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?

I’m clutching my pearls at how many savages don’t use body lotion on this thread. I do hope it’s because you are using a serum instead.

Tea. Ffs. Stop giving me tea.
And my most classic - a selection of vegetable seeds for a garden we don’t have. (We live in an apartment)
I also echo the bathroom products. No thanks. Hand cream in a stocking is fine.

Please donate your toiletries to a food bank or church.

Plastic toys for my DS, he has too many toys already.

Charity shop here we come after christmas !!

Toiletries - the gift of eczema!

Drapery scarves - I just can't pull this look off, I'm not graceful enough.

Woolly hat and glove sets - I have enough to last forever.

Pink gin, vodka, Jim beam - I don't drink much, and probably have enough gift bottles in the cupboard to see me out

You're all ungrateful gits.

You're all ungrateful gits

😂 Would you like my lynx sets and Christmas tea towels?

Things in sludgey green
Keyrings
Plastic toys - esp plastic toys from the TV eg Paw Patrol and Octonauts
Knick knacks
Lime Basil And Mandarin stuff from Jo Malone

All gifts gratefully received here.
Even Baylis and Harding which I generously donate to the communal bathroom so that the DC can bathe in a utopia of Elderflower and Peppercorn via SLS
Seriously I will make use of anything given to me. Except for Gin, bitter devil's piss.
Do foodbanks accept it, do you know?

Foundation I read that as "Things in sludgey green keyrings" and thought "crikey, that's a bit niche!" as I struggled to imagine what you might put in a sludgey green keyring.

I am the heathen who adores body butter, candles and perfume

My mother is great about giving gifts off my gift wish list but she loves to toss in a few extras. Last year it was air plants ( all gone to plant heaven now) two carry alls that were embossed with “give a hoot don’t pollute” and a can of fake snow. We live in an area that receives heavy snow in the winter.

Candles and confectionery!

We should do a swap thread, I love scented candles and plants

Yes.

A post Xmas meet up somewhere we can drink the unwanted booze and light candles.

Glass xmas tree ornaments in the shape of phone boxes or other British things, or just generic hand painted Polish ornaments. I haven't had a tree in 3 years and if I did I am very much a red, green and gold plastic ornament person... no way I could hang glass with my dogs. Or Polish traditional dolls with creepy close and open staring eyes. That was last year's surprise. What is a 38 year old woman supposed to do with an 18" traditional plastic doll wearing someone else's national costume? My daughter and both sons got smaller ones. Wtf.

I don't really get gifts much though and I am so very easy to please so it always surprises me how wrong they get it . One year my hisband got me a frying pan for my birthday and a knife for christmas. Another year he got me an apron and a piggy bank. I hate cooking and I have never had any interest in pigs or saving money.

I would love a body shop gift set, or bath bombs, or a lovely soft blanket or slippers. Or a book, or chocolates that aren't god awful Polish crap. But if I want those things, I have to buy for myself.

Honestly, at my age I'd rather just get nothing and quit all adult gifting and be a lot more content.

I thought it was just me with the body lotion and hand cream! I don't wear makeup, don't even have a bath and have ludicrously sensitive skin. Buying me. Something with almonds in or coconut isn't going to end well.

I went through years as a teen where I was bought boots gift vouchers which were a total waste of time. Hmv or whsmiths would of been great.

I'm so easy to buy for. Chocolate, dry white wine, prosecco, jams and chutneys, sketch books, gadgets etc.

Last thing I need is another cardigan 2 sizes too small from M&S, hideous cheap satiny underwear (my dh does this, I don't feel sexy in it), body lotion, anything with coconut/almonds in. I wouldn't mind a new mug actually

flyingspaghettimonster my sister buys a tree ornament from every country she visits (she loves to travel.) and her tree actually now looks super cool. she just added her latest.a sushi shaped one from Japan haha!

It is amazing isn't it that so many of us have people close to us who are unable to buy the kind of gifts we like? My DH won't buy me kitchen equipment or other domestic things even if I ask for them. He says they are boring. He doesn't object if I buy him DIY equipment or car tools but he flatly refuses to buy me pans or kitchen gadgets even though I enjoy cooking just as he enjoys car maintenance. I think it was drummed into him when he was young that men had to buy women "nice" presents and that it was rude or demeaning to buy domestic items. But I am not "women", I am me and I love good quality kitchenware! We've been together since 1990 so you would think he would know by now that if he buys me pans I will not hit him with one! (Unless they are cheap and nasty). I want a new egg poacher but I bet I wont get one.
He will, at least buy me bike related stuff even though that is also deemed boring. Its a ridiculous charade really. I give one of the kids the part number for something I need and say "Tell Dad to buy this". Then on Christmas morning I feign surprise, even though I know that he knows that I told them to tell him. I don't even know why we do it!

Anything - I am not ungrateful , I just don’t like gifts really as they are never anything I want. Allergic to perfume and extremely sensitive but receive stuff with perfumes everyyyy year lol!

My mum has a habit of buying me 3 or 4 cheap things when I'd rather 1 expensive thing that costs the same.

eg she will buy me 3 £5 notebooks that aren't bound properly so all the pages fall out, rather than one £15 one that actually lasts.

I’m always grateful for everything I receive as it means the giver has thought about me.

Not everyone knows I can’t stand candles, most toiletries make me itch, and I hate toffee/caramel as it rarely comes up in conversation. I only expose my geeky side to some people, and some people don’t know I don’t drink (including my MIL)!

That said I had to tell my mother not to buy us anymore oven gloves about 2 years ago! We still have 4 pairs unused.
Yankee candles - I give to my friend who loves candles after Christmas (I ask if she wants them first)

I personally find present buying extremely hard, so unless you’ve given me specific items to buy, I’m going to probably get it wrong!!

Things I hate: obvious tat and anything that is clutter or ugly or not useful (I'm with William Morris 'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful'): room scent diffusers, cheap candles. If you're giving Diptyque (as if), fine. Do not buy me anything with cats on cos I've got the real thing, and please don't buy my cat toys, he's got loads.

Best gift ever? A book token, for the absolute pleasure of wandering round a bookshop to choose a new book. Stocking fillers? A bookmark or a bar of Lindt Orange Intense chocolate.

Love toiletries/body lotion. I use them all, no matter how cheap. That said, I buy Occitane, so Baylis and Harding is less welcome. Will still use it but I think most people who like toiletries will know very well if you're giving them something cheap, so maybe don't? A small quantity of something good is better than a litre of cheapo.

Hate weird 'gift' food. Love good chocolates, wine, gin, fizz, expensive coffee beans for my machine. Always wear wool socks, gloves and hats as I walk a lot but hate man-made fibres.

Things with cats on. Just because we have two cats . Also kitchen items. Our kitchen just isn't roomy enough for a bloody deep fat fryer that I don't want. My BIL gave me nail polish that apparently changes colour, like a mood ring. Honestly, I am not a preteen. Who gives that to an adult woman.

I actually decided to only give the children (nephews and sons) and my parents presents this year (my partner too of course), not my siblings, friends, grandparents etc. And I told them I wouldn't want any as well. Really tired of receiving things I don't need that just clutter the house and causes stress. My partner called me a grinch (except I love Christmas)

I love glass tree ornaments!

Teen DS gets Polish chocolates from the people he works for in his weekend jobs. It is so sweet and generous of them, but they are.... an acquired taste!

You're all ungrateful gits.

Not going to be grateful for people giving me things I don’t like (and have said so) or ignore what I have said despite them asking me or my husband and getting something completely different because what I’d like isn’t their idea of a Christmas gift or to their liking. It’s not thoughtful so why should I be grateful for people thinking I want or deserve something only to their taste and not mine despite the gift being for me. It’s wasteful and rude towards the recipient.

Bubble baths, No good to me as have a reaction. Can only use the very mildest baby bath .Even Johnsons is no good !