She sounds like my ex boyfriend's nan - She was notoriously bad at buying presents. The funny thing is, is that she was loaded, but the presents she'd buy for her family defied the fact to say the absolute least. She'd buy my boyfriend's mum a pair of slippers every year and if she was lucky they'd be the wrong size but a combination of two different sizes happened once and I was told of the time when she received two left feet, so clearly pinched from outside of the store, chocolates would usually have a strange "bloom" on them as they were suspected to be a regift of something she'd had stashed away in a cupboard for years and gifts for the grandchildren/great grandchildren had "charity shop/jumble sale" written all over them. I'll never forget the doll she gave her great granddaughter one year which had green hair, which is fine to a degree had it not obviously been made green by the previous owner using felt tip pens as they'd slipped and left tell tale marks on the face and neck. The funniest one was a sweater that this bf's mum received - For a change it was a nice jumper and it was from M&S. Famous for it's no quibble refund/exchange policy at Christmas she decided to return it to the store for either a larger size or a different jumper. When she got to the refund desk, she was told that they hadn't sold that particular line for years therefore it was no longer eligible!!!! She was fuming lol!
I'm sure your lovely mum didn't steal stuff of course, but she similarly skimped and it sounds like she gave you some "interesting" presents!!! This sort of thing gives us something to talk and laugh about now. How boring it would be if we all got the perfect present - er maybe not lol!
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