For those that give gift cards with no thought to the reciepent's tastes...why?

The only excuse I can think of is if the gift reciever had a bad drug habit and would have used straight cash for drugs instead of treating themselves to a something.

Although one can sell gift cards now (cardcash.com is a real thing, I have used them before). Like 80 cents on the dollar, but they get a check they have to cash in return. So that is just making the person wait 2 weeks for their money instead of today. They used to have kiosks to do this but they took them away (for obvious reasons).

Anonymous wrote:My parents got me a 100 gift card to chili’s for Christmas.

I would have rather gotten slipper socks to be honest.

I will trade you my slipper socks (and $110 the $10 is a tip) for your gift card....baby back ribs here I come!!

I should not be joking, I am sorry OP. Limiting you to one restaurant? Couldn't even do a visa gift card so you had some choice of what to get yourself? Shit, straight up cash would be decent? A damn shame.

Anonymous wrote:My beloved husband has the week off from work and all he wants to do is sit and look at twitter.

I might not recognize him without the phone pushed into his face anymore.

I do not begrudge him down time or wanting to chill out; the guy works pretty hard. But man almighty, twitter is not that exciting.

yep. I guess that's my rant too but about myself. had lots of things planned to accomplish. Getting zero done. Just want to chill brainlessly too.

Anonymous wrote:Time for me to go give my parents their $25 presents as they give me $500 in gifts then they will shame me for the amount even though I only work part time making <$400 a week due to the virus and am struggling to pay basic bills and they all have 6-figure salaries.

Time to face the music, good luck everyone else.

Ugh. That’s terrible. I’m sorry.

I personally think you have to put more thought I to gifting when you have a limited budget.

My parents got me a 100 gift card to chili’s for Christmas.

I would have rather gotten slipper socks to be honest.

Time for me to go give my parents their $25 presents as they give me $500 in gifts then they will shame me for the amount even though I only work part time making <$400 a week due to the virus and am struggling to pay basic bills and they all have 6-figure salaries.

Time to face the music, good luck everyone else.

Anonymous wrote:Yes we are bad, bad people for visiting family. We are evil and we suck and we are murderers and going to Kill you. Sorry! (We personally had Covid two months ago because of my husbands dick co-worker and have since tested negative twice and isolated for two weeks no work, no stores, nothing, and have been cleared to visit family by our physicians and physician siblings but go ahead and dump on me anyway I know you want to!).

So you actually had Covid but that doesn't stop you from traveling for Christmas. How incredibly selfish of you. No wonder 300,000+ here have died.

Anonymous wrote:Op here. This thread did not take off like I thought it would. I guess that means you all are being good and staying home!!

Sorry, OP. I think a lot of us are isolating, and it’s harder to come up with a good petty vent without extended family around. I’m usually a big contributor to these threads. I will say that my college aged DD walked in today just as my DH was commenting on how terrible it was that we wouldn’t be hosting and feeding his siblings and families and parents (16 total) and he got annoyed when she laughed at my effort to assume a sad expression. But he only pouted for a few minutes, so I can’t even complain about that on this glorious Christmas eve.

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Why does my husband take a nap on the couch at 9pm? He's there now, sleeping away. Pretty soon he'll wake up, prepare for bed, but then stay up for hours browsing on the computer and sharing bits of news with me. Then he finally goes to bed and gets up at 6am.

What's up with that?

Ah, the dishwasher beep just woke him up. Now for the shower. He'll be back down in his PJs soon enough.

Op here. Wait, are we married to brothers? What is up with the 9pm nap?

Triplets, actually. Mine is asleep in front of the tv as I type this.

One of you clearly married my ex.

Op here. This thread did not take off like I thought it would. I guess that means you all are being good and staying home!!

I’m so angry I want to punch a wall. Instead I’ll post here.

Anonymous wrote:My beloved husband has the week off from work and all he wants to do is sit and look at twitter.

I might not recognize him without the phone pushed into his face anymore.

I do not begrudge him down time or wanting to chill out; the guy works pretty hard. But man almighty, twitter is not that exciting.

Uh PP. Twitter is amazing. However, hope your husband gets bored soon.

My super petty vent is this. Trash night. It's these same every week (except a handful of holidays). Every damn week and it is supposed to be the responsibility of someone other than me. 15 years in the same house and I'm always taking it out myself when I hear the trucks in the morning. And this is after I reminded my husband before I went up to get ready for bed.

My beloved husband has the week off from work and all he wants to do is sit and look at twitter.

I might not recognize him without the phone pushed into his face anymore.

I do not begrudge him down time or wanting to chill out; the guy works pretty hard. But man almighty, twitter is not that exciting.

My father is mostly deaf after an illness as a child. Sometimes he doesn’t wear hearing aids and it makes me crazy. He turns on the burner on the stove, but doesn’t hear the clicking of the ignition, so he just leaves it clicking until I come over and turn it off. He also thinks that all conversations that don’t involve him are about him. I told him that I’d talk about him more often if he did something interesting.

I’ve been married 15 years and I don’t eat red meat. MIL doesn’t understand and thinks I’m a vegetarian and always buys me fake meat products to eat for lunch, etc - I can make a turkey sandwich, I don’t want your weird ass seitan burrito!