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What we’ve been talking about As more and more Christmas sparkle starts to appear in shops and we begin to look out our festive jumpers, we at List HQ have been reminiscing about our worst Yuletide gifts - both given and received. Let’s hope these sorry stories don’t get a repeat this year...

Don’t know if this counts but I once forgot to get my pal a pressie so when she gave me mine I just took one from under my tree (one that was

given to me from another pal). I was dying to find out what it

was on Christmas but could never ask her! They never

found out.

Millionaire Matchmaker (I love a bit of Patti Stanger and her wine mixers)

and The Big Bang Theory (‘penny, penny, penny . . . ‘)

I once gave a friend a DVD box-set of In

Treatment, the therapy drama starring Gabriel Byrne. Little did I know that he’d just gone into couples counselling with his wife. Ouch.

My brother bought

me a ceramic

elephant garden decoration. I don’t

have a garden,

not any opinion on

elephants.

My sister’s birthday is on Christmas Eve. For her 12th

birthday our Gran bought her a jigsaw, followed by a jigsaw carrier on Christmas Day, because what use is a jigsaw if you can’t take it

everywhere with you?

My best friend once bought me a bag of fat balls for birds. I don’t have pet birds,

he just thought it would be funny ‘since I’d put on

weight’.

My mum, god love her, bought me some clothes in the sale, they ranged

from a size 6 to a 16, I’m a 12! I ended up giving some of them to my brother’s then petite girlfriend and the rest to

charity :(

When I was about 8, I really wanted a budgie. My parents pretended they got me one for Christmas, and then pissed themselves when I opened a card with a picture of a budgie on it. Obviously I found it HILARIOUS. Luckily I am not bitter about it....

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