Cheap chocolate and presents from MIL

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Mil and dhs family always buy rubbish presents and easter chocolate for our dcs. We're talking rotten own brand chocolate that nobody likes. It just gets chucked in the bin. Also cheap plastic toys from b&m in the 2 for £20 offer for birthdays and Christmas. Always break into pieces and get chucked in the bin. They are most definitely not poor. Wibu to ask them not to buy anymore for our dcs? If I phrase it that they have too much already and were trying to cut down on toys and treats?

The 2 for 20 quid toys are not “cheap crap”. They are pretty robust and shouldn’t break.

Perhaps grandparents are buying these because they’ve seen how badly the kids treat their toys so why bother spending £££.

Cheap chocolate is fine. It’s of an OK quality and the kids will like it as long as it has tons of sugar in it. I always remember getting the really cheap stuff from my granny 40 years ago. It was far lower quality than it is today, but we still ate it.

OP is being a snob.

Hard disagree on Aldi chocolate. I find it far less sweet and sickly than named brands. The only downside to that is, I’m likely to eat far more of it!

My IL have a multi-million property portfolio. They rarely bought DC anything at all. Presents were usually bought by me and labelled from them and I might get sent the money to cover the cost (all at their behest). They did start dropping envelopes of money on DC. The most memorable was us letting DC go and buy a Switch after they realised the envelope of cash for no reason would buy one. I think birthday cards filled with love and cheap Easter eggs would have shown far more love and consideration because buying cheap tat takes time.

Thorntons, like Cadburys, has been Americanised and now tastes cheap and nasty. I no longer buy either for myself for choice (though I will admit to buying a GC a Cadburys chocolate button Easter egg, bit stuck because of size of egg, age and taste of GC). Mars is fine and I like Maltezers still (sadly the centres are no longer less fattening!😕).

Once the toy breaks, why don’t you give it back to your MIL and ask if she can return it as its faulty - keep doing that and I’m sure she will realise the quality isn’t up to standard.

agree with the others on donating the eggs, or baking with it. I always do that with chocolate in our house which we don’t enjoy, or donate if it hasn’t been opened

@pollymere why on earth paper their cracks and buy them presents from them

Get a grip, you're either trolling or incredibly ungrateful.

You are coming across as very entitled and ungrateful, a lot of people are in a lot worse situations! Just accept the gifts and donate them, and teach your kids to be appreciative as some people would be delighted to even have someone think enough of them to buy them tat. The gifts that are given are no reflection on the love your in laws have for your children, seriously grow up. I started off with a ‘no plastic’ rule and it quickly got abandoned, because the joy that gift giving brings to people is worth more than my snobbery, and I can do my good deeds by giving it away on FB.

Do you not realise how entitled you sound nor what entitled children you are in danger of raising?

I understand you totally. I hate when our IL s ask my DC what they want and they go on buy cheap stuff nobody likes. Why even ask a child of your planing to give rubbish. I would prefer a card with 10 euros anytime so kid can buy what kid likes. But I think there no point in telling INs that ,just bin it and that's it. You re not being ungrateful,you just want the best for your kids.

What are you talking about, Lidi chocolate is really nice, have you actually tried it it just decided that us below you and binned it?

Wooden toys. Lmao. No wonder the PIL buy them 2 for £20 plastic toys, your kids must be bored stuff.

Stiff.

Exactly. OP talks about Lidl chocolate as being rotten and disgusting and that they immediately bin it. Anyone who knows anything about chocolate knows it's better than Cadburys! OP sounds a bit ignorant.