Parrothead Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Extended family! :banghead: Never :banghead: Sending :banghead: Another :banghead: Stinking :banghead: Thing :banghead: For :banghead: Christmas :banghead: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 :grouphug: :grouphug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEm Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 :willy_nilly: this is how I used to feel with Christmas and extended family! Last year we announced we were no longer participating in the gift exchange and its been wonderful!!!! After hearing a grown woman complain about the family decision to switch to a pollyanna (there are over 30 ppl in that family group who can afford to buy for everyone?!?!) and then her announcing at Christmas that she "won Christmas" because the 2 gifts she picked for people(her gift and the gift her fiance gave to someone) were the best I was done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEm Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Whatever the issue is just let it roll off your shoulder and enjoy Christmas with immediate family! Merry Christmas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Oh dear. I am sorry. We stopped the gift exchange thing with extended family several years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted December 21, 2013 Author Share Posted December 21, 2013 I talked to my mom and from here on out it is grandma, mom and dad and dh's parents and grandmother. The rest can go pound sand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I talk to the trees Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I hear ya' sister! Hey, this year, my sil sent a Christmas card to us with postage due on receipt. WTH? I didn't even know you could do that! But the postman left a little envelope with the amount due written on it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 we haven't exchanged with extended family in many years either. It's wonderfully freeing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 forgot to add: I'm sorry they're driving you crazy. I hope your Christmas is better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSOchristie Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I hear ya' sister! Hey, this year, my sil sent a Christmas card to us with postage due on receipt. WTH? I didn't even know you could do that! But the postman left a little envelope with the amount due written on it!\ :lol: I'm sorry, but that is taking it to a whole new level. I might be willing to send Christmas cards if I didn't have to pay for postage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted December 21, 2013 Author Share Posted December 21, 2013 :lol: I'm sorry, but that is taking it to a whole new level. I might be willing to send Christmas cards if I didn't have to pay for postage. (Insert copious swearing) This just reminded me of one of the reasons I'm having a bad evening. I'm not sending christmas cards anymore either. At least not to these people. I won't go into details in such a public area, but suffice it to say, "No more Christmas cards" I'll save that money for the therapy my kid will need because she had to cry in bed a couple nights as a baby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnyDays Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 We exchange with our parents, and buy for our nieces and nephews, all of whom are still young and at home. And there's an optional "draw a number" gift exchange at one of the extended family gatherings. None of our siblings, aunts and uncles, anything like that. Far too much pressure. And I haven't sent Christmas cards in years... and I don't really bake either. Huh. I think I just figured out why I'm not stressed at Christmas but most of the people I know are going nuts. It's because I bailed on half of it a long time ago!! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tshirtyogapantmama Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I totally understand! I've been there and in someways are still there a little. Will always do grandparents but I have given up on doing my Aunt's family for the first time this year. Last year they gave us nothing and for the past several years I've given a family type gift (movie & treats or game & treats). While in person they say they appreciate the gift. We don't get anything back and honestly it gets harder and harder to know what to give them, so this year since we've had a big movie, opened a new office for my husband's business, & my grandfather (my aunt's dad) passed away I've decided to just let it go. My DH and I agreed if we got something from them we would send a nice thank note and something small as a token of our thanks but in all honestly I am not expecting anything and hope they don't. It's been so freeing and so much less pressure since I decided not to send them anything. My sister and I have exchanged off and on but she has never been a great gifter and a lot of times has gifted with my mother for my side of the family so this year since she is married and we are seeing her around New Years we are sticking with a couple gift (puzzle and tea for a cozy night) they like staying home and my sister last I knew liked puzzles. She hasn't sent anything if she doesn't I don't know if I will keep giving or just send a card..but either way it's way less stressful then other years when she lived with my mother and I felt I had to send similar amount of gifts to both of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I was there today, too. Actually, still really livid about it. I've decided I don't like them and that's ok. I thought maybe after i ate and went about my day, I'd simmer down but its actually getting worse as time goes by. I've bit my tongue for 14 years and this year may be the winner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyontheFarm Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I came here tonight to rant about my sil. I guess I'm in good company. If I was Elizabeth Bennet and my sil, Miss Bingley, I would have to slap her repeatedly up side the head with my fan! I don't know why this women feels she must assume that everything I say or do is a motive to annoy her! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 :laugh: so glad my SILs live on the other side of the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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