Worst Christmas present

[Bookworm512]

I feel ungrateful but also very disappointed. My husband is crap at gifting but this really takes the biscuit. I am a 53 year old woman and we have been together for 26 years. He bought me a periscope. Am I being unreasonable to be disappointed and ungrateful?😓

We were a bit puzzled today when we received a toy bus and our 6yo niece got a chopping board - but both gifts were from the same couple, so we can only assume they must have accidentally switched the gift tags around!

First year married, students and skint, I got from OH the Robert Carrier cooking cards, I didn't even recognise the names of most ingredients let alone could afford any of them!

SIL visited Christmas Eve and gave us all D+V 😡

I was at a sporting event lately and I couldn’t see a thing.The lady beside me had a periscope and could see all the action. I thought it was fantastic . Next time I go I thought I would treat myself 😂

You can have mine!

Instead of net curtain twitching it will be Up periscope.

Sorry, @Bookworm512 I just can't help but chuckle as it is such a random, strange gift.

I've wanted a periscope for YEARS ever since we moved into my house that you can almost see the sea from. Have been convinced that with a periscope you could see it (the sea). No-one, despite all my hints, has got me one yet.
You have now firmed up my resolution that in the new year I will somehow achieve the seeing of the sea from my house. 🔭

We, very bizarrely, got a very heavy marble rolling pin with a wooden stand from our neighbours. They gifted our kids really amazing tech, so I'm hoping it was lurking at the back of a cupboard and has been regifted. I have absolutely no idea what I said to her to make her think it would be a good gift. I've got a perfectly good wooden on which is 30 years old and does for all my rolling needs!

Oh OP, that’s so bad it’s funny 😂. Is your bed under the skylight? Will you pull it out from under the bed tonight, aim it at the skylight and describe to him everything you see? I would go to absolute town with this 😂

My MIL got me a baking tray again. I have no idea why, because I hate any form of cooking.
She also gave me a gift token for DH’s favourite restaurant, that I don’t like at all.
DH got me quite pretty, very overpriced polyester PJs, two sizes too big.
I have recently started night sweats and hot flushes. If I didn’t like polyester before, I sure as hell can’t wear it now.
On the plus side MIL hates cats with a passion, and my cat sat staring at her furiously all through the christmas dinner. It really put MIL off her food and that was very funny.

Isn't that what skylights are for? To look though? At...the sky?

Oh God 😆😆

YANBU OP

This made me laugh so hard I cried 🤣🤣

I didn’t receive a gift from my partner .
is this saying he hopes soon to be ex?
be careful what you wish for eh?
tosser

I think I’d rather have a periscope. I got a box of biscuits which DH received as a gift and showed me at the time, which then sat in the kitchen cupboard for weeks. He took it out, wrapped it and gave it to me. Pathetic

I've had lovely either thoughtful gjffs but am now sad I don't have a periscope. We could use it to check on where the dog is misbehaving. Maybe you could get a naughty dog

I love the insanity of this gift. You gotta love him for a unique gift 😃

Every morning In hear the crows on our loft extension flat roof. It sounds like they are clog dancing. If I had your periscope I could look through the skylight and find out for myself.

You could start an instagram or twitter account with daily updates called Random Views from my Periscope

#periscope 😂😂

Mil got me Palmers coco butter stretch mark cream. (I'm 8 months)

I sort of get the sentiment but at the same time, does she not think that by 8 months, i would have sorted myself out already!?

I was also gifted a little empty hessian bag thing with 3 plastic windows which I am fairly certain she received as a gift from us years ago which contained 3 jars or pots of some kind of product!! It's basically the "fancy packaging " of Bath products or possibly candles or the like.

Worst bit is that I was asked for a list from bil and sil and they said they'd share it with mil.

Nobody got me a single item off that list!
It wasn't unreasonable either, stuff from M&S that's £6 for example, a perfume that's £19, a puzzle roll up mat for £12 etc. Nothing majorly fancy.
and I also said there were some more pricier items so I was happy to just get 1 thing from all 3 of them. (Like around the £30-40 mark like a dressing gown from john lewis i liked) as I'd rather have 1 nice thing I'll definitely use vs. 20 pieces of useless tat.

I got 20 pieces of useless tat.
I tried!

Anyway, its the thought that counts I guess.

My MIL gives some random things, once she gave us cleaning supplies. She bought my son a box of plasters. I think she thinks she's being helpful she brought this horrendous rug with a cat on it this year that her sister had made, because I like cats (actual real life cats) luckily my son fancied it so it's in his room lol

Jesus. Good on you. Sounds like she was lucky to even get a book.

Thank you for posting this OP, hilarious!

@Bookworm512 Is your husband Martin from Friday night dinner? 😂😂😂😂