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Christmas Present for awful SIL

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BanKittenHeels · 02/12/2019 20:54

I hate my SIL, she hates me. I haven’t seen her in years, she has treated me appallingly in the past.
She will be at our family Christmas for the first time in 20 years, we have to get her Christmas present because she is the queen of petty and will get me one just go be seen go do so.

What the hell do you buy for someone you hate and have no clue as to their personal tastes?

Skipping getting her a present is not an option.

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TristmasChree · 02/12/2019 23:35

A hamper of Slimfast products!

Redyoyo · 02/12/2019 23:43

A m&s royal jelly gift set, here you go old dear!

70sWitch · 02/12/2019 23:50

Pet rock.
Snowman kit
Fertility god statue with huge penis
Mittens
Rude colouring book.

I'll keep thinking Grin

70sWitch · 02/12/2019 23:52

Picked people?
Anything taxiderny.

ChookieYorksBrokenSweatGlands · 03/12/2019 00:02

If you feel you must buy her a gift get something decent and feel good about yourself.

AmIOdetteOrOdile · 03/12/2019 06:56

Just to throw a curveball: what if she's changed since you last saw her, and turns up and makes an effort to be nice and brings lovely gifts for you all? You'll feel crap giving her a crappy present.
So, I'd either go for an Oxfam gift thing (sustainable/no waste yadda yadda) or something nice. That way, no matter how she behaves, you will feel good about yourself.

puds11 · 03/12/2019 07:04

Box of jellied fruits and candied almonds

FredaFrogspawn · 03/12/2019 07:11

Sleepwarrior is absolutely right. Tempting though it is to go for something with a view to insulting her, it is not becoming. A host shouldn’t invite someone then treat them badly, whatever had happened 20 years ago. Either get her something on par to the gifts you’re giving others, or don’t invite her.

PizzaExpressWoking · 03/12/2019 07:23

Keep whatever she gives you this year, ready to give it back to her next Christmas. Forward planning Grin

SlurplePurple · 03/12/2019 13:05

The pound shop is your friend. They have some Donald trump toilet brushes in right now.

BarbaraofSeville · 03/12/2019 16:13

Unless your DH is working 16 hour days somewhere with no access to any shops/supermarkets/the internet, 'working away' is not an excuse to leave Christmas shopping to you.

It would honestly never occur to me to buy her a present in the circumstances you describe, but if you insist, you have lots of suggestions, or get her a gift card for a shop predicted to go bust any time soon and sells overpriced shite that no-one really wants. House of Fraser would be perfect.

AnneTyler12345 · 03/12/2019 17:05

@CherryBathBomb yes ! Or indeed, any charity - she can't complain and you get to give to charity.

spamm · 03/12/2019 17:11

I understand your impulse, but is this gift from you alone, or you and your husband? If it is both of you, I would buy something reasonable, unless your husband dislikes her as much as you do, or make your husband buy it. He may be away, but he can surely go online and buy something? Or send him 3 options to choose from.

Aquamarine1029 · 03/12/2019 17:14

An expired tin of canned ham.

wifeslife · 03/12/2019 17:15

Sponsor a toilet

AndAnotherNameChanger · 03/12/2019 17:16

Go to the charity shop and buy anything which is a lot cheaper than it would be new but which is in good enough condition to pass as new. Doesn't matter if it's her taste or not.

It'll look like you've spent a lot on her, thus making you look like the bigger person/embarrassing her if she hasn't also spent a decent amount but you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you haven't spent much, what you did spend went to charity and that you've not created more waste by buying something new which'll go to waste.

PixieDustt · 03/12/2019 17:17

Coal

PixieDustt · 03/12/2019 17:21

I once got a mug for DP as a joke that was a plain white mug until he drank from it and it said cunt underneath it

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BanKittenHeels · 03/12/2019 17:23

Thanks everyone.
I didn’t want to get her something specifically horrible, just something I can hand her without her technically being able to complain at all.

We are NC with her, she is going to come to PIL’s (which for various reasons DH and I are hosting). It is the first time we will have seen her properly this decade.

DH is working locum in NT, Australia, he has limited space to bring back requests from the DC and has little to no internet access.

I’ve got her a bottle of champagne with some nice champagne saucers and I’ll pick up an Oxfam goat/loo/whatever next time I’m passing somewhere that sells them.

I was so tempted by the B&H gift sets but I don’t want anyone to judge me on those, particularly her. 😂

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TeeBee · 03/12/2019 17:31

This.

Christmas Present for awful SIL
Lysianthus · 08/12/2019 18:23

As sunshine said, a fowl smelling candle would at least be seasonally appropriate.

DecemberSnow · 08/12/2019 18:25

A picture frame with a picture of you in it...

That should do it 😂

newdeer · 08/12/2019 18:28

My unspeakable half sister in law (she stole DH's sister's husband and the pair of them managed to wriggle into DFiL and MiL's lives even though they had cheated on their daughter) has given me some spectacularly awful presents. The free with any purchase Bopots sanctuary spa set (that I am allergic to) was good. So was the very cheap tin of Cadbury's chocolate biscuits for DH, me and DC to share between us when we had bought them individual, thoughtful presents. Don't make an effort with monsters.

Cheap chocs or BOGOF bath stuff.

AllYouGoodGoodPeople · 08/12/2019 18:31

Your ideas sound good but would be even better with a card "from the both of us" wishing her "all the happiness you deserve"

champagneandfromage50 · 08/12/2019 18:34

Just get a little Christmas gift bag from hotel chocolat. You can get them for around 15. Nice and easy

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