To be abit upset about my Xmas pressie from dh

[Mummytotwox]

I had told dh that there was nothing I wanted for Xmas. But changed my mind last week and decided I want/need a make up box. So I sent him a like and he said he will get it. It is £20.

Iv brought him quiet abit this year.

He's just gave me my pressie early as we're going to a hotel for the night for works do.

It's a jewellery box. It's unstable for what I want. He told me it was on offer for 12.99.

I'm really gutted. I don't even have nay jewellery. Lol.

Aibu to be abit gutted. :(

if I remember rightly a month ago the OP couldnt afford to feed her family and had no money.

Now its all hotels and Christmas presents.

Ahhhh BohemianGirl that's interesting.

I am hoping no one is feeling stung by the OP.

Ermmm thanks for your concern. I am in a hotel tonight paid by my husbands boss for his Xmas work do. And as I explained the work had messed up his payment which is why we was short. Not now though, actually bank balance is quiet full ;)

I think the 'lol' was to state it's light hearted, that's what you have to do on MN now

Adding Lol on the end of sentences like that might you sound deranged btw. Are you ACTUALLY laughing out loud, like "HAHAHAHAHAHA IT'S UNBELIEVABLY HILARIOUS I HAVEN'T EVEN GOT JEWELLERY TO PUT IN IT"? I'd tempt at guess at possibly not.

Your husband's present buying skills suck, and you obviously mean very little to him for him to want to save a measly 7 quid when you ave actually told him, with a link, what you want.

But maybe he isn't realise that you were serious what with all the maniacal laughing apparently going on?

Jeez this forum gets worse.

It does doesn't it. .

So, what was the box you were after? Need some ideas

www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4383747.htm

This one xx

I am sorry but you do sound quite hard work and a touch passive aggressive .
To say you personally want nothing whilst then buying your DH lots is just playing the martyr , especially when you actually do want something .

Maybe your husband wanted to surprise you rather than being told exactly what to buy, which is treating him like a child.

If you really want the makeup set go and buy if for yourself .

How does it make me hard work because I wanted to spoil my husband, and I didn't want anything?!? Last year he brought me an iPad and a phone, I brought him some aftershave. This year I wanted to spoil him, I didn't want anything but he wanted to buy me something from the kids!!!

you're the 'drunk blowie'-giver! Did he get one Mummytotwox?

Maybe he thought you did not want a present because you were worried about money . So maybe he thought you would be pleased that he had bought you a similar item for less money .

Because the whole "don't get me anything, whilst I get you lots" strikes of an imbalance in a relationship that you are trying to create.

To then change your mind and then say not only do I want a present - but it has to be this exact thing - just sounds childish.

Have read your other threads, because as usual there is more to this.

Your DH sounds useless and his "poor" gift buying sounds like the least of his problems . Your finances sound like a nightmare , no money for food one week and then buying three dresses the following week. I think your DH is right in this case to try and buy a cheaper gift .

Gosh there are some snipey old meanies around on here just now.

OP - ask him for the receipt and change it?

Wow, just wow.

YANBU, my dh went on & on at me about what I wanted so I sent him about 8 links of earrings on eBay & asked him to pick one. He hasn't bought me any as HE didn't like them, hmph. Luckily I gave him a bbh to buy me when we were in asda & added a radio to his john Lewis cart so I have something, LOL! I actually am lol as can't believe the things that people want to fight about.

My dh is quite sensitive but I have bought all his family's presents & a bottle of £80 whisky for him that I didn't like so he bloody well should get me what I want-same goes for you OP!

at some people on here.

Gone from a make up box to a drunk blowie. No idea why old threads need to be dragged up.

Just tell your husband that its the wrong one.

Yes SP - pretty bad etiquette to go trawling through old threads and bringing them into a different one.

Nice work people.

I am not being mean to the OP and haven't a clue about drunk blowjobs.

Grown ups in a loving marriage don't get upset about presents. Usually the present is the final straw. As I suspected this is not really about the present, but that according to the OP the husband is generally useless, despite the fact they haven't been married that long . The gift is just something tangible onto which she can pin that anger and frustration .

Vile thread

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OP buy yourself the box or tell OH and give him the Argos page etc.

You can still get upset about presents! My mum did when she received a shower head and her and stepdad are happy. It was a shit gift.

The husband was told which one she wanted and he didn't. She has every right to be upset

Why all the nastiness?

OP I'd be peed off too. Just go and buy yourself the box you want.

Lament out loud?

You now need to tell him to buy you some jewellery to go in it

and go and buy the make up too

Unless when I feel asleep earlier I have missed a few days, isn't Wednesday Christmas Day? Why have you opened your present early? Hotels do allow luggage? I wouldn't bother being upset a box is a box is box is a box..... Isn't it!