Hi, It is my birthday coming up soon and I have caught wind of one of the gifts that my DH plans to get me. Frankly, it’s awful and something I would never want and I would rather do without a gift altogether. It isn’t crazy expensive but not exactly cheap either and i would rather be honest so he can get a refund on the item.
Normally I just say thank you and accept presents in the spirit they were intended or discretely send them to the charity shop. However this will not be as easy to do as my DH will read my true feelings and notice if I get rid of the item.
Added to the mix, my husband usually does pretty well for gifts etc and I know he will have tried hard with this too... but I really hate it and tbh I think a lot of people my age would feel the same. Added to this, I am autistic so struggle with the right words sometimes and can be unintentionally blunt/ too direct. How do I politely and kindly say ‘thank you so much for taking the time to choose my present, but it is awful and I hate it’? 😬 or should I just accept the waste of money and move on?
I don’t want to say what the gift is as it is quite specific and linked to my other posts, it could be identifying to family members on here. Suffice to say, it is a popular but ugly figurine of a character from a show that I don’t even watch or like (and he knows this).