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Xmas presents I am not happy and feeling like a child...

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sassyminder · 26/12/2011 17:29

There was 2 couples and a single women at our home for Xmas, all from my usband family ( mother and father in law, brother in law with girlfriend and sister in law) and I made sure I bougtht them all of them gifts on behalf of me, my husband and dd.
For the lady's one hand made to order ( very pretty and one of a kind) handbag each, one expensive umbrella each and one L'occitane en provence set of 3 hand cream each. For the gentlemen I bouth 1 pringle of Scotland Polo Shirt, for FIL, Diesel Laptop Bag for BIL and Animal manbag for DH + L'occitane en Provence after shave for all of men.
Here is what I get:
2 primark pyjama bottoms from BIL and girlfriend (one is XXL and other is S, I am size 8 so only one is good)
1 hideous hat from SIL
1 bodycream from poundland from In Laws.

They really took the piss this year!
My husband and daughter got nice things obviously.
it is not all about presents, but it hurts see they give each other nice stuff and do this to me, I would rather them tell me what the fuck the problem is they have with me and give me absolutely nothing!!!
Next year I am going all the way to spend Xmas with my own family fuck them.
My DD is the only child in the family so they will be sad and alone.

And they won't have my hospitality ( yes I always host spending on food, drinks, eletricity and so on) even tough we work full time until the 23rd (hubby until 24th) and boxing day.

I don't blame my DH, he always waits for his bonus after new year to buy me nice presents, and this year I am getting an Iphone and Apple laptop.

Bitches.

OP posts:
ilovesooty · 27/12/2011 20:33

Doesn't make your last post any more offensive.

katkitya · 27/12/2011 20:33

This isnt real, is it?

ilovesooty · 27/12/2011 20:34

Any less offensive...

WhatsWrongWithYule · 27/12/2011 20:34

Dearie me. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt OP but you have seriously undermined any sympathy you might have had from me with that malevolent tirade against a four y/o child - your own daughter no less!
And why? Because your DH didn't get you a pwesent?!

This one will run and run...

ilovesooty · 27/12/2011 20:35

Fthem all. If she wants to turn into a chav, uneducated, rude, two face bad mannered, untidy with bad hygiene habits person like them her problem*

Incredible.

katkitya · 27/12/2011 20:37

Why do I keep reading this in Glorias voice from Modern Family Confused?

WhatsWrongWithYule · 27/12/2011 20:44
Xmas Grin Mind you, although Gloria has frequent hilarious outbursts, she'd never slag off Manny like that.
fluffytowels · 27/12/2011 20:45

sassy, I was beginning to feel a little guilty after someone posted that maybe it is because English isn't your first language that your posts were coming across as condescending and spiteful.

but your last post is Shock. You would honestly treat your own 4 year old daughter like that because she rang at the wrong time and didn't make enough fuss of you.

My children hate talking to me on the phone, I don't take offense. They are tiny.

And as for your husband going to town and buying your daughter something and not you. Shock Shock. Yes yes, we know about the bonus but given that you spend so much time telling us all how Christian you are and how Christmas is about the birth of Jesus and we should all be giving to charity, you sound like a grabby, precious little madam.

Consider my bosom hoiked.

katkitya · 27/12/2011 20:45

I bet the OP looks like her, though. Really hot. Smile

fluffytowels · 27/12/2011 20:47

Why am I envisaging Nancy Dell'olio with a tub of poundland hand cream?

ilovesooty · 27/12/2011 20:47

you sound like a grabby, precious little madam

Spiteful, snobby and entitled as well. I feel sorry for your husband and your little girl.

WhatsWrongWithYule · 27/12/2011 20:53

And, frankly, if my ILs were prepared to take my DCs for - what - three days, they could buy me a copy of the Beano and I'd be thrilled.Try counting your blessings - and, as fluffytowels said, tiny children are not well-versed in tbe etiquette of using the phone neither are teenagers ime.
She wasn't exactly making a business call, she was calling to speak to her daddy, and you treated her like a cold-caller.

Disgraceful.

Original poster
sassyminder · 27/12/2011 20:55

I wasn't upset coz DD calle wrong time it was because she refused to even say hello to me even after I asked, MIL asked, DH asked and she gave in eventually just to please other people or for people stop asking maybe I don't know. I didn't want to talk to her anymore I don't care if she is 4. This is me this is it. She was probably relieved I didn't want to talk to her as she didn't want to talk to me in the first place. I don't know what show Modern Family is and I didn't understand the jokes nor can see the smiles, I'm using my phone so can't comment on your jokes.

OP posts:
ZZZenAgain · 27/12/2011 20:57

how long has it been since you last went home? I think you feel invisible. I also think you should go home, really you need a trip back.

ssd · 27/12/2011 20:57

I don't blame you for being pissed off with your rellies op, they sound thoughtless and mean

but please can you stop going on about your dh;s bonus on saturday and how much you'll get then, I got eff all from dh and theres no bonus coming either, just his normal £250 a week, so stop going on about what you;ll get, you;re making me sick

SolidGoldStockingFilla · 27/12/2011 20:58

Have you been whining at your inlaws about how you are the only Christian in the family and Christmas is not about presents before this Christmas? I bet you have. THink yourself lucky they didn't get you an Oxfam Goat.

ComposHat · 27/12/2011 21:00

Xmas presents I am not happy and feeling like a child...

You are acting like a child

grow up.

ThatVikRinA22 · 27/12/2011 21:04

ah well, now youve gone and spoilt it all, by showing what a nasty,grasping, whining, materialistic, petty spoilt mare you really are.

you wouldnt pass your husband the phone when your 4 year old dd rang because she didnt want to speak to you??
maybe she is a sensible girl. maybe she recognises what a cow for a mother she has eh?

all sympathy i felt evaporated when you took out your feelings on your 4 year old.
the poundland cream sounds too good for you.

ilovesooty · 27/12/2011 21:04

Seconded. You sound shallow, self obsessed and boastful. Grow the fuck up.

I don't care if she is 4. This is me this is it

Unbelievable. Poor little thing.

Original poster
sassyminder · 27/12/2011 21:05

I'm not feeling very much Christian atm at all. I'm only human. If I was a Saint I wouldn't be here, specially with these people. I'm doing them a favour they can take my DD with them not the other way round. Anyway she seems happy enough let her stay there forever, in front of the TV forever eating cocketel sausages and baked beans forever + chocolate for breakfast. WHAT A LIFE!!! I than can go home on my own and never come back. Did she want to speak to daddy did she? Call him then.

OP posts:
ThatVikRinA22 · 27/12/2011 21:06

your title says it all - you feel like a child?
you are a fucking child. and you dont sound like you should have had one.

hiding this now before i say something i really regret.

ZZZenAgain · 27/12/2011 21:07

wow you are seriously angry. When you (if) have a chance to unwind a bit, is it all really so dramatic in the grand scale of things which is life? Xmas presents, shopping at the sales, a phone call to the wrong number?

I would say nothing to anyone in the family for a day or so. Least said, soonest mended as the saying goes. Don't wreck all your good work on Christmas day now. Wind it in. By which I mean : just slow right down.

ssd · 27/12/2011 21:07

she's better off without you

ilovesooty · 27/12/2011 21:08

I than can go home on my own and never come back

Yeah. Do your family a favour, you selfish little snob.

ImperialBlether · 27/12/2011 21:08

RomanChristingle, you say:

"Well dh doesn't like aftershave and I probably wouldn't use body cream no matter how expensive it was because I have really sensitive skin that reacts to a lot of things. Poundland or l'occitane it would be headed for the charity shop."

Excuse me if this sounds rude, but what's that got to do with anything?

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