I've just had a sneeky peek at a present my bfs mother has given us, it's in a big bag, no wrapped and it had the item number on it. I've just looked on Argos and it's a bloody radiator! Why the hell do I want one of them? I live in a lovely toasty warm house. I know I should be grateful but what the hell!!
2006-12-17 06:10:04 · 11 answers · asked by suckaslug 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
It cost £19.99
2006-12-17 06:15:54 · update #1
Maybe theres something else in that box
2006-12-17 06:12:56 · answer #1 · answered by ganja_claus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe Argos changed the catalogue numbers since then and it's actually something else? You can but hope. Even so a radiator is a strange gift to get anyone.
The first year my partner and I were together, my mother bought us some pot-pourri, that was freaky but the next Christmas, some scented drawer liners turned up. I never knew something so bizarre existed. It's all proof she lives in a different world than I do, so in order to combat the ever stranger presents, we got her a weather vane. Yep, beat that... I thought. To my astonishment she loved it and had it mounted on the garage roof within a few days. I've given up since then on trying to out-do her in the weird present stakes. Last year she bought us three sheep.... turns out they were in fact for some African family. WTF?
The best thing you can do is match the radiator with something equally as bizarre. Good luck :-)
2006-12-17 06:24:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It might come in handy if the regular heat goes dodgy for some reason. Otherwise, it certainly isn't a CHEAP gift. They could have given you a sandwich iron as I once got from my brother and sis in law one year. One that costs less than about a fiver.
--Charles "That Cheeky Lad" Wishing everyone A Wickedly Happy Christmas!
I just read Urbanite's "Red Cross Parcel" What thought it took to raid the pantry for those...My favourite saying "It's the thought that counts, and that took bloody damned little thought!"
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2006-12-17 06:13:28 · answer #3 · answered by Charles-CeeJay_UK_ USA/CheekyLad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mother inlaws are weird I have one that I dispise. But 2 christmases ago we gave her a $600 printer and guess what I got - I was a little over weight at the time a box of choc covered macadamias!!! And do you know what I did with them opened them up and put them with the christmas nibbles on the table and she was so stupid she was not able to see I was making a statement!!!!
I sugest that you donate it to charity but tell her "thanks what a lovely gift that will keep someone poorer than me warm this winter!!! I guarrantee she wont understand what you are saying.
And its not about being grateful. I actually think that ome motherinlaws use christmas to be spiteful. To go out of their way to be nasty in a nice passive aggressive colour coded way.
2006-12-17 06:49:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep...I got a food parcel that looked like it had been diverted on its way to Red Cross. Subsequently I did donate it to charity as the in- laws must be losing it. I mean, a food parcel. What were they thinking...not even christmas goodies..tins of spaghetti and baked beans and spam. Jeesh!
2006-12-17 06:16:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just get a refund and keep the cash............sorted! And you shouldn't be opening presents until Kissmas day! Naughty!
2006-12-17 06:12:53 · answer #6 · answered by Puma 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps they think it will radiate a little seasonal happiness !!
2006-12-17 06:15:28 · answer #7 · answered by Spiny Norman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my bf's mother used to always get me extra-large clothes,which made me feel insulted,bcause at the time,i was super-skinny.maybe she was just playing it safe,cos its hard to gauge someones size,but really,these clothes swam on me !!!!
2006-12-17 06:18:57 · answer #8 · answered by Lyn K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats why I prefer the money
2006-12-17 06:22:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you know who old people are they always think that it is to cold or hot.if i was you i would put it on ebay!
2006-12-17 06:13:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋