This past year, I asked my family members who still share gifts to skip my birthday, and compile whatever they meant to spend on me into Xmas for a car maintenance job I need done (cosmetic only, thank God). My mother – who used to teach economics* — kept thinking I was asking her to spend money for my birthday, then spend the dollar amount she’d used for that in addition to what she set aside for Christmas gifts. After trying to explain it to her three times, I just agreed to save my birthday money and combine it with my Xmas gift money towards what I was having done to ym car.
*Can’t tell if I should take this as proof of the saying “those that can’t do, teach” or a sign that I need to start looking into nursing homes for her.
There’s a difference between being a person that is honest with others, and a jerk. You’re the second kind.
This past year, I asked my family members who still share gifts to skip my birthday, and compile whatever they meant to spend on me into Xmas for a car maintenance job I need done (cosmetic only, thank God). My mother – who used to teach economics* — kept thinking I was asking her to spend money for my birthday, then spend the dollar amount she’d used for that in addition to what she set aside for Christmas gifts. After trying to explain it to her three times, I just agreed to save my birthday money and combine it with my Xmas gift money towards what I was having done to ym car.
*Can’t tell if I should take this as proof of the saying “those that can’t do, teach” or a sign that I need to start looking into nursing homes for her.
nothing will beat the guy who refused gift receipts with the statement that if the receivers were upset about the price, that’s on them, not him