What do we think WigWamBam will get from Christmas this year from her MIL???

[YuleLoveHekateAtSolstice]

After the knicker elastic and the loofah, whatever will it be?

Never mind the patio; if I thought MIL had really discovered MN I'd just bury myself under there, save her the job!

I hate those jewellery things ... but she won't get me one of those. She only buys things that are difficult to get hold of.

Ally, you really don't want the crappy present.

Although you get an awful lot of MN mileage out of them

Knicker elastic isn't that hard to get hold of, no matter what she told you!

But its sooooooo funny to get a bad present. (except from dh) Its the jokes you can make out of it that count

My mil is too good at buying presents. I like everything.

Have I just killed another thread?

144 press-studs, all ready to sew on.

A large bale of straw

4000 water purification tablets

A money-converter gadget that converts every currency in the world - except pounds sterling - into roubles

A flea collar for a cat (unless WWB has a cat)

A 2003 calendar featuring views of flower arrangements

17 rolls of Dymo Name Tape for a Dymo label-maker which is now out of production

An ash tray

An already opened pack of these as surely they're what every DIL wants.

How about a pack of these sexy little items????

world peace?

a large sheet of orange binca?

rubber car footmats?

a betamax video of To The Manor Born?

some balsawood cutoffs?

i like those jewellery hanger thingys in the shape of a headless woman...

it'll be more chocolate for me (going on diet soon!)

Something practical yet also fashionable, like this little beauty.

foam remnants?

Where did you get that photo of my knickers from, mb?

Blu, I do have a cat. Which wouldn't stop the MIL buying the flea collar for me, I suppose ...

That's a sexy little number, ct (cup sizes from A to extra-long??)

a bunsen burner with the hole chewing-gummed shut

MB if you don't stay out of my underwear drawer I am getting a restraining order.

Blu your post so funny I had to re-read it and laugh again.

WWB - you seem a lovely lady; may we ask what you are getting for your mil? (now that we have given you some ideas)

This year I have no idea what we're getting the MIL for Christmas, lollipop. I abdicated all responsibility for that after Christmas last year, since I was fed up of MIL always giving me back the presents that I'd chosen for her - so this year it's up to dh to get her something. And he hasn't got it yet ...

The ideas are more for what the MIL might get for me ... guessing what the useless present will be has become a bit of a MN tradition since the elastic

So we may get another great thread on this come Boxing Day?! - or the prizegiving following this one?

So you actually bought the knicker elastic in the first place wwb? Shame on you....

wigwam, I live in hope that you will one day come on mumsnet and tell us how you stood up to your EMIL.

It's nice to see you back, btw, you were missed!

what about a loo roll cover? one of those knitted things in garish colours?

one half of a popper?

bag of sweets/biccies that went out of date last year?

naff soap/smelly combo the sort that smells like piss?

Perhaps she'll buy you a cheap Argos chip pan, like my MiL did last year? (We don't eat chips!)

No, no - I didn't buy the elastic!!

Do I look mad? (Second thoughts, don't answer that one).

Whatever she gets is bound to be a huge disappointment; how could it ever begin to compare with the elastic??

we still waiting to hear?

Part 34 of "Build your own Victorian dolls house" a 300 part series issued every 2 weeks where you get a part of the house and furniture every fortnight until you have built the whole thing. Part 34 comes with an authentic scale victorian chimney breast, unfortunately in this particular copy, it appears that Wigwambam's MiL has accidentally sat on the present, breaking the chimney breast into 2 half chimney breasts.