Christmas present moans #2 It's Xmas time & here's my present list, buy me what I want or you’ll meet my fist!

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HoneyBee29 said:
Not a bad present tbh but my SIL got my near 3 year old daughter a Cinderella dress with matching shoes and it’s gorgeous, both items together cost about £30 and the child has absolutely no interest in it. Dress still has tags on it and the shoes are still sealed in the box and I’m thinking about sticking it on vinted but I know she’ll be raging if she knows I sold it 🤦‍♀️ was trying to even get it on her just to take a photo to send but she’s not having it 😂😂 if she’d have given me it with a gift receipt I’d have returned it and got her something she’d actually wear or use. I give gift receipts with all my presents I buy people in case they don’t like it I’d rather them get something they’d use or like.
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Yes, fully been there! My daughter wouldn’t wear dresses for 3 years and it killed me every time someone bought her a bloody dress 🤦🏻‍♀️ she LOOKS very girlie but she takes a science kit over a princess dress any day of the week 😂

is there any chance you could say to your SIL does she have the receipt still as you don’t want to see her money wasted?
 
Usually, if I don't get anything good I go out and just buy myself what I actually wanted or something nice (with the money I get from my grandmother) after Christmas.
I am actually very happy with what I got (aka what I asked for) this year, I also really liked what some of the others got (we do secret santa in the family so its just one present each). I went out yesterday and got myself some of the bits the others got :LOL:

Bad presents keeping Charity shops up and down the country in business.
 
HoneyBee29 said:
I give gift receipts with all my presents I buy people in case they don’t like it I’d rather them get something they’d use or like.
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This is the custom in my family so I am shocked when I receive one without or hear people don't have theirs. How confident can you be about the gift you've bought?? Just give people the option and save everyone the headache. I wonder if you can talk to your SIL l, then again she has parted with the gift and it's your business what you do with it 🤷
 
Meg78 said:
My husband bought me a very laughably bad replica designer bag bless him, only arrived today and I don’t think he should be trusted with eBay anymore 😂 he tried though “well I did think the price was a bit too good”
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Post a picture of it, compared to the original for us please. :ROFLMAO:
 
HoneyBee29 said:
Not a bad present tbh but my SIL got my near 3 year old daughter a Cinderella dress with matching shoes and it’s gorgeous, both items together cost about £30 and the child has absolutely no interest in it. Dress still has tags on it and the shoes are still sealed in the box and I’m thinking about sticking it on vinted but I know she’ll be raging if she knows I sold it 🤦‍♀️ was trying to even get it on her just to take a photo to send but she’s not having it 😂😂 if she’d have given me it with a gift receipt I’d have returned it and got her something she’d actually wear or use. I give gift receipts with all my presents I buy people in case they don’t like it I’d rather them get something they’d use or like.
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lie to SIL and say “love the costume but it doesn’t fit her :( do you still have a receipt for it?”
 
We gained some more presents yesterday from the Uncle-who's-not-really-an-uncle.
More clothes for the kids in unseasonable sizes 🤦‍♀️

He did buy some very nice cushions which fit the style of our lounge very nicely, which I'm grateful for. Then he added 3 photo frames which very much do not...mirrored with silver glittery detail. Would go very nicely with grey walls and crushed velvet sofas. Not sure how we're going to get round those, because we really don't want to use them, but he's going to wonder where they are. I don't even have space for new frames. I don't know how he's managed to pair the cushions and frames because they're a completely different style.

We also nearly had a problem, because he started trying to tell my 7 year old how Santa works, in a completely different way to what we've chosen to tell him. I cut that conversation off straight away.
 
Meg78 said:
In laws gave me some soap; my husband got a whole new set of golf clubs. This happens every single birthday and Christmas. Should I just brand “second class citizen” on my forehead at this point 😒 I get that he’s their child but COME ON. My family would be mortified at disparity like that, is that normal?
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My mil gave me nothing, be thankfull for your soap 😅
 
DiscoBiscuit said:
We gained some more presents yesterday from the Uncle-who's-not-really-an-uncle.
More clothes for the kids in unseasonable sizes 🤦‍♀️

He did buy some very nice cushions which fit the style of our lounge very nicely, which I'm grateful for. Then he added 3 photo frames which very much do not...mirrored with silver glittery detail. Would go very nicely with grey walls and crushed velvet sofas. Not sure how we're going to get round those, because we really don't want to use them, but he's going to wonder where they are. I don't even have space for new frames. I don't know how he's managed to pair the cushions and frames because they're a completely different style.

We also nearly had a problem, because he started trying to tell my 7 year old how Santa works, in a completely different way to what we've chosen to tell him. I cut that conversation off straight away.
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Get the kids to pick a picture to put in them and put them in their room 😄
 
Ordered myself the stocking filler I asked my husband for but didn’t get (I asked for three things and ordered one of the three things for him to give me - although I’ll admit that I can’t really complain as I did get some really lovely things) it just arrived and I unwrapped it from its packaging in front of him and the penny has not dropped at all 😂 he’s got the memory of a goldfish 🤣
 
My boyfriends mum seems intent on buying people homeware that she likes but no one else does. She’s into bright colours, hippy quotes, even buddhas and incense burning everywhere, no one else is. Two of our presents were huge wall art, one of a butterfly in rainbow colours and a quote on, and another of a woman in a yoga crossed legs pose on a rainbow background and 7 rules for life around her. His brothers and his girlfriend got them as well because they’re getting their first place together and his girlfriend even joked we don’t have to put them up.

Was also confused by gloves she got me, I’m a size 6 and even that’s probably the biggest I’ve been since I’ve known her because in uni I was tiny, but she got me a size medium. There is not a person on planet earth that would look and think I’m a medium so idk how someone who’s known me a decade would.

God I feel so ungrateful, but the home presents happen every year and it’s just no awareness for who she’s buying not being herself.
 
hannah123 said:
My boyfriends mum seems intent on buying people homeware that she likes but no one else does. She’s into bright colours, hippy quotes, even buddhas and incense burning everywhere, no one else is. Two of our presents were huge wall art, one of a butterfly in rainbow colours and a quote on, and another of a woman in a yoga crossed legs pose on a rainbow background and 7 rules for life around her. His brothers and his girlfriend got them as well because they’re getting their first place together and his girlfriend even joked we don’t have to put them up.

Was also confused by gloves she got me, I’m a size 6 and even that’s probably the biggest I’ve been since I’ve known her because in uni I was tiny, but she got me a size medium. There is not a person on planet earth that would look and think I’m a medium so idk how someone who’s known me a decade would.

God I feel so ungrateful, but the home presents happen every year and it’s just no awareness for who she’s buying not being herself.
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Maybe she misread the label on the jumper?

someone upthread said gift receipts should be mandatory and I wholeheartedly agree. I once bought my mum a dress but gave her the gift receipt and she took it straight back and bought something she did like instead 😂 no skin off my nose she’s an absolute bugger to buy for.

My late MIL once bought me novelty Xmas slippers (which were actually very cute!) but 2 sizes too small so utterly pointless.
 
WeHadFunRight said:
Ordered myself the stocking filler I asked my husband for but didn’t get (I asked for three things and ordered one of the three things for him to give me - although I’ll admit that I can’t really complain as I did get some really lovely things) it just arrived and I unwrapped it from its packaging in front of him and the penny has not dropped at all 😂 he’s got the memory of a goldfish 🤣
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What was the stocking filler?
 
A few years ago my partner and I agreed to only buy small gifts at Christmas because we now have pretty much everything we want etc.

However, this year's been a tricky one and he's been a rock for the past few months as I've been having some health issues. Literally the only thing he'd shown any interest in in the run up to Christmas was the PS game Modern Warfare III - commenting that it "looks really good" everytime he saw the TV ad. He's not a gamer, but he's owned various PS consules in the past, so I decided to dip into my savings and get him a PS5 and the game as a special treat and to say thanks for his support this year.

On Christmas Day he opened it and just said "Thanks, you shouldn't have". He didn't open it until Boxing Day, when he got pissed off with the game taking an age to download, so in the end he left me to finish it off and went over to see his mum. All week, he's not shown any interest in it at all, and on Wednesday he said "don't think I'm disinterested in it, but I'm working so I'll probably wait to the weekend to play it when I have more time". Fair enough, I thought.

Yeterday evening he didn't touch it. Today he went over to his Mum's, then sat playing a cheap golf game app on his phone for 2 hours, then he went and had a bath. Mid afternoon he said "do you fancy playing a game?" and I said "Oh yes, like I said, its all downloaded and ready to go". He then said "Oh no, I don't mean the Playstation, I meant a board game".

I feel crappy because I'm secretly seething, even though I know it's irrational. I know he didn't ask for the game or the console and it was my choice to gift it to him but the fact remains he must know this is a £500+ gift nd I think the least he could do is at least pretend to take an interest in it. I'm purposely not pushing him to play it as he can be a stubborn git and the more I push him to play it, the more he won't.

I'm at the point where I'd rather he just said he doesn't want it, then at least I could flog it on and get some £££ back for it.

Oh, and he's now playing with the bleeping golf game on his phone again!
 
pinksparklebird said:
A few years ago my partner and I agreed to only buy small gifts at Christmas because we now have pretty much everything we want etc.

However, this year's been a tricky one and he's been a rock for the past few months as I've been having some health issues. Literally the only thing he'd shown any interest in in the run up to Christmas was the PS game Modern Warfare III - commenting that it "looks really good" everytime he saw the TV ad. He's not a gamer, but he's owned various PS consules in the past, so I decided to dip into my savings and get him a PS5 and the game as a special treat and to say thanks for his support this year.

On Christmas Day he opened it and just said "Thanks, you shouldn't have". He didn't open it until Boxing Day, when he got pissed off with the game taking an age to download, so in the end he left me to finish it off and went over to see his mum. All week, he's not shown any interest in it at all, and on Wednesday he said "don't think I'm disinterested in it, but I'm working so I'll probably wait to the weekend to play it when I have more time". Fair enough, I thought.

Yeterday evening he didn't touch it. Today he went over to his Mum's, then sat playing a cheap golf game app on his phone for 2 hours, then he went and had a bath. Mid afternoon he said "do you fancy playing a game?" and I said "Oh yes, like I said, its all downloaded and ready to go". He then said "Oh no, I don't mean the Playstation, I meant a board game".

I feel crappy because I'm secretly seething, even though I know it's irrational. I know he didn't ask for the game or the console and it was my choice to gift it to him but the fact remains he must know this is a £500+ gift nd I think the least he could do is at least pretend to take an interest in it. I'm purposely not pushing him to play it as he can be a stubborn git and the more I push him to play it, the more he won't.

I'm at the point where I'd rather he just said he doesn't want it, then at least I could flog it on and get some £££ back for it.

Oh, and he's now playing with the bleeping golf game on his phone again!
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Just ask him to be honest you could get your money back. He might prefer a phone upgrade to play on his phone. No point having the gaming thing doing nothing
 
pinksparklebird said:
A few years ago my partner and I agreed to only buy small gifts at Christmas because we now have pretty much everything we want etc.

However, this year's been a tricky one and he's been a rock for the past few months as I've been having some health issues. Literally the only thing he'd shown any interest in in the run up to Christmas was the PS game Modern Warfare III - commenting that it "looks really good" everytime he saw the TV ad. He's not a gamer, but he's owned various PS consules in the past, so I decided to dip into my savings and get him a PS5 and the game as a special treat and to say thanks for his support this year.

On Christmas Day he opened it and just said "Thanks, you shouldn't have". He didn't open it until Boxing Day, when he got pissed off with the game taking an age to download, so in the end he left me to finish it off and went over to see his mum. All week, he's not shown any interest in it at all, and on Wednesday he said "don't think I'm disinterested in it, but I'm working so I'll probably wait to the weekend to play it when I have more time". Fair enough, I thought.

Yeterday evening he didn't touch it. Today he went over to his Mum's, then sat playing a cheap golf game app on his phone for 2 hours, then he went and had a bath. Mid afternoon he said "do you fancy playing a game?" and I said "Oh yes, like I said, its all downloaded and ready to go". He then said "Oh no, I don't mean the Playstation, I meant a board game".

I feel crappy because I'm secretly seething, even though I know it's irrational. I know he didn't ask for the game or the console and it was my choice to gift it to him but the fact remains he must know this is a £500+ gift nd I think the least he could do is at least pretend to take an interest in it. I'm purposely not pushing him to play it as he can be a stubborn git and the more I push him to play it, the more he won't.

I'm at the point where I'd rather he just said he doesn't want it, then at least I could flog it on and get some £££ back for it.

Oh, and he's now playing with the bleeping golf game on his phone again!
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What did he get you? Is it possible he's feeling guilty because your gift has outshone his?
 
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