MIL gets the strangest gifts

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This is lighthearted, I dont actually mind I just find it funny.

DPs mum got me a bottle of blackcurrant squash, some washing pods but they weren’t new ones in a box. She had put 6 washing pods into a plastic ziplock bag, a pair of Disaronno earrings (why lmao) And a money box disguised as a tin of baked beans. Me and DP can’t stop laughing at how random these are.

Has anyone else got any “wtf” gifts this year? 😄

My secret santa from work appears to be Maltesers glued together in a Christmas pudding shape.

Not as bizarre as your laundry pods though! 🤣

My MIL was the same. She once got DH a comb. He’s bald. And a hat. Ut it was a child’s hat. I got plastic shower caps once.

No, I honestly have never received such a random array of gifts 😂 sounds hilarious.

My weirdest gift was one year when I was about 28 my parents gave me a stocking filled with toys. Like literal toys for young children. Things like a children’s book with a wind up train that drove on the page. It was utterly bizarre. I tried not to be annoyed but I’m not such a nice person as you. Luckily I worked with kids at the time and just took it all in to work. I think they must have missed buying for children as there were not grandchildren then and just lost their shit temporarily. Worse was my husband had a load of toys too. I remember us locking eyes as we were opening our toys like “what the hell”.

Ahahahahaha these are hilarious 😂 makes me wonder why I stress so much about buying great gifts when there’s people that buy things like this

Are you sure it’s not stuck together with chocolate? So still edible. It’s a Thing.

This is hilarious!

My Dad bought washing powder for his sister this year. She said she’s just happy he got her anything. She’s given all of us lovely gifts for decades.

My aunt used to give my mum (who gave her lovely, thoughtful gifts!) washing up liquid and teabags...!!

My elderly neighbour always (without fail) sent me man-size kleenex.

Nothing as random as on this thread. But My late grandma bless her used to get us all a voucher for a shop of our choice (lovely) but then felt the need to wrap up some tat to open on Christmas Day - stuff she’d bought in Poundland I think. ‘So’ body spray for women in their 20s, cheap gloves in lurid colours, and most memorably a fluffy scarf/snood type thing which could be worn in various ways according to the packaging, including as a boob tube style dress 😂😂😂

My DH got a box of 210 Yorkshire tea bags and a box of Brunch bars from DSIL.

MIL bought our youngest a chocolate Xmas figure and a child friendly rosary. He has a dairy/soya/egg allergy. Maybe she's hoping the power of prayer will save him 🤷‍♀️

MIL used to do this - one year I got a can of de-icer wrapped!
She just gives us cash usually now, with a token present.

One year my aunt sent me and DH a Christmas card with some feathers from her budgie!

One relative used to do something slightly related to this, by sending presents such as jewellery hidden within a box of teabags, and books within breakfast cereal.

Are you sure the malteasers aren't stuck to a chocolate orange? That's the easy way to make a malteaser Xmas pudding

I would be pleased to receive a large packet of Yorkshire Teabags and some Brunch bars. 🥳🤣
My late great Aunt used to buy very random gifts and she often regifted items. For my wedding present I received a large plastic bronze coloured fruit holder in the shape of an oak leaf. Now she’s passed, I often wish I’d kept it.
When my late brother was 15 she gave him a polythene car mat with foam hedgerows. My mum kept it with a large box of toy cars and generations of children played with it….but not my brother.

I'd quite like this.

Ds3 once got the following, from my FIL, for his 7th birthday - a book of funny cat cartoons, a book about the history of the Cornish pasty, and a book on Cornish cheeses. FIL is a lovely man, but in his own, slightly strange little world.

My wonderful, amazing MIL is now 92. She lives with us. Every year she gets me a comedy present as it’s a tradition we have.

This year she put together a wee hamper, ribbon and everything. I could see the glint in her eye as I began opening it.

It contained, a packet of Tena ladies, a new kitchen washing up sponge, some vanilla pods and some plantar insoles).

I flippin love her, she merrily said ‘the big 60 next year Maddiemoo, they’ll come in handy’. plus she knows I love vanilla pods.

BTW, she also bought us two tickets to see Come from Away at the Theatre and for me alone she bought me some lovely Sketchers trainers.

My life will be much less joyful when she is no longer with us.

My (now ex) brother and sister in law once gave me and my ex husband an Animal Hospital annual for Christmas. We were both in our thirties, no kids.
We'd bought them a pair of Edinburgh crystal brandy glasses, and spent £30 on their little one (back in the 90s). Even bought stockings for their dogs.
After that, we got nothing for Christmas, after being told "We'll get things for the kids when you have them." Knowing we weren't having any.
And my husband was daft enough to keep insisting buying presents for all of them, even after that.

At Christmas 1994, my aunt bought me a diary for 1994. So I had a week left.

My friend's oldest brother, who was odd and notoriously tight fisted, used to buy presents from charity shops.
Nothing wrong with that, except one year he gave his sister a VHS video of Princess Diana's funeral (she didn't have a video player), one can of beer from a multipack for her husband, nothing for either of her sons, but a very decent (and new!) Christmas stocking for the dog.

To be fair, I love a bit of blackcurrant squash 🤣🤣🤣🤣

This year I'm a proud recipient of an address book. It's a tad worn around the edges but no one has written in it. It was padded out with some Baylis & Harding hand cream. A relatively good haul this year!