Are all older people like this?
Christmas is coming up and there is a child in the family but lives abroad with my brother and wife abroad. We usually send a Christmas parcel.
We know Christmas has been coming for weeks now. My mother is struggling with a gift.
I mean like, there is some excuse for me not having a gift on time for the postal dates. If you saw my work secudule from September it was sutterly utterly sickening and there's no end in sight to it. I have to take sick days most weeks to get a break from it. Otherwise work would have me working 6 days a week - 10 to 15/16 hours a day.
I did find something online and I saw sitting for delivery now.
I gave my mother an idea for a gift. I found a gift box from IKEA that it a colour in and it's a wildlife theme. I did buy it. I gave my mother any idea to maybe fill it with some colours, as one example. Or she gets some jewellery.
My mother was extremely critical of all and of the suggestions that I gave her.
I tried online shopping before but from their country and it doesn't usually go very well. A lot of shops just don't take my card. We can't send cash in the mail but I know my mother ignores that every single year. She will put cash in a card and she will not declare it. It's not 5 or 10 pounds cash. It's more like 100 or more.
I know Amazon is likely the best option however my mother has no cut off point when it comes to stuff. I think a 100 would be more than enough for a gift card but she's someone who would do 500 gift card or more and it's just too much. My brother and his wife, they don't usually shop like that either. They prefer physical shops and they have no use for such a large Amazon voucher.
I'm so disappointed because my mother has argued with any suggestions that I made. She was overly critical of everything.
Now at this stage, I will say no more about it and she's on her own. She can organise a gift of she wants and just leave me out of it. It's up to her if she wants to send a gift or not and upset her grandchild.
It shouldn't be so hard.