Am I being a cow not to buy my MIL a present, I am just so fed-up with her???

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She is an ungrateful %^&*$ and I would rather give the money to charity.

I have bought her lots of nice things which she tosses aside with barely a second glance and I strongly suspect either gives away or flogs on eBay!

Fair enough, it is hers to do with as she wants.

So then I started getting her gift vouchers which she told SIL she prefers.

Took one over for her birthday at the weekend for fifty pounds, left it on the kitchen table because she was out, have heard nothing.

Not a thing.

This is normal.

So do I carry on or get her something small for Christmas and use the money for something I would like to give to like vaccinations for children overseas.

It just all feels so empty and stupid.

i reckon she is sulking as she wants your dh to think of something great

just imagine if it was us in twenty or so years time and our kids were not buying presents and leaving it to their other halfs - id be grumpy too

She had better wrap up warm and get in plenty of tinned baked beans then because she's in for a bloody long sulk!

My PIL are hte same - sounds likeI could write the posts for you!! Our dc never get much for Xmas whereas nitemare BIl and partner 's kids get everything - £300 spent on nephew for 1st birthday - my ds the same bloody year for his 1st birthday got a Tesco cherokee jogging suit with sale labels on!!! I decided tho to continue to give htem the giftds they demand but rarely acknowledge and to keep in touch with them so in future to our children we have been the sane rational ones who have never stopped them seeing them blah blah blah. No-one can ever turn to me i the future and say that I wasn't fair or whatever.

Would loveto give her a present of the type she has given me in the past... wouldn't have the nerve to buy em tho!!