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AIBU to ask for your most passive aggressive present suggestions?

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changingnamegame · 18/11/2014 13:35

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?!

OP posts:
ChippingInAutumnLover · 19/11/2014 01:09

BOF. Sorry to hear he's still being an arse!

Pun intended!

I still have that bloody big spade, you just say the word!!

AlfAlf · 19/11/2014 01:19

My mil once gave me size 18 pjs (I'm a size 10/12). I didn't realise how common a mil 'thing' this is. I do actually wear them, they're quite comfy Blush

Greyhound · 19/11/2014 01:22

A very passive aggressive aunt sent a test your own IQ book - her daughter had got into Oxford and I hadn't. That same year, she sent my piss head brother a book on non alcoholic cocktail.

ThomasLynn · 19/11/2014 01:53

I and another single parent friend have this down-pat.
Both of our exIL's told us we'd always be family (pshaw!) and have since failed to live up to this.

She received nothing last year, and this year has bought everyone Oxfam gifts. Womens empowerment for the ladies, goats for the men, and seeds and fresh water for the children.

I go the opposite way. Beautiful, thoughtful gifts, gorgeously wrapped.
Last year I got mugs that came free with bulk cat food. I know they came free with bulk cat food because I already had them.

I see it as a game. Who cracks first? Do I crack and buy shitty off-brand chocolate? Or do they crack and buy me a waterstones voucher?

lauranorder50 · 19/11/2014 02:06

Colour your own thank you cards - brilliant. I'm still chortling/aftershock laughing now !

BrendaBlackhead · 19/11/2014 08:34

Sometimes one's pa present is accidental

I thought it terribly amusing to give someone this: www.goodreads.com/book/show/725900.Knitting_With_Dog_Hair
for Christmas but they were quite prickly and asked if I had a problem with their dog. I didn't at all but the next time I went the dog was shut in the kitchen Blush

elQuintoConyo · 19/11/2014 09:03

Wrap up a box of shit.

Tell them they'll get the horse next year Grin

SolidGoldBrass · 19/11/2014 09:09

Someone did once give me a bag of manure as a birthday present. However, I was pleased - she and another friend had clubbed together and the other friend's gift was three rosebushes...

FridayJones · 19/11/2014 10:06

To an ex friends dd, a complete barbie package, barbie card, barbie wrapping paper, barbie drawing pad and barbie books.
She'd been trying to convince me for a year that Barbie is a feminist icon,and that I should get all the DVDs (like she had) for my dd.
Cos " I can do anything" if I'm tall , pretty and blonde with big breasts is a Fabulous message for a child.
Her kid was bullying mine, and mommy dearest thought that was totally acceptable cos her dd was ya know, soooo popular, so it was in the way of a get f*cked present to the mother.

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