Xmas gifts I hate receiving

[JammyRed]

As Christmas is approaching the gifts I dread getting that I get every year are : Xmas themed socks , slipper socks , body lotion , body scrub. Christmas ornaments , Christmas mugs and glasses . Really cheap pound shop chocolate . Mulled wine or spicy biscuits. They don’t go to waste as I donate them to charity . What are the gifts you dread getting ?

Actually I saw a video on FB yesterday, one of those challenge type ones where you ask your kid questions. The question was “tell me 3 things that you received for Christmas last year” It really highlighted for me that a lot of the stuff we buy is such a waste as basically none of the kids seemed to remember what they got.

Family Circle biscuits 😂

Candles, also random stuff from wherever
I do like Lindor though, definitely not for sharing 😉

Smellies.

I use Sanex body wash and E45 lotion and that's about it.

Gift boxes of lotion and body wash make me groan. You can't even re-gift them anymore as they usually have the date e.g. 'AW2024' emblazoned on them now 😂

Nah it screams 'I couldn't be arsed to get to know you' but feel have a social obligation, so here have the chore of buying your own gift.

Lets be honest if you don't know someone well enough to know what they like frankly you aren't close enough to be exchanging gifts.

A cash gift is very much the staple what great aunt Ida who you met twice in 25 years of life sends you to 'keep it fair with all the kids in the family' even though she doesn't even remember your name (as evident by the card that will have a swing and a miss in). Old Aunt Ida doesn't need to spend hundreds sending strangers £10 though really, no one would be mad if she didn't.

Vouchers are 100x worse, at least money while effortless is universally useful. We have had vouchers for over £100 go to waste though. They are always for some bloody awkward store thats nowhere near where we live and doesn't sell anything we want/need. So they get put 'in a safe place' until we get time to drive 3 cities away to go but then is forgotten and found months later when they have magically 'expired'. The whole industry of gift cards is a massive scam that make a fortune off 'invalidating' cash gifts with expiry dates.

@CoralOP DO NOT ACT PLEASED!!
You'll get shit every year from now on.

DHs Aunt who had a very dry wit received a card from DH brother (nephew to aunt) with "to my Sister In Law" on it...
Aunt then sent him a birthday card the following year "to my Husband".
🤦🏻‍♀️

You sound rather snobbish

If I don't like anything I receive, and I certainly wouldn't say it as I'm always grateful, I simply gift it on or donate to local charities or as a raffle prize.

anything on my allergy list, which admittedly is long. This is going to include any of the common things like a candle or lotion. Even opening the gift can be a problem.

im super easy to shop for otherwise. I have tons of hobbies and interests. There is an unending supply of tiny things that would make me very happy.

🤣🤣 I think I've just accepted it now, it gets worse every year so i dont think it will turn around now.
We love her to bits, she loves a bargain...a bit too much, we all have a chuckle at it x

Yep.
Please make a donation to charity - Cat, Donkey etc...

Did my mother ever listen? My Aunts let's face it, uncles don't buy crap from boots? Friends?

Noooo. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I could have a paddock full of donkeys by now - my relatives/friends buy shit that ends up in landfill instead.

I still disagree.

I think it's rude and entitled to be given a cash gift, and then moan that there's no effort. How spoil do you have to be to dismiss a nice gesture 😂

Bet you would be one of those posters horrified to receive a hand-made gift.

Or, if you want to be as mean as you are, maybe it's a hint: your gifts are crap and they are begging you to stop giving them stuff they don't like

I don’t mind most consumables- chocolates, toiletries, biscuits, candles. They can be used up or regifted.
What I hate is house decor stuff that isn’t to my taste and is just going to clutter my house .

That’s inspired!

i hate getting anything permanent -ornaments, pictures etc. Chocolate’s a waste, I don’t eat it, but I think rather than telling Year 7 I’m allergic this year, I’ll just gratefully accept and distribute it round school. Don’t think I’ve ever had Christmas themed stuff, dunno what I’d do with it. Ultimately, anything I don’t love goes pretty quickly to charity.

@CoralOP what would your Aunt really like? maybe a Chippendales calendar? 😹
I'd never offend my nice aunts, I'd always fake a smile.

Spending time with them is more precious than diamonds.

I hate receiving bath bombs. Every year my mum asks what i want for Christmas. I always say something lie get me a bottle of wine. I always tell her not to get me bath bombs. Yet she gets me bath bombs every single time.

Lush Gives You Thrush - it should be their advertising slogan! 🤣

We do wish lists so this is never a problem

I will use/consume most things. The only thing I dislike are bath salts and bath bombs as they make me and DD itchy.

Threads like this always make me laugh as I’m reminded of the worst gift my partner ever got from one of his siblings .. truffles that had expired- melted and solidified back together again in the pack and a bottle of beer that we had seen in his cupboard the previous christmas🤣 ..things can only get better!!

Anything blue, it's a colour I dislike intensely in my life, in my home and never wear it or have anything blue. I have made people aware of this, there's a traumatic triggering reason behind it. I don't mind it on other people but not for myself. so, naturally, there are a few people who always buy me blue things. Why? Because, they say, it's lacking in my life!!! For years I used to be polite and put blue mugs, serving plates, scarves etc away in a drawer but now as soon as I unwrap it I say 'oh, it's blue, I don't do blue, that'll go to the charity shop'. One person was so offended they stopped buying for me - hooray - but there are two more who have thicker skins, alas. I'm still working on them.

I'm easy to buy for, a slab of Cadbury's Dairy Milk or some shortbread is greeted with delight. It's inexpensive and available everywhere so please please don't waste your money and time on anything else!

candles
body lotion
milk chocolate

Well, for me - Christmas themed anything, I have a few Christmas mugs and that's all I need. Christmas themed clothes - just no.

Bath stuff, because I never bath. I don't really like any toiletries because I like what I buy and noone else knows what that is. I don't even like an innocuous shower gel because I don't like the waste, I prefer soap. I don't use body lotion.

I'm happy with soap but I only use about two bars a year and have a backlog currently of about twenty.

I seemed to get loads of socks last year. Mostly ghastly polyester. So, no more socks.

I know all that makes me hard to buy for. I prefer giving. I wouldn't mind some nice indoor planters. I've got a few pelargoniums that need repotting. (DP bought me a few for my birthday, but, inevitably, they're useless, because the base is narrower than the top, so they hold far smaller pots than you'd think and the water pours through into the empty base part. They're pretty though)

I don't drink. My family knows this. For years they give us hampers or drink gifts which I will never have the benefit of. I might if I'm lucky get a Panettone, but honestly, I don't really like them either.

My presents have immensely improved since my daughters grew up. They now buy me lovely gifts, and also oversee DH's presents, which have also greatly improved.

Edited to note, that contrary to many, I DO love a White Company candle.

A couple of in-law family members give hand made things, like ornaments or wall hangings. I fucking hate it because these things are just never to my taste and not only do I have to keep them, but I have to display them in my home (husband is indifferent about this).
As a rule I never gift people anything that requires me to chose a design or style, unless I know for certain the recipient would want it.

That's brilliant 😂