Who got the worst gift?

Why did you try on her coat out of interest?

Just get one of these if it works with a the larger perfume https://amzn.eu/d/9Nma4N6

A solitary tea towel.

I Know it's a lighthearted post but this is why I seriously cba buying gifts for adults. I'm not going to put care and energy into buying gifts for people who are probably going to be bitching about how awful my gifts are (internally or externally) and have no appreciation for how difficult they might be to buy for. I'll save the money and energy for my 7YO daughter thanks as she's not yet jaded and is the only person I see true joy in when she opens her gifts

I got some old lady slippers and a super warm blanket from my DP and a few generic bits from my Amazon wish list which I mostly keep updated for the dcs to choose gifts from.
Overall he spent less than £100 on me - I'm not bothered about the amount of money he spent. However I know he's spent £450 on the other woman which I've recently discovered. He's booked a weekend away in a beautiful cottage for them both. They are going this weekend. He doesn't know that I know but he will when he gets back!!

I tried a foot spa once and they're useless without a heating element. The water soon gets cold.

@arcticpandas Your DH is being really silly about the perfume because the economies of scale when it comes to perfume are huge. You'll have paid significantly less for one 200 ml bottle than two 100 mls. I would tell him the saving.

Make sure he keeps it in the dark with the lid firmly on. Mine sit in a closed drawer in a shaded room, but I would keep it in the box if I didn't have somewhere to put it. It will last longer in the dark. And yes to the decanting. It's not that easy but it can be done, using a syringe.

Here's what he needs to do: (I think he can do without the label-maker; the man in the video obviously does it for a decanting business.)
Decant perfume

There's also the option of just holding the spray over the opening of the travel bottle and pumping.

I got a foot spa. You can only add warm water to it. You can’t add bath salts or any soap or detergents. It has no heating element. The “massage” element does absolutely nothing it’s just a bit of plastic attached to the plastic bath that clips in and sits there and does nothing. It’s not broken - it’s designed to do nothing.

It came with a pumice stone which appeared to be some sort of plasticised concrete. It started to break up in my dry hand as I opened it and realised it wasn’t actually a pumice stones. It is plastic and almost a clay type concrete.

I never ever indicated I wanted a foot spa. It’s one more thing I need to throw out.

Im picturing myself in a housecoat now. I got 5 bars of soap (luckily I like soap) and body butter/cream (which I don’t like and always say I don’t like/use) along with 4 tubes of hand cream (which I quite like but already have 3 tubes of). This is mostly what I got so I’m assuming people see me as quite boring 😂.

If you don't like them, a women's shelter could really use them.

I bloody love this house coat.

A watercolours paint set and colouring book. I am the least arty person ever. Appreciate the thought, but it will be passed on! Also feel bad saying this but got a lovely bag, but not sure at all on the colour. Not cheap either, and I can see it comes in lots of other colours, which i’d have preferred. Going to give this new bold colour a go though, as never know I might start to like it. It is lovely.

I got nothing, exactly what I wanted 💞 (we asked for nothing this year as we have all we need)

Don't open it. Donate it to a local fundraiser who us having a raffle.

I feel one of the main presents I got my DH didn’t land well. Good quality goggles but somehow he seemed quite underwhelmed when he spotted it.

This thread is hilarious. I received a used 2 foot tall Balinese style wooden cat statue, with two chipped ears. It was crudely wrapped in a (second hand) orange gingham tablecloth. The giver is extremely wealthy and knows my decor style, which this is clearly incompatible with.

That is shocking. What was he thinking?

Here's a thread about what to do with your unwanted toiletries. Please donate them if you don't want them - lots of people are in need and experiencing hygiene poverty.

It strikes me that women's shelters or homeless shelters could do with the unwanted housecoats/dressing gowns/fake oodies too.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/amibeingunreasonable/5459747-to-say-donate-unwanted-xmas-toiletries-to-toiletries-amnesty?reply=149416458

3 years ago my mil bought me an awful hot pink fake oodie, last year she got me a blue one. this year...a third oversized fake black oodie. can't stand the things!

A pair of Ugg type boots that I cannot even get on my feet !! There’s no zip on the side, the top is too narrow, but ‘“they are my size” he said. Yes but I can’t get my foot in them. My feet are slim and narrow, but the top of the boots are narrow funnels.

Also got so many chocolates it’s ridiculous.

My child got 3 books from his Aunty..... That were clearly second hand. Bent pages and stamps in the front showing the primary school that used to own them. Wouldn't mind but their family is loaded.

Surely this is the winner, I got a bright pink all in one dressing gown thingy, that is massive off my mil im meno so don't think I.ll be wearing it

My DH bought me a bale of grey towels. They’re from the White Company and he’s pleased as punch as apparently I needed new towels. I’ve been married 31 years and over the years he’s bought some strange gifts.

For Mothers Day once he walked past the perfume department in John Lewis to get to the towel department and bought me a bath towel.

in 31 years I have never ever suggested I needed a new towel!

SEXY!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

The Led Zepplin Christmas.

Every single gift was Led Zepplin themed that my DH gave me. Every album of theirs available in CD format, individially wrapped, a concert DVD, t-shirt and biography of the band.

I kept opening each present wondering when I got to my actial present.

I am not a big Zepplin fan. Nor is my DH. I said in passing in maybe in August I liked the Immigrant Song on the Ragnarok soundtrack. He was so happy he'd remembered and gotten me the perfect Christmas gifts. I was just stunned. I got to the end and was just stunned.

I dropped heavy heavy hints, flat out told him, about an amber necklace, set in silver, that would hace cost half what he spent. I followed the list he gave me with a couple of small additions, like we did every other year.

Now I just buy my own and he gets me one or two surprises. Usually books, and usially pretty interesting ones.

He did try, and it was out of the ordinary for him to go so badly off track.

Still have the t-shirt, nice heavy quality one in a not bad colour. Odd time I wear it a real fan will strike up a comversation about the band. I smile.