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To ask for your Christmas CFuckery stories?

318 replies

bluesteakandcheese · 30/12/2019 10:25

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?

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Beelzebop · 30/12/2019 12:35

CatToy , that's brilliant. I will do that in future!

Mlou32 · 30/12/2019 12:36

@Moongirl10 yeah that would have got MIL a right rollicking from me and I'd have been changing it back; FIL on Christmas Day and MIL another day.

DingDongSchadenfreudeOnHigh · 30/12/2019 12:38

Moongirl - I would have been tempted to cover my children's ears and tell her what a selfish fucking bitch she was, and that she would never get another invitation to my home.

DingDongSchadenfreudeOnHigh · 30/12/2019 12:40

We got my brother in law and his girlfriend a wok and steamer, plus some Leon recipe books. They got us a paperback book to share between us...

I hope it was a detailed treatise on "Undetectable Poisons and How to Administer Them" . . .

ArranUpsideDown · 30/12/2019 12:41

Nan in law gave me a bag full of herbs, spices and seasonings yesterday and not a single one was in date

I would definitely make that into a potpourri and gift it to her the next time she has a cold. Complete with a card explaining it's extra potent because they are ancient herbs & spices with ancient healing wisdom in their release.

DingDongSchadenfreudeOnHigh · 30/12/2019 12:45

I would definitely make that into a potpourri and gift it to her the next time she has a cold. Complete with a card explaining it's extra potent because they are ancient herbs & spices with ancient healing wisdom in their release.

And that they were given to you by a genuine witch . . .

1foot2feet · 30/12/2019 12:47

A rather selfish (and known for being a bit of a crone) relative waited until the day before Christmas eve to tell the family she wouldn't be giving gifts this year, and didn't want to exchange gifts anymore. She lives abroad and had by then already recieved the gifts... Then moaned that she didn't get anything from us the following year Confused

FrancesFlute · 30/12/2019 12:48

Not really CFery but we spent a few days with DH's family. Exchanged presents with them on 27th. Out of the eight of them (including two nieces who are 7 and 5) only my MIL thanked us for her present. Literally no acknowledgement from the others. The parents of the nieces didn't even prompt them to say it. Then when they were leaving they collected up all their gifts and left two I'd got them on the floor. Manners cost nothing.

RNBrie · 30/12/2019 12:48

my SIL came on Christmas day with nothing but a bottle of prosecco - which is fine as we hadn't asked her to bring anything. But when she left in the evening, she pointed out that her bottle of prosecco hadn't been drunk, so she picked it up and took it away with her again despite having made her way through several of the bottles we'd provided!

MumW · 30/12/2019 12:48

@moongirl10, I found out Christmas morning that she was arriving for Christmas Day dinner at 1pm and had made FIL change to a different day. angry I was so angry.
Xmas Shock
I'd have been getting DH to tell MIL that she was not welcome and not to turn up as the door would not be opened. She deserved to spend Xmas day on her own.
What did you do?

Boredisboring · 30/12/2019 12:50

How about my husband. He put packet of salt and vinegar crisps and a can of soda water, both from multi-packs in the kitchen, plus a fully stamped costa loyalty card in a sock and presented it to me on christmas morning.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 30/12/2019 12:51

@Moongirl10 yeah that would have got MIL a right rollicking from me and I'd have been changing it back; FIL on Christmas Day and MIL another day.

Yes, she gets 32nd December....

Heyduggeefordays · 30/12/2019 12:52

SIL asked to exchange list for kids. DD’s ranged anywhere from a couple of pounds to £20. Her kids had nothing below £30 on theirs. So spent £90 on her 3 kids glad they’d all have something they liked. DD nothing of her list. Was given a t-shirt she already had that SIL knew about as she was with me while I bought it cost £5 and was two sizes too big.

Selection boxes all round next year!

Lllot5 · 30/12/2019 12:52

Oh op that’s hilarious 1997.
Just trying to think what I was doing.
My ds was 8 he has two kids now and one on the way!

EKGEMS · 30/12/2019 12:54

Boredisboring I think I'd have hit him upside his head with the stocking

MarianaMoatedGrange · 30/12/2019 12:55

Boredisboring Crown Shock

CharlotteUnaNatalieThompson · 30/12/2019 12:57

@Moongirl10 I also would have told MIL she was not invited and if she'd turned up sent her away. If FIL hadn't made alternative plans I'd have then reinvited him, or if he had offered him any other date he preferred. Cheeky fucking bitch how dare she presume to decide who YOU invite to YOUR house!!! I'm not sure she'd have got an invite for any time over Christmas, although I might relent if that upset dh and dc

Tupperwarelid · 30/12/2019 12:57

Our department manager gave the 4 of us in the office a bottle of prosecco between us that had been left over from the works do the week before.

Devereux1 · 30/12/2019 12:58

All the awful stories, bar one where all the family caught flu, I have heard about involve step children being nasty to their step mother/fathers. Sad

ICouldHaveTinsillitis · 30/12/2019 13:05

A friend got me a 'food hamper' - bits of grub she has bought and stuck in an old shoe box - we are neither hard up nor hungry - bizarre!

I made up a couple of boxes for my 2 adult children, mainly treats (upmarket brands), plus chocolates, biscuits etc from our travels in France a month ago (so definitely in date!!). DD squealed with delight - "ooooh, a care package!"

Admittedly this was not their main present, but your friend's intentions were hopefully honourable!

Moongirl10 · 30/12/2019 13:07

@MumW

I told my DH weeks ago that she was not invited on Christmas Day and especially not for dinner. He ended up giving into her demands and only told me on Christmas morning. We have no kids but I am pregnant and she gave me baby clothes for my Christmas present and gave him cash. I told him this is never happening again and next time I’ll tell her myself.

BrokenLogs · 30/12/2019 13:09

@Moongirl10 so your FIL decides to spend Christmas in the UK after so long and you decided to ditch MIL, nice Hmm

nakedavengeragain · 30/12/2019 13:10

Friends DH turned up for a full works Xmas lunch (she was sick so stayed home) with a half drunk bottle of rose wine.

They are veggies so I'd made a main course for them specially and ensured the sides and starters were veggie friendly. The half drunk rose he drank while waiting for others to pitch up then drank quite a lot of our champagne and rather nice red wine amd craft beers and then whined about the veggie offering because the pie we'd made for them wasn't as xmassy as the goose we'd made for everyone else.

Tombliwho · 30/12/2019 13:11

My late grandma once gave me an own brand savers type pack of biscuits for Christmas. You know the ones where you get bourbons, custard creams, nice biscuits and malted milk.
I mean, I did enjoy the present. I like biscuits. It was pretty funny to unwrap though.

LadyTiredWinterBottom2 · 30/12/2019 13:15

@cstaff you are right Grin

We also got given some food we didn't want. I said 'no thank you ' but they gave it to DH anyway. I said he should have said no as well because we don't want it, we're not hard up for food and it will likely go in the bin when someone else could have had it. That's not Christmas cfery though we get it a lot. Along with random shit we don't want. And ridiculous presents we've got nowhere to put.

But l love them really Halo