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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

To think Ferrero rocher is a lazy gift!!

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MrsA2015 · 19/12/2015 19:17

Ferrero rocher are nice I guess, but to give as a gift at a party you've had plenty of notice of...probably being totally U and ungrateful. Boxes of roses and quality street also fall into this bracket of lazy gifts IMO...

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G1veMeStrength · 20/12/2015 00:12

Of course gift bags should be reused.

A good gift-giver never writes on the gift bag tag, because they are meant to be reused!

Receiver says 'ooh thanks and what a pretty bag' and giver says 'nice isn't it, I have left the tag blank so you can reuse it' and receiver says 'oh yes it's too nice to throw away'.

And you pass it round and round the family for 20 years or so. Isn't that what everyone does?!

dangerrabbit · 20/12/2015 00:13

Fussy!

mammmamia · 20/12/2015 00:16

YY to gift bag reusing!!

Investmentspaidout · 20/12/2015 00:16

They remind me of poop with sweet corn bits in.
I don't like them but each to their own.

ovenchips · 20/12/2015 00:24

Oh well.

roaringfire · 20/12/2015 00:28

i love them, especially the coconut ones.

get over yourself.

Oakmaiden · 20/12/2015 00:47

My daughter has bought a box of FR for her grandmother. I think her Grandmother will be very pleased.

After all they are very posh chocolates that get shared around at Ambassadorial parties on silver platters, aren't they?

Viviennemary · 20/12/2015 00:49

I don't agree. The worse gifts are ones that are pretty useless and nobody would want. Or gather dust or need to be sent to a charity shop. Lots of people like FR and if they don't there are plenty of others who do and they can pass them on. So I think they're quite a sensible small gift.

CakeMountain · 20/12/2015 01:16

I heard about the maggits for the first time this week. Google it.

Wagglebees · 20/12/2015 02:19

Everyone re-uses gift bags. everyone. I don't write on the attached gift tag so that whoever I'm giving it to can re-use it.

Wagglebees · 20/12/2015 02:21

And ferrero rocher are a brilliant present. Nutella wrapped up in little crunchy balls of goodness. What's not to like?

Chocolates are generally a good gift. Unless they're Thorntons.

chocomochi · 20/12/2015 03:54

It was a party for the OP's new baby (and sort of like a mini baby shower). I hardly bought any gifts for my sister's newborn (she got offloaded loads of used stuff from me) and bought her chocolates and some stretch mark oil.

giraffesCantDoThat · 20/12/2015 05:16

feel free to donate them to a foodbank

Narp · 20/12/2015 06:02

Although I think they taste like Nuttella wrapped in cardboard, rolled in wood-shavings, plenty of people like them. Therefore, not a lazy gift. No more so than any other chocolate.

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MrsA2015 · 20/12/2015 11:08

mammamia lol yeah that's what I did kind of expect DD will be 8 weeks Tuesday

Nope just pointed out envelopes as others have said they consider those as lazy gifts, any money always appreciated since we've just been moved to unfurnished flat

As for reusing bags, re-use by all means.

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MrsA2015 · 20/12/2015 11:15

Wow getting a good old roast aren't I.

Didn't say not to reuse the bag!!! I always pick out a really pretty bag because that in itself can be part of the gift and I know some people actually stuff them with tissue paper and display them (nan). However kind of expected BIL to give a different one and not what we'd given only weeks ago for his ds.

Flaming hell!!!

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DyslexicScientist · 20/12/2015 11:19

I bought them for my cleaner, she's admitted that she has cheap taste and said expensive chocolates are wasted on her.

I still wanted to get expensive ones to try to convert her

Crazypetlady · 20/12/2015 11:20

People may have had a different opinion if it was explained it was a party for your new baby from the start.

Crazypetlady · 20/12/2015 11:21

Sorry that came across harsher than intended. If they didn't get the baby a gift I understand where you are coming from. You can get a baby grow for ferrero rocher prices.

YABVU about the bag though.

bertsdinner · 20/12/2015 11:30

Its a bit lazy, but always a welcome gift. I'm fond of a "Rocher", and would be pleased to get them.

BarbaraofSeville · 20/12/2015 11:36

YABU. I hate most cheap chocolates like Thorntons, quality Street etc, but quite like FR. If I don't get any for Christmas I will buy myself some afterwards.

Giftbags must be reused. Terribly wasteful not to. We have a few going round the family and laugh when familiar ones reappear.

KurriKurri · 20/12/2015 12:24

i think you just have to accept gracefully with any gift and not get wound up about it.

My DD is musician she often gets given presents at this time of year when she does a lot of voluntary stuff (carol services, choir concerts etc), and it is often chocolates or wine - neither of which she can eat or drink because she has IBS. People know this as she refuses food at all do's that have buffets etc afterwards -they know she has a restricted diet. It would be more thoughtful to get her a plant/flowers or something else.

But she still gets chocs and wine - she just says thank you and gives them to me smiles politely, because actually no one has to give her a present - it's a bonus not a right.

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