Things you wish people would stop buying you

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Had a bit of a pre Christmas house declutter earlier and found that DH has THIRTEEN unused Lynx shower gels in the bathroom cupboard - all from Christmas last year.

Having chucked out a load of moisturer/bath sets il never use I had to sigh hand thinking about the next influx I’m going to get from his relatives this year.

I try not to be ungrateful but we’ve got such a tiny house and hoardes of toiletries really isn’t conducive to minimalist living!

What do you always get for Christmas/Birthdays that you wish you didn’t?

Please give excess toiletries to a food bank, they need that stuff too!

Refresh the thread to discover who will be the 104726105th person to say “donate your unwanted toiletries to a food bank/charity/local womens’ shelter”!

There were two more as I posted that!

Agree with skincare and body wash things. It always confuses me a bit because ALL of my friends know I have extremely sensitive skin, it’s actually a running joke amongst us all because I constantly seem to have a rash/eczema... Oh well, it pleases uni student DD as she never has to buy any of her own because she gets all of it

My husband went through a phase of buying me la la loopy dolls as I once mentioned I thought they were cute. So I have 4. I don't really want them but he is funny about me giving them away. I think I might suggest they go to a children's hospital or hospice as they are untouched and in perfect unplayed with condition.

Novelty themed tat. I recently had my 40th. I variously got a mug with a 'funny' joke about being 40, a picture relating to being 40, a teaspoon with 'now you're 40...' on it, and a tea towel with something to do with being naughty 40 on it.
I know I'm bloody 40. I'm not super happy about it. I will never use any of these items willingly. Ridiculous.

Candles, i have 3 young children and 3 arsehole cats....also see ornaments (i dont have ANY ornaments so nor any surfaces on which to stand them).

Mugs, i have so many mugs now. A cull is due.

Anything with an owl on it, got given a ceramic owl some years ago and of course said thank you it’s lovely, since then all manner of crap with owls on... ive come to loath the beaky little fuckers.

Biscuits, chocolates or white wine. (I only drink red.) I save the white wine for when my mum visits and we give the biscuits and chocolates to a local social group for the elderly so they don't go to waste.

I don't like receiving toiletries as I have eczema and have to be very careful but I rarely tend to get these luckily!

Family are reasonable at knowing what toiletry brand I use. My db/sil get me p
the regular items but mil will get me a gift set which means I get small sizes at an inflated price. Just buy me the bog standard shower gel!!

Alcohol. I used to drink a fair amount but I’ve massively cut back and now have 7 bottles of gin unopened in the cupboard. I’ve made it clear I rarely drink, and yet the alcohol related gifts keep coming.

On the other hand I love candles so if you don't want em, feel free to send my way candle haters

@MurrayTheMonk I'm turning 40 in April and dreading this!

Our local news just had a report about people in personal hygiene poverty. Apparently there are places you can donate unwanted toiletries and personal hygiene products. Better than chucking them out if they're unused

That baylis and harding stuff in supermarkets.
That's all

Towels. Every feckin’ year from MIL. She knows we don’t have the storage, and yet every year she buys two bath sheets, which are never from the same set as the year before.

cooking stuff I hate cooking

Oh I would love to have anything mentioned above, toiletries, candles, etc. I receive gift cards every year. It's boring. I buy gifts for other people every year, and put a lot of thoughts into who gets what, now I know they probably don't want them. 😭

Lots of charity shops won’t take any kind of toiletries and they will just bin them. Food banks are grateful for them though.
Flowers and boxes of chocolates, they are my least favorite Christmas gifts but I never let it show.

I think your ungrateful chucking out toiletries!! Womens refuge. Food banks. Supermarket has a basket. Hand them in at salvation army. Dear me. So middle class.

Body lotions absolutely. Never use them so they always end in the bin. Books would be another thing, I own a kindle and never read paper books.

Joke type presents. All from the same person at different times.

•One year we were each given identical oil and water bubble toys.
•Another year we got a bottle of wine with one of those puzzle things that go round it so you cant get at the cork. Except the giver had not put it on properly and it fell off!
•Yet another. A box labelled pencil holder. On opening there was a wooden container about the size of a tree trunk with a lid looking like a regular pencil pot. Except it had been drilled out to take just one pencil. Again we got one each so even if it had been funny when the first was opened, the joke was lost on numbers 2 and 3 because they knew what was coming!!

I am teetotal and get given a veritable wine lake every year. From clients, I understand, from colleagues, meh...I might expect those I have worked with for a long time to remember but its no big deal. But from my in laws, who have known me for several decades?!
As I murmur "You shouldn't have" what I am actually thinking is "So which is it? You don't recall that you have never seen me drink alcohol in the last 30 years and that every time you have offered me some I have declined and reminded you that I don't drink? Or are you deliberately giving me something that you know I won't like? Stupid, or rude? Either way, you really shouldn't have."
I wasnt to regift last year's wine back to my SIL this year but DH won't let me. Spoilsport.

I hope you donated to charity and dint actually “chuck out”

Pug ornaments, ginger cat ornaments and pyjamas. I have a real live pug and a real live ginger cat, I don’t need ornaments to have a shrine to them! Pyjamas because I’m 6ft and unless they’re from a tall range, I lol like orphan Annie in them.