AIBU to ask for your most passive aggressive present suggestions?

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So,I would never actually do this,but after a rather trying year decade with a v close relative it is round to the question of what to buy them for Christmas. I will probably just get a voucher,but my evil side would love to get this
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1118024516?pc_redir=1414005123&robot_redir=1
I clearly won't do this as I'm not an entirely evil person but AIBU to ask if you have any other similar secret desires to buy overtly P/A presents that send a message?!

BrendaBlackhead My sister, who thought a lot of herself because she'd found a millionaire to marry so thought she ought to know better than anyone else, bought an etiquette book for a cousin. It didn't go down very well because it made it look as if our cousin had made a faux pas and needed to be corrected.

One thing is that one should not correct, in front of others, something that another says. My late DH mentioned Paceville in Malta and she didn't like the way he'd pronounced it so corrected him in front of six other people. And she's the one who 'knew' how to do things.

I have to admit that an etiquette book is useful though because there's always a very small area where one is not sure how to act or what to do -and I always like to get it right but have managed without an etiquette book so far and am even better than my sister.

I can't stand my SIL. She's a bitter, miserable woman, and so I make sure I give her a shitty gift each year that she has to grit her teeth and smile at. Cheap scented candles, cat mugs (she hates animals), generic coffee table books with pictures of landscapes... All bulky, annoying, and probably end up in the charity shop.

She's massively controlling over her kids, so I might get her that tiger mothers book this year.

Don't worry, I get shitty presents in return. Last year it was some 90s LED bowling game.

I might send a few copies out myself Op! My aunt bought be a Lazy Susan one year. Always wondered if it was a dig!

Hmm. So IWNBU to be a little bit when someone bought me the entire range of Annabelle Karmel cookery books when dd arrived then.
:) Oh well

Oh yes I got her book too! Really don't like her for some reason. I also got Kim and Aggies' book from dh one year. Twat.

It was from someone who has been sniffy about my cooking too. It wasn't DH because he knows he'd have been fed it, raw and in one piece :)

I bought DB and SIL a Jamie Oliver book when they were first married, but they were pleased as neither of them knew much about cooking and wanted to learn.

How about things like Canestan, Anusol, worm pills or suchlike?

Well I can't write down what I did to Dh for the cleaning book.

Talking of duff sil presents, I received a... drum roll... C&A jumper a couple of years ago. How long ago did they pack up shop?

'French Women Don't Get Fat' book from dm (am a size 10!) and a cow Christmas card from dsis.. Oh happy families.

a friend of mine gave her almost mil a bottle of wine called "quirky old bird". it was from tescos or asda last year.

she never got a thank you. if the wine had said "i'm a miserable old cunt" it would have been more appropriate from what i've heard

BrendaBlackhead Did it have the tag on or was it second hand?

TheDogsMissingBollock, you should regift the book to dm

My SIL got me a pebble/small rock one year. A bloody rock. She had gone to the trouble of wrapping up a stone. WTF?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER.

Absolutely did not spend four and a half weeks talking myself out of giving this to MIL following her behaviour this year!!

The "Nan smells of fart" poster should absolutely not get that for her MIL. Oh no.

WyldChyld I saw that somewhere, or something very like it. It had one of those little promotional videos on the stand & I did childishly snigger. You should definitely get it as an anonymous stocking present (from Santa) next year.

I once bought ExH a parenting book for Christmas.. My brother and friend pointed out that he may be a bit about it. To be fair, I bought it at the same time as buying one for myself.

I explained this when I gave it to him.

One set of relatives used to turn up, collect any presents for them or for their children and then leave. They never bought for anyone else, they never said thank you.
I gave their children 'colour your own thank you cards' sets.

Oh Pag that's genius! I have a relative that does exactly the same.

OP -am tempted to get that for my MIL. Instead we'll go the safe route of an M&S voucher. Got her a Debenhams one once and she complained!

I'll get mil 'toxic Inlaws'...

Pag

Nooo, people would turn up and not leave anything or thank anyone?

My mum bought my toddler cousin an extremely beautiful toy drum with lovely wooden drumsticks for Christmas the year after his mum dumped my uncle (my mum's brother) while he was in hospital for an extended period. She made sure baby cousin opened it while she was present - he loved it and played it continually for several weeks, according to other relatives . . .

This book and a vibrator for someone so far up her own arse she could shit teeth. Shame you can't choose certain people in your life. Although in all seriously, I generally just humour her and laugh.

www.amazon.co.uk/Maybe-You-Should-Fuck-Yourself/dp/3732284166

www.amazon.co.uk/speed-Massager-ATTACHMENT-Purple-Attachment/dp/B00JVRCMB8/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1416338238&sr=8-3&keywords=vibrator