This is the most random, possibly passive-aggressive birthday gift I’ve ever received…

[MonicaFaloolaGeller]

It was my birthday yesterday. I’m 36 and not particularly hairy of face.

This arrived in the post today from my Mother.

I mean I hate to sound ungrateful, I know it’s the thought that counts and all but… WTF?!

I got weight loss stuff off MIL for Christmas 2 days after giving birth 😅
She got slim fast for her birthday a few month later 😂

My husband once got me a very romantic present, to celebrate our engagement. It was....pigs. Actual, living pigs. He is no longer allowed to choose things. I buy things, he wraps them, and I express my surprise at him knowing exactly what I wanted.
To be fair, I did buy him castrating pliers for either Christmas or his birthday (I forget which), but he was very pleased and had actually asked for them!

@QueeniesCroft

My husband once got me a very romantic present, to celebrate our engagement. It was....pigs. Actual, living pigs. He is no longer allowed to choose things. I buy things, he wraps them, and I express my surprise at him knowing exactly what I wanted. To be fair, I did buy him castrating pliers for either Christmas or his birthday (I forget which), but he was very pleased and had actually asked for them!

Castrating pliers? I very much hope you're farmers. 😁

I love my mil, but sometimes gifts are hit and miss especially for dh, but this year for my birthday she got specifically wrong it a plastic fold up rain Mack, no way was was that going near me, I sweated just looking at it and this get this, (now I live in Dr who, Star Wars and now Stranger Thing t shirts) a t shirt with Micky and Minnie Mouse on please, I wouldn’t be seen dead in it. Oh dear.

@MonicaFaloolaGeller

It was my birthday yesterday. I’m 36 and not particularly hairy of face.

This arrived in the post today from my Mother.

I mean I hate to sound ungrateful, I know it’s the thought that counts and all but… WTF?!

Send her some anti-wrinkle cream, lip fillers, a voucher for botox face lift and blackhead face scrub.

Better yet - Send her a paper bag with eye holes cut out. Just stop, drop and run.

Castrating pliers? I very much hope you're farmers
Yes!

Castrating pliers? I very much hope you're farmers
Yes!

In which case , pigs is a lovely present

They look like mini vibrators, maybe she thought she was giving you the gift that keeps on giving 🤷‍♀️. Not overly appropriate from a MIL I grant you 🤣. Seriously though, they are rubbish and give you a stubble like feel when it grows back so would avoid

I received a PA present from a friend after I started my first serious relationship. She was always going on about her great sex life when I was single. She then started attending what sounded like extremely wild parties and I turned down the offer when she invited me as I didn't want to hang around drunk and drugged up people. When I first started dating my partner she started giving me unwanted sex tips and advice.

She then strongly hinted she wanted us to try partner swapping when I'd only just started having sex with my partner. I told her I had no interest and that it sounded sordid. I asked if she was happy and questioned whether she was feeling pressurized by her new partner. Her ex partner had tried it on with me previously and I wasn't happy it was dismissed as him being drunk. That relationship had eventually ended badly and his behaviour was horrendous. She wasn't happy he was messing around with other women. It was only with her new partner that her more 'adventurous' side had come out.

Anyway, I was being called a prude, boring and bland. She kept saying I needed to be more exciting and adventurous or my new boyfriend would dump me. I told her to pack it in and she backed off. All was quiet for a few months - our friendship was not focussed so much on her sex life and we seemed good friends again - until my birthday when she gave me a huge, framed print of a naked lady riding a man. They looked like my friend and her partner. She insisted on helping me transport it home.

I showed my mum and she liked it so I re gifted it to her! My parents have it in their bedroom.

@Dillydollydingdong

Surely if you're buying a present for someone you'd have to get something you'd like yourself? You wouldn't buy them something you don't like?

When I buy for people I ask what they’d like or for a selection of things (this is where Amazon gift lists are great) and then buy from their choice of things - whether it’s something I like or not!! Surely you’re buying for the recipients likes/tastes not your own?

Surely if you're buying a present for someone you'd have to get something you'd like yourself? You wouldn't buy them something you don't like?

Not at all! I buy suff for people I think they would like because I know their tastes. I buy posh port for my OH at christmas because he loves it, Gucci perfume for my DD which she loves, even though I dislike perfume .

@Dillydollydingdong

Surely if you're buying a present for someone you'd have to get something you'd like yourself? You wouldn't buy them something you don't like?

My best friend has the same bday as me- this year I got her an Aeropress and some fancy pants coffee from the hipster coffee shop in town. I fucking hate coffee. But she’d have it in an iv drip if she could!

On a separate note- got a message from my “D”M today asking if I’d received my birthday present (I’ve not been in contact with her for a few weeks, long story).

Given that it arrived just as is in a padded envelope, with no wrapping paper or birthday card or anything else that would indicate it is a birthday gift (and indeed, in a damaged box) do you think I could get away with pretending not to have realised that that’s what it was?

CoastalMum101
Please send the link for buying THAT voucher; I need one for my ex!

oh dear