Want a really cheap christmas

ginger_nuts

last year my parents and I bought my sister a freeview box cost about £50 my sister bought me ........a tooth brush .

I dont think it was moneysaving I just think she is a mean bit@h .

Havent decided on this years present ..

aliasojo

ginger_nuts wrote:

my sister bought me ........a tooth brush .

I dont think it was moneysaving I just think she is a mean bit@h .

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:rotfl:

Sorry...I shouldn't laugh, but I agree with you. I wonder if it was part of a multi pack and she gave the others to her friends.

It does seem to be taking moneysaving to the extreme. Was it a serious present?

ginger_nuts

aliasojo wrote:

ginger_nuts wrote:

my sister bought me ........a tooth brush .

I dont think it was moneysaving I just think she is a mean bit@h .

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:rotfl:

Sorry...I shouldn't laugh, but I agree with you. I wonder if it was part of a multi pack and she gave the others to her friends.

It does seem to be taking moneysaving to the extreme. Was it a serious present?

yea that was a serious present .one year she gave me a cup and saucer in a box .I suspect it was one she had been given as a present and didnt want . She earns twice as much as me but she is so tight with money and always crying poverty.There is money saving and there is mean ,and she is mean. I would rather get a card than one of her presents .

aliasojo

Has no one ever pointed out to her that her presents suck?

I know you shouldn't expect presents but it's not against the rules of civility to expect your family to consider you when buying.

I have often stopped my son from handing something over that was either unsuitable or just downright cheapskate. He has a tendency to take the easy way out when it comes to pressies. I'm trying to educate him so that he understands that you can do cheap but thoughtful at the same time.

Maybe your parents should have a quiet word with your sister if the situation is as you say and she has available funds but is just tight. Sometimes we need to see situations through others eyes before we realise just how bad they are?

sallypurple

My aunt is the same - cheap in a not thoughtful way. So much so that it has become a standing joke in our family - she earns an awaful lot more than any of the rest of us. One year she gave me one of those free toiletries kits you get on airplanes, last year I got three pairs of very slinky leopard print thongs! Sadly they were a size 8 and I haven't been that small since I was thirteen! :rotfl:

ginger_nuts

My sister now 46 lived with my parents until 4 years ago . She has 2 degrees and works for the health education board ( big bucks )She expected her brothers to pay towards decorating our parents house ,as it was our parent house .She lived there we didnt .
I told my sister I would pay for decorating HER house if she paid for decorating mine .When my elderly parents got a downstairs bedroom built ,my sister was going to move into there old room until she discover SHE would have to pay for a new carpet (cost about £60 ) she spent another 9 years sleeping in the box room rather than spent £60 . In the end I replaced the carpet but many years later.Christmas presents for our parents (77 & 81 )are usually a joint present ( bought by me ). Usually something practical ,last years was new floor covering for the kitchen and a new blind cost £180 split 4 ways among family so my sister cant be mean with them ......

.Maybe I should start a thread what not to give at christmas .!

Stompa

I find simply ignoring Christmas entirely makes life so much easier ;-)

Stompa

voodoozoe

Here's a cheap xmas link http://www.thenewhomemaker.com/node/68922

Hope its useful!!!!!!

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squeaky wrote:

My parents once told me that because I was older that they could only get me one big present and a few small ones. On Christmas morning, try as I might, I couldn't work out what my big present was. Was it the pen set for school, was it a posh one? I didn't know.

So, in the end, feeling awkward for not recognising my BIG gift, I hesitantly and apologetically asked them to tell me which of my presents was the big one.

Dad said it's not there, it's on the dining table.

I could see the table, there was nothing on it except the table cloth. So I said so.

He said look under it - so I looked under the table - couldn't see anything...

..and this wwent on for a while with me being told to look carefully.

Eventually I twigged and removed the pristine lump free table cloth to find....


.. a snooker table!!!!

One year my late husband said that he couldn't think of anything to get me so he got a spare key cut for our car that he guarded with his life and never let me borrow.I was thrilled until I went out to take it for a drive around the block and the key wouldn't open the car-door.I stormed indoors and said 'thank's a bunch'He just sat in laughed at me and said didn't it fit then .I said no it b****y well didn't He said try the Triumph Herald across the road then .The rascal had bought me a car,admitidly not a new one ,but my very own car,I was so surprised as it was the last thing I expected.he said he just thought that it would stop me nagging about not having my own.
he really was quite a sweetie at times

Bogof_Babe

JackieO wrote:

One year my late husband said that he couldn't think of anything to get me so he got a spare key cut for our car that he guarded with his life and never let me borrow.I was thrilled until I went out to take it for a drive around the block and the key wouldn't open the car-door.I stormed indoors and said 'thank's a bunch'He just sat in laughed at me and said didn't it fit then .I said no it b****y well didn't He said try the Triumph Herald across the road then .The rascal had bought me a car,admitidly not a new one ,but my very own car,I was so surprised as it was the last thing I expected.he said he just thought that it would stop me nagging about not having my own.
he really was quite a sweetie at times

I have tears in my eyes now, and feel all choked up with emotion. What a wonderful story Jackie.

My dad had three Triumph Heralds in succession (back in the days when people changed their car every couple of years) - nice little sporty jobs weren't they? British made, too!

As for Christmas - cheques for niece and nephew, zilch for everyone else, by mutual agreement many years ago. Saves a whole lot of hassle all round.