AIBU mothers day gift returned by partner and no replacement!

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I had such a lovely mother's day, my eldest made a card from school, I received flowers, a jumper and we went for dinner. The jumper wasn't my kind of thing so I kindly said thank you but I would return it and pick something else. Well that's what I thought! I went to exchange today to only find out that my partner had already returned it and didn't mention this at all to me until I asked. Is it acceptable to buy someone a gift and then return it with no offering of something that I would actually like!!

But surely the danger of not admitting you dislike something is the buyer then thinks you do like it....and then buys you more.

To be honest, if I bought someone something and noticed they never wore it then I would be pissed off with that, what a waste of money. Why would you want to spend money on something the receiver doesn't like, what a waste.

God why do people take such offence when the present they pick isn't what the receiver would pick for themselves. I can hand on heart say if I pick something for someone I would never be offended if they didn't like it and wanted to return it.
OP I think it's unfair if you don't share money but if you do share money then I don't think it really matters if he took it back.

Name change fail??

TheOnly my first post was done on my tablet and I didn't think it had loaded so did it again on my PC. HTH

@TheWernethWife if you’re not the OP why are you responding like you are?

And if you are the OP why are you responding to your own post saying that your partner wouldn’t be a knob like this and women shouldn’t accept shoddy behaviour?!

I noticed that too, Ivana.

I can see why he might have been offended. But I'd rather someone exchanged something they didn't like for something they did. Otherwise it's just a waste of money. Also, once a gift has been given to you, it can't be "ungifted", which your DH seems to have done. It's yours to do with as you please.

Oops!

Op??? 🤨🤨🤨

What the heck?

Was it socks or a jumper?

Was it socks or a jumper?

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Hello, just stopping by to dispel any rumours of sock puppeting on this thread. We can't see any!

It looks like TheWernethWife was responding to TheOnlyLivingBoy's post, when in actual fact it wasn't directed at her, but at the OP (who's posted this thread twice by mistake).

The OP and TWW are two different posters, both long-term members of the site.

Does that make any sense at all? What we're trying to say is, move along, please, nothing to see here...

You told your kids you didn’t like the gift they got you? Harsh.

Sorry you sound like hard work to me - they picked a jumper you said you didn't like and you want them to have a go at picking something else? What if you don't like it. Just buy what you want for yourself.

I think it's fine to say you don't really like the jumper but I wouldn't expect a replacement one. It's not really in the spirit of mothers day! They tried to pick out something you would like - the thought was there. Exchanging it for something else isn't necessary surely.