Christmas gift obligations

[bluerobert]

Have you given any thought to faking your own death?

 

[chrismpw]

Have you given any thought to faking your own death?

And lose my hifi?

 

[Bungle]

Have you considered some vouchers for marriage guidance therapy in the New Year?

 

[ForestBlue]

Any nivea boxsets this year?

Is that on Netflix or NowTV?

Any nivea boxsets this year?

 

[peteblue]

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.

I think you need to accidentally drift into divorce, or get @Bungle on that zoom meeting and he can have a go at all of them....

 

[Seathestars]

Enter the missus who goes over the top with everyone.

yep, I was told we’re buying an iPad for someone, so I looked, £359, not bad I thought.

Then I was told it cost £579, we only got the iPad Air

 

[Bungle]

yep, I was told we’re buying an iPad for someone, so I looked, £359, not bad I thought.

Then I was told it cost £579, we only got the iPad Air

You thought not bad at £359? I'd have been losing my head at about £59.

 

[Goat]

You thought not bad at £359? I'd have been losing my head at about £59.

5.90 is my head losing fee.

 

[COYBL25]

yep, I was told we’re buying an iPad for someone, so I looked, £359, not bad I thought.

Then I was told it cost £579, we only got the iPad Air

@Joey66 and his missus are exchanging iPads for Christmas, so he’s your man for technical advice.

May the Lord have mercy on us all.

 

[Goat]

People who buy Apple products disgust me.

 

[Seathestars]

People who buy Apple products disgust me.

Me too

 

[Bungle]

5.90 is my head losing fee.

I didn't want to seem too tight but yeah, mad innit.

 

[Goat]

I didn't want to seem too tight but yeah, mad innit.

Told the missus to take it easy this year.

We managed to get a little bit of savings together for the first time in our entire life.

Every penny has been spent, Happy Christmas tho, yeah?

HUMBUG

 

[Bungle]

Told the missus to take it easy this year.

We managed to get a little bit of savings together for the first time in our entire life.

Every penny has been spent, Happy Christmas tho, yeah?

HUMBUG

It appears that 40 utter crap items to open for the sake of it is also better than just a few well thought out gifts.

Might just storm in drunk tonight and smash the lot up and ruin Christmas.

 

[Goat]

It appears that 40 utter crap items to open for the sake of it is also better than just a few well thought out gifts.

Might just storm in drunk tonight and smash the lot up and ruin Christmas.

At the start of November I thought I would help out with Christmas, asked everybody what they wanted, bought some things from Amazon and had most of it boxed off. The wife went mad, told me to stop interfering and to leave it all to her.

Last night she attempted to moan about how little time she has left and tried to list how many more presents she had to buy.

Im quite surprised I'm not in Walton, lad.