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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since when did the point of gift receiving become about getting EXAcTLY WHAT I WANT? This thread reads like a bunch of entitled UMC a holes. There are people on here complaining they get no gifts or not good enough gifts and others complaining they got gifts. It literally is the thought that counts. My husband and I are in agreeement that our kids shouldn’t expect to get everything that they ask for or exactly what they ask for. Not the point of gifts and I don’t want them to grow up to be one of these ungrateful complainers!

i teach my kids that receiving gifts is about expressing gratitude that someone thought of you. As a kid I remember opening gifts at my birthday party and learning to make positive comments and thank people - my mom would scold me if I said something unkind. Similarly when we shop for Christmas, I am teaching my kids to think of the giftee and brainstorm things they like. Sometimes that is chocolate. This year my son bought me a whisk bc he remembered mine broke. We complemented him on repaying attention and thinking about me.

All you whose husbands are crappy gift givers? You’re raising the next generation. Either you teach them how to pay attention and buy gifts or you’re setting an example that you complain about everything and throw it away so they shouldn’t make an effort.

It does answer the question of all these crappy ILs though. All you who received nothing from your in-laws? The next generation of MILs who don’t gift their DILs are growing here.it is not hard to tell your family you are not participating in Christmas or  quietly donate/regift things you don’t like. Put them in a tub in the garage, next November donate them to a charity that allows lower income families to “shop” for presents. Not hard.[/quote]

1) Complimented, not complemented

2) Do you get that this thread is people just naming things they didn’t like or think were useful? I got a bunch of unwanted gifts from various people in my life, but I simply said thank you, recognized they meant well, and moved on with my day. [/quote]

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