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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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bigchris · 31/12/2019 10:08

@AngelsSins i guess bo one is cllse enough to brother in law to actually ask him what the fuck was going on

I'd have said 'excuse me girlfriend , I just said hello '????

Poor kids how old were they?

Ihatesundays · 31/12/2019 10:26

My friend invited FIL&BIL to xmas dinner. Her MIL had died and they hadn’t had a proper xmas dinner for years.
Turn up middle of the day. BIL was bitching and moaning that he was soooo hungry, starving, how long would it be (they were eating at 1pm).
So she was hiding in the kitchen and kids has made themselves scarce because of his moaning. They later discovered he had eaten all 3 kids Christmas chocolate (many many selection boxes) because he couldn’t wait because he was soooo hungry.
He then spent the entire meal gorging himself and trying to get leftovers from the kids plates. Finished off all the desserts etc.
Friend told DH they need to go home much easier than planned - at the door he said what a good time he’d had and he was looking forward to next year, she smiled and said ‘I don’t think so’. And shut the door.
She went to her parents the next year, apparently he was furious Crown Grin

RedPanda2 · 31/12/2019 10:28

Butterfly3005 maybe we should swap-my partners family are a painfully-slow-one-present-at-a-time-per-person-while-being-gawped-at family. Infuriates me!

NeedAGoodUsernameThatIsntTaken · 31/12/2019 10:36

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. Last year we gave them 60 pounds towards an expensive electrical item bil wanted. They are on 2 good salaries and I'm a sahm with a young dc.

Cherrysoup · 31/12/2019 10:49

@Butterfly3005 how the heck did she get in? Does she have a key? And did you not fucking RAGE at her for screaming that up the stairs at you? I would have given her a right mouthful! And no way would I have let her rip through the presents with the kids. I feel very sorry that some people have such ignorant in-laws.

Cherrysoup · 31/12/2019 11:17

@GiveMeStrengthOrAHobby Have you asked her for the money back? I couldn’t afford to lose £100, plus I’d be furious!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 31/12/2019 11:22

she also helps herself to all my cosmetics, including my loofah

So every time she leaves you have to burn your loofah? Blimey - that's a bit much.

Seriously, though - I would lock everything up. Or is she the type that would actually go through your bedroom looking for stuff? Have you tried buying her some of her own?

SchadenfreudePersonified · 31/12/2019 11:28

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

I would have killed her!

iklboo · 31/12/2019 11:46

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

She'd have been straight out of the door, Christmas Day or not. DH would have showed her out for that statement.

Sallycinammonbangsthedruminthe · 31/12/2019 11:49

Well Christmas seems to have gone a bit wrong here...I have upset 17 people and been sent to coventry..not the place but as in silent treatment ! I get the lists of the 17 every year and it gets more elaborate and expensive each year..they ask us for stuff they cannot afford and would never buy for themselves,with never a thank you or a return gift for us or my dd aged 8 ..total CFs.Anyway this year the lists came in and I wasnt having it,I was sick to death of being shit on by their cheek,ill manners and money grabbing selfish ways.As expected their presents arrived with them all at the beginning of december,although this year one couple actually came to fetch the gifts for everyone saving me a job,I got nothing from inlaws non of us did as we hadnt trailed to see them so they were keeping our gifts til we did...they will stay their til hell freezes over for me ,pound shop tat we do not want or nee.Then the couple who had arrived to collect all the presents for everyone else said they had spent alot on us this year(never had they bought us anything before) and so they presented us with a joint family gift....abox of malteezers...ffs why just why? Anyway christmas moves on and in a joint whats app conversation they said they had all had a great christmas but no thank you or no mention of the gifts.I asked it they had liked their presents they said nothing.So by this time I am done really done with the fking lot of them and I said look christmas is too stressful and expensive so Iam not doing it next year...we will each just buy for our own families and that way there is no pressure,Well it went off like a rocket. Despite them never buying us anything yet recieving gladly they were up in arms about how mean and spiteful I was and how awful I am to suggest it as they like recieving our gifts..I bet they do cheeky bastards...so I said no we will leave it from now on this is the last year we are doing it.So they said I was evil and unkind and they wouldnt ever talk with us again again unless we changed our minds...We are now persona non grata and looks like we will be in for a quiet year!!!!! I think they are beyond cheeky fkers they think I am...I win I keep my cash in my pocket and have no stress drama and disappointment!!!!!!!! You just couldnt make it up....but sadly its true.

DrivingMsCrazy · 31/12/2019 12:02

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

Anybody who spoke to me like that in my own home would be turfed out, Christmas or not. And DH would frothing to do the turfing. Not just CF, that is Completely unacceptable behaviour.

cstaff · 31/12/2019 12:50

@Sallycinammonbangsthedruminthe
Jesus Sally. There have been some horrendous stories on here but you win. You do realise that your life will be better with these knobheads gone.

Sallycinammonbangsthedruminthe · 31/12/2019 12:58

@cstaff....lovely lady I do hope so!!! I will be financially better off too!

FlamingoAndJohn · 31/12/2019 12:59

Sounds like you are better off without them @Sallycinammonbangsthedruminthe

Sallycinammonbangsthedruminthe · 31/12/2019 13:04

I could understand it from kids but we are talking about parents and 3 sets of 30 plus children each with partners and kids of their own...I seriously do not know how my kind,thoughtful,generous husband was made from them all...disgraceful.Still ,done now! Onwards and upwards to a lovely shiny brand new year...Happy New Year to you all and even to the CFs who make life so "interesting!"

Rollonspringtime2020 · 31/12/2019 13:20

My df once left 3 gifts behind the sofa as he left near Xmas-obviously selection boxes. . Rang him to remind him I actually had 4 x dc. He assumed the 11 month old didn't eat chocolate!!
The man who had had a big win recently too...

Cherrysoup · 31/12/2019 13:50

@Sallycinammonbangsthedruminthe

That’s ridiculous of them, a box of fucking Maltesers?! This thread just gets worse and worse! Who are these awful people?! I think I’d tell the group what you spent, what you were given-fuck all-and say how disgraceful the lot of them are!

strawberry2017 · 31/12/2019 16:52

@Sallycinammonbangsthedruminthe wow! They like receiving your gifts so you should continue despite the fact they buy malteasers!
You did the right thing standing up for yourself! Think how much nicer next Xmas will be without them. X

Rainbowsparkle · 31/12/2019 17:31

My hubby of 15 years got me size 18-20 pyjamas. I’m a 10-12.

Poptasmagorical · 31/12/2019 18:01

My brother got me a toilet brush.

Doublemama · 31/12/2019 18:06

My MIL gave me four packets of hair vitamins and some samples of shampoo/conditioner she got free from her recent spa day Confused

Makinglemonadeoutoflemons · 31/12/2019 18:15

@CatToy I think you are amazing!!

LouH1981 · 31/12/2019 18:17

Xmas tradition that we spend Christmas with my mum and then go to DH’s on Boxing Day and my BIL, SIL and family join in. My mum, without fail, always buys the children of the families something (3 children in all). Not once do BIL or SIL ever buy her anything. So come present opening time she has one to open (from MIL) and that’s it. I feel sorry for her because DH and I have been together 20 years, she’s been coming on Boxing Day the same amount of years but they never bother. She is a pensioner and they earn a pretty good living. She’s too kind not to bother but I just hate the way she gets snubbed every year 😢

countrygirl99 · 31/12/2019 18:19

My MIL used to love buying gifts but since she was severely disabled by a stroke it's down to FIL. So everyone gets cash as present buying is womens work.

Ummusomebody · 31/12/2019 18:26

Not Christmas but DH's friend is loaded, the equivalent of a royal family and lives abroad. He only ever takes the business class and will brag about how he will be the first to take my son for a private jet ride. He is in the country often and will call DH that he is downstairs/ or just outside his work. Never gives notice. When he leaves, you don't hear from him- DH sends texts with no replies and he would not pick his calls - DH says he had trusts issues. Usually I'm expected to entertain with food and drink when he is around. After I had my first, he visited with a box of small ferrorer rocher. The last time he came, he was asking myself and DH what posh retuarants we know of and I told him the ones i knew which was obviously not -posh enough. He then said that he was taking this new girl to switzerland and has found a michelin star restaurant there and wanted someting like that to start with before they leave. I was then asked what I could give him to eat to which i said naught. Pointed both of them to the local shops to get food!