to not want to buy family member 50 small presents beginning with T?

[TheDoodler]

I probably am BU and miserable to boot (this is my first time here and i have changed a few details for obv reasons)...but...

Family member's big 50th birthday bash coming up in a couple of months. Her daughter has come up with the hilarious idea that 26 of us buy her 50 small presents each beginning with a certain letter. IABU and grumpy to hate these 'novelty' presents? What is she going to do with them all anyway??

I was going to buy her tickets to a show or something easy classy. I work part time in an office and part time at home self employed....gah! Now i have to be arsed to do this and be involved in it and then stand and watch her unwrap 1300 pieces of crap at her party.

50 x 26 presents is ludicrous.

Just what you don't need at 50 surely - a lot of cheap crap. Tell your relative absolutely not and ask her to seriously reconsider organising this.

50 things can be funny yes - but 26 x 50 things is stupid, wasteful & will deprive the birthday girl of a nice pressie she may actually enjoy.

ROFL Ingrid.
This is a pointless and insane idea. It will generate a heap of tat and a heap of wrapping paper.
Buy a decent present and say you are not going along with it and why.

Box of 50 tea bags, job done

Shit, I'm nearly 50. If I thought anyone was considering this for my birthday I'd just weep. How can anyone seriously imagine she will want to open 1300 presents.

Horrible idea.

Tictacs definitely the way forward.

But really you should tell the other family members that they are insane.

Who did the daughter give X, V, U Q etc to and have they accepted their challenge? I can only imagine the daughter was either evil or a bit simple.

YANBU. I woild have hated that for my 50th, Buy what you want.

What a completely shit idea, imagine the other 25 lucky victims are thinking the same. Go with the tickets.

I think you have to be the bigger (wo)man here and point out the problems with 'the plan'. For a start who has the time/money to buy 50 nice items beginning with one letter, won't the people with X/Y/Z be somewhat buggered. wouldn't it be better to either pool resources and get one/two/a couple of really special presents? Then there is the unwrapping thing, will be a surprise to begin with, a joke if there are novelty items, a fucking chore before she has got through the first 2 of the 26's gifts (childrens birthday party resent unwrapping anyone?).

Stupid idea.

Buy the tickets.

Two tickets and a bag of 48 toffees to eat in the interval.

This idea sounds funny for about a second - until you do as people on this thread have done, and add up how many presents it is, and wonder how on earth anyone is going to come up with anything near 50 presents for even the easier letters, let alone X, V, U and Q!!

Whaaaat??? Who on earth would appreciate 1300 pieces of tat?!

I can only assume her daughter has nothing better to do than think of and look for 50 'gifts' starting with the same letter and / or doesn't actually like her mum too much!

Go for the tickets - you won't be alone in thinking the novelty gift thing is a shit idea!

Hmm - yes i may ask around the other 'victims' to see what they think. You're right of course i am lucky to have gotten 'T'...

One christmas said family organised a hat making competition (adults) to sit at the table with - what's wrong with cracker hats? Another time we had to paint a bead each to go on a necklace for a christening....I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP

ThatHAs to be the mosst ridiculous idea for presents, ever.
REfuse to be part of it and buy the tickests

the bead idea is quite sweet. It's nice that thought is going into these presents.

What a stupid idea... and waste of money...

And it is really not very green is it?

Where I am from for those deperate for a novelty gift idea... You could order a service that would plant 50 plastic flamingoes in your garden.... and take them away the next day. Can't they do something tacky funny like that?

yeah get the tickets and if you need to comply with the rule then 49 teabags or toffees
unless some other people can complain too and get the idea binned, which others probably would be happy with too

This is a sweet idea, but totally impractical and probably not going to be loved by the recipient. I'd buy the tickets and ignore the crazy ramblings of the daughter.

i'm one of four children and when it was mum's 50th, between us we got 50 presents from us. From what I remember we had a couple of nice presents from each of us, but rest was reasonably practical/edible eg bar of her favourite chocolate etc

So the 50 presents idea can work but... 50 for each letter of the alphabet sounds absolutely crazy!

Tic-tacs?

They'll be a bugger to wrap though.

BoF - loving your work, as always

Sorry OP - back to the point. I agree with everyone else - really daft idea. I would HATE it (but then I am knick-knack phobic).

Why don't you all club in together and get her something AMAZING. I'm guessing if you'd all had to get her 50 pieces of tat, you'd be looking on spending around £50 each-ish. £50 x 26 people = £1300 = holiday for 2 to Thailand / new car / 2 flights to Australia / etc etc

I reckon she'd love that FAR more....

Keep us informed!

I am sure the OP must have gotten this wrong.. Why do letters of the alphabet even come in to play?