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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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MrsBadcrumble123 · 31/12/2019 18:41

Hosted Christmas Day AND Boxing Day for full on CF’ery family/friends who NEVER return the favour - they turn up with nothing and expect this ‘tradition’ every year - me and DH have decided to go away next year with DC and leave them to it!! Xmas Angry

theSnuffster · 31/12/2019 18:42

MIL has form for buying odd gifts. Individual sachets of hot chocolate, Tupperware, dishcloths etc. But she always makes sure she spends equal amounts on everyone.

This year she got her other DIL a big yankee candle gift set. I got bubble bath. Guess we know which DIL she prefers! 😂

Amanlamp100 · 31/12/2019 18:53

Sorry you feel crap too, I had an ear infection a week before Christmas, with that flu going around, I finished a course of antibiotics on Saturday I went to the sales and ended up looking like the elephant man down one side.. 😂😄😄 drinking through a straw on one side etc, smiling today I look like the Mask 🤢in the end DH said go back to the doctors!! He googled my symptoms and even asked if smiled this way normally and look in the mirror... no definitely not my normal smile! Happy new Year to everyone.. I may look like the elephant man for 2 weeks to 6 month a bloody Hope not... 🤗😢 overall in good spirits and still got an appetite even if I can’t chew!! 🤗🤗x

Rmw12 · 31/12/2019 18:59

My now husband and I didn’t spend Christmas together the first year we were together. I spent Christmas with family and had to get a flight there. He gave me a few Christmas presents and I squeezed them all in my suitcase, excited fo find out what the biggest, heaviest one was. It was an iron! I don’t even iron. I still married him though and his present buying skills have thankfully improved!

Footymum81 · 31/12/2019 19:01

My late great-auntie S was a classic present buyer. One year she bought my father a first-aid kit, including latex gloves, which he held up and said ‘look, 5-in-one condoms!’ My two favourites from her were firstly a packet of haribo, two notebooks, two pairs of rather skimpy pants with green and yellow flowers on them and a fiver, all wrapped in a cellophane bag, (I was 15) and secondly a box of duty-free fags and an ashtray with the obligatory fiver in it. Been a non smoker for over 6 years but still have the ashtray.

TheCherries · 31/12/2019 19:01

My SIL is the queen of CFers. Have put up with her and her ways for years but since her princesses were born the CFery has got much worse.

A few years ago the CFery got so bad, bullying my children, being rude to us, thenlist is so long it can’t be listed, she was asked to leave. It means we don’t get to spend the time with the in-laws now as sadly they want to be with her all the time and we just aren’t going to pander to it any more. Christmas highlights some poor character traits. If I could cancel the day each year I would.
I would love to just spend the day in PJs and have heated up frozen nibbles from Iceland 😬

fitflopqueen · 31/12/2019 19:11

Hosted xmas dinner for 10 inc FIL etc. All went well .... or so i though
Next day thinking kindly of FIL who is 90 and on his own - made up 2 dinners and we dropped them off on way out for a walk. Rang him as we were about arrive to say husband would be at the door - so not to alarm him.

FIL is a bit deaf, he answered phone to me and i realised he thought he was speaking to his daughter, couldn't interrupt him in time to hear him say that Xmas dinner wasn't that good (although he scraped his plate clean for all courses) as in previous years (all microwave dinners from Tesco etc).

He rang off as "someone was at the door", haven't spoken to him since, have been providing meals for bloody weeks, had spent 6 hours in casualty with him a couple of days beforehand and last time he was invited for lunch he decided he would like the vegetarian option even though he is not a veggie.

not sure whether to offer any more meals......

Gertrudesgarden · 31/12/2019 19:18

My late mother said she couldn't stay with my sister until she'd had her bathroom refitted to include a walk in shower. It was on the plan anyway, but they brought the project forward five months to ensure Mum could visit comfortably over Christmas. Sister drove four hours on christmas eve to collect her for a five day stay. She stayed less than 24 hours and insisted on being driven home immediately after christmas lunch, ensuring neither sister nor bil could havea glass of wine, and that all the other guests had to move to her MILs house to continue the day. She was never invited again.

WeAreTheWeirdosMister · 31/12/2019 19:20

Me, DH and kids invited to family Xmas in another city, told before we accepted that we would all open presents under their Christmas tree come Christmas morning. Day before Christmas eve, when hotel was booked obviously, they changed plan and said they wanted to cook everything before we arrived so not to show up until 2pm.

listsandbudgets · 31/12/2019 19:20

We had a party last year. One of the invitees turned up with a couple of bottles of wine which she put in the fridge. It was actually quite a good wine.. so far so good.

Put them out with the rest of the bottles so people could help themselves and she put them back in the fridge. I left it and 4 hours later, she staggered out having drunk copious amounts of everyone else's wine... and took her bottles with her saying " Since theyve not been touched I will take them home shame to waste them. "

After she had gone people started saying she had done the same at their parties as well!!

Mariamaria71 · 31/12/2019 19:21

Bil and his fiancee got me nothing this year. They bought for my dh and our 7yr old tho. Their excuse was, they didn't think they'd see me!

Caplin · 31/12/2019 19:22

Catered for 40+ on Christmas Eve, then cooked a massive feast for 12 in laws on Christmas Day. I was utterly exhausted.

MIL decides she is all upset and offended, enough to send SIL to have a quiet word width H. Reason for the offence? We didn’t get them Christmas cards, and hadn’t labelled a gift as coming specifically from the kids....WTF??? We spent almost £100 on her!!!

Diva66 · 31/12/2019 19:22

2 years ago SIL gave us a Sainsbury’s bag with a variety of food in it including half a lump of cheese and a half eaten packet of cream crackers. It looked like she’d just shoved whatever was on the kitchen counter top into it. Last year it was a souvenir tin of Scottish shortbread that had obviously been opened. She isn’t Scottish and she hasn’t visited Scotland recently. The ‘best before’ date had been scratched out. This year we all agreed children’s presents only...

ladybubbles · 31/12/2019 19:23

After hosting an amazing day and Xmas dinner, food, drink for the family my mil partner upon leaving sneaks into fridge and takes back home the Prosecco he brought ! ( the only reason it wasn't opened was because we already had some pre-chilled )

Tompbabs1 · 31/12/2019 19:27

I took my DH to a very well known shop and pointed out a very nice designer handbag which he bought. Three days after Christmas I had to ask what had happened to that lovely bag, embarrassed he went looking and came back with bag and several presents for our dad he had hidden somewhere else

Tompbabs1 · 31/12/2019 19:28

That’s dd not dad

paranoidmum2 · 31/12/2019 19:31

@Ummusomebody

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!

Excellent!

Also well done saying no more, @Sallycinammonbangsthedruminthe ! How did you get stuck in this situation?

melanieb32 · 31/12/2019 19:35

I've got a doozey took my step daughter in after not hearing.from her for 9 years to learn she was using us to see her bf she.stole Xmas food and drink I'd been squirrelling away for weeks and then my husband and I separated the Sunday before Xmas leaving for me to take myself and my 4 year old to my mum and dads for xmas she was the straw that finally broke the camels back x

DontDribbleOnTheCarpet · 31/12/2019 19:39

MY SIL threw a huge strop because we didn't buy her new granddaughter a Christmas present. The baby is 6 months old and SIL hasn't given my children a birthday or Christmas present in 10 bloody years!

TrixIrl · 31/12/2019 19:47

Hosted Christmas Eve dinner for both sets of parents. My mother got absolutely smashed, kept asking my MIL why she hadn't made her a pudding, that it wasn't fair she kept baking for us and not her (that she's met twice before!), kept winking at me while she made all these passive aggressive digs, fell up the stairs going to bed, my stepdad and fiance had to carry her. Puked everywhere over guestroom and bathroom and didn't clean it up so house stunk on Christmas day and then finally refused to get up Christmas morning to open presents with DD despite that being the only fecking reason she came out anyway. She's a functioning alcoholic but refuses to accept it. I'm mortified, angry and worst of all feeling guilty I haven't text her back since then (about fixing her fecking WIFI, hasn't acknowledged anything)!

RibenaMonsoon · 31/12/2019 20:02

Currently giving away DDs moses basket away on gumtree for free as she has outgrown it. Included the stand too.

Got a message asking if it was still available, if I had the original packaging and could make it look like new as it was a Christmas present. Then they had the cheek to demand that I deliver it to them.

Im sorry I didn't realise I had turned into a free delivery service. She demanded to know why I couldn't as she doesn't drive.
I don't drive either, but even if I did, not my problem.

Half tempted to charge £20 for it now but I'm sure there is someone in need of it that deserves it who will give it a good home.

bewilderedhedgehog · 31/12/2019 20:18

@RibenaMonsoon - Re Gumtree - I would be happy to give various things away for free, but have now stopped as it seems to bring out the worst in people, sadly. So now I sell them cheaply which is much better and less aggravating!

Bibliophile001 · 31/12/2019 20:23

My ex MIL gave me a paperback book imprinted with ‘Not for resale’ (ie sold with a magazine).

But her piece de resistance was Delia Smith’s, Cooking for One. Not bad you think, except I was then married to her precious son and we had four kids.

She didn’t like me and that was official from the moment we met...

Bibliophile001 · 31/12/2019 20:24

Ohh - these were my Christmas gift from her

akerman · 31/12/2019 20:31

Within 15 minutes of getting up my mother was walking up to my children and husband, asking if it was the worst Christmas they'd ever had. When they said no, she. said mournfully that it was her worst ever Christmas.
Jolly good.