What presents do you always get that you don't like (but are too polite to say)

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People always get me mulled wine sets and scented candles. I can't stand either and put them straight back into the present cupboard to be recycled. Dh always gets ties which he hates as he likes to choose his own.

ferrero rocher
mulled wine
fleece pyjamas

I always get a particular type of chocolates from my mum- she thinks I love them but I hate them and now the lie is too deep for me to come clean! My colleagues like it though as I bring them in to work

lolli, do you know a teenage girl in 1988 - she would love that.
I always get hand cream, which is nice in itself but i have LOADS of the stuff. If I didn't get more between now and the day I die (hopefully in my 90s or 100s) I would still have soft, moisturised hands right until the end.

I also alays get G&B chocolate, really not keen but as someone else mentioned I can't say that now! I'm a cadbury's girl, cheap,c heerful and chocolatey

Ferraro ocher and baileys from my MIL. I am now very careful about what I say I like.

I always get a calendar off my MIL

and it's either cute kittens or watercolour scenes -one of those skinny ones with no room to write on

does she not realise they are much cheaper in January and I can choose a nice big one that I can actually make a note that it's brownies, cello lessons, pe kit day and the dentist all on the same day!

Awful toiletries, and chocolate with nuts in, bleurgh!

I've a good friend who always gets me fairly expensive bath stuff and she said to me "I know you like your bath stuff". But I don't because 9 times out of 10 I'm allergic to it! Don't feel I can say anything though.

Perfume, I never wear it ever
Pyjamas, never wear them
Bath stuff, I hate baths and can't remember the last time I had one.

If only stealth!

M&S chocolates or Thorntons from MIL. They are vile.
Cookery books from SIL. Usually one recipe in a book I might possibly try.
I used to get a lot of bath stuff. We had no bath, only a shower. Or toiletries that would bring me out in a rash.
Next vouchers... I usually spend them on kids clothes.

My mum doesn't really 'know' me either. I got decorative scarves several years in a row - which wouldn't be so bad as they were nice (even though I never wear that type of thing) but they were always accompanied by the phrase if you don't like it I'll just keep it

It upsets me a bit TBH. It's not about Getting Stuff, I just would like my mum to bother thinking about what I like, y'know? My dad doesn't really get involved with presents but now and again he just randomly buys something like a book or CD (we share a love of classical music though we like different composers) and it is perfect.

Now at Xmas/birthday (also in December) mum just says choose/buy something and I'll pay - which I appreciate as I get something I can't justify buying for myself, but TBH I'd rather mum just gave it some consideration.

Sorry for the rant

PontyMython - I know exactly how you feel. I have a December birthday as well and my parents just don't seem to give much thought to what they get me. I'm not that fussy - there are lots of things that I like and use but seem to end up with stuff I'd never use (unless I ask for specific things which I don't really like doing because I do like a surprise ).

I love the "I know you like.....so and so" line and the best one is when I got given a gold crucifix by my dad and step mum because "I noticed you didn't have one". Yup, there's a very good reason for that

another one
belgian biscuits [bleugh]