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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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ThatssomebadhatHarry · 30/12/2019 23:14

Not this year but quite a few years ago I went to my sis for Christmas and her mil was going. She said her mil has a gift for me so I bought her something in return. Obviously she’s not my mil so wouldn’t have expected anything. Nothing amazing I just got her a posh box of chocolates. When she was opening her gifts she was just ripping into them like a rabbit dog and got to my chocolates, without reading the card and said o god MORE chocolates and then handed/threw them to me saying do you want these. My bil awkwardly said these were from me and she snatched them out of my hand without a word before devouring the rest of her presents. To top it off the gift she got for me can only be described as a pair of kids dressing up shoes. Clear plastic heeled things with pink fluff stuck on the front-3 sizes too small. In a grubby box. At least I was gracious about it though.

calmama · 30/12/2019 23:18

Not Christmas but one year we invited MIL for a big Easter late lunch when we lived near her. She turned up three hours late, her excuse an obvious lie, and was hungover and angry because I had made it a dry lunch after growing tired of her getting drunk and upsetting people. She was empty-handed but sneered at the spread I had prepared like it was disgusting shit. Then promptly passed out snoring on the couch with her legs open so the rest of us were put off our food too. Wonderful memories.

Inferiorbeing · 30/12/2019 23:24

BIL a few years ago gave DP a potato (with a poem written on it!) And I got some glasses wipes... the next year I got a box of French fancies and DP got nothing!

We stopped buying for him for a couple of years and this year bought him a nice jumper and we actually got normal gift sets in return!

Herbalteahippie · 30/12/2019 23:24

My DH is godfather to his first cousins kids, their family are very well off, Dh is generous every year with the 3 kids, but we get a multipack of Victoria biscuits from Poundland. I’m gluten intolerant.

cstaff · 30/12/2019 23:30

@calmama
That made me laugh. I just have a vision in my head of your drunk mil on the couch with her legs straight up in the air, like something that you would see in a pantomime. I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time but still Grin

calmama · 30/12/2019 23:35

cstaff My life always seems to be fodder for other people’s entertainment. Sadly it isn’t the first time she’s down this and won’t be the last. Sometimes I think I’ve seen more of my in-laws’ bits than I’ve seen my own. shudder

ReanimatedSGB · 30/12/2019 23:35

Oh please keep the stories coming... Grin

calmama · 30/12/2019 23:36

*done this

calmama · 30/12/2019 23:40

My MIL is visiting now (we moved countries) and she never pays for anything. Only the other day she bought my husband his favourite childhood treat while they were out. And I was at work. She did the same thing last visit. Waited until I wasn’t with them and treated her best boy. Otherwise everything is on us. Some of you may have seen my post on another thread that she also helps herself to all my cosmetics, including my loofah.

Cantuccit · 30/12/2019 23:43

@7yo7yo , @Herbalteahippie why don't you just stop doing presents for them? Shock

DecemberSnow · 30/12/2019 23:48

Not Cfuckery...

Bit random....

A very close family member bought my nan alcohol she is 90 and has NEVER drunk, they would of known this.... So very odd

Butterfly3005 · 30/12/2019 23:49

I woke up at 7.05am Christmas morning to someone shouting "wake up you lazy bitch!" Up the stairs. It was MIL!!

She decided to visit unexpectedly and spoiled my whole morning and encouraged the kids to open all their presents at a million miles an hour. I told her many of times that we need to slow down as we like our present opening to last throughout the morning. It didn't work though and it was all over in the blink of an eye.

Fuming was an understatement!!

DecemberSnow · 30/12/2019 23:51

Partner gave his brothers children money for Christmas.

He didn't even get a card or a "Merry Christmas" off his brother....

Wanker

Whoops75 · 31/12/2019 00:01

I’ve a weird one

My in laws gave dh socks and our sons socks and €10,

Our dd got €50+ worth of clothes and they gave me a bottle of Hendricks and €100.

I can’t understand why!

SwingingBy · 31/12/2019 00:03

My sister and her husband were invited to her sister in law home for Christmas dinner.
She thought it was strange that they couldn't smell any aromas of cooking and offers to help were declined.
They sat down to a frozen chicken dinner ready meal.
My sister had taken two expensive bottles of wine for the meal, which were put away and a glass of orange squash was served instead.

flyingspaghettimonster · 31/12/2019 00:21

Last xmas I got an expensive box of chocolates for my father in law, all carefully hand picked to his tastes and from a small chocalatier in my city, 400 miles away from them. Imagine my surprise to receive an identical box in the mail for valentines from them... mother in law tried to bullshit that she bought them herself, I said I was surprised they didn't at least say hi if they drove 7 hours just to shop... I wouldn't complain since they were delicious, but I hate that she made the decision he couldn't eat those chocolates for him. I got him more as part of this year's gift and he opened them right away.

Lots of rude and outright weird behaviour from her this xmas, but not really sharable

Lalas1 · 31/12/2019 00:24

Family friend once received a used TV times as a present. The lady that gifted it had marked out everything she wanted to watch and written notes down the side and then wrapped it up and offered it as a late present once she had finished with it Xmas Confused

Lunde · 31/12/2019 00:43

Back in in the 1970s my aunt got my mother a very strange ashtray filled with pink plastic flowers (similar to the picture). I think she must have won it at a white elephant stall of some church fete!

To ask for your Christmas CFuckery stories?
mysmidgey · 31/12/2019 03:57

@suspended why wouldn't you just say this is what we're bringing, we like it, so too bad? I don't understand letting them dictate what you can and can't eat. I just wouldn't go if I couldn't eat and had my food and portions controlled on Christmas of all days.

AvaSnowdrop · 31/12/2019 08:51

Imagine my surprise to receive an identical box in the mail for valentines from them
Am I the only one who finds it weird that the in-laws send a Valentines gift?

Zaphodsotherhead · 31/12/2019 08:54

Driving and Fruitcake he was told. Unfortunately his ASD means that he literally doesn't take anything on board that he considers not to apply to him.

I didn't so much mind him turning up without food or drink contributions (after all, none of my kids did either, although they did help with cooking), it was the falling asleep all afternoon on the sofa, watching Christmas Dr Who and saying 'I didn't understand a word of that' and eating all the beef (because he 'doesn't like' anything else). I cut him a LOT of slack because he's also badly socialised - nobody else seems to realise about the ASD.

This year i just invited him for Boxing Day because he's no longer my partner (he was my Current Partner for those eight years).

But yes. He was told. It just didn't even register - he is the literal personification of 'in one ear, out the other'.

TheGlitterFairy · 31/12/2019 09:28

Last year it had been decided with the ILs that no one was “doing” Christmas presents. Fine - not a problem, until the afternoon we were due to visit, DH received a txt to say we were doing gifts now. I ran round like a mad thing trying to find gifts for them (he was at work). Sorted gifts, wrapped them, took them with us. Unpacked the car and took the bags of gifts out to the hallway - where they then stayed for the next 2 days, with no comment from anyone.
The day we left, DH asked me what we should do with the gifts (that we’re still in the hallway); I suggested giving them to MIL, PIL and SIL, which we did. They looked at them, didn’t say thanks and didn’t open. Nothing given back in return. Okaaaaaay. Then received a WhatsApp message later on when we were home - they’d opened the gifts and were posing for a photo with them.

Very very strange behaviour. Not sure why they didn’t open them when we were there having made such a fuss about it all with the “we’re not doing gifts/ now we are” scenario.

This year - had to purchase our own gifts from a member of DH’s family; drive them to pass to MIL, who then wrapped them and have them back to us to drive home again. I think DH still hasn’t been reimbursed for them!!

AngelsSins · 31/12/2019 09:37

We had my partners family over for dinner on Boxing Day. MIL, BIL 1, and BIL 2. BIL 2 was also bringing his new girlfriend that we hadn’t met, we only found out when his mum told us she was coming, no problem, we could cope with an extra person. My partner had gone out and got gifts for everyone, including the new girlfriend.
Boxing Day morning it’s announced that BIL2 will also be bringing his girlfriends kids, kids we didn’t know existed. MIL suggested some ideas of things we could get the kids as Christmas gifts, but it was too late at the point so we decided we’d give cash.

They turn up, I hug the girlfriend and introduce myself, she says NOTHING, doesn’t tell me her name or say hello. I figure maybe she’s shy. BIL 2, girlfriend and kids spend the whole day whispering to each other, barely say a word to anyone. We do presents, we’d got BIL 2 and his girlfriend a set of fancy coasters, a matching decorative bowl (not cheap!) and cash for the kids. The girlfriend says thank you, BIL2 says nothing, they didn’t bring a bottle, a gift or even a card for DH. I felt terrible for him, I don’t understand why they even came seeing as they didn’t speak to us the whole time they were here.

sayingno · 31/12/2019 09:39

My PIL brag a lot about how they have so much savings (over 500k) and gave me and DH for christmas + my birthday (27th) 40€ to share, but more for me, cause it's also my birthdayGrinGrinGrin

The worst part is they're expecting perfumes, etc. We don't buy for them anymoreGrin

Raindancer411 · 31/12/2019 09:45

@SilverSurfer2020 I would be saying you are not buying next year as he is now an adult