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

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

Don't know if there's a back story, but I think that they will like the towels. Ds 5 loves a new towel, more so if its character, but nothing nicer than a new towel and pjs at Christmas

"Not even the swimming man I dated."

You dated a swimming man?

Well then its only half the story and might be why everyone jumped on the thead saying YABU. You didnt sound ungrateful."..hilarious and annoying "made me wonder if there was more going on.

. Have a glass of wine. I hope your children love their pressies x

OP, a couple of years ago ds's grandpa gave him a (plain, tasteful colours rather than flashy) lunch box and insulated mug. I was . DS was ...

Fast forward a year and he bloody loved them.

Children and their relatives can be baffling - sometimes other people know what they'll like better than we, or indeed the children themselves, do

YABU, DD is getting one of the ones that has a hood with ears!

By contrast, my mum once bought me and DSis2 matching sheets with lovely grown-up flower patterns on - roses, I think.

We loved them, until.....

.... the first night we slept with them on, when DSis2 became convinced the roses were in fact lions, and would come to life and eat her

You can't win with children. Ten to one they'll love them. Maybe you can retire some of the current towels for cleaning/ rags now? Or, you could get DC names embroidered on yourself?

I'd rather mine had a new towel or something else that's actually useful, than another useless pile of pink plastic tat though. in fact mine have had new towels for xmas one year in their favourite colours. and flannels, always new flannels in their stocking.

If they were children's towels I'd think normal purchase and thank her for not filling the house with even more toys.

Just patterned towels I'd think it an odd present for children of that age unless they'd specifically asked for them.

Got to say, my brother asked for ideas and I did say a towel. He laughed at me but he is getting her a towel (all be it along with some other things) but I would have been quite happy with the towel.

Everyone's said what needs to be said.

Suffice to say there have been some cracking posts today. That's WAY beyond normal towellery is one of them.

:o

Pml @ vagisil.

What's wrong with bath towels? I bought my kids bath towels as a stocking filler. Dd1 has a giraffe print one,ds1 has a Man Utd one,dd2 has a one direction one and dd3 has peppa pig. So no more fighting over the massive bath sheet which I will claim

My brother bought me 2 bathtowels for Christmas when the DC were about 5 and 3. They instantly commandeered them to make a den and they are regularly pulled out to play with even now (DC now 9 and 7). One child sitting on and the other pulling along the floor current favourite game. Great present!

And of course you can also use them as towels.

Ds's 1&2 got towels from a family friend for Christmas when they were 1&3. They are still going strong 15 years later.

DS got a towel from my friend when he was 11, her reasoning being that he would need it for sports bag, etc and he has used it such a lot through school and uni. I think he has just got rid of it, he is now 25

Nowt wrong with towels as a kids present.
I gave my Niece two towels last year. One was a hoodie football one ( she loved it) and the other a Cath Kidson ( her mum loved it).
DS likes the one he was given the other year by an uncle, he likes it being HIS.

We couldn't have a family christmas without our DM giving me and my brothers a towel each. To be fair, we would destroy them within a year as we sailed or went swimming every week (grew up in Australia). It actually became a family joke.

My dh bought me a pot of wrinkle cream for my 28th birthday......

Just thought, was she 're-gifting'?

My sister has bought my 5 year old a character towel and i know he will love it :)

I made my nephew a towel which was a plain cheapy one and cut out big letters out of a second contrasting colour to sew on to spell his name. I was dead chuffed with it. I hope he doesn't hate it!!

I am obviously in the minority but think it's a stupid present for a six yr old. Obvz reading previous posts Iust be wrong and six yr old girls don't like six yr old stuff like toys anymore!

a Nicky mouse towel I used fir school swimming was about the only useful present (my rather tight) grandmother ever got me.

(and even then I suspect DM was involved)

My MIL has given me antibacterial dishcloths for Christmas. Twice
Did she even wrap them up ?

I would've reacted like you op but as a pp said, I'm sure there'll be plenty of other lovely presents so they won't really notice.
I asked ds how he'd feel if some of his presents were clothes (which they are, from relatives) and he replied, how would you feel if you were given the worst present in the world!

doctorbrown - but no one is suggesting she should get NO TOYS AT ALL are they? the issue is that most kids generally get TOO MUCH STUFF anyway so something useful is welcomed by parents. useful, consumable, small gifts are welcomed from other family when parents/santa are already getting loads of gifts for the child.