Crap Birthday present from my sister to my son!

[Jooleshop]

I have 2 sisters and between us we have 5 boys.
My son is the youngest and both my sister's have 2 boys each . One is a single parent like me and the other is married.
We have agreed between us to spend £20 on all presents for birthdays and Christmas.
My sister asked me what my son would like for his birthday.... today and I said organic cotton PJ's. My sister is always banging on about organic cotton so I expected a cosy pair of PJ's.
We had a party earlier...I supplied fizz, nibbles and lots of cake.
My sister gave my son a pair of Amazon cotton PJ's at £11.99!!!!
They are thin and a bit shit really...
I have swallowed this bug feel really pissed off and used!!!
Is this unreasonable???

It’s more environmentally friendly I think? Being at a higher price point it’s sometimes also thicker and better quality, but that’s not down to the organic-ness, I don’t think so anyway!

You know, even the cheapest pjs from Poundland or Primark don’t wear out before a child grows out of them. So long as they were cotton and DS liked them, what’s the problem? If she is setting a precedent for finding bargains for presents, then that will save you a few quid in the long run.

Crikey I hope your DS had better presents for his birthday than a pair of PJs, organic cotton or not.

Poor boy.

How sad. For everyone (including your son btw).

Or she doesn't have Amazon prime so had to pay £5 for delivery, making them £17. If she included card and gift wrap in the price that makes £20.

My friends mum got a Cauliflower once, wrapped up and everything 😂

How old is your son? No child wants organic cotton pyjamas. They want Bluey pyjamas, or pirate ones or dinosaur ones.

I think you are v v unreasonable and need to grow up.

How old is your son? Did he like the pyjamas?
Was the "organic cotton" his idea or yours? Were they age and size appropriate?
Is this a reverse?
What's the point in gifts it people are going to obsess other them always being exactly equivalent value?

You sound like a spoilt, ungrateful weirdo!!!

I bet your poor sister would be mortified to read this.

Get. A. Grip.

My sister asked me what my son would like for his birthday.... today and I said organic cotton PJ's

Really looking forward to those, was he? This is so pretentious: not just cotton, but ORGANIC cotton 😁

Maybe she had to pay for express delivery or the card was expensive. I also think it’s really petty and rude to check the price.

My grandad (notoriously tight) bought my cousin a loaf of reduced price bread for his 10th birthday

Get a life

Tell her she owes you £8.01 and you expect it with 5-7 working days

or you know….be grateful for the gift, be a good role model for your son and stop moaning.

Come on, we all look up the price of presents 🤭

Possibly the most mumsnetty mumsnet thread I’ve ever read 😩

Ahahahaha yeh that’s definitely what her son asked for for his birthday 😂

My SIL gave DH a bottle of aftershave for Christmas that she won in the tombola at the school fayre. It had been opened and a bit had been used. He has never used aftershave in his life so we donated it back to school for the next function. Either she won it again or bought it from the white elephant stall, as it made another appearance as his birthday present.

You can get decent quality kids PJ's for £11.99 so sound alike she was just unlucky.

If she'd got him something really weird/rubbish/cheap you'd have a point, but quibbling over £8.01 is a bit mental. If it makes you feel better just spend £11.99 on her child's next birthday.

Obviously you’re the only one who cares that’s it’s organic. And you only care because your sis keeps taking about organic- not because you actually want organic cotton LOL. Get a grip OP.

I can imagine you at Christmas opening your gifts and googling the price - if you were my sister that would be the last gift your family would be getting from me!
How ungrateful.

I say this kindly, but you are looking for faults to find.

You will ruin your relationship with your sisters and with your child's cousins which would be a real shame.

You need to look at why you are harbouring so much resentment.

What do you want from them? They have their own families and their own busy lives as you do and that is their main priority.

They came to the party with your child's cousins, they gave him a present which was what you'd asked for and having them there to celebrate made your child feel special. That is worth so much more than a slightly cheaper birthday present. Just look at the threads on here, some people have a lot worse behaviour from siblings. You have something good but you will lose it unless you change the way you look at this. And that would be a shame because once gone, it will be hard to get back.

Do you want to spend your life eaten up with annoyance at them?.. your child will pick up on this and that could damage their happiness.

LET IT GO...

If you feel that you are treated unfairly, please think about why and whether being more assertive in a reasonable way (not angry) might help. EG. Find some good strategies to make who pays for what fairer. That might help mend some of this feeling but the next time you feel that way, ask yourself if it is really reasonable or not worth tying yourself into knots about it. Life is too short.

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Your SiL probably didn't realise the bottle had been opened but you did and still donated it again? You deserved to get it back.