People who are convinced that you love things that you don't?

[PickledLimes]

For two decades now I have received a box of Liquorce allsorts for birthdays and Christmas from a friend. I'm very grateful that she gives me anything at all but I have never liked liquorice and I'm unsure how she reached the conclusion that I love them.

I've heard of people being inundated with frog related items because someone decided that they adore them and the word spread .Has anyone else been in this situation?

My team at work have decided that I love scented candles. I got four of the wretched things on my birthday this year. They give me an awful headache so I never use them! Luckily I’ve been able to regift them; always makes me wonder how many of them were regifted to me (my birthday is just after Christmas) and how many will be passed on again.

As a postgrad student, I lived in a shared house rented from a pig farmer. There were a couple of pig-related bits around the house, pictures in the kitchen etc., and every new friend who came to the house seemed to deduce that they were mine. Throughout my PhD I was inundated with pigs - every birthday and Christmas I'd get cuddly pigs, pig ornaments, pig calendars etc. I have nothing against pigs but it got a bit silly and there was no way to call a halt to it without upsetting people!

In my first trimester of pregnancy, my MiL observed me eating ginger biscuits in an effort to control morning sickness (didn't work for me, by the way). She promptly forgot about the "for morning sickness" part, concluded that I love ginger biscuits, and subsequently would bring me packets of ginger biscuits every single time we met. And she told every relative that I loved ginger biscuits. Thankfully, the flow of ginger biscuits has abated somewhat over the years...

Dh gets a massive bottle of Navy spiced rum every Christmas from his mums husband.

He hates it.

Yes my PILs (well MIL most likely) decided I loved things in barbie pink. I fucking hate barbie pink. So for many years I received all sorts of shit in pink e.g clothes, wine cooler bags, purses etc etc. Seems to have abated a bit, but honestly!

My Mum is obsessed with DH's golfing habit. DH golfs probably twice a year at most, but she buys him golf wallets, golf cufflinks, golf glasses, gold ties, you name it she's managed to find it over the years. She's like the queen of tatshite.

Probably because you keep accepting them! I've been told this is bad form but if someone gets me something I don't like I tell them. I wouldn't want them to waste money and would prefer not getting something I don't like for two decades in a row.

NDN has a huge collection of china frog ornaments. I was commenting on them one day, and she said the first one was a present from her dd when she was small, and she told everybody how much she liked it. Ever since then, and for about the last 30 years, people keep on buying the things for her

DH thinks I love Thorntons chocolates. I don't particularly.

Knitting. SIL convinced I love knitting. She loves knitting. I once tried it.

Growing up I always hated prawns.

As an adult I started to like prawns.

I told my mother.

Whenever we go to a restaurant my mum will excitedly tell me "Oh look Dennis, they have prawns on the menu" then read out every ingredient in every prawn dish they do.

Then she'll get very perplexed if I don't order prawns for at least one course.

Don't get me wrong, I like prawns but my mother has me down as some kind of prawn-addict.

@TheElementsSong

Oh no! I went right off ginger biscuits after trying them for travel sickness as a child. Didn't work at all and now I can't face them. Someone keep giving them to me would be dreadful!

My SIL thinks I love elephants. In truth, she is Sri Lankan and a mild fondness of elephants is literally the only thing we have in common. I love all animals but really don't want piles of elephant themed gubbins accumulating around me!

Every Christmas and birthday, my mum asks me to send her a list of things I’d like. Every time, she decides they’re “too boring” and instead buys me something she’d like to receive. I’m inundated with cheap cushions and live, love, laugh signs. It always goes down the charity shop. Such a waste of her money but she never changes.

My Pil, it's not so much the gift itself; they always buy me a fleece which although not something I would buy myself they are useful for mooching around the house at weekends and gardening but it's the fact it's always a 14-16. I am a size 10!

I cracked this christmas as they bought me lovely knitted cardigan (with a fleece lining ) that I would wear so I told them it was far too big and I needed the receipt to exchange it.

They were very surprised and advised me to think twice as the smaller size would be far too small for me .

The 10 is perfect

Liquorish is grim, that’s a hard one to assume someone likes, and not easy to palm off on others!

I’m vegan, have been for 22 years. I like chocolate- dark chocolate, of course, with no milk in it. I have a dairy intolerance/allergy (not sure which but the effects are immediate most of the time).

I used to like milk chocolate as a child. Despite being vegan for 22 years now, and my mum knowing that many of my health issues disappeared when I gave up dairy, my mum still regularly buys me milk chocolate! Usually very nice milk chocolate. My mum moans that if she’s birthday/Christmas shopping for me with my kids they make her hunt out the vegan stuff instead 😂

I always get indoor plants, twice a year every year. I once said I liked plants but always kill them, they always forget about me killing them. I'm surprised they've not asked about the lack of them.

My husband gets given bottles of whisky, every year. Neither of us drink it and we just have expensive Christmas cake every year. I think he might have mentioned he tried whisky once.

DM always buys me jelly babies for my birthday. I went through a phase of liking them in my early teenage years. I'm now in my early 30s

A friend of mine once bought herself one of those "piggin" collectables just because she liked that particular one. Her MIL and SIL seen it and assumed she was collecting them. She has received them every Xmas and birthday for the last 12 years from everyone in her DH's extended family. Last count she has over 70 of them !