Background:
my DS2 will be 7 on the 1st of August.
His party is a week today so that family could come as they have to work on the Monday.
DD and DS2 slept at their dad's last night (DS1 refuses to see him)
He is meant to drop them off at 11 but didn't. I had to phone him and find out where they were. He lives literally on the next street so no traffic to navigate. He said "Oh I just thought I'd have them a bit longer" so I said that's fine but next time clear it with me first.
So I decided to wrap presents while I had a bit of time so I sat on my perching stool in the kitchen and wrapped every single pokemon themed gift from me and family in pokemon wrapping paper, plus a bargain gift I'd bought that isn't pokemon themed. The only present that isn't. (DS2 is autistic and pokemon is his special interest right now)
The DC arrived home as I had just finished wrapping the last present. Ex picked it up and said "what is it? It feels heavy" so I told him it was a Nintendo DS that I bought off ebay. I gathered as DS2 plays his brothers and his sisters ones he'd like one of his own.
I thought that would be the end of it. But ex doesn't work Mondays so he's gone home and presumably got pissed. As he does on a regular basis and started texting me about how I'm a cheapskate only shit mums would buy a birthday present off ebay instead of new, that it doesn't matter if Nintendo DSs aren't being made anymore I should have bought him a switch instead (note the DC already have a switch and I have a switch lite that they can use) that I'm a tramp and I can't expect DS2 to be happy with crappy presents, that DS2 would be heartbroken that it isn't pokemon themed, that he'd never forgive me for buying it etc etc.
Now, I don't buy a lot for birthdays. I've bought him that, then a charizard toy, a master ball guess the pokemon toy and a pokemon watch.
Apparently this Nintendo DS makes me cheap even though his other presents are new, and ex buys them presents off wish for birthdays and Christmas and I never complain at him about it.
So AIBU to have bought my DS2 an Ebay bargain for his birthday?