What DON'T you want for Christmas?

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I don't want anything and wish I could do a please don't get me list. I would include:

Body lotion - who really uses the stuff. I never have and have annual clear outs of unused suff from gifts that go in the bin.

Ditto - bath oil - horrible slimy stuff.

Novelty bottle openers.

Velvet party dresses for my dds which they wear on x mas day and never again.

I don't want any Stuff. Not for me, not for DS. My house is already crammed with Stuff and not enough places to put it all.

Nor do I want any trinkets, woollens, novelty items, gadgets, toiletries or underwear.

I don't mind chocolates cos everyone knows I do G&B and little else; book etc. tokens are always welcome (ditto mothercare etc. for DS).

I sound like a right old Ebenezer, don't I?!

supermarket own brand truffles..yuk

I don't want a kettle or a toaster or anything else for the kitchen

I will be happy with anything, as long as people have taken the time to think of me and buy or make anything i am chuffed.

[Charlee polishes he halo and flys out]

A diary, calendars, socks, notepads, gadgets. The pile of cheap(ish) filler items that my Mum seems to need to buy me to go with my present. One present would do. I don't need 12.

Body lotion and bath stuff - haven't used last year's yet.

Green & Blacks chocolate. I know this is a sin on Mn and there are plenty of you that I could post it to. But I don't like it. And people know I love chocolate and they think they're giving me such a treat, and I'm not brave enough to tell them!

I don't want anything.

Well, a voucher for a spa day / beauty treatment would be nice, but I agree NO STUFF.

Since a horrific Christmas jumper years ago, DH just gives me a cheque to spend in the sales! He hates shopping!

fruitful, if it isn't the white stuff, you could always donate it this way...

i dont want smellies- i have loads anyway.
i dont want jumpers although i do need some but i would prefer to pick them myself.
i would love to receive a voucher for a haircut in a posh salon as i have never had a posh haircut.

I particularly don't want a pair of velvet long sleeved gloves from Per Una that my SIL bought for me last year. Serves me right for asking for something other than a goat for Africa.

Oh and that nasty selection box of chocolates from M&S in the red box that everyone buys because its half price, probably because its such a naff selection. Chocolate marzipan anyone ?

Well I love expensive candles, body lotion and bath stuff - so can you all send it to me!

Underwear (DH take note!)
Very scented body lotion. I have developed sensitive skin and anyway I still haven't cleared the backlog yet.
Anything in the way of ornaments and the like from the Avon catalogue (SIL take note)
Clothes from 'The Old Gimmers Wardrobe' that my mother seems to favour for me. Mum - I really don't feel the cold that much.
Any weird and wonderful kitchen gadgets. My under the sink cupboard is full atm.

I hate "sets" of things that usually include a gigantic mug (one of those hollow ones that break extra easily), some truly crap hotchocolate/ coffee/ tea, and some sort of an accessory, like a teeeeny tiny grater, or a wooden stir stick - so not just one bit of crap, but a whole pile of it.

GRRR

Vouchers!!! I love vouchers!!!!

mu mum always used to give me cotton wool balls and q-tips - no idea why - I had to break her of it eventually (I never used them until DS came along!)

dh always buys me a bottle of whiskey, it last nearly all year, and i like it but i really really dont want it. if he were to keep to money, and just nip out and get me a teeny tiny bottle when i've got a bad cold, that'd be much better.

don't want jewellery, or bags, or scarves, or any clothes except a nice pair of leather gloves as mine have worn out

I don't want foot lotion or anything foot related, yes I know my feet are skank but that's not gonna change if you give me some lurid peppermint lotion and a pumice stone cos I won't use it . Oooh, Cod would be flipping in her tank wouldn't she? My feet obviously cause my family a great deal of distress.

we really should have a swap.

i love looking after my feet. i use pumice, heel balm and mint lotion.

i like whisky, too.

but i don't like umpteen bath foams (unless they go with scents i love and not cheap 3 for 2 shite), earrings that don't suit my teeth or those damn books MIL choses for me.

General thoughtless tat. You know the present - I have to get her something but dont know/care what she would like. So I suppose all of the above really. Apart from the underwear, DH always gets it right. Unfortunatley I dont get the nice expensive smellies, more a basket of Dove shite that I give away.

Is it so hard to put a bit of thought into a present? And when in doubt - vouchers!!!

Opening presents is always such an anticlimax, apart from DH's ('cos he's been given a list) and you have to paste the fake delighted grin on your face when you really want to throw it over your shoulder and shout NEXT.

I know it's not about the presents, but to be honest I'd rather get nothing then a bart load of shit. Which I then have to sort out and lug to the nearest charity shop.

I'm happy with a goat and a chicken. However, 2 years ago there was a parcel for me to collect at the PO as not there during the day. So off I trot on Sat am all excited, queued for an hour and it was the bloody Goat crowd sending me a plastic goat and chicken as a momento. For f* sake, buy another chicken instead you plonkers. I think I threw them in the bin on my way out in total disgust.

Rant over, slipping quietly away....

anything from boots 3 for 2

especially those festive eyeshadow packs with 10 shades of bright sparkly yuck.

anything from boots 3 for 2 as in general bath stuff doesn't agree with my skin

thornton's chocolates [vomit]

anything from boots 3 for 2 as i know i received the free one

"My Aunt in Law specialises in giving us large very ugly or heavy presents, despite the fact that we have to bring things back on the plane. Usually she preceeds each 'gift' with the words 'This was donated to the Church Bingo but nobody wanted it... so I though you could have it.' Once it was a set of liquid soaps in a heavy metal cage thing. Cost approx 99p. Last year was an amazingly large, scratchy, lumpy blanket in NEON green acrylic wool. i got an electric shock every time I touched it. It was more annoying because I had been very carefully selecting her very nice and expensive gifts, as she is an old aunt with a large georgian town house...grin"

Luxmum - didn't you read the Hallowe'en story?

pmsl at "the bloody goat crowd"

my aunt got me 5 concealers and 4 scarves last year - perhaps a hint to cover my entire head (and I've ony got the odd hormonal spot...)

Pretty much all of the above! No Stuff, no plastic tat from the 'Gift' section, no novelty book a la Crap Towns etc., no body lotion or bath stuff as it is invariably really chemical-y and fake and scented which I don't like (no one ever gets me Lush stuff )...