Gifts for people you hate

[LadyCampanulaTottington]

I have to buy a gift for my odious mother. For many complex reasons I can’t not but I want to put as little thought and effort in as possible.

What have you bought for people you hate? I need ideas!

Chocolates. Bath bombs. Baylis & Harding gift sets. Slipper socks. Jigsaw. All the boring but easy things.

Bayliss and harding gift set.
A five pound gift card for a really expensive shop
Does she smoke? If not a lighter.
A bottle of lambini
A picture hanging set with no picture, just the hooks.
A tub of sudocreme
Anusol

Ooo jigsaw is a good one!

@HerRoyalHappiness

If you bought me a jigsaw you'd be my best mate forever

Babyliss & Harding is the true gift that says 'I had to buy you a gift, I didn't want to'.

Honestly it would make me feel horrible to buy presents with such negative thoughts. So I think I’d have to buy a charity gift or something that some good would come out of- alongside a generic gift, maybe from a local small business.

Gift experiences, always a pain to use.

Lots of generic “smellies” !

Like the Body-wash (you would add to your grocery shop every month anyway) & Bath Puff gift set.

Crap, thoughtless, and hopefully makes them wonder if they smell

As an adult my dh was given lynx Africa from his sister in law. Says it all

Bath stuff, chocolates and those little mini drinks gift sets that come with a glass.

Definitely Bayliss & Harding. A loo brush. Or, to copy my late husband, a box containing polish, a duster, oven cleaner and a feather duster.

Gift to charity on their behalf. I do this every year for my terrible father.
It’s win-win. I’ve done my polite duty, it goes to a charity, and nobody can be mad about that.

Bottle of pre-mixed cocktail. Crap craft set. Ticket to boring exhibition. Gloves that clash with her coat. Cook book eg for vegan cupcakes if she is not vegan and does not like cupcakes. A framed photograph with you in it that she will feel obliged to display.

A framed photo of you.

So I agree about the negative thoughts, I feel a charity gift makes the negative into a positive for someone else who deserves it more!

Get a photo of you made into an enormous jigsaw

Echo what PP said about a charity gift. My DDad was "given" a goat for a farmer one year and HATED it I thought it was great (although I wasn't the giver)!

I love a Baylis and Harding gift set!!! Wondering what they says about me

@LadyCampanulaTottington

Make sure it’s a jigsaw of something really boring. Like a fruit bowl. Or a cat if she hates cats.

I love lambrini 😂 especially mango! Agree with a baylis and Harding gift set though, extra points if you can get one 3 for 2 and leave the little present sticker on it

Ex DP gets a calendar every year where the image each month is a picture DC have drawn or painted. What's not to love, evidence of his child's flourishing art work!? He has to display it. New wife hates having it. Not classy enough, lol. It takes little time, just a quick photo here and there and a trip to Timpsons at the end of November.
By the way, my parents get one too and they LOVE it! On a par with the red wine he buys me every year when he knows I hate it...

This lovely calendar

Me too @Poppins17 - I'd also like a jigsaw

A crappy calendar would be my choice or biography of someone she doesn't like

If you’re giving a jigsaw remember to open the box first and remove a piece

Garage flowers.

Something that you can pick up when you do the weekly food shop so requires no extra effort or thought at all