Well again this year all of Amelia's Christmas presents that MIL has "bought" her are to stay at her house Most, if not all, are 2nd hand or free yet again. I'm a bit pissed off TBH. She's been given a kitchen and Amelia will love it and I have no idea how I'm going to drag her away from it. I wouldn't mind if this was all she could afford but she's fricking minted - owns 2 houses mortgage free, takes 5 hols abroad a year, has sold another house and has all the cash sat in the bank. What's wrong with her spending £30 to buy her only grandchild a new fricking present at xmas?!

Oh and get this.................she's not wrapping them up either!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so PISSED off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She sounds a little nuts tbh hun

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that's awful Lisa, the ones with the most money are the worst!

WHAT??!! Well..since shes all about saving money and recycling items..perhaps find yourself at the local thrift store, and buy her some used stinky moth ball sweaters for Christmas! Sounds like she'd enjoy them!

Tight arse
Why wouldnt she even wrap them up!?!

I would be sooooo mad, our little ones are too young to explain why they cant play with their pressies at home!!

Witch!!! Will Dave not say something?

Omg that's tight. Shocking that
she isn't wrapping them too! Don't worry i would be pissed too!

grrrrrrrrrrr why the hell isn't she wrapping them!?! half the fun at christmas for a kid is the unwrapping


she's such a loony tightarse....ya know, maybe you should go to the charity shop and buy her some undies or something

aww no ! ,,,, would your OH bring it up with her ? x

what a tight arse!!

u wud think she wud want to spoil her only grandchild

and why not wrap opening the present is the fun part for kids!!

id be raging, my mil similar she buys for the kids but spends very little claims its cos she has loads of grandkids which fair enough she does but my parents have the same amount of grandkids and they spend far to much on them all but my mum makes a huge effort and even my ohs older son my mum spends same amount on him as she does on evan
where as this year mil has knitted evans xmas present and ive seen it and its horrid,

we need a cuckoo smiley! she is clearly round the twist!

what was daves childhood like out of interest?? did she wrap his presses?

i got gracie a cute kitchen from littlewoods for £25 they have it in argos for £20 im sure she could stretch to that, Im not wrapping the kitchen or her slide i am the empty boxes but we are going to build them ready for her the slde will be kept in the dinning room until last or she wont want any other presents and the kitchen in the kitchen, i still want her to open them but want her to be able to play with them straight away

im sorry hun but your MIL is a tight arse do her bum cheeks squeek when she walks i would be livid x

I've chickened out of telling Dave yet cuz he's going to be annoyed too. She's always been the same though. Most of his toys were always set up in the living room on xmas morning not wrapped, apparently because then he could play with them straight away. I think it's cuz she was too tight to pay for wrapping paper. I mean if it's huge then fair do's but if not I'd just make it up and then cover it with wrapping.

Oh and she reuses wrapping paper that you give her too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who the feck does that?!

Jen she'll be getting some smellies from Boots, whatever OH picks (could be funny) for about £20 and that's it. Not going to wrap it either!

Oh and just to truely fuck her off I'll be making a Christmas cake to take round as she always makes one, and I'm going to blow hers out of the water!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lisa id keep her smellies at ur house

Terri wrote:

Lisa id keep her smellies at ur house

LMAO!!! Do it Lisa! xxx

Terri wrote:

Lisa id keep her smellies at ur house

PMSL!!!! Maybe I'll get her some manky 2nd hand slippers to only be worn at our house!

What a tight bitch!

That really hits a personal nerve with me. My parents split when I was 2 and I only saw my dad on Sat afternoons until I was 4 (he could only keep it up 2 yrs, was an alcho policeman and lets just say had a hot temper.... ) Anyway all the toys he bought me had to stay at his. I can remember having a zoo and an ironing board....

One of my saddest childhood memories is him buying me a huge hefalump teddy and letting me play with it all day, even riding home in the car cuddling it then making me leave it in car when I got back to my mums. I cried and sobbed and begged but he wouldnt let me take it in. My mum and granny even went out and pleaded with him but he refused and drove off. I dont know why that day stuck with me. Looking back as an adult I can see how pathetic of him it was. He was almost bribing me to want to see him because of a teddy. How sad is it that a 3 yr old would want to go out with their dad the next week just to cuddle a toy rather than actually spend time with their daddy.

Im trying so hard to get over it (I sound pathetic ). Caitlins aunty is buying her 3 or 4 dif things this year and specifically said one of them is a tub of duplo to stay at hers/MILs. For a second I got cross about it but then calmed down as I know my personal experience is affecting my feelings. Caitlin does visit their house one afternoon a week and Santa getting her Duplo anyway.

Urgh sorry.... back to you. Could your MIL be trying to get amelia to want to come and visit her for the toys? Shows insecurity imo. And as for not wrapping thats just plain lazy! In saying that my Santa presents were never wrapped as a child and I dont wrap Caitlins because its not 'tradition', however family is different. x

Why is it the ppl with the most money are the cheapest bastards going? Shayne's dad is the same too! Although..he doesn't send the kids squat for Christmas!

Oh Nicki your story made me cry. That's just awful! Big ((((((((hugs)))))))))
I don't think it's the case here as she has Amelia all day on Weds whilst I'm at work and she only lives round the corner and see's her a lot. It's basically because she's too tight to buy her toys at any other time of the year, so to make sure she has something to play with it has to stay at hers.

ahh i hate when they do this, every year mil buys things to keep there...i wouldnt mind but for example last year i said ohh im gonna get leo a box of lego, she said not to bother cos she's got some. didnt realise she meant to friggin keep there this year he has a game for the wii...he doesnt even have a wii at home !!! we always get charity shop thing from gmil, last yr she got me a bag, mil said, oh i recognise that bag, i gave it my mum last year

i agree with terri...tell her her prezzie is for your house x

she sounds lovely!

LisaGandAmelia wrote:

Oh and she reuses wrapping paper that you give her too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who the feck does that?!!!!

my mum does she unwraps stuff really carefully so she can keep it, and now i unwrap stuff very carefully (but i don't keep it)

Oh well, if thats one of my saddest childhood memories Im not to badly off

Terri wrote:

Lisa id keep her smellies at ur house

absolutely chuckling my head off....so much so i nearly choked inhaling a minstrel x

what is it with mils and this stupid annoying habit of doing this?

my mil does it too. I think its an attention thing! any attention is good attention?
I just let her keep it as hannah has enough anyway. also I would keep her gift at mine but shes not invited to mine because shes an idiot!

I keep a lot of stuff at my mums for hannah but its because I decide to not because my mum buys her gifts to keep at hers. she buys her toys all year round to keep at hers so her gifts are hers to do what she wants with!

snoop your dad sounds like a right horrible person
x