Present from SIL for 6yo DTSs is a bath towel each!

[ItIsHowItIs]

Its both hilarious and annoying! What are they going to think?

Yab ungrateful

Don't see the problem - they will have lots of toys and crap - I live a useful gift and your children will appreciate all teir gifts - unless they are ungrateful tykes

Itishowitis. Are they tacky towels, is that why they are annoying? Whats the history with you and SIL?

Very ungrateful

It depends on the towels, surely. If they're boring tasteful White Company things then your children will probably be a bit unless they're spectacularly fluffy and lovely (one of ds's favourite presents ever was a cosy grey bathrobe, another was a furry hot water bottle) in which case they'll love them. If they're hideous and emblazoned with a favourite character, they'll think they're great.

I'm sure they'll have plenty of toys from other people and won't feel remotely deprived.

missbeehiving my ds would love a police mug!

do they have 'Don't panic' written on in friendly lettering?

Luckily my kids appreciate anything that anyone goes to the trouble of choosing for them. I thought we'd finished with the materialistic/grabby/rude Christmas present threads for a while. Obviously not.

I love towels. I'd be chuffed. As a child I was made to be head achingly grateful for anything I was given or we'd all have a wallop. Hope your children appreciate the towels.

I have a 5 year old who would really love being given a bath towel by an aunt - even if it was plain.

It would make her feel grown up and important to get a gift like that from a grown up (that wasn't me or her Dad).

Presumably they are personalised or themed or would appeal to a child in some way rather than just bog standard towels? Assuming the answer is yes I think they are a great present.

I hope your children have not inherited your ungratefulness

Towels are the shizzle. One of mine was given a Muppets towel last year and it was very well received.

Ingratitude :)
I can understand d your face if they are plain bath towels. But a kids character one will go down well I'm sure.

"Towels are the shizzle."

I concur.

I think mine (8 and 10) would like a towel each! New things are always nice- they get new pyjamas, new toothbrushes etc from my mum, I think a towel is in a similar vein.

Although I do think if it's plain and given on its own next to lots of flashy toys it could get a slightly underwhelmed response.

Ok, I've stopped falling apart laughing at some of your comments now!

So I am being unreasonable.... I've been told!
I had a look and they are not characters or anything, but are patterned.

Problem (for me) is that I have a cupboard overfull of bath towels (dh had loads when we moved in together, I have no idea why a single man would need more than 2 bath towels but he had about 20), we don't throw stuff out, we use it until it falls to pieces and I was kind of looking forward to them all wearing out (in about 10 years time) so that I could buy some that would actually look nice in our bathroom....... but if the boys will love the towels then then that's fine.

specialmagiclady - Big lumps of plastic no - books or game maybe, football socks.

Earningsthread - lovely with a name embroidered... that's special.

Now I want some new fluffy bath towels (crosses fingers) x

Mine would love their own towel! wish I'd thought of it first

Its good youre laughing

If it is your DH's sister then there's obviously a family fetish for bath towel.. Never met a man with 20 towels. Not even the swimming man I dated.

Megglavache - maybe you are right - some difficult things have happened within dhs family this year which is also maybe why IABU.

OK, there are clearly some towel-related shenanigans going on here.

You are actively looking forward to buying towels and your DH had 20 when you met. This is WAAAAYYYYY outside normal towellery.

No wonder SIL has bought towels for the DTs...it's like those people that know you collect model owls and just buy you owls every Christmas and birthday...no thinking needed
"Ohhh, I know what to get The itisDTs, they love owls/towels in that family, I will get them some towels/owls"

ok, if the towels are not specifically children's towels then that is a bit odd for 6 year olds, I agree. sounds like a panic purchase to me.

yabu
it's a lovely and useful present

...but not bowels