I like Molton brown! 🫣
I don't even mind a dove set saves me buying shower gelI like Molton brown! 🫣
Me too. Their stuff is expensive so I never buy it for myself. Would never say no to a gift set from MB!I like Molton brown! 🫣
My Mother in law bought me a Dove advent calendar a few years ago. This was given to me on Xmas Day. Are our MILs the same person? They certainly sound itSo happy I found this thread! I read through it the other night absolutely howling
Can we start a petition to ban gift sets under a tenner? Because they are absolute TAT! I actually don’t mind dove shower gel but I really don’t need the matching lip balm, body lotion, hand lotion, face cream and every other product that they retail.
My husband’s mother one year bought me about £50 worth of Christmas scented wax melts from one of those Facebook sellers. I hate most Christmas scents anyway but what good is that on Christmas Day? You won’t be burning those in March and by next Christmas they’ve gone off . Same woman also bought me a Christmas themed gravy boat another year whilst spending about £300 on my husband
A half price dove advent calendar for Christmas, we definitely have the same MIL . Annoyingly the year before I bought her a Jeffrey Starr eye palette because she loves her bright eyeshadows. What a way to repay meMy Mother in law bought me a Dove advent calendar a few years ago. This was given to me on Xmas Day. Are our MILs the same person? They certainly sound it
Is there a woman alive that actually wants these kind of sets? The sole customer base must be teenage boyfriends, brothers or brother in laws. We all know no dad does xmas shopping, surely no partner/husband would buy one and if all women agree they’re crap we can’t be buying them for each other?No no no no no
I’ve just worked out what the yellow tape says.No no no no no
Can I add Soap & Glory to this list too? Granted teenage/ early twenties me used to love getting the massive tin but that was then.Please don't gift me and Baylis & Harding or dove sets.
I knit, crochet, sew and embroider.For me it's the classic Gift Set Of Items To Do With Something They Think You're Into.
Catch me doing basic garden upkeep once - that's me getting gift sets of gardening gloves, "gardeners soap", flimsy little trowels, seeds that'll never germinate and some kind of impractical plant labels for the next 10 years.
Enjoy the work of a public figure? Brace yourself for annuals, unauthorised biographies, fuckin... socks with them on it, whatever old toot with the person you like on it. I'm not a massive fan or 14 years old, let me have a passing admiration for a singer in peace!
Like a nice spicy sauce sometimes? Get ready to receive gift sets of 10 wee bottles of cheap sub-par hot sauce with hilarious stickers/ names for the rest of eternity.
Worst is saying thank you for a gift once and then receiving it in various forms forever after - my brother has been giving me stuff from one of the Body Shop ranges for like a decade now and I never get through it. I've never bought it for myself or expressed an interest in it. Then other people see you have it or heard you like it and you get more!
MIL saw me have some popcorn once and then gave me a microwave popcornburnermaker, 10 jars of popcorn flavourings, and literally 20kg of popcorn kernels. If I'd eaten popcorn every day it would have taken me 5 years to get through it all. Absolute madness.
If you play an instrument, play a sport, or have a hobby of any sort you'll definitely be gifted a bunch of tacky useless crap to do with that. I'd definitely rather be gifted something mundane & useful and perhaps of a higher quality than I'd have bought for myself than a gift set of poor quality novelty items.
When father's day comes and the shops are full of golf toot, beer drinking nonsense, football crap, etc I feel for the men who then have to feign interest in these gifts, maybe even use them out of obligation for a bit, then dispose of them.
Someone who is actually into golf definitely doesn't need a little set of golf-related stuff from Home Bargains.
In conclusion: save your money and don't give me a damn thing - I'm obviously an ungrateful ole miserybollocks who doesn't deserve it
Because I think real wool is scratchyI knit, crochet, sew and embroider.
Why, when you see me wearing fine lace wool shawls, wool Fair Isle gloves etc, would you think I'd be delighted with an acrylic scarf and gloves set from Asda because "you like knitted stuff"?
Shetland, yes. Merino or BFL, no. IMO anyway.Because I think real wool is scratchy
What is a drawer liner?!Dinner with lucky dip Secret Santa gifts value £10......i got drawer liners...