A woman has blasted Marks & Spencer's after buying an 'inedible' turkey crown from the supermarket chain for Christmas. The customer says that her turkey was a 'rip-off' as it had 'no meat' on it, reports Hull Live.
28.12.2022 - 17:35 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Offering to take on the role of hosting Christmas Day often involves a large number of family members squeezing into your home to celebrate the festivities together. While it is undoubtedly a stressful task at times with having to prepare all the cooking and find the space for everyone, very few people would actually ask their family to cough up some money for the occasion.
One woman was left furious after she was handed a £200 hospitality bill from her sister-in-law who charged her husband and their children for their three-night stay over the Christmas holidays, the Mirror reports. The raging mother took to Mumsnet to explain that she had already cooked Christmas dinner for the entire family which was made up of eleven guests and paid for it all herself.
She wrote: "The set up is a bit complicated. My husband has three sisters. The venue was a sister's house but I cooked because she was recovering from an injury.
"We all stayed 23-26 December. We brought two joints of meat, a Christmas pudding, a Christmas cake, plenty of wine, beer, some gin and rum, some nice cheeses, kids snacks, and drinks.
"There was one café lunch and one takeaway and we all paid for our own families. I paid for one top-up shop of about £40. Everyone else paid for/brought similar things.
"This morning my sister-in-law emailed an invoice (made on an invoice template from some software!) to my husband and copied me in for £200 for 'hospitality'! I understand that hosting nine people is a lot but I hadn't expected to be invoiced.
She continued: "My husband wants to pay it to shut her up. I want to ask her to itemise it and prepare an invoice in return for the hours I spent cooking Christmas dinner," she fumed.
Mumsnet users were quick to side with the
A woman has blasted Marks & Spencer's after buying an 'inedible' turkey crown from the supermarket chain for Christmas. The customer says that her turkey was a 'rip-off' as it had 'no meat' on it, reports Hull Live.
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