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? 😄

A politically-minded younger BiL once gave dd a book, admittedly in cartoon format, entitled, ‘Cuba For Beginners’
Dd was two!

When I burst out laughing and asked him WTF he was thinking, he said, ‘Well, it does say ‘for beginners’.

Jumbo pack of plastic spoons....

I got a box of lush bath bombs that have gone mouldy so I'm assuming they are from a charity shop, and a Pot Noodle power bank charger.

Oh and a single whisk.

lol, TenaLady from your MIL! MN could have a field day 😂.

DH received a bin for our car from his 91 year old aunt.

I'd love that

I used to send DSis is France stuff like teabags , custard powder and iced gems. I'd fill one of those boxes that you get 5 reams of paper in. Used to cost me about £20 to buy and £20 to send. Since Brexit, nearer £60 to send, so I havn't done it since.

I have had a tonne of weird stuff over the years so much I have become immune to it. I often mention stuff I have been give and get looks of 'WTF' and realize 'yeah maybe my family is a little odd' but it comes from a good place.

I honestly thing Id struggle to find the washing pods anything but insulting, the fact it wasn't even a sealed box but a random few in a zip-lock bag seems more offensive than nothing. If it was new ones I would judge it on the person, if it had been my mam just eccentrically weird but some other people I might wonder if they where passively aggressively saying I smell or something.

Was the squash some kind of fancy 'presse' type (like an alternative to alcohol) or just a plastic bottle of 90p kids squash?

I googled the earrings... so tacky if its what came up, but a funny novelty stocking filler thing so I wouldn't find it 'bad bad' just funny.

My mam bought me the money bank can of bean before, I think its one of those fun little random novelties, very stocking filler type stuff.

A set of table napkins and set of horrible thick wine glasses - both very well used by the giver.

I remember my sister getting a really gross cocktail shaker set from my dbro and his gf. It was clearly from a Charity shop and in desperate need of a clean. It was absolutely gross and would have been extremely cheap to begin with tbh! On a similar theme, dbro and his no ex-wife gave some books to my dd which they'd just been given for their own dd by my aunt and sister 😂. If you're going to re-gift don't give it back to the same family geniuses 🙄.

This year my dFIL has sent us a selection of Cornish cheeses, through the post, and four walnuts.

The cheeses seem to have survived being posted the length of the UK without a cool pack (he packed them himself) - but we are baffled by the four walnuts.

OMG yes. My DM is shit. I've just posted on another thread about her presents to me this year.

A very cheap cat calendar. (I am allergic to cats. Don't like 'em)
A third copy of a book on '10,000 dreams Interpreted'. (I don't believe in this sort of thing; neither does she. She also gave me the same book for my last birthday, and last Christmas. I am waiting with baited breath for my birthday in April to see if I get a fourth copy of it)
A pair of size 10/12 pjs (that I don't like). In addition I am a size 20/22.

Four walnuts 😂😂

FIL gave us a box of about 5 different cheddars. I literally grew up in Cheddar, I need no more cheddar in my life. But he is known for being purposefully rubbish at thinking of gifts.

My father's cousin, Uncle Crispin, used to buy our family the most wonderfully weird presents every year. He also made a special effort to visit us to hand deliver a gift every Christmas and for each of our birthdays. He was a slightly eccentric bachelor who dedicated his life to the church and often spent time visiting missionaries abroad, often returning with fair trade gifts. My favourites included a wooden salad fork and spoon (aged 7), a clay dog bowl for my mother, a carved wooden eagle that flapped its wings if you pulled its leg (for my sister's 21st) and a set of medical specimen containers for collecting wee and stool samples in a hand woven little case (when I was 9). His gifts bought us enormous joy and amusement. Very sadly he then met a lady and we started to receive rather boring age appropriate normal presents. She completely spoiled the fun!

😂

Please can people post any pics. I’m dying laughing.
The thought of wrapping a single beer can….

This thread is amazing 😂

This is brilliant 😂😂😂

I’ve really enjoyed reading through all of these, a few have proper tickled me 😂

to the person who asked about the squash… yes it was just Robinson blackcurrant cordial

This thread is brilliant. It has genuinely been a funny read.

My own rubbish gift that I got as a child was a set of felt tips in a plastic bag. They were 2nd hand and half had run out.