Can we all agree from now on that where gifts are concerned, no stipulations are ever, EVER okay?
It just doesn't go down well, does it? Unless you're saying "no gifts, thanks" then keep it to yourself.
A couple who stipulated handmade gifts for their daughter’s upcoming christening have been called “cheeky, ungrateful f*ckers” by one friend who'd been invited to the party.
The reluctant crafter took to an online parenting forum to vent about the situation, hear the consensus from other parents on the matter and gauge if she was being "unreasonable” for not wanting to get her Pinterest on for a baby gift.
She began her post in a civilised enough tone:
“Clearly, they want lots of unique and personalised gifts for their DD (Darling Daughter), which is lovely.”
“But I’m shit at crafts... if I was to go for it, I really would turn up with something monumentally shit that would get chucked away, and would be a waste of my time and effort.”
"I suggested to DD’s mother, my friend, that I bring something else and she choked through the words ‘something shop bought is fine’ and ‘precious DD has everything she needs’. Clearly, it’s not."
The post then took a turn for the distinctly narky, with this parting shot...
“Am I being unreasonable to think cheeky, ungrateful f*ckers?!”
In the week since the user posted her query, she has received about 250 replies:
“Since when is it ok to actually ask for a gift?!” said one mum.
“It’s a cheeky request anyway. They should just get what they are given. Blimey,” wrote another.
Some responders maintained that the parents were most likely trying to save their guests a bit of money, while a host of others had hilarious suggestions for how to exact revenge on the presumptuous parents while following the homemade gift directive to the letter.
Suggestions included:
“Stick glitter on something.”
“Do a Blue Peter and get some sticky back plastic, a coat hanger, and some tinsel."
“Give a gift that will require a lot of work from the parents. Maybe a blank journal into which you write the first day and then write in the front that her parents will add something every day until she is 18.”
And our personal fave:
“Shoe box. Cover it in wrapping paper. Call it a memory box. Job done”.
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