So Christmas has been and almost gone here. I only have a small family (one DC and an older relative that lives with me), plus some extended relatives that we are part of the big family present draw. So not a lot of presents under the tree for me, but I can live with that. But every year my older relative gives me the exact same thing. Which is something I like, but I would buy it myself anyway (an annual release of something I collect), and I usually do have to buy it myself and give it to her, and this year she didn't even bother to wrap it for me. I have tried dropping hints to her, even flat out told her that I'd like something different, but nope, for the last twenty years, it has been the same thing. The extended relatives we are part of the Christmas draw, and I've never had anything that remotely indicates that they know me at all in all the years we have been doing it. This years effort was a type of clothing I would never wear, in a fabric I am allergic to, in a size that I haven't been since I was in high school. I know I should be grateful for anything, and there are people out there with nothing, but AIBU to wish that someone would just put in some effort and show that they actually understand me? I'm not a hard person to buy for I don't think. Just once I'd like to unwrap a gift on Christmas Day and be really surprised. I spend hours buying gifts for others, just once I'd like someone to put in some effort for me. So I guess IABU, but needed a whinge. Time for 
I think.