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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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HyggeTygge · 30/12/2019 20:07

So those vegans, was the food they took all vegan or did they take dairy/eggs etc as well? As I can understand them taking veg etc if you told them to take the vegan leftovers?

bigchris · 30/12/2019 20:16

Also 're the vegans , (we're all obsessed with this one Grin)

Did you just say get it yourselves?? No one goes in my fridge and I'd have wrapped it up for them !! You must be close to them to let them just go on their way without packing it up for them ??

Shodan · 30/12/2019 20:55

XH.

We agreed, when we split up, that we would still have Christmas lunch together, for our ds' sake (although in my head I added "for a few years anyway"). This year was my turn to host, but I explained that I would need him gone by 4pm as the boys and I were going to my sister's.

He turned up with no contribution to the meal at all- no food, no chocolates, no drinks. He did buy me 2 candles, and gifts for the boys, but nothing for anyone else. Come 4 o'clock, the rest of the guests had gone, he still sat there. Then told me he'd stay til the end of the film we were watching. And eventually left at 4.50, which gave me 10 minutes for a quick snooze and wash and brush up instead of the hour I had allowed for.

The thing is, he doesn't even host on my years off- his parents do! So he never pays for, organises, cooks and clears up after a Christmas day meal.

From next year though we're doing alternate Christmas/Boxing Days each, so won't need to fret about his CFery again.

MrsLinManuelMiranda · 30/12/2019 20:58

@Bloomburger, I love those Elizabeth Shaw mints!

paranoidmum2 · 30/12/2019 20:59

@Bloomburger

He has yet to step inside my front door again because I decided after years of being taken the piss out if it wasn't going to happen again. (Well until DD and her BF and this past Christmas but that's a whole different story!!)

What a twat! Please tell us the story!

Bloomburger · 30/12/2019 21:13

paranoidmum2 they've come for the 3rd time (since DD has been with him) this Christmas and have got progressively more lazy each time and get more open with the PDAs. Lying legs intertwined on sitting room floor whilst we open presents Christmas morning, lying around on each other, getting up at 2.30pm when I've been at work and running her siblings round since 7.30 that morning (after waking me up at 1am clomping around knowing about my insomnia so I'd actually had 4 hours sleep) and exclaiming they're thinking of having a pyjama day, letting DH cook them all breakfast and whilst obviously smelling it cooking don't come out until called (breakfast cold, 5 year old sister has laid table & eaten her breakfast in meantime), one night they didn't come down for food at all because we didn't call them. We have literally only seen them for food and told them they may as well not have been here so when said they'll be back before they go back to uni after visiting her father I said not to bother unless their behaviour changed and then asked her to do 1 job before going to her DFs and she didn't do it then lied and said she did then tried to fudge it saying she'd done it but not to my standards so we are currently at an impasse.

Bloomburger · 30/12/2019 21:16

I did their washing and ironing too 😡

DrivingMsCrazy · 30/12/2019 21:16

@Fluffycloudland77 I can just imagine the conversation!
MIL: DH you must do this that and the other now immediately right away pronto !!!
DH: no can do, dearest Mama, you'll have to ask Goldenballs/GoldenVag (apply as needed to favourite child)
MIL: How dare you defy me! You must!
DH: nope you see some completely stupid buttbrain bought Fluffy some chocs with milk despite knowing she can't have them and she ate one by mistake so I'm here making sure she doesn't die! Can you believe anyone who knows Fluffy would be so thoughtless and ignorant?! It's just beyond the pale isn't it. I'll tell her you send your best. Byeeeeeee!!

Whatdayisit2 · 30/12/2019 21:25

Relative turned up with 4 bottles of beer. Stayed for 4 days, eating and drinking ...

paranoidmum2 · 30/12/2019 21:27

@Bloomburger that sounds very irritating! Hope your warning works!

Bloomburger · 30/12/2019 21:29

paranoidmum2 thank you, although I do very much doubt it 🙄.

DrivingMsCrazy · 30/12/2019 21:32

@zaphodsotherhead - I've just read yours and I don't understand why you didn't tell him after the first year that no one drinks beer therefore please would he bring x y or z appropriate and needed items? He may be tight but you let him get away with this crap for 8 years without saying anything?? Confused

MrsMeow2019 · 30/12/2019 21:43

This is a fun thread and it’s quite a relief to know most families are the same !

This year I’ve learnt I’m not doing secret Santa anymore. Do it yearly with a group of friends we always agree a budget which I tend to go over slightly (my choice) this year my gifts can’t have amounted to more than half agreed budget and had minimal effort put into them. Not doing that again if I’m not worth it to them then I’d rather not do it and just have a meal together , less stress and upset.... just need to tell them I’m not doing it anymore 😆

Family - I have a few siblings, we all made a lot of effort to buy nice things and get them delivered pre Xmas to my DS, BIL and 2 nephews. They were far too busy to drop cards or gifts over to any of us or to thank any of us for the gifts.

Christmas clearly brings out the rudeness in a lot of people 🤔

FruitcakeOfHate · 30/12/2019 21:46

Exactly, Driving. 'No one drinks that. You need to bring XY and Z.' He turns up without it tell him, 'Get back out to the shops. Told you that you need to bring XY and Z.' 'Shops are shut.' 'K, 20 quid then. ATMs are open or you can use your phone. Done with you taking the piss. You know damn well what you are doing'

Craftycorvid · 30/12/2019 22:02

These are flabbergasting! DM once received a pack of toilet paper as an xmas gift. At least it was....useful? Xmas Grin

windycuntryside · 30/12/2019 22:15

Relatives came, family of 6. Didn’t bring a single thing to contribute, didn’t lift a finger to help prepare or clean up. No thank you either, and this pissed me specifically, they didn’t bother to say good bye to my in-laws. Just got up and left. Even complained I hadn’t told them they were coming! Third year running they have come to us. I won’t bother next year. They are generally hard work, and not generous in any way. With time, contributions or conversation. Some people are just plain hard work.

Iatetotheparty · 30/12/2019 22:26

I was gifted an empty wallet that would have been free with another beauty purchase. It must have contained make originally up as all the instruction cards on how to apply it were still enclosed . I wanted to ring the giver and say half the present was missing but they have form for this. Previous gifts have included something tiny from a beauty cracker , a broken necklace, a scarf with no label that smelled of perfume and a very fake Tatty version of an expensive leather bag. This person owns a number of the real bags and is not short of money by any means .As far as I can tell everyone else gets brand new unused gifts. No idea why I’m singled out for receiving unwanted tat but it’s quite funny now. I look forward to seeing what been fished out from the bottom of a drawer for me each year. Grin

SilverSurfer2020 · 30/12/2019 22:26

I've bought my sister's son a gift or given vouchers every year to date (he's 21) and she hadn't got my 25 month old a Christmas present for for the third year in a row because she's "not doing Christmas" this year, again.

SilverSurfer2020 · 30/12/2019 22:28

*hasn't

Cakeisbest · 30/12/2019 22:36

We were at BIL’s for New Year Day dinner so we paid for the large rib of beef my SIL (his wife) wanted for the dinner. SIL’s family also came for dinner and she sent them home with the beef leftovers - that we’d paid for!

Moneypenny007 · 30/12/2019 22:37

My grandmother once bought me a load of clothes from Evans. Not sure if it was the year I was pregnant. I was a size 10 at best, I went in to return them and the poor sales assistants face when I explained..

whyamidoingthis · 30/12/2019 22:39

@ LittleMy77 - We had two vegetarians come on Christmas day. I lovingly made sure there was salmon (they eat fish) and the side dishes were all veggie, only to find them both tucking into the pigs in blankets!

If they eat fish, they are not vegetarian. They're obviously not pescatarians either.

calmama · 30/12/2019 22:47

CatToy Haha. That’s excellent!

Confuddledtown · 30/12/2019 23:02

My DH is one of 4 brothers. Every Christmas we do secret Santa including his parents as his mum doesnt think it's fair she should have to buy for 4 children. We split it into couples, so 5 couples (his mum and dad, each brother and their partner), each couple buying for another couple with a budget of £30.

This year, everyone said there was nothing they needed and we were essentially just swapping £30 amongst each other so instead of Secret Santa we would have a family day out - a meal plus an activity and we each just pay for our own families. Went well, all had a great time.

Cue MIL outrage that we hadn't bought her a Christmas present on top of this- despite the fact it was pre arranged that she was always part of Secret Santa (in fact she was the one that started it as she didnt want to have to buy all 4 of her children presents) and the family day was to replace secret Santa. She said it was awful that children wouldn't buy their mother and father anything for Christmas, she was so hurt, felt forgotten about etc. Two of the brothers bought her a present on top of day out. We are all supposed to go to her for New years day for family dinner, those who didnt buy her a christmas present have since been uninvited - why should she cook for ungrateful sons who dont care enough about their poor mother to buy her a christmas present.

So essentially we are expected to pay £100 each for the family day out plus still have to buy her a present.... so still the same present buying as secret Santa except she gets all the presents and no one else gets any.

Plus she has the audacity to say our children get far too much at Christmas (we spend £200 each on them which included a bike each so not very many presents at all!) And we should think about reigning it in or they'll become spoilt! The only spoilt one I can see is her!

(N.b. she bought our 2 DC a jigsaw between them that came from a charity shop marked at 50p that had 3 pieces missing - she is not remotely strapped for cash and is very well off, shes just tight and even had that you can get a full jigsaw for £1 in the pound shop if she didnt want to spend a lot)

7yo7yo · 30/12/2019 23:14

Sis in law has 3 children, youngest is 19, every year they get a present or money, usually to the value of £20-£30 each. This year we did secret Santa for all the older kids and parents and said we’d buy presents for the younger ones. She bought them (regifted) sweet cones that the sherbet was leaking out of.
Must have been £1.
We went out with friends and she bought them and their kids a mound of chocolate and biscuits.
I’m biding my time to say something. To which I know her response will be to laugh it of.