Sensible Or Mean..??

[Bathsheba]

My MIL's DH used to be a big whisky drinker. He was a well known face in his village and popular and many people knew he liked Whisky.

So, over the years many people bought him Whisky.

What they didn;t realise is that over time the amount he actually drank was a LOT less than the amount he received, basically meaning that there was a LOT of bottles in the cupboard.

He died in February this year.

My DH received a bottle of whisky from his Mum for his Christmas - his main present from her - he does drink the odd whisky butt not a huge amount - probably about 1 bottle a year worth.

On putting it in the cupboard its obvious from writing on the box that it was one of the bottles gifted over the years to her DH (there is a message written on the bottle of "To XXX from YYYY and ZZZZ").

Sensible of his mother to get rid of some of the many bottles she is left with as presents (she doesn't drink) or mean of her to give an old bottle of whisky from someone else to her son?

bit of both
though shes obviously not nearly conniving enough if she got caught

Most people pay more for old whiskey than for new. And if he's old enough to drink whiskey, your OH should be beyond wondering ow new and shiny his presents from mum are.
You could help her ebay the collection.

Sensible i think.
What does she want with loads of unopened bottles of whisky lying round. may as well give it away....probably NOT as a main present though.

I would give the bottles away, but not as a present and certainly not as a main present. Bit mean

Hi Goblinchild..

As far as I know Whisky matures only in barrells, not in bottles - once its in bottles the aging stops, so its not maturing and becoming better in her cupboard...

The bottles that she has aren't collectable or rare in any way - 99% of them will be bog standard blends or malts that can be picked up in any off license or supermarket, so its not a "collection" as such that could be sold to a collector...

Thanks for everyone's opinions, keep 'em coming...

Sensible to give it away, a little mean for it to be his Christmas present.

What kind of whisky is it?

If DH hadn't got the whisky, what sort of value/ type of present would you have expected a[nd what would other family members get?

If he and other family normally get something of the order of a bottle of nice whisky, then sounds perfectly reasonable - would be a waste to go get another bottle if you#ve already got some! Similarly we arranged to stop swapping presents with BIL a while back after a few years of exchanging champagne bottles. We all have established househokds and don't need more clutter so it's ,more about food and drink and token presents now.

If rest of DH's family all got amazing stuff that's different.

just drink it and you'll stop stressing

Sensible. She's probably fed up of wandering what to get her son for the last two decades. Very silly not to check the box though.