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To not want to give MY holiday away for free?

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hellospoon · 05/08/2011 15:33

2nd thread today, i have alot to moan about!

DP's aunt is becoming more and more unbearable as time goes on she invites herself for dinner and tells me what I have to cook + have to make sure I buy what she wants or else she will slate me to the whole of dp's family (they already hate me)

She rings my dp and tells him when we have to go round there for dinner, I'm allergic to egg and she once served egg on a piece of gammon to me, she told everyone that I said I couldn't have it as I would have a very bad reaction to it, she told everyone I refused her food and was rude to her.

(all the above is kind of relevant to give you a picture of what she is like)

Now the holiday- it is only a cheap sun holiday a week away. She saved up the vouchers, booked where we were going then told us afterwards we paid £80 ourselves for the entertainment passes and the electricity and the main holiday, now we can't afford to go due to the car (other thread) and various other expenses so to be polite we told her we couldn't go and does she know anyone who would want to buy it from us.

She then phoned to say that she had asked her sons step daughter and that they want to go in our place and for us to change the names over, when dp told her how much they would need to give us she went mad at him saying how dare we try to charge a family member for a holiday! And how as we can't go we should just give it to them! Urmm no! We can't go because we are skint and want the money to pay a bill!

AIBU to think she is really out of order to expect us to just give away our holiday?

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shrinkingnora · 05/08/2011 18:52

Tesco vouchers can be exchanged via their website for a company called redspottedhanky. I exchanged £50 of vouchers for £150 credit on redspottedhanky (who have pretty cheap tickets in the first place). It took about 48 hours for the exchange to go through and the tickets were then posted first class. Really good service, I was very impressed.

shrinkingnora · 05/08/2011 18:53

Although I like chicletteeth's idea too.....

hellospoon · 05/08/2011 19:58

Well have just looked on the train ticket site shrink, and the total for the 3 of us is....£200!!! Petrol would only cost about £80 ish

[blimey emotion]

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hellospoon · 05/08/2011 20:03

I quite like chicletteths idea to.

organic Grin

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shrinkingnora · 05/08/2011 20:04

Bloody hell! Have you tried the hideously early morning trains?

I'm guessing that unless you have £70 in clubcard vouchers lying around it's back to the drawing board.

chicletteeth · 05/08/2011 20:35

OP. You've had a shite week, I have some clubcard vouchers which you can have. It's not much but if you exchange them for three times, it will all go towards helping for the tickets.

Let me know!

chicletteeth · 05/08/2011 20:36

If nothing else you can use it for petrol

hellospoon · 05/08/2011 20:41

i am very over whelmed by the kindness of you mumsnetters.. i think your all soft as marshmellow at heart! thank you chicle i will keep you in mind xx

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sloggies · 10/08/2011 10:03

I am followin this from a dodgy Spànish internet cafe. Go, go GO on hol, if you possible can!

HappyHippyChick · 10/08/2011 10:15

Have you looked into going on the coach? Me and my 3 dcs went from London to Belfast for £150 last week and that included the ferry - might be worth a look...

Brianstorm · 10/08/2011 10:18

I have vouchers too. Sounds like you need the holiday. See if it will cover anything else that you could use on holiday - look at the rewards site. If you are going to go, I will PM you details.

Brianstorm · 10/08/2011 10:21

Would even go towards actual petrol at Tesco!

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