Christmas gift obligations

[Joey66]

I don’t get involved in Christmas Joey. It‘s a slippery slope. First its e-cards, then proper cards, then decorations and presents. Next thing you know your posting on a football forum on the brink of a meltdown cos you‘ve been asked to buy gift bags.

Not for me thanks.

Just a gesture from me to posters I have had fun with -sorry if I missed anyone out .....not fussed on Xmas much myself tbh

 

[urquattro]

An adult over 25 on minimum wage has to work nearly 2.5hrs to buy someone a £20 gift.

 

[bluerobert]

And lose my hifi?

Its a tough call mate, I wouldn’t like to be in your shoes

 

[YoboCopter]

An adult over 25 on minimum wage has to work nearly 2.5hrs to buy someone a £20 gift.

Get a better job

 

[urquattro]

Get a better job

Not my predicament but I feel for those who are.

 

[verreauxi]

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.

On Christmas day, just casually walk over to your circuit breaker box and flip the main switch thereby cutting off the power. No power, no zoom.

 

[verreauxi]

Don't have any gift obligations except to my 3 and a half yr old. It's boss getting them gifts and seeing their face light up, particularly at his age, the gifts don't have to be expensive.

 

[ClausThomsen]

And lose my hifi?

1 - Start talking about how you reckon your hi-fi would make a fine sea-faring vessel.
2 - Leave the house early one morning and take your hi-fi.
3 - Reggie Perrin your clothes on the beach
4 - Start a new life with your hi-fi

 

[chrismpw]

1 - Start talking about how you reckon your hi-fi would make a fine sea-faring vessel.
2 - Leave the house early one morning and take your hi-fi.
3 - Reggie Perrin your clothes on the beach
4 - Start a new life with your hi-fi

In this weather?

 

[shagpuss]

Get a better job

Bloody Norman Tebbit Appreciation Society!

 

[Mr. White]

Reminds me of a scene in TBBT.... As Sheldon Cooper said, "You haven't given me a gift, you've given me an obligation"

 

[chrismpw]

Reminds me of a scene in TBBT.... As Sheldon Cooper said, "You haven't given me a gift, you've given me an obligation"

Its exactly that!

 

[peteblue]

In this weather?

Anyway, more importantly what prezzie have you got me.....actually this would make a good thread on its own....

 

[Tipp blue]

I'd rather get bummed by a dog than sit through Christmas.

 

[Tipp blue]

An adult over 25 on minimum wage has to work nearly 2.5hrs to buy someone a £20 gift.

Sh1t I've spent almost a weeks wages on my wife. Kitchenaid mixer and accessories.