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Gift giving can be such a fun experience, so it's frustrating when something so pure and wholesome gets ruined for selfish reasons. Although money is oftentimes an issue when it comes to gifts and presents, a good gift doesn't necessarily have to be expensive; it just needs to be thoughtful. Understandably, gift giving can be challenging for many people, and it's a talent that not many possess. However, when you show that you care about someone, sometimes that's the greatest gift of all.
For this family, gifts became all about the price tag, measuring wealth against one another, and the sheer volume of wrapped boxes under the tree. But that's not the reason for the season, and this mom wasn't about to let the thoughtful gift she purchased for her daughter get stolen, especially by the likes of her sister-in-law, who clearly hadn't thought about her niece's Christmas experience for longer than 3 seconds.
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Aunt blindsided when her SIL pressures her to buy an extra concert ticket for her niece for Christmas so she can tag along on their mother-daughter bonding trip: 'I just want this to be me and [my daughter]'
Christmas is an expensive time of the year.
With familial obligations and mountains of gifts piling up under the tree, it's no wonder overused credit cards start to steam in the fresh wintery air. For this aunt, a businesswoman whose husband ran his own company, money wasn't usually the issue during the holiday season; it was the family's expectations. Knowing that they had a successful branch in their family tree, the holiday season turned into a generous time of the year, but in a rather one-sided way. While nobody should ever feel the burning heat of guilt and pressure when imagining the gifts underneath the tree, this woman's sister-in-law felt no shame in it.
Squeezing out a few crocodile tears over the phone, this mom tried to swindle her sister-in-law into giving an expensive gift to her niece, all because she didn't feel like forking out the cash to get her own kid something special. As if piggybacking off of her gift for her own daughter wasn't bad enough, she expected her to front the costs and derail her mother-daughter bonding trip in the process.
'Tis the season of giving for some, but for this sister-in-law, 'twas the season of taking.
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