Buying a gift is a tedious job, and it becomes all the more difficult when you have to buy the same for your in-laws. I mean buying gifts for your own family members is a simple four step process.
Step 1- You identify what thing is you need most and wont get approval for buying from parents.
Step 2- Buy that thing, get it gift wrapped and write on tag “With love for Mummy/Papa – From You”
Step 3- Gift the packet to parents. Ask them to open it in front of you and see them sigh smile.
Step 4- Now take the gift and start using it, parents won’t use it anyways.
This is a sure shot process which works everytime. I have tried this multiple times like when I bought that expensive shaving foam for my mom and the Rayban sunglasses for my dad (who incidnetly wear eyesight glasses and cannot wear them). Now they both loved the gifts and they are being put to good use right there in my cupboard.
But when it comes to in-laws the ball game changes entirely. The 4 step process mentioned above fails miserably. Well till now I am not able to come up with a process oriented approach for buying gifts for your in-laws. The reason is there is no trial run possibility as a failed trial might be fatal due to a external exterminator being active in the scene, better know as wifee.
So here yours truly comes up with 5 things which you should not gift your Father In Law(FIL)-
1- Life Insurance- Now this seems like a perfect gift, your insurance agent might convince with all kinds of benefits it entails and how it would bring huge benefits to you just by putting your name in the nominee section. It would seem like a good idea to buy that policy, name yourself as the Nominee pack it in the envelope and gift it to your FIL. Don’t ever try it. Even if you go ahead and do it then it would be a good idea to get one insurance policy for yourself too, you now just in case….
2- Walking Cane- Now obviously when you are going to have a FIL, its sure he would be almost twice your age and would soon be getting older wiser. Now a walking cane is a thoughtful and a useful gift from a future perspective, your logic will totally support you on this. But then FIL might not be totally understand the usage of the cane and get inspired by the more elementary and traditional use of the cane which was more prominent in a school kind of setting. So for the health and safety hazards caused, this one is to be avoid.
3- 1 Year Subscription of Playboy Magazine- Now this seems to be the best gift for any man on this world. It also comes with a free inflatable full size love doll which might seem like a great gifting idea and value for money proposition. But this one you would be dead twice if you try you wifee is gonna kill you for sure and after that your mother in law would make your dead body alive and then kill it again. So don’t even dare to think about it.
4- The Wig- Now this also seems to be a perfect gift which has a high utility in present or foreseeable future. But the horrors of buying such a gift might haunt you as Cliff Richard said “Be a Bachelor Boy until your dying day!!!”.
5- Passes for Invite Only Victoria’s Secret Party - I know this would apeal to you and him as much as the third one but then again this is one is equally fatal. You take your FIL with you to this paradise where almost naked Lingerie clad women will be walking and dancing around you but then you know the downside 
So here are the 5 terrible gifting ideas when buying gift for your Father in Law.
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haha… I love the things u said abt gifts for parents. I do that too
And in laws, umm I have no idea as yet
@Neha: We all do it… I can’t believe how many fancy pens I have gifted to my dad
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LOL…this is hilarious!
Thanks for the tips
Meera: Anytime….
he he..mum papa ko gift karne vala part was cute..:)..rather very cute….:)
ab to twitter ki koi proxy bata de,…apart frm dabr..:((
Deepti: Lolzzz Twitteraddict u have become…. Suggest screw these proxy take GPRS and gravity
You forgot one thing, a massage from ‘exotic’ russian ladies. LOL
@Vinni: Getting the Russian massage ladies home… Jesus this is better than all
I am sure your FIL gonna be one happy man 
this is a very thought provoking post..:P
@Anshima: Thought provoking lolzzz
ROFL
too goof I am guilty of having to do the first 4 steps every single time
@Monika: Join the club, I have been doing this so many time I have even lost count…
LOL; hilarious post
mainly the gift for parents and policy for fil
@Vipul:
haha , funny post! I guess the probelm is whether to treat ur FIL like ur friend or like ur dad or both
@Sri: No, I don’t think so that is the problem… the problem is that if you goof up with FIL you would be killed with a merciless killer living with you, fondly referred to as ‘WIFEEE’
Firstly, getting passes to a Victoria’s Secret after party is next to impossible BUT if you do get your hands on an extra pass, forget the FIL…SEND THEM TO ME!!!!
@Miss M: The Victoria’s Secret after party is not for the people who would waste it enjoying on the cloth, instead of enjoying what is inside the cloth(whatever little it is)
LOL! why on earth would someone even consider these as gifts??
@Reema: Well whats wrong with them
Hey are you doing ok ? did the flu subsided ?
@Sri: No man, the panic has reduced. There has been some improvements, but still people are dying and new cases being reported.
I always tell them I’m about to buy them something. They ‘chee chee’ the idea and tell me to get something for myself.
@Meira: Parents are like that
and to top it off we have nalayak kids like I was…
Arrey who said I want to go to ther after party to look at the clothes!
:P
@Miss M: So is my assumption correct??? You are staring at something else
ROFL! How come I missed this post? Brilliant, must say
@Pallavi: Thanks
When she was 10 my daughter gifted me a doll on her birthday
I thought she thought if she liked it so much how could I not! Now this eye opening post has made me realise what her true intent was 
@IHM: Lol I thought mom always know.