It is my birthday soon so dh asks me what I want. Now we have had very little money over the past year as dh been unemployed. He started new job in May. We have really struggled financially and most of my clothes have holes in and lots of things in the house are broken because we haven't been able to afford to fix them. So I have asked for practical things like a new kettle (lid won't shut on ours so I have to manually turn it off) new plastic tubs to use for laundry (handles broken on current ones and pees me off every day I use them). You get the gist. Dh has said that Iabu that I am obviously trying to make him and the dc look bad! I thought the point of a birthday present was to make me feel good? We have had a row about it and I have said that I will be really upset if he buys me frou frou this year and that I would rather have nothing. (True).
I was tidying my dd's room today and found my present. It is a bottle of diptyque perfume from spacenk. If we had pots of money I would love this present but when your bras don't fit and your pants are all Holey and you haven't got any money to buy more it seems crazy! He has a history of buying me expensive unwanted presents - last year it was a Windsor and Newton art set and collapsible easel (I have no artistic talent and have never said I would like to paint watercolours!) this cost a fortune. He then 'lost' the receipt so I couldn't take it back. The Christmas before he bought me an slr camera from self ridges that was very expensive and takes crap pictures! I already had a digital slr and had asked for a point and press cheapy camera to keep in my handbag. He refused to take the camera back so now I feel I have to use it as it was so blooming expensive. I would be interested in your opinions.
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