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CF ILS - anyone else want to vent?

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CheshGirl · 31/12/2023 11:44

Cooked and hosted Christmas dinner for in-laws as well as my family including my 2 small children (also currently 12 weeks pregnant).

In-laws asked what they could "bring" earlier in Dec, I said nothing really as I had it ordered from Ocado.

By this MIL assumed it was all prepared as her response was "how lovely, Christmas in a box", throughout the day she continued to question what I had made and what had come "done".

We agreed they would bring "drinks"...

Considering there were 7 adults and 2 children, any guesses what they turned up with...?!

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Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 31/12/2023 13:44

Howbizzare22 · 31/12/2023 13:28

A penis beaker?

What in the world is a penis beaker?

TammyJones · 31/12/2023 13:48

Theasparrot · 31/12/2023 12:28

I give up. I'm not even going to guess. What a waste of time

Yes, this thread does seem a bit pointless, after 2 hours op has left the building

Ladybirder · 31/12/2023 13:50

Bottles of sparkling water?! What did she bring?

Serene135 · 31/12/2023 13:50

OP hadn’t come back yet so lets keep guessing 😂

Shoe charms and a grow your own beaver?

Coastalcreeksider · 31/12/2023 13:50

Bottle of turps?

Getting fed up now 🙄

BillyNotQuiteNoMates · 31/12/2023 13:51

I’m guessing tap water, just to find out what they actually contributed should OP,bother to return to her thread

Epidote · 31/12/2023 13:58

A bottle of cordial

Howbizarre22 · 31/12/2023 13:58

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 31/12/2023 13:44

What in the world is a penis beaker?

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Its a reference to a classic mumsnet thread where the OP was asking if anyone else’s DP uses a beaker with water at the side of the bed to wash his Willy in after sex. You probably had to be there. (On the thread I mean, not in OPs bedroom 🥴🤣)

NotARealWookiie · 31/12/2023 13:58

supermarket value cola and lambrini?

Howbizarre22 · 31/12/2023 14:01

Howbizarre22 · 31/12/2023 13:58

Its a reference to a classic mumsnet thread where the OP was asking if anyone else’s DP uses a beaker with water at the side of the bed to wash his Willy in after sex. You probably had to be there. (On the thread I mean, not in OPs bedroom 🥴🤣)

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Was just being facetious as we are having to wait way too long for OP to tell us what her family brought to the party. Come on OP!?

Tangelablue · 31/12/2023 14:01

Shampoo?

MillarMountVandal · 31/12/2023 14:02

Their laundry?

XenaTheWarriorPrincess · 31/12/2023 14:03

Come on now @CheshGirl you really must tell us the answer!

My guess is a bottle or two of wine and a bottle of pop.

Zonder · 31/12/2023 14:05

We are never going to find out, I don't think 😭

MILTOBE · 31/12/2023 14:06

A two litre bottle of Coke.

MillarMountVandal · 31/12/2023 14:09

Zonder · 31/12/2023 14:05

We are never going to find out, I don't think 😭

Ach who cares, it'll be epically anticlimactic anyway.

I'm finding it interesting though, reading through the thread, to see just how many of us spend Christmas enduring people we don't like. I didn't invite my in laws this year, for the first time in years, and it was wonderful - we've had the loveliest Christmas in a long time.

hookiewookie29 · 31/12/2023 14:12

We have hubby's Brother every year at Christmas. And he can bloody eat! To the point where we have to put food away from him. He lives alone, and survives on pizza and curry. Always ask him to bring drinks ( bearing in mind the amount he eats, it's the least he can do!)
2 years ago he bought a bottle of wine and 4 cans of lager; fair enough,although he drank all the cans himself then some of hubby's.
Last year he brought nothing.
This year he brought one can of lager.
Then drank 7 of hubby's Christmas beer....

BIossomtoes · 31/12/2023 14:13

Keir’s beer?

Mikimoto · 31/12/2023 14:14

Harvey's Bristol Cream?

ruthieness · 31/12/2023 14:19

Haha - my cheeky fucker sister brought her laundry to my house on Christmas Day once and swore at me when I refused to let her use the washing machine and then hang her wet washing all over the house!

diddl · 31/12/2023 14:21

Mikimoto · 31/12/2023 14:14

Harvey's Bristol Cream?

Ahh that's all my childhood Christmases come flooding back!

That's what always went in the trifle sponge!

HeadChog · 31/12/2023 14:22

A Harrods hamper - proper "Christmas in a box" as per Margot Leadbetter.

IncompleteSenten · 31/12/2023 14:23

If it turns out to be something perfectly normal I shall be most disappointed 😁

2024i · 31/12/2023 14:24

I’m assuming it’s something completely normal but in too low quantities

stayathomer · 31/12/2023 14:28

Only wine? Or just fizzy drinks? Or just a juice? TELL US!!!!!😅

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