to not have thanked someone for a present

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Hi mumsnetters will try and keep this simple, basicly i wished everyone a merry christmas on my fb status and thanked the family members that got my 2 dds christmas presents then today i recieved a call of my bil saying that my sil wasent very happy as shed seen my status and id not put her name in the message thanking her even though shed not botherd with her nieces, bil said to sil well did you get your nieces anythink? Sil says well no but its not fair i should of been thanked to. Have i missed somethink was aibu?

She didn't get your dds a present, but did she get anyone else in the family a present you could have thanked her for or did she invite you to her home at all?

Why no leave Facebook the hell alone and get the children to write old fashioned thank you notes? That way you only need to send them to people who send them presents and people who don't won't know.
Also getting a thank you note is much nicer than a Facebook post.

I hate to do this Calleigh but there is no three letter word alot. You can have a lot of something or you can allot someone something.

And you thought "I know! I'll join MN to post my semi literate Facebook related whinge"

I think you should write a huge paragraph thanking SIL for the list of gifts. The car, the bike, the remote controlled helicopter, the hamper, the valuable golden peanut, the unicorn, the basilisk fang...

How is alot a three letter word, even if it was real, which it isn't?

'lot' is a three letter word
how can people misspell it by adding a letter in front

OP - your SIL is a crazy
I hope when it's her birthday and you don't send her a present, you call your BIL up and tell him how upset you are she's not thanked you for the non-existent present.

Thats my point lol!! It is lot. A then lot. There's no such word as alot so why do so many people, so so many, think there is?! And now people are starting to write 'abit'. What is that about?!

Yes batteries that is what i meant.

I totally agree with thank you cards too. Ive been the rude person typing under a 'thank you for all the gifts' fb status with 'does this mean I'm not getting an actual thank you?'

Someone who can spell conclusion correctly but not anything? I smell a wind up thread...

Sounds like my inlaws, my bil never sends my dh, children or me a card, no happy birthday then phones dh to tell him its his wifes birthday, I think my dh said "that's nice"

I'm with you triptrap. I nearly stopped reading cos the grammar/spelling was driving me mad.

'Cos' the grammar and spelling were driving you mad? Really? Cos is not a word!

I have nuffink to add to this thread.

pipbin

Will there be mention of wine, a wasp, or Sharon in a minute?

OP wrote 'have' in the title and then 'of' in the post. I think the 'of' was deliberate.

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I do that sometimes because of how I speak, I have a very common accent and sometimes it slips into my writing.

triptrap - if you're going to criticise other people for spelling and punctuating incorrectly could you please start putting spaces after your commas?

Thanks, the grammar police.

Umm,no my phone doesn't like it

triptrap - if you're going to criticise other people for spelling and punctuating incorrectly could you please start putting spaces after your commas?

I think that dash should be a comma.

[snigger]

"Cos" is a word, it's a type of lettuce.

LOL

I thought I'd be picked up on cos but decided not to change it. I don't mind it cos it's an abbreviation. It isn't exactly a grammar mistake, although obviously not grammatically correct.

Cos is not an abbreviation, it's lazy.
It's not a grammatical mistake.
Either poor spelling and grammar wind you up or they don't. I am far from perfect but I wouldn't use cos when because is hardly difficult to get right.