My mother gave me a £50 M&S gift card for Christmas just gone and told me to get something nice for myself. I've had a look round the store but I couldn't find anything I liked the look of. So it was sat in the drawer doing nothing.
A friend of mine mentioned she found a dress in M&S for about £60 that she wanted to get. So I asked her if she would buy the gift card off me and use it and use it towards buying the dress seeing as she was going to buy it anyway. She agreed and gave me £50 cash and I gave her the gift card.
So last week I went to the charity shops and got myself 3 pairs of jeans, 2 tops, 2 knitted cardigans, a scarf and just enough left over for a haircut at the local hairdressing college and a chocolate bar. Brilliant! or so I thought....
Mum then comes round and asks what did I buy with the gift card. I told her I sold it and bought lots of other things from the charity shop instead and she was livid! She said it was rude and ungrateful to sell it on and she wanted me to buy something nice for myself. I tried explaining to her that the gift was surely just a cash value and I just changed where I would spend the money.
Am I being unreasonable?