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What's the most self-centred gift someone has ever given you?
Presents.
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For my birthday one year, my mom bought me a cake with her name on it and wanted people to sing to her. When I cried (I was 12) she called me selfish. Now she gets me nothing because I “don’t know how to appreciate”
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When I was around 10, I wanted a mountain bike for Christmas. I asked for a mountain bike. Around October, my parents started "storing" an adult large road bike for a "friend". It was this giant yellow bike, the kind you would have if you were a serious road biker. One day shortly before Christmas she asked me what I thought about it. I told her I thought it was ok, but it would be something I never wanted. Cue the crying because I was ungrateful. Turns out to the surprise of no one, she got a "great deal" on this too big for me road bike and that's what I was getting for Christmas. (And I better be happy with it!) Spoiler, it was a $500 road bike she got for $100 and the mountain bike I wanted was $65. She got it because I would hate it and she could prove, yet again, what a great mother she was and what a terrible child I was.
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Mountain bike.
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For valentines day and ex bought me a clothes horse and yes i did all the laundry. He 'hid' it under my side of the bed. There was nothing else under the bed. Never even wrapped it. Also he bought me a box of chocolate bars off amazon, about 30, proceeded to eat them all. Bought me another box and ate all them too. I dont even know why he bought me the chocolate bars, im more of a cake person.
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My ex told me he had a surprise for me and wouldn't tell me a single detail about it except the date I needed to reserve in my calendar. For the weeks leading up to the surprise he was telling me how much I'd love it, etc. The surprise? Concert tickets for a band he liked, which I had never heard of, when I'd already expressed to him that I didn't like crowded venues. It was a 'gift' because I was meant to be excited to learn more about him through his music taste. He did this exact thing (Surprise! We're going to a concert for a band you have never heard of!) twice.
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For my 12th birthday, I was handed a hamper and laundry detergent. The torch was being passed. Good, practical life skills, but still not what a kid wished for necessarily
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An ex-boyfriend bought us plane tickets to Florida for a Disney trip as my Mother’s Day gift. Just the flights. He wanted to go halves for the rest of the trip, but some financial setback would always arise so I ended up paying for the park tickets, rental car, and hotel on the condition that he would pay me back and pay for food and parking while we were there. I discovered on the flight out there that his bank account was in the red. Happy Mother’s Day to me. :’)
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Disneyland.
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I have a relative who tries to gift us stuff from her house she doesn’t want to throw away or recycle, while she acts like it’s a heartfelt gesture. For example, she tried to give us her son’s old dress shoes, for our kid. These shoes were 20 years old and would fit about 10 years old boy. We had a 6 month old daughter…
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A relative, who is very into new age-y/witchy stuff, once gave me an amethyst crystal. Amethyst is supposed to influence your dreams, she said. It was really pretty, and I thought it was a nice gift, until she said,
"Tonight, put it under your pillow. I tried it and it gave me horrible nightmares, so now I need to get rid of it."
Gee, thanks for the nightmare stone.
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Amethyst stone.
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My ex-partner always borrowed my raincoat because she didn't like her one.
We decided to buy me a new raincoat for my birthday, with the intention of her keeping my old one, and instead she found a new raincoat she liked better than my one.
So, she bought herself a new raincoat (with our shared money) and gave me my old raincoat back for my birthday.
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Not me but my ex's mom. The ex was a mooch. Couldn't hold a job because everything was beneath him. Finally he got one as a security guard around Christmas and scanned his contract and had it made into a puzzle. That was her gift from him that Christmas.
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For a few years in a row my cousin gave me the free gifts with purchase that she received from Ulta and Victoria's Secret as my Christmas gifts. I never received something she actually purchased, just the things she got for free.
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There seems to be a common occurrence with mothers and ex-boyfriends: they behave like narcissists and then guilt-trip the other person by calling them ‘ungrateful.’ There's a reason why they ended up becoming ex-boyfriends and why some of them cut off their parents. A gift is not just a gift: it's proof of how much we think about each other. These people obviously were using special dates and occasions to buy things for themselves.
It's shocking to me to see when people give such lousy gifts to their partners. My boyfriend gave me better presents after two weeks of dating than these people after who knows how many years. They should know them better at that point in the relationship, or at least just listen to what they say, and the same thing can be said about parents and their children. If you pay attention, I promise, at some point in the conversation the other person is going to drop a piece of information that will give you a clear hint of something they might like or need. It's a trick that I've used a few times to get some ideas, and it always works!
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My grandmother once gifted me a box of paints. So I could repaint all her garden gnomes/figurines.
My gift was work. Lovely.
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Not me but this year for my moms birthday, my grandma (her mom) called and said she was getting the bathroom redone for my moms birthday and my mom was like “oh when are you having them come look at my bathroom?” Grandma meant she was getting the second bathroom in HER house redone “for when my mom comes to visit” my mom doesn’t even stay with her once a year
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One year for Christmas my oldest sister gave everyone a framed picture of her and her husband. Me and my other sister both got one, despite the fact that we lived together and didn't really need two.
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I met a friend of a friend and we ended up staying with their family while on a work trip once. Next work trip, I stayed home. It was also my birthday. My partner brought me home a birthday present from her; I was a bit surprised, I hardly knew her! I was more bewildered when I opened the gift; It was a framed photo of HER child playing outdoors. A framed photo. Of someone else's child. Who I'd known for 3 days. It was the strangest thing I've ever received and I still can't determine the reason 😆
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