Official Holiday Petty Complaints Thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WHY do my in-laws always give the children gifts that require expensive refills?

It's not a gift if I have to spend more than the cost of the toy to buy refills!!!

Like a video game console?

[Anonymous]

Stocking pps: stop hijacking the thread!

[Anonymous]

Spent the day yesterday making Christmas dinner. There are enough leftovers for dinner tonight but both DH and DS tried to eat them for lunch. Make yourselves a sandwich or salad people!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Spent the day yesterday making Christmas dinner. There are enough leftovers for dinner tonight but both DH and DS tried to eat them for lunch. Make yourselves a sandwich or salad people!

Communicate with your family, jeez. Leftovers are fair game for lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Spent the day yesterday making Christmas dinner. There are enough leftovers for dinner tonight but both DH and DS tried to eat them for lunch. Make yourselves a sandwich or salad people!

UGH! I hate this. DH is so lazy. He will always eat whatever is premade in the fridge vs. literally just make a bowl of cereal or sandwich.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had to insist a couple years that MIL stop labeling all the gifts under the tree as being from Santa. Santa gifts are for our house only. Grown adults should not be getting gifts from Santa, crazy lady.

Did she do it this year again?

You seem a little inflexible on the rules for an imaginary character.

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Anonymous wrote:Weirdest interaction with my MIL who dropped a child in my lap while I'm eating saying my SO needed to eat. I had told SO to put child on the couch so we could both eat and apparently MIL took child instead then got indignant. I'm taking a break.

While I agreed it shouldn’t automatically be mom who gets “the child,” I do have to wonder—how old? How old is “the child” and what did you give “the child” to play with or work on while you and DH were both “taking a break”? Because if you just leave a child unattended, if he or she isn’t old enough to be alone, then you and DH are just making work for other people.

He poster said SO. It could be the DH who got the child dropped in his lap. The problem is the MIL and people who want to tell parents how to parent- ie you.

Followup: the child is 15.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I did just have to explain to my teen that being stuck in Telluride waiting 20 minutes for the bus because the Gondola is broken is the very definition of a first world problem. Even if it’s cold and there’s a football game on.

I really don’t know where I went wrong. He’s not spoiled about material things. We did get to have a good talk about the need to develop coping skills (on a serious note, I do think a lot of it was anxiety — it was dark, and it wasn’t clear that a bus would really be coming).

Of course it was because of anxiety—strange place, fear of being stranded in the cold, it was Christmas Day, etc. And he doesn’t have coping skills as a teen why? Where was your parenting to develop those coping skills before now?

Wow. I was expecting that response from DCUM, but it came even faster than expected! Good work, pp. Never disappoint!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:WHY do my in-laws always give the children gifts that require expensive refills?

It's not a gift if I have to spend more than the cost of the toy to buy refills!!!

Like a video game console?

More like a craft making thing that requires special paper/ink/markers/rubber bands/etc. that run out very quickly. It's something new every year, and they always require replacement materials after the kids get through the 2-day initial supply.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had to insist a couple years that MIL stop labeling all the gifts under the tree as being from Santa. Santa gifts are for our house only. Grown adults should not be getting gifts from Santa, crazy lady.

Did she do it this year again?

You seem a little inflexible on the rules for an imaginary character.

Hm. I know very few people who let grandparents take credit for Santa gifts. They had their turn, let the parents have their own go.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had to insist a couple years that MIL stop labeling all the gifts under the tree as being from Santa. Santa gifts are for our house only. Grown adults should not be getting gifts from Santa, crazy lady.

Did she do it this year again?

You seem a little inflexible on the rules for an imaginary character.

Hm. I know very few people who let grandparents take credit for Santa gifts. They had their turn, let the parents have their own go.

Im reading it as the adults are getting Santa gifts. She’s mad adults are getting gifts from Santa at a hime not their own. Makes little sense.

[Anonymous]

DH and I have spent the evening catching my 13 month old niece climbing stairs and doing other unsafe things while BIL plays with LEGO. When alerted that his baby is doing something unsafe BIL's response is "well I figure there are plenty of adults to watch her."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had to insist a couple years that MIL stop labeling all the gifts under the tree as being from Santa. Santa gifts are for our house only. Grown adults should not be getting gifts from Santa, crazy lady.

Did she do it this year again?

You seem a little inflexible on the rules for an imaginary character.

Hm. I know very few people who let grandparents take credit for Santa gifts. They had their turn, let the parents have their own go.

Im reading it as the adults are getting Santa gifts. She’s mad adults are getting gifts from Santa at a hime not their own. Makes little sense.

I get the issue, if MIL is labeling every gift that way, it’s causing an issue for the parents of Santa-believers. And yeah, adding adult gifts the mix is an added level of stupidity. Tell her to knock it off. Can’t stand grandparents trying to get a second go at this stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:I had to insist a couple years that MIL stop labeling all the gifts under the tree as being from Santa. Santa gifts are for our house only. Grown adults should not be getting gifts from Santa, crazy lady.

Did she do it this year again?

You seem a little inflexible on the rules for an imaginary character.

Hm. I know very few people who let grandparents take credit for Santa gifts. They had their turn, let the parents have their own go.

Im reading it as the adults are getting Santa gifts. She’s mad adults are getting gifts from Santa at a hime not their own. Makes little sense.

I get the issue, if MIL is labeling every gift that way, it’s causing an issue for the parents of Santa-believers. And yeah, adding adult gifts the mix is an added level of stupidity. Tell her to knock it off. Can’t stand grandparents trying to get a second go at this stuff.

Big whoop. Tell the kids Grandma likes to pretend she's Santa at her house. My kids would give zero Fs about this and the "horrible" Santa confusion. If the parents aren't taking credit as "Santa" there is nothing lost in the eyes of the believers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had to insist a couple years that MIL stop labeling all the gifts under the tree as being from Santa. Santa gifts are for our house only. Grown adults should not be getting gifts from Santa, crazy lady.

You’re equally crazy for caring about this.