Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every year for my mother's birthday, my son would help me choose a pair of earrings for her. This went on for about 10 or so years. When she retired, she put them in a box and mailed them all back to me.

Obviously she got tired of getting earrings every year. You could have put more thought into her gift.

I personally like to pick my own jewelry. I wouldn't have sent it back to you of course (that's very rude) but you now get the point of why she did it.

The gift was from my son, ages 5-15. I got her something else. She could have thrown it away. The rule, in general is that you aren't a dick about gifts. Especially don't be a dick about gifts from children. Now you know.

You didn't answer another question posed, which is did you ASK your mother why she sent them back?

The fact she kept them all those years, packaged them up and sent them to you show they meant something to her. If your mother is such a "dick" she would have easily thrown them all out.

I could see my mother doing something like this. If my mother was retiring and thus wouldn't be wearing earrings as much or wouldn't be changing earrings daily, then I could see her shipping them to me thinking I could use them, without realizing I might be hurt by her returning all the gifts to me.

No, I am the winner. A pair of work gloves from my father one Christmas and socks from my mother.

A broom and a dustpan from my mom, my 12th birthday. do i win?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every year for my mother's birthday, my son would help me choose a pair of earrings for her. This went on for about 10 or so years. When she retired, she put them in a box and mailed them all back to me.

Obviously she got tired of getting earrings every year. You could have put more thought into her gift.

I personally like to pick my own jewelry. I wouldn't have sent it back to you of course (that's very rude) but you now get the point of why she did it.

The gift was from my son, ages 5-15. I got her something else. She could have thrown it away. The rule, in general is that you aren't a dick about gifts. Especially don't be a dick about gifts from children. Now you know.

You didn't answer another question posed, which is did you ASK your mother why she sent them back?

The fact she kept them all those years, packaged them up and sent them to you show they meant something to her. If your mother is such a "dick" she would have easily thrown them all out.

It wasn’t what I got, which is an orange sweater I think, but what she inadvertently said which gave away that my MIL really wanted her daughter to get a nice present that she loves and of the various colors and options available how her daughter should get the best one while I, her daughter in law just gets something from the leftovers because it wouldn’t be right to skip me.