To be annoyed that DH used my Christmas gift before I did

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Just that really

He bought me a book for Christmas, not one I had asked for, more of one of his interests than mine but I would still read.

I haven't had chance to start reading it yet. Tonight I walk into the living room to see him sat reading it himself.

AIBU to say that he is out of order to have done so?

So he bought you a book he wanted and then read it himself. Cheeky sod.

First opportunity cut the last few pages out...

YANBU, because your DH basically bought himself a book for Christmas.

My DH did similar - my Christmas present one year was a knife. Which he then proceeded to take and use to carve the turkey

I think I would be more annoyed that he bought me a book that was 'more one of his interests than mine' - who reads it first isn't the issue, his lack of thought is.

Grow up

I would be tempted to say something like, “Oh, that’s the book you got for Christmas. Any good?”

Very rude to buy you a book as a gift that he wanted to read.

He owes you a proper present. Choose what you fancy but he can pay.

Where does the OP say she is a mum? You're projecting.

Yeah, not on.

Years ago I used to buy Heat magazine religiously, every Tuesday morning.

Woe betide anyone who so much as glanced at the front cover of my copy before I'd read it.

I mean, it’s mumsnet, so it’s fair to speculate that she might well be

Send him out to buy you a Christmas present - and next Christmas get him something for you!

This is straight out of the Crap Present Manual: buy someone else the gift you wanted for yourself and sneakily use it when they don't because you bought it for yourself really.

I'd be mentioning to him that it's Valentine's Day next month and he's getting nothing but you're buying yourself a spa break/scent/silk underwear/flowers etc.

I couldn't get annoyed about my DH reading a book that belonged to me.

You seem nice.

YANBU he's a cheeky fucker who bought himself a present and passed it off as being for you. Take it off him and tell him your keeping it and you aren't going to let him read it even when you've finished. I loath selfish men like this. The first Christmas with my ExH many years ago he bought a full stacking hifi system. All wrapped up it was brought in by him and his family and as I started to unwrap it he said well it's a house present really! Yeah it was the hifi system he'd wanted to buy for himself and I'd said we couldn't afford and he'd bought it on but now pay later. Not only did he pass his selfishness off as a really generous present in front of his whole family I had to pay for the sodding thing when we had absolutely no spare money at all and I was the higher earner. Wanker.

Well he shouldn't have given it to OP as her Christmas gift then.

He got you a book that he wanted to read

Cheeky git

This why it would bug me!

This! I’d shove his book up his arse.

Yep, he sniffed up all that gorgeous new book scent and got that lovely cracking of the spine. Under the patio he goes🤣🤣🤣

I bought husband three books for Xmas. He only reads on the loo. A slow reader a book lasts a couple of months. I buy him a new one when I see the bookmark is approaching the end.

I picked up one of the books and started reading it the other evening because he was watching hours of sports.

I wouldn't mind him reading it but I would mind him buying it for you when it's clearly for him! I hope it was only one amongst some decent presents for you?!

Oooh no! It's one thing getting a book that's more his hobby and makes you strongly suspect was more for him....but to out and out prove it is just rude!

He should have asked your permission. Some people bend the corners or leave the book open face down which stops it feeling 'new'. For me It's not that so much, as the fact I'd worry he would blurt out spoilers or read bits of it aloud and ruin it for me. That's what people used to do with my magazines at work and I would go mad.
The fact it's more his interest than yours sounds like it might be a bit like Homer buying Marge a bowling ball! (v. old Simpsons reference) haha..