To ask for your Christmas CFuckery stories?

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I am currently laid up in bed feeling like utter garbage, spent last night being sick so I'm exhausted but can't sleep.
Anyway - as you can imagine I'm pretty bored (DH is staying away from me in case I've got a virus apart from to bring me water) so WIBU to ask for your Christmas CF stories to keep me entertertained?

@RibenaMonsoon see if you have a Baby Basics or baby Bank near you - they give them to those who are genuinely in need and you won’t have any hassle x

Bought BIL's dd a present, he got my dc nothing but offered us some air pods he won in a raffle - for full price ! Pretty sure they're knock offs too

Forgot to say he added that he's 'not a charity' !

Growing extended family. Almost over a dozen kids between me and brothers and sisters plus great grandkids number growing each year. Mum says saga she can’t manage presents for all so will buy under 18’s cue my sister kicking off because her “kids” age thirty plus. Will miss out, conveniently not understanding that her kids have had thirty years of gifts while I’ve are still less than ten.
Lots of silliness in that my mum now has to give my kids presents in secret.

Please donate all the unwanted gifts to your local food bank. They will also take toiletries and toys as will your local Women's Aid office.

Ours doesn’t sound so bad anymore.

MIL asked for and got a dyson hoover

She gave DH (yet another pair) of gardening gloves and I got a cookery book.

And whilst you don’t give to receive it does jar slightly.

Plus I when asked what we could bring when we visited: “All the meals - apart from the one I’ve booked out”. (And we will be expected to pay). Did come at a slight surprise.

"We got bil a comic book hardback that cost 25 pounds and his gf a nice marks Spencer glass lidded candle that cost 12 pounds. They got us a 25 pound voucher for me, dh and and dc. So about 8 pounds for each of us."

Pretty calculating if you ask me. So you are £12 short I think you are the CF'ers here tbh.

Sister in law waited until Christmas Day to text, not as I thought to say Happy Christmas, just to say “let’s just do presents for the kids this year.” We were seeing them on Boxing Day. Of course we had already bought and paid for their presents.

@Wibblewobble99 Good to know. Thank you. I'll see if there's anything like that in my area.

I used to buy MIL & FIL well thought out Christmas gifts but gave up when I realised they always ended up in a cupboard unused. Mainly because she dislikes me intensely and would have to admit that the useful/ thoughtful gifts were from us.
One year she had bought herself a digital camera so we bought her a digital photo frame. It never saw the light of day despite being simple to use. A couple of years later my SIL made a great show at MIL birthday get together, when she gave them a digital photo frame for her birthday. She was sure it was the perfect gift since they didn’t already have one. Couldn’t believe MIL reaction as śhe agreed what a fantastic gift is was.
I was too polite to mention anything but now MIL gets a bag of food from us, she can regift it if she wants, I no longer care.

Oh, and MIL no longer gets invited to Christmas dinner. I invited her a few years ago and she said she would wait and see what other offers she had before accepting. She didn’t receive another offer and I didn’t see the need to re-offer 😚

Family came to stay for last 4 days, v generously brought lots of wine, chocolates and other nice things to eat. We had got lots in so many of things they brought had not been opened or only opened on last night when our stocks had been used up. They went today, tonight realised they had taken back everything they had brought down including the half opened bottles of wine, opened cheese and box of chocolates. I even made them a picnic to take home .

A wealthy friend I've helped out loads this year with childcare for her two dc including having them stay when they had a problem with their home, and doing several days childcare when they had a virus and couldn't go to school, got me a few chocolates from poundland. Brands unrecognizable. A sticker left on the bottom let me know it was won in the recent class raffle. Then proceeded to tell me she bought all the children's teachers and neighbours all £150 (!) of vouchers as you have to 'keep on their good side' to benefit your kids. Truth is I'd of been happy with a thank you. No money needed. But it felt a bit much to be regifted almost inedible chocolate. It was truly awful.

We got my sil and her fiancé a glamping experience, I got a bottle of sindleep most ecoensive bottle of non alcoholic gin!! Not that ever drink it as it tastes like gardens!! But it is the thought that counts.. As I am going alcohol free for as long as possible!! My DH got vouchers.. 10 years of both mil and sil giving me odd gifts, I got a no no last year but gave it back!! I would rather pluck and cream👍😄🙃

@shechosedown you deserve so much better. You sound lovely. No loving parent would act like that. Cut him off.

@Fishbiscuits What did you reply to her??? Unbelievable!

My ex came into a substantial 6 figure sum.

He told me & his son 9 (not my son). that he had a big surprise for us. He would reveal all on Christmas morning.

The big reveal was.....he’d bought himself a Rolex

A football jersey for his son & a weighing scales for me

Did he do it to be cruel @MadamBatty? Or is he just a twat?

MadamBatty

I invited my in laws for brunch on Christmas Day. They'd turned up having already eaten.

Nowhere near as bad as the other stories so feel a bit of a knob sharing now.

Sister in law waited until Christmas Day to text, not as I thought to say Happy Christmas, just to say “let’s just do presents for the kids this year.” We were seeing them on Boxing Day. Of course we had already bought and paid for their presents.

I hope you still had the receipts for their gifts.

@Rocketpants50

poppy, please find your spine and withdraw all favours and childcare.

LOL @ the CFer aunt thread on here. She got her nieces and nephews to buy her a 400 quid tea set, pulled the 'No gifts this year' and still expected the tea set! They stood up to her and didn't hand it over.

Visited mil which involves 300 mile trip , no room to put us up so we stay in Airbnb, so expensive trip. We took her out for lunch at a gastro pub on Saturday. She suggests going out for Sunday lunch and telephones to make booking, I am kinda hoping she will pay as we treated her Saturday, it's her suggestion and she made booking but nope bill comes and her purse remains resolutely in handbag so we pay again...the day we leave she says sorry I recommended that place for Sunday lunch I thought the food was terrible and it wasn't much better on Saturday ( food was good both days ) so we pay out hand over fist to visit her and don't even get a thank you .

@BloggersBlog at the time I thought twat, now I realise he did it to be cruel & showing us he was ‘king of the castle’.