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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To be so confused…

123 replies

Puddingypops · 28/12/2021 10:46

Iiiiits another shit gift one, however the gifts I received were given with love so it’s lighthearted really.

I’m the woman who 2 years ago received multiple items with my own face on from an aunty. She did good this year with a snuggly oodie (we won’t talk about the live, laugh, love plank of wood for my wall). But this year my boyfriend (of 7 years) and my parents (of 40 lol) have baffled me. BAFFLED.

Boyfriend and I decided to have a big budget Christmas for once, we said £300 each as it’s been a shit few years and we both had enough money, I got him some headphones he really wanted, pair of trainers, all sorts of things all from his wish list.

For months he kept on talking about how he had spent £200 of the budget early on a main gift, I thought this MUST be theatre tickets as I had been talking so much about going to see more musical theatre as soon as I could and with my passion for a few musicals (Jesus Christ superstar, hairspray etc) I thought he had booked me to see them.

I also had told him how I need a warm coat and gloves for walking the dogs, some slippers as my house floor is freezing, maybe some makeup or lovely bath things.

So imagine my suprise when I opened a sixpence from 1577. Allow me to say that again, a sixpence piece dating from 1577, no warm coat, no theatre tickets. I don’t collect coins or Tudor stuff, yes I really enjoyed “the tudors” drama staring Henry cavell, but, who didn’t?

It was rivalled (but not beaten) by the WALKING STICK, featuring a heavy brass dog handle, from my parents who proudly told me that I can use it as a weapon if I get attacked while walking the dog. Now, I don’t know many 40 year olds who get a walking stick from their parents for Christmas but at least it has a function (of course what they failed to account for us that to use it as a weapon I would first have to chose to take it out of the house) and I’m sure the walking stick will come in handy for something, a school play, a new career in tap dance.

Now I have to run I don’t want to miss any time playing with my new coin.

AIBU to go and spend a load of cash on myself to make myself feel better?? sobs

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Pensieve · 31/12/2021 00:42

The gift you’ve really been given is the plot, characters and props for a hilarious short story you should write and publish.

Hilarious for all the right and wrong reasons. Smile

Marianne1234 · 31/12/2021 00:46

My favourite thing about this is that you’ve found a partner who is as utterly batshit as the rest of your family clearly are. When it comes to gift giving anyway 😂 where on earth did you find him?!

Pensieve · 31/12/2021 00:54

What’s cracking me up is the position of the dogs head on that walking stick Grin. So proud and confident, a strong pose. Reckon your parents saw it and immediately thought no one is gonna mess with her if she’s got this - she can just point the nose at them and they’ll run a mile!

OMICHristmasOn · 31/12/2021 01:08

Thanks OP , i was feeling miserable after getting a MANKINI from work Secret Santa ,think i will embrace the madness and put it on for DH

PixieLaLa · 31/12/2021 01:15

I think you should start re gifting these bizarre presents to your parents/boyfriend/Aunt next Christmas, they clearly are all bat shit 😂

Puddletown · 31/12/2021 01:33

Literally crying 😂

RavenBrooke · 31/12/2021 01:41

@AmyDudley

You can use the walking stick to beat off people trying to steal your sixpence.
Bloody hell I snorted with laughter and woke the baby up. Grin
Oruguita · 31/12/2021 01:58

Love it! This thread is hilarious.

I got 4 coins for Christmas from my DH which I absolutely love but then I do actually collect coins! 🤣

bubblesbubbles11 · 31/12/2021 01:59

Question? If either of these gifts were replaced by a "hoover" or a "food processor" for Christmas - or some such functional gift of the domestic variety, would you have been more or less insulted?
Only asking as the above has happened to me!

CelestiaNoctis · 31/12/2021 02:48

If a boyfriend spent £200 on an old coin for me I'd leave them lol. Simply because that is spectacularly stupid and I'd be concerned for the safety of my future children being in the care of someone so idiotic.

livvymc · 31/12/2021 07:46

Best thread ever! Some absolutely comedy geniuses on here, I take my hat off to you!
OP, thanks for posting this, it’s certainly cheered me up! Grin

Puddingypops · 31/12/2021 10:47

@bubblesbubbles11 ahhhhh yes that’s the rub is t it? My gifts were hilarious and shit but given with thought and love. Which is why I can laugh and find joy in them while shaking my head in disbelief.

A hoover and a microwave etc is different, not creative or thoughtful, not given with love and hope that this is a great gift. It wouldn’t make me laugh.

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bubblesbubbles11 · 31/12/2021 11:33

Pudding.
Exactly.
Domestic "gifts" signal the death knell for a relationship. They say "we need one of these and Christmas is my excuse for buying it"
horrible.

Oldraver · 31/12/2021 11:43

Crikey I thought my OH had form for odd presents (gavel for my birthday once) but yours is in a different league

This year he bought me some perfume online form Boots (so no face to face interaction) and it must of come with a gift bag. He gave me the gift separately and apologised for not wrapping it...I mean, its.a.gift.bag. You know that you put the gift in and throw after (usually we recycle but its got the name of the perfume on)

NoSquirrels · 31/12/2021 11:46

You can stick it in the Christmas pudding every year and enjoy its randomness as a surprise every Christmas Day! Grin

NotAnotherUserNumber · 31/12/2021 12:00

[quote longtompot]Oh my op! I wouldn't have been able to stop myself from saying something, to both gift givers.

Is the coin this one? www.silburycoins.co.uk/product/the-ewerby-civil-war-hoard-elizabeth-1st-silver-sixpence-1558-1603ad-1573ad/[/quote]
Am I alone in thinking that coin is an amazing gift? It is so hard to fine gifts for people you love that aren’t just something that they could/would have just bought themselves.

He has bought you a token of his love that is a unique part of history and it is an item that is permanent and fits in a small box, so it isn’t an imposition or storage issue and isn’t transient.

I never would have thought of buying someone a coin before, but actually I think this has a lot of the qualities of an ideal gift.

EnjoyingTheSilence · 31/12/2021 12:03

What the actual fuck?!!!

And they all sounded so pleased with themselves, that just makes it even more bizarre

Dh did very well this year but I literally had to spell it out to him! I daren’t ever say to my mum that I like something unless I want it for Christmas or birthday!

NotAnotherUserNumber · 31/12/2021 12:03

also, don’t lose the “free leaflet”. He has bought you actual treasure and that is part of its provenance.

LagunaBubbles · 31/12/2021 12:06

I remember your thread about all your presents with your face on them!!! Grin

spudjulia · 31/12/2021 12:37

Yes do this but before you serve the pudding to your assembled relatives each year bash the fuck out of it with your walking stick

I'm loving the image this has created in my head.

ImaginaryFriends · 31/12/2021 13:47

Terminallysleepdeprived totally agree

@mumsnetHQ this deserves to be in the Classics

ApolloandDaphne · 31/12/2021 13:58

You are a good sport OP. I look forward to next years gifts!

Puddingypops · 31/12/2021 17:19

@NotAnotherUserNumber it IS an amazing gift, I am amazed by it, everyday I wake up and just can’t quite believe it. Amazing.

I’ve clearly stated that it was given with thought and love.

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