AIBU to be disappointed and quite frankly let down and pissed off with dh for getting me slippers for xmas?!

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Ok so am I or am I being spoilt?

I am angry, 30 wks pregnant and hormonal so don't be too harsh!

Oh and I made a detailed list for him back in November! Although we did only get paid on 20th Dec (Own business,long story, whole other thread!)

I've ordered him to take back everything and he's just gone out now

Everything?

Thought he only got you slippers?

Pregnant or not YABU. Sorry. Even my kids wouldnt behave like that...in fact they didnt.

YABU

I love getting slippers for xmas

where you expecting more?

Your reaction sounds a little harsh...

My DH stuck faithfully to the list so brownie points for him. But even if he hadn't, can't imagine ordering him to take it all back!

What was the 'everything' apart from slippers?

Umm... if that's the top and bottom of the story YABU, although sounds like there is more to it!

If it was just slippers and I didn't ask for them I would be a bit miffed

I got some lovely slippers from my dh

you ordered him to take everything back??? xmas is not about presents, it is about family time, and anything else is icing on the cake

DH bought me a dressing gown, have needed one for ages, would rather have something i want and need rather than more toiletries/ scent/ bubble bath etc etc

if he only got paid 20th december, you are definitely being very unreasonable

you made him a detailed list??? it is Xmas, not a birthday, and even then, i thikn that is a bit grasping

All I wanted was slippers, I didn't want anything else and I got them. To be honest I don't want anything bought for me or money spent on me. I'd rather it went on the children and even if I didnt get slipppers I would have gone out and bought them myself. Like a CD I wanted I bought that 2 weeks before christmas, I could have easily said I wanted it for christmas but I got it myself.

YAB a little U, especially him taking the things back, whateveer happened to biting your tongue and pretending you like the gifts people have given you.

did he not stick to the list?

I have never had a list for christmas, dont see the point

The other things were a lip balm and a body scrub.

Slippers are for grannies I wouldn't dream of getting him slippers!

I reckons your homrones are letting out what you really feel rather than pretending like the rest of us

None of the above items were on the list. I am a thoughtful person who takes time and thinks carefully about what I choose for people.

Ok maybe I'm spoilt but I would actually have preferred us to say ok no presents this year lets just buy for the kids!

i got slippers

very happy with them

fur lined and red and wearing them now

also got some underwear, thought think thatwas more for dh then me

i dont understand why you toldgim to take otherstuff back?

I got slippers during each of my pregnancies.........they are so needed when you are having the baby, even if you are having a home birth......you feet get so cold during labour (well, mine did), and then if you are up and about during night feding......they are not a thoughtless present at all IMVHO...........in fact, I think it means he has asked about to what is most needed for a new mum and slippers (plus lip balm and body scrub) would be a many list.

seriously, I think your hormones have got the better of you, and to send him out today is bloody unfair!

THANKYOU needmorecoffee I can't imagine many women really want slippers for Christmas!

did he get you othere presents......ie, some of what was on your list??

Slippers were my request too and they are lovely!

i really did want slippers

hate having cold feet,makes me very miserable and narky!!!

I wanted slippers for xmas and didn't get them - but I'm not telling people to take all my presents back.

I think you're being very ungrateful and feel sorry for your dh if that's what he's got to live with!

I would be pissed off with slippers too but then I never wear them and associate them with old people. I suppose feelings towards presents depends on whether you view a thoughtful present as a representation of being valued. If you don't feel that way then any present will do. If you are feeling under valued and unloved as a result of the slippers I can understand your hurt. However, it is a rare man who gets it right all the time and some panic and always therefore get it wrong.

some slippers are for grannies but I have had my eye on some lovely sheep skin leather ones for a while and would have been happy to have received some for xmas...I'll swap your slippers for the pair of rubber gloves my MIL sent me in the post for xmas

No, none of the other items were on the list. I wrote him a list to make it easy for him.

I feel incredibly fat, have awful spots at the mo and have nothing pretty to wear being pregnant which is not nice over Christmas.

So now I'm also a spoilt cow....great!

but DID he get you anything off of your list???

and you know, write a list by all means, but never ever expect a man to stick to it. seriously, never........even a shopping list is never stuck to exactly IME, so I would never expect a xmas list to be.

I think you're on the ball there HarlotOtara

I'll ignore that AuntieMaggie.

I would never dream of asking anyone else to take back the presents they'd given me. Any gifts from other people whatever they are I am truly touched by, however from dh I just thought he'd have tried a little harder.

Next year I'll get my own