To think electric toothbrush heads are a really shit christmas present?

[WhenSantaGotStuckUpACunnyFunt]

Because that's what we've got 20yo BIL. We had a budget of £10 for each BIL and we had the younger one sorted but had no idea about the older one. He has loads of clothes, not interested in music (if he was he'd just download what he wanted), any films he wants he just downloads, he has tonnes of car cleaning stuff, he doesn't collect anything or have a hobby.

MIL has bought him an electric toothbrush for christmas so she gave us the spare heads pack for it to give to him. I'm just pissed off that it isn't anything better than that. Last year we got him a frigging alarm clock because he needed one!

I mean really, who the bloody chuff wants toothbrush heads for christmas???

Yanbu, that is an utterly shitey mcshite Christmas present!

Why dont you ask him what he wants?

If my sister and I are struggling for gifts for each other or husbands/kids then we ask if there is anything they would like!

Seems fairly easy to solve tbh, but yes I think that would be a shit present!

I would rather get chocolate/beer/scarf/book/amazon voucher/mug -anything really than buy someone toothbrush heads!

Well if you ask him what he wants he just says he doesn't know/money/floor for his mini (oh hang on, is building a mini classed as a hobby???), but all the bits he needs for the mini are expensive. If we bought him chocolates the other one would whinge about not having chocolate.

Buy him a mini related fun item

If you really can't think of something other than toothbrush heads please just give him a voucher/gift card.

I agree with you - toothbrush heads are definitely a crap gift.

Jazz it up with some toothpaste . And get some tooth rot sweets as well to go with them?

Racing Remote controlled minis

id be chuffed with that!! its the kind of thing that is great to have in the cupboard; its annoying when you need a new one and keep forgetting to buy them...and they are expensive

better than some shite crap that you neither want nor need

So get them both chocolate, then! I await the Boxing Day "AIBU to think that this was the shiteiest Christmas present ever - my DB and SIL gave me TOOTHBRUSH HEADS" thread. I'm sure he's a secret MNer; he fits the demographic perfectly .

YY swedishedith get him some of that joke gum that turns your teeth black

He might not use them for his teeth ?

blue sweets

Bogey that link doesn't work for some reason.

A remote control mini would be cool, except younger BIL started the mini craze by getting an old one for his first car! Older BIL copied him and bought one (in pieces, literally, most of it is in their garage, and other bits of it are in their shed) to rebuild. I'll have to see if I can find a couple in town.

MsV he could well be, he has no friends and never goes anywhere apart from work and oldest BILs house. Never goes out socialising.

Meant to add 'So all the time he isn't socialising he's probably MNing '

I've heard (ahem) that Ann Summers do a very good alternative to minty toothpaste that is suitable for alternative uses for electric toothbrush heads.

It's a minty gel thing that apparently heightens pleasure.

I agree with takataka and swedishedith

Why is your MIL telling you what to buy your BIL? If you don't want to buy them let her give them to him as part of her present. Buy him something more interesting or ask him what he wants. I wouldn't give toothbrush heads. Leave your MIL to her present ideas and let your husband think up something more interesting for his brother and sort it out.

If a multi-pack of Irn Bru was not a possibility, I would rather just have the money.

I think anything sexual would go straight over his head. He's never had a girlfriend, probably never had sex due to the fact he never goes out so never gets an oppurtunity to meet girls (or boys!).

I once got DP a christmas card that said something like 'I want to get treated like a present this christmas and get laid under the tree.' BIL was about 16 at the time and he kept reading it like this ' I don't get it, what does it mean "get laid under the tree"? I don't get it!'

Because MIL usually has an answer for everything, she's (mainly) brilliant.

Is he autistic?

Oh fair enough.

Maybe an expensive toothpaste to go with them then ? You could always throw in a mouthwash too.

If he is rebecca then it's undiagnosed. His temper tantrums are unbelievable. Just a couple of examples-
I slept over at DPs one NYE a few years ago, at 12 when the fireworks started DP and I were lying in bed listening to BIL yelling to his parents that he wished they would kill themselves. Can't remember what set him off.

MIL made me a cake for my 17th birthday, BIL had a hissy fit at something trivial and chucked the whole thing on the floor. He later rang me and apologised. Everyone who knows him were at the apology.

Last christmas we had PIL and 2 BILs round for food, FIL accidently knocked BIL and BIL started a fight with FIL (with fists!!) in my home in front of DD who was 6mo at the time. I was furious and kicked them botg out. Never had an apology.

Earlier this year him and YBIL got Sky, YBIL got box #1 because it had the F1 channel. OBIL threw a massive tantrum because he wanted #1 box, not #2 even though he was told he could upgrade it to another #1 box. He ended up ripping his box out of the wall, storming into YBILs room and trying to take #1 box, this caused a fight which MIL broke up and resulted in her getting a long scratch down her arm which bled. This time there were 2 babies (10mo and DD 12mo) who heard everything and were crying because of all the shouting and screaming.

There are hundreds more examples I could give. That was a lot longer than it was meant to be