101 things you would not like to receive for Xmas!

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101 things you would not like to receive for Xmas!

Post: # 179313Post Millymollymandy »

1. Susan Boyle's debut album :pukeright:
2. Any Katie Price/Jordan autobiography or 'novel'
3. Those horrid platform boot/shoe/sandal things that seem to be fashionable right now
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Post: # 179315Post Rosendula »

4. perfume
5. anything made by L'Ordeal
6. Sheridan's or any other sickly-sweet liqueur. I used to like them, but lost my sweet tooth last time I was pregnant and never fully recovered it. :dontknow:
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Post: # 179317Post Helsbells »

5. Any toiletries (unless organic!)
6. recipe books (its a running joke with my husband that his mother buys be a recipe book, she must think I cant cook!)
7. Anything large that takes up a lot of toom (we have a very small house and cannot fit any more stuff into it)
8. anything pink (used to be in love with anything pink when I was 17, at the age of 26 I have now gone off it, but some people have not yet realised this.)

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Post: # 179334Post Green Aura »

9. Anything from these glossy supplements that come in newspapers or get shoved through your door (mother please note).
10. Anything made of plastic (ditto above).
11. Any toiletries - why can no-one get their head round the idea I make and sell these things for a living and I don't need fake scented soaps or anything else thankyou - even if they're made by posh companies :lol: .
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Post: # 179337Post Rosendula »

Green Aura wrote: 11. Any toiletries - why can no-one get their head round the idea I make and sell these things for a living and I don't need fake scented soaps or anything else thankyou - even if they're made by posh companies :lol: .
I never used to make toiletries, but I used to sell some made by Green People. Yet at Christmas I would still receive toiletries from my mother which she bought from Primark. :banghead: Thankfully, I don't receive any presents from her any more.
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anything that is designed to sit on a shelf and gather dust
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Post: # 179343Post Milims »

19 Anything other than some amaretti biscuits and a carpet sweeper!
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20. Anything that needs to be cleaned, washed or polished.

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21 pot pouri
22 anything involving apricots (which are a crime against humanity)
23 anything pink or flowery
24 pointless tat
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we are not ungrateful, honest!

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red wrote: 24 pointless tat
Lol a woman after my own heart!!

25. Weird flavored alchol ie. Canabis Vodka :pukeright:
26. Chocolate, chocolate biscuits. MIL please note, and remember that your son is a diabetic :banghead:
27. Cuddle toys :angryfire: for the children
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Post: # 179538Post Kezz »

28. A digital photo frame. Why do they exist?

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29. anything that makes a noise !
30. stupid prezzies from the gadget shop :banghead:
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Post: # 179591Post Urban Ayisha »

30. tins of sweets like quality st or roses. we've still got unopened choccies from last xmas to get through!! maybe they'll just get recycled back to their original giver! :pirate:

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Post: # 179592Post Millymollymandy »

That reminds me :iconbiggrin:

31. Ferrerro Rocher

God they are awful!!!!!! :pukeright:
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