chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
Years ago I rid myself of the interminable cycle of giving and receiving gifts to friends and family, with strategic conversations designed to cease the escalation. Christmas has been so much better for it. I no longer stress about having to find and wrap something the receiver inevitably probably doesn’t want or need and furthermore I don't impose upon them the obligation to find and give me something I don't want or need.
Let's face it, I'm an adult, I can buy the things I want and need. Christmas is for kids- who can't.
Then I accidentally drifted into a relationship. Enter the missus who goes over the top with everyone. She has a group of friends that I've been dragged into who now insist on giving each other multiple gifts and a few years ago they had the idea of home made gifts. While it was a good idea at first - It has become a monster taking months of preparation and unsurprisingly, costing a fortune. Now I'm not exactly a grinch, like you'd expect. They show skill and care in what they make, but nothing, nothing that they make is anything I want. Whats worse now the wife is stressy because components she needs are late in the post and she wants ME to spend hours driving around like a miserable bad tempered santa, burning fuel and damaging the environment needlessly delivering the piles of unwanted tat to households, in the middle of a pandemic. Shes already had a hissy fit like an 8 year old girl not getting her way because I said I'm not happy doing that. She'll be in s mood until she gets her way now - standard female coersive strategy that people seem to accept.
What's worse they're planning to do a zoom call where they all open the presents together. They're well into their 50s and 60s ffs!
Fecking hate Christmas because of how material people make it.
Solutions please....
Have already considered presenting bags of sawdust so no ta.
Let's face it, I'm an adult, I can buy the things I want and need. Christmas is for kids- who can't.
Then I accidentally drifted into a relationship. Enter the missus who goes over the top with everyone. She has a group of friends that I've been dragged into who now insist on giving each other multiple gifts and a few years ago they had the idea of home made gifts. While it was a good idea at first - It has become a monster taking months of preparation and unsurprisingly, costing a fortune. Now I'm not exactly a grinch, like you'd expect. They show skill and care in what they make, but nothing, nothing that they make is anything I want. Whats worse now the wife is stressy because components she needs are late in the post and she wants ME to spend hours driving around like a miserable bad tempered santa, burning fuel and damaging the environment needlessly delivering the piles of unwanted tat to households, in the middle of a pandemic. Shes already had a hissy fit like an 8 year old girl not getting her way because I said I'm not happy doing that. She'll be in s mood until she gets her way now - standard female coersive strategy that people seem to accept.
What's worse they're planning to do a zoom call where they all open the presents together. They're well into their 50s and 60s ffs!
Fecking hate Christmas because of how material people make it.
Solutions please....
Have already considered presenting bags of sawdust so no ta.
