Rude comment or not??

[kissmelittleass]

I was visiting my family and brought a birthday present for my brother (about four weeks after his birthday as I live in another country and obviously hadn't seen him).
I got him a selection of facial products a reasonable good brand of products, now he was thankful as always but his wife made a comment that sort of hit me for a nano second me thinking 'oh is that a dig at me'? and then I thought nothing of it tbh.
My other sister thought it was very rude and insulting? and said she would be very offended!
The comment as my brother opened his present was '"your birthday was ages ago, oh I got you a load of facial products recently all Clinique products that you use all the time you have plenty left "
My sister thinks she was beyond rude! Her comment did stop me in my tracks a bit but how would you take it?

She was rude. I would have called it out there and then personally. Sounds like sil is probably a brand snob.

If I were your brother I would think why the fuck are all these women buying me facial products, are they trying to tell me something?

I really couldn't get worked up about this.

I'm also curious why you're all buying him facial products? Does he really like them or something?

Haha yea he is into looking after his skin as he got older and he always says he loves a skin product so yes it's a present that suits him 😊

She’s probably thinking, ‘oh no not more crap filling up the bathroom’!

Or she’s jealous he has more face stuff than her!

I wouldn’t get worked up about it as it didn’t seem particularly aimed at you more at the amount of stuff he obviously has.

Maybe he leaves it all laying around and she has to tidy it all up or she hates the look of the clutter.

Maybe she was trying to subtly point out that everyone is buying him facial stuff?

If he likes Clinique and she buys that for him, he may not want it from everyone else, or she may think you'd rather know that he'd get more use from something else. If he cares about his skin, he may not want to be varying his products all the time; either.

I'd try and take it that she was trying to be constructive and nice and landed it wrong; rather than that she was being rude.