Can we start a CF Christmas thread?

[AllRoadsLeadBackToRadley]

Because:

I need some light relief

I'll start. DS (nc now) once texted me on Christmas Eve to tell me (not ask) that her and DN were coming for Christmas...and staying for three weeks!

There was a list of instructions with the text, including:

I'll be sleeping in your room, and you, DH and DN can all share with DD, because I've had him all year alone and need a break. (She actually told me she was giving me a chance to prove that I was a better aunty than a sister!)

There'll be none of that (insert horrible racist word beginnig with P) shit that you normally cook. I'm allergic to hot food.

DN wakes up at 5.30. He needs breakfast within a half hour of waking, or else he won't be able to poo later in the day.

I need picking up at 6.00 at the latest, so you can give him tea.

Then she had the nerve to text DH and tell him I'd agreed to it, and she was ready to be collected! DH left work, and it wasn't until I'd been waiting in the rain for him to pick me up as arranged, and called him, that I dound out he was halfway to where she lived! (30 miles from us).

I'd just ignored the text.

He came straight back, I sent a "lol, dream on!" text, cue months- MONTHS- of PA fbk statuses about family not being everything, etc, etc...

Anyone else?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2981597-I-wet-the-bed?msgid=70515134#70515134

Shagzilla

Errrr not sure that’s shagzilla thread. Someone posting about a weak bladder???

The first Christmas I went to my PIL house they gave my DP a half full box containing six bottles of beer as a present (nice craft beer). FiL explained that there had been 12 bottles in the box but he had kept 6. Strange but fair enough. Then each time we visited DP was offered a beer from the remaining stash 'because we have this beer we are not drinking'. All of which gave me the clear impression that they had decided that 6 bottles was the right size of present. These are not poor people, they take multiple expensive holidays every year. They are also not worried about alcohol consumption MIL drinks half a bottle of wine a day.

Oh fuck a moose!!!!!!! 😀😂😂😂😂😂😂

Sorry!

I'm also worried I might be a CF as I dont have any stories to report.

Though maybe after this Xmas, we're heading to FIL and MIL's and all of the adult kids have fallen out. Should be a great laugh . Pass the

My sister asked me to buy her daughter some clothes she needed for Xmas.
Absolutely no problem, I said, send me some idea and I'll see what I can find.
Actually, she replied, I know exactly what she wants, can I send the links to you and you get those ones?
Okay, a bit boring, I thought, but fair enough.

A couple of days I get an email with about sixty links. I assume she wanted me to pick a handful of the items but the way she ended the email very much suggested she'd like it if I bought everything

There wasn't a single thing on there for less than £75.

I have no stories either, but posting a wee thread instead of Shagzilla has made me howl laughing.

Let's see if i can post now. Ive been trying since 10am.

Right so rads husband us very black and whirlte. You give him a problem he gets to work fixing it. (Hes the stable one with less poo emojis) so being told to come pick someone up sounds like something hed just shrug and do

Not happened to me, hoping I'm not a cf, but my dsis. Her mil (not short of a bob) bought her dear little dds hair bobbles for Christmas. She explained she had only given them a token present as she was taking her dds children skiing. The girls had short hair at the time.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2973045-Help-me-with-a-Hell-no-reply-please?

Also these stories are making me hungry.... rad thanksgiving at the new place? You can use it like a decorating party :-p mainly i just want to try that vehatarian thing again from two years ago.

Also didnt realise about the christmas bit to the shagzilla story Cheeky bitch

Regarding foodbanks. I was making some the other day and realised how quick east and filling it is. Couscous. 250gs of couscous. with 250mls of hot water, so easy. Could use a kettle for it. I often make mine with a stock cube in the hot water for a bit of flavor. So I'll be taping a packet of stock cubes to mine when I put them in.

I have a small cf contribution.

My Brother and my now ex SIL have two kids. They never bought my daughter anything in the years of her growing up. Stated Christmas was too consumer driven which was fine. I would always buy them something and think nothing of it.

Once their 2 children were born, I would buy the kids gifts. Again with no expectations of them buying for my daughter.

One year they decided they were buying gifts and asked when she and I would like.

I said a small box of maltesers would be nice as I could eat them whilst watching a movie.

Opened my present on Christmas morning with them there. It was a box of chocolates with nuts. Every single choccie...

I have a severe but allergy and felt horrified as they knew... what do you say to gifts like that? Thanks for the suicide gift?

I’m no contact now.

One year there was a round robin style request for everyone to chip in for a tablet as the immediate family of the present receiver "couldn't afford it".

No one does this, unless it is for big birthdays. The big birthday was the year before in this instance. Slightly raised eyebrows...

Two days later, said family had purchased a huge TV. Couldn't afford it, could you?

Gift receiver then doled out appreciation and thanks in accordance to how much each individual had coughed up.

Confession - I was once the Christmas CF.

Very embarrassing but it came from a place of good intentions (or most likely sheer obliviousness). I was 19 and friends with an American colleague who one day came into work very upset because she couldn't afford the cost of flights home for Christmas. I instantly told her not to worry, she could come to ours for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day AND Boxing Day. Of course, being 19 I wasn't responsible for hosting any of these so just basically told my family they were hosting an extra person who they'd never met before!

Fortunately my friend is lovely and brought lots of host gifts and my family were very welcoming but it genuinely didn't occur to me how rude I was AND the cost implications until I hosted Christmas dinner myself a few years later. I'm mortified now and did apologise profusely once I realised!

Being told by CF relation that we 'have to host Christmas' this year. This would mean 12 adults who never bring so much as a bottle of wine between them, then all want loads of different drinks and side dishes. Eat, make a mess and piss off without helping to tidy up. This would also mean we would have to change all our xmas plans, err no thanks!

Should add that we host these people every Boxing Day

Hfs- tell me you've said no!

I must have completely missed the shagzilla thread. Anyone have a link?

I THINK I posted the link the second time I attempted to 😅

OneFlew that's pretty typical I think of a lot of 19 year olds. My DS1 did pretty much the same with a friend of his at that age. I always felt that it was a testament to the love in our family and how we 'do' Xmas that DS1 felt free to invite someone who would have had no Xmas at all. He (friend) ended up being a wonderful addition to our Xmases for the next 8 years (until he moved away) and has become like another son to me.

In this case he just had a really shitty family who were more interested in getting drunk or high and fighting on Xmas. He said he'd never had a real Xmas until DS1 asked him to ours.

Meant to add, so I don't think you were as CF at all. Just a kid who knew her family had 'a chair to spare' for someone who would otherwise have been alone. Well done you.

AllRoads DH said no (his relation) they are now sulking and not talking to us.

Well that's a big loss...bet you're devastated! 😀 Good on your DH!