July 2013 Moms

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  • @gutsymama‌ I feel the same way! That's why it took me until after 11 to post. I was playing catchup!
  • Just got caught up and now I'm going to bed. This is the latest I've been up all weekend. I'm going to start reading tomorrow's (today's?) as soon as I wake up. I'm sorry to hear we still have babies that don't sleep :frowning:
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  • @somerandomchick‌ I've never played! I don't even actually know much about it.
  • @MrsGiantPenis - It would've been nice if I hadn't told her the list was for other people too more than once, and if she didn't say in a nasty tone, "[insert f-i-l's name here] didn't buy all the presents on the list, did he?!" <--This comes after he bought a lot of stuff off our wedding registry OVER 4.5YEARS AGO.  I don't think he's done the same since.  I didn't have time to add things last night, and last yr. at least three of the people bought things that had small parts.

    @queenbone - She's understood online lists before.  I'm not surprised she didn't buy the things via Amazon, but I am surprised she didn't seem to understand that if you print the list on x early date, other people may still buy things on the list after that, as she understood this just recently w/my brother's wedding registry.

    @somerandomchick - It's not just this.  It's that for at least over a month now she's been sending me texts like, "TELL ME HOW LATE THIS STORE IS OPEN BY [FAIRLY UNREASONABLE TIME]!" when she at least used to know how to dial 411, and I showed her how to Google these things on her phone so she wasn't paying whatever fee.  She just demands things of me, and it's always when d.h. isn't home and I'm trying to do x,y,z around here or out.  It's okay for her to ask these things of me cuz she's "too busy", but I'm not too busy despite the fact that I'm doing at least as much as her.
  • @Mamasighs‌ @casey78‌ - That was like the straw that broke the camel's back. There's also that she said she was just gonna buy presents for P. this yr., no1 else because they just spent a lot of money on wedding stuff for my brother&his wife (rehearsal dinner, shower, whatever else). That's why their X-mas present from us is gonna be late. They said we'd do presents for everyone else in late Jan. or early Feb. after my dad got his bonus. Which makes me wonder if they're just going into debt buying all this stuff and then they're gonna use the bonus to pay off the debt...which is just silly to me. We could've waited. They didn't need to get us anything at all. We really thought this yr. it was gonna go that way (for yrs. now she's said we weren't gonna get a lot of presents x year, and then we get a ton, which, whatever, not complaining about a lot of presents, but increasingly each yr. it was cuz they didn't have the money...so were they just going into debt all those yrs.? and this yr. it really made sense to all of us to not buy us stuff). There's also the fact that she makes a pissing contest out of who's bought more, her or d.h.'s family, and she's complained multiple times that last yr. f-i-l wouldn't take a cake she got him, and then this yr. she's gotten/getting him at least three things (why? so you can complain when he doesn't accept three gifts or more vs. the one?)
  • @casey78‌ - I guess I should've included everything from the beginning, but that would've been one long post, and I don't think the tl;dr would've explained it enough.
  • My IL don't "do Christmas" , but my mom does. @reallylongusername‌ I see where you're coming from about the family drama. My advice is to just enjoy the holiday with your kid.

    Make a list & let them deal with it. Folks get weird when it comes to material stuff & money. My MIL swears that we must match each gift we get for value. If we don't know the value get something more expensive to save face. Expensive = success = honor. I tell you, the holidays can be a time loopy alternate universe for some.

    Just write off the other stuff because it will not matter in the long run. Create the memories you want! I'm sorry this is so stressful for you.

    I was going to flame you-- but I had a feeling this was about more than gifts.


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  • Expensive = success

    Yup, that's exactly how it is w/my mom, even if they can't afford it.

  • Expensive = success

    Yup, that's exactly how it is w/my mom, even if they can't afford it.
    I had this feeling. It sucks ass! #-o


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