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Where is the "My Inlaws Charge For X-mas Dinner" Thread...?

70 replies

purpleduck · 01/12/2008 16:10

Seriously, where has it gone? I am dying to know:
a) was it a wind-up
and
b)What they got for £65!!!

Its disappeared!!!

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Original poster
purpleduck · 01/12/2008 22:06

eek,
I called her dp and his whole family "jellyfish" due to their apparent lack of a spine....

True though.

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PavlovtheCat · 01/12/2008 22:09

Maybe its an ex now ? ?

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purpleduck · 02/12/2008 10:20
Smile
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TwentiethCenturyHeffa · 02/12/2008 10:27

My grandma used to charge per head for Christmas dinner, and for overnight visits etc. Glad it's not just her!

PenelopePitstops · 02/12/2008 12:14

come on........someone knows!

NorbertDentressangle · 02/12/2008 14:10

Are we still waiting to find out what happened to the original thread?

StealthPolarBear · 02/12/2008 14:19

yes we are!

Majeika · 02/12/2008 14:40

Mumsnet have not replied to my reported post!

Idrankthechristmasspirits · 02/12/2008 14:47

My BIL brings his own drinks, hides them in the shed and then sneaks round through the back garden to take them home with him every christmas after drinking his way through all the alchohol we have in the house. Always makes me .
I sent my neighbour out there last year with a torch shouting "neighbourhood watch! I've called the police! Stop thief!"

My sil always promises to bring the pudding (i always cook christmas dinner) and then turns up announcing we all need to lose weight so no pudding. That always makes me as well. I love christmas traditions.

ilovemydog · 02/12/2008 14:55

Will be gutted if it was a wind-up.

Managed to convince dp to get some money off in laws based on this thread. But they have spent every Christmas here for past 4 years and they never offer to bring anything...

bran · 02/12/2008 17:00

Nicdigby is posting now (the rather whingey AIBU thread about a mother in a post office queue). Has anyone asked her where her thread went.

MrsThierryHenry · 03/12/2008 22:14

Did anyone find out what happened to this brilliant and hilarious thread, then?

bran · 04/12/2008 09:54

There was an explanation (eventually) here. Apparently her SIL is a lawyer. I neither believe Nicdigby nor disblieve her but I have suspicions.

MrsThierryHenry · 04/12/2008 22:23

Thanks for the update, bran! Still, I don't get how someone can sue for defamation if it's true! If she chooses to charge people for Xmas she should be mature about it and face the fact that everyone else will think she's a materialistic cow!

bran · 04/12/2008 22:42

Well - like I say, I neither believe nor disbelieve Nicdigby's version of events, but I wouldn't assume that she was the most reliable or objective person on MN.

It did occur to me that her name might actually be Nicola Digby, if so that would remove her SIL's anonymity (as well as showing a stunning lack of imagination ).

MrsThierryHenry · 04/12/2008 22:46

Yes, I wondered that, too!!!

It's amazing what some people manage to get away with, though - charging for Xmas! I think I should start being cheekier and more primadonna-ish in RL...

Quattrocento · 04/12/2008 22:47

I cannot believe that anyone would charge for christmas. I really am struggling with that one ...

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purpleduck · 05/12/2008 17:32

Apparenetly the SIL found out.....

OK,
MESSAGE TO SIL:

STOP BEING SO TIGHT SHAME!!

End of message.

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supertightSIL · 05/12/2008 17:46

I shall be charging mumsnet for the entertainment value that my xmas meal arrangements have provided. £5 per post seems fair to me.

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purpleduck · 05/12/2008 18:31

!!

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