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?

We were basically told one Christmas that we were going to BILs - no choice.
SIL was not happy about this though as she dislikes her husbands family. So she made a big fuss and we had to pay for all the food. We paid quite a lot and took extra food as well.
She then served a tiny meal, kept a lot of the extra food away. She was really rude all day as she didn’t want us to be there.
Next day she’s on Facebook showing off the big spread for HER family - basically all the food we had paid for.
We don’t spend Christmas with them anymore.

Wasn't this year but my eldest sister decided she wasn't gifting to adults anymore! Only to children in the family.. fine we all thought 3 less people for us to buy for ( DS BIL and their adult child ) still bought for the younger 2 though!

Then she was pissed of at me for buying DB and SIL but not her and was raging that I didn't buy her son anything who is an adult 🧐

Shes still a funny fucker to this day!

My DPs relatives brought a box of opened and half eaten biscuits. As a gift for us.

MIL has a huge Christmas Day usually 14 plus people there.

This year the husband of my DHs cousin invited his parents without asking first. Then sat at the table eating ignoring his two dc. Oh and didn't bring any beer but drank all the beer my BIL brought.

Moongirl That is shocking.
Way beyond CFery.
How did your DH react?

My "D"sis (we don't get on) decided one year that she "couldn't be doing with the faff " of buying gifts so everybody (my DD included) would be getting cash instead. Fair enough, I thought, that's what I'll give her DC as well then (4 of them). £10 each they got, mine got £3 "to buy herself something she needs"!!

@BrokenLogs Are you always so judgemental? I actually had a horrible Christmas because of MIL. I didn’t uninvite my FIL, they sorted it between themselves without telling me until Christmas morning. My FIL lives 16 mins down the road from me so I saw him plenty over the Christmas period. But I was upset with what MIL did. Not that I should explain myself to you.

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

Where did she say that he had deliberately chosen to absent himself for Christmas for 20 years? Maybe he lived there or was posted over there for work.

Even if he had done that, there's no such thing as Christmas Day Squatters' Rights. MIL should have been grateful that she'd already had an unchallenged 20 years.

It sounds like there's acrimony between them, meaning that they wouldn't have been happy spending the day together, so this means that it's always going to be one or the other of them and not both at the same time. She's already had 20 years, so when is it his turn?

We had Christmas up north (just husband and I) while the families were doing their thing down south - also had an epic homemade Chinese feast instead of turkey. Cracking set of joint presents from SIL - Asian jar sauces all containing onion which I'm really intolerant to and she knows this, also a set of 4 photo coasters with one of our sonogram scans, a blurry pic of me and DH, one where DH has eyes closed and one of me where I'm not even looking at the camera. Just found it a little odd,'thanks for the coaster with our unborn child on, can't wait to put a hot drink on their face'.
Mind you last year was a knife set.

@Moongirl10 I think the point Brokenlogs was making is that you shouldn’t have invited FiL in favour of MiL in the first place as you’ve basically ditched her after she’s been there for years just because her ex husband is back in town. Not sure if I agree (depends on a lot of factors) but I think that’s what she meant.

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.

In that case, I'd have been very tempted to tell DH that, as he'd chosen to spend time with his DM, he could bugger off round to hers for the day as neither of them were welcome. I hope that you sat at the table looking at them with a face that would curdle their cream and that you made them do ALL the chores whilst you scoffed wll the chocolates and controlled the remote.

What is his penance? How is he planning on making it up to you? I can't even begin to imagine how I'd punish my DH if he ever did that to me but it would start with me spending his Xmas money. I'd also take the clothes back and swap them for something different on principle.

You have a serious DH problem that you need to deal with before the baby arrives otherwise MIL is going to be walking all over you with DH's blessing.

dd2 and her dh plus dd1 with her partner and their friends who have a 4 yr old ds. were in nice relaxed gastro type pub in a child friendly area, the little boy was giggling. (it was Christmas Day ).

A couple came up to their table and complained about the 4 yr old's giggling !!!!!! dd2 then complained to the pub about them it ended well because the pub threw the child hating killjoys out !!!!!

My dad got my sister and brother really thoughtful gifts. I got nothing.
Then he txt me on Christmas day causing an argument telling me I'm a shit child.
I didn't respond to anything.

@Rainycloudyday I see. FIL actually asked us first weeks ago if he could come and we said yes, and offered MIL about 5 different dates so I don’t think we were being unreasonable. She’s not at ours every year out of her own choice but was last year. I think she was just putting up a fuss because he was getting to spend that day with us, not her.

@SheChoseDown, that's appalling. What have you supposed to have done that's made you such a shit child other than being raised by a shit parent, obviously?

For my birthday a few years ago eldest son performed a last-minute scramble through his large stash of winnings from school fair raffles and lucky dips (all crap) to present me with—amongst other tat—a particularly vile smelling Betty Boop perfume, complete with a Betty figurine on the bottle top.

That’s the cheeky fucker part, as he is 15, not 5.

This Christmas I re-gifted Betty Boop to him with a card saying “Saw this and thought of you.”

His faux outrage was a joy to behold.

SIL gave us a homemade Christmas pudding, all wrapped up and labelled with a 'homemade by SIL' label
We decided to eat it on boxing day as we had a few people coming for dinner.
I steamed it all properly and when I took the greasproof paper off the pudding was completely mouldy🤢😷

We do secret Santa between the adults, so not a lot of presents received. My mum buys for us all, we get the secret Santa present and whatever off our dp/DH's.

One person has had a shit year, relationship break up etc. Their present was a ladies lynx set 😐

@MumW
Because I didn't call him.
I was really busy, hosting, child care, cooking etc. He didn't ring any of us or his grandkids. So by 6pm he was raging.
I'm the only child to ever make the effort. He's just always taken it out on me when he's pissed at my siblings. Family eh!

PIL are generally quite odd with food. In a nice way, everything is freshly made no pre packed things. They are very controlled also. Certain portion sizes, everyone has to eat all of their food or they make a big fuss (I am 33 btw)

But unfortunately, this also means things like stuffing and gravy are a no no (because they don't eat them) so after one very dry Christmas dinner about 10 years back we asked for gravy ahead of time and called ahead up in case they 'forget' (which they have done on occasion previously)

This year after DH had asked about the possibility of stuffing and gravy (we would buy of course) he pushed his luck and asked if we could bring pigs in blankets....oh dear. Didnt go down well at all. Said it was gluttonous and greedy.

Queue Christmas day, PIL had relented and said we were welcome to bring pigs in blankets as well as gravy and stuffing if we wanted it but they wouldnt be eating them.

Offered to make breakfast - PIL said no, we will do it. Sat at table and outcomes FIL with the pigs in blankets on a tray. DH said, 'oh I thought these were for lunch' FIL 'No, you'll be too full, so we made them for breakfast' and that was it, nothing else, no bread, fruit, etc. Pigs in blankets on a plate for breakfast - ha ha.

My friend bought her mother a lovely soft fluffy dressing gown for Xmas. Two days later and it appears on my friends FB news feed. She'd regifted it to her neighbour, who in turn had given it to her dog as a blanket! And there was a photo of this manky old poodle luxuriating on this expensive new dressing gown!

My dm once gave her dsis a part drunk bottle of port and pretended she knew nothing about it. So embarrassing. Luckily her dsis has a sense of humour!

How lovely for an elderly dog to have a warm dressing gown though TiddlestheCat

I got a palette of eyeshadows and bright red lipstick. I don’t wear ever any of it.

From FIL & his wife:

I got one of FIL's wife's old dressing gowns (cream with giant pink roses)
DH got a £3.50 multipack of beer
DS got £10 and an old watch of FIL's (seen him wear it)

We had bought them beer, chocolates, biscuits, Now TV stick and took them out for Christmas dinner. FIL said he'd get the drinks and then started moaning it came to £36. For SIX of us.