lillybettybabs Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Anything with a plug on it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted December 16, 2012 Author Share Posted December 16, 2012 Any books about 'how to cope at Christmas' - its a bit late by then as I'll have had my stompy, shouty session and have started on the fizz! By 10.00am on Christmas morning what will be will be! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Heck glad I'm not buying for you lot. That's my Christmas lists shot to pieces . I do not want to find my decorations under the tree!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 ....anything JML, especially those shower feet things. Same here. I can't imagine anything more vile, and what an insult! A colleague is very miffed at the moment as her husband bought her a Nono for her birthday last week. Imagine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Just had to google nono. I too would be most miffed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikipins Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 I thought I was easy to buy for until I read this thread and now realise perhaps I'm not Under the tree not for me: Chocolates, I struggle enough with my weight and self restraint Underwear (again!) Anything for the kitchen, I like to make my own choices Smellies (again!) I must however be easier than my mother-in-law, the woman with everything. Very selective (fussy) and when you ask her what she would like she always says surprise me. The last 2 Christmas presents I have bought her she has taken back. Shall I surprise her this year with an ironing board cover (one of my friends husbands bought this for her last year, she didn't speak to him for days) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 ....anything JML, especially those shower feet things. Same here. I can't imagine anything more vile, and what an insult! A colleague is very miffed at the moment as her husband bought her a Nono for her birthday last week. Imagine! I think his Christmas dinner will be in the dog! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 I must however be easier than my mother-in-law, the woman with everything. Very selective (fussy) and when you ask her what she would like she always says surprise me. The last 2 Christmas presents I have bought her she has taken back. Shall I surprise her this year with an ironing board cover (one of my friends husbands bought this for her last year, she didn't speak to him for days) If she dislikes your presents so much, why don't you use the money you would have spent and give it to a charity, and give her a little card wrapped in a pretty box saying where the money went, that way she can't take it back and you will have donated to a good cause, and given her a surprise ( no pressie ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HennyPenny59 Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Perfume ... Each and every one of them give me a full blown migraine. Definitely don't want one of them for Christmas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 We did Christmas at the MILs this weekend. What did I say earlier on in this thread about Thorntons chocs & smellies? Yep I have a huge box of the Classic Collection from Thorntons Smellies A hideous brown/beige purse MIL redeemed herself with a lovely amethyst necklace from her recent trip to India. I love amethysts. We're trying hard to think of who we can give the chocolates to..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Any unwanted eats go into the office where they magically disappear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Any unwanted eats go into the office where they magically disappear. Same, or they are dished up when Rosie has friends round and the house is full of starving teenage girls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 JML shower feet Who on earth thought those up? I had a list above of things I thought I didn't want but having read through your posts more than any of my original dreads, I'd not want a) a baby under the tree b) shower feet c) any nono Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lillybettybabs Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 A onesie nearly as bad as slankets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted December 17, 2012 Author Share Posted December 17, 2012 A plastic crumb collector in the shape of a pig - had one of those from BIL last year. Tomorrow he is driving up from Bridport to deliver.......CHEESE! Better get some oatcakes in then! Three years ago FIL gave us a small cylindrical wrapped pressie about 10 days before Christmas. We duly tucked this beside the tree. After a few days I began sniffing and asking if anyone else could smell anything funny only to be met with blank looks. It got worse. All became obvious on Christmas morning when we unwrapped ......... a small stilton! I was wafting lavender oil around for days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 A onesie nearly as bad as slankets. Hear hear! Ooo, I love Stilton! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Ferous Rocher chocolates - sorry re spelling "sorry Monsiuer Rocher ah do not like yourrr choccolates , ewe arrre not spoiling me, ewe are making me seeek" all said in a Rene type voice (Allo allo for those too young to remember Rene) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Ooo I love chocolates but I wouldn't find any under the tree as dogs would have got there first I looked in a cupboard yesterday and found OH had 'hidden away' a good stash of nice home made ones from the Wallingford Christmas market. Yipee . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bramble Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Oooh, this thread scares me a bit I'm HOPELESS at buying presents for people, I spend weeks and weeks agonising over what to buy, then agonising for weeks after the event about whether the recipient liked it or not. I'm all for asking people what they would like and doing my best to buy accordingly ... which implies I don't give gift buying any thought - but quite the opposite is true, I give it WAY too much thought ... Have to say that I was VERY hurt earlier in the year when a birthday present I had bought was put on Ebay by the recipient within 24 hours of me giving it to them - wouldn't mind but I would happily have had the gift back, used it myself and given the recipient the money instead. She only got 1.99 for it on Ebay, I'd have bought it myself for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Oh Bramble it was very thoughtless of the person to sell it so publicly. Buying things that people like really is an art. Not sure I have it at all but one friend of mine has it perfectly. Even in the days when she had not a bean to bless herself with, her presents always somehow said 'to you' 'from me' and I've still got them all no matter how small they were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Ooh la la Alis girls! No novelty cake knives that play stupid tunes (like MIL bought for me and found it's way to the charity shop 2 years later). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 The thing is Valkyrie - the local supermarkets have a "special " on ferrous bloomin Rocher and so pts think - ooh I'll get that for my loverly nurse (hmrph) - I normally say thank you and give them to the receptionists who hoover them up. I'd sooner have a plant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolly Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 An exercise DVD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 An exercise DVD! I'll second that! I also agree with those who said a slanket - ugh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Ferrero is something that my mum would like - and complains when she's scoffed loads that they upset her tummy! So I say none of those under her tree because I'll never hear the end of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
