What Can I do?
My husband and I always attend Thanksgiving and Christmas at his dad's house. His dad remarried to a woman that my husband hates. Any way everytime we go over to his dad's home we take really expensive gifts for the entire family.
Last Christmas his dad gave me a bottle of nail polish in a gift bag and I had gave his dad and wife two .00 Old Navy gift cards. My husband complainted to me last night that his sister got the Magic Bullet for Christmas and her husband got some gold cuff links.
My husband got a .00 shirt with the price tag on it and I got a Relaxation Fountain with the price also on it (24.99).
Is there something I can say or do so that his dad will stop buying us cheap gifts?
I don't mean to sound like I am rich. Im not. I am a part time customer service representative and my husband is a full time driver but we are both tired of his sister always getting the better gift than us.
My husband and I feel the same way but the question was how do I tell them that Christmas is for the kids and not them? They have three kids. They don't really insult me with the inexpensive gifts they insult my husband.
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Suggest an end to the gift giving and instead just go out to dinner and split the bill. It’s easier and better. Or, stop giving expensive gifts and just bring them over a bottle of wine.
Start being cheap with them…
Stop buying them expensive gifts. And it supposed to be about the giving not the receiving anyway.
Sorry, you don’t sound rich. However you do sound very selfish. Be grateful they got you anything. The idea of a gift is because they want to give you one. Not because they have to. And you should never give a gift with the idea of getting one. Grow up you are very selfish and self centered. You don’t sound rich at all or you would have given them Saks gift cards. God bless****
I’d just be happy with what you get and give him and his wife things that are roughly the same price…
Simple solutions. Start spending less on all these people at Christmastime.
I don’t think saying anything will make any difference. It’s not the fact that you two are getting cheaper gifts, it’s that there is a problem that his Dad and wife have with you, and they show it by giving you guys cheaper gifts and being tacky enough to not remove the tag. MAYBE they know that your husband hates the new wife, and this is their way of getting a jab back at you? Maybe if the two of you worked this year on making your relationship with his Dad and new wife better, you’d see a difference in the gifts next year.
OMG!!
It doesn’t matter what you get. Its the thought of giving. I dont care what people gets me, I am happy with anything. Maybe he didn’t have enuff money or something. If he is buying the other person expensive things then he is picking favorites, and he should not do that.
If this is how his dad is then this is how his dad will always be. It seems like most people forget what the meaning of christmas represents. If you focus on the meaning then you wouldn’t be worried about expensive/inexpensive gifts. It just boils down to being materialistic which does not represent the meaning of christmas.
you have to appreciate what they gave to you.The essence of christmas is the spirit of giving.God himself is a giver He gave is only Son Jesus Christ to die for us.What i’m telling is if we give don’t expect something in return.Instead of complaining what you received from your father-in-law why don’t be grateful to them at least they remember to give.it’s not the amount that counts but it’s how you appreciate that counts.i hope your husband will get along well with his father’s wife.Christmas is the time to love and the time to give.It is better to give than to receive.Be a cheerful giver.merry Christmas!God bless you all!