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?

Skin products with alcohol in them (I cant use them as am allergic!)
Alcohol (as above although not as severe)
Mugs (yes I like coffee but I have enough mugs for me and anyone I desired to invite round)
Board games (DH and I love them but people who dont play them dont understand what makes a good game for us)

From my sis in particular- cat things.... I used to like them as a 10 year old.

30 years of washing my hands with chlorhexidine 59 million times a day has taken its toll on my skin

@MAFIL with me it was working in a chemistry lab for 15 years - all those ethanol-wiped glove boxes and just the endless handwashing. We are the only people who wash our hands before and after the loo!

I just donate what we won't use.

Biscuits! So many big boxes of biscuits and I can’t even eat them! I give them all away tho so at least they don’t go to waste.
Oh and face products - I have sensitive skin and there is only one brand I can use (which of course although people know of they just ignore or alternatively seem to think they know my skin better than me!)

Stuff for dry skin. I have psoriasis that flares up occasionally. I don't have dry skin. Candles. I don't light them. There are none in my house. Why give me candles?
White bloody wine. I don't drink it.

Isn’t it odd that some of us just love what others find a waste of a present! Personally I love handcreams and scented candles, can’t get enough .

But those you who are not able to say ‘thank you, but no more presents’’ ... what exactly is stopping you? Logically some of the presents you give must fall into the ‘unwanted camp’.

Maybe we can do a swap thread after Christmas 🤣

I donate some bits to the school bingo and raffle. Biscuits get eaten by the kids or when we are camping in the summer, wine is regifted (I don’t drink). I like slipper socks but no one ever buys me them, my mum always gives me socks and tea towels or primark fluffy PJ’s which I don’t like (to hot).

Ah I have elderly great aunties (90s) and they always buy DH lynx sets! I hate the smell.

Same elderly auntie buys me every bloody year, tea towels that are Christmas themed.

My nana also every Christmas buys us wine and milk tray. I don't drink wine (ever) and I rarely eat chocolates like that.

Liqueur chocolates or fruity chocolates from mil. DH has said numerous times I don't eat them. It has come up in conversation but I've had so many different kinds of boozy or fruity chocolate. I like pralines and other nutty types - she knows this yet I get "I saw these and thought you'd like them!".

It is also well known amongst the in laws that I can't use scented soaps etc so a generic gift set is useless as I'm highly allergic. I even used one of the gifts one time to prove the point. Yet I still find at least one brother in law will buy my something I can't use.

I'm all about it being the thought that counts yet sometimes there is no thought. I'd rather a bar of whole nut or the actual prosecco/gin if I've to be bought a present than something they've been well told I can't use at other times of the year when it comes up. In fact I'd be happy not to be bought for and just have the children be bought for.

Everything. I'm eco conscious and really try not to buy new things / plastic. Plus, I never use the toiletries either, but charities do take them and food banks.

I haven’t RTFT so I don’t know if it has already been suggested but you can donate unwanted toiletries to your local Food Bank. 🤣🤣🤣

Guylian.

Hate hate hate.

Everyone buys me funny mugs.

I have 4 different mugs at work and a cupboard full at home.

Baylis and Harding sets (currently have a body wash in one of the bathrooms masquerading as handwash). The lotions never get opened. I hate next, but end up with next smelly sets or gift cards from friends that are obsessed with the home of overpriced tat. I donate the sets to school for the Christmas fair each year and use the gift cards to buy same friends Birthday presents.

I also get the same scarf (& I mean completely identical) from FIL every year. I didn't like the first one. They're all being donated to a homeless charity.

I cannot stand lynx it all absolutely stinks. Just tell them all no flipping lynx.

My MIL in law buys me clothes. Wish she wouldn't. Her taste is not bad but the stuff she buys invariably looks shit on my figure (I'm all boobs and hips and have to dress carefully to avoid looking like an elephant.)

DD's school has a bottle tombola so i donate stuff there.

Chocolate l, because I have no self control.

i like getting toiletry sets and noone wants to buy me them as they say they are boring. what i dont like are polyester tops that dont fit with horrid patterns on. Oven gloves, ash trays (I dont smoke) or sweets....you cant not buy them for christmas in case the relative doesnt bother that year, but you end up with too many if you do. And clothes for teenagers that are the same as you buy your 80 year old husband

And pants that are 2 sizes too small, or have lace that is so sharp i might cut myself. And jewellery that looks like total tat....and is not even vaguely the sort of thing i would wear

My uncle used to bung me a £15 iTunes card in a Christmas card - I'm dead primitive and have never, ever cashed them in for actual music. What would I listen to it on? I'm a CDs girl.

Mugs unless, and only unless, they're Emma Bridgewater spongeware (and even that overpriced stuff chips really easily). We have more mugs than can be fitted in the cupboard.

Cheap chocolates - Guylian, etc. Or most milk chocolate. Though DH will eat anything. Things with cats on. I like cats (some of them), I do not like things with cats on.

Scarves. The flouncy, decorative sort rather than woolly variety. My mother in law and auntie in law both insist on buying me multiple ones every year despite me never, ever wearing one.

Best friend of 35 years keeps buying me wine she knows I don't like. She even says "I know you don't like this, but.."
That stuff from Boots. In pink packaging. Is it called Body something? Or something more catchy? I don't actually want anything and ask everyone every year to please not buy me anything. I hate waste.

Chocolate!! 😩 I mean I live it, but chocolate + peri menopause are not a good combo!

This is it. Soap and Glory. Apparently being bought en masse at Boots right now.