me and the sis robbed a box of chocolates (stupidly we robbed the one our ma had given our aunt as a present!) rewrapped it and stuck a card on it.

Plan didn't work.

"hey those are my chocolates!!"

"I've never been so disappointed" etc

 

[Diddles]

I was always told in no uncertain terms what to get my mother for christmas. By the time I was of present buying age she'd had twenty odd years of getting shite presents from my brothers.

She gave me a load of grief one year because she wanted these Aran Island pictures and as I didn't see them in the shop I got her some pictures of Dublin instead. We had a big row and I left home with the dog and stayed with my brother. She rang a few days later to ask when I was bringing the dog home. Not one for apologising, my Mother.

 

[Jim Daniels]

we were visiting relatives in Canada when I was a kid. My sister and I planned to buy our mother something over there for christmas. Christmas eve and nothing bought.

Thhey mad a big deal of opening presents over there, everyone gathered aroud to wathe each other open their presents and you were allowed open one thing on christmas eve.

I desperation me and the sis robbed a box of chocolates (stupidly we robbed the one our ma had given our aunt as a present!) rewrapped it and stuck a card on it.

Plan didn't work.

"hey those are my chocolates!!"

"I've never been so disappointed" etc

Ah yes, re-gifting

My Mam was always re-gifting. Especially boxes of chocolates to the next door neighbours -if they called around at Christmas with a tin of biscuts or something

 

[Squiggle]

We didn't do Christmas or birthdays. I remember buying my Dad a set of strings for his guitar when I was about 7 or 8 (but I suspect that was because I had broken one and wanted to give him replacements before he found out)

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Ah yes, re-gifting

My Mam was always re-gifting. Especially boxes of chocolates to the next door neighbours -if they called around at Christmas with a tin of biscuts or something

I think she was extra pissed off cause we made a show of her/us in fromt of the relatives.

 

[Pantone247]

any piece of shit statue from the pound shop

some of them are still lying around, quality tat...

 

[Mormon Nailer]

any piece of shit statue from the pound shop

some of them are still lying around, quality tat...

Glow in the dark Virgin Marys from the stalls in Knock - no those were premier league tat.

 

[Pantone247]

Glow in the dark Virgin Marys from the stalls in Knock - no those were premier league tat.

I remember buying my dad "comedy" bumper stickers and being dismayed that he wouldn't put them on our car

 

[Mormon Nailer]

I remember buying my dad "comedy" bumper stickers and being dismayed that he wouldn't put them on our car

I remember buying an engraved keyring for my dad at one of theose little booths. The guy misherd me and wrote Tom on in (in a pretty fucking spidery way) instead of John.

I was too embarrased to take it back.

 

[DilbertPart2]

Oh I did give my mom a pair of fancy earrings.

 

[thairock]

When I was a wee 'un I gave my dad some aftershave for christmas.




He has had a huge beard since he was about 19 years old and has never come close to shaving it.
Ah,bless , sure 'twas the telly ads that told me that you gave yer da aftershave - I just didn't put two and two together i suppose.

 

[Anthony]

I bought my Dad a reflective triangle once.

 

[egg_]

When my brother was about 5 he was real excited about the Christmas present he had bought our ma - he kept going on about what a great present it was, and how she didn't have one already. Turned out to be a black plastic comb that he had got for around 20p

 

[puppetmonkey]

At the age of 5 I robbed all the ornaments out of my elderly neighbours sitting room, put them in a plastic quinsworth bag and brought them home for my mum. I remember being genuinely upset that she didn't seem to appreciate how thoughtful I'd been.

 

[Goodbye]

My first big important spend was buying a copy of The Thorn Birds book for my mum who was in hospital.
I remember it cost a fortune and having to reach over the vast amount of sweets at the counter to pay for the thing was torture.