A close friend recently bought her first house. We have been redoing our house so offered some of our furniture (all only 1 or 2 years old at most) as a moving present to save her having to spend money. We could have sold the furniture for over £1000 all together so I thought it was a really generous gift but was happy to help my friend. (Gave a sofa, coffee table, tv stand and arm chair for context so pretty much kitted out her living room for free with good quality furniture).
She came and collected the furniture on Tuesday and I wasn’t expecting her to make a huge deal but a thank you would have been nice. She just turned up with her dad, loaded the furniture and said bye. I figured she would be busy this week moving in so I waited and text her Friday evening to ask how the move went etc and still no mention of the furniture or a thank you. She just said ‘yeah good thanks’ and changed the topic.
AIBU to expect more of an acknowledgement of the gift? I know I chose to give her those things but if it was the other way round I actually would have sent a thank you card and maybe even a gift. But I have not even received a text to say they appreciate us helping her out. I just feel a bit let down by a really good friend and feel like this happens every time I go out of my way to do something nice for someone!!