I haven't read all the replies but had to comment. This is trivial but also - something that opened my eyes this year.
Our family was going to do a 'secret' santa type thing due to the economy and the many people we normally buy gifts for. Our reasoning was to do Christmas for the kids and for the adults, we each picked ONE name our of a hat on Thanksgiving.
I guess the reason I'm posting is I have an Aunt who is a wonderful person and very
very wealthy but I don't understand her at all.
She went all out buying for 'certain' family members (my cousins who are master suck ups lol) .....BUT - For the
4th year in a row, she gave me and a few others (yet another) a picture of herself and her 'boyfriend'.
A MAGNET picture for the fridge.
Add this to all the other framed photos of her own self and boyfriend she's given me for 4 years straight -I now have a collection.
This would
never bother me except I now have more framed pictures of her than I do my
own parents. It's getting funny - people who've been in my apartment think she and her boyfriend
are my parents.
I have a grown son I'm practically supporting this year - live alone since my husband died and money is very very tight....been horribly sick for almost 2 weeks with the flu and dragged myself out Christmas eve to make a nice Christmas for my family members.....I made a special trip to Specs to get her a bottle of her favorite wine. What hurt was I didn't even get a thank you.
I normally wouldn't post this but some of us in my family had joked about getting another picture of her for a gift thinking no way would this happen yet another year - and low and behold - that's exactly what she did !
I love my aunt dearly but am taking all but ONE photo down. I put alot of thought into the gifts I give. Sure it would be easy to give out photos of myself but who the heck would want any ? I'm not that egotistical lol !
Boy that felt good to say outloud ! Thanks for listening and I hope each and every one of you has a HEALTHY HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!