So my dad has bought my mum.....

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....a duvet.

I wrap his.presents - I just text to check I have the right bag and apperently its "not just any duvet - its a hot and cold posh one from Marks"

Why are you wrapping his presents?

My mum wouldn't be impressed by the duvet gift unless she'd been moaning about being cold in bed? clutching at straws

But it does sound like exactly the kind of gift my dad would buy which is why mum buys her own...

Is that you, DD?

Oh I quite like the duet gift, so long as I got a little treat gift too.
I'm more concerned about why you are doing his wrapping? Is he physically incapable in some way?

LMAO Id kill him

I've brought my parents a new duvet for Christmas with new pillows and lots of new bedding.... They really need them though

I think that sounds like the perfect gift but then I love, love LOVE my bed and am very particular about the blankets that go on it. I don't get the hot/cold bit though...is it electric?

Wrt the wrapping - he hates it, I enjoy it. He takes.my car to get fixed. Tit for tat really.

I didnt think Id see a gift this bad again after the great Mop nd Bucket fiasco of 1998.

Or the year she asked for a coat and he bought her four.

The hot/cold thing is (I think from the photo on the packet) a kingduvet where one half is winter tog and the other half is summer tog (dm gets too hot in bed).

Tbf, I would love a relaly posh duvet, from my mum, I love my bed and cotton sheets, but not from DH.

I'd love one of those duvets. If DH bought me one for xmas I'd be thrilled. I boil at night, whilst he shivers, and there is no compromise bedding that works.

Whilst it may be a well thought out purchase - for christmas? As a gift to your wife?

How about two singles? Might not look all ticketyboo when the bed is made, but it is a solution.

Can't believe this type of duvet exists! It's exactly what we need.

I've just scoured the M&S website but can't find it - does anyone have a link?

Sorry for the hijack OP.

Hold on, if they share a bed won't he get the benefit too? So, it's a present to himself. No, no and thrice no.

Arg ive just wrapped it otherwise id take a photo.

Dm would go mental at two singles - husband and wife are meant to share the whole bed dont you know. She does cats bum.mouth at any couple who ever dont share a bed for whatever reason.

My mum had a big bday this year. I asked my dad what he'd bought her: a shed. She's always wanted a shed, he goes.

On questioning my mother, she was most disappointed. She'd been expecting a diamond.

Exaclty Yama. itd be like dh buying me a kettle. Or a showerhead.

Esme

Hmmmm, it's what I'm giving DH for christmas. Along with some clothes he needs, and some posh coffee and tea.

We are not hard up - he is just ungrateful, so I might as well get him things I want.

My mum received a shower head as a gift from my stepdad. It was their first Christmas as husband and wife.

She said if he had got it before they married then she would have never married him

It wasn't a joke gift either. She mentioned the shower head needed replacing once. In summer time.

'She's always wanted a shed.'

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For her birthday he has bought her a Kindle evn though she doesnt want one as she reads in the bath and often drops the book in. She has bought him a Cruise in the Fjords for his birthday